Adam Thompson (NCAA Designer) Q&A Thread

[rudyjuly2]

How hard has it been working with the PS3 and how much easier is it now than a year ago? Is there still untapped potential in the PS3 or 360 or have you guys maxed out the hardware?

[ODogg]

I have somewhat of a general question for Adam. How closely do you work with the Madden team? Do you guys keep in contact regularly like each day or meet up once a week, once a month, etc? What kind of sharing of features do you guys have? Is it more of a competition than a collaboration?

[xxbigjerm13xx]

Quote: Originally Posted by scrotozoa

Adam (or anyone else) do you guys know if co-op play means just 2 players on the same team or the capability to have more than 2 players on the same team? Thanks.

I would also like to hear this from Adam... I've heard it from other people, but I want to hear it from him because I heard the same thing last year. It absolutely killed me and my friends last year, because we always had franchises on madden (ps2) with all 4 of us on the same team. We would like to do a dynasty with all of us on the field at the same time in NCAA 09.

Thanks

[FutureVol]

I first just wanna thank you for all your hard work and dedication to this daunting task of sifting through all these replys and questions..it shows me that perhaps ppl really do care about the product they sell and not just about the big bucks...

One question and if this has been asked already then 4get it...but i remember back in the day we got a feature that i loved THE CROWD NOISE METER!!..there was nothing more gratifying then to whatch a opossing QB crumble under the screams of 105K + fans @ neyland (or whatever your favorite stadium was)..however i am very much aware that you have implimented the drastic crowd volume back into the game this year but is there any chance of having the user doing it once again???..or kinda having it like a tiger woods gamebreaker setup wher after so many big plays by the home team that the crowd get so loud to the point that either the coach or QB calls a TO or the play is busted up completely...to where lineman dont come off the ball or the center hikes it and the QB is just standin there like WTF???..lol @ this point im just throwin in ideas but i lament.... if you had the surround system turned up while the parental units were gone playin your season..its almost like being there... once again thanks 4 all this

[jerryrice4949]

I have a question about online dynasty. It does not sound like we can get fired, but will there be job offers. And how much can we do manually. Can we move people around to different teams in online dynasty?


Thanks

[AJTev21]

Adam,

Sorry if this has been asked im only through pg. 54 on questions but just wanted to know if you knew or knew someone who worked on online dynasty who may know if 2 people can play the online dynasty on the same ps3 or 360? For example if there are 8 people in the dynasty but 4 of the people share ps3's in someway if those people had to play eachother, is this possible?

Thanks

[ODogg]

Quote: Originally Posted by AJTev21

Adam, Sorry if this has been asked im only through pg. 54 on questions but just wanted to know if you knew or knew someone who worked on online dynasty who may know if 2 people can play the online dynasty on the same ps3 or 360? For example if there are 8 people in the dynasty but 4 of the people share ps3's in someway if those people had to play eachother, is this possible? Thanks

you can, you just set passwords for each user and then when you play offline you just enter the password

[AJTev21]

Quote: Originally Posted by ODogg

you can, you just set passwords for each user and then when you play offline you just enter the password

Thanks ODogg

[MillerTime89]

Hey Adam,

In last year's game.. i noticed when i did a dynasty.. and say like non bcs schools such as Hawaii's or TCU's went undefeated.. and say a good BCS school had 1 loss... the non-bcs conference school would get the nod to play in the BCS championship

1. how does the BCS work in NCAA 09.. what all does it look at to determine it's rankings?
2. Is the strength of schedule actually a determining factor for a ranking?
3. I think it should be harder for a non-bcs team to make it to one of the jan. 1st bowls

[ODogg]

Quote: Originally Posted by MillerTime89

Hey Adam, In last year's game.. i noticed when i did a dynasty.. and say like non bcs schools such as Hawaii's or TCU's went undefeated.. and say a good BCS school had 1 loss... the non-bcs conference school would get the nod to play in the BCS championship

Heh, so you mean like what really happened in real life last year???