Comments on: I want a forward, a midfielder and a defender

By: LUIS MARTINEZ

LUIS MARTINEZ — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:10:29 +0000

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CONSIDER MESSI U REALLY SHOULD I HATE MANCHESTER UNITED AND I HATE ARSENAL ARNT YALL TIRED OF COMIN IN 2ND AND/OR 3RD WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS ITS TIME TO GET OUR CROWN BACK WE NEED TO SHOW THE WORLD WHAT WE CAN DO I AM 16 AND REALLY WOULD LOVE TO PLAY FOR CHELSEA FC PROFRSIONALLY JAJA WELL LETS BECOME CHAMPIONS YET AGAIN
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By: Gun The Blues

Gun The Blues — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:50:19 +0000

NO, no ,You got it wrong

What i am trying to say is that it is all set up.

You need not care about the settings(about the strength and the weekness’),it always gives you a chance

By: UP CHELS

UP CHELS — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:35:05 +0000

LOL…

By: blue_victoryAUS

blue_victoryAUS — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:56:56 +0000

It’s alot easier said then done. BC. Once I start I cannot control myself.

By: Blue Champion

Blue Champion — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:07:35 +0000

BLUE_VICTORYAUS

The problem with FM is that it is so addictive that you play it all day all night and actually get an overdose of it. May be you should play the game like I do. In a week, I would play about 3 - 4 FM hours only. And never play for long stretch of time (say 6 hours at a stretch or something).

By: blue_victoryAUS

blue_victoryAUS — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:37:36 +0000

You will find that at the start of the season you are happy to tweak the tactics of each player and even set individual half time and full time talks to players. However as the season progresses you will find these tasks tedious.

Each new version of the game I await with high anticipation, however about 3-4 months in I don’t play anymore.

By: megan

megan — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:02:35 +0000

good response BC . . amen

By: Blue Champion

Blue Champion — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:49:39 +0000

I know it won’t. That’s how it is in real life too. For each player there are some strengths and limitations. If you can make the best use of your players’ strengths and expose their weaknesses as little as possible, you can win great things with average squads too. It’s like having a good defender with 15+ ratings in all key areas except tackles where he s just 10. If you set him to hard tackle more often, you’re not getting the best from him. May be he is better, in blocking, jumping, heading and soft tackles but not so much in hard tackles. Say someone like David Beckham who is strong in crosses and weak in dribbling, should not be set to ‘run with ball’ or ‘make forward runs’. He can be set to ‘hold the ball’ and ‘cross often’ to the head or feet depending on the target man’s strength.

So what I’m trying to say is, you can completely screw up a very good team with your bad tactics while you can achieve with average team with spot-on tactics.

Also there is concept of consistency. Somebody with a 14/20 rating with a 18/20 consistency rating is far better than someone with a 16/20 rating with 12/20 consistency rating. Further more when you set the creative freedom for your team at anything above zero, there are going to be cases where they do things on their own to surprise, pleasantly or unpleasantly.

Once again, I’m fine if it does not always work to my plan because that’s how it is in real life too. If it works 7/10 times or 8/10 times I’m fine with it. The trick is to realise when it is not working to your plan and do something about it to minimise the damage. Sometimes, we forget to realise that there is an opponent (human or computer) who can out-think us and make our tactics go waste. Finally, remember that all games are based on random numbers and that’s why they are interesting.

By: Gun The Blues

Gun The Blues — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:46:58 +0000

Believe Me BC

Football Manager DOES NOT work based on your settings all the time.Sometimes it just happens.Just with a half decent squad you can always win the title too.

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By: Blue Champion

Blue Champion — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:46:58 +0000

Hey Nubskeh! I don’t want to sound like I score six goals week in week out. It just happened. In fact, I’ve scored six only a few times. That’s why I said 3-1 or 4-1 would have been a reasonable score. As regards settings, I set individual settings for most of the players, including micro details in attacking and defending set pieces. May be I hit the sweet spot somewhere!

By: Nubskeh

Nubskeh — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:16:14 +0000

Congrats, BC. In all my days in FM I don’t think I’ve beaten Man Utd 6-1 haha. Although I did beat them 6-4 with West Brom. Still not as good.

What instructions are you setting? I have trouble with this sometimes, because although I can get the goals I find I sometimes conceed more than necessary.

For players, I recommend Sergio Aguero. Absolute gun, in FM and in real life. Hopefully you get Alves, he is quality. And Modric or Riquelme would do great in the side, although when Ballack gets fit you might have too many central midfielders with Essien, Lampard, Ballack, Mikel, (Makelele and Sidwell if you ever would use them), and then your signing.