Good idea to consider playing with, when get time to tinker with such stuff. Never played Evo 1 so got no idea about previous incarnation of game.If it’s anything like last Evo, one cheap way to keep your main ruckman in position, is to edit him (and any other ruckman) to have 100% endurance/stamina or whatever it’s called. And if there’s recovery time, that too.
Trade this off by reducing their speed massively (except for the exceptional freaks) and I remember it meant they usually played out the game in the ruck.
Not perfect. But better than randoms taking over
Sometimes I found my ruckman Kruezer named in backline so it seems some coding in game has some bias towards swapping ruck to backline and when it does it, it must swap with a backmen there. Might explain how I found Nic Newman in ruck so often and sometimes Kade Simpson too.
What I find weird is when it stops you from moving a player out of ruck when they clearly should not be there. There are times the name of Nic Newman text is not in black for me to move him to somewhere else as an option. When I have been able to move players, their name goes red for a moment until you decide where you moving too. Sometimes it does not even allow it to go red. It simply tells me this player is restricted and that is the few times I been stuck with Newman in ruck and not even able to change him out of it. Maybe there is a limit restricted on how many times you can move a player in a season ???