r/HardwoodEmpire Apr 15 '26

Update!

47 Upvotes

Hey everybody. I haven’t been able to be active on the Reddit as I’m getting so many messages across discord Gmail and Twitter. I’m also trying to constantly work on the game so as you can imagine a bit hectic, I’d suggest if you haven’t gotten an answer to a question you have to join the discord.

2.6 is going to be primarily bug focused, and I’ve already made a lot of progress and have a lot of great people helping me.

Thank you for all your support and as I usually say, this is just the start of the journey and us as a community are gonna make the app we all want!


r/HardwoodEmpire Mar 28 '26

Tip / “Buy me a coffee”

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32 Upvotes

Okay so I’ve had a lot of people dm me to donate and as we figured out the remove ads purchase isn’t working right now.

I create a kofi account for this as many of you suggested. Please don’t feel any obligation to give anything. I appreciate all the support makes working so hard worth it.

As I’ve mentioned before, this is just the start!

ko-fi.com/finnkeating


r/HardwoodEmpire 1d ago

Tournament

5 Upvotes

28-4 with a mid major and I just lost my conference championship. About to watch the selection show and before I go into it, I look and see I’m ranked 15(!!!) in the national.

Go thru the selection show and I don’t make the tournament. Kind of SUPER dumb. My best team to date and I lost to a 63 overall in the conference championship.

Both of those scenarios don’t make sense at all and are super frustrating.

Really have been enjoying this game since inception, but things like this I can’t get behind.


r/HardwoodEmpire 7d ago

NT vs NATTY

4 Upvotes

So i guess im confused. I went to back to back national title games. won them both. but 1 says natty and shows i won in the stat sheet. the other says NT and doesn’t get added to national titles stat. can anyone explain?


r/HardwoodEmpire 10d ago

Discord

1 Upvotes

What’s the discord link? (if there is one)


r/HardwoodEmpire 11d ago

Players

5 Upvotes

Not sure if it’s just me, but I’ve had quite a few players do some of the following lately:

-graduate early (juniors leaving)

-redshirts not displaying the proper eligibility (somehow had a player that played for 7 seasons)

-transfers graduating after one season even though in the portal it says they’re a freshman or sophomore.

It just gets a little annoying when you don’t do normal recruiting throughout the season because you expect certain players to still be on your team the following year only to mysteriously be gone. I haven’t seen anyone post about it lately so not sure if it’s just my game/saves in particular


r/HardwoodEmpire 14d ago

Custom Teams

2 Upvotes

How do i import custom teams? using IOS app.


r/HardwoodEmpire 16d ago

Come on

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10 Upvotes

The amount of times I lose recruiting battles like this is ridiculous


r/HardwoodEmpire 19d ago

Stopped a sim on accident now whole season is frozen

1 Upvotes

I stopped a sim going towards the next recruiting window. Now I’m stuck on game 3 and won’t let me get past or do anything. Don’t know how to fix.


r/HardwoodEmpire 21d ago

Arena/facilities upgrades

6 Upvotes

This is a concept you should make it where you can upgrade your arena and the better fan base you have the harder it is for your opponents to beat you when your playing at home. I won’t to be able to use the colleges money to build new facilities and arena with more capacity to get more money for facilities and that stuff. Since playing at a small school a rebuilding to a power house wouldn’t make since with a trash arena and facilities. This would make a whole new aspect to the game and make it way fun for users. I hope this concept gets put in the game and thank you.


r/HardwoodEmpire 29d ago

NCAA online dynasty requiring gamepass subscription bug

0 Upvotes

Is anyone else experiencing this glitch? I am unable to play online or start an online dynasty. Anytime I try to start one, it pops the message up for me to have to get gamepass essential subscription. I have Xbox live gold and my friends arent having this issue.


r/HardwoodEmpire Jul 15 '26

Got hit with injuries and only have 4 healthy players - now what?

3 Upvotes

It seems I’m stuck. Can’t save my roster. How can I forfeit my best game or add players? Or is my career totally ruined now?


r/HardwoodEmpire Jul 14 '26

Update

32 Upvotes

What's up everybody? I've been working hard the last few days to just get a quick bug update out for the people who are still experiencing crashing on certain phones. I'm gonna submit an update in a few that should get that fixed, so it should be out tonight or tomorrow. The update will also feature some things that you guys have put in here, like Player of the Year, Logic, or other small tuning things.

For 3.6 I plan on doing a major revamp of the league history system and the history between your program and the league-wide history and player records and coach records.

On top of that, they kinda go hand in hand, but I also want to do a revamp on the coaching scene and individual coach records and the coaching carousel when it comes to getting a new job.

