Community interview with Ben Haumiller - Answers questions from OperationSports

[Ziza9Noles94]

Reddit: Will we see a return of FCS teams in future titles?
BH: By using TeamBuilder.easports.com you are able to create any FCS, high school, historic, or fantasy team that you want for use in NCAA Football 12.


Translation: No.

EDIT: Didn't see illwill's post. Sorry about that.

[sikolec]

Thanks for doing this community interview. It's unfortunate that Ben ducks and dodges these questions like the great Barry Sanders.

I think I've officially given up trying to find answers through interviews with Ben. He's been very well trained in avoiding answering questions negatively (truthful) and so he always avoids the question and puts a positive spin on things. Great from a marketing standpoint, but utterly pathetic from a gamer's take.

Guess I'll just wait unitl June 28th, July 5th, and July 12th...

[Snickelfritter]

Quote: Originally Posted by illwill10

"Reddit: Will we see a return of FCS teams in future titles? BH: By using TeamBuilder.easports.com you are able to create any FCS, high school, historic, or fantasy team that you want for use in NCAA Football 12." I think that means that there wont be FCS teams any times soon. It would be better if we were allowed to sub out current FCS teams for TB teams

Exactly. You think that'd be simple enough. How many are there like 5 or 6. Just have it an option in that screen and pick the 6 FBS teams you want to sub in for the fake FCS. Seems easy to me. Someone put in a suggestion for NCAA 13 ha.

[WipeOut464]

Quote: Originally Posted by RM938

Decent interview. Didn't like how he answered the FCS question though, some people want the option to play FCS teams in dynasty. the only way to do this is to put them in a conference which wouldn't make it an FCS team anymore. Also in the past we only had like 12 TB slots. OS: Team Builder is an awesome experience to build the team you always dreamed of. What new features were added to the custom team builder this year? BH: We have included new stadium and uniform options for use in creating/editing your TeamBuilder school.

IIRC, in the previous gen, if you wanted to use a I-AA school ("FCS" can shove it) you had to put it in a I-A conference anyway. Anybody confirm? Seems like a push if you're using TeamBuilder.

[RM938]

Quote: Originally Posted by illwill10

"Reddit: Will we see a return of FCS teams in future titles? BH: By using TeamBuilder.easports.com you are able to create any FCS, high school, historic, or fantasy team that you want for use in NCAA Football 12." I think that means that there wont be FCS teams any times soon. It would be better if we were allowed to sub out current FCS teams for TB teams

This. I can picture it, they should make FCS an option when you are in the conference editor screen just like every conference that way you can import TB teams and swap them in for the fake ones. doesn't seem too hard.

[illwill10]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ziza9Noles94

Reddit: Will we see a return of FCS teams in future titles? BH: By using TeamBuilder.easports.com you are able to create any FCS, high school, historic, or fantasy team that you want for use in NCAA Football 12. Translation: No. EDIT: Didn't see illwill's post. Sorry about that.

Quote: Originally Posted by Snickelfritter

Exactly. You think that'd be simple enough. How many are there like 5 or 6. Just have it an option in that screen and pick the 6 FBS teams you want to sub in for the fake FCS. Seems easy to me. Someone put in a suggestion for NCAA 13 ha.

Im not disappointed. But, I dont like the fact that we can not at least edit FCS teams. I could edit all Akron players to 70 and still blow out FCS Northwest easily.

[Ziza9Noles94]

Quote: Originally Posted by WipeOut464

IIRC, in the previous gen, if you wanted to use a I-AA school ("FCS" can shove it) you had to put it in a I-A conference anyway. Anybody confirm? Seems like a push if you're using TeamBuilder.

I think you could just select from all the teams in the game/on the disc. So that if you wanted to play Princeton, but didn't have them selected in your dynsty, you could still schedule them as an OOC opponent. But it's been awhile I might be remembering incorrectly.

[DorianDonP]

I've been critical of the game but if they surprise me and add player editing in dynasty I will be a happy freaking camper. I'd shut my mouth for a minute if they added that at the last minute lol.