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Preseason and Week 1

Posted on September 9, 2012 at 12:48 AM.

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All I can say is....TEDIOUS. It takes me over an hour to set up settings, a new coach, sliders, depth chart, etc. I'm so bored at the end of this that I just turn the box off and don't play.

Miami Dolphins 2013 Season

Settings

All Pro
Custom sliders derived from posts in sliders forum
13 min quarters w/15 sec min play clock

Practice SUCKS. You don't gain XP if you sim and the XP is critical to player, team, and coach development. It just takes too long for me. I successfully complete 2 of 4 practices in preseason and simmed all the games. Doing the XP for every player is just too time consuming and I don't trust the AI to handle it. I skip it for now and move to week 1.

Week 1 vs Houston. I play 2 1/2 quarters and the CPU play calling is ruining the game. I haven't given up a first down yet. TOTAL. Midway thru the 3rd I've given up 7 yards. Obviously, I have slider issues. I quit the game, do some extensive slider forum reading and make some adjustments. I learn that slider changes don't take effect until the next week so I sim week 1. A loss to Houston and, oh yeah, Reggie Bush is out for the year.

I have close to 4 hours invested and I've yet to complete a game. Still no XP distributed. I offer LT Jake Long a 67 million dollar deal when he's asking for 71M and see a tweet about how he says he won't be in Miami next year now matter what. Week 2 to follow.