I'm gonna be honest here. This whole week has been nothing but disappointment for me. IMO, they could have put out all the information they needed in 2 blogs instead of spreading it out over a whole week. Aren't we supposed to be talking about tuning here? So why are we talking about Coaching Carousel......again. Oh I see, if you throw in some FAQ's about
coaching carousel, it makes your
tuning blog look a lot longer than it is, but I digress.
I would have really liked to see some more tuning on recruiting in general. How about
:
- Tuning recruits top schools list. In 11, if you looked at a recruits schools lists, sometimes it made no sense at all ie a recruit from Colorado with proximity to home as MOST important to him, yet his top 3 schools are Florida, Ohio State, and Alabama. Huh? Or a recruit with conference prestige as MOST important and his top 3 schools are USC, Boise St., and TCU. Huh? I remember on 10, sometimes without even making a pitch you had an idea of what the recruit wanted. He's got a team full of SEC schools? You can prolly bet that Conference Prestige or Proximity to Home(if he leaved in the southeast) was HIGH, VERY HIGH, or MOST important to him, not in 11 though. Sometimes in 11, it seemed like the list of schools were created randomly, of course with a lil favor to Texas, Florida, Alabama, and Ohio State.
That leads me to the second thing I would have like to see tuned:
- The advantage 6* schools had with recruiting was ridiculous. In my OD, we had guys getting 10-12 5* players a year....and this was on Heisman recruiting. It didn't hurt that they averaged 5-8 instant commits in week 1, with half of them being 5*. It got so bad that we had to put a limit on the amount of 5* recruits these teams could sign. Yeah EA wouldn't tune that.
or
- Tuning phone calls so I don't get the same pitch 3x in a 50 minute phone call(yes that actually happened to me before).
I could go on and on about tuning that could have been done to recruiting to make it better.
I know some of you are excited about this blog, but honestly, I'm still down on this years game. When I saw that they were gonna have a tuning blog today, I knew they were gonna say something about tuning sim stats. You know why? Because they say that every year lol. Anyway, the only thing that got a slight rise out of me was the "teams actually recruiting to their style" part.
Also what is this:
I thought this was OUR custom playbook? Why is the CPU setting my formation audibles? So if I like to have rollouts on my playaction passes, I have to have either nothing but rollouts in my custom playbook or hope that the cpu decides to pick a rollout for my formation audible. **sigh**