Biggest joke ever.

I am Reading, about 12 game into the first championship season. I decide to play some games before i go to bed

I beat pompey 5-0 away. Awesome.

I then beat Newcastle (cup 5th round) 4-1, away. Amazing.

Get the best draw for the quarter finals, west brom home.

Am beating cardiff 1-0 away 27mins in. Standard.

Then my computer turns off.

no reason. no power cut. no accidental press of buttons. no nothing.

i lose everything and im back to twelve games in.

Fantastic.

I doubt it, but if i use exactly the same team/tactics i wont win the games again will i?

Probably not. That is real unlucky mate. The best thing to do is to try and leave everything the same and hope for the best.

absolute joke. Burnley lost as well, so i was only 2pts behind top spot now im back to 5

the results wont follow the same path, as if 1 little thing in the save is done differently it can have a knock on effect....bit like the butterfly effect. plus the game is generated based on your in game decisions so i doubt you will make any tacical changes at the exact same points (for example!)

replaying stuff and my reserves lost to palace 1-0. they beat them 2-1 before the switch off.

replaying stuff and my reserves lost to palace 1-0. they beat them 2-1 before the switch off.

Dont worry about your reserves. I know you want to see them do well but if you win your games then thats all that matters.

When that happens, i usually play untill i get the same outcome in every game .. it can't be considered cheating if it was your computer to screw things up

I had the ****ing same thing two days ago, I tied with Man City against Chelsea, I had won 6 duels and I was in the lead against Aston Villa and then my ****ing computer just restarted for nu reason, and i haden't saved the game yet...

I normally power through as it would frustrate me to keep playign the same teams over and over again, I would need to move on lol

Whats most annoying is that it never seems to happen when your on a losing streak, only when you pull off some big results. My old laptop used to oover heat and turn off. As a reuslt I now save after every game.

Just played pompey, won 3-0, ill take it, but it wasnt a patch on the performance my team put in originally. We were shabby, but came away with 3pts, before we dominated and barely let them had the ball. disappointing, but it will have to do... saving...

Suprirsed no one has mentioned it yet but....

That will teach you on using weekly rolling saves.. I had to learn the hard way too. My laptop decided to shutdown on me, as I was winning 2-0 in a winner takes survival match... When I went to replay it I had to replay the game before (first time I won 1-0), this time I lost the game which meant in the last game of the season meant nothing as I was 4 points behind... I won it 2-1

ahh at last, a pleasent suprise, the pompey manager got sacked after the game (as he did previously) and i declined any interest in the job. Also, my u18s put in a great performance against soton winning 6-0 on to Newcastle...

ATW - I do use rolling saves!!!! The didnt help

ATW - I do use rolling saves!!!! The didnt help

not using weekly saves though are you? Maybe monthly?

EDIT> Actually them 3 games could have been in 1 week before it saved.

will change it to weekly from now on, about to play newcastle, will do it after that game

Gary Speed, sacked. He wasnt last night, i liked him

How quick does it take to savew? In the older games in the CM/FM series it took ages to save so I used to only save when I was shutting down or after a massive result.

In the past 2 or 3 versions of FM it has been extremely quick to save, so I do it as second nature now every week after a game or when I think it needs doing

Newcastle 3-4 Reading. Got the result i deserved in added time.

1-0 up after 34mins (hardly the 26seconds i scored before the computer died) but ill take it.

1-1 then 2-1 to me after a penalty

2-2 in 92nd min.

3-2 to newcastle, ameobi scored in the 102nd min.

3-3 simon church bagged a goal off a scramble in the box.

4-3, simon church got another after a brilliant through ball from antonio.

Good result, not the dominance i saw before the comp died. id say im pleased tho.

drew West Brom in the last draw. Drew Chelsea this time. ****. My Carling Cup dreams are over.

I think you'll find that this is the biggest joke ever:

In Plymouth there was a large aquarium, it was the pride of the town and had a worldwide reputation. Despite the decline in the fishing industry the tourism from the aquarium had bolstered the economy and prevented the town from slipping into the local recession that had struck many places along the same stretch of coast.

