Does anyone do auto-recruiting in Dynasty?

[kariya05]

I started a dynasty and did a few weeks of recruiting but kinda find it tedious and boring to essentially just allocate points to players every week and hope they join. Not to mention either you've studied a lot of online videos and are very good at recruiting and have an advantage over CPU, or you don't know what you're doing and have a disadvantage from the CPU. I guess I'd prefer my recruiting class to be determined by how well my team is doing rather than how much inside info I've studied to learn how to recruit well. Nor do I have the time/desire to do so.

I'm sure there are not many people who do auto-recruiting but just wondering if you still find Dynasty fulfilling or if it takes the fun away. Just don't think I have the desire to mess with recruiting.

[steelerfan]

Re: Does anyone do auto-recruiting in Dynasty?

I started a dynasty and did a few weeks of recruiting but kinda find it tedious and boring to essentially just allocate points to players every week and hope they join. Not to mention either you've studied a lot of online videos and are very good at recruiting and have an advantage over CPU, or you don't know what you're doing and have a disadvantage from the CPU. I guess I'd prefer my recruiting class to be determined by how well my team is doing rather than how much inside info I've studied to learn how to recruit well. Nor do I have the time/desire to do so.



I'm sure there are not many people who do auto-recruiting but just wondering if you still find Dynasty fulfilling or if it takes the fun away. Just don't think I have the desire to mess with recruiting.

I've considered doing Auto Recruiting just to level the playing field with the CPU. At some point, I'll test it out in one of my test dynasties to see if it helps with competitive balance over the long haul.

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[BadAssHskr]

Re: Does anyone do auto-recruiting in Dynasty?

It would really be best if EA would bring back the recruiting website, or create an app for recruiting purposes. It really can become tedious, and time consuming.

I had considered giving Auto a try, but after going out and finding the guys I want on my team, getting them on my recruiting board first, then seeing how the CPU manages it from that point.

[jello1717]

Does anyone do auto-recruiting in Dynasty?

I’ve seen people write on here that the cpu is pretty terrible at recruiting for you (compared to the 133 other cpu recruiters, not just compared to a human). I simmed a season for testing and turned on auto recruiting. My Michigan team’s recruiter signed 10 recruits (average recruits at that) while the rest of the B1G signed 20+.

EDIT: this was pre-patch

[kariya05]

Re: Does anyone do auto-recruiting in Dynasty?

I’ve seen people write on here that the cpu is pretty terrible at recruiting for you (compared to the 133 other cpu recruiters, not just compared to a human). I simmed a season for testing and turned on auto recruiting. My Michigan team’s recruiter signed 10 recruits (average recruits at that) while the rest of the B1G signed 20+.

EDIT: this was pre-patch

Ugh good to know. I would have thought they would be equally as good as the CPU team's recruiting. If that's true then I don't think I'd want to auto-recruit.

It sucks because I prefer the free-agency/draft/signing part of Madden better than recruiting but prefer College in every single other way.

[jello1717]

Re: Does anyone do auto-recruiting in Dynasty?

Ugh good to know. I would have thought they would be equally as good as the CPU team's recruiting. If that's true then I don't think I'd want to auto-recruit.



It sucks because I prefer the free-agency/draft/signing part of Madden better than recruiting but prefer College in every single other way.

Just start a new dynasty, set recruiting to auto, sim to signing day and see how they did. Then sim to the off-season signing day and see how the final class looks.

[Fiddy]

Re: Does anyone do auto-recruiting in Dynasty?

I started a dynasty and did a few weeks of recruiting but kinda find it tedious and boring to essentially just allocate points to players every week and hope they join. Not to mention either you've studied a lot of online videos and are very good at recruiting and have an advantage over CPU, or you don't know what you're doing and have a disadvantage from the CPU. I guess I'd prefer my recruiting class to be determined by how well my team is doing rather than how much inside info I've studied to learn how to recruit well. Nor do I have the time/desire to do so.

I'm sure there are not many people who do auto-recruiting but just wondering if you still find Dynasty fulfilling or if it takes the fun away. Just don't think I have the desire to mess with recruiting.

I'm auto recruited year 1 in Miss State Dynasty. Was 103rd in country at the end of the year. Next season I auto recruited, but I did step in and hard sell guys etc. I ended that year 17th in the country. Year 3, did same thing, top 6 in the country.

