Insanemadman Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 Initially a joke between me and a couple of mates, I decided it wouldn't require that much effort to turn it into a league. Turns out it takes a little longer than I expected. Obviously, this isn't going to be the most serious league in the world. I've tried to make it closer than the actual political system to keep things interesting, but the big 3 parties should still become dominant, especially in the medium term. The Labour leadership contest has a surprising winner. Once again, the Lib Dems are left demanding a fairer league system. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
silva_gunner Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 Looks... interesting. Any idea of a release date then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chob Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 quite amusing, wouldn't mind giving this a bash. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insanemadman Posted May 16, 2010 Author Share Posted May 16, 2010 Looks... interesting. Any idea of a release date then? Probably be a while yet, i've still got several more people to put in, add secondary kits, etc. Also, some teams don't qualify for the CL, so i'm trying to work out why that is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yid Army Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 UKIP think it would be detrimental to the country? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insanemadman Posted May 16, 2010 Author Share Posted May 16, 2010 I guess UKIP wouldn't mind if you went out in the first round. I think it's the scottish and NI teams, so I might have to set them to 'england' too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yid Army Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 That would be it, I ran into it when I was testing a Welsh cup involving the teams playing in Wales and those from Wales in the English structure - the ones playing in England would only reach Europe when I set their nationality to Welsh as the tournament was under Welsh nation rules. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XXXtreme Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 Please say Paul Ince gets the BNP job... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sporadicsmiles Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 You have just made my.. early morning! Priceless Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insanemadman Posted May 17, 2010 Author Share Posted May 17, 2010 Made some decent progress today, there is now a lower division. Obviously, still a lot of work to do though. I'll need to think of a different way to set the 3-team championship playoff - either change it to a cup (I assume it'll put 3rd vs 2nd and then the winner vs 1st?) or change it to 4 teams. I've been trying to get the main parties to be slightly different. The Tories have (slightly) more money, Labour are a (slightly) higher reputation club, and the Lib Dems have a youth academy. Seems to be working relatively well at this early stage. General Election Division 1 I bet he regrets not taking his team with him Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insanemadman Posted May 17, 2010 Author Share Posted May 17, 2010 I did a test run overnight last night, it didn't crash, and seems not to be too bad (aside from 2019) for the next 15 seasons at least. While the Lib Dems won 4 titles in a row, only twice did they actually top the league in those 4 seasons. However, I think their youth academy is making them a bit too strong in the long-term, so i'll have to find a way to compensate for that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick134 Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 damn it, I was starting to do this :@ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ojeda Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Will the players be actual politicians? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insanemadman Posted May 18, 2010 Author Share Posted May 18, 2010 damn it, I was starting to do this :@ You can still do it if you wish, or you can edit this one when i'm done if you want. Will the players be actual politicians? Not at the moment - it's on the list of things I plan to do, albeit at the very end. Major politicians of each party will be in the staff at each club for now. Once everything else works OK, i'll give it a go. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insanemadman Posted May 18, 2010 Author Share Posted May 18, 2010 I'm having a bit of a problem in that all of the generated players, even at top clubs with a reputation of around 9000, are just awful. Now I could go and manually add in players with PA and CA - that'll take ages (for every club you are looking at over 500 players), but might be the only way to get a decent squad together though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insanemadman Posted May 19, 2010 Author Share Posted May 19, 2010 Well, i've started adding players as that seems to be the only way round it, but it's very time consuming. 2 down, 31 to go. Labour Squad, Tory Squad. At least there are some ways to keep myself amused. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warning Sign Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 Before you started making players, Insanemadman, how were you able to get such consistently good results for the Lib Dems, Labour, and Conservatives? All I've tried for my created leagues is altering their reputation ratings, but that doesn't really do anything (the team with the lowest rating won the league one year). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insanemadman Posted May 21, 2010 Author Share Posted May 21, 2010 Well, it's mostly reputation i'd have assumed, but I also gave them a larger stadium, higher attendances, better training facilities and more money. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruckus Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 david blunkett Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ism-scfc Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 david blunkett I'd imagine his vision stat would be 20:D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankiee Posted May 24, 2010 Share Posted May 24, 2010 Could you release a version without players at teams please? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buttgammon Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 This looks like terrific fun! Well done for coming up with such an original idea, it's worth it just for that Clegg screenshot. As a total politics geek and FM obsessive, this is probably the only way I could reconcile two of my many sides. