Starting Experience

what does everyone tend to chose? international, profensional sunday footballer or automatic, do you find there are great differences between them? i know the obvious ones like initial fan and board impressions etc difficulty of signing players

Try players getting to play for you. Start off at a big club and half the squad are unhappy. At LFC, Torres, Babel and Mascherano are a waste of space.

automatic for me

yea added challenge of winning your squad over, it depends on how big a challenge you want really

yea added challenge of winning your squad over, it depends on how big a challenge you want really

Yes very challenging! And realistic in some ways. But would LFC EVER appoint me as a manager, so not realistic in that sense.

Yes very challenging! And realistic in some ways. But would LFC EVER appoint me as a manager, so not realistic in that sense.

lol start unemployed then

I always start unemployed and work my way up from the bottom.

Since I'm nothing more then your average football fanatic with above average potential, and I was not able to chase my dream of becoming a professional football player, I always set my reputation to Automatic.

Working your way up to the top is half the fun of managing.

I always set myself as Sunday League Footballer, simply because that is what I am IRL .

I want to set myself as 'no footballing skill what so ever' but that option isnt on there lol

Sometimes it's fun to see how many caps and goals I supposedly got for Scotland.

Then I imagine I scored most of them against England!

Depends, my very first game is international footballer at a prem club to find my way around the new features! After that i go automatic with a championship team, then by that time the peatches are out so i go sunday league footballer at a BSN/S team as a career game! I have tried Luton Town already mind

I want to set myself as 'no footballing skill what so ever' but that option isnt on there lol

Set yourself as female...

Set yourself as female...

oooooh, Controversial lol! Its that sort of comment that will attract the one female rights activist that venture near these forums lol

Mind you, i doubt she would get off here alive

oooooh, Controversial lol! Its that sort of comment that will attract the one female rights activist that venture near these forums lol

Mind you, i doubt she would get off here alive

speaking of which, has anyone tried being a female manager?

Automatic, and with my real age (25). Did this in my first game and set myself as Liverpool manager, I had all season long "[player] is struggling to motivate himself to play for you" (not deliberately hiding player names, there was loads of them!)

Did the same when I started as Carlisle manager (League 1) - I had the same thing to a lesser extent...however by mid season when we were riding high in a comfortable 2nd place in the league, the whiny bastards had all shut up strangely enough!

yea you have to earn your player's respet, and thats where you're press responses take effect aswell.

yea you have to earn your player's respet, and thats where you're press responses take effect aswell.

When you say you're, you mean the assmans press responses right?

Semi Pro

depends on how serious i am gonna be into the save

When you say you're, you mean the assmans press responses right?

Yea well in those smaller games then yea , i take the big press conferences though haha

Automatic, and with my real age (25). Did this in my first game and set myself as Liverpool manager, I had all season long "[player] is struggling to motivate himself to play for you" (not deliberately hiding player names, there was loads of them!)

Did the same when I started as Carlisle manager (League 1) - I had the same thing to a lesser extent...however by mid season when we were riding high in a comfortable 2nd place in the league, the whiny bastards had all shut up strangely enough!

This is weird, I play as Bristol City, got them promoted to the Prem in 2012 then in 2013 I won the League Cup, FA Cup (addmittedly I had quite an easy run in to both finals) then amazingly I beat Arsenal, not by a small amount 5-2 in the Community Shield!!

Now I'm in the season proper and I have 2 crap players (Moussa Guindo and Kevan Hurst) left over from my Championship days who are having problems motivating themselves for me!! My squad harmony is excellent, my rep is continental (started on automatic) and at xmas 2014 i'm 12th in my 3rd season in the Prem.

Screw em I say, I could sell them obviously but no, either they get with my program or they can just rot for the rest of their careers in the reserves!!

This is weird, I play as Bristol City, got them promoted to the Prem in 2012 then in 2013 I won the League Cup, FA Cup (addmittedly I had quite an easy run in to both finals) then amazingly I beat Arsenal, not by a small amount 5-2 in the Community Shield!!

Now I'm in the season proper and I have 2 crap players (Moussa Guindo and Kevan Hurst) left over from my Championship days who are having problems motivating themselves for me!! My squad harmony is excellent, my rep is continental (started on automatic) and at xmas 2014 i'm 12th in my 3rd season in the Prem.

