I feel hot and cold..
Name one time in world football where a team has gone from challenging for the title, taking on all comers to TOTAL INABILITY to play football at the flick of a switch. Oh wait, THAT's NEVER HAPPENED HAS IT? Unless i'm mistaken, Arsenal are not fighting relegation this season ?
Sure we all remember the famous Keegan "I'd love it" rant where Newcastle bottled it after being 10 points clear in the 95/96 season. But did they suddenly totally lose the ability to play football ? Did they never win a game again ? No, that didn't happen did it.
We all remember Leeds implosion after breaking into Champions league. But unless I have missed something, I don't *think* any of my FML team went on a bender and decided to have a rumble at some night club resulting in a court trial. Further more I don't recall, as the manager, writing a fucking book about it,(plus i'm not certain my players would be able to read it if I did) neither do I have any recollection sending my team into financial doom by signing shite players.
Point is, there are generally reasons why teams have a downturn in form. What doesn't happen is... one day, for REASONS UNKNOWN, your team suddenly can't play football any more, a 15 year old doesn't suddenly gain the magical ability to destroy your team, the opposition GK doesn't turn into Spiderman, the opposition players don't gain +10 boots of longshot and the ability to score from 65 yards just by punting the ball somewhere in the general direction of your goal.
Now I try and look back and try to deduce what happened, what has caused this ? Well I did sign a new striker for £1.2m, a 4* reputation 32 year old. But he didn't even play any games, he was signed as cover and to replace someone who I was going to sell a week later ? So does signing one player, who you don't even play in the team, mean your team is suddenly likely to lose every single game ? Who knows... Lets ask Mystic Meg, she can probably give a better indication of what is likely to happen in FML.
This isn't the first time I have encountered this "form switch", it's actually the third time in as many seasons. The first time was the most ridiculous series of events I have ever seen. After storming away and having an awesome first season with returning stars I had about 4 defeats in 50 games. Then suddenly, I think there may have been a full moon that night, my team lost all ability to play football and I literally went 50 odd games with one fucking win... and I was lucky to win that.
I actually put out a challenge in the lobby - first team to lose to me can have one of my players at any price. So the challenges come in, people WANT to lose to me, they are playing their youth teams, stupid tactics and the lot. So now i'm going to win some games... No i'm not... I continue to lose every single bloody game. My previously invincible team can no longer do anything which resembles football. I ended up having to restart and pick a new team because my form was so broken, so then off I go again winning every game in sight.
So here we go again.... I'd actually restart again at the end of this season so I could win some games but alas that would mean losing Franco, so no can do. I'm not even sure the genius of Franco will be able to sort this out.
I'd just set up the outside of the box corner hack but sods law is my only player who can hit a reasonable long shot is my bloody corner taker! I guess I could sign some 16 year old with 1 long shots though, he will probably score 1 in 1.
I'd also suggest everyone starts using this bloody corner routine so it gets more attention and hopefully fixed. Basically you have your best long shot man outside of the area and setting corner man to pass to penalty area (I've not actually tried this properly so this might end up being wrong) will pass to the free man who you can't get anyone to mark without using mark specific (and that doesn't work properly) He scores a 30 yard drive every single game, or takes ball into box and scores from there. With the default tactics no one will mark that outside of the area guy from what I can tell, and even with spending a day trying to sort it manually I STILL can't get ANYONE To mark this guy even with my entire team back for corners. Go on. Try it.
Oh look, i've lost to another youth team while typing this, and my GK has been injured. Seriously... Bring back the old ME. I know I slagged that off, but it was only annoying because the only games you lost you got super keepered and one shot wondered, but at least it made sense. At least the results at some basis in reality...
Oh and #2, despite all this I panned some team 4-1 in the cup, who beat me 6-0 in league the other day. 1-1 to the random-o-result generator.
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Franco!
