Let's Talk Recruiting (CFB 25)

[tytyboogie]

Re: Let's Talk Recruiting (CFB 25)

Hi, i scrolled thru for a while didnt see a answer. Just wanted to know when your scouting players and it shows "10" meaning hours used to scout, im not seeing the hours change and i can continue to scout the same player, and no hours are being used up. im in week 0 havnt played any games yet. is this one of the known issues already and i missed it in the thread? thanks

[georgiafan]

Re: Let's Talk Recruiting (CFB 25)

Thats why when I was asked to be on a OD with basically no rules I decided against it. While its annoying in a offline its not the end of the world. However in a OD dynasty it's a lock you can find a stud 5* dual threat guy that's a 2* and 3*

It’s sooo bad. I found 3 2-star ATHs in this class with 90+ speed and 94+ THP. Accuracies are all above 80. These guys shouldn’t be a dime a dozen. Kinda regret my online dynasty didn’t make a house rule against it.

I've been thinking of a system where I randomly pick a few numbers on the board and then bump up size when they become freshman. I don't want it to be anything unrealistic, but would like to see the bigger athletic type QB's and same for WR's. If you think of a good way to do this for some people let me know.

Really wish we had sliders for recruiting so we could change the weights for what type of players were generated and at what quality.

Give me that, give me a recruiting difficulty, and get the demographics for recruits correct and I'll be happy enough to overlook some of the other issues with recruiting.

[johnhughthom]

Re: Let's Talk Recruiting (CFB 25)

Does anyone know why when I try and schedule visits there's a padlock on the game week I'm trying to choose? I'm certain it's not because there's too many recruits visiting, I have one tackle coming week 7 otherwise nothing scheduled all year. There's a little padlock on the icon for week 7 and 8, both home games. I've got points and the recruits are ready for visits. This happens for multiple recruits and they don't have any other visits scheduled that week or anything (I'm trying to think of any reason possible!)

Any ideas?

They have acknowledged it as a known bug.


edit: Sorry. It was not being able to schedule at all they noted. I've never had what you're describing myself.

[TaterSalad88]

Re: Let's Talk Recruiting (CFB 25)

Does anyone know why when I try and schedule visits there's a padlock on the game week I'm trying to choose? I'm certain it's not because there's too many recruits visiting, I have one tackle coming week 7 otherwise nothing scheduled all year. There's a little padlock on the icon for week 7 and 8, both home games. I've got points and the recruits are ready for visits. This happens for multiple recruits and they don't have any other visits scheduled that week or anything (I'm trying to think of any reason possible!)

Any ideas?

Don't have an answer for you but I've experienced this several times as well. It will have certain games within the next 1-4 weeks locked even though I confirmed I'm not at the 4 visit maximum for those games and that the recruit doesn't have a visit already scheduled that week. There are times that it will still let me select that "locked" game and schedule the visit anyway, but most of the time it doesn't. Pretty clear that it's a bug, since it's sometimes not actually locked. So I'd just suggest trying to schedule it anyway and see if it works.

[TaterSalad88]

Re: Let's Talk Recruiting (CFB 25)

Hi, i scrolled thru for a while didnt see a answer. Just wanted to know when your scouting players and it shows "10" meaning hours used to scout, im not seeing the hours change and i can continue to scout the same player, and no hours are being used up. im in week 0 havnt played any games yet. is this one of the known issues already and i missed it in the thread? thanks

Scouting and visit hours are taken from the total hours available on the very top status bar (x / 1000+). Only recruiting "Add action" hours will count against the hours limit per recruit.

[grapeman81]

Re: Let's Talk Recruiting (CFB 25)

Yes you can hard and soft sell the same prospect. You will need to have kind of perk to get it to 60 minutes from the 50 base. You will also need a 2nd pitch for the soft sell

will I b penalized if I stack the same soft and hard sell? thanks

[bDoddleS]

Re: Let's Talk Recruiting (CFB 25)

will I b penalized if I stack the same soft and hard sell? thanks

You can't it's locked. You would have to Sway them using 1 or 2 of what they are already interested in, and hope they become interested in a 4th, or maybe, 5th category. Which then allows you to have 2 perfect pitches, one for hard and one for soft.

