Better Team-Building Options

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From the start of MUT 24, I worked to assemble a 50/50 49ers team. It took a while, and it didn't help that so many of the best pieces were LTD's. Eventually I achieved that, but by then, abilities trumped speed and other attributes. Lesson learned. My approach to lineup management will change significantly for MUT 25.

There were flashes of fun in the team-building component of MUT this year, but if anything, the sequence of releases is what tilted this game heavily in favor of users who play MUT as a part-time job. For instance:

• Gridiron Guardians had some nice attribute bonuses from various chemistries, but no future releases built on those chemistries
• Theme Team All-Stars released at a time where many of the competitive player items were maxed out with just a single 5/5 motivator bonus
• Just after Theme Teams became relevant, we started getting many items with three or more 0 AP buckets, which matter so much more than +2 to impact blocking

I guess what I'm saying is that if motivator and team chemistries came earlier in the MUT cycle, and their development continued over time, while multiple 0 AP abilities came months later, this game would be more fun and have more variety. I know this is not the place to make recommendations to EA, but perhaps you see what I'm arguing for.

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i agree motivator chems and TTA bonuses are fun for team building and would be nice to see earlier in the year.

They should do that instead of releasing promo TT as much (e.g., superbowl), to allow more variety in team building.

but abilities are king, so attribute bonuses only help so much after a certain point in the game cycle

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Geega444 said:

i agree motivator chems and TTA bonuses are fun for team building and would be nice to see earlier in the year.

They should do that instead of releasing promo TT as much (e.g., superbowl), to allow more variety in team building.

but abilities are king, so attribute bonuses only help so much after a certain point in the game cycle

Would Super Bowl and Combine have been OK if...?

• The attribute boosts hadn't been so far out of line with what the NFL teams received
and/or
• They hadn't accordingly dominated for literally months

I would have liked to have seen more often program chemistries as a second bucket, as was the case with Harvest. I was getting a +1 boost to STR for a couple months when it mattered. With most other programs, you traded in your team chemistry for a program chemistry. Therefore, with programs like Most Feared or Ghosts of MUT, it was all-or-nothing.

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phatalerror said:

From the start of MUT 24, I worked to assemble a 50/50 49ers team. It took a while, and it didn't help that so many of the best pieces were LTD's. Eventually I achieved that, but by then, abilities trumped speed and other attributes. Lesson learned. My approach to lineup management will change significantly for MUT 25.

There were flashes of fun in the team-building component of MUT this year, but if anything, the sequence of releases is what tilted this game heavily in favor of users who play MUT as a part-time job. For instance:

• Gridiron Guardians had some nice attribute bonuses from various chemistries, but no future releases built on those chemistries
• Theme Team All-Stars released at a time where many of the competitive player items were maxed out with just a single 5/5 motivator bonus
• Just after Theme Teams became relevant, we started getting many items with three or more 0 AP buckets, which matter so much more than +2 to impact blocking

I guess what I'm saying is that if motivator and team chemistries came earlier in the MUT cycle, and their development continued over time, while multiple 0 AP abilities came months later, this game would be more fun and have more variety. I know this is not the place to make recommendations to EA, but perhaps you see what I'm arguing for.

Love where your head is at, goodness gracious i wish EA would implement a few of your suggestions here, which are very much on point. Spent basically the entire year hoping, waiting, wishing to go full 50/50 Niners theme team, but it never materialized until very late in the year, as you pointed out. And by the time i was able to achieve this, it became basically irrelevant, due to the ridiculous cards that came out and the necessity to have baked on X-factors as passive abilities.

EA knows exactly what they're doing, they don't want us to get comfortable with a single squad/team, they NEED to keep pushing those micro-transactions. After getting my Auction House privileges stripped from me, it became difficult and expensive to field a competitive squad. Maddness.

Gearing up for phase 2 MUT25 beta in an hour or two... trying to download it to my console now, although i suspect it's going to be basically the exact same game. BOOM Tech sounds liek made up marketing speak, oof. Bang bang, baby.