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Hero

1 year ago

MADDEN 26-27 IMPROVEMENT IDEAS

This is a thread I wanted to start so everyone on here can have their ideas seen and heard by EA_Shepard and other EA Staff while also having a single, organized place to share them. This in turn ma...

Community Manager

5 months ago

GVRH Hey, appreciate you bringing this one up. I’ve seen some of those slow sims, too (I have some friends who love giving opinions 😂), and I get why people are into them. It’s a different kind of Franchise experience, but there’s definitely a lane for it, especially for folks who like the team-building, presentation, and watching things play out over time instead of always jumping into every snap. Personally, I am one of them. I like to see it play out.

For Madden NFL 27 ideas, I think a lot of it would come down to making that experience feel deeper and more watchable. Better presentation, cleaner stat overlays, more detailed game and season storytelling, and more control over how leagues are set up would all help. I also think anything that makes CPU logic, roster building, and game flow feel stronger would go a long way for that crowd, too, because that’s the stuff people notice fast when they’re watching a sim play out. That is based on years of hearing players' opinions and ideas for changing the game.

Storytellerbadaz

Rising Novice

5 months ago

EA sports needs to make some changes for sure. We are HOPING they will patch the draft glitch.

In detail, players have picked up on the corresponding language in the draft profiles. This reveals the Deviation level of the player within the draft profile.

THIS COMPLETELY ruins the draft process of looking at the traits of a player and rolling the dice on what a player "can do". Instead they just need to read the verbage that gives away the Deviation level of the player.

For example

QB

No mention of response to pressure = Xfactor

Standing tall in the pocket = Super star

Gets ride of the ball at the first sign of pressure = Star

Gets happy feet and feels non-existent pressure = Normal

These type of "tells" are for all positions and players have picked up on it. It completely invalidates all the efforts of players who played seasons investing in staff points spent in scouting. Why spend points on the 1500 Staff points worth of coaching abilities if you just read the draft profile and "know" the DEV level of the player.

It is brutally terrible set up and ruins the entire draft process

in our league after the draft we take all the players DEV level down to normal so our drafts are NOT compromised by this hack (the entire world knows about it)

It deserves hot fixed immediately because of how it literally invalidates coaching scouting abilities.

chicagodave203
New Traveler
5 months ago
One solution I came up with, was to design my own external app. At the "draft recap" stage, I run this app which randomly chooses a round and a draft slot, and gives instructions to adjust various ratings of whichever player is found at that spot. It will choose a highly-drafted prospect and instruct the franchise owner to significantly downgrade key attributes such as awareness, as well as the development level. This would emulate a highly-celebrated prospect who ends up being a "bust." On the flipside, a few Day 3 type prospects will get chosen and they get significantly upgraded in development and attributes, simulating a late-round "gem" or prodigy such as lucking out with a Tom Brady in the late rounds.
Other steps are, to randomly select prospects and they get a significant drop in Injury and Toughness, emulating players who just aren't cut out for the physical demands of professional football, who end up being injury-prone. And then a handful for whom the Development gets bumped up or down. (https://www.torontogrudlies.com/draft_variance.html is the web-based app I came up with... I pull this up and then hand the controller to someone who isn't in my franchise, and have them make the edits to the players in question.)
However, it would be cool if we had something like this in-game, rather than drafting and scouting being an "exact science."
For that matter, the entire numerical rating system perhaps shouldn't be as "front and center" as it has traditionally been. During the scouting process, we see letter grades and other rankings like "GOOD-GREAT" etc. and it would be cool if those carried over to the regular player base... the numerical attributes still existing but not readily visible. (With the draft class, they all have the ratings but we don't see them unless we specifically go into the edit mode.) Instead of being able to see and sort attributes like speed for every player in the league, maybe have it based on scouting and coaching instead.