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BuckYouOrigin
6 years ago
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Not enough skill points to purchase this bucket

Product: Madden NFL 19
Platform:Microsoft XBOX One
Which console generation do you have? XBOX One S
What is your gamertag/PSN ID? Farrell Kat
Date/time issue occurred 4/20/19
What type of issue do you have? Gameplay
Which mode has this happened in? Franchise Mode
Which part of the mode? Cloud
Summarize your bug I go to upgrade my player but I am instead greeted with a message that says “not enough skill points to purchase this bucket” regardless of how many skill points I have. Ea help said it would fix itself eventually but two seasons later I have seen no change. I cleared my alternate MAC address and restarted my console and even uninstalled and reinstalled Madden 19 but still have seen no change.
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play franchise mode and play as player. This bug seems rare and the few people who I have seen who have also experienced this bug have also found no solution.
What happens when the bug occurs? A message appears saying “not enough skill points to purchase this bucket” regardless of how many skill points I have.
What do you expect to see? I expect my player to be upgraded and have fun playing this game.
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  • BuckYouOrigin's avatar
    BuckYouOrigin
    4 months ago

    It’s been over five years since I had this problem. It looks like there was never going to be a fix for it and I haven’t played a new madden game since. The sad part is I feel like it won’t make a difference in how madden games are made. I feel like it’s not hard to make a game that isn’t broken when madden is successful. I’m waiting for the football games that don’t come from

    EA. People only play madden because it’s the only real football game that exists. I hope there comes a time when a football game comes out that is better than madden so people can play a game that isn’t broken and demanding money every chance they get. If you respect yourself, your money, your time, and your experience with games then I encourage you to stop buying new madden games because it’s never going to get better. 

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  • xJericho82x's avatar
    xJericho82x
    6 years ago

    I've begun having this same issue in my Offline Franchise. Created QB in his 3rd season. Started happening a few days ag. When I try to purchase a level in either West Coast (98) or Scrambler (93) I get the error message "Not enough skill points to purchase this bucket". As it is a player franchise, I cannot change his position. Is there any other fix available? I appreciate your help!

  • EA_Blueberry's avatar
    EA_Blueberry
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    6 years ago

    Hey everyone!

    So this looks to be some UI confusion and we've made the team aware of it. 

    The workaround is that you can switch their position in order to apply the XP. BUT, if you do that workaround and still can't upgrade them that means they've already been maxed out in that archetype. The "no more skill points for this bucket" really means "they're maxed out."

  • AlmaTheElder's avatar
    AlmaTheElder
    6 years ago

    Yeah, this doesn't fix the issue for people who are playing as only player and not coach/franchise. This is a bug that will effect everybody as they get to maxing their players, the issue is that the upgrade system increases multiple stats at a time and as your player reaches max it tries to increase one of the predefined stats and hits the ceiling and throws an error. The only time this won't happen is if the person upgrading their player gets lucky and didn't hit these ceilings. This has happened to me on every player I've created except for one. Really badly designed upgrade system and should have been fixed ages ago.

  • buckster75's avatar
    buckster75
    6 years ago

    Does not work all the time. Many players this happens to over severalseasons. Why don't we have a fix yet?

  • patsk8r93's avatar
    patsk8r93
    6 years ago

    I know that the new one releases in the next week or so, but this bug appeared for me in my 3rd season. It appears to happens if the major traits listed in the description are already at 99 (ex: couldn’t upgrade scrambler for my qb but my bsk, sac, and run are all at 99). However, there are sometimes more than those three that will be upgraded when spending the points. It seems like this is basically making the system believe that you are stuck in limbo between having no skill points and being fully upgraded. Hope this helps in case of similar issue in Madden 20!

  • Angelevolggggg's avatar
    Angelevolggggg
    6 years ago

    Playing as an owner in franchise mode this solution worked for me. I had Deon Cain at 99 with two skill sets at 98. Kept getting the error message every time I went to upgrade. I changed his position to TE and then back to WR. Worked like a charm.

  • programstoner's avatar
    programstoner
    6 years ago

    Blueberry,

    Now on Madden 20 this is still an issue, even in Face of the Franchise where you absolutely cannot change a player's position. What should I do in order to upgrade my player and get past this bug?

  • iMmOrTaL_Si's avatar
    iMmOrTaL_Si
    6 years ago

    my quarterback has 99 field general 99 strong arm 99 improviser but it won’t let me upgrade my scrambler ability and it’s only a 96 it says I don’t have enough skill points but I have 10 skill points

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