Adam Thompson (NCAA Designer) Q&A Thread

[Adam_Thompson_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by EsaQue

I encountered a pretty bad bug in the demo today. I believe it existed in last year's game, but that might have been Madden. I can't remember. But either way, what happened is that on a FG attempt, the holder turned 90 degrees more than he was supposed so he was facing directly at the center so that the snap misses him entirely, hits the ground, and is called an incomplete pass. It was in OT too, so the cpu came away with no points, and I ended up winning.

I read on OS last year about that happening. I have never seen it, and I don't think our testers did either or it would have been fixed.

It still happens? That is nuts!

[Adam_Thompson_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by zoltranite

OMT, any chance of you passing that info to whom ever it concerns about The D-Linemen having their wrong hand down? I have been posting this for a while and I would love to see it fixed.They are supposed to have their inside hand down (hand closest to the balls position pre snap). Instead all of them have their outside hand down. I think it would be a quick fix. It just doesnt look right as of right now (in the demo)

It wouldn't be a quick fix, but I have seen all your posts asking about it. I'll see what I can find out.

[Adam_Thompson_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by mike1409

I do have a question is the scoreboard for (ULM)La-Monroe fixed? Their scoreboard always showed the same single digit for the visitors as was the score for the home team. So if the score was ULM 21 Vis 0 it showed up as 21-01. Thanks

Oh geez... I hate it when that happens. I'll take a look tomorrow and see if it is fixed.

PS... can you remove that quote from your sig? It was posted at 2 am on a Friday night after many adult beverages!

[Adam_Thompson_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by doublerballa20

ok so i got an idea about cleats....maybe its been said but i think when a team wears white cleats instead of the black accents it should be the color of the teams home jerseys (ie. FSU-red, Clemson-orange,WVU-Navy)

We don't have this yet. I want it, but it really isn't a very high priority.

[Adam_Thompson_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by lilcoo3

Quick question OMT. Anyway we finally get to have towels for equipment? It's probably the most popular thing in college football. Thanks in advance

Not on 2009. Adding equipment requires art and DB work, so it isn't a small task for a small detail. Probably 40 hours for each one. Before it was clear visors, and now it is towels. I have a list of swappable parts I want, and towels are 3rd after ankle braces and knee braces.

[Psyblast]

Quote: Originally Posted by OMT

Not on 2009. Adding equipment requires art and DB work, so it isn't a small task for a small detail. Probably 40 hours for each one. Before it was clear visors, and now it is towels. I have a list of swappable parts I want, and towels are 3rd after ankle braces and knee braces.

Knee braces should definitely be #1 on the "equipment to add" list.

[stewaat]

Quote: Originally Posted by Psyblast

Knee braces should definitely be #1 on the "equipment to add" list.

Yea it seems like 90% of o-linemen wear them.

[Cyros]

Quote: Originally Posted by OMT

Not on 2009. Adding equipment requires art and DB work, so it isn't a small task for a small detail. Probably 40 hours for each one. Before it was clear visors, and now it is towels. I have a list of swappable parts I want, and towels are 3rd after ankle braces and knee braces.

Mind revealing what is all on that list?

[Adam_Thompson_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by Geauxldenboy

Adam, thanks for the answers and I understand if you can't answer this next question. Has there ever been any discussion of farming out the research that goes into making the game every year? EA could rely on a group of hardcore fans to provide information on things such as uniforms, stadium upgrades and depth chart changes, thus freeing up designers like yourself to focus on gameplay or presentation issues. I know that budgeting may be a concern but, I think that many of us would be happy to report on the teams that we follow and would do so for next to nothing (maybe a free copy of the game) because we want our teams to be accurately represented. I'm not saying that ya'll do a bad job, but there are always things that are missed every year and its probably because there are just too many happenings within the world of college football for 1 or 2 people to keep up with. I'm not sure how ya'll are staffed but ideally I think that there should be 2-3 correspondents per conference. Of course the design team would still have to get the info into the game, but the correpondents could still save you guys a few days here and there and maybe a headache or two.

The problem is that it would be impossible to fill all 120 teams with researchers. And then we would have to verify all the feedback.

We would still miss stuff.

[Cyros]

Quote: Originally Posted by stewaat

Yea it seems like 90% of o-linemen wear them.

I wear them and me and just about everyone else on my team curses them.