So, it's was too easy to recruit, I'm gonna have the CPU auto recruit and I'll just go and get a few main guys I want and leave it be.

[NoleFan]

Re: Does anyone do auto-recruiting in Dynasty?

No way! Thats the best part of a college game to me. Now in Madden…I’ll auto all the financial/roster building tasks save for the actual drafting of players.

[Brock]

Re: Does anyone do auto-recruiting in Dynasty?

No way! Thats the best part of a college game to me. Now in Madden…I’ll auto all the financial/roster building tasks save for the actual drafting of players.

Same, I love recruiting and actually surprised how addicting it is. I rather recruit than play out most of my games.

[steelerfan]

Re: Does anyone do auto-recruiting in Dynasty?

I’ve seen people write on here that the cpu is pretty terrible at recruiting for you (compared to the 133 other cpu recruiters, not just compared to a human). I simmed a season for testing and turned on auto recruiting. My Michigan team’s recruiter signed 10 recruits (average recruits at that) while the rest of the B1G signed 20+.

EDIT: this was pre-patch

I just heard on The Gaming Tailgate Podcast that someone had Alabama only sign 5 recruits on Auto Recruiting, and that was post-patch.

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[kariya05]

Re: Does anyone do auto-recruiting in Dynasty?

I just heard on The Gaming Tailgate Podcast that someone had Alabama only sign 5 recruits on Auto Recruiting, and that was post-patch.

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I just simmed a season with NC State and had the 29th best recruiting class so seemed to be accurate to me. I used the generic level 30 coach though, so curious if the folks getting bad auto-recruiting are creating level 1 coaches.

[ReturnoftheTmac]

Re: Does anyone do auto-recruiting in Dynasty?

I do because I don’t use just one team. Right now I’m just going thru each week and switching to whatever teams games I wanna play that week.

[anodyne1992]

Re: Does anyone do auto-recruiting in Dynasty?

I just don't have the time (kids, job, etc...) to do recruiting, so I set my Alabama dynasty to auto-recruit. I knew there were issues when by week 10 or so Georgia had 15 top level recruits signed and I was the only school in the nation with ZERO signed recruits. I went with it for the time being, but at the end of an undefeated national championship season, the computer signed two 4-star players, and two 3-star players. None in a position of need as designated by the game. Plus my star CB transferred because of "playing time" issues...even though he had the most snaps on the team. The game is much improved post patch, but I think I'll wait until the next patch and then restart a dynasty if these things get fixed. Otherwise it was a frustrating yet enjoyable experience for a couple of weeks.

[kariya05]

Re: Does anyone do auto-recruiting in Dynasty?

I just don't have the time (kids, job, etc...) to do recruiting, so I set my Alabama dynasty to auto-recruit. I knew there were issues when by week 10 or so Georgia had 15 top level recruits signed and I was the only school in the nation with ZERO signed recruits. I went with it for the time being, but at the end of an undefeated national championship season, the computer signed two 4-star players, and two 3-star players. None in a position of need as designated by the game. Plus my star CB transferred because of "playing time" issues...even though he had the most snaps on the team. The game is much improved post patch, but I think I'll wait until the next patch and then restart a dynasty if these things get fixed. Otherwise it was a frustrating yet enjoyable experience for a couple of weeks.

It's hard to enjoy when so much doesn't work correctly and Dynasty is the only mode I care about. First I've heard about the playing time transfer issue, but that's awful. It's like what is even the point of trying to appease them if they leave even when their only desire is fulfilled.

[jello1717]

Re: Does anyone do auto-recruiting in Dynasty?

It's hard to enjoy when so much doesn't work correctly and Dynasty is the only mode I care about. First I've heard about the playing time transfer issue, but that's awful. It's like what is even the point of trying to appease them if they leave even when their only desire is fulfilled.

Think that only happens with playing time deal breakers (had the same happen with my starting QB who took basically every snap).

My issue was he wasn’t my highest rated QB, so in his eyes he was gonna be behind a “better” player next year (which is of course asinine since he already beat him for the position this year). I’ve heard in other instances it just looks at the total number of players, and doesn’t seem to care who’s best, just that you have too many at that position (which of course is also asinine if your guy is the best).

It’s clearly a bug.