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As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, I recently purchased NCAA Football 10 for the 360.

It’s been pretty good so far. I built a Baruch Bearcat team using the Teambuilder feature and have been working their way up from cupcake status in my offline dynasty.

It’s fun, but after about 2 weeks of playing religiously, I’m starting to crave something a little more challenging.

Enter Online Dynasties.

I’ve heard a lot about them, but have never tried them. Basically the concept is up to 12 folks can get together and play through the dynasty mode. Each chooses a school to represent and handles all of the team duties such as recruiting, redshirts, etc.

The trick is supposed to be it combines the challenge and unpredicablity of playing against real people with the longer term focus of dynasty mode.

Since this will be my first foray into online dynasties, I thought it would be a good learning experience to share with any other online neophytes interested.

Step 1: Finding a dynasty

How do we find a dynasty? The method I’m using is by looking through the different forums for the game. I like Gamefaqs because I already have an account there, but there’s also the EA Sports forum and NCAA Strategies forum.

Once you have an account on one of these places, just look for posts about joining a dynasty. You’ll usually need to leave your gamertag (PS3 folks I have no idea your equivalent) and preferred team.

The person who started the thread should send you an online dynasty invite when they’re ready to start. You’ll need to go into the game and look under “Career Modes” -> “Online Dynasty Invites”

And that’s all I’ve got so far. It’s not much, but hopefully I’ll get an invite and can update on my progress soon.

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