-10 Determination

[AndyJay87]

What in the hell just happened?

No explanation of these "off-field events"?

[KUBI]

Why do you need an explanation? Just imagine one. Such things could happen.

[cris182]

Yes there are literally 100's of things that could cause this

[AndyJay87]

23 minutes ago, KUBI said:

 Just imagine one.

Thanks. Top advice.

 

Bare in mind I have the option to criticise his conduct. But I have no idea what happened. So..... Yeah, I'll just imagine his mom died, and I'll criticise him. It's perfect.

Edited December 6, 2019 by AndyJay87

[KUBI]

vor 2 Minuten schrieb AndyJay87:

Thanks. Top advice.

 

Bare in mind I have the option to criticise his conduct. But I have no idea what happened. So..... Yeah, I'll just imagine his mom died, and I'll criticise him. It's perfect.

It's just how it is in life, you know just a few things about other people but never the whole truth.

[CFuller]

There are random events which can greatly decrease (or even increase) a player's determination, ambition or (I believe) professionalism. There's nothing you can really do about them, and what exactly happened is left to your imagination.

[sporadicsmiles]

50 minutes ago, AndyJay87 said:

So..... Yeah, I'll just imagine his mom died, and I'll criticise him.

As a human being, I know that criticising someone for suffering a loss of motivation due to things happening in their personal life is a bad thing. I do not think I need to know what it is directly to know how this situation would have to be handled. I'm not sure the game needs to give a bunch of reasons. I mean if you really want to explain why you do not know, maybe the player simply does not want to share his personal life with his boss. I certainly would not. Indeed, the one time I did have personal issues that affected  my work, I explained that I had a lot of things going on right now, but did not tell her what those things were. 

Just be nice to the poor lad, bless his computer soul. 

[AndyJay87]

^ Obviously, that's a joke.

 

Ok, random event or not, when a player has the hump and misses training etc. at least I'm aware of whats going on. In the middle of the off-season a young player (he's 17 or 18) drops 10 determination because of "off-field events" suggests an actual thing happened that I could read into and understand, maybe through a news item or something on the social media page.

Perhaps I should move this to the feedback section, suggest that maybe they actually add a little substance to this. If it actually said "personal issues" I'd have taken it differently of course. The fact that the only interaction option I have is to criticise conduct suggests he did something wrong. If there was an option to do something positive and mentoring towards him that would be a great feature.

The wording is just so vague I have no idea what to do with the kid. If they could implement these events where you just got a fraction more understanding it'd be an excellent feature.

[Nobby_McDonald]

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