Oh, i'm rather excited, Wednesday at 1am I begin my adventure to Glastonbury. The eagled eyed have probably noticed all my blog titles are song names, I likes my music. Alas the line up is shit, but that's not what it's about... I'm concerned how my car is going to cope with the 300 cans which are currently loaded...
Anyway, in anticipation of this event I have moved FA. I went to the easiest looking FA, why wouldn't I ? With one problem, my main rival who panned me in the last game of the season to take EFA run 3 has also moved there ! But other than him, it's still the easiest FA and he's moved because he's going to be offline most of the season, so I figured second place would do, and hopefully his AI is as shit as mine.
But things are not looking so good as someone has made the AI land in a sensible manner finally. I'm going to miss about 8-10 games, which I can guarantee my AI will lose every single game.
Looking at overall club ability i'm still way behind everyone else, but i've played a few games and of course, won them with ease. I'm pretty sure i've actually cracked the ME again, i've posted about it on here before but I think i've narrowed it down to something specific which is allowing me to beat far superior teams and it's something which I can't replicate in AI games unfortunately.
It's the only explanation, and i'm not going into it again and it could just be one of my myths but I think this is a serious edge I have which no one else is doing. Read up on my away tactics post if you want more info!
Anyway, I might be back on Monday if I make it through the week :D I'll no doubt return to find myself bottom of the table and the season in ruins.
Monday 21 June 2010
Saturday 19 June 2010
Eat The Rich
Wages are pretty crazy these days eh ? I have probably bid on around 35 players so far in wage auctions and won about 4 of them, having been around 75% under the final wage in some. Terribly average youth players going for 16k wages and the like, crazy stuff. Or is it ?
Partially because I was drunk, and probably more likely related to the fact i'm slightly mad I decided to join the party. I bid 22k wages on an 18 year old with an AF of 18k, who I suspect is probably around 3* potential. However, he has awesome physicals (probably nearly peaked) 18 jumping and a senior average of 7.49. So as long as the ME update doesn't screw me over I know he can slot into the first team no problems. Cost wise, 22*28 - £616k + AF = £634k for the season. Is it that daft now ? I suspect he would easily sell for that in a private transfer.
With that in mind it seems entirely sensible to be paying crazy wages in off season auctions when players cost so much on the open market. Alas, i'm still not being quite crazy enough it seems. I've bid £50k, 60k, more on 30 year old defenders and lost out, I simply can't get any bloody players in ! For the first time ever i'm classed as a rich club but I just cannot buy anyone, because being classed as "rich" by the game, in the current climate, means you can afford one average player.
So i've changed tactic and started randomly bidding on players I don't want and have no intention of keeping so I can sell them once tax has gone. £22k AF players have MV of £500k + ! I smell some profit here.
Plus I need to move out of the EFA for a season as i'm going to be offline for a week, so I may as well try and bring some of my younger players through. I should have enough for a top half finish in the premiership still, and for the first time ever i'm not actually playing to win the thing ! Although, depending what the ME update does, it's still possible I can manage it.
I'm still projected a fair whack of profit tax, so for the first time ever I might actually plan for the future and punt some more cash into the stadium. I'll no doubt spunk it all on some player 10 minutes before the season starts like.
Most of my players have orange arrows of death though !! Take Sir Lavezzi, my goal a game striker, he's lost 0.12 dribbling, or 0.75% of his dribbling ability. OH WHAT AM I TO DO, HE'S GOING TO BE SHIT NOW! Get a grip.
Partially because I was drunk, and probably more likely related to the fact i'm slightly mad I decided to join the party. I bid 22k wages on an 18 year old with an AF of 18k, who I suspect is probably around 3* potential. However, he has awesome physicals (probably nearly peaked) 18 jumping and a senior average of 7.49. So as long as the ME update doesn't screw me over I know he can slot into the first team no problems. Cost wise, 22*28 - £616k + AF = £634k for the season. Is it that daft now ? I suspect he would easily sell for that in a private transfer.
