Possibility of Pocket Scout 13

[PocketScout]

Hey guys, I have received many emails over the past week asking about the status of 13. Currently I have not purchased the game yet. I have been extremely disappointed with the game the past couple years and have simply lost my desire to purchase another game from EA that will be filled with bugs and major issues that will not be resolved until November.

I will rent the game once it hits Redbox and will be keeping an eye on the forums. If this offering appears to be better (no major issues where my dynasty will be unplayable) than the past couple years, I will buy it and develop the app.

I hope all of you enjoy the game and thank you to everyone who has purchased the product in the past. The first season I did the development for myself and the past couple years has been for you. I have grown more irritated with a bad product but continued development because I know you guys liked it. Hopefully this years game will live up to the hype.

Thanks again,
Tc

[jayduce]

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please develope pocket scout 13, I cant live without it lol

[HOLYghost_678]

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Nice letter

[War34Eagle]

Got to ask... What is pocket scout? Must have missed it last year

[K0ZZ]

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Pocket scout let you put in the ratings of the player (A-F) at every specific category as well as their 40, bench, etc and it would give you a range of their overall.

It was extremely useful in past games if you were interested in it but I can't help but feel like the scouting addition has rendered such an app useless? Especially since ranges are more dynamic now to accommodate gems and busts.

[Tovarich]

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All they do is give you a letter grade until you scout them...but then that can vary widely. Once you've figured out the actual number, it adjusts the projected overall for you. Seems like they are thwarting this app.

[SyFiC]

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If you can make it show the actual ratings without scouting, id buy it again.

[nuschler22]

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If you can make it show the actual ratings without scouting, id buy it again.

The problem is that the letter grades used to derive the possible range are not accurate.

Obviously they're not accurate purposely so that the new scouting function has purpose.

[SyFiC]

Re: Possibility of Pocket Scout 13

The problem is that the letter grades used to derive the possible range are not accurate.

Obviously they're not accurate purposely so that the new scouting function has purpose.

Yeah but if he can get into the save file and see the actual ratings(numbers not letters) that would be great. Without having to scout

[nuschler22]

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Yeah but if he can get into the save file and see the actual ratings(numbers not letters) that would be great. Without having to scout

If somebody would play like that (getting into save files, finding out the ratings of the players, basically cheating the game), why not just edit the recruit?

Just curious.

[PocketScout]

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If somebody would play like that (getting into save files, finding out the ratings of the players, basically cheating the game), why not just edit the recruit?

Just curious.

Back when the program was first written, we (the community) had a problem to solve. In real life coaches can get game film on players and determine for themselves if that 4* HB is really that good or if he possibly is overrated. Previously in the game we had to just kind of wing it and hope for the best. He might come in at 78 or 64 we just had no clue. Now with EA's addition of the scouting feature added to the game we can now make this determination in game instead of having to doing it ourselves.

The entire save file is made up of about 7 million 1's and 0's (NCAA 2012, I haven't even taken the time to look under the hood of 2013). The program would go in and find all the recruits then process out all the rating information and put it all in a easy to read spreadsheet. This made it a lot easier to find players with certain skills you were looking for. Like if you wanted great M2M coverage corners you could sort the entire class that way and find guys who fit your system of coaching a lot better.

As for going in and editing the recruits, we actually tried to do this back in NCAA 2011 because we noticed a major issue with how recruits attributes were distributed across a bell curve. In general this was a great idea, but it was done sporadically so guys attributes were off (a 94 agl guy with only 45 juke move) and the Recruits (4 or 5 years down the road) made the game play completely different than how it did with out of the box rosters. The problem we encountered was we were unable to properly hash sign the file. Basically we were trying to patch the game but could not pull it off.

All they do is give you a letter grade until you scout them...but then that can vary widely. Once you've figured out the actual number, it adjusts the projected overall for you. Seems like they are thwarting this app.

Most of the above I talked about is a moot point as we can now tell gems and busts in game and no longer have to resort to digging through millions of 1's and 0's to get our answers. So if they did it to get rid of me, I'm more than happy to say I have had a little impact on the NCAA franchise in what I feel is a positive way for me and my fellow gamers.