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I wish there was a way to tell my players most of my answers in press conferences are sarcastic or just plain lies Like if I were ever actually managing a sports team of any kind, the very first thing I would tell my players in the first team meeting is "never, ever take anything I say to the press seriously."
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Really struggling with Everton Struggle to create chances and the team hate me. Didn't help that I forgot to alter my reputation at the beginning. So a pub footballer took over the team, no wonder they weren't happy. Final straw was a 2-1 defeat at Crystal Palace, a team who are bottom and could not score at all until they faced me. Is there anything I can do to retrieve the situation.? I would just abort it but it is an online game.
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Mar 29, 2020 15:04
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Don’t post Marco Silva’s blog itt
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Mar 29, 2020 15:14
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Sad King Billy posted:Really struggling with Everton Sometimes you're better off pulling your Defensive Line back and then just getting your players to hoof it upfield and get Walcott to run after it. As for playing against defensive teams... eh, I think it is probably too hard in the game. I prefer to go full-press on their backline, but make sure I have a quick defense for the inevitable counter-attacks.
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After years of experimentation, I think I have now successfully deciphered what the various shouts actually mean. Encourage -> Get Complacent Calm Down -> Stand Still and Watch Get Creative -> Turn the Ball Over ASAP Concentrate -> Concede Tighten Up -> Loosen Up Push Forward -> Go Offside Demand More -> Get Carded
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Apr 6, 2020 03:15
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"Demand More" is actually "play better" and every other shout is "get upset and play worse"
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May 1, 2020 11:33
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Spamming Praise is good when your team is playing well and you don’t want them to suddenly gently caress the dog
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May 1, 2020 11:38
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"It would be beneficial to play Gamsgro in a more familiar position". He's got 4 assists, you moron, he's staying where he is.
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May 1, 2020 17:41
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The Mash posted:"Demand More" is actually "play better" and every other shout is "get upset and play worse" I'm convinced that "don't get complacent" actually means "immediately gently caress up and concede a goal"
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May 1, 2020 19:27
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kingturnip posted:"It would be beneficial to play Gamsgro in a more familiar position". He might have had 7 if you were playing him in a more familiar position, fuckwit.
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May 1, 2020 23:34
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grvm posted:Tried to boot up a save from fm2013 and found it's corrupted. The nightmares keep compounding in this hellworld. I'm feeling this hard, my FM2012 save where I have Newmarket Town in the Premier is at a point where it keeps getting corrupted around November 2043. Just tried removing lower divisions from a couple nations and I'm gonna try to power through into January before saving again, here's hoping. 
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May 5, 2020 04:27
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Starting to do well in my online save as Everton. I had a run of very poor form in January, lost 4 and drew 5 against weaker opposition. I changed from a 4-2-3-1 to a 4-1-2-2-1 and my form has reversed. Played twelve, won ten, lost one, drawn one. In difficult matches, I play through the middle, with a DM-S to cover for Gbamin I use as a BWM-S. All of a sudden I'm very competitive and have beaten all the big teams apart from Chelsea, who already did the double against me. The only issue though is that I had to use the official in-game editor, to help out my fellow human manager. The game froze during a match so I had to replay it. He won his match but had both Keita and Salah out for the season. I'd already saved the game after getting results that matched the initial outcomes, so I had to use the editor to wipe out his injuries. Problem is, since then Liverpool's form has been wretched, including defeat to Everton in the FA Cup semis. So now I'm being slyly accused of cheating when the only reason I downloaded the editor was to help him out. Still next season I can make a Champions League push.
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May 5, 2020 14:01
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It's a time honored FM tradition that you will always have to change tactics on January 1 unless you want to never win another match.
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May 5, 2020 15:35
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Anyone have a mod that unfucks MLS rules? I recall some goon ages ago mentioned they were working on/knew about an American Premier League mod that was in development or something like that.
