Dynasty Custom Conferences Broken By Adding Independents

Product: EA SPORTS™ College Football 25
Platform:Xbox Series X
Please specify your platform model. Microsoft Xbox Series X
What is your gamertag/PSN ID? miniduck9013
Date/time issue occurred 11:21am July 19th
What type of issue do you have? Gameplay
Which mode has this happened in? Dynasty
Summarize your bug I put all the independents in a different real conference and now I can’t access the sun belt because the page for the independents is still there but the tab isn’t, so when I’m on the sun belt tab I’m in the SEC
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Put all independents in conferences
What happens when the bug occurs? I can’t access the sun belt because the page for the independents is still there but the tab isn’t, so when I’m on the sun belt tab I’m in the SEC
What do you expect to see? Either bring back the independent tab even when all the teams are gone or get rid of the page for them when it is gone

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here’s two 

You can't remove all independents or it breaks conference customizing. You have to leave at least one in independents at all times or it breaks the game logic as the independents conference disappears and locks you out of the other ones. 

Yeah and that’s why I’m reporting it? It shouldn’t be that way.

I also filed a bug on this here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Removing-all-teams-from-Independents-disables-ability-to-edit/m-p/13873624#M412

Linking it so we can upvote both and get more eyes on it.

There are two issues that are major bugs dealing with custom conferences that I've seen.

The game allows you to move all teams from independent status to other conferences. However, when you do this, you can no longer make teams independent and it glitches out the conference menu so the conference you are selecting on the menu across the top is not the conference you see when selecting teams.

There is also an issue where in my fourth year I was fired from Memphis and took a job at Colorado State. I had moved Colorado State into the American conference, but when further adjusting conferences, Colorado State did not appear in ANY conference, and teams could no longer be moved. The game eventually crashed and when I tried to re-load my save, it would crash the game.

What we are experiencing is classic EA overcompensation for a problem. The issue occurs with both creating custom conferences and custom playbooks. In College Football 14 there was a hidden hardcoded lock on the Independents conference, blocking users from deleting all of the teams. In custom playbooks, there were three or four hidden plays that could not be accessed, deleted, or changed to avoid completely deleting the playbook and starting from scratch. In EA College Football 25, currently a user can execute both total deletions (remove all Independent schools, and every play in the playbook). For the custom conferences, you must keep at least one school in the Independents (I keep two to make all the other conferences balanced or even numbered). If you accidentally remove all the schools, a restart to the Dynasty is required. For the custom playbooks, if you remove every play, instead of leaving one play in the category with a '(safe)' designation, then following plays cannot be assessed this category in the Gameplan (forgot what the first name was in the category, but the second name is safe in parenthesis).

Do not remove ALL of the teams from the independent section. Otherwise you’ll get a glitch that removes your ability to see or edit the Sun Belt conference. It will also display teams in the wrong conference.

Product: EA SPORTS™ College Football 25
Platform:PlayStation 5
Please specify your platform model. Sony PlayStation 5 Digital Edition
What is your gamertag/PSN ID? WrathOfHades85
Date/time issue occurred 7/22/24 at 1:29pm CST
What type of issue do you have? Gameplay
Which mode has this happened in? Dynasty
Summarize your bug If I remove all teams from Independent, the game will erase that tab, which causes a glitch to where you can’t get to the Sun belt conference. It causes every conference to shift over, making the tabs at the top not align with the name of the conference.
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? 1. Create cloud dynasty 2. Set up custom conferences 3. Move all independent teams to a conference 4. The independent tab goes away 5. The alignment is off
What happens when the bug occurs? The alignment of all divisions is off which makes it impossible to get to the Sun Belt tab.
What do you expect to see? When the independent tab goes away, the tabs should line up with the appropriate conference.

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I’ve had to restart this thing three times because of this garbage. 

Bump

I have the same issue with Sun Belt not being accessible after customizing conferences - even with one team still in the Independent conference. 

I also tried starting a new Dynasty after this most recent update and still the same result. Hopefully it can be updated on the next update!