craiigman

Is how I understand it as well, made a thread:

This might be a new low for FM in all honesty. Last year FM Touch was stuck behind the Apple Arcade subscription (seen no mention of what's happening with that), but now mobile is stuck behind a Netflix subscription.. Do you know your own player base? FMM is always one of the top paid games every single year, so clearly makes you money. WHY?

Assistant manager with "control possession" and "direct" playing style. Sorry for delay in other reports, havent played since I started the thread. Just starting my new save now

https://www.gillinghamfootballclub.com/news/2023/february/gills-sign-ike-orji/ Ike Orji joins Gillingham from Chatham, on loan at Chatham for rest of the season.

My M1 MacBook Pro with 8gb ram is great for fm, so the M2 can only improve things. I would upgrade the ram if you have the cash, I wish I did on mine. However that’s more for other stuff not FM

Thank you for replying. I think I will raise a bug report as there does seem to be some conflicting. In regards to tendencies I don't believe this is something that can be changed by the in game editor. I also just done a test/check with Ben Watson again, his attributes do not change from before and after signing him, just from fluid counter attack to wing play. What happens with managers that don't have any tendencies in game? Do they gain them as the save goes on?

Something definitely wrong here. I just watched back the video in the original linked series signs Ben Watson. Before signing him, fluid counter attack After signing him, route one: I just signed him on my test save he was fluid counter attack before, like the above, but upon signing him he's now "wing play".

My own manager's style has defaulted to "park the bus" even though I didn't pick a style and the hidden attributes are all set down the middle

Gegenpress, but also less often pressing, long passing/playing style?

@herne79 @FrazT @Jack Joyce Sorry to summon you all, I have searched and found you have all replied in previous threads about staff tactical styles in the past. I am now on FM23 and wanting a bit more info on this if/where possible please. I have the in game editor, and changing some of the hidden attributes does indeed change the tactical style, mentality, pressing style, passing style etc, and can obviously change the preferred formation. Ideally I don't want to be using the in game editor to change these, however if the same persists in FM23 where the staff changes upon signing them I may have to. Is there an explanation on which attributes affect this at all? Because it doesn't seem to be as simple as it should be. eg I have managed to get a staff member to have "fluid counter attack" however playing/passing is at long, when the default tactic for that preset is shorter passing. It's also set at the highest defensive line and the tactic uses a lower line. If I reduce the directness, it turned into "direct counter attack" which doesn't make sense, but it could well be linked to other attributes and the formation may even play into this. However for a save like this where the style/formation is important, these subtle differences make a difference. It surely also effects the formations and style of play the AI plays? I know generally the behind the curtain attributes aren't explained too in depth, but can I maybe get something generic that can help with this? There also seem to be some staff with no tactical style, even as a manager, eg:

Gillingham New owner/Chairman: Brad Galinson https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64079960 https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/sport/us-property-tycoon-completes-gillingham-fc-takeover-279421/ Also note about a "lucrative transfer window" so should also affect finances.

I hired a new head of youth development that was gegenpress and he is now control possession. What is going on with this game.

Head of youth development is control possession, think that has anything to do with it?

New assman: vertical tikitaka before signing, now fluid counter attack after signing.

And now the new assman is also "control possession"..

I have been watching this great series on Youtube: And have decided to give it a go on FM22, as I haven't got FM23 yet, however this series has legit made me want to grab it. However when setting this up on FM22 I am running into a common issue, the assistant manager's tactical style is changing. First time: Ass man is already at the club, was the last ass man. He has good "manager" attributes and style is wing play, which I am ok with at this level. After a couple of friendlies I go and check again and its now "control possession" but the same formations. Part of this save is to have a tactic setup with the preferred style so training updates. So I fire him as control possession at this level is not going to work. I find someone with fluid counter attack, sign him. Upon signing he now prefers route one. I can get away with route one at this level and have players for it, so it's ok, but it's not what I signed him for. Just wondering why this is happening? With the new manager it could have been that we didnt have enough knowledge on him? But I cant work out why the original assman would change. I can use the IGE to look at their hidden stats, is there info/a guide that break down how they translate into the tactical styles?

I would say that's a bug, however it's probably because it would be a debut in the Super Cup not debut in general, though that isn't what the text says, and frankly unless Pepe has beastly stats from his loan spell, not sure why he would be a player they want to see play so much. So definitely looks like an issue somewhere.

Have to say I am glad I didn't bite the bullet and buy the game this year. I've been quite vocal in the past about full release not fixing issues picked up in the beta, but to not release any ME update on full release is a new one. Honestly surprised that the game has even launched at all and not delayed.

However if you were to put in your real date of birth and use your real name as your manager name, that does become information you can be identified by. Especially now as game saves put the manager name in the save name by default, I know you can change it. I've just looked in settings (on FM22 anyway) and there is a tick box to turn off data collecting. Surely this should be an option for the user to decide and not be on by default, especially as it doesn't actually say what data it is collecting on that screen, or any other than I can find currently. I'm sure it's in the EULA, but it shouldn't be that difficult to find.

See these kind of tweets most years, can someone explain how this information gets back to SI? The disclaimer when you start the game about ads still imo goes against gdpr as you can’t start the game without inputting a date of birth, but i don’t recall it saying your data is sent to SI?

Question about Man UFC.. Why is the abbreviation MUFTC? Why is the T between the F and C? I can see why MUFC cant be there, but why a random T like that?

I was thinking something similar to be honest. While the update may not have had a direct change to the ME, since many things feed into the ME, certain changes outside of the ME could've had an impact.

While not directly linked to youth/newgens, unfortunately the explanation you have given is exactly the reason I can't bring myself to buy FM23. The amount of years a bug/issue has been found during beta that doesn't get fixed until the next release really is starting to mount up. I saw on Twitter Benjy say he is seeing a lot more negativity this year, and I just think people are running out of patience with it.

The fact that this can happen is a good thing, no? I remember a few years back it was impossible to get strikers scoring much at all. As others have said though it seems very much realistic based on how they are both combining in real life at the moment anyway.