Pat Tillman

I've seen a bunch of the growth and growing pains of Madden Mobile.  Over the years there were hacks and glitches that went crazy.  One season we were able to buy in the Auction House and instead of the coins coming off of your account, it disproportionately added to your stack.  We quickly maxed out at billions of coins.  They shut the servers down for days to try and fix the holes.  I stashed a bunch of packs and left Auctions unclaimed/uncollected to test it out after the fix.  I was able to claim about 30m coins once they patched and so my team was pretty awesome for the rest of the year.

When their Contact Us feature first added more than a handful of reps overseas, I contacted them regularly.  There was a season that had daily packs you could upgrade.  I pushed my Madden Cash one as much as I could.  That season it was a cooldown clock instead of sending you packs.  The math never worked out as advertised so I kept hittin them up to fix until they finally admitted they couldn't fix it.  Over the course of my complaining, I told them I believe I should have received ___ in Madden Cash rewards based on what the cooldown should have been.  At the same time H2H yielded Madden Cash rewards for finishing in tiers or something like that.  Over the course of the season I told them I thought I should have earned ___ and they eventually gave it to me.  In talking with the League, I may not have qualified for all of the cash but they sent it so I kept it.  They used to have pop-up commercials for 5 cash each.  I did plenty of those.  Eventually, 35k Madden Cash.

There was another season when you could send packs to League Members.  We had a guy who owned a nursing home and drove a Lambo.  He used to send me $100 packs on occasion/bundles.  Never met him and eventually he moved to a top-20 league.

Megatron is Calvin Johnson.  He was the 50k Points reward for the Team of the Decade promo.  100 OVR.  I finished the requirements for Malcom Butler this morning too, also a 100 OVR.  That took Kelechi and Hughes 99s.  I'm running Vertical but coach and captain are both level 1.  didn't chase those upgrades this year.  I boost what I've unlocked.  The power cost is a threshold, it doesn't cost you anything.  If your team is 2000 power, you can use up to 2000 power in boosts to budget your upgrades.  I messed around with them for a little while and have a few level six or sevens.  I don't notice much boost.  I still get run down by fat guys in the open field.

I just found daily rewards for stamina.  Literally like a week ago.  That could have been helping.  There are legacy features I'd bring back, like tournaments with tickets.  Those were fun.  You had a finite time like 15 minutes to complete all drives.  You only had X-number tickets to enter drives.  So boosts to reward more tickets or daily rewards for more tickets gave you more chances.

I did the gem thing too.  Had 25k recently.  Feats and Achievements in the daily goals awards a bunch of them for milestones.  Then I used 4,000 of them to do the added path for the last couple promos.  Didn't add as many points as I hoped, but got me a 98.  I have a couple million coins because I'm gathering Browns players as a squad so I can sell 98/99s once I unlock them if they're not Browns.

Currently Baker at QB, Jim Brown/Nick Chubb & Kareem Hunt at RB, Megatron, Odell, DK at WR and Jockinson at TE (needs an upgrade).  Joe Thomas at LT, Bitonio at LG, Tretter at C, Gene Upshaw at RG and Jed Wills at RT.

Not many Browns on Defense.  Denzel Ward at CB, Myles Garrett at DE with Olivier Vernon.  I'll go into Legacy with 82 Sheldon Richardson and 92 Jarvis Landry.  If they don't push more higher quality Browns, I'll be done for the season.  Rest of the Defense:  Derwin/Tillman at Safety, Butler Okudah Eddie Jackson as the remaining DBs.  Cameron Wake, Jason Kelce, Roquan Smith and De Campbell at LBs, Aaron Donald and John Randle at DT.

Current Power is 3,337 and 98OVR-98O-98D-94SP

We've been in the 350 as a League at the height of participation.  Lost a bunch of long time players the last two seasons.

I've found a few grinds that are worth it this season.  UL has some good cards, like Jim Brown, Dawkins, John Randle, Hester, Dante Hall.  I used all extra stamina on them until these longer grind promos came out.  Trade in leftover pieces for more tickets.  I've been using TotD or RttD points on the 80+ OVR gamble.  If your 80+ turns into an 85, it only takes two of those to get the 220 Stamina for the promo.  It also occasionally awards a diamond level player.  So throughout the 50k points it took to unlock Megatron, I traded in 100 at a time to gamble an 80+ to see what would happen.  Just recently I realized I could do a bunch at a time and tap Open Later.  I'd do 30-40 at a time and then hit open all.  Much quicker and still hits on the 85+ or the Diamond.

Auction has been lucrative again.  They capped it one year so you couldn't work the house to your advantage.  They wouldn't let you make a huge profit.  Now you can profit again.  I had one season where they had a top-up series of cards where it would upgrade if the player had a TD in a real game or something like that.  Ezekiel Elliott was an 84, which was a gold at the time.  I'd buy him for a couple thousand in the morning and sell him for 23k at night.  This season, you can win diamond promo cards in the morning and resell for double at night.  TotD diamonds go for about 234k Buy Now in the evening.  I'll bid 100k-130k and flip at night.  Every one of those is a 100k in the bank.  Use those coins to buy a 95+ and complete the Malcom Butler promo instead of trying to build a couple 95s.  Truly a grind, but it works.  I'm not competing against anyone this season, much.  So I just build the legacy squad.