What's your most anoying aspect of the game?

I know this may seem a little bit censorious and petandic but one small aspect that is really getting on my Nerves is the amount the press keeps saying im intrested in signing a player when i havnt even made an offer or scouted the play,

if it's going to say im intrested in signing a player, it can at least do it either after i have made an enquiry or scouted a player on numerous occasion's hey no???

Yes that is annoying, because I have a massive shortlist of young players who I want to keep an eye on, but might not necessarily be interested in atm. It means I get dozens of questions about these players every transfer window There should be a private shortlist and a non private shortlist, private for ones we don't want them to know about and non private for ones we want them to know about so as it may unsettle them a bit.

However, I find the amount of international goals scored by strikers far more irritating. Ibrahimovic has 98 goals for Sweden, Bendtner has 110 and Rooney has 96

yeah i agree with Nomis here, as i do the same thing.. wish we could turn off the media sometimes... especially if you respond to them one day, and they come back the next bloomin day askin the same question about the same flamin player!!!

What have you been reading that placed 'censorious' in your vocabulary

Agree it is annoying but it's the mechanics. Stick them in a private shortlist and the messages should stop but you'll also miss out on messages about bids for said players.

Alternatively we can make a creative interpretation of what's happening as many on here like to do. It's the press and they love their speculation. You've shown an interest at some point so why not rehash the story if there's not much else to write about? The FM hacks have to make a living too you know You've got the chairman on your back, they've got their editors on their back.

My most annoying aspect of the game would have to be team talks, closely followed by wildly incorrect offside decisions. Plenty of media-related things are annoying, but since you can just ignore them and it is as if they never happened I don't get too concerned by them.

I didn't know you could make a shortlist private :confused: You elarn something new every day. Surely our scouts etc should inform us of messages about our shortlisted players, rather than the media.

Two seasons ago...

From the last couple of in game months...

1 shot on target, 2 goals!

One shot, one goal, opposing keeper MOTM

Yet again (linked due to image limit)...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0703/Chris2Xtreme/arses.jpg

This is just completely unfair, unrealistinc and is spoling my game

With countless last minute wins, 4-3 and 3-2 wins and such for Madrid.

Teensy bit unfair, no?

And that is the most annoying aspect of this version of the game.

Can I have some sympathy now?

petandic

No...I won't bite. I won't. I honestly won't.

What have you been reading that placed 'censorious' in your vocabulary

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LOl well thats a long story. over 5 years ago i was seeing a women from Plymouth, she was a Economics teacher at 6th form, basicly she was a very censorious person. donw my head in hence why i stayed at Home

I find the media items about facing my former players quite annoying. I wouldn't mind just one story for the first time a big player comes back to play against me but getting a message every time a trialist is playing against me does my head in.

The most annoying aspect of the game? Losing, without a single doubt.

I find the media items about facing my former players quite annoying. I wouldn't mind just one story for the first time a big player comes back to play against me but getting a message every time a trialist is playing against me does my head in.

Tell me about it, I just got a message about a trialist from two years ago coming back to play me.

He was with me for 1 week and he didn't play a single game for me. I didn't even want him.

I find the media items about facing my former players quite annoying. I wouldn't mind just one story for the first time a big player comes back to play against me but getting a message every time a trialist is playing against me does my head in.

yes i agree with that, that is rather stale after a thew times, not sure how it effects game results to be fair.

It doesn't if you ignore it. If you pick one of the options then it is the same as every other media thing in the game - the player in question will either lose or gain morale and various members of your team will randomly do likewise!

Another for dafuge's point, especially because it never happens with the players you expect. I sold Demichellis to Werder Bremen and I never get asked about him, but I always get asked about 34 year old Ismael :confused:

I've never been as annoyed with any version of FM, TBH, so here it is.

Update:

R. Madrid P22 64Pts (out of 66!)

Barcelona P23 55Pts

How ON EARTH can I go nineteen games unbeaten and be out of the title race by FEBRUARY??? How?

