Posted by ningles on 3/24/2020 5:36:00 AM (view original):
I thought it might work the other way around, do AP receive a multiplier effect once a scholarship has been offered?
No, but once offered, it takes a lot fewer AP to unlock visits and promises. The scholarship offer gives you a big chunk of recruiting credit. The question is whether it’s stand alone credit, like promised starts, affected only (as I see it) by division and prestige, or if the system treats it like “effort” and applies preference multipliers to it - I would assume, if the latter, that promised starts are also affected this way.
I suspect it’s the former, unless someone has a seble-produced CS ticket answer, or can refer to a forum thread where it was disclosed. Not because I’ve seen solid evidence either way - I think, by design, the game doesn’t give away relative value details, and it would take something like collusion to draw a solid conclusion. I just don’t think it makes any gameplay sense, so I assume it’s more intelligent until proven otherwise. Scholarship offers (and promises) don’t cost anything; they’re not limitless, but you can offer them to as many players as you can unlock with AP. You don’t lose anything by handing them out like candy. So it’s not really the same kind of thing as visits and attention, which are limited by scholarship openings.
And beyond that, it would just be silly. Can you imagine the real life conversation with a kid whose mind was made up by the order of operations?
Coach: “I invested a lot of time and money in you kid, can you at least tell me why you chose the Hoyas?”
Recruit: “To be honest, Coach TJ just made my day when he promised me 15 minutes of playing *before* offering the scholarship. That just made the scholarship offer so much sweeter in my mind. It was cool that you offered me 15 minutes too, but since you had already offered a scholarship at that point, it just didn’t seem as good, you know what I’m saying?”
Coach: “Nope, no clue.”