I assume that the developers read the forum. As such, I would like for community members to propose enhancements they would appreciate seeing in the game. I am not looking for complicated or full scale changes. Slight tweaks only.

1. More scholarships. 50 is not realistic. It does not have to be 85, but I would appreciate 75 or so in order to create a 3 deep at individual positions.

2. More specialization on DL. I would like to see Guards, Tackles, Center and EDGE only. The traits for these players would be more specific to the positions so that we don’t see a guard playing DE/Edge.

many more. I would like to hear what others would like.

There are so many improvements that I would like to see. I will think more on it to make a good list. A couple of things though are very important.

1. Clarity on position attribute priorities/importance. Everyone has a theory, but no one knows for sure. Hell, even more clarity on how the game actually works when deciding play results.

2. Get rid of exploits.

1. rework onside kicks.....stone cold broken now
2. fumbles to interception ratio is a joke for upper classmen....and in general
3.yeah vision is crap.....level the field
4. kick and punt return stats.....really? We have nothing now?

None of these are easy....but running a business isn't easy....if your going to do it, do it right

I would welcome an additional 3-4 scholarships. But only if we can greatly increase our RS's. I'd welcome being able to have 8-10 RS's.

A few other things I'd like would be to be able to do an in season scout on a player. That way you could see the players potential early and narrow down the focus of who you're recruiting before the real recruiting season begins. Having access to say 10% of your recruiting budget would make this possible. I'd also like a player assigned to your roster as soon as he signs. Last season my Wake team had too few of players and could only get one exhibition in. If the player got assigned upon signing I would have had plenty of players. Lastly allow us to play more exhibitions and or have intra squad games. Would make the 8 day recruiting season far less boring. Along those lines, lets add one more real game to the schedule and cut the recruiting season by a day. These too are major Tweeks but I could see them making the game more enjoyable.

I think these would truly be simple and easy improvements . . .

1. Tweak the map tab on the recruits' pop-up window. The rings shown on that map should be 180 and 360 miles, not whatever they are now (110 and 220, I think?).

2. Please get rid of the map at the top of the recruiting summary page. It's useless and just always gets in the way especially if you are using the small browser on your phone. If you can't, or don't want to, get rid of this map altogether then at least give us the option to turn it off (suppress it) so that it doesn't appear on our recruiting summary page.

3. I think this is a simple and easy request, but it could be more complicated than I realize . . . Please, PLEASE give us more slots for custom formations and custom playbooks. Ten formations is not enough for all coaches, especially those who have multiple teams. Likewise, twelve playbooks is not enough for all coaches, especially those who have multiple teams. If you could increase that to 15 of each that would be super helpful. 20 of each would be blissful. (Brings to mind a Modest Mouse song: "If it takes sh!t to make bliss, well then I feel pretty blissfully.")

I echo what Armchair mentioned, very good improvements. I'm probably in the minority with this request, which is, recruiting timeframe. I really enjoy recruiting but every 3 hours during my work day is very difficult. Making it every 4 hours instead would still accomplish the same results but it would help those like me who have jobs where we flirt with being fired for sneaking away to recruit so much

My reactions:
clayolson - More scholarships would just make the better teams better as they could suck up more moderate players than lower teams. 50 is good, adds the dimension of having to choose which players are important on your teams.
clayolson - Definitely need a difference in positioning - Possession vs blocking TE, Power vs speed RB, possession vs speed WR, Throwing vs running QB, pass blocking vs run blocking OL, DT vs DE, inside vs outside LB. Attributes need to be expanded to each attribute and the game tweaked: Example is so that a pass covering LB doesn't do as well inside stopping the run and vice versa and their results/stats show it.
DeBeque - Vision is OK but should be limited to the two playoff finalists only for the next season.
Realist - + on both
Raginirish - 1 - don't have enough info, 2 - Agree - should be less about IQ and more about Tech and GI. 3 - See above DeBeque 4 - YES!
jibe - HD lets recruiting all through the season, could be done here., Preseason games could all be moved to when FR players have signed.
Armchair - agree, maps are really not useful. Add more playbooks (Do we really need to see the defaults?)

