FM2010 blog 19 - some rules, awards and history improvements

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/blogs/football-manager-2010/Football-Manager-2010-new-features-blog-Day-19-New-rules-awards-and-history-article173781.html

cant wait now

Nice, cant wait either

Must. Have. Game.

I'm having a problem accessing the site.

Can someone please post it on here?

We're not allowed to Bardock.

We're not allowed to Bardock.

Oh well.

I suppose I can check it out once my internet starts working properly.

Thanks.

you say "So there are just a handful of some of the new rules, awards and records in the game this year. You’ll get the chance to see lots of others yourself at the end of next month!"

Do you mean the end of october when the game is out or is something special going to happen on wednesday that no one knows about???

I'm off to the shop now... (I'm joking its 1am here)

Sounds great. Would there be any way to change the amateur status of a club? I can't imagine a club that always stays amateur would stay amateur if they got promoted up through a few leagues.

When the game is out i'd imagine Reddevilsrule.

End of next month would be end of October, so yeah, when the game comes out.

Liking the aggregate transfer fees

Nice, but nothing particularly huge there. Like the sound of improvements to team talks etc tomorrow - they do get very dull very fast...

Sounds great. Would there be any way to change the amateur status of a club? I can't imagine a club that always stays amateur would stay amateur if they got promoted up through a few leagues.

I agree. I dont understand the point of this feature. Why waste time implementing features that are detrimental to the gameplay.

you say "So there are just a handful of some of the new rules, awards and records in the game this year. You’ll get the chance to see lots of others yourself at the end of next month!"

Do you mean the end of october when the game is out or is something special going to happen on wednesday that no one knows about???

Wednesday would be the end of this month.

All sound good, mostly fluff . Sometimes fluff is good though.

Queens Park (for example) would never give up their amateur status in real life, so it's a good addition IMO. I'm all for added realism.

Miles, has the European Champions Cup & Euro Cup been updated to include the 'exceptional player rule' when registering 3 replacement players in February for the KO rounds?

UEFA currently allow clubs to register 1 player (from the 3) who's played for another club in Europe that season, but not in the same competition. FM currently excludes everyone who's played European club football for another club in that season.

Would be a very welcome addition for lots of top-flight gamers as we often sign players in January who we'd want to register, but can't do so.

Thanks for the update.

The new features are kind of underwhelming to be honest. I mean yeah it's great that this has been updated, but it's hardly worthy of a whole blog. Don't get me wrong, i'm still buying the game (already pre-ordered) but does something this, well to put it bluntly, simple, need a whole blog?

The new features are kind of underwhelming to be honest. I mean yeah it's great that this has been updated, but it's hardly worthy of a whole blog. Don't get me wrong, i'm still buying the game (already pre-ordered) but does something this, well to put it bluntly, simple, need a whole blog?

Yes, why not? There have been a previous 18 blogs aswell so i dont see why the new rules shouldnt get a mention.

The new features are kind of underwhelming to be honest. I mean yeah it's great that this has been updated, but it's hardly worthy of a whole blog. Don't get me wrong, i'm still buying the game (already pre-ordered) but does something this, well to put it bluntly, simple, need a whole blog?

You get a new blog every day. Do you really expect their to be an array of incredible new features listed in every single one?

Miles, one of the things i've been wanting (and requesting) for years is a manager summary page more like the one clubs have at the moment so at a glance i can see my all time top scorer under me (for whatever team i'd managed), the team i've had the most points points with in a season ect. It could also include stats like number of promotions and relegations. I hate having to scroll through hundreds of entries to see your real achievements amongst loads of entries like 'knocked out in FA Cup fourth round'..

There should be a better summary page for players too. It would be nice to click say on a famous player and see at a glance on a summary page things like: 2 times world player of the year, 5 times top league goal scorer, 6 league title medals ect. Sure you can click on his history and see his acheivements but having them nicely summarised would be a great touch in my opinion. The information is already in the game, just needs to be presented to us a bit better.

Sounds great. Would there be any way to change the amateur status of a club? I can't imagine a club that always stays amateur would stay amateur if they got promoted up through a few leagues.

I imagine that this will only apply to a few clubs like Corinthians, who regard playing to Victorian standards of the game more important than winning trophies, all the better for them. A club like that would refuse a promtion rather than go semi- or fully prfessional, something Corinthians have actually done.

I have to admit, the features today aren't really features, just things to make the game correct

Given the brief mention of player histories is there any chance the the "polish" has extended to cleaning them up? Ie if you have a long game they don't a) look like a mess (I have always felt loans should be a hidden line under the parent career line - a bit like grouping on excel) , b) possibly end up with several rows of zeros because they played an international game that doesn't merit a career entry before being transfered (filtered career history i.e user defined levels of what constitutes a career) or c) additional tabs for career details - transfer, loan histories, and so on??

I am seriously hoping that it has been improved because for me it has always been the fly in the ointment - never game threatening but really damn irritating!

....as above....

Would like to hear about FMH as well.

Great stuff for FM though.

Macflyer, there is a thread with FMH annoucements in the FMH forum. I believe that there is going to be a blog at some point explaining more about these.

There should be a better summary page for players too. It would be nice to click say on a famous player and see at a glance on a summary page things like: 2 times world player of the year, 5 times top league goal scorer, 6 league title medals ect. Sure you can click on his history and see his acheivements but having them nicely summarised would be a great touch in my opinion. The information is already in the game, just needs to be presented to us a bit better.

I do this by putting all that sort of info in the players 'notes' section..

a bit of a pain because you have to organise it, but when its done, its useful information!!

Hi,

Dunno if i'll have an answer from SI, but will the reforms revealed by Platini a few weeks ago (the "Financial Fair-play") be included in the new rules for FM2010 ?

Thanks

Sounds great. Would there be any way to change the amateur status of a club? I can't imagine a club that always stays amateur would stay amateur if they got promoted up through a few leagues.

The classic example is Queens Park in Scotland. They have been recently promoted, but its in their statute that they will never go professional.

Hello Miles,

Will be changed european championship's format from 2016? UEFA approves 24-team EURO from 2016:

http://www.uefa.com/uefa/keytopics/kind=64/newsid=754190.html

Great news about the team talk improvements.

With the history improvements does the game now record all appearences/goals rather than just the ones in the league??

Got concerned by this:

"Amateur clubs that would look to go semi-professional or professional in real life if they were to get promoted now do so, but clubs that are specified as always being amateur stay as amateur forever."

Does that mean that i can't take a lower-league club for bottom to top?

You can, but teams who IRL will never go from amateur to semi pro or pro will do the same IRL.

So you could take Team Suckish from bottom to top and turn pro, but not a team who for historical reasons stays amateur i.e. Corinthians (England)

"Aggregate transfer fees have now been added to player histories to show the total amount of transfer fees a player has moved for in his career."

Good stuff - who's the highest? Anelka maybe?