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Madden NFL 12 Playbook - Online Communities Revealed
With Madden NFL 12 Online Communities, you will be able to
create or join a community with up to 2,000 other like-minded
gamers and play head-to-head games against each other with your
own rules and even your own leaderboards.
Here are a few highlights of Online Communities:
Online Communities is a response to massive fan feedback
requesting the ability to play online without having to worry
about cheaters, quitters or gamers that don’t play by the same
rules
Each Online Community can have anywhere between 2 and 2,000
members
§ Each gamer can be a part of up to five different Online
Communities
§ When creating a Community, you have the option to leave it
open to the public and send invite messages to anyone you like
or you can set a Community password that must be entered when
other users try to join
The Community creator will set the “house rules”
§ Every game option and slider in Madden NFL 12 will be editable
and can be applied to all head-to-head game within the Community
§ The Community creator can give members “Manager Permissions”
that allow them to promote other members to Manager, kick out
members, and change Community options and sliders
All Online Community games will be ranked on a Community
Leaderboard
§ Individual stats will be tracked and ranked
§ Recent game results will be displayed for the entire community
to see
Online Communities works with Online Team Play (OTP)
§ You will be able to team up with members of your Community to
play 3 vs. 3 games against other Communities
§ Each Community will have its own private lobby room where you
can chat with your fellow members and gather teammates to take
on other Communities.
§ From the lobby, you can view a box score and participants of
games in progress
§ Every Community will be ranked against the rest of the world
on the Community Team Play Leaderboard
§ Squads are back, boosts are gone, and all of your stats for
all six squads will be recorded and ranked in the Squad Stats
Leaderboard
§ Your individual Team Play squad stats in one Community will
carry over into all your other Communities
§ Grieving rules will be in place – individuals who cause
excessive delay of game or encroachment penalties will get
kicked out of the game
§ The classic Madden NFL camera is back on both sides of the
ball.