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Old 09-20-2013, 06:45 PM   #17
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Re: Would there be a way to take Leon Sandcastle out of the game?

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Oh my god, why do people not get it? Yes, they are all made up players, but the difference is that all of them except Sandcastle are generated which is expected. My point is that the Sandcastle character was meant to be a joke. So when playing with or against him in CFM, it will take away any realism for me. It is some guy dressed up with a fake moustache and Afro. That's my point.
lol, just leave it alone man, I feel why this bothers you but don't frustrate yourself trying to explain it to people with a completely different mindset. Everyone doesn't approach sports games the same way, some people would have likely enjoyed having LB Terry Tate in as well, lol.

Would have been nice if a character like that could be disabled but seems like all you can do is use an import draft class instead.
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Old 09-20-2013, 07:30 PM   #18
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Re: Would there be a way to take Leon Sandcastle out of the game?

I can understand and EA has had the bad habit of mimiking with fake players like Tim Tibrow and Boar Jackson and such.The worst was in '12 when they put Cam Weber and a bunch of other schleps as free agents.At least you could edit them out of your game though.

They get a little carried away with the odd names too.I would personally just go with NCAA draft classes for that reason alone.

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Old 09-20-2013, 08:53 PM   #19
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Re: Would there be a way to take Leon Sandcastle out of the game?

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Nope, just do not want a made up fairytale player in MY franchise.
The upload classes from NCAA my god it's not that big of a deal.
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Old 09-20-2013, 09:04 PM   #20
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Re: Would there be a way to take Leon Sandcastle out of the game?

Seriously, a complaint about EA finding a way to supplement an Easter Egg in Madden???????????

Where's the complaint about Denard Robinson's shoes not being tied???
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Old 09-20-2013, 10:43 PM   #21
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I have to say that, while I get that the classes are EA made, I also find the "retread" super stars of yore annoying as heck.

So and so is a blah smith clone and even looks like him crap gets old.
Importing classes would be great, except there are issues listed here in the forums, 0 TGH and blocking attributes, no way for a user to dictate, influence what players are in the class. {very annoying if you import to try to draft your favorite college player and he, for reasons unrelated to skill set, doesn't even appear in the class}

I wish EA would kinda think outside the box on some of these issues - first off totally random classes outside the storyline guys would be nice (eliminating spoiler threads that take some spice out of the draft experience), but even better would be custom classes, "community created" deals - i would love to make some draft classes, varying talent levels (top heavy no depth, no stars but deep class, QB heavy class, OL heavy class, late rd gems and so forth...

Also, a very cool idea would be to give the NCAA dynasty "commish" a number of "tags" for players to be "invited" to the combine thus insuring their inclusion in the draft class - 50 players per year or so.

Would be really great if we had tools to "edit" the attribute drops from NCAA to Madden. Think of setting rules for attribute drops from college to pro game...
example would be AWR set drop to 30 points, and then 2 more for each draft rd. So a 99 AWR rated NCAA 1st rd player would be 69 AWR, where a 7th rd player would be 55 AWR - or something like that...
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Re: Would there be a way to take Leon Sandcastle out of the game?

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There is a difference between randomly generated draft classes
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but the difference is that all of them except Sandcastle are generated which is expected.
The classes are not randomly generated, each player is hand made by someone at EA, just like Leon Sandcastle was. The names are chosen, the pictures are assigned, and the attributes are all predetermined. Nothing changes in a draft class save for the story-line players that have a few different paths they can take. The only thing that is random about draft classes, is which season you will get which class.
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Re: Would there be a way to take Leon Sandcastle out of the game?

What gets me the most, is the most fun I ever had drafting was back on PS2, when the players were all completely generated by the game in some sort of random fashion.

I even think the old PS2 days where you could see each players ratings on the draft screen were better than it is now...
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I won't comment on the Leon Sandcastle topic seeing as others have touched on my thoughts more than once already (I think it's kind of a cool easter egg).

On the generated draft classes. I really life the way the do it but I think there is a way to make everyone happy (And it's what I'd do if I were in their shoes).

I would still render each player in the draft classes, give them their traits and stats. Then I would make it so that they were put in a shuffle and what I mean by that is. Each draft class it looks for about 250 players and pulls them randomly from the pool of pre-rendered players (all the while marking each one off the list so you don't get repeats like you have with Draft classes like this Madden).

The reason I'm not a huge fan of the completely random Draft classes is every once in awhile I'll find a player I really like. This year (using NCAA imported classes) I drafted Antone Exum and he become my favorite rookie. So I make another Franchise cause I want to play as another team. I hadn't played with him after my 9th season on the old franchise due to him turning down my contract offer so is been awhile since I've played with him. So I Draft him and he is a completely different player (stats, traits, etc are all wrong).

So since I'm like that with more than one draftee I come across and I like then just as much as some of my real players (just like Matt Ryan, Julio Jones, Robert Alford, etc). So that may just be me but that is what I'm hoping they do.

Edit: I just wanted to add that while I would like this for Draft classes. They would have to recode just about the entire franchise system to emplement something other than what they have now.
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