Congrats, 3.0.
you killed your first Dynasty! Immediately. And I could not even go down fighting.
We said it, you admittied it would be a potential problem but said you did not want it fixed. In other words, your stated goal was to screw teams like mine... and it worked. In one season. Congrats.

The second session of recruiting is virtually impossible if you come into it with multiple ee losses.
24 hours in to the second session of recruiting.
I had an influx of 5 scholarships and that money/ APs.... so I had a lot of resources comparatively.
but there are no good players even to recruit. The 3-4 who could actually play for a team like mine are all deeply invested in, so I have zero shot (confirmed), and the two star leftovers are so deeply invested into that they aren't even rpossible to battle for. Don't have the AP accumulation. By the time they decide in one cycle. .
I have the virtual highest possible prestige, coming off a national championship or runner up each of the last few seasons.

Every player I went after signed with another team before I could get them to seriously consider me.
I promised PT, starts, etc.
I might sign one 2 star juco transfer and that's all. With five openings. I will have 4 openings if I can get this Jc to sign.
Lost recruiting battles to SE Louisiana, AL (never could get the AP's registered for that one), AZ (not enough time to register), and Northern Illinois. Preferences were all good, locations all relatively near except an international.

Keep in mind I have won the national championship 7 of the last 13 years and I can't sniff a one star player.

Congrats Hoops Dynasty.
You achieved your goal. One Dynasty down... (if you can't beat them- change the rules!) where the name of the game/ goal is to create a dynasty,
i could take getting slowly dismantled with an evened out playing field/ recruiting changes.
But honestly this sucks as I literally had zero chance to even compete for recruits and they knew this potential problem ahead of time and liked that it was a problem! Even flaunting that they knew it was an issue but didn't care!
i worked hard to build and maintain a Dynasty.
Nothing was given to me.
But you act like it's your right to not only make change the game, which is fine, but have rules which intentionally screw those at the top with no chance for recourse/ recruiting even decent replacements. No chance.

"Nothing was given to me" Very true. However, you do have to admit being an elite d1 coach/school, recruiting was a wee bit easy for you in 2.0.

I could not agree more Stewdog. I had one EE this year and I have faced the same thing--losing to two sims before ever having a chance to pile up attention points. I cannot imagine having 5 EE's.

As much as I hated recruiting in the same region as GT and Stew it was his dynasty just like the name of the game suggests. I said in another thread it's almost as if they designed a system to take down Georgia Tech and everything else was just collateral damage. My type of teams as a B+ was most effected by him as we had no chance in recruiting but that's they way it should've been he built a U.K. and earned the top recruits in the SE. It sux its only 1 season in and complete destruction of the best team maybe ever in our world.

I think we're all going to find out who was at the top in 2.0 and cannot or will not learn 3.0. Evidently we will learn this in the forums.

I also believe that in two or three seasons we will have a new group at the top, quietly winning championships and posting helpfully in the forums. **fingers crossed**

recruiting SHOULD be "a wee bit easy" for someone who has won 7 championships in 13 years. The second recruiting cycle needs to be revamped. Also, AP is too strong relative to prestige.

Posted by jcfreder on 11/5/2016 11:27:00 AM (view original):
recruiting SHOULD be "a wee bit easy" for someone who has won 7 championships in 13 years. The second recruiting cycle needs to be revamped. Also, AP is too strong relative to prestige.

AP is not too strong. A+ still get most recruits, but they need the money now so it prevents them to get all without fights.

Right .. the exception of course right now being that there is not enough TIME for replacing EEs in the 2nd session. You have the resources in the 2nd session, but guys sign before you can UNLOCK any actions.

Posted by CoachSpud on 11/5/2016 11:25:00 AM (view original):
I think we're all going to find out who was at the top in 2.0 and cannot or will not learn 3.0. Evidently we will learn this in the forums.

I also believe that in two or three seasons we will have a new group at the top, quietly winning championships and posting helpfully in the forums. **fingers crossed**

Tell us spud what was he supposed to learn or do to sign his class?

Are u gonna troll or offer that great advise thats got u all those championships

#nospudnovember

It is a bit sad. The new system in itself alreadyweakened his grasp on recruiting so
the way ees are right now does not work. It's like he was unable to compete. I am pretty sure it is not was intended.

Posted by all2matt on 11/5/2016 11:49:00 AM (view original):

Posted by CoachSpud on 11/5/2016 11:25:00 AM (view original):
I think we're all going to find out who was at the top in 2.0 and cannot or will not learn 3.0. Evidently we will learn this in the forums.

I also believe that in two or three seasons we will have a new group at the top, quietly winning championships and posting helpfully in the forums. **fingers crossed**

Tell us spud what was he supposed to learn or do to sign his class?

Are u gonna troll or offer that great advise thats got u all those championships

Don't feed him. It always ends poorly.

Posted by zorzii on 11/5/2016 11:55:00 AM (view original):
It is a bit sad. The new system in itself alreadyweakened his grasp on recruiting so
the way ees are right now does not work. It's like he was unable to compete. I am pretty sure it is not was intended.

I think it was intended based upon what Seble said in Beta.

They don't expect teams to have 5 EEs in 3.0. But teams will probably still have 2-3 occasionally and you're still screwed regardless. Give a day of no signings in the 2nd session. AT LEAST do this.

Posted by all2matt on 11/5/2016 11:49:00 AM (view original):

Posted by CoachSpud on 11/5/2016 11:25:00 AM (view original):
I think we're all going to find out who was at the top in 2.0 and cannot or will not learn 3.0. Evidently we will learn this in the forums.

I also believe that in two or three seasons we will have a new group at the top, quietly winning championships and posting helpfully in the forums. **fingers crossed**

Tell us spud what was he supposed to learn or do to sign his class?

Are u gonna troll or offer that great advise thats got u all those championships

Not spud (thank god :D) .. but, what you COULD do is keep the D2 guy at Low instead of Moderate.
If he is at Low, you know is ACTUAL effort. You know you lead and that is not artificially listed as moderate with a whole bunch of extra points just waiting for session 2 (for example).

Another thing you can look at for Moderate d2 or d3 guys .. have they offered a scholarship. If so, they have put at least enough point on to unlock that. If they have not offered scholarship, it is possible they have not put very many APs on. If one team puts a couple APs on a player and no one else has any APs on them .. the team with APs will be listed as Moderate and No Scholarship.