NCAA on Madden 12 (xbox360)

[khaliib]

I did this last year and again wanted to see what College Football would look like with Madden 12 features, visualizations and state overlays.

I must say that I like very much!!!

Though the EA limits what you can do creation wise, the game does have the ability to deliver a solid College experience utilizing the game's Pro platform.

Because of the limitations of Madden's Custom Team feature, I just used some alterations to logos to give a "Perception" of logos on helmets of some teams. (not much of a sore thumb when your actually playing)

Some things needed:
1) Modio
2) Your own Custom Playbooks/Gameplans for College Teams

I started doing rosters within the Dynasty through Trades to match player's height/weight/skin etc... to be realistic as possible for each team, but quickly found that this is very time consuming (1 3/4 hrs per team for me), so I will continue to update the Frachise File as fast as I can.

Although somewhat different, I've been incorporating some of the discussed information in this thread from GotMadSkillzson and Playmaker http://www.operationsports.com/forum...d.php?t=494915 to alter player ratings to try and produce a similiar effect in Madden.

Editing contracts to represent Fr/So/Jr/Sr plus any redshirt years (1-5 yrs).

The Franchise file is at the beginning of the season with no games played.

All 32 teams are user controlled with some funtions set to CPU.

Using FA Bidding as Recruiting:
Let CPU draft for all 32 teams, but do not sign any picks forcing them to FA pool.

Change top schools to CPU during FA Bidding period while lower tier teams (Hawaii, Fresno St etc...) kept manual, then have CPU at the end fill rosters after top talent has been taken by top schools/teams.

Divisions and Teams:

AFC West
Boise St
TCU
Fresno St - fully edited
Hawaii

AFC East
Oregon - fully edited
USC
Arizona St - fully edited
Notre Dame (aid in conf strength)

AFC North
Kansas St fully edited
Oklahoma fully edited
Texas fully edited
Oklahoma St half done

AFC South
Iowa
Michigan St fully edited
Ohio St half done
Penn St

NFC West
Alabama fully edited
Arkansas
Florida
Indiana (only place to fit)

NFC East
Auburn - fully edited
LSU fully edited
Tennessee fully edited
Colorado (switch with Notre Dame)

NFC North
Florida St
Clemson fully edited
Wake Forest
South Florida

NFC South
Virginia Tech half done
North Carolina
Miami - fully edited
West Virginia

[khaliib]

Re: NCAA on Madden 12 (xbox360)

Sorry for photo shots of my TV using a camera.

[khaliib]

Re: NCAA on Madden 12 (xbox360)

more teams #3

[khaliib]

Re: NCAA on Madden 12 (xbox360)

more teams #4

[khaliib]

Re: NCAA on Madden 12 (xbox360)

more teams #5

[khaliib]

Re: NCAA on Madden 12 (xbox360)

last teams

[sixzero]

Re: NCAA on Madden 12 (xbox360)

wow! Looks great.

[Playmakers]

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OMG!

How the hell did you create these teams?

Can they all be used in a Franchise mode or just play now games?

I would also like to get these teams but edit over them to be All-Time Classic teams for each squad you created if that's possible

That is a one helluva job you did man

[rudyjuly2]

Re: NCAA on Madden 12 (xbox360)

That is pretty cool.

[i_am_turner]

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Wouldn't it just be easier to buy NCAA? I don't get why anyone would bother doing this.

[Old School SD Fan]

Re: NCAA on Madden 12 (xbox360)

Wouldn't it just be easier to buy NCAA? I don't get why anyone would bother doing this.

No kidding. I don't have THAT much free time and the stadiums, mascots, true logos/unis, recruiting etc. all get compromised.

Plus, I like NCAA overall better anyway.

[mavfan21]

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I don't get it at all. Seems like a gigantic time waste........BUT:

This is what is cool about (and why we need more) customization.

EA needs to greatly expand the options available to gamers, more freedom to edit players appearances (if you want an entire team of white dudes with dreads, you should be able to), MANY more options for uniforms and logos and stadiums, etc.

[Cardot]

Re: NCAA on Madden 12 (xbox360)

I don't get it at all. Seems like a gigantic time waste........BUT:

We are reading and posting on a message board about video games. Not sure we are really the best candidates to be accusing others of wasting time.

[khaliib]

Re: NCAA on Madden 12 (xbox360)

OMG!

How the hell did you create these teams?

Can they all be used in a Franchise mode or just play now games?

I would also like to get these teams but edit over them to be All-Time Classic teams for each squad you created if that's possible

That is a one helluva job you did man

I posted the Franchise file were it's at the beginning with no games played with 32 team user controlled.

This so I can trade between teams and get them as close as possible with player height/weight/skin, team shoes, and hair (only big name guys).

Also allows OL to be moved to DT's to get the correct body size to get around some abnormal body makes the in-game generates.


The file also has the individual teams also for play now games.
Only problem is it's either-or, due to below.

I started doing each team's roster using the Fantasy draft, but found that taking them into Franchise, the game jacks up your roster's by deleting and injecting it's in-game generated players, so I stopped that method and utilized the above method within the Franchise.

I know some teams don't have an exact logo, as one guy noted last year, but I just chose logo's that give the perception (ie N.Carolina, Florida St etc...) of the logo.

I'm not really into the S. Florida team, but wanted an alternative for another Big 10 team (Wisconsin)


I just had a thought this morning that with the access we have in playbook creation, I will test to see if placing all of Oregon's Off plays to be ran as 2-minute will force them to run an up-tempo Offense. (Oh how I hope!!!)

Some negatives:
Thought we could change shoe color to match team socks (Oregon, Boise St etc), but as usual, EA is so restrictive or poorly implemented, so we don't have the ability to change for Created Teams.
--Can't even alternate jerseys/pants (jeez!)

Create Team Player Names get "NO" audio love in this game.
You would think that the basic names that the game already uses would get called, but again, it's an EA game.


I'm glad you chimed in as I know you have some in-depth knowledge with this years Madden ratings/traits and I can't wait to see your ratings suggestions play out in this game.

[khaliib]

Re: NCAA on Madden 12 (xbox360)

Wouldn't it just be easier to buy NCAA? I don't get why anyone would bother doing this.

I have NCAA, but need a break from all the Tweaking/Editing.

With all the issues with this game, most of my time again has been given to tweaking/editing vs actual play time.

Just need a break.

But to answer your question, Maddan has features and some control factors that NCAA does not have.

There are things that we can do with ratings/traits/sliders that really gives us a deeper level of altering, to get player's to behave during gameplay.

I wanted to see what it would look like to play some College ball with the Broadcast Cam to see if it's something that I would be interested in for NCAA.

I love seeing the stat overlays about my player's past/current game performance. (NCAA does not have)

Utilizing the consistency trait, we can control how much of a magnitude a player's ratings change depending on "Performance".

Large +/- game-to-game ratings changes do to performance really fits the College side more so than the Pro's.

Unfortunately, NCAA does not have this feature.
And on, and on, and on.

In a nutshell, there is a lot of control and we can test out some features that might really be good/bad for NCAA and have some solid proof to submit as feedback for next year's build.