With that in mind it seems entirely sensible to be paying crazy wages in off season auctions when players cost so much on the open market. Alas, i'm still not being quite crazy enough it seems. I've bid £50k, 60k, more on 30 year old defenders and lost out, I simply can't get any bloody players in ! For the first time ever i'm classed as a rich club but I just cannot buy anyone, because being classed as "rich" by the game, in the current climate, means you can afford one average player.
So i've changed tactic and started randomly bidding on players I don't want and have no intention of keeping so I can sell them once tax has gone. £22k AF players have MV of £500k + ! I smell some profit here.
Plus I need to move out of the EFA for a season as i'm going to be offline for a week, so I may as well try and bring some of my younger players through. I should have enough for a top half finish in the premiership still, and for the first time ever i'm not actually playing to win the thing ! Although, depending what the ME update does, it's still possible I can manage it.
I'm still projected a fair whack of profit tax, so for the first time ever I might actually plan for the future and punt some more cash into the stadium. I'll no doubt spunk it all on some player 10 minutes before the season starts like.
Most of my players have orange arrows of death though !! Take Sir Lavezzi, my goal a game striker, he's lost 0.12 dribbling, or 0.75% of his dribbling ability. OH WHAT AM I TO DO, HE'S GOING TO BE SHIT NOW! Get a grip.
Friday 18 June 2010
Getting Better
I did post a preview of 3D about an hour after it was released before deleting it when I realised I wasn't supposed to, but I deleted the video files afterwards then couldn't be bothered.
It seems SI have posted a preview in somewhat questionable quality so I've decided to do another without the drunken commentary ramblings. Should be available in "HD"
It seems SI have posted a preview in somewhat questionable quality so I've decided to do another without the drunken commentary ramblings. Should be available in "HD"
Wednesday 16 June 2010
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
Everyone seems pretty queit in the blogosphere of late, gameworldone seems dead and even the forums seem fairly placid of late (other than the utterly ridiculous complaining about orange arrows thread)
I'm not really sure if this is a good thing or not ? As Thom on Los Elephants has posted before, FML seems to be very much bandwagon jumping with everyone unhappy with the same issues at the same time, except we haven't had a wagon of late. It does seem very much a mood game where sections of the community seem to be feeling the same about things at the time like me and Jak seem to have become fed up at the same time.
Anyway, i've had a fairly good season I guess, but i'm gutted, I honestly am. I won the first 2 runs of the EFA and in the second instance I beat off the team with 400k or so wages sporting the likes of Lukaku and co. Third run I was well on course to do it again, easily clear at the top of the table and he had half his team injured.
I just needed to win the last few games then boom, hammered by a poor team, boom half my team injured. So it comes down to the last game, against 2nd place. I'm 2 points clear and all I need is a draw to take my 3rd league title in a row.
67% possession or so in the first 20 minutes, a dozen or so shots for me. Alas, he's had 3 shots, i'm 3-0 down and a 16 year old sub with a broken foot has scored a hatrick (i'm not joking) The game ends with a club record defeat of 5-0 even though he only had about 7 shots all game. I'm shocked and embarrassed by this, I really am... there was literally nothing I could do. So I finished 1st, 1st and 2nd, by a single measly point :(
I've been moaning about being broke for the last 3 months, but as I suspected I managed to pull some funds together as the season ended. I'm now classed as a rich club with around £5m cash or so and a couple more players I want to sell yet. Alas this came at the expense of selling much of my youth team but I'm struggling to see anyone with any value in wage auctions or transfer auctions though so i'm not sure if i'm going to end up getting many new players. Need some movement before the tax man comes in to steal my profits.
Funny thing is, my £1 DC with 16k AF is still easily cutting it at the top level! But who knows what the new ME will bring?
Finally punted up a new stand but it's going to be essentially next season before that is finished.
I'm going to be on holiday for a week or so just as the season starts next week (Gastonbury!) so I think I will have to leave the EFA because I will no doubt come back to find my AI has lost every game and I could be stuck in bad form indefinitely.
Nowt much else happening i'm afraid.
