Madden NFL 10 Online Franchise Discussion

[Hooe]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Online Franchise Discussion

At the very least, if there's no cap, the commissioner can announce a salary cap and enforce it by blocking moves that would put a player's team over the cap. While a bit of extra legwork on the users' end, this is an acceptable workaround until the cap is implemented, IMO.

Trade workarounds can be done in a similar manner to how fantasy football works; announce the trade to the entire league, and allow it to be voted down by other members. Again, not convenient, but an acceptable workaround.

Despite the extra work that it's going to take for it to work, I'm still very much looking forward to online franchise.

[Droopy03]

Re: Please tell me that Salary Cap IS IN for ONLINE FRANCHISE

dude no no and no.

[ryanm1058123]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Online Franchise Discussion

Umm, did Ian and company actually confirm that there would be no online salary cap or are you all just making judgements again? Pretty sure everything would be serverside and I'm pretty sure all the features of online franchise aren't out yet (or finished). Could you wait till we get an announcement first?

[FadeEmAll]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Online Franchise Discussion

It's been confirmed that as of now there is no salary cap for online franchise or trade logic.

[Kingspadee]

Re: Please tell me that Salary Cap IS IN for ONLINE FRANCHISE

Wow thats such a WTF by EA

[FadeEmAll]

Re: Please tell me that Salary Cap IS IN for ONLINE FRANCHISE

Wow thats such a WTF by EA

And this thread is a WTf on your part considering the exact same topic is being discussed in the "Online Franchise" thread.

[joejccva71]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Online Franchise Discussion

Regardless of what people are saying in this thread, I remember a few days ago where Pastapadre stated something in Twitter and Ian responded.

PP said that there was a big concern in online franchise mode, and he was going to post what it was. Then Ian stepped in, and told him to hold off because the Madden team had things in the works.

"There is one big concern with the mode but apparently there are some things in the works to address it, so I’ll hold off on posting about that for the time being and will update when I know more."

PP didn't say exactly what it was, but I am wondering if it's the salary cap and trade logic issue you guys are talking about.

Guys they can't fix anything while they are still at E3. Next Monday they should be back in the office and tweaking everything as much as possible before release.

[FadeEmAll]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Online Franchise Discussion

One can only hope.

[ryanm1058123]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Online Franchise Discussion

Ian said everything was serverside when it came to Online Franchise so even if it didn't come in the game to start off with, then it could be added.

[rickywal]

Re: Please tell me that Salary Cap IS IN for ONLINE FRANCHISE

Salary Caps aren't in, but Online Franchise is being run from the EA Servers. Which means - and Ian has said - that they can make updates to it after release.

They have control of it. Not like the game updates to fix bugs that need to come from PS or Xbox Servers.

So there is still hope...

[FadeEmAll]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Online Franchise Discussion

Ian said everything was serverside when it came to Online Franchise so even if it didn't come in the game to start off with, then it could be added.

Seriously how often has the line been stated by a developer and the issue remained way after the game was released?

[joejccva71]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Online Franchise Discussion

Seriously how often has the line been stated by a developer and the issue remained way after the game was released?

True but you also have to understand that THIS type of server related online franchise mode they can add stuff pretty easily and on the fly.

As far as online franchise mode additions being fast, I have faith in that part.

Think of an MMORPG where companies are constantly adding hotfixes and patches every week when a new game comes out. This is the same principle. Although keep in mind that during the first week of online franchise, we might see some server downtime a little bit..it's normal though.

[Rebel10]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Online Franchise Discussion

I'm really surprised about the no salary cap / trade logic. It really messed up O.F.... because those are the two key components of managing your team. I'll hold out scorn until release day, and hopefully it has both by then if O.F. is a server side feature that can be modified up till release.

[Rebel10]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Online Franchise Discussion

I'm going to wait about 7 - 10 day sbefore starting any O.F., so hopefully these have a roadmap to being patched by then. I can live with the 10 years thing, the longest Online Dynasty in NCAA (which is only like 12 games) went 5 seasons last year and they had dedicated guys playing as often as they could.

[joejccva71]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Online Franchise Discussion

I'm going to wait about 7 - 10 day sbefore starting any O.F., so hopefully these have a roadmap to being patched by then. I can live with the 10 years thing, the longest Online Dynasty in NCAA (which is only like 12 games) went 5 seasons last year and they had dedicated guys playing as often as they could.

Yea I can live with the 10 year thing as well. Hell when I played NFL Head Coach 09 furiously I only made it about 7 years before I moved onto another game.