Stupid. Absolutely stupid.

Let's look at the other leader's points totals...

England: Man Utd - 46 from 26. 9 points less than me from 3 more games.

Italy: Inter 37 from 19, 18 fewer from 4 fewer games.

Holland: Ajax, 49 from 22, 6 fewer points from 1 fewer game.

France: Lyon, 58 from 25, 3 more points from 2 more games

Germany: Stuttgart, 35 from 18, 20 fewer points from 5 fewer games

Portugal: Guimaraes, 37 from 19, 18 fewer pints from 4 fewer games

Scotland: Hibernian, 58 from 24, 3 more points from 1 more game.

So out of those, the closest team to me would be Hibs, with me level if I won my next game. Most of these races would be reasonably tight.

So how has a team in strongest-in-depth league there is hared into a 9 point lead with a game in hand, dropping only 2 points (!!)?

I call shenanigans.

I wouldn't say it was the most annoying, but at the moment, I'm getting fed up with my scout recommending Fabregas and Adebayor every time Arsenal play. They do the same with Cech and Essien when Chelsea play. I'm managing Man. United. I want my scouts to use their brains and realise that I know all about these players and also that I have zero chance of signing them.

My most annoying aspect of the game would have to be team talks, closely followed by wildly incorrect offside decisions. Plenty of media-related things are annoying, but since you can just ignore them and it is as if they never happened I don't get too concerned by them.

Definately the offside decisions. And before anyone responds about tactics etc, etc, etc, I'll have you know that the opposition get them too. I was just playing Man City and Bianchi was ruled offside when 3 of my players were in front of him. I was so confused about that I actually looked up on Wikipedia to see if the rule had been recently amended. It hasn't...

I hate it when players say there intrested and then when you offer them a contract they say they have no desire to join my club, the Bast@rds

I hate it when I have to get the toughest Cup draws year after year. Like this year with Derby, of all teams that had to get Man Utd in the FA Cup 3rd Round draw, it was us. And to add further insult, we had to play at Old Trafford. We lost of course.

Something else which spring to mind now. why is it so many short players cant jump or header the ball. also players that do have belwo 10 for jumping and heading end up getting poor rating's, as if all football is played 6 ft in the air, i know why they get poor rating's its because when a ball is played to them they lose it in the air every time unless your managed by an Al club and then they score against you.

Setting specific marking.

Really gets on my tits.

I set my full backs to mark the opposing midfielders when playing against strong opponents in a 442. What I don't want them to do is follow those individuals when the AI changes personnel and moves (say) Gourcoff from RM to CM, thus drawing my full back completely out of position, allowing the new RM to waltz into the box and score. Incidentally, I've tried setting it to mark: "man" but I don't trust that this will mark the correct position. If I set the full back to mark and then go to "specific" it doesn't indicate that it will mark a wide midfielder.

If you're interested SI (and I appreciate you're busy guys), I'd be most grateful for an option to mark a particular position so that I can set my right full back to mark "LM". That'd be smashing.

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One more. The delay in changing tactics. I note that immediately someone scores the opposition can change formation. Not me. I go a goal up with five minutes left; pause the game and change tactics before the game kicks off to counter the (likely) 424 that the opposition will switch to, but this doesn't take effect until after they've equalised. They manage to change formation before the game kicks off again but I don't. Is the opposing manager psychic? Shurely shome mishtake.

I am not blaming AI or ME for cheating, but, oh c'mon, during a title race your rival seems to get countless last minute winning goals and ridiculous wins. (as it is mentioned somewhere above)

Two seasons ago...

From the last couple of in game months...

1 shot on target, 2 goals!

One shot, one goal, opposing keeper MOTM

Yet again (linked due to image limit)...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0703/Chris2Xtreme/arses.jpg

This is just completely unfair, unrealistinc and is spoling my game

With countless last minute wins, 4-3 and 3-2 wins and such for Madrid.

Teensy bit unfair, no?

