Football Manager Discussion (and Champo if you want)

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Grimario

Either way, its a good idea. Perhaps scouting can do with a major overhaul as well. I would like to be able to send my scout out (wherever he may roam) with a specific criteria - "pacy fullbacks who can dribble and cross" instead of just adding that as a filter option from the list that gets returned. I want it to be his sole focus, not giving me names of midfielders and strikers I am not (and won't ever be) interested in.

Can't you already specify what you want with the filters?

I.e You'd set the position as defender left or right. Crossing 15, dribbling 15. etc etc.

[son_of_foley]

Originally Posted by Torn

There's the new STAFF MEETINGS that have loads of comments like that.

Excellent. Not a major thing and I don't want the assistant manager to do everything for me but sometimes when it comes to partnerships I don't get why he picks a certain front 2. I often think stats-wise the two I've picked are far more compatible with my side

[Torn]

Ok so I draw FULHAM in the League Cup, the twats. Then this happens.



YEEES! FUCK YOU FULHAM.

So then I go to the news screen



WHAAAATTTTTTTT Ridiculous. I am holidaying this fucking match until I win now as this is stupid.

[Torn]

That's better. Fuck you, FOOTBALL MANAGER for stealing my wins.

[BBF]

There was a bug like that a few years ago. More often than not if you won on penalties the news screen said you lost. I remember almost chucking my pc out of the window when it happened in the Champions League Final and I had to go back three months

Regular save points FTW.

[Torn]

I save before every match now after the game crashed mid match in my first season and I had to replay a few matches.

[turdpower]

If you're on a bad run sometimes going back a few months can be helpful

[Torn]

To be fair I think I did come out with better results than I before

[Alf]

I think it was 2006 that used to crash on me all the time so I got used to saving before every match.

[Grimario]

Originally Posted by Fanny Batter

That was on ULTIMATE SOCCER MANAGER wasn't it? How much do you want the burgers to be, how large to make the cokes and what to have on the advertising boards. Did have bunging though so it was pretty good.

Ahaha, yus! How much salt you put on chips (more salt = thirstier! too much salt = tastes bad!) and how much ice you put in your soft drinks (cold = good! too cold = too watery + loss of flavour!)..... is that the one where you could bribe match officials and bet on games?

Originally Posted by son_of_foley

I enjoy it the way it is but I know a few people who find it heavy going to get started these days. That and the press conferences etc put some off.

One thing I would like is if your assistant manager when rating your squad would sometimes say you have no pace or you have no real height at CB you're going to be susceptible at set-pieces. Not because I need it but I think it's a genuinely realistic thing or just even we're not scoring from set-pieces often enough maybe you should think about changing things up

As Torn has said, they have a staff meeting thingie now. When you first start, your ass man pulls you aside and tells you how you rate in terms of height, age, dribbling, determination etc in regards to the rest of the league and you get the same thing before each match - "Ass Man Joe Bloggs thinks we have a significant height advantage over opponent and should use this to our advantage"... also gives you information about the tactics they play and what tactics work well against them New staff meetings = tops.

Originally Posted by Alf

Can't you already specify what you want with the filters?

I.e You'd set the position as defender left or right. Crossing 15, dribbling 15. etc etc.

You can, yeah... but I don't think you can set it as the scouting criteria, only a filter on whatever players the scout ends up finding. I want to be able to send them out with the only players they are scouting being those that meet my criteria.