**NFL Head Coach 09 Developer Q&A Thread**

[Josh_Looman]

Quote: Originally Posted by shnuskis

I know it is designed to have the knowledge turned off for special teams(I saw somewhere Josh said so). But I am wondering why. Shouldn't a team like Chicago gain an advantage for putting an emphisis on D and Special Teams? I would like to work on my special teams in practice and try to gain an advantage over my opponent.

Yeah, that was just a call we made. We didn't want returners running the wrong way or dropping the ball because they didn't know the play.

[shnuskis]

Quote: Originally Posted by Josh_Looman

Yeah, that was just a call we made. We didn't returners running the wrong way or dropping the ball because they didn't know the play.

That is understandable I guess, but is there a way to set a mininum knowledge as learned and allow it to go up from there to mastered?


Since I am on the subject of special teams, I would love to see reverses on KR and PR in HC10.

[SloeyEZ]

Has anyone else noticed that there have not been any devs on for a few days? Or am I just missing them and they haven't posted?

[KillyKillall]

Quote: Originally Posted by SloeyEZ

Has anyone else noticed that there have not been any devs on for a few days? Or am I just missing them and they haven't posted?

Give'm a break man. They've been working hard on the patch and the 2nd roster update. Now that the update is out and the patch is off to QA, I'm pretty sure they've earned a couple days to relax and recoup.

[SloeyEZ]

Quote: Originally Posted by KillyKillall

Give'm a break man. They've been working hard on the patch and the 2nd roster update. Now that the update is out and the patch is off to QA, I'm pretty sure they've earned a couple days to relax and recoup.

oh, I definitely wasn't complaining. I just missed them but actually I've found a few posts and Josh posted today so...I'm a happy camper now, still heavily co-dependent but happy lol

[SloeyEZ]

Which is the lower Preseason promise???

Win at least 3 games or finish below .500? you lose 4% for finish below .500 but 10% for win at least 3 games... seems like finishing below .500 should be the lower since that would include winning 0,1 and 2 games??

[Josh_Looman]

Quote: Originally Posted by SloeyEZ

Which is the lower Preseason promise??? Win at least 3 games or finish below .500? you lose 4% for finish below .500 but 10% for win at least 3 games... seems like finishing below .500 should be the lower since that would include winning 0,1 and 2 games??

The game considers win at least three games lower.

[yankeesgiants]

Josh is there any plan in the future to import draft classes from the ncaa series into the nfl head coach games? If that happened I'd forgo madden forever.

[canman]

Just hopping on the draft theme from the above question... and apologies if this already has been asked. But I was wondering if there was anyway to see a player's past draft position? (Besides that recap screen for the previous year's draft) Maybe there is, but I just haven't seen it.

Thanks for taking the time to answer all these questions.

[canes2008]

I know this is going to sound dumb but how long in real time will each Quarter take with the accelarated clock on I'm planning on playing 15 min Quarters.

What r the difficulty settings?