Areas of Improvement Being Examined for Player Progression in Madden NFL 25 Connected Careers
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As we all acclimate to the name Madden NFL 25 there will scraps of news relating to the game in the weeks ahead. Though certainly that won’t amount to any major feature announcements – the process of the cover vote instead will serve as the early awareness driver for EA Sports – that information could still serve to be valuable even when limited in scope.
In this case Josh Looman, the lead designer in charge of Connected Careers, sought feedback on Twitter regarding tuning that could be done to improve the progression system in the mode. After receiving suggestions he posted up what he perceived to be the top ten areas of interest. He also answered questions relating to some other aspects of the mode.
Doing some tuning of the progression system this weekend. What would you like to see tuned differently?
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
So my takeaways so far…
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
1. Increase XP from fantasy goals
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
2. Increase XP from season goals where it makes sense.
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
3. Lower stat thresholds for defensive positions and WRs. Too hard to reach for Safeties, OLBs, etc
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
4. Increase XP earned for backups in practice.
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
5. Work on having more breakout players, which would require more player regression for non breakouts.
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
6. Fix some rookies so that they don’t just have low awareness…they have bad ratings all around.
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
7. Have older players progress less…even to the point where they don’t go up at all.
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
8. Possibly introduce a slight penalty for player progression if a player is playing out of scheme.
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
9. Young players get more XP for meeting goals, even if they don’t have amazing seasons.
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
10. Make sure that season goals make sense in relation to scheme. IE…passing teams don’t get rushing goals.
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
Stay tuned for more CCM Tuning Talks in the upcoming weeks/months.
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
One thing we had last year that not a lot of you knew about was Fantasy Football progression goals. They aren’t visible, but they…
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
Give you small amounts of XP for getting Fantasy Football type stats (Pass Td, Rush TD) even if you don’t meet weekly goals.
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
Would you want to see the XP given through those increased?
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
@lamontbryan Yeah. Ok, I’ll focus on increasing those. I also think we need to have more dropoffs in regression too.
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
@mattrushkc We’re looking at weather this week. We’re fixing a lot of issues with it.
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
@billybrewer Great idea. I can increase those easily. Then if your backup HB gets a TD, he still gets a nice chunk of XP.
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
@jw_kane_jr We’ll look into it. We didn’t do it last year because it completely breaks the goals system and caused major bugs.
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
@spikegelato It’s only meant to be a guide for your style of play. It just weights the overall rating formula differently. Has no impact…
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
@the_realc4 We tried to be very careful about rewarding people that try to run up specific stats. Most of the goals mirror NFL expectations.
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
@xtremedunkz That’s hard with the current system. Maybe at some point in the future.
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
@danielnotaro Good point. Last year the season goals used the schemes, but I’ll look at making them more realistic regarding that.
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
@mr21215 Yeah, we’re going to look into fixing that.
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013
@ovfd55 The goal right now is to focus on making all of them interesting. We had too many cookie cutter players last year.
— Josh Looman (@Josh_Looman) February 2, 2013