I'm not really sure if this is a good thing or not ? As Thom on Los Elephants has posted before, FML seems to be very much bandwagon jumping with everyone unhappy with the same issues at the same time, except we haven't had a wagon of late. It does seem very much a mood game where sections of the community seem to be feeling the same about things at the time like me and Jak seem to have become fed up at the same time.
Anyway, i've had a fairly good season I guess, but i'm gutted, I honestly am. I won the first 2 runs of the EFA and in the second instance I beat off the team with 400k or so wages sporting the likes of Lukaku and co. Third run I was well on course to do it again, easily clear at the top of the table and he had half his team injured.
I just needed to win the last few games then boom, hammered by a poor team, boom half my team injured. So it comes down to the last game, against 2nd place. I'm 2 points clear and all I need is a draw to take my 3rd league title in a row.
67% possession or so in the first 20 minutes, a dozen or so shots for me. Alas, he's had 3 shots, i'm 3-0 down and a 16 year old sub with a broken foot has scored a hatrick (i'm not joking) The game ends with a club record defeat of 5-0 even though he only had about 7 shots all game. I'm shocked and embarrassed by this, I really am... there was literally nothing I could do. So I finished 1st, 1st and 2nd, by a single measly point :(
I've been moaning about being broke for the last 3 months, but as I suspected I managed to pull some funds together as the season ended. I'm now classed as a rich club with around £5m cash or so and a couple more players I want to sell yet. Alas this came at the expense of selling much of my youth team but I'm struggling to see anyone with any value in wage auctions or transfer auctions though so i'm not sure if i'm going to end up getting many new players. Need some movement before the tax man comes in to steal my profits.
Funny thing is, my £1 DC with 16k AF is still easily cutting it at the top level! But who knows what the new ME will bring?
Finally punted up a new stand but it's going to be essentially next season before that is finished.
I'm going to be on holiday for a week or so just as the season starts next week (Gastonbury!) so I think I will have to leave the EFA because I will no doubt come back to find my AI has lost every game and I could be stuck in bad form indefinitely.
Nowt much else happening i'm afraid.
Friday 11 June 2010
Sale of the Century
Run 3 of the EFA has started well, played 7, won 7. Good times, roll up to bottom of the league and before I know it i'm 3-0 down, but we know shit like this is to be expected by now.
Anyway, I have problems. One of my youths was wanting a £200 pay rise, not bad, I think he's worth that, bank veto on the extend contract. Quite possibly related to the new update and the overdraft changes as I was only projected -89k or something.
Meanwhile, i'm looking at a player I sold for £30k in season 1. He was a decent potential player, but he was shit, his attributes meant he would never become a decent player so I got rid because £30k was a lot of cash in season 1. Anyway, he's now worth £2.4m - he's still complete shit, but £2.4m !! That could have solved all of my problems.
With that in mind, I decided on my new strategy. I need money, I need it now, I need to expand the stadium and maintain a team which is going to win the league again next season. So I figured it was time to sell my entire youth team. I think I actually did this at the exact same time in FML v1 back on St John, and I made naff all cash out of it on that occasion.
I've decided to keep the better players who I use in the first team and the rest haven't been given a game in the seniors yet so their AFs/MVs are still pretty low so i'm not expecting mega bucks. But I reckon I should be able generate £2-3m plus a senior I want to shift should net me around £5m in total. If I don't generate enough cash then the others will have to go too.
No doubt in a few seasons time, like what happened above above, like what happened in my previous GW, like what common sense tells me, all my youths will be worth a lot more money in a few seasons time and piss me off on a regular basis by outplaying me.
But as per my total inability to see anything past the next result I need to improve the team, I simply cannot accept defeat next season.
In other news I have gone from having barely any injuries at all to suddenly having 5 midfielders unavailable with my first ever training injury in the middle of this mess. Step up my youth team, most of whom are currently in auction!
Anyway, I have problems. One of my youths was wanting a £200 pay rise, not bad, I think he's worth that, bank veto on the extend contract. Quite possibly related to the new update and the overdraft changes as I was only projected -89k or something.
