NCAA Football 11 Live Tuning Pack 1, Available Now

[dan_457]

Quote: Originally Posted by BIG17EASY

The prestige logic may be flawed, but it could easily be argued that Notre Dame has severely dropped in prestige in real life. How many 18-year-old kids/recruits have ever seen Notre Dame compete for a national title? Aside from Brady Quinn's big year when Reggie Bush pushed Matt Leinart over the goal line to beat ND, the Irish have been largely irrelevant in the national title hunt for a recruit's entire lifetime.

I don't care that it's notre dame dropping. In real life they are probably a 5 or 4 star by this point. The fact that a team can drop prestige after a 10 win year or a 9 win year is highly disturbing. It wouldn't be so bad if getting back to 6 stars wasn't almost impossible for AI controlled teams.

[BadAssHskr]

Quote: Originally Posted by BIG17EASY

The prestige logic may be flawed, but it could easily be argued that Notre Dame has severely dropped in prestige in real life. How many 18-year-old kids/recruits have ever seen Notre Dame compete for a national title? Aside from Brady Quinn's big year when Reggie Bush pushed Matt Leinart over the goal line to beat ND, the Irish have been largely irrelevant in the national title hunt for a recruit's entire lifetime.

this is a very nice way of posting what was about to fly out of my mouth. thanks for saving me!

[Tonka]

Thanks for the update Russ...I was whining over at the EA forums in despair when it didn't seem like the tuner set was out after the servers came online, but not only did they pop up you also released an excellent blog with graphs and everything about how dynasty is improved. With that said I apologise for my earlier whining . You shut me up instantly after I read that blog haha.

Thanks again! Now I'm off to start a new dynasty.

[mgoblue678]

Quote: Originally Posted by BIG17EASY

The prestige logic may be flawed, but it could easily be argued that Notre Dame has severely dropped in prestige in real life. How many 18-year-old kids/recruits have ever seen Notre Dame compete for a national title? Aside from Brady Quinn's big year when Reggie Bush pushed Matt Leinart over the goal line to beat ND, the Irish have been largely irrelevant in the national title hunt for a recruit's entire lifetime.

That is not what their recruiting classes say though. In this game prestige is directly related to the kind of players a team can get and how strong a team's recruiting class will be. If you look at Notre Dame's recruiting this year, they have alot of highly ranked guys so far as they had under Weiss. Weiss just couldn't take advantage of it.

[Kobalt]

Thanks a lot

[Cpre5]

So no tuner patch for us poor gamefly people?

[Amoo316]

Russ,

There has been a lot of buzz around here about another football game's great handling of a new patch. I have to say, you guys are doing an excellent job yourselves of maintaining a good balance between keeping us informed and showing you do care how the game plays long after our $60 is gone from our pockets. Keep up the good work and thank you.

[rhombic21]

Quote: Originally Posted by Russell_Kiniry_EA

^This. There is a difference between Live Tuner Packs and Title Updates (patches). Double check Roy's Blog for some more details. http://ncaafootball.easports.com/blo...logId=ThankYou

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A number of you have already noticed that we do a check for "Online Gameplay Tuning" when connecting to our online servers. Some of you may also have found a new "Tuning" category in the Files menu. This is a new technology for NCAA Football 11 that allows us to not only live update and tune core gameplay parameters -- like fumbles, throw accuracy, and juke success ratings -- but it also allows us to rebalance certain core features such as recruiting logic, blocking, even control the intensity of shadows cast by the football on a sunny day!

This suggests that many GAMEPLAY issues should be able to be adjusted in a tuner set. Things like defenders in man coverage breaking on routes before WRs do, the outside running game being over-effective (because defenders take bad pursuit angles), and zone coverage not matching up to receivers in the correct areas would all appear to fall under the scope of things that should be able to be tuned.