FM2010 new features blogs - no.15, media part 2.

Cheers Miles - Glad to see Press Conferences have been improved with over 500 additions. Should hopefully be much better this year.

New signings press conference sounds good.

Thanks, glad to hear about press conferences for new signings

Glad to see that the questions will be less repetitive this year. I also think that press conferences for new signings will be a great addition.

Sounds very promising There's always going to be some repetition but at least you're trying to add some variety.

I love that media handling stat for players, anything that affects the players mood is great

Sounds interesting, Cheers!

I love that media handling stat for players, anything that affects the players mood is great

I agree, as long as it's possible to properly manage. CM has had problems for a few versions where a player would get concerned over things stupid reasons and you couldn't fix it (ie he's at like 60% fitness and you bench him, he gets ticked off even when you explain why). As long as certain things you say in the media don't get out of control, or you have the opportunity to privately address the concern, I'm happy with it!

How would these instances go?

A player with high media attribute getting praised?

A player with low media attribute getting praised?

A player with high media attribute getting criticized?

A player with low media attribute getting criticized?

I guess either way having a higher media handling attribute would be better?

Specific Answers - that was all it needed, cheers!

http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=149703

Should be looked into consideration.

sounds great, cheers

Out of interest, can we chose which press conferences the assistant manager handles? I'm not really bothered about doing the pre/post match ones, but I would like to be able to do the player signing ones myself.

lol "marmite" feature, come off it.. everyone hated it

From what i have read/seen through these 15 blogs, this looks very very promising. I havent been this exited about a game for a long long time. You better not disappoint :-p

Bring on FM10!

In FM10 will the bit where you can add comments yourself actually make a difference to your save this time or will it be purely cosmetic like fm09 ?

In FM10 will the bit where you can add comments yourself actually make a difference to your save this time or will it be purely cosmetic like fm09 ?

Will probably be cosmetic. It would need more technology for that to work.

lol "marmite" feature, come off it.. everyone hated it

Not sure if this was meant to be funny, but .

lol "marmite" feature, come off it.. everyone hated it

I didn't

Love it! FM 09 is lacking more and more The next month cannot pass fast enough!

Really impressed with the tunings done so far, this will without question be the best FM ever. Great work SI!

However, what i am really anxious about still is the extend to which the delivered match engine will be reliable or not from release, or whether it needs a February-patch again to appear realistic. This to me really makes the difference between success or failure from any releases past FM07.

Sooooo glad press conferences are getting a revamp. Saying that though, i fully expected SI to improve them.

Sorry if i appear unsure about that, i knew SI would improve them.

I appear to be indecisive on this issue!

See what i did there eh eh?

Instead of having a media-handling stat for playing staff, couldn't you have done a little bit of additional coding and used the existing personality attributes?

I already think attributes for 'consistency' and 'big match performance' are sort of shortcut variables, where you could easily use determination, pressure handling, professionalism, temperament, etc with a bit of thought and a little extra coding.

Miles, i don't know if you can answer this but what if we buy a 16 years old player, obviously he won't play every game, we buy him so he can improve and maybe become a great player in the future .. with the new "new signings press conferences" will there be an option to tell the media that that is his purpose on the team? Because in FM0 09 i think the supporters couldn't tell the difference between a player like that and someone we bought to be a first team player.

Out of interest, can we chose which press conferences the assistant manager handles? I'm not really bothered about doing the pre/post match ones, but I would like to be able to do the player signing ones myself.

Agreed. This would be great if you could do this.

The press conference for player signing will be great, intially as repeatition will inevitably appear. However, if I sign two or three players within a couple of days of each other I would hope SI have seen sense to hold just one conference to discuss all three signings rather than have three seperate ones!

Ultimately every question will have a right answer, turning it into an automatic (and quite pointless) exercise in the long run. No one is doing them because it is fun, only to avoid having a morale penalty on the squad.

I really don't see how they add depth and playability to the series. Just because something exist in the real world it doesn't mean it translates well into a game. I guess we could decide who shares a room on the road in FM2011 with morale benefits/penalties. That's not all that far from how press conferences function in the game.

Different questions have different affects on different players and player types. So there isn't a right, and wrong, answer.

Unless it is random, there is. And if it is completely random it is even worse than in FM2009.

Or are you suggesting the whole point of winning this minigame isn't to raise morale/motivation/relationsships? If not, what is the point of it?