Meanwhile, i'm looking at a player I sold for £30k in season 1. He was a decent potential player, but he was shit, his attributes meant he would never become a decent player so I got rid because £30k was a lot of cash in season 1. Anyway, he's now worth £2.4m - he's still complete shit, but £2.4m !! That could have solved all of my problems.
With that in mind, I decided on my new strategy. I need money, I need it now, I need to expand the stadium and maintain a team which is going to win the league again next season. So I figured it was time to sell my entire youth team. I think I actually did this at the exact same time in FML v1 back on St John, and I made naff all cash out of it on that occasion.
I've decided to keep the better players who I use in the first team and the rest haven't been given a game in the seniors yet so their AFs/MVs are still pretty low so i'm not expecting mega bucks. But I reckon I should be able generate £2-3m plus a senior I want to shift should net me around £5m in total. If I don't generate enough cash then the others will have to go too.
No doubt in a few seasons time, like what happened above above, like what happened in my previous GW, like what common sense tells me, all my youths will be worth a lot more money in a few seasons time and piss me off on a regular basis by outplaying me.
But as per my total inability to see anything past the next result I need to improve the team, I simply cannot accept defeat next season.
In other news I have gone from having barely any injuries at all to suddenly having 5 midfielders unavailable with my first ever training injury in the middle of this mess. Step up my youth team, most of whom are currently in auction!
Wednesday 9 June 2010
This is Hardcore
I see Jak seems unhappy of late looking at his recent blog posts.
Main complaint seems to things are a bit boring and the game is a little too casual. I do see his point of view and agree with it to a certain extent. The reason i'm not in total agreement is because of the amount of effort and time I am having to put in just to ensure that no one can win AI or play my AI - considering 3 runs of the EFA per season this is quite a tiring and time consuming task. If I had lost just 1 more game last season I would not have won the league, I had 0% AI but if I had left some games to my AI I can guarantee that I would have lost a fair chunk of them and thus not won the league title.
So I am finding myself online quite often (taking the night off today due to league reset day which will no doubt mean i'll lose all my day 1 AI!) but yeah, in fairness, i'm not actually doing a right lot. I'm just kind of there, waiting for games, waiting for something to happen really. I've got a tonne of youth games to play as I went a bit OTT on the XFA competitions but I never pay much attention to those.
I have withdrawn from all XFA competitions mainly because they pretty much all have home playing rights enabled. As you may gather from the above, I don't like people playing my AI, just because I lose and I certainly don't like losing. The second reason is how bloody random and different your form is in these competitions compared to the league.
The only other competition my senior team is in is the ladder and despite playing teams which are generally poorer and of a lower standard than my league (not not low enough for a big underdog factor) my form is horrific. I've been stuck in same level for god knows how long and just seem to draw every single game every time it resets. I know I would probably just be going mental if I was in a load more competitions with my form up and down all over the place.
So generally I do agree with what Jak is saying about the game being too casual. It's easy for people to just spend a small amount of time online, enjoy the game and do reasonably well and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that ! But why don't people spend more time online ? Well, because there's not that much else to do ! People say, "oh well, I don't have enough time, I don't want to play more" but how many people signed up to something like WoW thinking "hey i'm going to spend 30 hours a week playing this game!" They spent that time playing it for a reason.
On FML the main thing you can do though is simply play games, which is fine, but the games need to mean something. This is one of the reasons pre-reset I was championing FAs being deleted so you could just enter as many official competitions as you liked so you could be super intense if you wish and then the next week you could scale things back if you needed a break and there would always be something to do, always meaningful games to play and a reason to log on.
Anyway, when it was clear that wasn't going to happen I was hoping that the XFA might be put to good use to fill the void. Alas, there's probably 50+ or so competitions to wade through, half of which have been there months and never started or others which have not really been maintained properly and the rest all have home playing rights, even the cups - well thought out that one.
