EightyOne's posts

MrAgentSochi said:

Pretty bad considering that this was supposedly a "make or break" year

I vote 'break'.

rimbaud76 said:

If you were unhappy with the 85 BND after 380 stars, you'll be even less happy with the auctionable 81+ that you get after 480.  I feel like 5-starring 96 challenges warranted something a bit better than the 81 that I received.  I would have gladly taken another 85 BND.

Did anyone get anything better than an 81 after completing all 96?

96 challenges for maybe 10k in coins is BS. I took one look at the whole UK promo and dumped it. 380 stars is crazy.

Finished the Headliners promo for the Jaylen Watson and the Forge Pack. It was shit. Campus Heros got me a relatively pain-free Mic…

The game is OK. It needs some tweaks IMO - ZCV is very soft, Contain seems ineffective and I think running is a bit OP but it plays OK mostly.

I don't like MUT outside of playing H2H though. Pack 'rewards' are awful and it takes an age to level up.…

MrWonderful89 said:

You realise there are a lot of Europeans who have had little to no exposure to any of this in real life ?

And are coming very late to U.S. football.

Erm, slightly patronising no?

I'm in the UK. I played for 12 years, watched the Fridge roll over the goal line in the 1st Superbowl I saw and haven't missed one in 37 years. Football has actually been pretty big in Europe for ages, particularly in …

SportsPerson94 said:

I don't believe in DDA. If people actually believe in DDA and still spend time and/or money on the game, that's insane. Why would you play a game that you think is rigged?

Depends what you think DDA is man.

It's not EA 'cheating',  just an algorithm designed to keep players engaged. If you won everything with the team you had you'd either get bored or stop grinding or buying packs. That's all. This way you stay engag…

3 words - dynamic difficulty adjustment.

When I'm up to 2 losses, no matter how many games I've won but particularly if I've won 4, that next game is a P. I. G. Playoffs - 90% of the time take longer to find an opponent and if I'm up by more than 1…

I was banned. I never played the 81 thing and now I'm un-banned. EA provided no explanation for the ban or the un-ban and offered no make-right.

elmango30 said:

Fair but I know how to defend everything you listed off

So do I. Is that the the point though?

elmango30 said:

That’s true, I just hesitate personally to try to make exterior rules for competition in a video game- it’s not super important to me that we both play like NFL coordinators on each side of the ball, it’s more important that we attempt to counter each other’s strategies

zones play better this year if you have drops turned on, and to be clear - my definition of madden skill is winning games of madden. I add 0 qualifiers for it

And listen, I make no criticism of you or what you said. But that's why the CFM I play in has the rules it has; the guy that runs it just wants a league and a game that performs as true to real life as is possible within the confines of a crappy gam…

83/84 OVR Raiders TT with 35 Raiders inc Strat and Coach. I can't see a way to get more than that and keep a half decent side.

About 50k in coins. I get to about 130k and upgrade my 81/82'S TO 84/85's. Never stashed coins in my life.

https://www.m…

elmango30 said:

Imo if in the NFL a team couldn’t stop a play a coach would just run it over and over again. Steelers beat the pats a couple years ago because partway thru the game we realized “they can’t stop a pitch counter from shotgun” and ran it like 10 times for 120 yards

I hear you but that's not the same. If I set up my team in a bad formation or have players with limited ability and you work that out then fair play if you run the same thing over and over because that is what an NFL team would do. But that's not wh…

Copen said:

It's all about engagement metrics. They figure the longer they can keep you playing the more of a chance they have of you going to the store and spending real money. They don't want you to be in and out in 15 or 20 minutes.

Yeah but when I see it wants me to pass for 500 yards I'm pretty fucking unengaged lol.

The biggest score I have had in Solo Battles was 227 - 0. A friend is a 9ers fan and I was playing them so I took a screenshot and sent it to him. That was on PS4 and I never got banned. 

No one should ever be banned for solo play - there's just no…

elmango30 said:

Your CFM sounds pretty restricting from a competitive standpoint, all 3 of those things are allowed in the NFL

Well, sort of but look at the QB nonsense in H2H. In the league I'm in the aim is to make it as realistic as possible to real football within the confines of an imperfect game. QB 'scrambling' in H2H is nuts with people essentially abusing the abili…