There were long halls full of crabs and eels and creatures from the deep of every description. All these long halls converged to a large central tank that contained the centre piece of the entire aquarium. Living within this vast tank were some of the oldest and rarest creatures housed anywhere on earth. There was a dolphin with 3 dorsel fins, a large walrus with tusks in the shape of the last 2 popes, a thin frail porpoise that was said to be 250 years old, and a giant squid that was every colour of the rainbow.

It was just last year that a startling thought came to the mayor of the town. He had been on his annual tour to show his appreciation for the aquarium when it dawned on him that there was little or no security overseeing the towns aquatic asset. During a hurried conference with the directors overseeing the facility he demanded that more stringent measures be put in place to safeguard this hub of the tourist industry.

The scheme was an all round winner as not only did it provide the much needed security, it also gave the directors a chance to get themselves in the papers yet again. The mayor turned the whole thing into a political publicity coup by ensuring that five local fisherman who had lost their jobs through the fishing decline all became the new security force at the aquarium. And so it was that Bob, Jim, Geoff, Bernard, and Sid all regularly patrolled the empty halls of the aquarium to ensure that no intruders ever made their way in to steal, disturb or damage the livestock.

A few weeks into the scheme, the tourists began to complain of small bags and wrappers on the floor and left on the edges of the tanks each day. Fearing any bad publicity, the directors quickly hauled in all five security guards and asked them to be extra vigilant in ensuring no people left any litter behind. The guards said that they would do their best. The problem persisted and so the directors secretly installed security cameras in order to track down the culprits. The first morning that the tapes were viewed quickly established that it was the guards themselves that were the secret litter bugs. In a heated meeting, the directors banned all food being brought onto the premises by any staff and the guards had a weeks wages docked from their pay.

Sleeping through the hot summer days and going hungry through the long nights soon began to became a drag. One particularly long night all five guards met near the central tank - hungry, tired, and exhausted.

"I need food," whimpered Bob.

"We could always eat the fish," suggested Sidney.

"Don't be stupid," said Geoff.

"Lets all stay calm," said Bernard.

"I've been thinking," said Jim, thoughtfully.

"Haven't we all," responded Geoff, "there's nothing else to do round here but think. I'm all thunk out."

"No, Look," continued Jim. "Here we all are famished, and there's a snack machine just over there."

"Oh, security guards vandalising the snack machine, that'll go down a treat," said Bob, sarcastically.

Jim sighed. "No one need ever know."

"And what about the camera pointing straight at it?" asked Bernard.

"Aha, but there's no camera pointing at the back of it!" announced Jim.

Sidney looked on in despair. "Do you not think that has something to do with the fact that you would have to walk across the water of the main tank in order to reach the back of it? You idiot!"

"And what would we do with the wrappers?" Said Bob nervously. "There's talk of them searching us all soon, every morning!"

Jim smiled a long cunning smile. "As I said, I've been thinking. We can drop the wrappers into the tank itself, no one will ever see them."

Geoff was only half convinced. "There's still the matter of getting across the water without getting completely soaked."

"I've thought of that, watch this..." Jim walked over to the tank and splashed the water while listening.

As the others all watched in amazement, the prize animals of the aquarium all swam to the surface and made their way over to the crowd of men. Without even blinking, Jim removed his shoes and socks, rolled up his trousers, and then climbed aboard the walrus with the papal tusks. A difficult journey across the tank then ensued, followed by the even more difficult task of unscrewing the back of a snacks machine whilst astride a large walrus.

The pair were soon back safely across and the walrus was rewarded with a Crunchie, which it seem to enjoy. The men all enjoyed a feast of snacks and fizzy drinks and slipped the rubbish into the tank to sink out of view.

The next night, Bob said he would perform the ride as it looked like fun. He rippled his hand in the water and all the animals swam over with a look of pining on their faces. Bob chose the triple-finned dolphin and made his way to the machine. He selected a range of snacks for his colleagues and the dolphin chose a Twix.

The next night was more of the same with Sidney opting to perform the ride and the multi-coloured giant squid choosing a Snickers ice cream.

The following night, Bernard decided to give it a go and took the orders off all his colleagues. He was about to sit on the small frail porpoise when Geoff grabbed him back.

"Don't sit on that ancient thing" snapped Geoff.

"What?" asked Bernard.

