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Mrenda posted:So my Celtic Nations League database is going well. Attracting a decent level of Steam weirdo. Is it a local rivalry thing or something? Nantes always want to keep Brest small?
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 21:47 |
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# ? May 8, 2024 06:55 |
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I’d never keep Brest small, personally
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# ? Apr 1, 2024 23:53 |
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Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:I’d never keep Brest small, personally I see what you did there. Content: Just finished a nice little Carabao Cup run with QPR in 2025, beat Man City in the 3rd round and another Prem side before going out on penalties in the quarterfinals to a still-in-the-Prem Leicester. Lost on penalties on a 5th round panenka by Harvey Barnes.
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 00:29 |
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Posted on Reddit hoping for some help as well. I'm kinda perplexed. So I'm playing in my first season as KRC Genk on FM24 and out of nowhere, a U19 team was created. No email or anything, it just showed up in my Dev. Center. The U19 team is completely empty with 0 staff and 0 players. I already have a B team (Jong Genk) playing in a lower level and a youth team (U18). What the heck do I do with this team? Trying to look up info and I see that some people have had a similar thing happen and it's because my team got invited to a youth cup (Viareggio Cup Coppa Carnevale) and it needs to have a U19 team. I wanted to do a youth academy focused save so hurray for another team but now I'm confused as to how to handle the U19 squad? As far as I know, the U19 squad is only set up for the Viareggio cup. It doesn't participate in any other leagues. I would just take my U18 team and play them on my U19 team but the youth league runs at the same time and conflicts with the cup. I'm just starting out in the save so I'm not exactly flush with cash. I don't want to waste signing an entire coaching staff and filling out the roster (while transferring some guys from my U18 team) just to play a few games and then have the team do nothing? I am not totally sure how the U19 team would affect development vs my U18/B-team. It's also super weird because some options that are usually there, don't exist. There isn't a button to delegate anything as there is for my other teams. Does anyone have some advice with how to handle this? I tried googling for similar situations but struggled with finding answers. Because of the money issue and the tournament is a few months away, I don't know what would happen if I just ignored the team completely. EDIT: I guess I just needed to advance a few days and the menus started appearing. My Technical Director started hiring some Staff and the delegate buttons showed up as usual. Still doesn't exactly give me a hint on how I should manage my U19 vs U18 team for future comps though, unless by next season they'll be signed up to a new competition, in which case this is quite the boon for a youth focused save. Xtanstic fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Apr 7, 2024 |
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Contract negotiations are so dumb. The board and fans both have an A+ opinion of me, as we're headed for our 3rd successive promotion, the next-lowest paid manager in the league is on twice as much as me, I have six months left on my contract and the club is making mad bank, but they won't offer any more than a 20℅ pay rise or less than a 2 year deal. If I try to bump them up even £100 / month they flip their lids. Yet you know that as soon as they need to hire a replacemeny, they'll offer them stupid money. I'm on less than the U21 coach they just hired. Guess I just see out the season and see what they offer once my current contract lapses.
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 12:48 |
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A tale as old as time. Their offer won't change when your contract lapses, unless you've been promoted or newly qualified for Europe by then.
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 12:54 |
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That's annoying. What if I leave and apply for the position as soon as it falls vacant?
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 13:00 |
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I haven't actually tried in years, but when I did back in FM18 or whatever it spit out a "We are not currently interested in interviewing you for the manager role since you just recently vacated it" message. You'd think the game was coded by Americans, seeing as how the only way to ever get a meaningful raise is to change employers. Look on the bright side though, your salary doesn't actually do anything in the game.
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 13:04 |
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Eric the Mauve posted:I haven't actually tried in years, but when I did back in FM18 or whatever it spit out a "We are not currently interested in interviewing you for the manager role since you just recently vacated it" message. Yeah, that's what I figured. Oh well, guess it's probably time to move clubs. Getting fed up of seeing this chairman's face anyway.
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 13:14 |
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does your salary actually affect anything in the game?
