NCAA Football 10 Blog: Custom Conferences

[miami01]

Re: NCAA Football 10 Blog: Custom Conferences

I am going to have fun putting the good small conference teams in BCS conferences and putting the bad BCS conference in smaller conferences and see how the teams do.

[Exonerated]

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Hmm Custom Conferences.

May this be a hinter towards a custom playoff system instead of bowl championship games?

[userLoser]

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Sweet; I can make college football like it should be (circa 2004) and act like the ACC raid never happened...Awesome feature

As a UNC fan, I can see why you would want to make it like the "raid" never happened. Now UNC doesn't ever have a chance to win the ACC.

I KID I KID!!!:wink:

[vrabbit]

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Hmm Custom Conferences.

May this be a hinter towards a custom playoff system instead of bowl championship games?

[Husker_OS]

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Sweet. I'm kicking South Carolina out of the SEC and getting Georgia Tech back in.



Then kicking out Arkansas and getting Tulane back.

[JAYMO76]

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Sorry to sound pessimistic because I do appreciate the custom conferences... but... if you're going to do it, do it right.
The major issues are:
1. Field conference logos won't change... urghhh!
2. You can only change BEFORE you start franchise
** EA needs to go further with customization!

So it's great we have this and I appreciate that we do but at this point I don't see it getting a lot of use outside of online Great idea... but maybe next year...

[vrabbit]

Re: NCAA Football 10 Blog: Custom Conferences

Sorry to sound pessimistic because I do appreciate the custom conferences... but... if you're going to do it, do it right.
The major issues are:
1. Field conference logos won't change... urghhh!
2. You can only change BEFORE you start franchise
** EA needs to go further with customization!

So it's great we have this and I appreciate that we do but at this point I don't see it getting a lot of use outside of online Great idea... but maybe next year...

exactly what I said, but apparently most people here don't care much about that.
I'm not saying Custom Conferences isn't a great feature, only that's if it's half-assed, it's really not all of that

[beeneeb]

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exactly what I said, but apparently most people here don't care much about that.
I'm not saying Custom Conferences isn't a great feature, only that's if it's half-assed, it's really not all of that

Let's be honest....online dynasty was "half-@$$ed" when it was implemented, too. It's a great feature, but there's a lot of downsides to it (ie: off-season takes forever, the player leaving bug, etc). Despite the many criticisms of the custom conference feature, I am going to love it.

[vrabbit]

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Let's be honest....online dynasty was "half-@$$ed" when it was implemented, too. It's a great feature, but there's a lot of downsides to it (ie: off-season takes forever, the player leaving bug, etc). Despite the many criticisms of the custom conference feature, I am going to love it.

Fine, you got a point. I'll wait and see.

[TrevJo]

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Sorry to sound pessimistic because I do appreciate the custom conferences... but... if you're going to do it, do it right.
The major issues are:
1. Field conference logos won't change... urghhh!
2. You can only change BEFORE you start franchise
** EA needs to go further with customization!

So it's great we have this and I appreciate that we do but at this point I don't see it getting a lot of use outside of online Great idea... but maybe next year...

I think you are way off base. Just being able to customize the conference is huge to me. The field conference logos being correct or incorrect has zero practical value. And while there would be a little value in being able to change in the middle of a dynasty, that's small potatoes compared to being able to change in the middle.

Here's my perspective. Our online dynasty has 6-8 people it (usually 7), we chose CUSA and Heisman because we didn't want it to be too easy to beat the CPU (at least, not right off the bat), was nice having a conference championship game, but with two divisions in the conference certain users would have as few as 3 user vs user games in a season. Now that we have improved our rosters and our play, the lack of user vs user games is just a killer, all the CPU games are uninteresting, but especially the conference CPU games, since the CPU conference programs are complete doormats now.
But this new feature will allow us to be in a conference where every user plays every other user, have minimal conference CPU games, and still restrict the team prestige/locations at the start, and not only that, but also put the best possible CPU programs in the conference to start, so that the CPU games are more challenging and if someone wants to join our dynasty later their program won't be in shambles by the time they join. It's exactly what we needed. With all due respect I find the complaining about the field logos to be ridiculous!!

[moylan1234]

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Trev just because it has little effect on YOUR gaming experience doesn't make it ridiculous. People are looking for a realistic game is that ridiculous? if a team moves into new conference (which happens all the time) do you not expect them to change the logo on their home field and also change the logo on their uniform? the fact that the tech obviously exists within the game as displayed by the bowl endzone art, but for some reason was left out of this feature is really what baffles me.

i'm happy for ODers who this feature will help and those that don't care about the logos, but please show some respect for people who play the game differently than you and are upset that the feature was done half way.

[scdb12]

TrevJO im happy that this will enhance your experience, but tell me something. When you put these big schools say USC, LSU, Ohio State into your conference, and you go on the road and it says PAC 10, SEC, BIG Ten, on their field and your playing in CUSA, your telling me that wont hinder your experience at all. Not even trying to be picky but in the year 2009, i would think that our games have come further than that. (Dont forget Adam said they have the tech to do that.) Dont get me wrong this is a great addition, but I feel that they half-assed this and that they still can fix it and are choosing not to.

[GKEnialb]

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I don't think anybody would argue that having the correct art is more important than the ability to move teams between conferences, but there's a perception (true or not) that features are never quite complete when they are released. People have been complaining about the conference logos not changing when they change conferences for years, so it's not like EA doesn't know that people were going to be looking for that with custom conferences, but they made a decision to release custom conferences without that fix anyway. Some people are happy with getting something new, even if it's not complete. Some people feel offended when a new feature is added if it's not complete (and worry that it never will be complete, since another incomplete feature will be released the next year). Personally I fall somewhere in between...

[miami01]

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I don't think it is that big of a deal, but O will see if I get annoyed with the wrong conference logos.

Besides, not every single D 1-A team has their conference logo on their field.

[TrevJo]

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Trev just because it has little effect on YOUR gaming experience doesn't make it ridiculous. People are looking for a realistic game is that ridiculous?

Realism isn't everything. If it were, then this feature would be entirely bad because swapping teams in and out of conferences like this feature allows is not realistic. What this feature is is very practical. It opens up an option that improves the online dynasty experience for a lot of people tremendously.

It's not ridiculous to want the conference field logos to be correct. What is ridiculous is to complain about it in such as way as though they should not have even bothered with custom conferences unless they made sure the field logos were correct.

It's impossible for EA to please everyone, and they certainly don't please me all the time, but people should be thanking them for the custom conferences feature, not being whiny sourpusses about it.

As a user, I understand the general sentiment of being frustrated that things don't seem to be done 100%. But as a software engineer by trade, I also understand that you have to make choices and sacrifices in a project. Just because something is technically feasible and seemingly easy to implement does not mean it is worth taking the time away from other things. And believe me, no feature is as easy to implement as it seems.

The bottom line is that the conference field logos issue is a fit and finish issue. That is never as important as a functionality issue, or data loss, or most other types of issues. NCAA has enough functionality glitches and data loss problems without further impairing their ability to fix them by trying to please everyone's standards of realism. OMT points it out all the time, but it can't be stressed enough. Those feature requests threads are enormous, and if you asked 100 people for their top 3 wishes, you would get 100 different answers. Development time is limited. Just to get the custom conferences feature in at all is a win for us.