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greener, just looking over your final results, I think one thing you may be discounting is how much more it costs non-power schools to knock off SIMs from power schools. If I'm at Alabama, I can knock three power 5 SIMs off a recruit in 8-15 CVs. For non-elite power schools is can be 20, occasionally more. For non-power schools, it's frequently more than 15 and can be as high as 30 on a regular bases. It is almost impossible for non-power schools to recruit against power SIMs outside of their 360 and that drastically reduced the number of potential recruits. It's a huge disadvantage.

Posted by sportsdouche on 1/2/2024 1:31:00 PM (view original):
greener, just looking over your final results, I think one thing you may be discounting is how much more it costs non-power schools to knock off SIMs from power schools. If I'm at Alabama, I can knock three power 5 SIMs off a recruit in 8-15 CVs. For non-elite power schools is can be 20, occasionally more. For non-power schools, it's frequently more than 15 and can be as high as 30 on a regular bases. It is almost impossible for non-power schools to recruit against power SIMs outside of their 360 and that drastically reduced the number of potential recruits. It's a huge disadvantage.

Is the concept of a "power school" built into the game? I thought it was just elite/non-elite. If it is, do we know which conferences get this added power? Its 100% not in these rankings, but because I didn't think this dynamic existed (other than having more money, which I did account for).

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Posted by sportsdouche on 1/2/2024 1:31:00 PM (view original):
greener, just looking over your final results, I think one thing you may be discounting is how much more it costs non-power schools to knock off SIMs from power schools. If I'm at Alabama, I can knock three power 5 SIMs off a recruit in 8-15 CVs. For non-elite power schools is can be 20, occasionally more. For non-power schools, it's frequently more than 15 and can be as high as 30 on a regular bases. It is almost impossible for non-power schools to recruit against power SIMs outside of their 360 and that drastically reduced the number of potential recruits. It's a huge disadvantage.

Is the concept of a "power school" built into the game? I thought it was just elite/non-elite. If it is, do we know which conferences get this added power? Its 100% not in these rankings, but because I didn't think this dynamic existed (other than having more money, which I did account for).

It absolutely exists and you should see it at Rice as you recruit this week. You'll see that Power 5 SIMs (Big 10, SEC, ACC, Pac 10, Big East) cost more to knock off than they did when you were at Washington, and that it's better to stick to recruits that only have other non-power SIMs on them or, better yet, 1-AA schools.

Posted by sportsdouche on 1/2/2024 5:59:00 PM (view original):

Posted by greener10 on 1/2/2024 5:15:00 PM (view original):

Posted by sportsdouche on 1/2/2024 1:31:00 PM (view original):
greener, just looking over your final results, I think one thing you may be discounting is how much more it costs non-power schools to knock off SIMs from power schools. If I'm at Alabama, I can knock three power 5 SIMs off a recruit in 8-15 CVs. For non-elite power schools is can be 20, occasionally more. For non-power schools, it's frequently more than 15 and can be as high as 30 on a regular bases. It is almost impossible for non-power schools to recruit against power SIMs outside of their 360 and that drastically reduced the number of potential recruits. It's a huge disadvantage.

Is the concept of a "power school" built into the game? I thought it was just elite/non-elite. If it is, do we know which conferences get this added power? Its 100% not in these rankings, but because I didn't think this dynamic existed (other than having more money, which I did account for).

It absolutely exists and you should see it at Rice as you recruit this week. You'll see that Power 5 SIMs (Big 10, SEC, ACC, Pac 10, Big East) cost more to knock off than they did when you were at Washington, and that it's better to stick to recruits that only have other non-power SIMs on them or, better yet, 1-AA schools.

Is it possible that instead of it being the sim schools that are on the recruit that it might be the recruits ranking that determines how hard it is to knock off the sims? Now they could possibly be tied together where the higher-ranking recruits will have power 5 sims on them, but is it possible that the amount of effort it takes to knock off sims is tied to their position/overall ranking? Just a thought!

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Posted by greener10 on 1/2/2024 5:15:00 PM (view original):

Posted by sportsdouche on 1/2/2024 1:31:00 PM (view original):
greener, just looking over your final results, I think one thing you may be discounting is how much more it costs non-power schools to knock off SIMs from power schools. If I'm at Alabama, I can knock three power 5 SIMs off a recruit in 8-15 CVs. For non-elite power schools is can be 20, occasionally more. For non-power schools, it's frequently more than 15 and can be as high as 30 on a regular bases. It is almost impossible for non-power schools to recruit against power SIMs outside of their 360 and that drastically reduced the number of potential recruits. It's a huge disadvantage.

