The Lions' Pride

Got it pre-ordered, I just hope they fix the online dynasty and recruiting bugs

what dont you like about it? jw

Recruiting for me is one of my favorite parts of the game. Just wish they would fix offseason recruiting for the Online Dynasty. Too often either my friends or I will lose a day or more of recruiting for no damn reason. And it usually just randomnly happens to one of us.

I can load up on 4 & 5 star recruits from all over the country and kill it. I would prefer more regional recruiting and 3 star kids making a bigger impact early and it is also harder to develop a 3 star into anything versus a 4/5 star guy. I am also not a fan of how the "topic wheel" spins and you can only change topic so often. I know what I want to talk about and what the kid wants to hear. Let me do that! The 10 hour time limit also annoys me. It limits your ability to get a well rounded class.

I just want it stream lined and more regional.

For the game... I want the OL / DL to look like bigger men, weights to change more, and for offense and defensive numbers to be able to be duplicates just like in real CFB.

Granted this is my favorite game to play every so I am just looking for perfection lol!

I have recruiting down perfectly in '12 against some online leagues I was in with 12 people a league. Recruiting with PSU is so easy too. I heard they are doing improvements in recruiting, but have not read much of what is going in '13.

I love the online dynasties and coaching carousel. Maybe we could get a PS3 coaching carousel going with those on here who have PSU, we start out with a lower rated school as a HC, and work our way up the ladder. We did that in one league I was in, and it was a blast, except EA screwed it all up so it never really progressed. The player attribute error where a scrambling QB would turn into a pocket passer and vice versa was messed up. Guys like Case Keenum were running the ball on me like 20 times a game and it was a joke.

Also, I hope they finally take out mind-reading DBs, and sky jumping LBs.

I forgot about those damn DBs / LBers!

Every damn slant route or post boom the linebacker 1 hands it...

It will be weird getting used to PSU in a few years.. I LOVE a running QB in CFB. Now we will have all these pocket QBs. Not my best friend.

I read somewhere that the topic wheel is out. It almost sounded like they were going back to the old system of having a certain number of points and choosing topics

I wish they would increase the roster size to 85 or at least 80. Too many times I end up having depth troubles because I cut crappy freshman that I wouldn't have to if the roster was larger, and then there aren't any interested players in the following years.

100% agree roster size is so annoying... it also makes you keep X number of players when someone stinks just to fill up a slot

So how would you rate our starting lineup? Here is mine...

QB - McGloin 83 / Jones 82

RB - Redd 95

FB - Zordich 92

WR - Brown 85 / Robinson 82 / Kenney 82

TE - Gilliam 82 / James 78

LT - Gress 82
LG - Miles D 82
C - Stank 86
RG - Urschel 84
RT - Smith 85

LE - Stanley 84
DT - Hill 93
DT - Jones 86
RE - Massaro 84

OLB - Hodges 92
MLB - Carson 88
OLB - Mauti 90

CB - Morris 82
CB - Thomas 82

S - Amos 85
S - Willis 83

K/P - Fera 94

Am I the only person who takes time every offseason "swagging" out my in coming recruits? I can't stand these receivers with long jerseys and no gloves. I give my lineman all cowboy collars and raise their pad level to make them look bigger lol. Also something I've done in the past to boost lb stats and db stats schedule an ooc team that runs the triple option (Navy, Air Force) or an air assault (Hawaii, SMU).

See, I LOVE recruiting. I often times just start dynasties so I can just recruit and simulate most of my games. It can be a bit tedious but I just enjoy trying to sell my program to certain kids, especially kids who have zero interest in my program to start. I also enjoy taking a mediocre program and building it up to be a conference title contender every year. It all starts with recruiting...

MOST annoying thing about the game, IMO. Everything else seems to be pretty legit. I remember when running used to be fairly easy as well but now that is more difficult. There's always a ton of changes EA sports can make to the game to perfect it but it seems like they take baby steps to implementing those things.