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May 16, 2020 17:55
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Drone posted:Anyone have a mod that unfucks MLS rules? I recall some goon ages ago mentioned they were working on/knew about an American Premier League mod that was in development or something like that. https://www.fmscout.com/a-usa-football-pyramid-fm20.html something like that?
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From The Guardian (who are so poo poo I won't link to directly) via Rockpapershotgun (who are also poo poo enough I won't link to):quote:As big sports organisations are wont to do, Manchester United are getting touchy about the use of their name. The English Premier League have filed a complaint against Sega and Sports Interactive for the use of the team’s name in the Football Manager series. They take issue with how the series may “benefit from an association with the club’s winning culture and its brand values” without actually forking over cash to licence the team’s crest. This seems like ManUre lawyers getting bored during lockdown and trying to find a way to justify their own eye-watering costs. If ManUre get a friendly judge, I can see them getting a ruling in their favour, but I can't see a way that they come out of this without coming across as even bigger cunts than everyone already thinks they are.
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May 23, 2020 01:09
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I'm no lawyer but I remember hearing back when Bethesda and Mojang had their slapfight over the Scrolls game, that trademark law is hosed and if you don't vigorously defend your trademark against even the slightest threat it can and will be used against you in later lawsuits. The fact that it took 28 years for ManUtd to have any issues, all the way back into the Championship Manager days, and that since they've received free copies and used the database for scouting in the past, they can't possibly claim they were ignorant of the fact, means that unless UK trademark law is radically different from the US, that SI and Sega might have a very strong case.
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May 23, 2020 04:19
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Worked for FC Zebre.
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sassassin posted:Worked for FC Zebre. And presumably, if ManUre had asked SI not to include the club name in the game, they would have complied. This just seems like an attempted money-grab.
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Just got FM 20 in the humble bundle and my usual strategy of signing up ton of africa-based player isn't working because every player is uninterested in signing, usually saying this: Even if they're some extremely low reputation player on $120 a week. I'm playing in Poland. It reminded me of a few editions ago when I couldn't sign any africa-based players playing in Germany and it turned out it was due to some sort of database setting making them universally uninterested. So I tried loading up a game in Spain and Germany(Barcelona and Dortmund) and had no problem. Then I tried loading up Legia(most prestigious team in Poland to start the game) and got the same thing, nobody interested. So does anyone have any idea if this is linked to 1) the prestige of the team, 2) the prestige of the league or 3) it's hard coded into a database that no club based in Poland will be able to to sign a player based in Africa? joe football fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Jun 24, 2020 |
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Jun 24, 2020 00:41
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League prestige probably
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Jun 24, 2020 01:42
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Ya chances are it's the league prestige.
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Jun 24, 2020 15:23
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Nah he was right, they still do that poo poo. I think AI squadbuilding and that kind of stuff is way better than it's been, to the point that it's the only reason I still play the game, but I don't get the point of making hard and fast rules like this.
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wtf that's so stupid. Why?
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AlbertFlasher posted:wtf that's so stupid. Why? Maybe their real life scouting in the African leagues is so sparse that they can't get decent reads on players and are embarrassed to have them actually used in a live game, because they rolled dice for their stats.
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Nah it's just a way to get the Polish AI to not sign too many players straight from Africa because if you look at a list of foreign ekstraklasa players it barely happens. They have a ton of African players but they're euro league journeymen, they don't have scouting/agent ties with leagues in Africa. Other leagues that are similar to Poland that do sign more African players don't have that -1 thing. Obviously I still think making random Ghanaians never want to join your club as a player is a dumb way to handle it though.
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Mystery solved, thanks. Yeah that does kind of suck, African players are usually have such low transfer fees and plus it's just fun to stick as many non-european nationalities on your club as possible. I guess there had to be a catch to Poland's really lax registration rules. Hadn't even tried to sign anyone from Asia yet, though did loan Hiroki Abe to lead me to my first top division title
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Looks for pass rather than attempting to score? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtY6PoBTsf4
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what's his vision at? he's got his back to goal when he gets to the ball so maybe he sees the pass but not the open goal?
