Rust Issue

[johnnyshaka]

Playing time during the preseason still baffles me...do we have control over it or not?

I set my starting QB's playing time to "7" for our last preseason game and he got pulled in the middle of a drive with 13 minutes left to play in the 2nd quarter. He wasn't injured and was playing well (7/9 for 97 yards and a TD) so I have no idea why he would be yanked so early. Going into the game he had "significant" rust (which baffles me as he had already started another preseason game prior to this one) and after his "quarter-and-change" worth of work his rust factor didn't improve one bit.

Same game, I set my starting SS' playing time to "50%" and after looking at the boxscore it appears that he didn't leave the field once...huh? His backup didn't even show up in the log and he's not injured. Doesn't make sense to me.

For the record, coaching AI settings are set to "NO".

Anybody else seeing similar trends?

[Ajaxab]

I can definitely vouch for the qb issue. In 6.0d, the same situation happened with my starter. I set the playing time for '7' and he was pulled in the 2nd quarter as if I had set it to '3'. I had gradually planned on increasing his playing time over the course of preseason, but my coach apparently had other ideas.

On a purely speculative rememberance, I would also agree with the defensive pt issue as well.

[MizzouRah]

I NEVER touch the playing time settings during preseason, I let my coach handle those and I haven't seen these issues pertaining to rust.

I do think, during the season.. the QB will play all game for the most part, even with a setting of 1. There is a thread somewhere about it.

[johnnyshaka]

Maybe I'll post this in the bug thread.

[timmynausea]

Just to add to the playing time discussion, in my most recent pre-season game I had my star DE set at 20%, and he played 57 of 67 snaps, which is 85%. I guess his endurance is pretty good at 83, but it still seems like he's playing way too much.

As for QBs, I had mine set to 8, and he played the entire game. It seems weird that there's such a huge gap between 7 and 8.

[johnnyshaka]

Just to add to the playing time discussion, in my most recent pre-season game I had my star DE set at 20%, and he played 57 of 67 snaps, which is 85%. I guess his endurance is pretty good at 83, but it still seems like he's playing way too much.

As for QBs, I had mine set to 8, and he played the entire game. It seems weird that there's such a huge gap between 7 and 8.

IMHO, something is definitely not working correctly or we aren't privy to how playing time is actually supposed to work during the pre-season.