How do YOU cope with frustration on this game?

I just drew to Tottenham because of a Goalkeeping error, and my hugely creative team doing nothing. Then I lose to Man U because Sergio Ramos gets beaten in the air by Guardado (7 heading 7 jumping), whilst my team again does nothing.

Then I have Peterborough in the cup. We win 5-0 but my star Centreback get injured for the 3rd time this season. Out for 3 months again, at the business end of the season.

I just had enough and closed the game. Can't be doing with it. Feel bad now though

Sheva are you trying for a record of how many threads you can open in a week lol

I was in my fourth season, doing well. My job was stabel, I lost one game and was sacked, no warning.

I started a new game because I couldn't get a job, same team, same players, can't buy a win now, same tactics.

How does the new game know my old game tactics?

When I'm feeling frustrated, I go play an online shooter or something in which I have more control over the play of the game. The reason this game gets so frustrating is because you don't have actual control--you're very limited really in how you can affect the gameplay. So I find playing something in which I have control of everything that I do on the screen is very rejuvenating.

That and the drink.

I dont play it, its the best way.

Go for a fag & a brew

yup, have a fag, take a breath and look at it again from a fresh perspective!!

See the girlfriend

Turn it off

I like to throw things. And curse. Curse and throw things.

You obviously just don't have what it takes to be a football manager. Or cope with Real Life [TM].

You obviously just don't have what it takes to be a football manager. Or cope with Real Life [TM].

and your using a computer game to justify yourself

Won both games after I restarted it. I feel dirty. My star striker is out for a month still though.

I am getting ridiculously unlucky with injuries these days.

I just drew to Tottenham because of a Goalkeeping error, and my hugely creative team doing nothing. Then I lose to Man U because Sergio Ramos gets beaten in the air by Guardado (7 heading 7 jumping), whilst my team again does nothing.

Then I have Peterborough in the cup. We win 5-0 but my star Centreback get injured for the 3rd time this season. Out for 3 months again, at the business end of the season.

I just had enough and closed the game. Can't be doing with it. Feel bad now though

Easily fixed, RELOAD

Take a deep breath... it's all I could do when I had a player, who had recovered from an injury only the day before, complained that he was getting no game time, then asked to be transfered after his first start where he scored a double

Usually go out and kill someone. If the weather is bad I just beat up the missus.

I just have a tommy tank and then get back to it

I just watch a sport news TV show and watch the real managers get just as frustrated as me

You just have to remember that this game is based on the idea of a team manager, who cant control everything, who will get runs of bad luck, who will lose big games, who will have top players out injured for months at a time, who will have players throwing tantrums (Im looking at you Tevez ) etc etc

If it wasnt that way then SI would be doing something wrong.

Goodness, there is NOTHING that happens in the game as frustrating as teaching teenagers math, which is what I do for a living. It helps to keep it in perspective.

I used to throw things, but I found they break when I do that...

You can start shooting dope...

Always helps me

when i get annoyed i just continue playing

fix all solution: reload

Bad side: if you reload and keep losing you get even more frustrated.

Though, if I seriously get sick of the incredibly frustrating things my team does or gets, I usually come to other games, or even visual novels.

Final solution: become an hero.

End of the problem

fix all solution: reload

Bad side: if you reload and keep losing you get even more frustrated.

Hehehe, you can JUST see the thread in here the next day:

"How do you cope with losing after ten reloads straight!?"

cup of tea and a cig maybe something on tele does it for me

Taking a look at Liverpools team generally makes me feel much better

Usually go out and kill someone. If the weather is bad I just beat up the missus.

+1

Geezer

Sex, drugs and rock 'n roll generally does it for me.

Or I watch some tele and eat skittles, and try and remember it's just a game, while trying to resist the inevitable urge to turn the game back on and pull the team together. Damn the addictiveness of this game!

Sometimes i'll just Alt+F4 out of frustration but then i feel dirty from reloading and just start a save somewhere else.

Simple,I switch it off,light a ciggie,open a beer....switch on Final Fantasy 14 online,play for a bit....curse to the Gods that they released that game in the same or even worse condition than FM11....

....Say to myself "almost Christmas" think about the my Son opening his gifts and all is good again .....and hope both games are fixed early next year....