Online Dynasty (games played) restarts

[BaronGamedi]

Hey guys,

Undoubtedly anyone who's played OD has come across this before - you go to check the scores/schedule screen, scroll and sort the games played column and a user has a number other than "1" in the column. Inquisition starts, tempers flare, jokes are made, decisions regarding forced Ls the next week, etc, etc, ad nauseam.

98% of the time this happens in my leagues, there is a credible reason - game froze, servers dropped, system glitched and other random but explainable excuses. Proof is given, keep it moving.

Now, across multiple ODs, we're starting to see this random phenomena of phantom restarts...the 2%. Someone plays a game and all is well until someone notices a 2 in the "games played" column. The excuse? "I didnt quit/restart" or "ive got nothing for you". I'd be more skeptical except I've read about it happening to others and have seen it first hand.

Most of my leagues have been on the up and up, honor system and all that stuff but phantom restarts are cropping up more and more often. A little far and in-between, rarely the same person and never in any consistent pattern but enough to raise flags. My issue is with the exploitability of this problem because this game...ohhhh this game...it can do things to you when you least expect it and sometimes at the worst moments. Before you realize it, you might just be rage quitting the game and sending your controller through the floor/TV. Agent Smith is alive and well in the CFB matrix but I digress.

My question is has anyone who's had to deal with the phantom restarts found an actionable way to vet them? Some kind of screenshot/video clip system? Formal game time start cues? Something thats not overly taxing or takes the fun and fluidity out of playing OD with the fellas? Any suggestions are welcome.

Stay frosty and keep your foot on that CPU's neck!

[Feros Ferio 7]

Am in a league that we got to the playoffs and I had a user game for that round. We had communicated when we were available to play and such. Before that time our games played was at 8. Neither if us had even been on the system. So this does occur and there really is no way of knowing.

Best you can do is hopefully build enough rapport with folks you get a level of trust with them. The only other way is make it mandatory that players stream every game regardless of type of opponent.


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[Rack316]

I've seen random numbers in the games played column for teams that aren't even human controlled in.my online dynasties.

[Brett010]

Quote: Originally Posted by Feros Ferio 7

Am in a league that we got to the playoffs and I had a user game for that round. We had communicated when we were available to play and such. Before that time our games played was at 8. Neither if us had even been on the system. So this does occur and there really is no way of knowing. Best you can do is hopefully build enough rapport with folks you get a level of trust with them. The only other way is make it mandatory that players stream every game regardless of type of opponent. Sent from my iPhone using Operation Sports

Just a heads up. If you advance into bowl and playoff games it will bug out and immediately show users and CPU have played games. The number will randomly go up to. It has happened every season in our dynasty and I had to video it to stop people from accusing a coworker of cheating.

I have never seen it do it in the regular season or the conf championship, but it happens 100% of the time in bowl/playoffs

Edit
If they are showing 3 games played at advance it will shoot up to a random number even if they play once. The 3 might turn to 8.

[canes21]

Definitely phantom numbers. I've seen it multiple times shows me and my buddy in our OD have played games multiple times over despite us having just advanced and literally streaming our games to each other.

We'll advance on stream, play the game start to finish on the first attempt, then it will show I played mine 4 times and him 6. Obviously not accurate.

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[DLev4552]

Quote: Originally Posted by BaronGamedi

Hey guys, Undoubtedly anyone who's played OD has come across this before - you go to check the scores/schedule screen, scroll and sort the games played column and a user has a number other than "1" in the column. Inquisition starts, tempers flare, jokes are made, decisions regarding forced Ls the next week, etc, etc, ad nauseam. 98% of the time this happens in my leagues, there is a credible reason - game froze, servers dropped, system glitched and other random but explainable excuses. Proof is given, keep it moving. Now, across multiple ODs, we're starting to see this random phenomena of phantom restarts...the 2%. Someone plays a game and all is well until someone notices a 2 in the "games played" column. The excuse? "I didnt quit/restart" or "ive got nothing for you". I'd be more skeptical except I've read about it happening to others and have seen it first hand. Most of my leagues have been on the up and up, honor system and all that stuff but phantom restarts are cropping up more and more often. A little far and in-between, rarely the same person and never in any consistent pattern but enough to raise flags. My issue is with the exploitability of this problem because this game...ohhhh this game...it can do things to you when you least expect it and sometimes at the worst moments. Before you realize it, you might just be rage quitting the game and sending your controller through the floor/TV. Agent Smith is alive and well in the CFB matrix but I digress. My question is has anyone who's had to deal with the phantom restarts found an actionable way to vet them? Some kind of screenshot/video clip system? Formal game time start cues? Something thats not overly taxing or takes the fun and fluidity out of playing OD with the fellas? Any suggestions are welcome. Stay frosty and keep your foot on that CPU's neck!

I've had the phantom times-played occur in one of my online dynasties, but it only happened in the playoffs.

Someone played the last bowl game that week super early in the morning before work, so once they clicked Ready To Advance, we advanced to Week 2 of Bowl Season at 6:00am. By 8:00am, 2 of the user teams had played = 1, when obviously neither were online or had been online at 8:00am on a weekday.

Our league streams games via Twitch. Adds to both the fun and integrity when anyone can watch each other user's games, scout their opponents by watching "game film", and also make sure they aren't cheesing or violating rules.

And the Twitch app is a fairly seamless integration with PSN. Not overly complicated whatsoever.