I nearly forgot the most important news of all. All time legend and hero, Sir Franco has returned to me and is set to play next season. Signed for £500k on a Returning Star option contract and ready to play in FA games next season. Unfortunately the attribute fix doesn't seem to effect players who are on option so i'm expecting quite a big attribute drop next season.
He managed 1966 apps / 946 goals /663 assists / 318 MOTM From MC in his first outing for me in live and is my all time hero. Alas his age also appears to be wrong so i'm only expecting a season or so of Franco genius but he appears to be as good as ever from his friendly outings. Captain, Corner taker, penalty taker, top scorer, top assists, top average, top MOTM and general hero!
Anyway the league is on it's third run now and I finished 2nd in the first two runs. Unfortunately at the end of the last run the ME decided it was time for me to lose every single game and sent me on a run of 1 win in 11 games after previously losing about 2 in 25. The third run has started much the same with 1 win in 5 and I get super keepered or destroyed by youth teams every game now. So from title challenges to relegation fodder in the space of 4 days with nothing having changed at all - because that's something which happens often :rolleyes:
With the quick relegations/promotions i've noticed how many teams just keep getting successive promotions or relegations proving form is pretty much everything as there's not really much difference in the quality of the teams. My team probably deserves to be near the bottom really but somehow managed to finish so high twice. This is down to unexplainable form which I likely gained from playing about 12 home games in a row a couple of weeks ago and winning them all due to the overpowered form you get at your home ground.
So basically it's time to sell the team, sign up some returning stars on low wages and hope the ME will let me start winning some games again once the next season starts properly. But that probably depends if the moon has aligned in the correct position with the sun in time for the March Equinox or something. The good thing is if I lose all my remaining games it might push rep down enough to reduce wage demands.
I did play an interesting game the other day where a 15 year old with 1 technical attribute hitting double figures and most physical attributes in single figures totally dominated my midfield and scored a cracking goal in the process... but the less said about that game the better.
Other good news is my monitor appears to be working properly again after previous rage related incidents and no longer loses display and goes a swirly pink colour. Good times!
Thursday, 4 February 2010
The ME ate my hamster
um, hello ?
So lets quick recap the last 3 months. Rage quit from St John, declare game broken, needs to be reset, FAs need deleting, database needs fixing, aids for new players, joining a new GW needs sorting blah blah, then shortly after the reset is announced and they appear SI appear to have done pretty much everything I suggested.
Found I had access to beta forum so decided to moan about stuff on there for a while, somehow ended up in the beta GW Miller shortly after. Won the NFA Premier League Ladder in my first season, made a few million then the ME sent me on a 50 match losing streak when I bought a regen. Decided my team were a bunch of twats not fit to wear the shirt, rage restarted and signed a new team. Made £3.6m prize money in the next season, won a cup and finished well in the league as well as Silver Cup quarters.
As the beta GW seems to have good mods and orgs someone (Jak mainly I think!) decided to do a proper FA which runs three times per season. We did try and get this going in my live GW 6 months ago but we suggested it on the wrong list or some such and was told it was a stupid idea, anyway it's now one of the templates for relaunch.
So it's my team's second season and I find myself as a level 15 team having finished 2nd in the first run of the league and looking good for a top 3 finish on the second run. So all is good and I have come up with an ingenious plan to make my team ace, which is currently pending failure due my inability to find a striker.
I have also discovered the golden rule for success in FML which returning stars has allowed me to achieve - Never sign a regen!!!! I am database only now. I have one non-regen in my team who I signed in error - he's actually a first season regen so I presumed he was database. I started to have my suspicions all was not right when despite his great attributes for a DR he was constantly making mistakes and costing me game after game. Upon checking, he is indeed a regen !!! I swiftly dropped him for a database player who has far worse attributes and order is restored. I did come up with 5 rules for guaranteed success in FML with the number 1 being never sign a regen - I appear to have forgotten the rest and didn't write them down, which will no doubt come back to bite me in the arse.
