I've heard that the team funds are nearly impossible to work with, and even if you can manage them the CPU can't, breaking offline CFM this year. I was just wondering if that was the case.
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Re: Is owner mode broke?
A lot of people have had that problem, but in my experience i have not. The first thing you need to do is get rid of bad contracts. Go through your roster and cut players that are making more than a couple million that have no signing bonus and are not starters or are starters but have a back up that is cheaper and about as good. Then raise your prices on everything up one. Then you can sign free agents, sometimes the same guys you just cut for cheaper one year contracts to fill out your roster. Then you have guys under one year contracts that you have no commitment to after the season if your rebuilding this is great. A lot of these you can resign at the end of the season to six year contracts with no bonus for around a million bucks. You can cut them at anytime without penalty, even if it is the next preseason. The more players you have signed to long contracts with no bonus the easier it is to make money and manage your salary cap. -
Re: Is owner mode broke?
Iยดm interested on this as well. I donยดt really care about user side. More intereted on how CPU handle things. i heard that after 10 season some cpu teams starter are 50ovr since CPU canยดt deal with the contracts and signings correctly because the lack of funds.English, is not my first language.Comment
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Re: Is owner mode broke?
When I first played CFM in owner mode this year I thought it was broke, however the more time I spend the more real it is.The smaller markets struggle to bring in big money talent, which they should. They have to develop talent and most times that talent will leave for a larger market after their contract is up. I like it, thereis startegy involved. To keep your all pro QB maybee keep his ratings in the 80s instead of jacking everything up to 90s when its not needed. I like to keep all the xp and when I resign him I use all the points then, so if he is a 70 i sign him cheap and then use his points make him an 80 or 90 and hopefully by the next qb contract I will have enough for a sign on bonus or he will be 10 years in anyway.Thats my trick with my studs, also when you play with a player with lower ratings you get more xp for weekly/milestones etc.huge difference between points for players rated 60s 70s compared to 80s and 90s.save all the points, then use them.I had like 700k for a hb after 2 seaons. he went from 69 to 91 lol i signed him to 6 years at 750k and 50k sign on bonus.Comment
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Re: Is owner mode broke?
Much more intereted on how CPU handle things.Comment
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Re: Is owner mode broke?
To make money selling tickets, you pretty much need to save right before each home game and then sim to next to see how tickets sold. Then go back and load from the save point and adjust accordingly.
I play as the Saints in my 7th season and some games sell more than others even though I am 12-1. I can have the price raised all the way up on some sections and sell out the seats then next week after a win have to lower them drastically. Don't even get me started on playoffs.
Just another broken feature.Comment
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Re: Is owner mode broke?
This isn't baseball. All Teams are constrained and lose players because of salary cap, not size of market. All NFL teams can afford the salary cap.
Again, this is not baseball. This is football (NFL). Green Bay is one of the smallest markets in all of sports and the only problem they have in keeping players is the salary cap. Not lack of funds. All teams can, and now, with the new CBA, must use most of their cap.
You may like the way Madden is. And it is completely reasonable for you to like it the way Madden has this setup. But it is not any where near realistic.
Before I gave up on Owner mode, after X number of years in CFM, all the CPU teams were in the low 70's. Maybe a patch changed this. But not that I've heard. From what I understand, EA never changed this part of CFM.Comment
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Re: Is owner mode broke?
I have played pretty far into cfm upwards of 13 seasons and I have never seen teams in the 70s. that is bs.
also players leave for the bigger market all the time, if they get an offer. Green bay is a storied franchise, of course players stay their.
In my opinion winning in the easy money maker markets is too easy in cfm in this game. after 4 seasons with the raiders and moving them to london I had over 300 million in funds, every player i wanted, it was stupid.It is way more challenging to make key moves and focus on keeping a few stars in the smaller market.
Like it has been said, it is a game, nobody on here will ever all agree on what makes a good game. I am making the most of it and I was just offering up some info.people on this forum are a bunch of whiners. Go play madden on sega, tell me madden has not improved.
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Re: Is owner mode broke?
What was your trick in making mine consistenly. What did you do with your finances?Comment
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Re: Is owner mode broke?
It wasn't BS the for the couple of Owner Mode franchises I did.
The salary cap has nothing to do with this. Since the salary cap, players don't leave small market teams because of teams lack of funds. Each team has the same salary cap. Larger markets DON'T have a higher salary cap. This isn't baseball. You will get the occasional player, when a large market team has the cap space, move to a larger market for the endorsements. But this doesn't happen as often since the salary cap was put into place int he 90's.
It's OK that you like it the way it is. I'm not disputing whether you should like it. I'm just disputing your claim that small market teams consistently lose players to large market teams in today's NFL.
This issue has NOTHING to do with being spoiled.Comment
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Re: Is owner mode broke?
Yes, it's broken. When you are $-40 million in funds and 4th in value, there is a problem.
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