I like the new features of the Media, media is a big thing in football and is a must for FM. I hope the press conf are way better so i can do them myself else i have to send my assistent again

It would be good if the players spoke in the 'new signing' press conferences too. Although imagine the embarrassment if he turned out to be one of those 'i'm just using the club as a stepping stone' bastards.

what is the point of it?

This summarises the entire press conferences & talk talks modules.

Hey miles i think we're all in agreement that press conferences needed to be improved and i for one am so glad attention has been given to media interaction for FM2010. 500 questions should definately help break up repetition, and individual answers for every question will make it feel more realistic and relevant for sure. I cant wait for October 30th and hope it silences some of the doubters over press conferences and whether they can be incorporated into FM succesfully. good work guys fully appreciated!

wow fantastic

Yea 500 questions is a big improvement, there must have only been what, 20 or so in FM09?

What would be good is if they released another load of new questions with the january transfer window update to keep them feeling fresh.

Hey miles i think we're all in agreement that press conferences needed to be improved and i for one am so glad attention has been given to media interaction for FM2010. 500 questions should definately help break up repetition, and individual answers for every question will make it feel more realistic and relevant for sure. I cant wait for October 30th and hope it silences some of the doubters over press conferences and whether they can be incorporated into FM succesfully. good work guys fully appreciated!

That's how it works - the "media handling" stat isn't a directly researched one.

Ah, that makes more sense, thanks. I guess the researchers would have mutinied if you'd asked them to provide another attribute score, anyway

Would there be an option for the assistant to attend different types of press conferences for you?

what I mean is, I normally have my assistant automatically go to the press without asking, but with this new signings conferences I might want to go to those. So maybe a separate checkbox for that?

And sometimes when something controversial happens in match, like a penalty or sending off, I want to attend those ones sometimes to vent a bit for what its worth lol, but if the auto assistant is on, it doesn't ask you. So maybe a separate checkbox for controversial events conferences?

It's good to hear that there will be new questions, but I hope there will not be questions like in this press conference:

Is the media handling stat for players visible?

Unless it is random, there is. And if it is completely random it is even worse than in FM2009.

Or are you suggesting the whole point of winning this minigame isn't to raise morale/motivation/relationsships? If not, what is the point of it?

Not random, but not a simplistic 'say x' = 'result y'. That's how the team-talks logic works - it depends on the context and the personality attributes of the individual.

Not random, but not a simplistic 'say x' = 'result y'. That's how the team-talks logic works - it depends on the context and the personality attributes of the individual.

There is still a best answer for every question, no matter how it is designed. The best being the one that gives the biggest sum of motivation/reputation/morale gain for your specific team (alternatively smallest loss) assuming that is the point of the press conference mini games still.

There has to be some sort of rules regarding it and some transparency in how the rules work. If there isn't, it would be a an exercise in pure frustration doing press conferences. So what answer provides the best result will be figured out sooner rather than later.

So once again. Players will learn to pick the best answer for each question. Even if there 500 of them and personalities of your players influence the result of each answer.

Personally I hope they have toned down the effects on morale/relationships/motivation effects of it all. So you can send your assistant and even if he is an idiot, he can't do much damage. In real life press conferences are mundane affairs that have zero impact on anything (with the extremely rare exception). Hope SI strives for realism in this area.

Is the question "which one is Simon Bird" in the database Miles?

Yea 500 questions is a big improvement, there must have only been what, 20 or so in FM09?

What would be good is if they released another load of new questions with the january transfer window update to keep them feeling fresh.

I doubt that they will because of translation issues, but I hope that they'll release a media editor that allows people to add more new questions and/or new responsed to existing questions.

I really didn't enjoy the press conference feature in 09. Couldn't send my assistant either as he made most of my players unhappy.

I'm very enthusiastic that this has now been addressed for 10 though.

Great stuff.

Sounds like a few things have been improved a bit, but come on, you are making up that anyone actually LOVES the press conferences. I just cannot imagine that. And don't quote people from last November who said it after seeing them for the first time.

Sounds good. I am in neither camp in regards to Press Conferences. They do bore me but I don't hate them, nor do I 'love' them.

It's an area I want to get more involved in but couldn't in FM09 due to it's limited scope. Looking forward to the new version.

My main problem with press conferences as they are in 09 is that most of the time you can predict exactly what question you will be asked next.

Hopefully, with the addition of lots of new questions this will have been addressed.

Often I don't even read the questions anymore and just look at the answers and the mildly positive one is the one to go anyway. No thinking required at all.