Anyway i'm here because i'm angry and Kriss is probably going to ban me from forum or something. Despite the game looking really good now with loads of new positive features the ME is utterly awful. I cannot remember seeing it this bad at any point ever and with every build it seems to get progressively worse. I can describe it in one word "KAMIKAZE!!!!!" Every game is end to end non stop attacking football and there is nothing you can do to lock games down. Clean sheets are barely non existent and even if you are 5-0 up the other team keep constantly attacking you and it finishes 5-3 or something. If you win a game by a large score line you can guarantee the opposition will probably have had just as many shots as you.
But at least corners are fixed these days ? Well..... there's not a corner hack any more, there's actually two different ones!!! It's fairly easy to get around a 60% conversion ratio from a standard into the box corner. Apparently tweaked in a recent build but one of my guys scored 4 in one game this morning and 3 in another. Then there is the one where your players REFUSE to mark the guy standing outside the area and he punts in some random long shot from 40 yards every bloody corner.
I don't think I can come up with the words to describe how truly horrible the ME is at the moment. I'm seeing teams of 15 year olds pass like Xavi, bend it like Beckham and run through my team like they are George Weah when they barely have any attributes in double figures. Then the next game you beat them 8-0. Probably links in with the above about end to end football, but it's highly demented watching a team of 15 year olds dance through your defence like they are not even there.
None of it makes any sense, the results appear to be massively random and all over the place. You are on a nice unbeaten run of 10 games in the league then suddenly you lose 7-0 to a mid table team.
Long shots are hilariously annoying, _still_. They come out of nowhere, it's not like a player makes space or hits a sweet shot after a nice move. They will just be stood there with the ball, under pressure then suddenly hit in a pile driver at 100mph with their weaker foot, when they have long shots 5 and when they are injured, usually in the 96th minute. Long shots on the old ME were a thing of beauty and you saw some very nice goals, now every single one is a "WTF?" moment.... I actually scored an 85 yard volley the other week which was not a fluke.
So in conclusion, they have fixed the game but broke the ME.
Anyway not sure if I will be live after the reset because it seems Sega are making it impossible to get into the GW you want... bizarre.
So lets quick recap the last 3 months. Rage quit from St John, declare game broken, needs to be reset, FAs need deleting, database needs fixing, aids for new players, joining a new GW needs sorting blah blah, then shortly after the reset is announced and they appear SI appear to have done pretty much everything I suggested.
Found I had access to beta forum so decided to moan about stuff on there for a while, somehow ended up in the beta GW Miller shortly after. Won the NFA Premier League Ladder in my first season, made a few million then the ME sent me on a 50 match losing streak when I bought a regen. Decided my team were a bunch of twats not fit to wear the shirt, rage restarted and signed a new team. Made £3.6m prize money in the next season, won a cup and finished well in the league as well as Silver Cup quarters.
As the beta GW seems to have good mods and orgs someone (Jak mainly I think!) decided to do a proper FA which runs three times per season. We did try and get this going in my live GW 6 months ago but we suggested it on the wrong list or some such and was told it was a stupid idea, anyway it's now one of the templates for relaunch.
So it's my team's second season and I find myself as a level 15 team having finished 2nd in the first run of the league and looking good for a top 3 finish on the second run. So all is good and I have come up with an ingenious plan to make my team ace, which is currently pending failure due my inability to find a striker.
I have also discovered the golden rule for success in FML which returning stars has allowed me to achieve - Never sign a regen!!!! I am database only now. I have one non-regen in my team who I signed in error - he's actually a first season regen so I presumed he was database. I started to have my suspicions all was not right when despite his great attributes for a DR he was constantly making mistakes and costing me game after game. Upon checking, he is indeed a regen !!! I swiftly dropped him for a database player who has far worse attributes and order is restored. I did come up with 5 rules for guaranteed success in FML with the number 1 being never sign a regen - I appear to have forgotten the rest and didn't write them down, which will no doubt come back to bite me in the arse.