[TBBucs_24]

Re: Let's Talk Recruiting (CFB 25)

I know it's not true to life but given all the issues since the introduction to the game, what's your guys' take on possibly just eliminating ATH's from next years game and spreading out numbers into real positions?

It seems like a possible solution, especially given that the CPU controlled teams never really know what to really do with them anyways. And given the fact this issue was also an NCAA 14 issue, with dozens of ATH's turned All-American QB and WR across many schools [I]each[I] year, it may be for the best. I know how much that screwed up NCAA 14, anyway.

[Willis135]

Re: Let's Talk Recruiting (CFB 25)

Anybody know if difficulty level effects recruiting as well? Recruiting seems pretty easy and I'm wondering if increasing difficulty will make it more difficult to recruit.

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[georgiafan]

Re: Let's Talk Recruiting (CFB 25)

I like the athletes and think they could stay and they are done better then 14 as its more OL/DL types and HB/LB. The only real issue I see is the scrambling archetype

I know it's not true to life but given all the issues since the introduction to the game, what's your guys' take on possibly just eliminating ATH's from next years game and spreading out numbers into real positions?

It seems like a possible solution, especially given that the CPU controlled teams never really know what to really do with them anyways. And given the fact this issue was also an NCAA 14 issue, with dozens of ATH's turned All-American QB and WR across many schools [I]each[I] year, it may be for the best. I know how much that screwed up NCAA 14, anyway.

Difficulty doesn't matter in recruiting the hours from the school and coach tree is sorta meant to be a difficulty level. If you want more a challenge go after teams that the CPU is also going after. A lot of people don't have any other offers. You might want to put some in house rules in for 3* as a lot of them you can get "for free"

Anybody know if difficulty level effects recruiting as well? Recruiting seems pretty easy and I'm wondering if increasing difficulty will make it more difficult to recruit.

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[_-King-_]

Re: Let's Talk Recruiting (CFB 25)

Is it good to offer scholarships in the preseason when you have extra hours? or is there a penalty for offering too early?

[canes21]

Re: Let's Talk Recruiting (CFB 25)

Offer it as early as you can if you want them.

[georgiafan]

Re: Let's Talk Recruiting (CFB 25)

Question as I think they will be some different opinions on. If you are playing as a 1 and 2* school what should be the policy on 3* if you want it to be realistic ?

Even though most 3* come in 60's overall, Most 3 in the game you don't have a lot of competition for to sign. Do you have a it where if you are ranked inside the top 5/10 preseason its ok ? Unlimited ? somewhere in between ?

[studbucket]

Re: Let's Talk Recruiting (CFB 25)

Question as I think they will be some different opinions on. If you are playing as a 1 and 2* school what should be the policy on 3* if you want it to be realistic ?

Even though most 3* come in 60's overall, Most 3 in the game you don't have a lot of competition for to sign. Do you have a it where if you are ranked inside the top 5/10 preseason its ok ? Unlimited ? somewhere in between ?

I generally only go after 3*s with my 1-star school if I am in their top 10. And even then I lose out on them all the time to Georgia, Miami, Alabama, or even 2-star schools. So far I haven't seen a need for house-ruling, especially if you are ranked for the recruit already.

[VDusen04]

Re: Let's Talk Recruiting (CFB 25)

This might be more of a broad football question but...

If I have a need at left guard, can I recruit a right guard and just utilize him as a left guard? Does the game allow you change positions? Do ratings suffer when moved slightly out of position?

Reason I'm asking: I need a left guard but there's not a lot of highly rated left guards left out there. That said, I have a highly rated right guard who is very interested in my school, so it'd be nice just to be able to sign him and slide him over if necessary.