[Suggestion] Set pieces improvement ideas

[Enzu225]

I have four suggestions for improving the set pieces in Football Manager: Corner delivery frequencies, Individual role attribute priority, Increase set piece routines total number from 3 to 5 and new training routine: Set Pieces Positioning.

Corner delivery frequencies means that if you have a balanced corner kick setup with threats in every key area (not a specialized corner) you can set the delivery type, corner taker, and cross aim frequencies just like with routine frequencies. This means you can set them as more often, average, or less often. In real life the same player does not always take the corners. This could be added if a button would be added after every delivery option: type, corner taker, and aim for.

Corner taker: If there are three right footed corner takers and two left footed corner takers, then there are 3 corner takers (total of 5 players from both sides) you can choose from despite there only being 2 on one side: they are X1 (R, L), X2 (R, L), X3 (R). X1 as default is set as more often, but can be changed to average since the player is the main corner taker, X2 and X3 are as default are turned off but can be changed to average or less often to give the other players the chance to take corners. If more corner takers are added, X4, X5... will be added up to a certain set maximum number of corner takers.

Type frequency determines how frequently a Right footed or Left footed player takes corners, if possible the option to set right corners and left corner frequencies individually should be added, meaning there are a total of 4 options to choose from: inswinger right corner, inswinger left corner, outswinger right corner, outswinger left corner, similarly if edited corner delivery type will be set as mixed.

Cross aim if edited will be changed to player setup. If you do not edit it individually, you can choose from short, near post, far post, edge of area, center and mixed (players individual choice, meaning the set piece taker decides) for a specialized corner.

Individual role attribute priority means that you can change the priority of attributes weighting for a set piece role by changing the order or adding new attributes the player will be judged on, which would be useful if you delegate set pieces to a assistant manager or set piece coach. For example you have Near Post areal threat as A1, you can change the order of jumping (1), strength (2) and header (3) to as header (3), jumping (1) and strength (2) or even add new attributes such as positioning or remove strength or header. For creators Lurk outside players can have higher priority in attributes such as long shots and decisions and come short can have higher priority in attributes such as crossing and passing.

Increase set piece routines total number from 3 to 5: Total number of set piece routines should be changed from 3 to 5 as there are teams who play on set pieces that have more routine setups than 3.

Set Pieces Positioning is a training routine to further improve the player positioning and familiarity in set pieces than the regular pre-match preparation would give.

Edited January 30 by Enzu225

[Zachary Whyte]

Thank you for the detailed suggestions, we will put this under consideration for a future FM.