Anyway i'm here because i'm angry and Kriss is probably going to ban me from forum or something. Despite the game looking really good now with loads of new positive features the ME is utterly awful. I cannot remember seeing it this bad at any point ever and with every build it seems to get progressively worse. I can describe it in one word "KAMIKAZE!!!!!" Every game is end to end non stop attacking football and there is nothing you can do to lock games down. Clean sheets are barely non existent and even if you are 5-0 up the other team keep constantly attacking you and it finishes 5-3 or something. If you win a game by a large score line you can guarantee the opposition will probably have had just as many shots as you.
But at least corners are fixed these days ? Well..... there's not a corner hack any more, there's actually two different ones!!! It's fairly easy to get around a 60% conversion ratio from a standard into the box corner. Apparently tweaked in a recent build but one of my guys scored 4 in one game this morning and 3 in another. Then there is the one where your players REFUSE to mark the guy standing outside the area and he punts in some random long shot from 40 yards every bloody corner.
I don't think I can come up with the words to describe how truly horrible the ME is at the moment. I'm seeing teams of 15 year olds pass like Xavi, bend it like Beckham and run through my team like they are George Weah when they barely have any attributes in double figures. Then the next game you beat them 8-0. Probably links in with the above about end to end football, but it's highly demented watching a team of 15 year olds dance through your defence like they are not even there.
None of it makes any sense, the results appear to be massively random and all over the place. You are on a nice unbeaten run of 10 games in the league then suddenly you lose 7-0 to a mid table team.
Long shots are hilariously annoying, _still_. They come out of nowhere, it's not like a player makes space or hits a sweet shot after a nice move. They will just be stood there with the ball, under pressure then suddenly hit in a pile driver at 100mph with their weaker foot, when they have long shots 5 and when they are injured, usually in the 96th minute. Long shots on the old ME were a thing of beauty and you saw some very nice goals, now every single one is a "WTF?" moment.... I actually scored an 85 yard volley the other week which was not a fluke.
So in conclusion, they have fixed the game but broke the ME.
Anyway not sure if I will be live after the reset because it seems Sega are making it impossible to get into the GW you want... bizarre.
Friday, 2 October 2009
ABORT ABORT
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!
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!
Monday, 28 September 2009
Say you want a revolution ?
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
I think everyone knows I dislike the current FA structures. I don't like the pace, I don't like the anti climax every season - due to the way the league result is usually determined by waiting for AI against an inactive team or some such. I don't like how I have nothing to do most of the time unless I want to play some friendlies ? So what to do ?
The Super FA is the answer.
Step 1 - Delete the Weekly Cup. It doesn't work. The AI dates mean that you often tend to get double AI awarded so one team plays without the other having chance to play. I have nothing against AI whatsoever, but you have to at least have chance to play the game.
Step 2 - Actually just delete everything except the reputation cups because these run over the entire season so the AI dates land better and give the lower rep teams chance to win something.
Step 3 - New competitions!
FML is not an MMO - Why not ? It's Fantasty Football because there is nothing to do most of the time. You pick your team, tactics, then play a few games. This is not the way. I want to have a situation whereby I always have the opportunity to do something, have the chance to win something and play for something. 1.3 AI teams are step forward but are not currently enough. So what can we do within the current structure ? The FAs are governed by fairly strict rules so lets trial things in the Super FA.
I want the following:
The Weekly league - (possibly the 10 day league, so it just runs twice, unsure at the moment) This would first of all be tiered according to reputation. The number of tiers would depend on interest. So lets say we run 2-3 tiers - This means that every 7-10 days a season would complete and restart thus giving you chance to go for a title 2-3 times in a season against a comparable level of opposition. Even if you end up waiting for AI, it's a quick hit!
The Weekend League - Runs from Friday evening until Sunday night. Again tiering would depend entirely on numbers. This would be a quick hit for the weekend managers. This would probably run with smaller numbers - maybe 12 or so per division to give you chance to get the games in.