Me: If vision remains, vision/reputation follows the coach not the team. Worst part of trying to rebuild a team is having a championship team you are trying to build to challenge, change coaches and another coach carpetbags in on the success of the previous coach without doing the work.
Get rid of the mileage breaks for recruiting. Just calculate by mileage. Not realistic that 359 miles costs less than 361 miles. And make the amounts less (HD has more reasonable costs per distance). Player ratings are a large part of this game and it becomes a random exercise each season in "How many good players are close to me?"

I'll leave it there.

I'm not sure if this would be an easy fix but I would like more control over the safeties, perhaps having the ability to key on a specific player, ie. WR, RB, TE, etc..

Devs have launched a feedback website https://feedback.whatifsports.com , so I think adding these suggestions there would make it more likely that they get looked at

Posted by patsrule755 on 2/18/2025 12:12:00 PM (view original):
Devs have launched a feedback website https://feedback.whatifsports.com , so I think adding these suggestions there would make it more likely that they get looked at

This link is honestly very good. Maybe it could be pinned somewhere to have easy access. I did a quick search of the site and din't find it.

Posted by jibe717 on 2/18/2025 1:11:00 PM (view original):

Posted by patsrule755 on 2/18/2025 12:12:00 PM (view original):
Devs have launched a feedback website https://feedback.whatifsports.com , so I think adding these suggestions there would make it more likely that they get looked at

This link is honestly very good. Maybe it could be pinned somewhere to have easy access. I did a quick search of the site and din't find it.

Yeah this link appears to only be contained in the critical news 2/10/25 update along with the HD, GD, and HBD discords, so I agree it would be good to get this link pinned in the various forums

IMHO the simplest revision that would greatly improve the balance of the game is GET RID OF VISION. I acknowledge that there are arguments for keeping it. The most prominent one I hear is "I have earned it." The question I pose is does vison assist the dominant player stay dominant. Some worlds are so dominated by one team it is not worth competing in that world. Season after season their recruited freshman team is ranked #1. If you are that good you don't need vision superiority over your opponents. And if not then your record is over inflated. For example after the recruiting period is completed. numerous really good players in D1AA which are not available to most D2 teams go unsigned. If they were available that would seem to make it more competitive. It would make for very interesting recruiting sessions. Could something make a D1A talented player fall to D3? Again some will argue if one wants better vision get better at the game. Valid maybe, but I cannot think of a completion where best are given advantages. The Super Bowl Champ chooses last in the draft. So does the World Series winner. The tennis champ is not given a smaller court area to defend nor is the Hockey champ given s smaller net to have to protect. My wish has been to level the playing field. So far I seem to be in the minority on that, at least as far as those that matter.

1. For recruiting - If a team hasn't offered a scholarship by the 2nd recruiting period after signing, that player drops off that schools list.

2. Make Formation IQ max out by the end of 2nd season (So or RS Fr).

Posted by clayolson1 on 2/16/2025 10:01:00 AM (view original):
I assume that the developers read the forum. As such, I would like for community members to propose enhancements they would appreciate seeing in the game. I am not looking for complicated or full scale changes. Slight tweaks only.

1. More scholarships. 50 is not realistic. It does not have to be 85, but I would appreciate 75 or so in order to create a 3 deep at individual positions.

2. More specialization on DL. I would like to see Guards, Tackles, Center and EDGE only. The traits for these players would be more specific to the positions so that we don’t see a guard playing DE/Edge.

many more. I would like to hear what others would like.

Hey!

I do read thru the forum posts, can't get to all of them obviously but some I do. Thanks for posting some constructive feedback here.

For ease of organization from our end we recently released https://feedback.whatifsports.com to gather feedback about the site, games, etc. I still encourage chat in these forums but posting there even if it is just a title, short description, and a link to this forum it will be a little easier for us to find and sort some of these things.

Thanks for your feedback, hoping we can start to implement some of the feedback we have received soon.

EDIT: after reading all of the comments I see that the feedback link is a bit hard to find. I will think of a way to get that into a better spot that is more visible.

- Jordan