Custom Player Roles

My favourite new feature for 2010 has been the player roles, and being able to change a MC (for example) from a 'box to box midfielder' to an 'advanced playmaker' with just a couple of clicks, rather than fiddling with lots of sliders in the advanced options. However, I do find the advanced options useful once the broad role has been defined, for example to change the frequency of long shots.

My suggestion is that custom player roles could be saved, so that if the current range of options aren't wide enough users can create their own, without losing the functionality the current system has.

Any thoughts or ideas?

Yeah that sounds pretty good.

Do you imagine it working with the old sliders and being able to save and name them for quick reference - and also giving to other users.

This is good.

We should be able to save individual players like team tactics.

Yeah that sounds pretty good.

Do you imagine it working with the old sliders and being able to save and name them for quick reference - and also giving to other users.

Yeah pretty much like that, the same way that Tactics can be saved and shared on the forums here etc.

I guess it would be a good idea seeing how people do tend to interpret what each role does, or how it should be set up, differently.

Definitely. There should also be a way to have some of the settings stick to the player, even if you move him around, leave him out of the squad for a while, or select him as a substitute.

I could not agree more with this statement. Having the option to swap players positions and keep their settings would be such a useful feature.

This was said a while back - and there was a big debate about it over a good few pages. So if SI will not do it from that thread then I cannot see it in the future unless ot come in FM11.

I don't suppose you have a link to that thread do you Nev? I did a search before starting this one, found a suggestion for permanent player instructions but nothing for player roles.

I could not agree more with this statement. Having the option to swap players positions and keep their settings would be such a useful feature.

Ive been talking about this for over a year now....

I don't suppose you have a link to that thread do you Nev? I did a search before starting this one, found a suggestion for permanent player instructions but nothing for player roles.

Will do my best!

Do you guys mean something like this? If so, then I'm all for that idea.

Yeah, that's the topic. I already explained in detail how I imagine such an option in there - so I'll just say PLEASE, you know it makes sense.

I think my idea's slightly different, in that it doesn't touch the individual player's screen, but is done through the tactics. I've attempted some mock-ups, but my paint skills aren't all that!

This is how the tactics screen (Team Instructions) currently looks, and these are the options I have for my AMC:

Here's how it currently looks on the Player Instructions:

I want to make some changes to how the Trequartista operates, which I do below using the sliders and whatnot. At the top is the option to 'Save', so I can easily change between this custom role and the predefined ones.

I've saved this role as 'Creator', any name will do though! It now appears on the list of available roles like so:

Continued...

Under Instructions is the ability to 'Manage Roles', working the same way as 'Manage Tactics' and allowing them to be be loaded/transfered etc.

Cheers for finding the link by the way!

Cheers Fabio!!! Yes thats the one!!!

Cheers Fabio!!! Yes thats the one!!!

No problem. I would really like that and this idea to be implemented in FM11.

I'm sure I've read through and commented on a couple of similar ideas... all make sense to me!

I'd love to be able to save roles and/or player instructions, sure there's plenty more features to be announced so who knows, it might be possible this year. I won't be getting my hopes up but it would be nice.