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 17:23 |
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It does not. SI claims if you make more money than your players they're easier to keep in line, which is both false and mostly irrelevant since your good players will always be making more money than you. (There is such an effect, but it's minor and tied to reputation, not salary.) There's also a vague claim that having a high salary makes the board more reluctant to pay you off to sack you but there is no actual such effect. Probably one of those deals where it's in the code but the effect is drowned by other factors and SI never cared enough to tweak it. Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Apr 13, 2024 |
# ? Apr 13, 2024 17:34 |
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I used to always ask for the minimum possible salary because it means more money for other parts of the club
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 19:52 |
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Vegetable posted:I used to always ask for the minimum possible salary because it means more money for other parts of the club I lower it and extend the contract duration so I have to deal with it less often
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 20:44 |
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You get cheevos for earning £1m total career earnings and another for £10m. At least on Steam.
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# ? Apr 13, 2024 22:57 |
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just had a champions league tie against bayern, their keeper got injured in the last minute of extra time so thomas muller had to be in goal for the shootout i'll let you finish this story off for yourself
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 14:11 |
I've taken a few short cracks at FM over the years (which petered out since I uh don't follow football) but I like Out of the Park a lot and management in general so I picked up FM24 in the last sale. Started with Dusseldorf, with the intent of starting over in the Celtic League someone here made if I ever got a grip on things, but now I'm like 10 games in and starting to recognize players on the field and what they're doing and now I'm attached to my boys and am very proud of them when they do something good. Maybe I'll just wait until I get fired, which I'm sure is inevitable because if OOTP is any indication I am going to spend this organization straight into a hole in the ground by not at all understanding contract negotiations. Squiggle fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 17:10 |
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Squiggle posted:I've taken a few short cracks at FM over the years (which petered out since I uh don't follow football) but I like Out of the Park a lot and management in general so I picked up FM24 in the last sale. Started with Dusseldorf, with the intent of starting over in the Celtic League someone here made if I ever got a grip on things, but now I'm like 10 games in and starting to recognize players on the field and what they're doing and now I'm attached to my boys and am very proud of them when they do something good. This is the latest and hopefully last link/upload of the Celtic League. FM did all kinds of shenanigans with updates in February/March then another update without increasing the DB version number. Of course the problems this caused with my DB versions must have been down to my tactics, mate. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3223131358 If you want an easy team to manage Kerry in the Lamb League should really be about 3 or 4 leagues higher. There's a gently caress up somewhere in the DB meaning I can't start them at a higher division without crashing it. Should be very handy for learning the ropes.
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 21:12 |
And thank you so much for making that! I have a soft spot in my heart for Wales and Ireland especially and without any attachment to the big-money European orgs, it's nice to have something familiar I can latch onto. One thing I wondered - should I also include Wales, Scotland etc. in my new game selections, or is choosing Ireland all I need? Edit: well and England and Germany etc for a robust Europe Squiggle fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 21:47 |
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Having the 5 big European leagues at least on minimum for the top division is pretty good I find (from previous FMs, haven't played the last version). Spain, Italy, England, Germany, France. Then add the leagues you want to play. If you can / want to, go 1-2 leagues lower with them (championship/league 1, Serie B/C, etc.), and/or the next "top tier" European countries like Portugal, Netherlands, ?Russia, ?Ukraine, ?Turkey, Belgium, Croatia (let the vibes guide you)... This is good if you intend to start in lower leagues or in less fancied countries like Austria, Serbia, Sweden. Imo, adding Argentina, Brazil and other leagues around the world is only useful if you intend to play these leagues or you're a power player who is going to minmax scouting and all the other slightly not realistic things that FM does.