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Rowell Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Great idea, great work Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insanemadman Posted May 25, 2010 Author Share Posted May 25, 2010 Could you release a version without players at teams please? I could do, but the problem is that the generated players are hopeless, and it really messes things up - for example I had the Loony Party team finishing 4th in the second reason once, despite having a reputation of 1, a tiny fan base and stadium, and no money - just as the game randomly gave them decent players. Also as the clubs do hopelessly in Europe, this reduces the number of european places available as England falls down the coefficient table. I'm not sure if it's possible to just tell the teams not to generate any players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Superstar Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Has this been released yet? Looks fun Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insanemadman Posted May 28, 2010 Author Share Posted May 28, 2010 Has this been released yet?Looks fun Not yet, still got a long way to go in adding players. And that's before I go into testing it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankiee Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 I could do, but the problem is that the generated players are hopeless, and it really messes things up - for example I had the Loony Party team finishing 4th in the second reason once, despite having a reputation of 1, a tiny fan base and stadium, and no money - just as the game randomly gave them decent players. Also as the clubs do hopelessly in Europe, this reduces the number of european places available as England falls down the coefficient table.I'm not sure if it's possible to just tell the teams not to generate any players. A way around it could be to give the teams a higher ACADEMY rating, but also a higher TRAINING facilities rating. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insanemadman Posted May 29, 2010 Author Share Posted May 29, 2010 A way around it could be to give the teams a higher ACADEMY rating, but also a higher TRAINING facilities rating. I've given them 20 training and youth facilities, and a youth academy, and they are still hopeless, but they'll perhaps have one or two decent youngsters. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankiee Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 Ok mate, not to worry, just a query. I'm sure you have the best judgement. Good luck with this! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnr_ironside Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 Looks like a laugh. Good luck. Looking forward to it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFC_Jordi Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 Looks good, Thatcher for Tory Chairperson! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Fairbairn Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 If you untick "Generate key staff", only youth players will be generated, and all teams will have to buy their own players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nine_iron Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 Go Lincs!! Win independence!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlwilliams Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 This looks great, lol. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedward Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 looks exciting, are we near the end? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrylv2 Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 looks very good .. cant wait for release Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedward Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 any advance?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Superstar Posted June 9, 2010 Share Posted June 9, 2010 Any news on a release? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insanemadman Posted June 11, 2010 Author Share Posted June 11, 2010 I've been away for over a week, so i've not had a chance to do anything. It'll be out, eventually. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steellad Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 Ha yeah how about the current lot as players and old school politicians as the staff. Could get people pretty riled when some hate figure puts a late winner past you. Great idea and good luck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ism-scfc Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 Looks good, Thatcher for Tory Chairperson! No, manager so I can tell her just how much I hate her and everything the evil cow ever did Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insanemadman Posted June 15, 2010 Author Share Posted June 15, 2010 Ha yeah how about the current lot as players and old school politicians as the staff. Could get people pretty riled when some hate figure puts a late winner past you. Great idea and good luck Generally, the female MP's are staff, as you can't have female players. Old politicians will be down as favoured personnel, although a few recent ex-MPs will show up in the team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suggy33 Posted June 15, 2010 Share Posted June 15, 2010 No Theresa May for the Tories? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrylv2 Posted June 15, 2010 Share Posted June 15, 2010 Is there any news on the release mate?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc2397 Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 any idea when this will be out mate, really wanna' go at playing it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedward Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Any news on release? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomManager Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Don't forget Monster Raving Looney Party! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insanemadman Posted June 28, 2010 Author Share Posted June 28, 2010 Any news on release? I've got a lot of time off work now, so i'll be able do some work on it soon. Probably still a few weeks off though. Don't forget Monster Raving Looney Party! They'll be in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrylv2 Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 can wait to give this a go Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedward Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 any advance on this, really looking forward to it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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