Front Office Football Seven

[aston217]

It's possible that player age doesn't really matter, or Jim just didn't see fit to include it in the interface. I'd like it too, because I'd like to see it -- but there's a long, long list of other long standing tinkers I'd like to see before the birthday thing :-)

[Front Office Midget]

Originally Posted by dave1927p

actually i'm part accountant so it's fair to say i'm half decent with numbers. It's just too bad to need to work it out in my head for every player. But to take the put down route, well yes that's one way to avoid a real answer.

Heh, yeah... it would be good to for it to be readily apparent.

I've heard that age isn't as important in the game as it is in real life though... experience tends to matter more.

[molson]

So it appears during the late free agency stage you can any any undrafted rookie by offering $10k more than the default undrafted rookie amount. Some of these guys have scouted potential ratings in the 50s before training camp. Trying to decide if I should add that to my house rules, not to do that. One the one hand, everybody had a shot at them in the draft, and a lot of them will probably have lower visible ratings by the the 2nd week of pre-season, and even more of them will never reach their potential. But if the AI NEVER offers more the default amount, then it feels like I shouldn't either. I wonder how those rookies make the decision who to sign with when they have 4 or 5 teams offering that default.

[sencha]

Originally Posted by molson

So it appears during the late free agency stage you can any any undrafted rookie by offering $10k more than the default undrafted rookie amount. Some of these guys have scouted potential ratings in the 50s before training camp. Trying to decide if I should add that to my house rules, not to do that. One the one hand, everybody had a shot at them in the draft, and a lot of them will probably have lower visible ratings by the the 2nd week of pre-season, and even more of them will never reach their potential. But if the AI NEVER offers more the default amount, then it feels like I shouldn't either. I wonder how those rookies make the decision who to sign with when they have 4 or 5 teams offering that default.

actually i had AI controlled teams that offered more... not much though and they never offer two years contracts (what i always do...)

[gstelmack]

They may be 50 potential now, but what are they in 4 years?

[Dutch]

I think the vast majority, if not all UDFA in real life get minimum wage if they make the team...there shouldn't even be an option to bump up their salary in FA2 and let the other attributes that Jim's built into the game come into play when the UDFA decides where to play. Play4Winner, Hometown closeness, and even chemistry matches.

[aston217]

I agree with Dutch.

I'm finding that the game is very, very inaccurate about the cap consequences of releasing signed veterans. It keeps telling me the move will actually reduce my cap. But to the contrary, my cap goes up.

[Pyser]

jim, please change the way you set time in training camp. changing the times things start is tedious and really annoying when you want to adjust the last event of the day. would be MUCH easier to just be able to set how long we want each event to last, (meaning make the duration the adjustable window we can type in, not the time of day it starts)

[corbes]

I've got a stadium in FOFL that I can't renovate. It's already got 20,400 club seats, but the game tells me I can't have more than 19,900. Any attempt to renovate generates the game's equivalent of pouring green slime on me. (i.e. error message not a crash) I suspect this is some kind of carryover issue from FOF2K7?

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by corbes

I've got a stadium in FOFL that I can't renovate. It's already got 20,400 club seats, but the game tells me I can't have more than 19,900. Any attempt to renovate generates the game's equivalent of pouring green slime on me. (i.e. error message not a crash) I suspect this is some kind of carryover issue from FOF2K7?

The FOFL has a history of some stadium issues, very likely due to data corruption. Sounds like another instance of that and not a conversion issue.

[cuervo72]

Crap, I'd forgotten about that. It was a while ago when that first popped up, wasn't it?

I really wish you could, you know, just edit stadiums as the Commissioner. Along with cities, support, etc. Like you might with OOTP. But we can't because reasons I guess. Maybe it would open a black hole in a fake universe or something. (One somewhere besides Sleepy Hollow.)

[cuervo72]

Heh. That stadium went to 20,400 in FOFL-2034, fwiw. A LONG time ago.

[corbes]

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[Dutch]

Originally Posted by Dutch

I wonder if the suggestion here (IRT "Sweat Socks" popularity awards) is that these teams (presumably with high popularity players) get financial benefit/increased seat purchases. That sounds like what's going on there and that's a nice additional bonus for those who pay attention and do all those "million little things".

After further review, this doesn't look like an appreciable bump. I went out of my way last season to bring in some "high popularity" roster-filler and got my team to #1 in league-popularity...same amount of fans showed up. Other factors come in to play though, but this won't noticeably shift the overall attendance.