Major Info
Sliders – Matt10 Heisman maybe with some small tweaks here and there
Quarter Length – 12min with 20 acceleration clock
System – PS5 Pro with PS5 Portal checks at work
Difficulty – Heisman
Coach Type - Strategist
Recruiting - In House rules based off team rating
Coach Mode - 2 times a year I must just watch the team (assuming results aren't too goofy)
Real Life Roster - Georgia State
Transfer Settings - 30 max with CPU 50 and user 55
Coach progression - normal might bump it up to faster as we are start winding things down for 26
Upgrade Players - Manual with 0% nerf during the season and then 25 for the offseason
Offense - Powerbone (retro old school power run)
Getting To Know Me
I’m 43 so the age where I can say I’ve played every college football video game ever created. I’m a diehard college football fan and this game was my #1 game since it debuted in the 90's. I’m a OCD level recruiter and roster management type. The type that’s writing down notes and thinking about my recruiting class while in church. Since I bought a PlayStation portal and can check stuff while at work this is a dangerous combination. I've prob been a member on OS for 20 years. If you follow the other threads you know I’m very active and all in on this game.
Posting Style
I like to post something every day during the week using a lot of pics and off the field storylines with short articles. My grammar isn’t going to be the best and my photo making skills are mid. I rarely will post game preview. In years past I’ve done some NBA 2K stuff on here and the last has top 25 all time views for that section. I will be doing less game recaps and more league wide, story type stuff which I'll get into later.
In Game Backstory
I'll fill in a bit of a backstory, but nothing as detailed as last year with Billy Napier
YouTube
I have a small YouTube channel that is monetized however it has nothing to do with sports video games. Don’t worry this isn’t just something to get everyone to watch videos as my coverage on the forums will be the majority of what I post. But I do want to use it to fill in the gaps because some things like showing off my 35-man recruiting board. It's just going to be easier to make a 8-minute video then typing out all 35 prospects. The plan is to use it as a companion piece for what I post here. Last year I would save a few highlights per year and add those to the bottom of the posts.
Team builder / Custom Conferences
Team builder will be a major part of what I’m doing and I’ll be hand created 13 teams and all but one will be in the Sunbelt. I went with more crazy and fun teams then realistic ones like North Dakota. You will see a lot of southern type teams from TV shows. All of the teams are stuff I’m personally passionate about. In general, I replaced the boring teams that have been around for a long time. With so many southern teams I picked teams in the general area of the new team. I don't plan on touching any of the major conferences for at least 1 year, but do plan on bringing back the pac 10. I'll go more in depth on the conference before I get started. While they may seem like a fantasy style it's really not as 12/13 teams I keep the roster. There is one team that's a heavy weight with elite roster and two more 2.5* with the others 1*
Scheduling Out of Conference
I would like to have one or two tough OOC game on the road against a top 25 team both rankings and toughest places to play. However, that’s not a given as I want to keep those open for story telling purposes. I want to schedule teams where recruits that don’t pick me or teams with my old players on them. If you have a favorite team let me know and maybe I can schedule them as I want to make this fun for everyone.
What's new from Retro Redemption's Powerbone Thread?
https://forums.operationsports.com/foru ... ense-cfb25
Less In Game Recaps
I like to play 2 games a night, and I update this at work and I can't while I'm at home since I just use a tablet. I can quickly get behind and posting 2 game recaps everyday can quickly create a backlog when I miss a day especially on the weekends. This allows me every 3rd day to post one article about game recaps and not feel like I have to post before I can play another game. Another thing is the game recaps are the least fun part for me. As I look at this like a diary of sorts and I can look back and check the history. I will still do deeper posting of games for the big ones.
More League wide / conference talk
With less game recaps it will allow me to go more in depth with not only my team. Other news happenings as I want to talk more about the conference, transfer portal recruiting and all of that stuff for the league. One reason is all of this helps me learn and get invested more into other teams outside of just mine.
Coach Mode
My plan is 2 games a year I have to just watch the games and can't jump in. I'm toying with a 3rd game, and it must be play the moments If you haven't done this it adds a whole new level of stress even more than just playing. I know the results can be goofy, but this should make it more difficult to win as the CPU hates my offense lol
Faster Coach Progression
Last year I went to slow with coach progression, so I didn't get to experience and missed out on a lot of them. With 100 levels no way I will reach that unless it's just normal. i also have 100 pre order bonus points so I'm thinking of a way to spend those a little every year or after I do certain things.
No Job Moving
This is my school for it all as last year when I jumped it felt like I was starting over year 4.
Recruiting
Last year I went way to hardcore with recruiting limitations with going like 2* only for way the majority. I checked team rankings, so I'll be more flexible with signing 3* even year 1. I'll still have plenty of in-house rules to make this is a challenge and not cheese. In fact, I had 0 career 4* snaps on my offense when I retired.
Powerbone Offense
It's back my old school smash mouth 80% run offense. This is the core to everything I do
Catchup
This is one I've been posting on Operation Sports so it's not a new dynasty. I'm obviously not going to go back and post 177 things at once so will just kinda pick up where I am now and try and fill in the major info
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on winning a Natty before coming over. Gotta get another one for the new forum now