NCAA Football 11 Patch #3 and Live Tuning Pack 3 Arrives September 7th

[youALREADYknow]

Any idea what this means?

"- Tuned team prestige progression to be in line with the changes to incoming freshmen."

[heat680]

Love the fact that in-season progression is back!

Not thrilled that there's no mention of fixing zone coverage. I like to run alot of 4-3 zone blitzes, UNLV should not light up my A- defense for 350+ yards through the air.

[kwpit79]

OK, that did it. I'm buying this game now. I hope Madden gets this much post-release love.

[dalecooper]

Quote: Originally Posted by youALREADYknow

Any idea what this means? "- Tuned team prestige progression to be in line with the changes to incoming freshmen."

Just a guess: team prestige goes up (or down) from year to year based on the freshmen you recruit. If they are increasing the OVR of some freshman, particularly 1 and 2 star guys, then they have to tune team prestige to not inflate just because the freshmen ratings are higher. A team full of 1 and 2 star guys is still bad, they don't gain a prestige star just because they are suddenly getting guys that are 4-5 points better.

[LionsFanNJ]

WAit. In Season progression and tuned WR's and recruits? Thats awesome news.

[dalecooper]

Quote: Originally Posted by heat680

Love the fact that in-season progression is back! Not thrilled that there's no mention of fixing zone coverage. I like to run alot of 4-3 zone blitzes, UNLV should not light up my A- defense for 350+ yards through the air.

With any luck, the fix to man coverage means we can increase the pass coverage slider without gratuitous mirroring, and that might help the zones. Just a very hopeful thought.

[youALREADYknow]

Quote: Originally Posted by dalecooper

Just a guess: team prestige goes up (or down) from year to year based on the freshmen you recruit. If they are increasing the OVR of some freshman, particularly 1 and 2 star guys, then they have to tune team prestige to not inflate just because the freshmen ratings are higher. A team full of 1 and 2 star guys is still bad, they don't gain a prestige star just because they are suddenly getting guys that are 4-5 points better.

That contradicts the blog they just posted yesterday (see below). I'm guessing that was a typo... has to be some other kind of progression which was tuned.

Quote:

Team Prestige - Team Prestige changes are determined based on a school's current prestige rating: 1-Star: If your final rank is better than 80th, you have a chance to move up. 2-Star: If your team has a bowl bid or finishes with a final ranking better than 60th, you have a chance to move up. If you finish worse than 100th, you have a chance to move down. 3-Star: If your team finishes worse than 75th, you have a chance to move down. If you finish better than 40th, you have a chance to move up. 4-Star: If your team has won a BCS bowl or finishes better than 20th, you have a chance to move up. If you miss a bowl or finish worse than 50th, you have a chance to move down. 5-Star: If your team has won the national championship or finishes with a final ranking better than 5th, you have a chance to move up. If you finish with a final ranking worse than 25th, you have a chance to move down. 6-Star: If you finish with a final ranking worse than 15th or win less than 8 games you have a chance to move down.

[NDAlum]

I hope the attribute increases are slight