Adam Thompson (NCAA Designer) Q&A Thread

[redsfan4life]

hey thanks for answering questions, i've been buying this game since 2002 (Harrington cover) and it's nice to see some good info. Plus I try to be patient but usually around this time football just takes my brain over and I get excited for it again. Hard to stay focused on other things. Anyway, that's not important. On to my question. How is co-op play this year? I know it wasn't in last year, but I've heard that it is in this year. Are there any differences? Like does truck stick/hit stick work for player two? I know on PS2 that it took a year for them to get that in, so I was just curious. That's all for now, looking forward to the game in a bit over a month, keep up the good work it doesn't go unnoticed.

[J-Unit40]

Adam, after watching the Oregon vs. Illinois videos, I remember something - the onside kick camera angle. I think it needs to be reworked. The angle is an overhead one that doesn't capture the onside kick like it should. Granted, onside kicks don't happen that often (unless you are playing a cheeser extraordinaire), but I would love to see this camera angle scrapped.

I know you said earlier that the camera system was getting some really nice tweaks, so it may already be in the works. Thanks!

[Skyboxer]

Quote: Originally Posted by 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

Acording to the PDF's at EA site you can move owners to new teams manually.

[whatcha]

I didn't think Adam confirmed there were no coaching contracts in online dynasty. I thought he said he didn't think so, but wasn't sure. Would like to see this confirmed. If there are coaching contracts in offline, there should be coaching contracts in online, based on everything that's been said, right??

[Skyboxer]

Quote: Originally Posted by whatcha

I didn't think Adam confirmed there were no coaching contracts in online dynasty. I thought he said he didn't think so, but wasn't sure. Would like to see this confirmed. If there are coaching contracts in offline, there should be coaching contracts in online, based on everything that's been said, right??

Yep that's what I said earlier. It was said the online dynasty was just like offline so I would think (especially since you can manually change teams if you want-done by commish) that coach contracts are online too.

[ODogg]

Quote: Originally Posted by Skyboxer

Yep that's what I said earlier. It was said the online dynasty was just like offline so I would think (especially since you can manually change teams if you want-done by commish) that coach contracts are online too.

I don't know about offering new contracts from larger schools or whatnot but he definitely said you couldn't get fired. And to me that makes sense because if you're playing with other humans and using your school you don't want to get fired, then have the cpu take over the team and then the human commish have to re-assign the team to the user again. That would just be silly.

[Krioniq]

Adam, a question I had that just came to mind after popping in NCAA 08 the other day: how is the UI compared to last year? In 08 I found most if not all of the menus to be slow and cumbersome to navigate (not in terms of layout but in terms of load time; there was a bit of hesitation by the game after selecting any option), and I could seemingly never set my depth chart how I wanted it.

[ODogg]

Quote: Originally Posted by Krioniq

Adam, a question I had that just came to mind after popping in NCAA 08 the other day: how is the UI compared to last year? In 08 I found most if not all of the menus to be slow and cumbersome to navigate (not in terms of layout but in terms of load time; there was a bit of hesitation by the game after selecting any option), and I could seemingly never set my depth chart how I wanted it.

People from community day have already said a few times that this is completely fixed and the menus are very fast and responsive now.

[Skyboxer]

Quote: Originally Posted by ODogg

I don't know about offering new contracts from larger schools or whatnot but he definitely said you couldn't get fired. And to me that makes sense because if you're playing with other humans and using your school you don't want to get fired, then have the cpu take over the team and then the human commish have to re-assign the team to the user again. That would just be silly.

See I'm totally different. I'd rather have it the same way as offline. Makes you have to perform or get the F out...

[ODogg]

Quote: Originally Posted by Skyboxer

See I'm totally different. I'd rather have it the same way as offline. Makes you have to perform or get the F out...

Yes but look at it from a commish's point of view, they will just be asked to reassign the user his old team each time or else the coach won't have a team and you will lose a user.