Let Me Upgrade You: Madden's Online Franchise Mode

[ChaseB]

Quote: Originally Posted by wEEman33

1) Salary cap with free agent market. 2) Practice mode. 3) Correct NFL tiebreaker rules. 4) Custom sliders and every other option that offline franchise mode has. 5) Randomized draft pools instead of scripted. Most people just use the cheat sheets in drafts. 6) Tradeable draft picks.

Custom sliders is my biggest thing for these types of modes. I could not fathom playing in something like a 2K league if we couldn't use sliders.

[Claymaker52]

Two things that I think are musts in Online franchise are as follows:

Realign Divisons/Confrences:

This would add a new flavor to OF, after each season the commish would be able to realign the league to his likeing. This would have the potential to add a lot of parody and give every member a chance to reach the playoffs.

Rookie Draft before Year One:

It would be nice if you could have a rookie draft at the very start of OF. If you don't think the Bills should have drafted Cam Newton, draft someone else. The NHL serries has this feature for it's [offline] franchise mode, so I don't think it would be all that hard to implement.

[mestevo]

I'm looking to click franchise, then have the option to do it online or offline... not 2 distinct modes. Other than that I want feature parity between the two, anything less will be disappointing, but will be happy to see steps made toward that goal over the next couple of years and hopefully built in a way to avoid the feature reset seen as new consoles debut.

[ipman]

What about fixing the offense and defensive interactions adding user blitzing vs cpu is nice too. Get rid of the high jumping line backers fix the zone coverage and than well have a real football game

[Tyrant8RDFL]

I want the ability to use custom sliders. I take this over everything else. What you mentioned is important, but for me #1 is custom sliders.

[MrSimCity]

Quote: Originally Posted by ipman

What about fixing the offense and defensive interactions adding user blitzing vs cpu is nice too. Get rid of the high jumping line backers fix the zone coverage and than well have a real football game

I agree with you, but those are mainly gameplay fixes. Focus here is making online franchise better

[HARTSTOPPER]

1.) Teams need salary caps. Any online franchise i've done we have had to create a system so that users had to release certain categories of players based on overall rating. It would cut out ALOT of time to just add salary cap in to online franchise.

2.) Import stadium upgrades and things of that nature to online franchise. I hated my bye week because I just had to sit there and wait 2-3 days before we would advance. I would like something to do during that period to get me more involved with the franchise.

3.) Speaking of getting more involved. Is there ANY WAY POSSIBLE to not have the same exact draft classes? I
hated that after say a month of the game being out, draft boards with every players overall and potential were released so anytime you wanted to start another online franchise, everyone knew who all the good players were, and I think it might have been one of the biggest killers of online franchise. I know that Importing a draft class from NCAA 11 is out of the question simply because if Madden did that it would defeat the purpose of purchasing the next installment of madden when you could continue your online franchise with actual rosters so any sort of fix for the predictable draft classes would be awesome. One more thing here. Allow us to scout the upcoming draft class so that we are able to fit players into our system.

4.) Presentation - NCAA incorporated ESPN into their game this year, largely due to the fact that most of their games are broadcast on ESPN. This is not the case with NFL games unless it's a Sunday/Monday night game. So I ask that you guys find a way to incorporate either Fox or NBC into the game to give us the "more realistic" presentation we are all looking for.

5.) Allow us to use Custom Difficulty sliders in online franchise. Nothing is worse than trying to play the A.I. on all madden because someone couldn't make a game that week and sitting their helplessly as your 90 overall team is getting pounded by a 3rd string running back breaking 6 tackles every run. With Custom sliders, all of these tweaks could be made and it would allow for a greater experience of realism.

6.) End of Year Awards. Not only can you brag to friends about winning the superbowl, but NOW you can brag that you had the league MVP. Better yet, show off your awesome GM/draft skills by bragging that you have the rookie of the year on your team.

7.) Who wouldn't want to watch two of their friends go at it during the Franchise Superbowl? Add in spectator mode so that we can scout our next opponent or just kick back and enjoy a huge match up for the week. Have friends who are head to head Patriots vs Jets? Who wouldn't want to watch it?

8.) A.I. trade/logic. In the extreme case that a user is not able to be found for an online franchise. Increase the A.I.'s ability to field a decent team through the draft by drafting positions of need. This way, if a user can be found a season later, he won't come to a team where a first round draft pick was spent on a punter. This also goes along with trade logic. If the computer controlled team just lost their starting QB for the season and have surplus at another position, have them engage in trade offers with other teams.

9.) Stat Overlay. During the games themselves, show the stats that the players have accumulated over the season, or perhaps the length of the franchise(if you are 2-3 years into it). When you are sitting on the home page, have stat leaders across the bottom of the screen on the ticker. Have a tab on the home page categorized as Stat Leaders so you can see who leads in Passing, Rushing, Receiving, MVP voting, or even Pro Bowl voting.

10.) That's about all I can think of off the top of my head. I think the online franchise mode is one of the best things to happen to sports gaming. It just needs some tweaking and hopefully all of my suggestions .

[TDKing]

Salary Cap, Trade Logic and Custom Sliders these missing items are why I did not buy 11, and what got me very angry with 10 and the Devs. Oh and who can forget the highly touted server side patches. If these 3 items are not in 12 i'll will probably skip it also. Online Franchise should function like offline franchise! I don't give a crap about SOK... wow!