So we are just left with the quick plays, which are okay.... but they aint quick, they last about 6 hours and again, I don't want to log off and let someone play my AI ! Plus they are always the same, same structure, same format, same snooze-a-thon waiting for games.
I was hoping for a really active engaging environment where there was always something going on, always some competition to play and meaningful things to play for but i'm pretty much in the age old routine of waiting for AI. At least start chucking some RP around in these XFA competitions !
Back before the reset on my old GW I was often criticised because I didn't discuss competition type ideas in the right place, speaking to orgs was wrong, posting on blog or forum was wrong, starting a discussion in game was wrong and I was told I apparently should email the mod list. So I tried this a couple of weeks ago in my current GW asking for a weekend league in the XFA that ran from Friday to Sunday, explaining how it should be set up, alas I didn't get any response.
I think I might be coming to the end of my time with this game soon, it's just becoming a very time consuming chore for little reward. I know something is wrong because its not made me angry for about 2 weeks ;)
Main complaint seems to things are a bit boring and the game is a little too casual. I do see his point of view and agree with it to a certain extent. The reason i'm not in total agreement is because of the amount of effort and time I am having to put in just to ensure that no one can win AI or play my AI - considering 3 runs of the EFA per season this is quite a tiring and time consuming task. If I had lost just 1 more game last season I would not have won the league, I had 0% AI but if I had left some games to my AI I can guarantee that I would have lost a fair chunk of them and thus not won the league title.
So I am finding myself online quite often (taking the night off today due to league reset day which will no doubt mean i'll lose all my day 1 AI!) but yeah, in fairness, i'm not actually doing a right lot. I'm just kind of there, waiting for games, waiting for something to happen really. I've got a tonne of youth games to play as I went a bit OTT on the XFA competitions but I never pay much attention to those.
I have withdrawn from all XFA competitions mainly because they pretty much all have home playing rights enabled. As you may gather from the above, I don't like people playing my AI, just because I lose and I certainly don't like losing. The second reason is how bloody random and different your form is in these competitions compared to the league.
The only other competition my senior team is in is the ladder and despite playing teams which are generally poorer and of a lower standard than my league (not not low enough for a big underdog factor) my form is horrific. I've been stuck in same level for god knows how long and just seem to draw every single game every time it resets. I know I would probably just be going mental if I was in a load more competitions with my form up and down all over the place.
So generally I do agree with what Jak is saying about the game being too casual. It's easy for people to just spend a small amount of time online, enjoy the game and do reasonably well and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that ! But why don't people spend more time online ? Well, because there's not that much else to do ! People say, "oh well, I don't have enough time, I don't want to play more" but how many people signed up to something like WoW thinking "hey i'm going to spend 30 hours a week playing this game!" They spent that time playing it for a reason.
On FML the main thing you can do though is simply play games, which is fine, but the games need to mean something. This is one of the reasons pre-reset I was championing FAs being deleted so you could just enter as many official competitions as you liked so you could be super intense if you wish and then the next week you could scale things back if you needed a break and there would always be something to do, always meaningful games to play and a reason to log on.
Anyway, when it was clear that wasn't going to happen I was hoping that the XFA might be put to good use to fill the void. Alas, there's probably 50+ or so competitions to wade through, half of which have been there months and never started or others which have not really been maintained properly and the rest all have home playing rights, even the cups - well thought out that one.
So we are just left with the quick plays, which are okay.... but they aint quick, they last about 6 hours and again, I don't want to log off and let someone play my AI ! Plus they are always the same, same structure, same format, same snooze-a-thon waiting for games.
I was hoping for a really active engaging environment where there was always something going on, always some competition to play and meaningful things to play for but i'm pretty much in the age old routine of waiting for AI. At least start chucking some RP around in these XFA competitions !
Back before the reset on my old GW I was often criticised because I didn't discuss competition type ideas in the right place, speaking to orgs was wrong, posting on blog or forum was wrong, starting a discussion in game was wrong and I was told I apparently should email the mod list. So I tried this a couple of weeks ago in my current GW asking for a weekend league in the XFA that ran from Friday to Sunday, explaining how it should be set up, alas I didn't get any response.