Quickplays! The most fun I have on FML these days is when I run my weekend quickplays. I tend to run 5-6 teams who play twice and they last around 2-3 hours. I sometimes run a couple of these each day and it's a quick hit but I really enjoy playing them and it's live games. It would be much cooler if there was a Super FA title at steak. Maybe a nightly quickplay ? One on Saturday and Sunday afternoon and or evening ?
Cups Ok So I don't like the weekly cups because they don't really work. While i'm all for tiering I think occasionally the big boys should pay a visit to the little guy. So we have a season long competition. The first stage would be some kind of qualifying competition - perhaps a big league, teams play once, neutral venue. Then it's time to mix things up - Top 10 get split off into their own competition, next 10 their own comp and bottom 10 their own competition - then they play to decide the winner of each cup, gold league, silver league, bronze league etc. Again this means that they got chance to mix it up with the big boys, but then in the same competition they now have chance to still win a title against similar level opposition. (it would be totally pointless to throw games in this instance)
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Ok I need to go to bed now, i'll finish this tomorrow!
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
I think everyone knows I dislike the current FA structures. I don't like the pace, I don't like the anti climax every season - due to the way the league result is usually determined by waiting for AI against an inactive team or some such. I don't like how I have nothing to do most of the time unless I want to play some friendlies ? So what to do ?
The Super FA is the answer.
Step 1 - Delete the Weekly Cup. It doesn't work. The AI dates mean that you often tend to get double AI awarded so one team plays without the other having chance to play. I have nothing against AI whatsoever, but you have to at least have chance to play the game.
Step 2 - Actually just delete everything except the reputation cups because these run over the entire season so the AI dates land better and give the lower rep teams chance to win something.
Step 3 - New competitions!
FML is not an MMO - Why not ? It's Fantasty Football because there is nothing to do most of the time. You pick your team, tactics, then play a few games. This is not the way. I want to have a situation whereby I always have the opportunity to do something, have the chance to win something and play for something. 1.3 AI teams are step forward but are not currently enough. So what can we do within the current structure ? The FAs are governed by fairly strict rules so lets trial things in the Super FA.
I want the following:
The Weekly league - (possibly the 10 day league, so it just runs twice, unsure at the moment) This would first of all be tiered according to reputation. The number of tiers would depend on interest. So lets say we run 2-3 tiers - This means that every 7-10 days a season would complete and restart thus giving you chance to go for a title 2-3 times in a season against a comparable level of opposition. Even if you end up waiting for AI, it's a quick hit!
The Weekend League - Runs from Friday evening until Sunday night. Again tiering would depend entirely on numbers. This would be a quick hit for the weekend managers. This would probably run with smaller numbers - maybe 12 or so per division to give you chance to get the games in.
Quickplays! The most fun I have on FML these days is when I run my weekend quickplays. I tend to run 5-6 teams who play twice and they last around 2-3 hours. I sometimes run a couple of these each day and it's a quick hit but I really enjoy playing them and it's live games. It would be much cooler if there was a Super FA title at steak. Maybe a nightly quickplay ? One on Saturday and Sunday afternoon and or evening ?
Cups Ok So I don't like the weekly cups because they don't really work. While i'm all for tiering I think occasionally the big boys should pay a visit to the little guy. So we have a season long competition. The first stage would be some kind of qualifying competition - perhaps a big league, teams play once, neutral venue. Then it's time to mix things up - Top 10 get split off into their own competition, next 10 their own comp and bottom 10 their own competition - then they play to decide the winner of each cup, gold league, silver league, bronze league etc. Again this means that they got chance to mix it up with the big boys, but then in the same competition they now have chance to still win a title against similar level opposition. (it would be totally pointless to throw games in this instance)
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Ok I need to go to bed now, i'll finish this tomorrow!
Saturday, 26 September 2009
What does a Scott Sinclair buy you ?