Screw em I say, I could sell them obviously but no, either they get with my program or they can just rot for the rest of their careers in the reserves!!

You obviously didn't leave a good impression on them at the start;) and now they feel **** surrounded by the new quality, and they want their old teammates back. As you said, screw em:p

I always start as unemployed, can't bring myself to take another mans job! Because of this, I set the 'flavour' of my game by the experience I choose. If I want to manage big clubs I set it as International Footballer from the off, and if I want more of a challenge I'll chooses Semi-Pro, or Automatic.

Incidentally, I don't like the choice of Automatic, it tells you nothing really about your history as a player.

As an aside, what I'd like to see is a way of choosing a history for yourself, maybe just a list of clubs and dates. It would increase realism, and help me build some kind of imaginative back-story for myself.

I always start as unemployed, can't bring myself to take another mans job! Because of this, I set the 'flavour' of my game by the experience I choose. If I want to manage big clubs I set it as International Footballer from the off, and if I want more of a challenge I'll chooses Semi-Pro, or Automatic.

Incidentally, I don't like the choice of Automatic, it tells you nothing really about your history as a player.

As an aside, what I'd like to see is a way of choosing a history for yourself, maybe just a list of clubs and dates. It would increase realism, and help me build some kind of imaginative back-story for myself.

that could work, but you would have to have some sort of restriction, or it could turn completely unrealistic

Usually go either international footballer or automatic.

just making sure, automatic just adjusts it depending on what club you're at, so if at man utd, you have a higer rep then say at cheltenham or something like that?

No don't think so. Same throughout based on anecdotal evidence.

Went automatic on my Luton game and saved them form relegation but have now started a Man city game so have gone International.

I started right from the bottom , sunday league footballer , unemployed. After 3 months i was approached by redditch (BSN) and i have to say , it is one of the most enjoyable games i have had (career game)

I always start as unemployed, can't bring myself to take another mans job! Because of this, I set the 'flavour' of my game by the experience I choose. If I want to manage big clubs I set it as International Footballer from the off, and if I want more of a challenge I'll chooses Semi-Pro, or Automatic.

Incidentally, I don't like the choice of Automatic, it tells you nothing really about your history as a player.

As an aside, what I'd like to see is a way of choosing a history for yourself, maybe just a list of clubs and dates. It would increase realism, and help me build some kind of imaginative back-story for myself.

Keep in mind though that not all managers were once football players. This actually adds to the realism for me as I do not have any level of background when it comes to football, other than playing for my city's team during my youth days. So automatic is basically if you're an inspired fanatic who wants to manage and it fits perfectly.

I struggled to get a job with automatic at the beginning has that been fixed in the patches since?

starting as automatic and unemployed would be pretty hard wouldn't it? cause the clubs have nothing to base you unlike international or professional

Since I'm nothing more then your average football fanatic with above average potential, and I was not able to chase my dream of becoming a professional football player, I always set my reputation to Automatic.

Working your way up to the top is half the fun of managing.

Its all the fun!

What does the automatic setting mean?

i THINK it's just a base rep level.

Like, you dont have any past experience, or any background to you, as you do with international or professional i believe.

Automtic, as that's what we all really are afterall. Reminds me of the oder editions where the press would always say you were too inexperienced. I also think it offers more of a challenge because you won't get a larger budget or anything else due to your reputation. It also means your have to perform better as you won't be kept on because of your reputation.

Automtic, as that's what we all really are afterall. Reminds me of the oder editions where the press would always say you were too inexperienced. I also think it offers more of a challenge because you won't get a larger budget or anything else due to your reputation. It also means your have to perform better as you won't be kept on because of your reputation.

Are you sure you aren't 2 different people matt?

Are you sure you aren't 2 different people matt?

I'm sorry, no comprende?

I'm sorry, no comprende?

liking the spanish, well you post crap like in that 9.03 thread and your thread bout hamsters or whatever, then you post something logical like above, hmm

Lets try not to defiate away from the subject that we should be discussing on this thread eh

I agree:)

10charstupidthing

stop stalking me

sorry mate, we can't be separated now,

this threads s hit. i direct you all to a new & improved one: http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=95652