Three things that bug me in CFM

[RoDogz17]

3 things that annoy me in CFM.. May not seem like a big deal but it's annoying..

1.) when viewing the stats of a player in CFM it doesn't show the teams they played for.. From the main menu it does..
2.) while playing a game you can edit your depth chart however you want it.. In the CFM depth chart only certain players can go to certain positions..
3.) why can't we edit a players position to any position? I can make a ROLB a LOLB but not a MLB..

[slipknottin]

Re: Three things that bug me in CFM

You can switch player positions in the offseason right after the draft.

That's the only time you can move them to a completely different spot. (You can move guys from LG to RG or LOLB to ROLB, etc whenever)

It is sometimes tricky to move guys where you want though. For instance, the process of moving an undersized faster OT to a TE to be your blocking TE the process goes something like this

OT -> DT
DT -> MLB
MLB -> S
S -> CB
CB -> WR
WR -> TE

Why they still have the restrictions and make you do it in ten steps seems bizarre to me. Teams use OTs as their third TE all the time.

[T5063]

Re: Three things that bug me in CFM

3 things that annoy me in CFM.. May not seem like a big deal but it's annoying..

1.) when viewing the stats of a player in CFM it doesn't show the teams they played for.. From the main menu it does..
2.) while playing a game you can edit your depth chart however you want it.. In the CFM depth chart only certain players can go to certain positions..
3.) why can't we edit a players position to any position? I can make a ROLB a LOLB but not a MLB..

Yeah, 1) bugs me too... It hasn't been in the game since they switched over to the current CFM format back in M13. I think Madden 12 was the last game with the old (proper) player score card in franchise mode.

[jyod21]

Re: Three things that bug me in CFM

You can switch player positions in the offseason right after the draft.

That's the only time you can move them to a completely different spot. (You can move guys from LG to RG or LOLB to ROLB, etc whenever)

It is sometimes tricky to move guys where you want though. For instance, the process of moving an undersized faster OT to a TE to be your blocking TE the process goes something like this

OT -> DT
DT -> MLB
MLB -> S
S -> CB
CB -> WR
WR -> TE

Why they still have the restrictions and make you do it in ten steps seems bizarre to me. Teams use OTs as their third TE all the time.

I hate this. I like to move a fast linemen to be a blocking specialist at fullback for my team. You have to do through all those steps, and then one more as you move them from TE to Fullback. There is no reason that you can't make a tackle a tight end immediately, and vice versa. Teams fill out blocking tight ends, and make them linemen all the time, because they typically have good feet. In Madden, you have to go through 10 position changes to make such a simple, and common, move.

[rugernator]

Re: Three things that bug me in CFM

Players stats from previous week still showing up as zeroes in the game when Jim Nantz talks about them is still broken, so that's super special too.

[Cpre5]

Re: Three things that bug me in CFM

Resetting menus

If I'm looking at my buddies schedule and game stats, don't send me back to my schedule every time. Look at a players card, back to the ALL list, and not the WR tab etc..

[brgisme]

Re: Three things that bug me in CFM

Resetting menus

If I'm looking at my buddies schedule and game stats, don't send me back to my schedule every time. Look at a players card, back to the ALL list, and not the WR tab etc..

This drives me crazy, it's not game breaking or anything, but it's highly annoying and to me just lazy developing. Most of the time your in a menu your going to do multiple things so to bump you completely out of that entire menu instead of back "one spot" so to speak just makes no sense. Glad I'm not the only one who this bugs.

[PMO]

Re: Three things that bug me in CFM

This drives me crazy, it's not game breaking or anything, but it's highly annoying and to me just lazy developing. Most of the time your in a menu your going to do multiple things so to bump you completely out of that entire menu instead of back "one spot" so to speak just makes no sense. Glad I'm not the only one who this bugs.

OMG that kills me every time lol

[slipknottin]

Re: Three things that bug me in CFM

I hate this. I like to move a fast linemen to be a blocking specialist at fullback for my team. You have to do through all those steps, and then one more as you move them from TE to Fullback. There is no reason that you can't make a tackle a tight end immediately, and vice versa. Teams fill out blocking tight ends, and make them linemen all the time, because they typically have good feet. In Madden, you have to go through 10 position changes to make such a simple, and common, move.

Yep. Another thing that annoys me is players never gain or lose weight.

Players do all the time in the NFL. Draft a 270 pound DE but run a 3-4? Either ask him to gain 20 pounds and be a 3-4 DE, or have him drop 10 and be a 3-4 OLB.

Weight being fixed makes absolutely no sense. It is probably difficult to implement a way to fix it, but that could add another layer on top of making franchise more interesting. Have a 200 pound CB and tell him to gain 15 pounds to play S? Perhaps that players speed drops from 90 to 80 when he gains that weight. Or perhaps it does not change his speed at all. Could also certainly impact strength. As of now strength is somewhat independent of size, which does not make any sense. Ive seen 5'10 190 pound CBs that are 82 strength, and 6'4 310 pound OLs who are 80 strength. Perhaps you could also have something like signing or drafting a 300 pound DT, who has trouble controlling his weight, guy balloons up to 350+ and can barely run, or something like that. There's a huge part of roster/player management that Madden does not touch what so ever.

[towncryer3921]

Re: Three things that bug me in CFM

Anyway to move a TE to a WR spot on the depth chart?

[slipknottin]

Re: Three things that bug me in CFM

Anyway to move a TE to a WR spot on the depth chart?

you might be able to do it during a game, but other than that, no

[rosswon]

Re: Three things that bug me in CFM

theres too many menus, and too much scrolling

they should condense the interface of the menus so that you can see more attributes instead of endless scrolling left and right and back and forth. It's really not hard, thats why I'm thankful DaddyLeagues, makes things much easier to navigate and sort.

Too much clicking in and out of menus and back and forth left and right

[bagobonez]

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I did an analysis on player attributes to see which ones are actually important. Since I'm new to forums I can't post link to results but keep an eye out.

[slipknottin]

Re: Three things that bug me in CFM

I did an analysis on player attributes to see which ones are actually important. Since I'm new to forums I can't post link to results but keep an eye out.

"important" to what? their overall? how they play? their simmed stats?

[Cardot]

Re: Three things that bug me in CFM

For me, Menus were perfected on Tecmo Superbowl 25 years ago. Simple, straight forward, easy to navigate.

I hate the "intuitive" Madden menus that take me 2 levels back just as much as I hate the right stick that 2K likes for menu actions. Not fond of the Windows style menu system that Madden has been using lately either.