"He's right" said Jim. "That creature is over 250 years old and very weak, if we were to kill it by riding it, that would ruin the little scheme we have going here. I say we never use this creature, the others are all strong enough anyway."

So Bernard rode across on the walrus and everyone was happy.

Several months later, after a set of extraordinary circumstances, David Attenborough was sitting in the offices of the aquarium directors. The directors apologised for disturbing his busy schedule and explained that they had discovered something amazing and he was the only man on earth that might be able to explain the event. They explained at how concerned they had become that the level of outgoing snacks had risen sharply and yet the financial takings from the machines had dropped significantly. They had also noticed that the animals in the central tank had become increasingly tired and their appetites had dropped.

They had not connected the two at all at first. However, when they reviewed the footage of the security cameras, they found that nothing out of the ordinary seemed to be happening to any of the machines. Then one of the directors suddenly noticed that during the night something funny seemed to happen near the machine by the central tank. Although nothing seemed to happen to the machine itself, there were signs of large ripples in the water nearby just in view at the corner of the screen. A quick check of that stock record showed that this was the machine that had lost the most stock out of them all.

"And this is why we have called you in Mr. Attenborough, the only explanation we have is that the animals in the central tank are actually stealing snacks from the rear of the snacks machine. We even found that they have hidden the rubbish in the bottom of their tank."

David Attenborough agreed that it was all very exciting and that he would love to help out in any way he could. The directors said they were planning to open up 24 hours so that people could visit at night and watch the amazing creatures perform their daring raids.

Mr. Attenborough wasn't so sure. Too much human attention straight away could frighten the animals and make them stop their nightly snack swims. He suggested that the best idea would be to set up a hidden BBC film crew to film the animals at work. It could be broadcast live across the world and so give the directors the publicity they sought. if the animals slowly got comfortable witha human presence then night opening could follow later.

The directors thought this was brilliant. They also decided not to tell the security guards as the idiots would probably get a bit camera hungry and try and hog the limelight. It was thought best to just to leave the guards to wander round as normal, oblivious to the global spotlight suddenly focused on the central tank. And so it was that on the fateful night that over a billion people worldwide tuned in to stare at the grainy night vision camera shots as the world waited to witness the moment the animals would display their dazzling intelligence tricks in order to find food.

The directors all sat round a TV with the champagne nearby, all ready to toast the 8th wonder of the world right here in their aquarium in Plymouth. Words like shock, disgust, and outrage don't nearly go far enough in describing what the directors felt when they witnessed the hulking fat form of Bernard slump himself onto the rarest dolphin in existence and proceed to waggle the creature across the water before performing a blatant act of vandalism mixed with insider company theft.

David Attenborough was deeply disappointed and annoyed at someone of his age and standing being made to hide in the cold darkness for nothing. The world watching at home found the whole thing to be very funny, but the amusement would only last for one night and it certainly wasn't going to pull the crowds in. The very next morning, all five guards were summoned to hear of their instant dismissal and to explain/plead why the company shouldn't have them all locked up on criminal charges.

The guards selected Jim as their spokesman, as he was the most clever, and besides which, he'd got them all into this mess in the first place. The directors took several minutes to calm themselves down before one of them spoke.

"How? just How? how... How could you?" he finally exploded.

"We're all very sorry. Really, we are." Jim hesitantly replied.

"Sorry? you humiliate this company in front of the entire world and you say you're sorry!"

"Yes. We cannot say how sorry we are."

"We hired you to keep the place nice and you just littered it!"

"We're sorry about that."

"So we take away your messy snacks and you go behind our backs..."

"We're sorry about that as well."

"...And, without a care, you steal from this company..."

"And we're very sorry about that."

"And you selfishly drop your grubby litter into the main tank of the aquarium..."

"Ah, yes, we're sorry about that, too."

"...And you intentionally put the animals at risk. Yes! You deliberately gambled the well being of all five of our rarest specimens, all for your own greed. We could have lost all five of our prize collection through your own very stupid and very deliberate actions!"

"Actually sir, that isn't quite true..."

"What?"

"We didn't do it on porpoise."

That is 1 big post!

Havign read it , it was worth it Maybe a tad too long for an Xmas cracker though

back on topic, I always save before submitting my team as FM often used to crash during games, only if I was winning

Thats huge. can someone summarise

Save every week, then at most you will lose 2 games, probably only 1.