I think I might be coming to the end of my time with this game soon, it's just becoming a very time consuming chore for little reward. I know something is wrong because its not made me angry for about 2 weeks ;)
Tuesday 8 June 2010
The State of Things
Sorry, things have been a bit dull round here of late. I don't really have too much to moan about at present and there's not really anything I can be bothered putting the energy into ranting about right now.
The second run of the EFA finished last night with a rather tense and difficult finish. Had to stay up rather late to catch my last AI game as it was of vital importance after drawing with my title rival. Fortunately I won and took the league title but just 2 points ! So two EFA titles in the last two weeks for me, which is pretty good going and I assume this has sealed Premiership status for next season.
It's especially pleasing as I moved my captain on without replacing him and was hit by quite a lot of injuries this time round.
But I was chatting to my league rival who has a team far better than mine and he was telling me he was projected £13.4m. In contrast despite winning season 1 qualifying, finishing 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the second season and winning the first 2 runs far in season 3, i'm projected... £300k. I don't have especially high wages and haven't really made any huge transfer bids.
My mate explained it quite well when he said "you have made the mistake of buying good players who can win games" and in all seriousness, he is right ! My strategy of creating a team to win games will backfire now because I am unable to afford to strengthen my squad to compete with the teams that have £13m from their transfer dealings.
But that's the way I roll, I live by the next game and don't plan much further ahead than that! Take when my MC broke his leg due to Marc Duffy accidentally resetting the server, I could have got by for the second run without him and probably finished 2nd, but no, I went out and spent every penny I had to buy a replacement so make sure results didn't suffer too much. Bear in mind I still can't afford to turn my auto extends on at this point in time!
Maybe i'm stupid, I don't know... I reckon about 75% of my time playing FML my bank balance has been in the red. I'm constantly fighting fires and running away from the bank manager who wants his money back. If I was less impatient and actually came up with a plan I might finally be able to create my empire.... but the problem is I HAVE to win the next game at all costs, so I can't ever do it.
So with my £300k, I need to start building a stadium and improve the team to such an extent that I can beat the best of the best in the GW to win that too. Fortunately throughout my FML career, I have always had some uncanny knack of pulling money out of seemingly nowhere at the last minute, but £13m ? I don't think I can manage that!
The second run of the EFA finished last night with a rather tense and difficult finish. Had to stay up rather late to catch my last AI game as it was of vital importance after drawing with my title rival. Fortunately I won and took the league title but just 2 points ! So two EFA titles in the last two weeks for me, which is pretty good going and I assume this has sealed Premiership status for next season.
It's especially pleasing as I moved my captain on without replacing him and was hit by quite a lot of injuries this time round.
But I was chatting to my league rival who has a team far better than mine and he was telling me he was projected £13.4m. In contrast despite winning season 1 qualifying, finishing 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the second season and winning the first 2 runs far in season 3, i'm projected... £300k. I don't have especially high wages and haven't really made any huge transfer bids.
My mate explained it quite well when he said "you have made the mistake of buying good players who can win games" and in all seriousness, he is right ! My strategy of creating a team to win games will backfire now because I am unable to afford to strengthen my squad to compete with the teams that have £13m from their transfer dealings.
But that's the way I roll, I live by the next game and don't plan much further ahead than that! Take when my MC broke his leg due to Marc Duffy accidentally resetting the server, I could have got by for the second run without him and probably finished 2nd, but no, I went out and spent every penny I had to buy a replacement so make sure results didn't suffer too much. Bear in mind I still can't afford to turn my auto extends on at this point in time!
Maybe i'm stupid, I don't know... I reckon about 75% of my time playing FML my bank balance has been in the red. I'm constantly fighting fires and running away from the bank manager who wants his money back. If I was less impatient and actually came up with a plan I might finally be able to create my empire.... but the problem is I HAVE to win the next game at all costs, so I can't ever do it.
