Update! Please increase the salary cap in franchise mode forever!

EA_Shepard​ This would be a great thing to pass along to devs as well, as this has been a serious issue for for a number of years. I'm only on my second year of franchise and already 80% of the teams are in insurmountable debt. This is one thing the balance of financials within owner mode helped with a bit when you could profit and add funds when needed, but it absolutely ruins coach mode franchises after a number of years to where progression becomes near impossible. The CPU especially just does not make the types of decisions that humans are capable of to relieve cap space.

GVRH​ Oh, this one lol, yeah. This has been a discussion forever. Salary cap goes back a good 15 years, easy. I never got that far into one to hit a cap or debt but i know there were so many ifs and buts to how it worked. It def needs a guide and an increase. Thats a tough convo as well.

EA_Shepard​ Lol, well after 15 good years of discussions, it's good to know I shouldn't hold my breath on this one. But, have they had any good ideas on what to do? I'm not sure if you can even disclose any of that, but I'm also not a development wizard either, so my two cents likely wouldn't be worth a couple of peanuts on this one. If there's anything you can share on it though, I'm always curious to brainstorm!

Well the NFL salary cap increases every year between 15 to 25 million. So just continue to increase it around in franchise mode for indefinite years. Send out an email in franchise mode yearly to the GM/Coach with the headline how much the salary cap increases for the next season year. Pretty simple. Madden developers just stopped it from increasing after a few years in franchise mode atuck at around 330 million. NFL salary cap in 7 years may be at 400 million. So make it increase every year forever.

GVRH​ To be honest, I am not sure about their ideas at the moment. Even if they told me this is what we plan to do, it wouldn't be public knowledge until they publish it in the patch notes. The feedback y'all give on what could happen does go a long way when lots of people give it. That is why i push folks to blast their ideas on threads like these. The more comments, the more ideas, the more something changes. It may take a bit of time, but I have seen a massive amount of changes being made in games due to someone tweeting or a thousand replies to a single thread.

I prefer the engagement "conversation" threads over the bug report ones. Those are easy - Hey i need this info - thanks - send off.

With engagement, i get players personal opinions on game play, mechanics, issues, what could be improved etc. I am old school Prima game guide, and the best way now are threads about something i cannot find or do in game.

EA_Shepard​ Well I'll shoot you this idea quick. Would it be possible to just add like 30-50M to the cap at the start of each year? Somewhere within these amounts I think would be a good balance. It would allow teams in severe debt to push closer to 0 or leave them just above positive, while also giving other teams room to sign more high profile players without risking that same severe debt. It would need to be tested through a few different franchises to find which number between the lines is most suitable, but I think it would be a decent fix for now since there's no way for organizations to really profit outside of owner mode.

This is a great idea about increasing the salary cap yearly. If they can't come up with a range, make it commissioner defined, and let the player worry about it. This also goes into 20 years into a franchise fans are still complaining about the price of $3 peanuts and $50 upper tickets. Also, there is no revenue money increases year to year, hence the cheat to give your owner cash in 5 mil lumps.

Yeah I think it's a good place to start at least. Not sure how it would fair through 20-30 years into a franchise, but it would at least make sure franchises aren't going broke by year 2 which is the current problem.

The Madden franchise salary cap increases yearly only for about 3 or 4 years then never increases after that. Stays at around 330M forever after which is not what will happen in the NFL. The NFL salary cap will increase to eventually probably 400M in 5 years and continue to increase for teams. I think it’s just an oversight by developers to not continue the progression of the madden franchise salary cap every year. So hopefully they make the update one year. 

Well in 20-30 years at the rate the NFL salary cap increases about 15M to 20M the madden franchise salary cap like the NFL will be around 700M. Players contracts in madden will just need to continue to increase or the demand from players as will happen in the real world. But at the minimum the salary cap can’t just freeze and not increase in madden.