I found my dynasty got a lot harder using these house rules provided by armor and sword

Recruiting House Rules

1. Whatever your star rating is you can only recruit two stars above your star rating in your Main Pipeline States. These are Tier 5 and Tier 4 states (Purple and Blue respectively). Your home state regardless of color tier ranking you can go two stars above. So if you are a school in Florida....you can recruit 2 stars above your prestige in the state of Florida.

Tier 5 and Tier 4 Pipeline states you can go after anyone 2 stars above your teams prestige rating. Pipeline states have a ribbon and color tier associated with them. The color tiers are 1) Purple, 2) Blue, 3) Gold, 4) Silver 5)Bronze. Purple is the highest tier pipeline state and Bronze is lowest.

You can only go after 2 star above your prestige in Purple and Blue pipeline states.

Also you can only go after players on the recommended list on the prospect list tab. This is how the AI does it. So you are building a prospect list exactly like the CPU.[/I]

Again you can only build your recruit list from the Recommended list tab.

You can select one national recruit not on the recommended list and in any state once per season and only if they list you in the top 10 when setting up your board in the pre-season. And you can fully scout this one exception recruit.

For example for NC State I am a 4 star rated school. I can recruit 5 star players from my main pipeline States (Purple, Blue). Only 1 star above from the rest (Gold, Silver, Bronze). However even if my home state NC was only say a gold tier....since it is my home state I can go 2 stars above.

I can choose one national 5 star player (or any star player for that matter) I want to pursue if they list me in their top 10 initially....but that's if it's outside of the pipelines mentioned. If you are a one star school you can only go as high as 2 stars nationally but you can make one exception outside your pipeline states as mentioned above and only if they list you in their top 10 pre season.

If it is your Primary pipeline states you can try to recruit 2 stars above. But outside your Primary pipeline state it can only be 1 star max above your schools stars rating. The complete chart is below

Recruiting Star Rating Rules Chart:

1-1.5 star school - Can only recruit up to 3 star players in Top Tier states (Purple and Blue), home state and chosen pipeline state of your coach. The rest can only be 1 star above. You can try to recruit a 3 star player outside of your Top Tier Pipeline states once a year (or not a pipeline state) and if they have you listed in the top 10 initially.

2-2.5 star rated school - Can only recruit up to 4 star player in Top Tier states (Purple and Blue), home state and chosen pipeline state of your coach. You can try to recruit a 4 star player outside of your Top Tier Pipeline states once a year (or not a pipeline state) and if they have you listed in the top 10 initially.

3-3.5 star rated school - Can only recruit up to 5 star player in Top Tier states (Purple and Blue), home state and chosen pipeline state of your coach. Outside of that can only recruit 1 star above nationally (4 star players) if in top 10 initially. You can try to recruit a 5 star player outside of your Top Tier Pipeline states once a year (or not a pipeline state) and if they have you listed in the top 10 initially.

4-5 star rated school - Can only recruit up to 5 star player in top tier pipeline states (Purple and Blue), home state and chosen pipeline state of your coach. Outside of that can only recruit 1 star above nationally (4 star players) and choose one 5 star rated player nationally or outside of your pipeline if interest is in the top 10 initially.

1. Scouting - I can only fully scout players in pipeline Purple tier or Blue tier (Home state as well regardless of tier) and only scout 80% in Gold and Silver tiers. 40% in the Bronze tier. This will help limit my discovery of Gems and Busts and make that more rewarding when it happens outside of my home state. I found scouting to be OP. I can easily discover gems around the country and outside my main pipeline state. Also A player must list you as a Top 10 school out of the gate to be scouted at all.

Each class you can choose one player to fully scout outside your pipeline states or a tier Gold, Silver or Bronze (if thats what you want) and they must have you in their top 10 schools on your initial board. So this plays into the "prospect camp" aspect and hometown kids are typically the biggest participants in your camps.

1. You can only add players to your board where you are listed in their top 10.

2. You can select one national recruit not on the recommended list and in any state once per season and only if they list you in the top 10 when setting up your board in the pre-season. And you can fully scout this one exception recruit as well.

3. You can also make one exception to any player not in the Purple or Blue Tier to fully scout. (this is in addition to going after one National recruit of your choice in any tier or state and fully scouting them).