Do you think the next patch will address the unrealistic amount of $$$ FA's ask for?

[TRiCKY_J]

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If you guys like Head Coach so much then why dont you just go play Head Coach?

Why would they take everything from HC09 and out it in Madden?

They would have to call it Head Coach then.Madden is Madden and Head Coach is Head Coach. PERIOD Just like 2k5 is 2k5 and Madden is Madden.If you like that other game so much then go to that Forum.This is the Madden Forums.

And if you guys don't like the amount of money rookies ask for then turn the cap off.


Look guys Madden 10 is A VIDEO GAME. It is supposed to be challenging!

Get over it and play the game for what it is PLEASE!

idk maybe u havent played head oach but thepoint is that these guys are making is to have theideas and scheme of head coach, which there, to my knowledge, is no more, andadd it t the madden franchise. i myself dont likehead coach because i like to play the gams myself not sit back and call plays, but i like mnaging my roster, drafting and building my own stars. thas what franchise is abou

[Azcardinal32]

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idk maybe u havent played head oach but thepoint is that these guys are making is to have theideas and scheme of head coach, which there, to my knowledge, is no more, andadd it t the madden franchise. i myself dont likehead coach because i like to play the gams myself not sit back and call plays, but i like mnaging my roster, drafting and building my own stars. thas what franchise is abou

Thats exactly how i am. I like to play my games so the one thing i dont like about head coach is just calling plays and watching.. Which means that everything else about head coach 09 must be amazing considering i still play it despite not being able to play a game.

[Yeah...THAT Guy]

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Yeah if it weren't for the fact that I like to play the games myself, I'd definitely play HC09 still. I wanna go back to the game at some point because it was just amazing, but the fact that I can't play it myself, and it's got the same issue as Madden 09 where it's near impossible to run the ball, I'd be all over it.

[KBLover]

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Look guys Madden 10 is A VIDEO GAME. It is supposed to be challenging!

Like I said, realism would be a great challenge. I mean, it's really hard to keep and maintain a winning team in real life, even without teams having to pay 2 M for some bottom-of-the-roster player.

Challenge isn't AI getting to sign a guy for less than what the player can *even offer* (as one example was given earlier). That's just cheap - and it doesn't really make the game any harder because, you'd just not get the guy and he's not critical (otherwise, there'd be no qualms about paying the cash).

Challenge would be the AI/FA system being realistically harder to get who you want. Bidding wars, a more robust interests system, guys who only want to play under certain coaches/coaching tendencies (say a DT that doesn't like your team because you run a 3-4 and he's always been in a 4-3).

Stuff like that would add realistic challenge, not just saying "ZOMG human player must pay way more than we AIs!11!!!"

Which is ironic because all the human has to do is let the AI fill a roster hole, and get the same benefit.

Challenging system, indeed.

[PlayaHataSupreme]

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There's a difference between a challenge and something that's broken.........

Set the CPU resign players, and they can sign players for much less than a human can........

If the player will reject my human offer, and I set it to CPU resign players to get past that stage, the player should not be taking, with the CPU offer, LESS or even THE SAME AS, the offer that I, the human, made to that player.

If I offer 3 years, 28 mill to Antoine Winfield, he rejects, I offer him 3 years 36 mill, he rejects, I set to CPU resign, he should not be resigning at 3 years, 26 mill just because CPU offered it.

If that part was by design, it's similar to some 1980s bullshiggity when the Nintendo games gave the human player 5 energy bars and the CPU player got 9 energy bars when playing fighting games (though there were valid reasons for setting it up like that back then). Problem is, this isn't the 1980s............ we should be past that now.

This is almost as bad as the early decade NBA Lives that loaded a fleet of the great players on one CPU team with minimum contracts.

[mattlanta]

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I wonder if EA will address this in the patch ... lol.

[MrOctober430]

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I hope so.

A 59 OVR rated rookie QB shouldn't be asking for 8mil for 4 years in the FA pool.

[mattlanta]

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I hope so.

A 59 OVR rated rookie QB shouldn't be asking for 8mil for 4 years in the FA pool.

4 years worth ... lemme guess... around $1 million per year? lol

It shouldn't even be about the ratings either. Any 35 year old OL who is jobless and wants to play in the NFL would settle for a contract even if it was around $750-850K in real life. This is pathetic.

[Yeah...THAT Guy]

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4 years worth ... lemme guess... around $1 million per year? lol

It shouldn't even be about the ratings either. Any 35 year old OL who is jobless and wants to play in the NFL would settle for a contract even if it was around $750-850K in real life. This is pathetic.

My RT wants 30 mil a year right now... Needless to say, I'm not pleased. Although it appears that your Salary Cap expands every year cuz I had over 150 mil in cap space the year my RT demanded this money so I actually gave it to him.

[mattlanta]

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Well... here's to hoping they fix it down the road!

[nikpin]

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I just bought the game and got to my first off-season in my Cowboys franchise only to realize how ridiculously un-realistic the salary structure is...

[Valdarez]

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I must be one of the only guys who like it. IMHO the only thing they need to fix is the cost of undrafted rookies.

[KBLover]

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My only real problem with it is that the CPU gets around it.

If FA's were overly expensive for all the teams, I'd have much less issue with it.

[Yeah...THAT Guy]

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I'd have much less of a problem with it if it weren't for the fact that my RT wants 30 mil a year and my 4th string CB wants 28 mil. And my starting FB wants over 8 mil a year.

[theonlywoj]

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My only real problem with it is that the CPU gets around it.

If FA's were overly expensive for all the teams, I'd have much less issue with it.

I found a solution. Sign the free agent you want (lets say Neal, who claims to want 850k/1yr) to a deal with no bonus money for 7 years (the reason 7 is best is because you'll be able to offer them a ton of money, but year 1 will be low so that you stay under the cap). Go to player management screen, change the player to a Punter (or anything to make their overall plummet). Now release them (no cap hit!) and resign them. They'll ask for the same amount, but this time you'll actually be able to sign them for that.

I also noticed the following: sometimes the CPU does sign them for the more expensive price. In two cases just now they signed a center for 5 million instead of the 850k, and a kicker for 2million instead of 850k. I think the CPU gets the player for the minimum when they have a required roster spot to fill. however, if the signing is elective then they pay the same price you do.

So... I'm not sure what is best. Ideally there shouldn't be this 850k/1yr crap and the cpu should just pick the cheaper guy to fill their roster spot than landing an 85OVR tackle for cheap just because they lucked out with a spot open.