You CAN edit and copy a career CAF(stop buying boosters!!)

[2k10Fonzarelli]

(Credit goes to 'Thisisnotanexit' from MMA-CAF.com)

Load your retired career fighter. Edit something of his (I edited his fighting out of in basic information). Overwrite save.

Load up that fighter again, he should NOT be under retired fighters. Go to show all CAfs. He'll be listed as a "retired fighters". Fighter Abilities should still NOT be available. Go to finish and create NEW SAVE. (note you dont have to edit anything)

That new CAF should now be a listed as a "CAF Mode CAF". Load him up now. Completely editable. You can redistribute stats/attributes and technique. He'll only have 12000 technique points available TOTAL (minus whatever moves your career caf had, you can edit them). You can edit name/weightclass/etc etc.

OP's Note: THQ is well aware of this and are working on a patch. Preparing for a worst case scenario, you should create many new saves of your Career CAF/CAF mode CAF

To switch Weightclass WITHOUT resetting Attributes:
Immediately after turning your retired CAF into a CAF mode CAF, goto weight class and change it. Note the weightclass limits as if they force one of your ratings down, you will lose the points.
Also, its a good idea to Ignore all technique training and focus solely on training games and gaining as much Cred as possible. This way you can have the points you need to make fighters rated upwards of 95. as Thisisnot wrote, you'll automatically have enough technique points(12000) when you finish the workaround and start editing him

Note that there is currently no way to DL from fighter share and get them some quick points, your best bet is to find the CAF formula and do it yourself.(MMA-CAF.com has a few going for UFC 3, including a very well done Fedor)

Thank goodness for this workaround as THQ looks to not only stiffle our creativity, but to make a dishonest dollar of selling a fundamental feature back to its customers.

Screw us and get screwed back. Hmm, maybe there is such thing as Karma.

[goh]

Well no because they'll patch it thus going back to the original screw and making you buy points.

Like I said in the Overeem topic...

It does nothing but make them look even worse when you think they can't possibly do anything else to accomplish that but they manage.

[2k10Fonzarelli]

Its quite likely that one could simply not accept the update OR accept the update with a stable of CAFs already made. If one requires more they could clear their HDD cache and do it again.

And in the off chance that the Patch will delete CAFs, you could back them up to an external memory unit.
Not sure if you can move fighters across different devices this year, but you could in 2010 so here's to hoping.

THQs actions are especially baffling considering reports/rumors of THQ laying off its staff and the upper management taking a 50% paycut.

In a perfect world, THQ will tank, their employees will find other opportunities and the UFC franchise will carry over to a Developer that will treat it like a proper sports videogame

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by goh

Well no because they'll patch it thus going back to the original screw and making you buy points. Like I said in the Overeem topic... It does nothing but make them look even worse when you think they can't possibly do anything else to accomplish that but they manage.

They can patch and on you can always delete the patch anytime you want to create a CAF using the glitch. Same thing happened last year.

[TheShizNo1]

Did they ever patch this?

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheShizNo1

Did they ever patch this?

Nope. Still works today.