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lol that just reminded me of the story about the Arsenal researcher who thought that vision literally meant their eyesight so they all had 18/19/20. I think Sass told us about that.
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Not touched this game in 8(?) years. God help me I'm going back in.
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https://twitter.com/nocontextfm1/status/1276295996855726080
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hosed up that people leave the default ukip skin
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Modrasone posted:Not touched this game in 8(?) years. God help me I'm going back in. Honestly to celebrate that the forums appear to have been saved from death in spite of themselves, we should do another Parmos run.
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Tall wingers seem really good in this game  A typical goal highlight is the winger(4-3-3) on the right putting in a cross to this guy standing stationary at the far post and him bopping it into the net over a tiny polish fullback. It really goofy. Sadly I couldn't get him to give up his release clause so he's off to a legitimate league next year
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Been binging for a few days. It's definitely true that if you skip a few versions the game seems really good. At first it seemed a bit bewildering but I couldn't help but smirk when I could see bits of the old game poking through. I like how a lot of the exploity stuff has been addressed and a lot of the stale elements feel a lot more fun now. Plus I have a striker called Mossman, nicknamed Bossman, so I'm happy with this version of FM the videogame.
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I'm dying on my arse managing England on this version. 2 bad wins, 2 draws and 1 loss and I haven't played anyone good. Every game seem to turn into Davy Moyes' night of 1000 crosses as it seems like having full backs push high up will result in that. Even tried using the tactic that won me the World Cup in FM14 but no joy. I was bad at FM19 too, am I broken like Jose? Might revert to default 4-3-3 Gegenpress if I don't beat the Czechs at Wembley. e: I've made some tweaks and we're playing so well and Kane and Abraham have spurned 4 good headed chances in the first 10 minutes so we're definitely not going to win. e2: Hahaha, we started playing badly, I switched to the default 4-2-3-1 Gegenpress and scored immediately. We won 3-0, I guess I should use those default tactics as a startup rather than diving straight in with my own stuff. Or just use them, the one I'm using now is pretty much what I wanted in my head but FM can't explain things properly so my roles and positions were all over the shop. Walton Simons fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Jul 2, 2020 |
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Oh, how's my Euro 2020 going now my tactical woes are sorted? Well, we're playing really well and dominate every game  HOW DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING As an aside, the nerfed crosses are really really obvious. The way wingers wait for the defender to catch up is really jarring and corners are so poor you might as well not bother with them. Even if a cross does get through, attackers very rarely get over the ball or put any power on it. e: Right, that's it. I'm out of Euro 2020:    gently caress off. Just gently caress off. Their keeper is making save after save after save, Maddison misses an open goal. Stones shanks over from 2 yards with the keeper stranded. Sterling misses a one-on-one. Sancho misses a one-on-one. Kane misses a one-on-one. Then of course they score with their only shot on goal. It happens sometimes IRL but I've just had my three most important games serve up weapons-grade FM horseshit like this. FM20 is broken and Miles is a oval office. They sacked me. Good. Walton Simons fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Jul 6, 2020 |
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International play is somehow hard coded to gently caress over a human manager, I've always had the same bizarre lolfm'd results in virtually every international match and your tactics (mate) make no difference. International managing is pretty lame anyway even without the bullshit, it's been a long time since I've bothered with it. e: With the match engine in general, it still has really only a small number of sequences it can display and after you've managed a few hundred games you've seen everything it has to offer dozens of times each. Winning gets boring and losing gets infuriating. I find you really have to use your imagination when watching a FM game, and pretend that botched chance was something other than yet another perfectly weighted 60 yard through ball to spring the striker for a one-on-one he kicks right at the keeper or shanks into the 8th row, and that goal was something other than a surgically precise laser-guided cross from 30 feet up the touchline directly onto the closing winger's forehead/foot. Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Jul 6, 2020 |
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