FIX: Setting Up A 32 Team OFFLINE CFM Instructions

[Bull_Market]

Re: FIX: Setting Up A 32 Team OFFLINE CFM Instructions

I just simmed to next year and I was able to create new character and assign he default gruden to the Redskins. Several times. So this is working 100%. I'm going to upload a video showing. And I may do a video explaining what you have to do. There are many confusion. I may create a new thread since this workaround doesn't involved 32. Control teams so it will be cleaner.


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So I am clear, you just create a character for the team you are playing that week? Then after the game, fire him, and assign the old coach?

[RogueHominid]

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Are there any known financial glitches for owner mode?

If I do 32 owners, can I manually increase other teams' finances if they get in the red, and if so, how?

[mdiggitydawg]

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WOW just read every page in the thread, my head hurts, but I thank you guys!

Booker...am I correct in thinking you will play using only your team...while every other will be cpu as the season progresses? I usually do this with the giants...

my buddy likes to play all the games during a week and flip in and out playing only offense for both teams during a game. I assume he needs to set up like A & S for 32 team control...

is am I correct. If so, I look forward to following your video to get up and running.

[booker21]

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So I am clear, you just create a character for the team you are playing that week? Then after the game, fire him, and assign the old coach?

No. I never créate any character. You select create new character to access to the next screen and you leave the coach that is already there. The after playing the game you retire that coach. (It doesn't retire gruden. U just stop controlling that team)


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[Bull_Market]

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No. I never créate any character. You select create new character to access to the next screen and you leave the coach that is already there. The after playing the game you retire that coach. (It doesn't retire gruden. U just stop controlling that team)


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This is much cleaner. Do we still need to put coach firing to OFF and set to WEEKLY progression?

[DLaren]

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For those that have successfully set this up, can we get some more CFM impressions.
I'd love to hear all the feedback on this. Thanks. And thanks for all the hard work you guys
Put into figuring this stuff out. Your work isn't appreciated enough......

I set up an 'Owners Only' league, with the 31 CPU teams on Auto-pilot, I play 'coach mode' (only call plays), on the All-Madden difficulty, with the 'Tuner' active...everything has been lovely so far; both game-play and franchise immersion (shout-out to the community for coming up with all the work-arounds!).

If I do 32 owners, can I manually increase other teams' finances if they get in the red, and if so, how?

Yes.

In the Users screen, if you click on a team, there's an option to increase theirs funds.

[bkrich83]

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No. I never créate any character. You select create new character to access to the next screen and you leave the coach that is already there. The after playing the game you retire that coach. (It doesn't retire gruden. U just stop controlling that team)


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I've been doing this in my test franchise and it works like a charm.

I think I've got my set up locked in for CFM and am good to go. Going to play with my test CFM a little bit more to make sure. Hopefully I can spend some time with it in the next few days, going to USC game today and will be at Charger game tomorrow, so my time is limited this weekend.

[bestbrother]

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So is this a new method that superceeds that offered by Armor?

Im getting in a pickle tbh and ive yet to install the game as im still on the fence about returning it as I dont know if i can get from it what i want

The help here is fantastic but im really getting confused at times as we appear to have more than 1 way of resolving the issues... that sort of contradict each other

[Bull_Market]

Re: FIX: Setting Up A 32 Team OFFLINE CFM Instructions

So is this a new method that superceeds that offered by Armor?

Im getting in a pickle tbh and ive yet to install the game as im still on the fence about returning it as I dont know if i can get from it what i want

The help here is fantastic but im really getting confused at times as we appear to have more than 1 way of resolving the issues... that sort of contradict each other

Armor & Sword was/is extremely helpful is sorting this crap out, but his way has way too many moving parts for my tastes. I want to turn my system on and play, not spend 45 minutes to an hour doing this, that, and the third.

Booker21 has much more streamlined way and I think I will go with his method.

Thanks guys, you saved this game for me. (So far)

[bestbrother]

Re: FIX: Setting Up A 32 Team OFFLINE CFM Instructions

So let me try and put into my own words what Booker is doing:

1 - Offline CFM
2 - Picks his team and takes control
3 - Leaves the other 31 teams as they are, set to Autopilot?
4 - After every game, he retires his 'coach' in game, then adds a new one, which in turn just adds the real Head Coach?

Doing this, it eliminates all the problems in CFM, ie the change of gameplay, can keep the Tuner, the AI will trade and use Free Agency on its own accord etc, no confidence boosts, goals are turned off for everyone.... including AI teams etc

What impact does retiring the coach do? Do we lose stats of some sort?

[knich]

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Yes but unless you wants I handle resigning players for all 32 you will want to check resign players. Issue i just ran into was as owner simulating preseason my team traded two players I wouldve kept.

I had same problem except it appeared to happen after I had selected a team to start CFM offline with regular season. When I hit R3 and then created a new character as owner, it changed the depth charts and released players even though I had selected fill roster OFF. It seems to do this if you select owner as it did when a selected owner for another character. Question is will it keep making roster moves for me throughout season? It seems to be playing coach and GM on its own?

J
DO not set any team to auto pilot in the user team menu (which is accessed from the settings menu in your CFM)

I am confused about autopilot. What is it? I see it in user team menu but no idea how to turn off or on. It says it is off for all teams, but I never turned it off unless it defaults to off? I think off is recommended, but I am just curious what it does if it is on?

Also, with the 32 team setup, I do not want CPU to make trades during season. How do I disable function? Thanks.

[Brandwin]

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Well, since I already went through the trouble of creating someone for every team and setting cpu control to everything. Bascially it will work the same for me as what you guys are doing right?

[Bull_Market]

Re: FIX: Setting Up A 32 Team OFFLINE CFM Instructions

Well, since I already went through the trouble of creating someone for every team and setting cpu control to everything. Bascially it will work the same for me as what you guys are doing right?

Perhaps, but Bookers way is practically fool proof. I feel like with A&S method, I may forget to do something throwing everything into disarray.

[mrsaito]

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Also, with the 32 team setup, I do not want CPU to make trades during season. How do I disable function? Thanks.

You can turn trades off holistically as a setting for your franchise like you could for injuries...

[Last Gunfighter]

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Perhaps, but Bookers way is practically fool proof. I feel like with A&S method, I may forget to do something throwing everything into disarray.

I agree there is a lot to the set up of A&S's method but it does have it's perks. One being the ability to set the auto subs of all the teams, not just your own. If this isn't done you will rarely see any substitution by the CPU teams which in the end will cause, among other things, a lot of RBs to have higher rush totals because they basically play every snap. You will see a lot of 1000 yd rushers.