Good News and Bad News
The FOFC HC Utility is ready, sort of. You can now change the quarter length, but there’s no accelrated clock. Also, even though you can edit the sliders there is a debate on whether or not they work. I played a game last night (Browns @ Buffalo) and Holcombe tossed 5 INTS and Dilfer tossed 6 INTs and thnat was with the INT slider turned down all the way. So I doubt it’s doing anything.
So adding time to the games is meaningless (actually it’s counter-productive) unless more can be done to lower the INT rate.
Anyway, grab it here.
Here’s the instructions:
Unzip the file and run the executable. Click Load and find your career file. Then edit to your delight. When done click Save. The program automatically creates a backup of the original when you save, it can be found as Career[#].bak in the appropriate career folder. As this is a 3rd party program that modifies your career files, use it at your own risk. While it is still in its infancy, I recomend keeping your own backups of everything before you let this little guy have his way with it.
At this point, you can set the quarter length, and sliders which affect the exhibition and career games for the career you edit. I didn’t get a chance to test the sliders enough to know if there is a difference or not. If these sliders don’t seem to work, there is at least one more set that I can try within the data file (go EA storing multiple copies of the same data in the save file).
Along the same lines, I couldn’t get accelerated clock to work yet. It seems that either: A) EA has hardcoded this as disabled, which would make sense with all of the coach in between play crap, or B) I’m changing it in the wrong place (same possibility as the sliders above).
It would be nice if a few of you could test different slider settings to see if you notice a difference. Some of you have played the game far more than me, and would probably notice a difference. In the mean time, I’ll continue testing and trying to track down the true location of the sliders (if currently wrong), and the possibility of making the accelerated clock work.