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Old 01-31-2014, 12:50 PM   #1
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Cfl?

Just curious, will the game have the CFL playable? There is virtually no CFL games out there, let alone a CFL manager game!
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Old 01-31-2014, 12:56 PM   #2
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No. One of the main issues is that the game is a lot different we'd have to do a different game-Engine.

You could make your own fictional league with the proper team names etc, but the actual game would still play like a NFL game though.
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From Francis' posts, not in the first version, but I'm hoping to see it in a later version.

EDIT: Beaten to it by the man himself by less that a minute
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Old 01-31-2014, 12:58 PM   #4
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From Francis' posts, not in the first version, but he's hoping to get it in a later version.
If only to stop me nagging him about it.
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Old 01-31-2014, 02:05 PM   #5
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Just curious, will the game have the CFL playable? There is virtually no CFL games out there, let alone a CFL manager game!
I too am hoping one day we will see some sort of CFL game out there.
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Old 01-31-2014, 02:56 PM   #6
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No. One of the main issues is that the game is a lot different we'd have to do a different game-Engine.

You could make your own fictional league with the proper team names etc, but the actual game would still play like a NFL game though.
I see, that makes sense. I guess that'll be better than nothing. Any chance we'll see it in a future version?

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If only to stop me nagging him about it.
Haha keep it up :P
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Old 01-31-2014, 02:57 PM   #7
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I too am hoping one day we will see some sort of CFL game out there.
I was thinking maybe EA would do with their Madden game what they do with NHL - add some other football leagues like CFL.

But I'd understand if the demand isn't there for a CFL game. Sadly. I'm not even a huge football fan, besides the CFL.
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I don't sign in very often anymore, you can see that in my profile. OOTPB is an outstanding game, so there will be a lot to live up to for BTS, I am sure.

What a crushing disappointment that the CFL will not be modelled. I can understand that development resources are limited, but that does nothing to reduce my letdown regarding this situation.

There are aver 100 years of history of the CFL, that's more than an unbroken century of football. The game has been played in floods and storms, through bitter winters and blighted droughts. We have seen wars and prosperity. Canadian football has been the constant catalyst that binds our country, east and west, anglo and francophone, prairie and city alike. It has provided American football with their greatest player: the incomparable Warren Moon. It continues to refine the prospects that the established NFL nabobs reject, or was there someone among our friends to the south who really did see Cam Wake coming?

Sure, be excited for BTS, it looks like it will be a nice game. But it will be incomplete until it can include the CFL. Whatever can be said to make the CFL a part of this game, please consider that when it comes time to add features to BTS!

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Old 01-31-2014, 04:09 PM   #10
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I don't sign in very often anymore, you can see that in my profile. OOTPB is an outstanding game, so there will be a lot to live up to for BTS, I am sure.

What a crushing disappointment that the CFL will not be modelled. I can understand that development resources are limited, but that does nothing to reduce my letdown regarding this situation.

There are aver 100 years of history of the CFL, that's more than an unbroken century of football. The game has been played in floods and storms, through bitter winters and blighted droughts. We have seen wars and prosperity. Canadian football has been the constant catalyst that binds our country, east and west, anglo and francophone, prairie and city alike. It has provided American football with their greatest player: the incomparable Warren Moon. It continues to refine the prospects that the established NFL nabobs reject, or was there someone among our friends to the south who really did see Cam Wake coming?

Sure, be excited for BTS, it looks like it will be a nice game. But it will be incomplete until it can include the CFL. Whatever can be said to make the CFL a part of this game, please consider that when it comes time to add features to BTS!
I am pretty sure that the CFL will be part of BTS one day, it will not be in the first version though. But please keep in mind that this is just the start, Rome wasn't built in a day either. We will work hard to release new versions every year, and these will improve the game substantially each time. And one of those years, stuff like playable college leagues, historical leagues and other leagues including the CFL will be added.
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If you do add CFL have it so you can change rules of a league
IE you can make a 4-down league using a CFL field
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If you do add CFL have it so you can change rules of a league
IE you can make a 4-down league using a CFL field
Ideally we should (eventually) be able to have any combination of rules we like. I appreciate that programming AI for such things is not likely to be easy though.
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Ideally we should (eventually) be able to have any combination of rules we like. I appreciate that programming AI for such things is not likely to be easy though.
Yeah, although OOTP is super-customisable, most of that customisation 'just' covers the structure and rules of leagues, the players and teams, schedules, etc.. It has never really allowed customisation of the game of baseball on the field -- no 9-balls-for-a-walk in the 19th century, for instance, or 7-inning minor league double-headers. So I can imagine that such things are harder to enable than off-field customisation.
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FWIW, I'm looking forward to historical USFL play.
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Yeah, although OOTP is super-customisable, most of that customisation 'just' covers the structure and rules of leagues, the players and teams, schedules, etc.. It has never really allowed customisation of the game of baseball on the field -- no 9-balls-for-a-walk in the 19th century, for instance, or 7-inning minor league double-headers. So I can imagine that such things are harder to enable than off-field customisation.
The difference is that baseball is the same everywhere, but the CFL does actually have different rules to the NFL, so if you want to include it you would have to allow such things.
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FWIW, I'm looking forward to historical USFL play.


As long as some teams-New Jersey Generals and Michigan Panthers can switch to the NFL.
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I am pretty sure that the CFL will be part of BTS one day, it will not be in the first version though. But please keep in mind that this is just the start, Rome wasn't built in a day either. We will work hard to release new versions every year, and these will improve the game substantially each time. And one of those years, stuff like playable college leagues, historical leagues and other leagues including the CFL will be added.
That is the only way to do it start small then grow
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Just announced my first Expansion Fictional CFL team-Alberta Clippers.

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I don't sign in very often anymore, you can see that in my profile. OOTPB is an outstanding game, so there will be a lot to live up to for BTS, I am sure.

What a crushing disappointment that the CFL will not be modelled. I can understand that development resources are limited, but that does nothing to reduce my letdown regarding this situation.

There are aver 100 years of history of the CFL, that's more than an unbroken century of football. The game has been played in floods and storms, through bitter winters and blighted droughts. We have seen wars and prosperity. Canadian football has been the constant catalyst that binds our country, east and west, anglo and francophone, prairie and city alike. It has provided American football with their greatest player: the incomparable Warren Moon. It continues to refine the prospects that the established NFL nabobs reject, or was there someone among our friends to the south who really did see Cam Wake coming?

Sure, be excited for BTS, it looks like it will be a nice game. But it will be incomplete until it can include the CFL. Whatever can be said to make the CFL a part of this game, please consider that when it comes time to add features to BTS!
No it won't be. It's an American football simulator, not an "all world" football simulator. I ragged on a guy earlier for saying he wanted to see some obscure second-tier leagues in the game in the first version and no offence but I think it's the same case here.

Listen, I'm Canadian and a fan of the CFL as well, but I think you are being way over dramatic about this. I would imagine the number of people like yourself who feel strongly enough about the CFL's inclusion to consider the game incomplete otherwise would be an extreme, extreme minority.

It might be something important to you and important that you want to see, but that doesn't mean it's a good business decision for the developers of this game to put tons of time and effort into including it in the first version.
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personally I'm a avid watcher of the Ti-Cats in the CFL and I'm glad to hear from a development standpoint the plan is to add it eventually. That vision is good enough for me.


I'm also a big Bills fan so to start with the NFL only makes sense. It is a happy day for me right now and will be an even happier day once the CFL is implemented correctly. In the meantime I will work hard on winning the Bills the championship.
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