Id like SI to have a save after every game/every week (whichever is less) option to remove scenarios like this.

Save every week, then at most you will lose 2 games, probably only 1.

Id like SI to have a save after every game/every week (whichever is less) option to remove scenarios like this.

They do, its called autosave

They do, its called autosave

They do? Its not exactly explained what that means. if thats true then the OP has no one to blame but himself.

How often does is save after the end of season?

They do? Its not exactly explained what that means. if thats true then the OP has no one to blame but himself.

How often does is save after the end of season?

Go to Preferences > General

Then change the 'Auto save interval' to 'Every day' or 'Every week' or whatever

How quick does it take to savew? In the older games in the CM/FM series it took ages to save so I used to only save when I was shutting down or after a massive result.

In the past 2 or 3 versions of FM it has been extremely quick to save, so I do it as second nature now every week after a game or when I think it needs doing

Doing a weekly rolling save you don't even notice when it's doing it.

Gutted for you, i hate it when that happens. Used to get it alot with FM08 and you never get the same results again.

I have my game set to auto save everyweek now, so if it ever does happen again i will only be a week behind.

That is unlucky mate. Hope you can win all those games in the same fashion second time round

When I realize i had been playing for a while, i save just in case

Go to Preferences > General

Then change the 'Auto save interval' to 'Every day' or 'Every week' or whatever

I know that, thats how I do it at the moment, wheres the option to save after every game?

I know that, thats how I do it at the moment, wheres the option to save after every game?

Oh right, I didnt realise thats what you meant when you posted earliar. Your right, that option is not in the game.

Oh right, I didnt realise thats what you meant when you posted earliar. Your right, that option is not in the game.

Saving every day is too much disk thrashing, especially in longer games.

Saving every week is good but when you play 2 or 3 games a week, you can lose a couple of games.

If they game the option I asked for, youd never lose a game win and would only lose a maximum of 7 days during the off season.

Saving every day is too much disk thrashing, especially in longer games.

Saving every week is good but when you play 2 or 3 games a week, you can lose a couple of games.

If they game the option I asked for, youd never lose a game win and would only lose a maximum of 7 days during the off season.

Relax dude! Its not a game breaker, is it?

Yes it will make the game better but its hardly the priority

Yeah, if it means that much to you you will just have to remember to do it after each game.

Ive had my old laptop crash on me when I was on the play rating screen, so sometimes even saving after a game wont rescue you - sometimes fate is just a complete git!

Relax dude! Its not a game breaker, is it?

Yes it will make the game better but its hardly the priority

Im just pointing out theres no reason to tweak the code so players dont have to lose a single result. it must be a few minutes work to tweak it.

Id work on your mood sensing if I were you.

Yeah, if it means that much to you you will just have to remember to do it after each game.

I do, if I win something, get promoted or beat anyone higher than me in a cup match. Saves getting mad like the OP.

Ofcourse you can lose your HD, Delete your Save, Crack your FM Disc.....

If you're going to be saving weekly, I'd suggest unticking the option to compress saves. Saves time because it doesn't take as long to save but it obviously uses more disk space.

Im just pointing out theres no reason to tweak the code so players dont have to lose a single result. it must be a few minutes work to tweak it.

Id work on your mood sensing if I were you.

I didn't mean the relax literally. I just meant that you need to give it a rest. SI would understand by the first mention.

I didn't mean the relax literally. I just meant that you need to give it a rest. SI would understand by the first mention.

Well the other guy didnt, thats why I had to explain it.

Well the other guy didnt, thats why I had to explain it.

Fair to you

If you're going to be saving weekly, I'd suggest unticking the option to compress saves. Saves time because it doesn't take as long to save but it obviously uses more disk space.

You don't need to with the rolling save option - you set how many save games you want and it rotates saving through those.

Thats huge. can someone summarise

The point of the joke is that it is really long, you read for ages, then there is a rubbish punchline.

Unlucky, Andy.

If it wasn't a rubbish punchline, it wouldn't be good

If it wasn't a rubbish punchline, it wouldn't be good

Purple wombats.

wtf ive just read this thread from where i signed out from

apart from that joke. that was rather pointless and off topic