I've been going on about how difficult it is to sign any decent youths due to a poor number of good quality players, so here's an example of the normal goings ons.
Decent enough youth with good potential, but was he worth this:
So it cost him around £4.7m for this particular player. Deals like this are far from the unusual! Fortunately he incurred a £1.4m idiot tax.
In other news St John is now open for new users. Come and join the fun, you can sign a great team of old men for nothing who will be useless in a few weeks when 1.3 is released, you could sign some awful youths or you could just save up 5 seasons to buy one decent youth player. Sounds like it's going to mucho fun for the new users going forward!
Wage auctions are on and all of the talent in the GW is locked down except the odd few players with deactivated teams who have now been snapped up. I've found the formula to win wage auctions if anyone's interested (Base demand*Idiot)+1
Decent enough youth with good potential, but was he worth this:
So it cost him around £4.7m for this particular player. Deals like this are far from the unusual! Fortunately he incurred a £1.4m idiot tax.
In other news St John is now open for new users. Come and join the fun, you can sign a great team of old men for nothing who will be useless in a few weeks when 1.3 is released, you could sign some awful youths or you could just save up 5 seasons to buy one decent youth player. Sounds like it's going to mucho fun for the new users going forward!
Wage auctions are on and all of the talent in the GW is locked down except the odd few players with deactivated teams who have now been snapped up. I've found the formula to win wage auctions if anyone's interested (Base demand*Idiot)+1
Thursday, 24 September 2009
The parting of the red sea.
First off, some people may have noticed I deleted my preview of 1.3. While everything posted was accurate and true I decided it was a little unfair once the announcement to delay 1.3 had been made and I had a dev emailing me about my issues with it!
In summary though as it stands today, the new ME is very poor (the new build apparently fixes some of the problems, which I wont go in to - but unless you want to see your GK throwing the ball into his own net every other game, you don't want to play it as it !)
Wage demands for older players are NOT going down at all. You probably wont really have to pay much more than you do now but your not suddenly going to get old players cheap - none of my old men want a lower wage at all. Despite this they have had huge declines in most areas with some losing 1+ in various attributes in less than 7 days - this is with coaching 5 offsetting the decline.
One of the reasons for the 1.3 delay has been cited as "player progression" so i'm not sure if this refers to player regression or the fact most regens are complete arse or not.
Either way it's lose lose for me now. From what I saw on the beta server of my world, it was clear that much of my team had to go. So I have had to sell them for virtually nothing and replace them with shite regens. So if they suddenly decide to do something about regression then i've sold my ace team for no reason at all and no profit. It's not even worth me TRYING to sell some of them... it's like, what's worth more to me? £1 or their 4* rep ?
My favourite memory of FML is of club legend of Franco Brienza being my best player until the age of 36 and him generally destroying most teams single handed. He was my team, he was my captain, penalty taker, free kick taker, corner taker, top scorer, top assists, top appearances, top average, top MOTM, from MC, for about 7 seasons running... why take things like this away! A true legend who finally hung up his boots, after some serious regression I might add, at the age of 36 - I don't find this too unrealistic. Franco now lives on in a WOW char I created ;)
Now I have to put up with players like Bobby Badshot who are shite until they age of 26, average for 3 season, then need to claim disability living allowance by the time they celebrate their 30th birthday. I wouldn't mind the regression issue if there was more than a handful of good regens that were available for less than £5m.
I'm still being punished by my 'rage sale' about 4 seasons ago when I sold my entire team for about a 10th of their true MV. FML really does punish your mistakes - I really should have had the highest financial clout in the GW by now (or top 3) but i'm still living on the bread line. I got by with some nous signing older players that no one wanted, but now even I don't want them! I just can't see any point in signing anyone over the age of 28 any more. FML has been seriously ageist in the past but I was always one of the people willing to sign the old men but now i've joined them! Wasn't 1.3 supposed to stimulate the signing of older players..? Were people really complaining about older players being too good ?
