How to change the starters?

[Valmar]

I cant see a depth chart option anymore.
Also I dont see a good autofill option, the program keeps puting your worse player in some position even if you got other one better.


ALso, how do you choose your punt and kickoff returner?

FOF7 looked more intuitive and better for depth chart.

[Trae Young]

You cant make switches in game on offense anymore, and you already couldnt on defense. I just want a 2016 file for FOF7 tbh

[Timmy is behind you]

I have the same issue, the game keeps putting my worse NT as a starter and my best on the inactive list....

[Croquencio]

Originally posted by Timmy is behind you:

I have the same issue, the game keeps putting my worse NT as a starter and my best on the inactive list....

Check your gameplan, it possible that these NT is better than other for your defense style.

Its so deep, and its good!

[Valmar]

Nah, it happens in many position, like in everyone. Also RCB playing as LCB and the opposite. And WILB for SILB at the same time. And you HAVE to change all of them in a hundred windows in spite like one like before, and its absolutely tedious. Having to change the LCB for the RCB six or seven times in spite of one is not fun, same with like 12 positions each time. Its ridiculous.It makes me dont want to keep playing the game. Sadly I passed the 2 hours mark.

I also rather prefer the FOF7, was by far superior. You can't change starters here properly.

Originally posted by keeks:

You cant make switches in game on offense anymore, and you already couldnt on defense. I just want a 2016 file for FOF7 tbh

Absolutely.
I respect devs a lot here, but I dont understand why they complicate the things that are working and make versions worse than before (in some areas), in spite of improving what should be (interface, etc).

Honestly, I also prefer 2016 file for FOF7. I feel like I lost 25€ for something that Im starting to realize is worse —for me— than before, and by far. Im sad.

[Valmar]

Well after reading the offesnive and defensive philosophy it doesnt look as bad, it looks complicated and I miss an easy option for players like me, but I made the effort to read and I will try to learn from it now and try to improve the depth charts knowledge and fun experience..

[Solecismic]

Thanks, wustin. Yes, I'm going to keep working hard on this, and anticipate a patch within days. This issue is likely the most important one next to the 2 or 3 crashes that some people have experienced (again, please, if you have a crash, visit solecisimc.com and send us a full report). At first, I thought it was just confusion over games started versus games played, because starts in football can be misleading since they reflect your personnel on the first play of the game. But I think there's something there, and it should be relatively easy to fix.

[Vietgnome]

So. new to this game and tried it due to all of the reviews I read. However, I do not see a way to take my best running back out of receiving punts and kicks.... any ideas?

[mikeeTheGerman]

I love sports sim and have been playing OOTP and FM for at least 10 years, but the interface is at best confusing, and at worst a mess, and reminds me of the stuff we developed back in VB6.

I am particularly miffed at the helpful comments on the bottom of the schedule screen, because for half of them I cannot find where that action is. Maybe a link from the "help" to the screen would be good?

One example would be "Sgn the free agents on your team" in FA stage 1. Where, how? I click on guys wih expired contracts, but for the live of me cannot figure out how to offer them a contract?

That and how do I change my packages? I want to replace my starting QB, but where do I design the packages?

I read the help file, which was very informative with regards to how plays are numbered etc, but no help on how to set up basic things like that!

I think the overwhelming positive reviews early on were fanboy material. At this point I am not at all sold on this game.

[wthomp0246]

Originally posted by Vietgnome:

So. new to this game and tried it due to all of the reviews I read. However, I do not see a way to take my best running back out of receiving punts and kicks.... any ideas?

Go to the defensive personnel screen and select a different pnt returner located in lower right portion of the screen.

[Nefaro]

The AI's pick for starting Nose Tackle is still borked after the update. It keeps picking much lower rated DTs instead of higher rated NTs.

[Puma Shorts]

Originally posted by Nefaro:

The AI's pick for starting Nose Tackle is still borked after the update. It keeps picking much lower rated DTs instead of higher rated NTs.

Yup, it's still janking around my defense. Running a 43 D with a 235lb WLB playing LDE, 275lb LDE playing LDT, and a 310lb LDT with a 66 rating riding the pine. Tiny bit frustrating

[Salvatore of Waterford]

Originally posted by mikeeTheGerman:

I love sports sim and have been playing OOTP and FM for at least 10 years, but the interface is at best confusing, and at worst a mess, and reminds me of the stuff we developed back in VB6.

I am particularly miffed at the helpful comments on the bottom of the schedule screen, because for half of them I cannot find where that action is. Maybe a link from the "help" to the screen would be good?

One example would be "Sgn the free agents on your team" in FA stage 1. Where, how? I click on guys wih expired contracts, but for the live of me cannot figure out how to offer them a contract?

That and how do I change my packages? I want to replace my starting QB, but where do I design the packages?

I read the help file, which was very informative with regards to how plays are numbered etc, but no help on how to set up basic things like that!

I think the overwhelming positive reviews early on were fanboy material. At this point I am not at all sold on this game.

Yeah, I agree. Especially at a $30 price point, which is extremely steep when considering OOTP is currently $20, and worlds ahead in terms of UI and the visual representation of games.

[Nefaro]

I like the new Game Plan system far more than the old Tables Of Percentage Likelihood we used to have. Other than losing some of the depth chart functionality in this new one.

Will just have to manually set a few positions and check the override box. To be fair, I still found myself doing that occasionally in previous versions of FOF anyway. So it's down to the in-game substitutions I suppose.


Will be happy to make do with the AI subs if it means I don't have to see all those very un-football-like tables again. Talk about immersion kill.

[eddieballgame]

Why do I keep reading about a product that does not exist...OOTP Football?

[scottiraq]

question guys. I bought this on sale, love sports management games. Then I saw I can just edit a player onto my team which is basically a killer for me as I always put friends on their favorite teams to personalize the game for me. Does FOF 7 allow player editing? If yes, time for another purchase. I honestly think this is the only game I have seen that does not have player editing.

Scott in Kabul