So with my £300k, I need to start building a stadium and improve the team to such an extent that I can beat the best of the best in the GW to win that too. Fortunately throughout my FML career, I have always had some uncanny knack of pulling money out of seemingly nowhere at the last minute, but £13m ? I don't think I can manage that!
Friday 4 June 2010
Honest Mistake
Playing in the league, away from home, it's 1-1 with a few seconds to go. I'm obviously unhappy i'm not winning, injuring the entire opposition and making them rage quit, but as per my away strategy - don't try and win away games.
- no available game server to connect to
hmmm
Maybe i'll get another go and i'll win this time!
Server comes back up, yup, i've got another bash!
Bah, it's 1-1 again.
94th minute my MC goes off injured.
He's broke his leg, he's out for 35 games.
As per my last post I sold my captain and other MC last night and have yet to sign a replacement.
Bad times! To the transfer room !
Forced into signing anyone who looks like they can play football as I have shared rights to one last game, difficult team. Had to punt on the first person I could find, finances firmly back in the red, average player signed for £1.6m.
I really couldn't make this shit up could I ?
Oh, and now i've just noticed the guy i've signed is actually injured for the game I signed him for. Bollocks!
Update - managed to win the game but ANOTHER MC injured! Damnit,
- no available game server to connect to
hmmm
Maybe i'll get another go and i'll win this time!
Server comes back up, yup, i've got another bash!
Bah, it's 1-1 again.
94th minute my MC goes off injured.
He's broke his leg, he's out for 35 games.
As per my last post I sold my captain and other MC last night and have yet to sign a replacement.
Bad times! To the transfer room !
Forced into signing anyone who looks like they can play football as I have shared rights to one last game, difficult team. Had to punt on the first person I could find, finances firmly back in the red, average player signed for £1.6m.
I really couldn't make this shit up could I ?
Oh, and now i've just noticed the guy i've signed is actually injured for the game I signed him for. Bollocks!
Update - managed to win the game but ANOTHER MC injured! Damnit,
Thursday 3 June 2010
I Can't Quit You Baby
Deary me, nothing ever goes right for me, my team really drives me up the wall sometimes. I've been looking for an excuse to quit all night, but I can't even do that right. It seems my players have a different idea.
83rd minute winner for me, 89th minute winner for me, 3-0 down - surely this is it... 4-3 win for me, score 6 past next team in league. Playing 1st in league, one of best teams, I deliberately injure Lukaku, things are looking up, during the match a bid comes in for one of my old duffers I thought I had no chance of moving on and i'm suddenly projected a healthy balance. Meanwhile I appear to beating 1st and Lukaku is now off the pitch. Alas he gets a late penalty, SAVED! But scored on the rebound.... ends in a draw, not quit worthy unfortunately.
Yeah, i'll moan about anything ;)
83rd minute winner for me, 89th minute winner for me, 3-0 down - surely this is it... 4-3 win for me, score 6 past next team in league. Playing 1st in league, one of best teams, I deliberately injure Lukaku, things are looking up, during the match a bid comes in for one of my old duffers I thought I had no chance of moving on and i'm suddenly projected a healthy balance. Meanwhile I appear to beating 1st and Lukaku is now off the pitch. Alas he gets a late penalty, SAVED! But scored on the rebound.... ends in a draw, not quit worthy unfortunately.
Yeah, i'll moan about anything ;)
Jaded
Hope the 20 or so people who viewed my 3D preview video enjoyed it before I noticed I wasn't allowed to blog about it! I broke something trying to make this shitty template a bit better shortly afterwards and have only just got round to fixing it.
*warning* strange ramble incoming.
Anyway in FM terms, i'm 'jaded and in need of a rest' at the moment. After winning run #1 of the EFA qualifying only losing 2 games and drawing 2 I was feeling pretty pleased with myself. Then we had a couple of days waiting for the league to reset and out of nowhere I nearly quit, I just suddenly didn't want to play the game any more.
