I have seen the future, quite literally. As I had chance to play on the copy of my GW running 1.3 I have seen what happens. A dirty prostitute is sent into my dressing room who then sleeps with my players, gives them aids and they die - true story.
So I decided to try and do something about it before 1.3 was released. I moved on several of my older players for a pittance and made some big money regen signings. Top of the list was a 22 year old MC/AMC by the name of Aslan Ferhat, or as I like to call him - Asshat. I smashed my club transfer record and paid £4.75m for this player who had all the right attributes to replace the departed Ryan Babel.
I spent 7 seasons or so training up my youth GK who has just peaked (I presume he's peaked since everyone single one of his attributes just plummeted yesterday... sigh)I signed a young DC who had good key attributes, a solid looking DM and a pacey winger. Transfer spending this off season came to somewhere in the region of £8.5m !!
So all is good ? I'm now ready for 1.3 with my young team from the new generation ? WRONG !!! ABORT MISSION!!! My team turned into complete chumps, making constant mistakes, creating no chances, giving away penalties, missing penalties, missing clear cut chance after clear cut chance. I pushed on through pre-season regardless hoping it was just a dip in form. Someone tried to point out I had only lost 1 in 14 games but it was the performances, it was a failure of epic proportions.
But it wasn't just a dip in form... I played 1 official game of the season and decided they had to go... all of them. Asshat set my club record transfer fee out as I recouped the £4.75m paid and I made a loss on the DC. I'll likely be moving more on over weekend and replacing them with some database players instead.
So even though I know 1.3 is coming and will kill older players I decided it would be a good idea to spend £2m on a 32 year old DC - because i'm a bit CRAZY like that, ya know ? I bid £1.5m on another 31 year old MC too but the guy went offline and I withdrew it in the end when I had a moment of sanity.
It's just shows how bad regens are when an £80k AF database MC plays better than a regen MC who costs £4.75m. Anyway as usual i'm 'screwed' again now and made more financial loss in my dealings due to taxes. But I can't see any long term future for the game so screw it, screw 1.3, I should be able to get another season of fun before i'm forced into buying regens again.
Anyway in other news I know how to fix FML. It's genius, it's simple and it requires no programming. The answer is the letter 'o'
MMO - Massively Multiplayer Online. Are we massive ? No ? Are we multiplayer ? Not really, mainly AI but are we online ? check!
So we need to rename the game to FMLO - Football Manager Lite Online. Market the game not as an MMO but as a Fantasy Football type game. The game is already being aimed towards people who don't play it very much so why not go the whole hog ? If you see the game in a different light it could actually seem quite good. Instead of logging on for 6 hours a day and sitting there for 6 hours with nothing to do you instead just log on for a few minutes each day then come back to check your results a few days later. Just remove the ME from the game so you don't play any live games and it's job done!
