Connected Careers Player Progression is broken

[Yeah...THAT Guy]

Quote: Originally Posted by SlackJawedYokel

After playing through multiple seasons with the CC mode it's clear that the progression is not very good. I've gone through the boring practices, played my back-ups, and focused my coach xp points on individual players to try to boost how much they are rewarded each week. There's just very little auto progression for players in the league, and when manually progressing players it takes too long because the cost of increasing the attributes is too high, while the time it takes to build xp is way too long. For example, I had a 68 overall 1st yr linebacker start & complete a whole season after my starter was hurt. He had 130 tackles and ended up getting what seemed like a lot of xp (55k at the end of the year). The 55k really didn't do much though, and after upping various attributes his ovr rating was still only a 72 - this would be fine if the young players who put up numbers like that also receive a good boost from auto progression as well, but they don't. We should be able to just train players like in NBA2k, as others have mentioned. It's more fun to develop young players, and you feel like you have more control over the progression of your team.

If he really had 55,000 XP and only went up from a 68 to a 72, you really spent your XP horribly. I had Levonte David go from a 78 or whatever he starts at to around an 85 after 1 season with about 30,000 XP.

[xlence91]

Im not sure if its just me. There maybe something I dont know, but I just finished my second season. During this second season my rookie rb set the record for single game yds twice and the single season record.I was able to bring his overall to 86, but after going through the offseason he went back down to 82 eventhough I manually progressed him. Does this happen to everyone or just me?

[lon515]

Quote: Originally Posted by xlence91

Im not sure if its just me. There maybe something I dont know, but I just finished my second season. During this second season my rookie rb set the record for single game yds twice and the single season record.I was able to bring his overall to 86, but after going through the offseason he went back down to 82 eventhough I manually progressed him. Does this happen to everyone or just me?

that never happened to me. you probably changed schemes somehow


And to the guy that had 50,000 points and the lb went from 68 to 72 that's not the game that's you not spending right, i had a rookie ss at 51 that i changed to a 72 with 34,000 xp

[Theseos]

This is something I just recently noticed and it's in an online CCM and deals strictly with the user, but needs saying none the less.

Difficulty apparently effects (significantly) how much XP you get from games/stats. I just made a jump up from all-pro to all-madden and good lord!

[ABR173rd]

Quote: Originally Posted by Theseos

This is something I just recently noticed and it's in an online CCM and deals strictly with the user, but needs saying none the less. Difficulty apparently effects (significantly) how much XP you get from games/stats. I just made a jump up from all-pro to all-madden and good lord!

I'm assuming that you're also aware that if you play a solo CCM online you get significantly more XP for practicing and playing than in Offline CCM. Apparently they can tune the Online CCM portion but can't tune offline.

As far as progression I am holding off until after I am done with my first season (Offline CCM) and looking at both the CPU and User side progression. I have the CPU set to yearly so the changes should be noticeable. There was another thread on this were a guy had simmed ten seasons ahead and the overalls across the board looked pretty decent except for the TE, CB, and WR positions.

[seanh1986]

Quote: Originally Posted by mavfan21

Is this true? Where did you find this info? Wish I'd known that before I started my CCM....

yes it is true and it tells you on the first screen when you create your coach, it lists the three different type of coaches and gives a paragraph description of each one.

[seanh1986]

Quote: Originally Posted by crusaderx87

Okay i have a question.....i like useing xavier omon as running back { hes a 61} if a have a 2000 yard rushing season with him will i get the rating i desearve.....

yes, each player has four levels of possible goals. If he rushes for 2000 yards, he'll for sure reach "level 4", which will give him "maximum" progression.

[thebizarrojerry]

All the people arguing that the system is not broken seem to only concentrate on their own personal teams. But the problem is with the cpu, is it not? Does the computer properly progress their own players? I don't think they still do. Although you get more XP now from an online ccm, does the computer use it wisely? I'm in the playoffs in my 2nd year, once the offseason comes I'll pay attention more to other teams and whether they managed their young talent well.