I decided to push on and I picked my first game at home to a team I had beat 5-0 just two days prior. Of course, I lost. I lost a couple of cup games and the last few games in qualifying #1 didn't end in spectacular fashion I appear to be in a fairly dead qualifying league this time round and despite only playing 1 game i'm pretty certain i'm going to be in horrific form now. Funny thing is the team I duked it out with last time round has also played 3 and lost all 3 !
I'm just waiting for AI already but there's no easy looking games coming up so this could suddenly turn into a mid table finish.
I think it actually takes a massive amount of effort to actually do well on the game. I had to ensure that not a single game went to AI otherwise I would lose, I went to painstaking to make sure no one could play my AI and rigidly stuck to my plans and instructions. Even when doing this I know that something totally out of my control like bad form could instantly destroy the days of work I have put in.
I think it just got to the point where I thought, what the hell am I doing. I'm not sure the reward is worth the effort. I was sitting in some important meeting at work the other day and I was far more occupied with whether I should put one of my youths in at right back than what was going on.
You only sing when your winning as the song goes, but it's true. If I don't put the effort in then I wont win, and then I wont want to play then either! As you are probably aware by now, I really don't take losing especially well. Plus with all the bollocks I spout here and there I kind of feel pressured do actually do well to somehow validate the stuff i'm moaning about.
The other thing which is getting me down a bit is the way people are making so much money from transfers. Pato (100k wage) and Aguero (135k wage) signed for the same team who has a wage bill totalling £281k and just after Aguero signed he was still considered rich. I don't have anything against the managers but I just simply don't understand how certain managers are getting such excessive fees, consistently, for poor players. To be fair, this guy is still losing because he's playing 442 ;)
I'm just not really seeing how I can put together a great team, even with attaining max reputation so far in all qualifiers because i'm so far behind certain teams financially. Then again, i've never had what you can call a 'great' team in most people's eyes. hmpf
*warning* strange ramble incoming.
Anyway in FM terms, i'm 'jaded and in need of a rest' at the moment. After winning run #1 of the EFA qualifying only losing 2 games and drawing 2 I was feeling pretty pleased with myself. Then we had a couple of days waiting for the league to reset and out of nowhere I nearly quit, I just suddenly didn't want to play the game any more.
I decided to push on and I picked my first game at home to a team I had beat 5-0 just two days prior. Of course, I lost. I lost a couple of cup games and the last few games in qualifying #1 didn't end in spectacular fashion I appear to be in a fairly dead qualifying league this time round and despite only playing 1 game i'm pretty certain i'm going to be in horrific form now. Funny thing is the team I duked it out with last time round has also played 3 and lost all 3 !
I'm just waiting for AI already but there's no easy looking games coming up so this could suddenly turn into a mid table finish.
I think it actually takes a massive amount of effort to actually do well on the game. I had to ensure that not a single game went to AI otherwise I would lose, I went to painstaking to make sure no one could play my AI and rigidly stuck to my plans and instructions. Even when doing this I know that something totally out of my control like bad form could instantly destroy the days of work I have put in.
I think it just got to the point where I thought, what the hell am I doing. I'm not sure the reward is worth the effort. I was sitting in some important meeting at work the other day and I was far more occupied with whether I should put one of my youths in at right back than what was going on.
You only sing when your winning as the song goes, but it's true. If I don't put the effort in then I wont win, and then I wont want to play then either! As you are probably aware by now, I really don't take losing especially well. Plus with all the bollocks I spout here and there I kind of feel pressured do actually do well to somehow validate the stuff i'm moaning about.
The other thing which is getting me down a bit is the way people are making so much money from transfers. Pato (100k wage) and Aguero (135k wage) signed for the same team who has a wage bill totalling £281k and just after Aguero signed he was still considered rich. I don't have anything against the managers but I just simply don't understand how certain managers are getting such excessive fees, consistently, for poor players. To be fair, this guy is still losing because he's playing 442 ;)
I'm just not really seeing how I can put together a great team, even with attaining max reputation so far in all qualifiers because i'm so far behind certain teams financially. Then again, i've never had what you can call a 'great' team in most people's eyes. hmpf
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