Team Builder + Online Dynasty

That the Team Builder teams can only be used in the Online Dynasties is pretty poor decision. Compared to a standard offline dynasty, I find that recruiting updates fail to display far more often, among other minor bugs.

However, the most frustrating part to me is that you cannot manually save in an Online Dynasty, even if you're playing as a single person, private dynasty. There's many reasons why you might want to manually save in place of the autosave. The moment that first frustrated me was that I was having a particularly frustrating experience against a team. I didn't really care about the result, but it was a game that was just becoming woefully unfun to play.

So, I elected to sim it. Three of my running backs were injured and out for most (or the entirety) of the rest of the season, so I was effectively left without a useful running back room. I had to use my fullback, which I thankfully had despite running a spread offense that usually doesn't have one. Other players were injured, too.

I lost the game. I don't care. I do care that the result of simming led to a continuing inferior experience; I would have gladly kept the loss but just losing a bunch of my critical players (and also, coincidentally, likely losing out on enough development to get the starting running back drafted; the backup, who was also hurt, at least did get enough development to go mid round like two years later).

This, of course, can and most certainly will happen again.

I don't really want to disable injuries or wear and tear (though I'm afraid to turn injuries up for simming, despite almost never getting hurt if I'm playing a game) but being able to reload and sim a week again is a nice way to throw some agency back to the players. If I cared just about winning I could always force the win but it's not that. I'd take my first result, less losing most of one of my position groups. Or even the second result if it's worse.

Another downside of the online dynasty is that you must have a subscription to PSN+ etc.

I sincerely hope the online dynasty requirement for Team Builder teams is reconsidered.

(PS: I'm sure there's other similar threads, given the discussions I've seen on other sites, but the search was either failing to load results, failing to let me view threads from the search results, or showing mostly unrelated results.)

Edit:

And now a new one; since I can't save the game mid-game... I had something come up, so I left it at the pause menu. While I was away, my console went into rest mode to save power. When I came back, since the console slept, my connection to EA's servers was lost. So it booted me back to main menu.

Which means I lost the progress for that game, which kind of sucks.