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 23:06 |
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Or if you want the World Cup to ever possibly be won by a non-European team
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 23:23 |
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Squiggle posted:And thank you so much for making that! I have a soft spot in my heart for Wales and Ireland especially and without any attachment to the big-money European orgs, it's nice to have something familiar I can latch onto. Ireland is plenty enough out of the leagues that were moved to the Celtic Leagues system, so you don't need to load Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Their national teams should still pull from the regular teams entered in the Celtic Leagues so they'll be "balanced." I included Wales, Scotland, etc. domestic leagues in case someone wanted to see what happened if you filled all their actual leagues with really crappy amateur teams, so there's no need to include them if you don't want to. It was just for completeness. Everyone else is correct though. FM absolutely cannot deal with balancing the game world where certain leagues are loaded, England, France, Spain, etc. and others aren't/ As well as all the rest. Especially as the years go on and you're relying on newgens. Worse again is that without the leagues loaded they're just comparing the most basic statistics in the game engine and not actually using the full game. Africa has one nation in the game, and it's not even the best football nation. It's bollocks. The worst, however, is that an abstracted comparison is all the "match engine" for other leagues is doing unless you go into "Detail" or "Detail Level" (?) in the menu options and set everything in a league to be fully simulated. Unless you do that it's not running the "full" FM engine for games, development of players, etc. FM is a horrific mess of shortcuts where it pisses me off no end that you have giant (by niche creator audiences) claiming to have insight into it. Unless you have a literal supercomputer you're not even showing what FM can fully manage, let alone "the truth" behind the engine. All those videos about 1,000 YEARS IN THE FUTURE! are pure clickbait. You'd get similar results putting a weighted assortment of club names in a hat.
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 18:11 |
That's wonderful info, thank you! Since I have a godly computer, I've queued up a bunch of league changes in my current game (I can't abandon my sweet Dusseldorf boys now, they're doing so well!) that will kick in next season and add a bunch of leagues to the save, and am planning to fully sim at least the top level of each nation I added. I'm hoping two star performance isn't relative to my PC's stats or something.
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 21:33 |
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Squiggle posted:That's wonderful info, thank you! Since I have a godly computer, I've queued up a bunch of league changes in my current game (I can't abandon my sweet Dusseldorf boys now, they're doing so well!) that will kick in next season and add a bunch of leagues to the save, and am planning to fully sim at least the top level of each nation I added. I'm hoping two star performance isn't relative to my PC's stats or something. From what I know most people play on half-star rating. It hasn't been updated for ages to take into account newer computers. I'd guess it's for minimum spec computers and doesn't scale. The running things on full detail will slow things down though as it's processing each match in greater detail. Just loading leagues won't make too much of a difference outside of season turnover dates, major transfer window closing dates, etc.
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# ? May 1, 2024 07:53 |
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Look, if I can't read a full novel on the first day of the summer transfer window, that just tells me I can add more leagues to the game.
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# ? May 1, 2024 23:19 |
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I run both long saves and a lot of leagues on full detail. Takes about 2-3 minutes to sim through a weekend, and the file size reaches 1GB about 2033.
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# ? May 2, 2024 00:07 |
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look, 5-10 minute processing breaks are a perfect time to do my actual job
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# ? May 2, 2024 02:18 |
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If you're not playing the game in real time it's kind of cheating. 90 minute games, obviously. There is no "continue" button: e-mails, player conversations, results from other games, everything happens in real time.
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# ? May 2, 2024 09:26 |
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Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday-Monday-Wednesday is a fun run of matches for my Athletic side, thanks Champions League semi-final at either end, Barcelona, Sevilla, Sociedad in the middle. I think we might not be making up that point on Real Madrid that we need to win the league this season
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# ? May 2, 2024 14:32 |
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sebzilla posted:Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday-Monday-Wednesday is a fun run of matches for my Athletic side, thanks Sounds like exactly the kind of schedule you'd expect a team threatening Real's place in the food chain to be handed.
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# ? May 8, 2024 06:55 |
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Eric the Mauve posted:Sounds like exactly the kind of schedule you'd expect a team threatening Real's place in the food chain to be handed. True enough. Went WWLDD in the end so the league is gone but we do have a CL final against Liverpool to look forward to!
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