How's career progression?

[eel1987]

When I first found DDSCF the one thing that was missing was the possibility of starting at a lower school and working your way up to bigger and bigger over time. I believe something like that is in the game now, but I didn't buy last year so I'm wondering how well it works.

Also, when creating a coach in career mode do I still have the ability to arbitrarily set my own stats, so I could max myself out on everything if I want? That always seemed weird.

[slybelle1]

1) Yes, it's still in the game. basically at the end of the season your coach may receive offers from other schools based on your season performance. I haven't studied it enough to know how realistic the offers are based on your performance.
2) yes, you can customize your coach. But if you don't want to do that, certainly can go with the default values...changing them is optional.

[eel1987]

There are defaults? I don't remember that from past games. Just an unlimited ability to increase or decrease stats to the max/min, which seemed kinda chesty.

[AKH]

When it loads it randomizes the values using the logic for AI coaches. I believe we put in a button to re-roll (run the logic again and get a new set of ratings).

We left the ability to edit in there, since someone is likely to want that. We could have made users actively enable that possility ('enable cheating' or 'enable editing'), but that seemed to just add clicks for the users who would want to edit.

So if you think its cheesy to custom them, dont do it. If you dont want to custom them but dont like the roll you got, re-roll them, if you want to bite the bullet and take the challenge, play with the ratings it made the first time.

[eel1987]

Seems like a decent system then. I'll take the demo for a spin this week.

[eel1987]

Downloaded the demo and I'm a little confused. The web page for the game says the player takes over a team as head coach, but when I look at my staff I'm not the head coach. Am I the athletic director or?

[KingNeb]

Maybe you have to hire yourself as head coach? I see my name and my created person as the head coach.

Question about career progression. I set the attributes of my coach when I created him. Does he "level up" as he gets better? The question is does he gain skill points that I can allocate to different areas?

If this doesn't exist is there a way I can do it manually to simulate getting better as a coach?

Thank you!

[brooks_piggott]

You can edit your coach if you want to change their points.