Oooh I want one with eighty USB ports, an edible keyboard, and a dual-purpose hamster cage/monitor.

No, no USB ports. No upgrading allowed. But it does come with a 623-key keyboard.

Am I the only that likes the idea of a rookie free agent pool in place of a draft? Takes managing the salary to a different level. Oh, and the NFL draft goes against all the principles of capitalism... ;)

Yeah, but it'll cost $6,289.74. Canadian.

And it'll be released later this year.
Or next year.
Or maybe the next year.
Or ...

Actually, it would have been released one year ago today, but due to heavy customer input, they ended up redesigning the outer case so it would look ultra kewl!

I thought it was because they were changing the hamster cage/monitor to handle a whole family of hamsters, rather than just one.

Does it even have a financial component?

it's coming, it's coming. geez settle down.

If you feel that strongly, then perhaps you should take your own advice and ..."don't go to the website, don't read about it, just forget it." Really if it bothers you then "For Christ sakes people move the hell on."

:D

I think there's a field in the database for financials...I believe entitled "fill in the blank". You can adjust it however you wish. Really adds flexibility to the career play. :D

This is probably the first game I've ever been tempted to buy just to be able to bash on it. Does that make me a bad person? ... or is this the genius behind his design philosophy?

From what I understood, it's not a rookie free agent pool. It's a draft comprising all the rookies plus all the non-rookie free agents. Then again, if there's no financial component, maybe there's no non-rookie free agents, either.

I would like to see what you've described in the NFL or a text sim, but it doesn't seem like what's in this game. Granted, I've only skimmed this thread.

For the record, before this one, my only post in this thread had been about how lame those old "electronic football" vibrating board games were, so I hadn't been "obsessing" about the game. However, I know cthomer already volunteered, but I think it would be great fun to be the FOFC guinea pig for this game, and I want the spot behind him, in case he bows out!

Great, now they'll have to add that. There goes another year or two.

That's my understanding as well. What I don't get is IF there's no contract negotiations, how does the game determine length of contract and when/if a player is a free agent?

Every year all the free agents goes into the "draft" and then some new players are thrown in as well. When you draft someone, does he automatically sign for X number of years? Just seems weird to me.

Remember, the game is flexible. That's the masthead selling point here.

So, you get two options how to determine these things -- the game currently comes with a hat, or wait for M-F2, where you can link to a random number generator.

The hat might delay the game by another year...and of course, you'll have to provide your own numbers to put in it. :D

I'd guess it's like FBPro, where the players stay on your team until you cut them or they retire. So the free agents would just be the spares who were cut.. But I have no basis for that, just a straight up guess.

That's probably right, although I liked the hat idea better.

......Are the above posts taking my screen name in vain? Oh, never mind.....just wondering do you think we'll ever see the following topic:
"Alright boyz, it's the Maximum Football First Impressions thread!"????? :)

We did for Baseball Mogul 2006 :)

Not sure we'll see that again. ;)

Guys, calm down or you will get mental hernias from all the huffing and puffing!!!


First of all, from what I read over at the Matrix forum and the faq i am understanding this thing is gonna be a "football" simulator NOT an "NFL" simulator. If Dave said it was nfl or cfl based then yes all the concerns brought up about salary cap ,draft,finances etc are very valid.But he didn't. I persoally think that finances are very important but it's his call. It's his damn game afterall. Maybe someone will get a plugin financial simulator out there.

If I want "NFL" I will play FOF or TPF even though stats wise TPF blows for me as it is not "NFL realistic". I an intrigued by the possibilities that MF gives me. For shits and giggles I might enjoy making a 50 team semi-pro league based in Uzbekistan if I want. Not that I want to do that but at least I should be able to do that whereas in FOF or TPF I can't.


Yeah, dave's attitude and defensiveness are atrocious, but he is defending his thing from being flamed. I seem to recall one individual here who defended his reasons for doing funky things in a slighty less atrocious manner but still came about as a stuffed shirt.

I might be your guinea pig for this thing but will wait till it's been out and patched since I am sure it will need at least 3-4 patched to run corretly

'nuff said.

So another 15-20 years ....

These quotes really make it sound like a release will be coming at annnnnyyyy minute:

edit: both of those posts are from yesterday

Yep...this sounds promising:



Oh...nevermind that's from 2004. :D

It will be the perfect present for my retirement party then!

A preview of sorts for the game. If this doesn't get you fired up and excited about the game's release, nothing will!

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm...39&mpage=1&key=��


In his first game ever:

And then in game 2:

Holy cow!!!!! This guy must be a hell of a player! In the first 2 games he ever played he had:
Game 1: 350 rushing yards.
Game 2: 407 passing yards.

At least we know the sim engine is solid!

:rolleyes:

My favorite quote from that article:

Wow, he sounds really excited about the game. Who wrote this article...

Joseph Lieberman
Public Relations and Marketing Manager

Guess what he gets paid to do.

"while the animation isn't going to knock anyone's socks off"

great quote from the public relations and marketing manager....

I caught that too. It must be really bad for him to say that.

well, at least he is honest

BTW, what is an "apatheric" lurker? Did you mean to say "apathetic" or is "apatheric" some word I've never heard before?

I think Apathetic lurker has said before that it was supposed to be "apathetic" but he couldn't generate the enthusiasm to correct the handle.

:)

:D

I like the PR guys follow up quote even better:


Umm....you can't even get 100 yards passing when you run the team? That's not good.

Big deal, so the poor bastard has J.P. Losman at QB, leave him alone.

Yup, completely apathetic to the whole concept of fixin something that should be fixed, one day, maybe another day or next year


Ive been here for about 5 yrs as AP and before as phatguy and only have 100 or so posts. maybe time to become PhatlazyLurker

maybe another day as apathy has set in tonight, just like last night and the night before...........

MaxFB has the possibility to become the greatest semi-pro football simulator in the history of pc sports titles

:confused:

Read the whole sentence U-tep. There is a particular conjunction involved.

Ah, so five years combined? I was thinking that the five years didn't include his "phatguy" time...

Reading it, I can see how you would think that it was 5 years as AP. That is how it reads to me as well.

Yes, it's written poorly, but it makes no sense that way.

Thus the :confused: smilie...

Your confusion was almost worth a post.

You guys are ruining this thread. Quit it.


More hilarity, please.

Maximum Football.. geesh. It should be MaxiPad Football. Oh snap!