And that is the most annoying aspect of this version of the game.

Can I have some sympathy now?

i know how that is.

I know this may seem a little bit censorious and petandic but one small aspect that is really getting on my Nerves is the amount the press keeps saying im intrested in signing a player when i havnt even made an offer or scouted the play' date='

if it's going to say im intrested in signing a player, it can at least do it either after i have made an enquiry or scouted a player on numerous occasion's hey no???[/quote']

Ok I just played a couple seasons again and here are my 2 cents:

1. Fully agree, and I complained about this already many many times since FM2007, but it seems nobody ever cares. I would really appreciate an option to switch media intensity. This media event should be only triggered if I actively enquire for a player or declare interest, this would solve it.

2. Same goes for a lot of media items, my Ass Man keep spamming me about unhappy players every other week, come on, if he tell me once then I know it.

3. Another annoying thing is the player enquiries/offers by big clubs. It seems sometimes that they want to buy every good player on the market and repeatedly spamming the same offers. Related to this is that it makes the players "unhappy that they can't move to other clubs", this seems irreversible and I always end up to be forced to sell top youth stars to big clubs after a couple seasons, even I manage a world class reputation club myself and I win big titles with them.

4. Clicking fest to get to the games, this was newly introduced in FM2008, I have to click through 5-6 screens until I am in the actual game which I find unnecessary and it's bothering me. If I have team talks switched set to Ass Man then I shouldn't be bothered with this anymore instead of having to click through twice every game. I setup my team always in the actual big team managment screen, I find this half screen one useless as I can't see the players condition and morale there. A direct option to get right to the game from this screen would save thousands of tedious extra clicks.

5. Boards force selling players to other clubs. Sometimes they are really stupid to sell wonderkids far below actual value. They should have more brain.

The AI is also cheating there, my top class scouts can't scout a **** sometimes and the AI scouts of the big teams ALWAYS scout top youth talents PA correctly even they have not really good scouts.

6. Far too many goals because of weak defence and great result variety/inconsistency in games. Even I have a world class defense and set tactics to defensive it happens that I get catch 3 goals in like 10 minutes. It seems defending needs to be enhanced in the game. If I play "cattenacio" with world class defence it should not to be possible to get through so easily, as it happens very often right now.

7. Every reconfirmation option which is still in the game, like when I send a player home or to a specialist. It's a small thing but easy to fix and noone actually need to reconfim this unimportant decisions.

8. Penalty rating. Some youth players have a real horrible penalty stat and they are not increasing it. It's highly impossible that a world class player has a penalty rating of 4 like I have one full back in my current game. Even they might not get experts in penalties, this stat should go at least up to minimum 10 for a top player. It should be connected to free kicks and long shots actually. This player I have right now has a 16 in free kicks, 4 in penalties, 11 in long shots and 6 in corners at age 21. He is nearly fully developped. Training set pieces is on high with 7 star coaching rating for 2 seasons.

Not the most annoying thing but one that came into mind after reading the last post - the squad screen always resetting the players to be sorted by their position rather than selection. In previous versions it only did that when I looked at other teams or the reserve/youth team but in 08 it does it every single time I switch away from this screen. One of those things that in isolation don't seem that important but when having to sort it manually time and time again it gets more and more irritating.

Annoying things....Interactions with former players and players you have just scouted, not necessarily wanting to buy them. Buying a young player who has potential of 5 stars, then arriving and only having 3 stars (i quickly get going and train the little rat intensively, usually works). More...Clubs with huge spending power. Offside goals. Silly bookings. Losing. It's just like real life.

For me its the "Odds vs. the pre match prediction"

I'm heavily favored yet the dude can't see any difference between us. this usually ends up with my team getting pounded.

Other things include:

-the insane amount of 35+ meter goals

-constantly being warned about players who want to play, including:

1. players coming off a 6 month injury and immediately complain as if i was supposed to be playing them all along

2. an 18 year old who is the 6th best ST on the squad complaining

3. players complaining during international breaks or when they are ineligible for the next match

4. back up keepers

5. begging for time right after i play them

-Chairman selling my best players to....another team....in my league...