Is the concept of a "power school" built into the game? I thought it was just elite/non-elite. If it is, do we know which conferences get this added power? Its 100% not in these rankings, but because I didn't think this dynamic existed (other than having more money, which I did account for).

It absolutely exists and you should see it at Rice as you recruit this week. You'll see that Power 5 SIMs (Big 10, SEC, ACC, Pac 10, Big East) cost more to knock off than they did when you were at Washington, and that it's better to stick to recruits that only have other non-power SIMs on them or, better yet, 1-AA schools.

I messaged support and they confirmed its true. Basically a hard coded multiplier. LMK if you wanna spend some recruiting money to figure out what the multiplier is. Basically just need to find a partner to battle on one recruit and determine how much we needed to spend lol

Posted by greener10 on 1/4/2024 8:00:00 PM (view original):

Posted by sportsdouche on 1/2/2024 5:59:00 PM (view original):

Posted by greener10 on 1/2/2024 5:15:00 PM (view original):

Posted by sportsdouche on 1/2/2024 1:31:00 PM (view original):
greener, just looking over your final results, I think one thing you may be discounting is how much more it costs non-power schools to knock off SIMs from power schools. If I'm at Alabama, I can knock three power 5 SIMs off a recruit in 8-15 CVs. For non-elite power schools is can be 20, occasionally more. For non-power schools, it's frequently more than 15 and can be as high as 30 on a regular bases. It is almost impossible for non-power schools to recruit against power SIMs outside of their 360 and that drastically reduced the number of potential recruits. It's a huge disadvantage.

Is the concept of a "power school" built into the game? I thought it was just elite/non-elite. If it is, do we know which conferences get this added power? Its 100% not in these rankings, but because I didn't think this dynamic existed (other than having more money, which I did account for).

It absolutely exists and you should see it at Rice as you recruit this week. You'll see that Power 5 SIMs (Big 10, SEC, ACC, Pac 10, Big East) cost more to knock off than they did when you were at Washington, and that it's better to stick to recruits that only have other non-power SIMs on them or, better yet, 1-AA schools.

I messaged support and they confirmed its true. Basically a hard coded multiplier. LMK if you wanna spend some recruiting money to figure out what the multiplier is. Basically just need to find a partner to battle on one recruit and determine how much we needed to spend lol

have considered this as well. Also think that players potential has some sort of factor into it. Seems easier to knock off L or A players sims in similar way to a A or L will complain about a promise on first go but H or VH might give you 2-3 games before complaining

Posted by the_dance07 on 1/5/2024 3:03:00 PM (view original):

Posted by greener10 on 1/4/2024 8:00:00 PM (view original):

Posted by sportsdouche on 1/2/2024 5:59:00 PM (view original):

Posted by greener10 on 1/2/2024 5:15:00 PM (view original):

Posted by sportsdouche on 1/2/2024 1:31:00 PM (view original):
greener, just looking over your final results, I think one thing you may be discounting is how much more it costs non-power schools to knock off SIMs from power schools. If I'm at Alabama, I can knock three power 5 SIMs off a recruit in 8-15 CVs. For non-elite power schools is can be 20, occasionally more. For non-power schools, it's frequently more than 15 and can be as high as 30 on a regular bases. It is almost impossible for non-power schools to recruit against power SIMs outside of their 360 and that drastically reduced the number of potential recruits. It's a huge disadvantage.

Is the concept of a "power school" built into the game? I thought it was just elite/non-elite. If it is, do we know which conferences get this added power? Its 100% not in these rankings, but because I didn't think this dynamic existed (other than having more money, which I did account for).

It absolutely exists and you should see it at Rice as you recruit this week. You'll see that Power 5 SIMs (Big 10, SEC, ACC, Pac 10, Big East) cost more to knock off than they did when you were at Washington, and that it's better to stick to recruits that only have other non-power SIMs on them or, better yet, 1-AA schools.