I just can't see where this game is going any more and I just cannot comprehend any of the decisions behind 1.3. I seriously can't see the benefit to ANY of these decisions ? Forget realism for gods sake! think fun, think retention! Why try and compress the database into a situation where most players will only have a few good seasons ?? I'm already bored now I have had to sell my team and buy some chumps... I makes my wince thinking what I have just paid for an average 21 year old DC.
I used to enjoy watching my players strut their stuff and execute their PPMS and all that. Now it's "oh Bobby Badshot shoots over the bar" again.
Me me me - I've heard suggestions about how people only complain when something effects them, but i'm not going to moan about something which doesn't am I ! I've had a few snide comments about how the new ME will be the end of my team and all that... think again fools.
I do want to have a massive moan about how CPU teams are an ace idea but poorly implemented but I think i'll save that for another time.
In summary though as it stands today, the new ME is very poor (the new build apparently fixes some of the problems, which I wont go in to - but unless you want to see your GK throwing the ball into his own net every other game, you don't want to play it as it !)
Wage demands for older players are NOT going down at all. You probably wont really have to pay much more than you do now but your not suddenly going to get old players cheap - none of my old men want a lower wage at all. Despite this they have had huge declines in most areas with some losing 1+ in various attributes in less than 7 days - this is with coaching 5 offsetting the decline.
One of the reasons for the 1.3 delay has been cited as "player progression" so i'm not sure if this refers to player regression or the fact most regens are complete arse or not.
Either way it's lose lose for me now. From what I saw on the beta server of my world, it was clear that much of my team had to go. So I have had to sell them for virtually nothing and replace them with shite regens. So if they suddenly decide to do something about regression then i've sold my ace team for no reason at all and no profit. It's not even worth me TRYING to sell some of them... it's like, what's worth more to me? £1 or their 4* rep ?
My favourite memory of FML is of club legend of Franco Brienza being my best player until the age of 36 and him generally destroying most teams single handed. He was my team, he was my captain, penalty taker, free kick taker, corner taker, top scorer, top assists, top appearances, top average, top MOTM, from MC, for about 7 seasons running... why take things like this away! A true legend who finally hung up his boots, after some serious regression I might add, at the age of 36 - I don't find this too unrealistic. Franco now lives on in a WOW char I created ;)
Now I have to put up with players like Bobby Badshot who are shite until they age of 26, average for 3 season, then need to claim disability living allowance by the time they celebrate their 30th birthday. I wouldn't mind the regression issue if there was more than a handful of good regens that were available for less than £5m.
I'm still being punished by my 'rage sale' about 4 seasons ago when I sold my entire team for about a 10th of their true MV. FML really does punish your mistakes - I really should have had the highest financial clout in the GW by now (or top 3) but i'm still living on the bread line. I got by with some nous signing older players that no one wanted, but now even I don't want them! I just can't see any point in signing anyone over the age of 28 any more. FML has been seriously ageist in the past but I was always one of the people willing to sign the old men but now i've joined them! Wasn't 1.3 supposed to stimulate the signing of older players..? Were people really complaining about older players being too good ?
I just can't see where this game is going any more and I just cannot comprehend any of the decisions behind 1.3. I seriously can't see the benefit to ANY of these decisions ? Forget realism for gods sake! think fun, think retention! Why try and compress the database into a situation where most players will only have a few good seasons ?? I'm already bored now I have had to sell my team and buy some chumps... I makes my wince thinking what I have just paid for an average 21 year old DC.
I used to enjoy watching my players strut their stuff and execute their PPMS and all that. Now it's "oh Bobby Badshot shoots over the bar" again.
Me me me - I've heard suggestions about how people only complain when something effects them, but i'm not going to moan about something which doesn't am I ! I've had a few snide comments about how the new ME will be the end of my team and all that... think again fools.
I do want to have a massive moan about how CPU teams are an ace idea but poorly implemented but I think i'll save that for another time.
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