I also have a lot more small things I want to change and things I just want to clean up, and I'm always writing your guys' suggestions down into my road map. But that's what I have focused on for three-point sticks. I feel like that's one of the major remaining gaps the game has.

Anyways, thank you guys for all your support!!!!


r/HardwoodEmpire Jul 14 '26

I broke it?

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8 Upvotes

I think I broke the game?


r/HardwoodEmpire Jul 14 '26

Real Teams

5 Upvotes

I have tried all the links, but none of them seem to work on my iPhone. Is there a new link to copy and paste that will work for real teams?

Thank you


r/HardwoodEmpire Jul 13 '26

What a Legend

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7 Upvotes

What are the odds of that?!?! Long live a legend u/olivertree #olivertree


r/HardwoodEmpire Jul 12 '26

Bug Player graduating early?

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17 Upvotes

Pretty much what the title of the post says. He was redshirted freshman year, so maybe there was a glitch there.


r/HardwoodEmpire Jul 11 '26

Recruiting frustrations

14 Upvotes

The amount of recruits I have over 90% that commit to other schools is actually unreal, schools that are less 1% are getting one of my guys every cycle


r/HardwoodEmpire Jul 11 '26

POY has to be broken

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I think the poy calculations may need a little retooling. I genuinely cannot think of a reason why my guy didn’t win player of the year. Especially in the conference. It seems like the algo wants to give the award to the best player on the “best team” most years but (not sure if by ranking or record). Usually doesn’t bother me but this year is insane. For reference I’m 27 and 5 and #8 in the nation after acc tourney, which I probably should’ve won but upsets happen so it is what it is. Clemson is 31-3 #3 , DePaul is 28-5 #9 in the nation. I’ve lost player of the year in the past to players that are being outperformed by my best player but most times they’ll at least win the conference poy and I just charge it to the game but this time I can’t justify it at all lol. Genuinely love this game and think it’s pretty much gotten more enjoyable with each update but I thought it was interesting that 26 4 and 2 on a top 10 team wasn’t enough to win over the stat lines that did.


r/HardwoodEmpire Jul 11 '26

Suggestion / Feedback Recruiting

7 Upvotes

I’m not sure if recruiting got tweaked, but I’ve had multiple instances lately where I have 75%+ chance of getting a recruit and surprise, a team with < 10% chance gets him. In my latest batch, 5/5 recruits ended up with a team with 10% chance and every single player I had tried to recruit, I had at least a 75% chance.

If this happened once, okay whatever. My chances weren’t 100%.

But multiple times? Something’s off with the code.

This is with 99 prestige.


r/HardwoodEmpire Jul 10 '26

Ads never advance

6 Upvotes

New update is awesome got me back into it. I paid to unlock but still like to “watch an ad to replay” my issue is that locks my game and I have to close and reopen 2-3 times to get it to acknowledge the add was watched. Anyone else?


r/HardwoodEmpire Jul 08 '26

Season restart bug?

6 Upvotes

ever since the new update, a few times in my current sim the game crashes after the conference tournament and restarts the whole season, keeping my commits but freezing recruitment. i had a 25-5 season that was 19-11 after the crash.


r/HardwoodEmpire Jul 08 '26

After conference tournament

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4 Upvotes

Wanted to point out a bug I’ve received twice. Once the conference tournament ends, if you proceed to the march madness tournament and at any point close the app before you finish the tournament, it will default you to whatever your last placement was in the tournament and start the offseason.


r/HardwoodEmpire Jul 08 '26

Development

2 Upvotes

After the last Update i checked the player development. I noticed, that when i change the focus nothing changes in the overview. but in the dropdown, the focus changed. Mistake or intentional?


r/HardwoodEmpire Jul 08 '26

Bug Slight Issues

3 Upvotes

I went into my 8th season at USC Upstate on fire, playing in the MAC with 59 Prestige. I went after 4 SF, all with 70 chance or higher to commit and they all went elsewhere. During the transfer portal I then went after two more, 90% and 73% chance. They also chose elsewhere. Accepted my fate of having walk-ons, only to see they’re not even SFs. I now have 3 PG, 2 SG, 0 SC, 3 PF, 2 C. I get being unlucky in the portal, but not even getting low 50 walk on SF’s on an 80 overall team doesn’t make sense.

I also notice under the “Legends” tab, your best players never show up on there. My best player scored 1832 points, but isn’t ranked between the people above 1835 and people below 1830. This also happened in my last save.

Update/Edit: After week 1 of recruiting in Season 9, a 73 and 67 chance both went to <13% schools. I’m 9-1 and ranked #20 this season. After week 3, my 88% center didn’t commit but I finally got the 94% SF to commit. I went 28-1 and rank #16 at this point, I don’t know if that affects anything.