I messaged support and they confirmed its true. Basically a hard coded multiplier. LMK if you wanna spend some recruiting money to figure out what the multiplier is. Basically just need to find a partner to battle on one recruit and determine how much we needed to spend lol

have considered this as well. Also think that players potential has some sort of factor into it. Seems easier to knock off L or A players sims in similar way to a A or L will complain about a promise on first go but H or VH might give you 2-3 games before complaining

Complaints about promises are not potential related, they are based on the player's personality profile which can be discovered with HC scouting trips(which few people use?) I believe.

Posted by greener10 on 1/4/2024 8:00:00 PM (view original):

Posted by sportsdouche on 1/2/2024 5:59:00 PM (view original):

Posted by greener10 on 1/2/2024 5:15:00 PM (view original):

Posted by sportsdouche on 1/2/2024 1:31:00 PM (view original):
greener, just looking over your final results, I think one thing you may be discounting is how much more it costs non-power schools to knock off SIMs from power schools. If I'm at Alabama, I can knock three power 5 SIMs off a recruit in 8-15 CVs. For non-elite power schools is can be 20, occasionally more. For non-power schools, it's frequently more than 15 and can be as high as 30 on a regular bases. It is almost impossible for non-power schools to recruit against power SIMs outside of their 360 and that drastically reduced the number of potential recruits. It's a huge disadvantage.

Is the concept of a "power school" built into the game? I thought it was just elite/non-elite. If it is, do we know which conferences get this added power? Its 100% not in these rankings, but because I didn't think this dynamic existed (other than having more money, which I did account for).

It absolutely exists and you should see it at Rice as you recruit this week. You'll see that Power 5 SIMs (Big 10, SEC, ACC, Pac 10, Big East) cost more to knock off than they did when you were at Washington, and that it's better to stick to recruits that only have other non-power SIMs on them or, better yet, 1-AA schools.

I messaged support and they confirmed its true. Basically a hard coded multiplier. LMK if you wanna spend some recruiting money to figure out what the multiplier is. Basically just need to find a partner to battle on one recruit and determine how much we needed to spend lol

The conferences are aligned with the old BCS model: Power5 and Group of 5. So the pecking order is

Elite > BCS non-elite > Non BCS

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Posted by the_dance07 on 1/5/2024 3:03:00 PM (view original):

Posted by greener10 on 1/4/2024 8:00:00 PM (view original):

Posted by sportsdouche on 1/2/2024 5:59:00 PM (view original):

Posted by greener10 on 1/2/2024 5:15:00 PM (view original):

Posted by sportsdouche on 1/2/2024 1:31:00 PM (view original):
greener, just looking over your final results, I think one thing you may be discounting is how much more it costs non-power schools to knock off SIMs from power schools. If I'm at Alabama, I can knock three power 5 SIMs off a recruit in 8-15 CVs. For non-elite power schools is can be 20, occasionally more. For non-power schools, it's frequently more than 15 and can be as high as 30 on a regular bases. It is almost impossible for non-power schools to recruit against power SIMs outside of their 360 and that drastically reduced the number of potential recruits. It's a huge disadvantage.

Is the concept of a "power school" built into the game? I thought it was just elite/non-elite. If it is, do we know which conferences get this added power? Its 100% not in these rankings, but because I didn't think this dynamic existed (other than having more money, which I did account for).

It absolutely exists and you should see it at Rice as you recruit this week. You'll see that Power 5 SIMs (Big 10, SEC, ACC, Pac 10, Big East) cost more to knock off than they did when you were at Washington, and that it's better to stick to recruits that only have other non-power SIMs on them or, better yet, 1-AA schools.

I messaged support and they confirmed its true. Basically a hard coded multiplier. LMK if you wanna spend some recruiting money to figure out what the multiplier is. Basically just need to find a partner to battle on one recruit and determine how much we needed to spend lol

have considered this as well. Also think that players potential has some sort of factor into it. Seems easier to knock off L or A players sims in similar way to a A or L will complain about a promise on first go but H or VH might give you 2-3 games before complaining

Complaints about promises are not potential related, they are based on the player's personality profile which can be discovered with HC scouting trips(which few people use?) I believe.

Use them occasionally, dont keep track of personality traits in a spread sheet or something like that. Seems to always line up with potential for me. Last 10 or so complaints I have had across multiple worlds seem to always fall into those categories of L/A first time and H/VH cuts you some slack