-players wanting a new challenge 1 year after i bought them.

This is just completely unfair, unrealistinc and is spoling my game

With countless last minute wins, 4-3 and 3-2 wins and such for Madrid.

Teensy bit unfair, no?

And that is the most annoying aspect of this version of the game.

Can I have some sympathy now?

Thats the most realistic thing iv seen on FM. All you have to do now is blame the spanish FA, The King of Spain and anybody else not from catalonia, develope a massive chip on your shoulder, become footballs biggest bottlers(almost there) and your half way to becoming a true Cule

Setting specific marking.

Really gets on my tits.

I set my full backs to mark the opposing midfielders when playing against strong opponents in a 442. What I don't want them to do is follow those individuals when the AI changes personnel and moves (say) Gourcoff from RM to CM' date=' thus drawing my full back completely out of position, allowing the new RM to waltz into the box and score. Incidentally, I've tried setting it to mark: "man" but I don't trust that this will mark the correct position. If I set the full back to mark and then go to "specific" it doesn't indicate that it will mark a wide midfielder.

If you're interested SI (and I appreciate you're busy guys), I'd be most grateful for an option to mark a particular position so that I can set my right full back to mark "LM". That'd be smashing.

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One more. The delay in changing tactics. I note that immediately someone scores the opposition can change formation. Not me. I go a goal up with five minutes left; pause the game and change tactics before the game kicks off to counter the (likely) 424 that the opposition will switch to, but this doesn't take effect until after they've equalised. They manage to change formation before the game kicks off again but I don't. Is the opposing manager psychic? Shurely shome mishtake.[/quote']

I definitely agree on both of those - I'd totally forgotten my irritation about the new tactics delay stuff - it was so much better the old way where the game waited until a break before taking you to the tactics screen and then made the changes instantly - considerably more realistic too.

As for specific marking - it is a sure fire way to get yourself thrashed since the AI seems to love to have wingers, strikers and basically anyone upfront on constant player rotation so if you specific mark them you have players dragged all over the place. Setting my 2 DCs to specific mark their two strikers is great when those two strikers swap with teh two wingers and my centre-backs wander off onto the wings!

I find 2 things very frustrating...I find it so annoying when you are trying to implement something defensively and you cannot get it detailed enough so you just keep shipping goals.

I also hate when you set your players to individually mark and then the opposition just decide to change that players position and you team goes to ****

Oh yeah..I also hate how a defender can make a great tackler and it fall to a striker and it is called a mistake when in fact it wasnt his fault

I hate it when the opposition have the ball, and for about 2 minutes the same 2 players, 6 yards apart, pass it back and forward to one another, while one of your players chase the ball like an excited dog.

The transfer system, the 4-2-4 tactic scoring goals for fun when it doesnt work IRL and regens are so bad that the game isnt worth playing once the real players are gone.

One thing I've noticed in the match engine is that a whole host of one team's players will stand still near the ball, but not go to it. Meanwhile, an opposition player will fly in from Gatwick, check in to his hotel, do a little light shopping, jump in a taxi, arrive at the stadium, sign a few autographs and then run over and take possession of the ball. (Obviously none of that should be taken literally...)

It kinda makes me wonder if there's a flaw whereby the game knows which team should be in possession, but for some reason the ball has ended up in the wrong place.

Meanwhile, an opposition player will fly in from Gatwick, check in to his hotel, do a little light shopping, jump in a taxi, arrive at the stadium, sign a few autographs and then run over and take possession of the ball. (Obviously none of that should be taken literally...)

New feature for 09 maybe??

I've noticed this too and it is annoying, but I assume the my player has fallen over or something.

Setting specific marking.

