Madden NFL 10 Online Franchise Discussion

[Sigma4Life]

Is it possible to have a human play for CPU controlled teams on my schedule. I would like to only play human opponents even if my franchise only has 2 or 3 fully human controlled teams. So basically anytime I have a CPU opponent on my schedule I could choose to have a person take over for that team for just one game.

[Valdarez]

2K5 / APF2K8 both had something called a VIP which kept track of the offensive plays / defensive plays, situational stats, and other relevant information. It even knew if you sat there and circled your player before the play started. AFP2K8's VIP usage is a little broke, but the idea is still sound.

Madden 10 is bringing online franchise to the fore front, which is very neat. One of the difficulties of playing online is getting everyone to play their games. And getting some guys to play against other guys (many will try to duck their games and just take the loss).

I thought it might be a good idea if Madden had some type of player profile that could be used to play a game when a player doesn't want to. They could mark the week as 'profile play' or something other relevant terminology and let the other player play the game against their profile so they don't have to play it. This lets the other player play the game, and ensure stats are available for every game for the players who want to play / compete.

Thoughts? Have a better way to use this idea? Or another way of going about it?

[blocknose]

will we need a playstation for every player need a ps3 to play an online franchise or can the 7 of us play on two ps3's?

[CreatineKasey]

Quote: Originally Posted by Skyboxer

Can't really answer that as the groups I play with play for fun and would just sim it and take the results and there wouldn't be any "Punishment". We are pretty much "friends" and understand sometime stuff happens and games can't be played by the deadline.

Skyboxer you are conveying the same opportunity I envision in your posts. This will be so much fun!

Quote: Originally Posted by PacMan3000

Again, it sounds cool, I just don't know how realistic it is to have a bunch of friends who all love Madden, all have the same exact system, and all are willing to play online. It's far from impossible to find, but I guess the more realistic option is to find people online rather than recruit your real life friends. And I agree that if you lose in franchise mode, that's okay because it's indeed a franchise mode. My point is that it would seem that you might only get through..2 seasons, maybe 3. That doesn't seem all that long to rebuild a team.

I've been in 24 team leagues. I am actually in the process of a growing 32 team online franchise in M10. NFLHITMAN ran dozens of leagues in APF which were wonderful. He is putting one together for M10 and it is going to be everything an online SIM player could want. We'll eventually adopt sim rules if necessary. We vote on everything, so everyone has a say.

Remember Operation Sports is a GREAT place to network for leagues like this. For the most part the individuals that surf this site actually like the sports of the games they are playing and want to represent them properly. You are right about it being difficult to put something good together with a bunch of completely random people. Have to put a little effort in and network!

[Moostache]

Quote: Originally Posted by Valdarez

2K5 / APF2K8 both had something called a VIP which kept track of the offensive plays / defensive plays, situational stats, and other relevant information. It even knew if you sat there and circled your player before the play started. AFP2K8's VIP usage is a little broke, but the idea is still sound. Madden 10 is bringing online franchise to the fore front, which is very neat. One of the difficulties of playing online is getting everyone to play their games. And getting some guys to play against other guys (many will try to duck their games and just take the loss). I thought it might be a good idea if Madden had some type of player profile that could be used to play a game when a player doesn't want to. They could mark the week as 'profile play' or something other relevant terminology and let the other player play the game against their profile so they don't have to play it. This lets the other player play the game, and ensure stats are available for every game for the players who want to play / compete. Thoughts? Have a better way to use this idea? Or another way of going about it?

For all the things that 2K gets praised for on their football games (some justifiably so, others not so much), the VIP system is the one that I wished got more press...

I thought the VIP was amazing (creeped me out to play against myself and see the CPU doing a lot of the same pre-snap shifts and BnR that I would do on defense, but in a cool way) - and I had visions of the day that you would never again play a game against an online cheeser because you would be able to download their VIP first and if you liked playing against it offline you could seek them out or accept games online.

The possibilities for VIP were endless, unfortunately, the string of 2K football games has been anything but endless....

[Naterob3]

Can we player lock in Madden and online franchise???

[Koolie G]

That's a pretty good idea. If you had to be out of town or just couldn't make your game vs. a human, then your "VIP" would be loaded and play for you. So your tendencies and playcalling and whatnot would represent your style of play, instead of the generic CPU style of play.

I like it. That shouldn't be hard to do for next year's game.

[vrabbit]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sigma4Life

Is it possible to have a human play for CPU controlled teams on my schedule. I would like to only play human opponents even if my franchise only has 2 or 3 fully human controlled teams. So basically anytime I have a CPU opponent on my schedule I could choose to have a person take over for that team for just one game.

doubt that would be possible, but sliders should allow your OF to make the cpu more challenging