After spending countless hours on Head Coach 09, franchise mode seems tough to get back into for Madden 10. The new interface is nice but its the same ole, same ole under the hood.
Contracts-
Contract negotiations were on point in HC, CPU agents would make counter offers and depending on their answers to your offers you could judge if they would budge soon or not on their contract. In M10 its just the same canned responses over and over until you stumble upon the proper combination of years, salary and bonus. No incentives either which are present in HC 09. They help when signing a backup player without going to hell and back with salary and bonus when you know they will play <30% of the snaps.
Trades-
Trade negotiations in M10 are about the same as always. Trade negotiations werent the best in HC09 but they style in which its presented makes it hard to regress back into M10 franchise trade style. In M10 its just plugging in players until the CPU feels they are making out ahead by a considerable margin. In HC09 you would have a ton of packages listed to you depending which players were on the block, picks and future picks which was amazing. I only wish you could offer specific players in a trade situation instead of need to designate them "on the trading block" when its just one trade instance but its not that big of a deal.
Offseason ReSign + FA
Bit more of the same, offer more and more money blindly until they accept. FA's have interests (team need, great coach, market, etc.) which seem to effect negotiations some. It seems even really bad players want an arm and a leg to sign them.
Coach Signings
Unlike HC09, you can view the entire pool of available coaches and coaches in the NFL. Unlike HC09, coaches dont seem to have any attributes besides a modifier to certain positions (QB THA +5, WR RTR +5, even negative stuff, etc), no motivation, ethics, etc. Not a game killer because it keeps it simple and most of us dont know what all those att's did anyways. I like this but it would be nice if they brought over more from HC09 so you had incentive to develop staff instead of dump your current guys when someone with better modifiers comes along next offseason.
Ill add more once I get further into it. (Draft,etc.)
Contracts-
Contract negotiations were on point in HC, CPU agents would make counter offers and depending on their answers to your offers you could judge if they would budge soon or not on their contract. In M10 its just the same canned responses over and over until you stumble upon the proper combination of years, salary and bonus. No incentives either which are present in HC 09. They help when signing a backup player without going to hell and back with salary and bonus when you know they will play <30% of the snaps.
Trades-
Trade negotiations in M10 are about the same as always. Trade negotiations werent the best in HC09 but they style in which its presented makes it hard to regress back into M10 franchise trade style. In M10 its just plugging in players until the CPU feels they are making out ahead by a considerable margin. In HC09 you would have a ton of packages listed to you depending which players were on the block, picks and future picks which was amazing. I only wish you could offer specific players in a trade situation instead of need to designate them "on the trading block" when its just one trade instance but its not that big of a deal.
Offseason ReSign + FA
Bit more of the same, offer more and more money blindly until they accept. FA's have interests (team need, great coach, market, etc.) which seem to effect negotiations some. It seems even really bad players want an arm and a leg to sign them.
Coach Signings
Unlike HC09, you can view the entire pool of available coaches and coaches in the NFL. Unlike HC09, coaches dont seem to have any attributes besides a modifier to certain positions (QB THA +5, WR RTR +5, even negative stuff, etc), no motivation, ethics, etc. Not a game killer because it keeps it simple and most of us dont know what all those att's did anyways. I like this but it would be nice if they brought over more from HC09 so you had incentive to develop staff instead of dump your current guys when someone with better modifiers comes along next offseason.
Ill add more once I get further into it. (Draft,etc.)
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