lordjanos

Currently sitting 3rd in Conference North with Worthing. Only using scouted players for loans and free transfers. Simple 442 counter attacking tactic I rustled up. Scoring for fun with a slightly leaky defence. Mirrors my experience with Vicenza in the beta and about 10 hours into a save with Scarborough Athletic. Generally I'm erring on the side of the game being too easy at this point, though I'd have to give it full seasons to really see if that's the case. Keep your tactics simple if you're playing LLM, be cautious with media handling and don't be afraid of aggressive team talks. Also watch a match on comprehensive. You'll see a lot more patterns as to why your team is struggling.

There is no difference between AI and User in the match engine. How many times does it need to be said?!

Weird how I'm sitting in joint 1st in Vanarama North with Scarborough. Game is so rigged against players 🙄

I do all the leagues I'm interested in. Any major country like France or England gets all leagues loaded. I probably have 90% of the countries loaded worldwide, with many only having the top two divisions playable. Small database with all national and continental reputation players from Europe. Around 125k players on load. I prefer small database as large usually just loads up a bunch of fluff players and staff, and have always found there is more competition for players on smaller databases. 125k is ample for me.

Try that while playing with Hyde or Forest Green. Guarantee your regens won't be Messi reincarnated 😂

While not as bad as a few FMs back, it's significant. I find when my team's morale is Good to Perfect a lot more incisive passes and finishes take place. Fewer defensive errors. More robust response to aggressive team talks, etc. Low morale is when I notice a losing streak develop. So I try to play my tactics safer and mollycoddle the overpaid manchildren a bit until they remember to check their bank balances and cheer up a bit lol

Only thing it's useful for is quickly seeing squad depth... Which I swear we've always had for a few FMs now in the tactics screens lol? Meanwhile... In the barren wastelands of media and press conferences that have been untouched for a decade 😂

Usually day one games are fine. I only wait for it because I want the editor and the licencing fixes to work properly. But realistically if any of the various exploits or bugs annoy you it's best to wait until at least the December fix. If they haven't fixed the supporter confidence issues some clubs will be flat out unplayable.

SI always overestimates English players so it's not that surprising tbh

Just an example of confusing fluff making a decent system unworkable. Keep scouting simple: Set your scouts to focus on a position and age range within certain nations. Every week/two weeks they send a list with star recommendations for CA and PA and links to in depth reports. You know... How it used to be.

My recent experience was actually the fm23beta. Praised a 18 year old for development in training after he got solid 8s and 9s while also improving key skills over 3 months. He's very angry with how convo went lol

Have they got rid of the "confirms player signings" option in responsibilities? I used to give youth recruitment to my HoYD and then if I wasn't happy with their potential just cancel the signing at last minute.

Big super League table is cool. Current system is washed.

Wait for launch for editor so my mods don't get rid of club nicknames and for the usual launch day bug fixes - and my Lord are there a few for them to fix this year 😂

OP has a point. There are loads of things in game I subconsciously do that I wouldn't IRL to beat the algorithm. Press conferences, team talks, training praise, individual training etc. You can't do any of those things organically as praising the kid who has got 9.0 average training rating for 3 weeks gets him randomly angry at me. Putting the midget who has amazing mentals and technical skills onto individual strength training turns him manically depressed. If you don't use calm or no gesture in press conferences with the second from middle response your players get upset. Etc. Some of this stuff has literally been identical for a decade now. The game is still best in class by a country mile. But it'd be better placed charging a few quid a month to become a game as a service (already does it with game pass now) rather than charging a full price for what is essentially a transfer window update every year.

The beta is **** easy. If anything it needs to be far more difficult. Smashed Serie A teams in the Coppa Italia with Vicenza in Serie C. Had a 12-0 win in the Serie C against a title challenger. Didn't even need to tweak much in terms of tactics.

Same issue here. Supporters 'furious' with terrible job despite being top of the league and defeating Serie B and Serie A teams in the Italian Cup as a Serie C side. Edit - uploaded filename is: Veni Vidi Vici.fm