What Madden NFL 13 Connected Careers Gives, Takes Away and Might Have (Kotaku)

[Reed1417]

Re: Kotaku article on what Connected Careers has and doesn't have

but why would editing rosters or any of that stuff have an effect on storylines? to me that does not make sense.

[themassacre771.1]

Re: Kotaku article on what Connected Careers has and doesn't have

Twitter lines like "So and so has made remarkable progress over the off season." Would be skewed. I dont really know all the lines but CRMosier should be able to explain it better.

[briz1744]

Wrong its an xp thing as well which is much more important to the mode. Not to mention they have other aspects to finish up before they worry about adding in the safe guards to allow editing in ccm.

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Doubt its an XP issue more likely an online control issue or to do with from wher CC gets its entry data

[GAM3R4LYF3]

Re: What Madden NFL 13 Connected Careers Gives, Takes Away and Might Have (Kotaku)

Doubt its an XP issue more likely an online control issue or to do with from wher CC gets its entry data

Well I can understand how it would be an XP issue. I mean if they were to implement total editing mid franchise like last year, then their whole new XP concept could be rendered useless. Many people would have a mindset similar to; "Why bother saving up experience points to boost awareness by 1 when you can just edit all of the same player's rating up by 10 with no effort?"

[berad88]

Re: Kotaku article on what Connected Careers has and doesn't have

do people not like her or something? I guess I just like her for the wrong reasons.

Every time I see her all I can think about is how awesome her hair is.

[briz1744]

Re: What Madden NFL 13 Connected Careers Gives, Takes Away and Might Have (Kotaku)

Well I can understand how it would be an XP issue. I mean if they were to implement total editing mid franchise like last year, then their whole new XP concept could be rendered useless. Many people would have a mindset similar to; "Why bother saving up experience points to boost awareness by 1 when you can just edit all of the same player's rating up by 10 with no effort?"

Not how myself and most here would use editing but if they pay their £45 and want to do that why stop them?

[briz1744]

Re: What Madden NFL 13 Connected Careers Gives, Takes Away and Might Have (Kotaku)

Wrong its an xp thing as well which is much more important to the mode. Not to mention they have other aspects to finish up before they worry about adding in the safe guards to allow editing in ccm.

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Do you know it is an XP issue ? If you know I'm sorry but just guessing I shouldn't think XP would distinguish how any one player arrived at it's ratings merely act on how they are at the time ? Just my opinion and I may be wrong

[ZoneKIller]

Re: What Madden NFL 13 Connected Careers Gives, Takes Away and Might Have (Kotaku)

Wrong its an xp thing as well which is much more important to the mode. Not to mention they have other aspects to finish up before they worry about adding in the safe guards to allow editing in ccm.

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I understand why FULL editing would mess with the XP.

But how could editing equipment,positions and numbers mess with it?

[elgreazy1]

When CC mode was announced I was pumped: now I can play a full franchise without having to quit or start over when it gets boring. But the simple lack of roster editing - and to an extent Draft Classes - seems to be a real deal breaker for me. I dunno why... I mean, rosters change within the first few weeks of a Franchise mode anyway, but I think the simple idea one can't control something as fundamental as the game's roster in it's entirety seems silly.

[moneal2001]

Re: What Madden NFL 13 Connected Careers Gives, Takes Away and Might Have (Kotaku)

i believe editing, especially mid-CC has more to do with goals than anything else. say you changed reggie bush from rb to wr, like i did last year, his goals would prolly not update for his new position till the next season. this could be worked out by allowing position changes only during the off season. i would think ratings would cause a similar problem, elite players you edited down would still have elite goals and backups you edited up would still have backup goals. that would have a huge effect on progression/regression. i dout numbers and equipment are really the issue and they will find a way to get editing those in

[IgotSyphillis]

I think I have a huge problem with this new CC mode but obviously I'm not sure yet cause I don't know for sure if this is the deal. But it seems to me that you are only able to play one offline and one online career at the same time. So if I want to have 2 offline CC's going, one with a crap team and one with a good team, EA says I'm no longer allowed to do that. And I have 2 groups of friends that will be having seperate online franchises (or CC's, whatever its called now), so does this mean that I'm only allowed to play in one of them? And I live with my brother and we play seasons against each other in most sports games, does this mean we both can't play in the same season?

If all of the above is true, than I'm sorry but that is horsecrap. Basically then we would be back in the Sega Genesis era of Madden 94 when only one season can exist per household. How could a bunch of people at EA think that would be a good idea? Hopefully I'm just confused and I got it all wrong. But for some reason, I don't think I do. And that would suck.

[themassacre771.1]

Re: What Madden NFL 13 Connected Careers Gives, Takes Away and Might Have (Kotaku)

I think I have a huge problem with this new CC mode but obviously I'm not sure yet cause I don't know for sure if this is the deal. But it seems to me that you are only able to play one offline and one online career at the same time. So if I want to have 2 offline CC's going, one with a crap team and one with a good team, EA says I'm no longer allowed to do that. And I have 2 groups of friends that will be having seperate online franchises (or CC's, whatever its called now), so does this mean that I'm only allowed to play in one of them? And I live with my brother and we play seasons against each other in most sports games, does this mean we both can't play in the same season?

If all of the above is true, than I'm sorry but that is horsecrap. Basically then we would be back in the Sega Genesis era of Madden 94 when only one season can exist per household. How could a bunch of people at EA think that would be a good idea? Hopefully I'm just confused and I got it all wrong. But for some reason, I don't think I do. And that would suck.

I believe youre wrong about your first 2 bolded points. You can have a lot of offline cc's I'm pretty sure I saw him say. Last point is correct, however.

[therealsmallville]

Re: Kotaku article on what Connected Careers has and doesn't have

I don't have a problem with Cardinals signing him it's the Saints not re-signing him that troubles me. If its just an isolated event that's not a problem, but if the Pats release Brady, the Steelers Roth, the Packers Rodgers, etc. Then I have issues

2 years ago, did you ever imagine the Colts would release Peyton Manning?

I agree that if they all get cut, it's bad...but if it happens to 1 or 2 of them, that would fall on the realistic side I would think. After Super Bowl 24, I never imagined the 49ers would get rid of a 4 time winner, 3 time MVP...but once Joe Montana was hurt a year later, the team promoted Steve Young & never looked back.

The Colts ousted Unitas. The Jets ousted Namath. These things happen, and if they never did in Madden then each year would become predictably stale.

[Wilson24]

Re: What Madden NFL 13 Connected Careers Gives, Takes Away and Might Have (Kotaku)

They forgot to mention no coop play in cc on one console. I dont know why this continues to not be at the forefront of things that are missing.

Yeah play now.....

[Layoneil]

i believe editing, especially mid-CC has more to do with goals than anything else. say you changed reggie bush from rb to wr, like i did last year, his goals would prolly not update for his new position till the next season. this could be worked out by allowing position changes only during the off season. i would think ratings would cause a similar problem, elite players you edited down would still have elite goals and backups you edited up would still have backup goals. that would have a huge effect on progression/regression. i dout numbers and equipment are really the issue and they will find a way to get editing those in

that doesn't explain why you can't edit a roster and start a new CC. you can only start CC with official roster updates.