One more. The delay in changing tactics. I note that immediately someone scores the opposition can change formation. Not me. I go a goal up with five minutes left; pause the game and change tactics before the game kicks off to counter the (likely) 424 that the opposition will switch to' date=' but this doesn't take effect until after they've equalised. They manage to change formation before the game kicks off again but I don't. Is the opposing manager psychic? Shurely shome mishtake.[/quote']

I totally agree. Even to do the slightest thing takes ages. I can't fecking stand that feature

One thing I've noticed in the match engine is that a whole host of one team's players will stand still near the ball, but not go to it. Meanwhile, an opposition player will fly in from Gatwick, check in to his hotel, do a little light shopping, jump in a taxi, arrive at the stadium, sign a few autographs and then run over and take possession of the ball. (Obviously none of that should be taken literally...)

It kinda makes me wonder if there's a flaw whereby the game knows which team should be in possession, but for some reason the ball has ended up in the wrong place.

This is something I notice far too often at corners. Even though I tend to keep 2 players back outside the opposition area to pick up clearances and hopefully blast the ball through a ruck of bodies into the net the AI team's clearances from my corners always just seem to drop in space somewhere near my player who just stands and watches while the AI's defenders get their act together and rush out to pick up the ball and launch an attack

Yeah, it happens elsewhere too. One of my forwards was in the oppositions area once, he could have scored, but he just stood there, then passed the ball away just as a defender came up to tackle him. It happens alot on completed tackles, when one of my players wins the ball they almost seem to freeze while everyone else moves

The most annoying thing for me is that your goalkeeper can go years without ever getting sent off or injured during a match, but then the one time you gamble and don't put a keeper on the bench, he gets sent off and you put a outfield player in goal and concede 7 goals in 1 half!

The most annoying thing for me is that your goalkeeper can go years without ever getting sent off or injured during a match, but then the one time you gamble and don't put a keeper on the bench, he gets sent off and you put a outfield player in goal and concede 7 goals in 1 half!

The simple solution to that particular problem is to never have one on the bench. I've done that and I think I can only remember one time when my keeper was sent off throughout the many seasons I've played on 08 and not a single injury

Originally posted this in another thread but it bears repeating I think.

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Phase One - A Player is on transfer list, the club (not a rival, not even in same country) want £11m. Okay - you bid £11m.

Phase Two - Club turns down the offer. Despite you having offered what they want, and you can see that they have accepted this offer from other teams. You think "oh what the hell" and offer £13m just to get it sorted.

Phase Three - Club turns down the offer!!! Time is running out to and the window will close soon. You send an enquiry, asking how much they want.

Phase Four - Club say they want £11m. Okay offer that.

Phase Five - They have turned down what they have just told me they want!!!!

Phase Six - Rip FM08 CD out of computer, and do something else.

Please SI stop this stupidity. Sure it is hard to prize top assets from club so some prices will be high but if a player is transfer listed, a wanted price is determined and then they themselves tell you "offer that" you should surely be able to get the player! This is seriously ********.

4. Clicking fest to get to the games, this was newly introduced in FM2008, I have to click through 5-6 screens until I am in the actual game which I find unnecessary and it's bothering me. If I have team talks switched set to Ass Man then I shouldn't be bothered with this anymore instead of having to click through twice every game. I setup my team always in the actual big team managment screen, I find this half screen one useless as I can't see the players condition and morale there. A direct option to get right to the game from this screen would save thousands of tedious extra clicks.

You can turn that feature off in options, can't you? There is no match preview then, you will go directly to the match.

When an opposition player kicks two of yours out of the game and eventually gets a yello card in the 95th minute for a shirt tug, in the mean-time you've managed to pick up 5 bookings because your team has suddenly decided to pull the other sides shirts.

whats most annoying for me is when you get a message from media before a game when one of your ex-players plays against you, and he is crap, and then you tell the media that you would never have let him go had he been a threat; the player you sold always comes back and scores. I was Lyon and i sold Baros to Paris and I said that same thing in the media; during the game Baros scores a hattrick within 30mins lol, but i still won 4-3