FM2010 new features - blogs 9 & 10. Starting a new game, and team settings

thankyou

Woah, now isnt that sexy? 9 new screenies.

Nice little competition you sneaked in at the end. How many screenshots were uploaded however, as I can only seem to see 10 and none of them get into the team settings panel?

It gets even better.....really liking the look of how fm10 is maturing

finally

thanks!

I am grateful!

Delighted with the benchmarking performance idea, always gone for either too few (i.e. just english) or too many (i.e. nearly all) leagues on set up in the past.

Great!

It would be nice to be able to save the filters etc so you don't have to make them every time from scratch.

Best new feature there is the custom database option and filters, much less messing around with edt files and no need for the old "load players from" option.

Other improvements are nice touches as well.

Just noticed the calendar at the top of the 10th screeny, nice idea

I don't really get this 'Go To These Screens' feature - can someone explain it to me?

Hmmmm, i think i'll be using the 'set up game manually' option.

so the youth team settings arent in the team settings screen?

Very impressed with that. The new database customiser will eliminate the need for my DDT file which can only be a good thing, and it's also good that there's a pointer to how quickly the game will run with a particular set up.

Maybe it's just me but: "List for loan all players who are offered for loan to other clubs"

I've had to read it several before I understood what it meant.

Best new feature there is the custom database option and filters, much less messing around with edt files and no need for the old "load players from" option.

This is easily the top new feature on my personal "wishlist". It will be great to carefully craft one's gameworld to function as one would like it... providing good processing speed and performance, including the players and types of players one wants throughout a save, adjusting the player pool to provide the desired level of worldwide talent, even providing a way to ensure that all national teams have enough players in the database to make them playable. Love it, love it, love it SI.

ahh ok i didnt notice the scroll bar at the side.

In the blog you said You also get the option of having a friendly match against your reserves to really get to know your players better.

Can you please explain whats new about this since you can already do this in the current game. I do it every pre-season.

In the blog you said You also get the option of having a friendly match against your reserves to really get to know your players better.

Can you please explain whats new about this since you can already do this in the current game. I do it every pre-season.

I would imagine it comes up as option when taking over a club rather than you having to arrange it possibly.

Not entirely sure how you could do the benchmark, but I'm sure someone could make a suggestion.

I was wondering what the stars for performance actually relate to? Maybe, holiday for a season, 1 star would represent 12 hours, 5 stars 1 hour. Not sure if this would work.

Also, 'Computer Performance', is that how good your computer is?

If so, I guess nothing can be said on that until Min Specs are released, but will the approximate computer specs to star rating be announced?

I love it! I think I will still use Gill's EDT file still but the benchmarking screenies and player load count are amazing!

The benchmarking feature could turn out to be a nifty addition to FM...

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Is it too late to include an option to offer for loan by default any players listed for loan? That way, you'd be able to select everyone listed for loan and offer them at once.

Seems like some very nice polishing there. It is definitely looking much more user friendly than before and I like that I can set it up to take shortcuts on the areas that were laborious in previous games and spend more time concentrating on the parts that really matter (which seem to have improved dramatically rather than simple polishing). Overall it is looking great.

My one question goes back to part of what saddlerscott said. I understood the reply from Miles about the benchmarking of the system being difficult to do, based on a number of factors not necessarily related to the pure spec of the machine. However I don't really understand the stars for the game speed. For sure if I run more leagues the game speed will be slower due to more processing, but what does 3 stars represent? Is it significantly slower than 5 stars? I guess some kind of feedback on what the game speed indications mean would be great.

Good read. I like the benchmarking idea, it will help a lot.

Is it too late to include an option to offer for loan by default any players listed for loan? That way, you'd be able to select everyone listed for loan and offer them at once.

That's what DivineOne couldn't understand. It's this basically meaning it's there already.

Are we able to specify which role a loanee would have at your own club when making a loan bid? i.e first team, squad rotation, backup etc.

It is hard to know how valuable the benchmarking thing will be since the games run much slower the more seasons you have been playing. What is an ok speed 2009 will turn into a slow crawl 2025.

Miles,

I wanted to ask you if you could just give us some idea about the next topics in the blogs.

I know you don't want to tell everything and I understand, but just ideas just to make us patient before the game on October. For examples : media, interactivity, training, or other polish topics etc..

Don't worry, it will be between you and me, nobody else will know !

Regards.

Miles,

I wanted to ask you if you could just give us some idea about the next topics in the blogs.

I know you don't want to tell everything and I understand, but just ideas just to make us patient before the game on October. For examples : media, interactivity, training, or other polish topics etc..

Don't worry, it will be between you and me, nobody else will know !

Regards.

For goodness' sake - wait ONE day

Nothing bad to try !

Patience pb with me.

For goodness' sake - wait ONE day

I think the idea is to make us more impatient, not less!

i read the blog(s) today so dont have to wait 1 day for the next blog yay i win

I see 2 stars for computer performance and 5 stars for computer speed... Isn't this a bit strange as far as logic goes? What does it mean exactly?

I see 2 stars for computer performance and 5 stars for computer speed... Isn't this a bit strange as far as logic goes? What does it mean exactly?

There was only 1 nation selected, so it's saying even on a rubbish computer, it will still go pretty fast. The more nations you select, the lower the computer speed rating will get.

That's how I see it, anyway.

It does indeed.

It's not as simple as that. The benchmarking doesn't just take into account RAM and processor, but also how much of each you have left at the time of starting a new game.

Those screenshots today were taken on my laptop. If it was a fresh boot up, I would expect much higher start ratings for computer performance than I had there, as, at the time, I had a load of other software active.

All computers are different anyway. RAM, Processor, Graphics card are just one measurement. Many of the parts inside a computer come into play when benchmarking.

So there is no "1 start represents 12 hours on holiday" or "this spec = x stars". When you play the game, it will benchmark, and tell you the results based on that computer at that time.

Thanks, I appreciate the reply

Thanks Miles for your quick reply,

My aim was not to know exactly which topic will come, I unserstand your position.

I just wanted to know if any shocking news will come or no ( I mean new features not announced at all yet like the "backroom advice" ).

Of course the detail will come when it has to come.

Thanks again.

No

It often changes from day to day depending on whether videos are OK to go live, or screenshots, or whatever. This weeks topics are different to what I originally expected so I'm just doing them as and when.

I think I know what today's is, but until I've seen and approved the video, I can't be sure, even at this time.

I have a question for Miles.

Was the bug with "1 striker, 1 ofensive midfielder behind him" fixed this time around ?

I've posted it after I think the 2006 release, and the last FM release, and it still wasn't fixed.

This bug just kills the beauty of watching 4-2-3-1 formation in action.

ps. Keep up the good work.

There was only 1 nation selected, so it's saying even on a rubbish computer, it will still go pretty fast. The more nations you select, the lower the computer speed rating will get.

That's how I see it, anyway.

Yeah... But we really shouldn't have to guess what it means... This is not half-time talks... (not that we should have to guess there either...).

That's a general problem many features of the series suffer from. There is not concrete information about what something means. Don't let us suffer it while we setup a game too!

can i ask what the recommended setup option from previous FM games was looking at when determining what the setup should be and how that differs from the benchmark feature?

I have used the recommended option in the past but always felt that it was not selecting enough based on the power of my machine.

When you play the game, it will benchmark, and tell you the results based on that computer at that time.

It sounds like one should play a few different saves (or at least holiday a few seasons in a few saves) to "calibrate" the benchmarking system and give it some data & experience from which to draw its conclusions for different league selections and database setups.

What a great idea...finally I should get the best out of my out of date machine. Really excited now!!

new features? what is new about this?! :s