Patch increased recruiting difficulty?

[tenacioust86]

I am still pulling in 8 - 10 5 star recruits a year.

[Luca Brasi]

Quote: Originally Posted by tenacioust86

I am still pulling in 8 - 10 5 star recruits a year.

Easy to do if you're using USC or Ohio St. If youre using a 6* prestige school i could maybe believe that but using schools that are 4* or below,i'm calling you a liar.

[Tomahawk Jam]

All it has done is make me use the quick call more and more. I'm getting tired of blowing nearly 2 hours on my linebacker back-up choice's Most interest with an Elite pitch. It doesn't happen often, but it happens enough to be a problem.

[jobalo85]

If you go for reality at all, you know that not a single recruit wants to talk to a particular school for more than an hour a week. It makes it more realistic but does take away the smaller schools chances at getting top recruits. I don't find, even on Heisman, that the CPU recruits all that well unless their USC or OSU...if there is no 6* prestige schools in your way to signing someone, it shouldn't be all that difficult still.

[tenacioust86]

Quote: Originally Posted by Luca Brasi

Easy to do if you're using USC or Ohio St. If youre using a 6* prestige school i could maybe believe that but using schools that are 4* or below,i'm calling you a liar.

Well I started off with IU. They were like 3 or 4 prestige. I was pulling in a lot of 4 star recruits maybe 2 or 3 five star recruits. When I got them to a 5 prestige team I was pulling in about 5 five star recruits. Now that they are a 6 prestige team I can pull in about 8 -10 5 star recruits.

[EricM]

Quote: Originally Posted by jobalo85

If you go for reality at all, you know that not a single recruit wants to talk to a particular school for more than an hour a week.

No single pitch should take more than an hour (or really even ten minutes) a week to complete either. But it does in this game, when the game decides to screw you for no reason.

I know that if I do a 40 minute quick call on a guy who's already got his good stuff unlocked then I'll get two pitches complete with large interest gains 95% of the time. No angry face hang up either. The odds of doing it on a manual call in 40 minutes are about 10 to 1. So what EA really did was make quick calling even more favorable over manual calling than it already was.

[rudyjuly2]

I had no problem blowing 2 hours on a recruit before so this will be a big change if I can't talk for more than an hour. I usually focused on only 6-8 players a week (sometimes more and I spread the love). Once you are in the last couple weeks of offseason recruiting, you only really need or care about a couple guys and I would blow 5 hours on a guy just because I didn't care about anyone else. I guess that was a glitch and I agree that this will definitely make me use the quick call feature more if I can't stay on the phone with these guys.

In my second year with Colorado (had the #14 class in my first year) I've done more manual calling and after 11 games (I'm 8-3 right now with Nebraska left), I have the #1 class with 13 recruits already signed and two of those are 5* players (I'm a 4* program). Manual calling definitely helps you more than quick calling and this change will probably curb my recruiting success which I won't mind.

[tenacioust86]

Quote: Originally Posted by rudyjuly2

I had no problem blowing 2 hours on a recruit before so this will be a big change if I can't talk for more than an hour. I usually focused on only 6-8 players a week (sometimes more and I spread the love). Once you are in the last couple weeks of offseason recruiting, you only really need or care about a couple guys and I would blow 5 hours on a guy just because I didn't care about anyone else. I guess that was a glitch and I agree that this will definitely make me use the quick call feature more if I can't stay on the phone with these guys. In my second year with Colorado (had the #14 class in my first year) I've done more manual calling and after 11 games (I'm 8-3 right now with Nebraska left), I have the #1 class with 13 recruits already signed and two of those are 5* players (I'm a 4* program). Manual calling definitely helps you more than quick calling and this change will probably curb my recruiting success which I won't mind.

I posted a perfect quick call routine. Try it and tell me if it works for you

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...-recruits.html