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28 minutes ago, kiwityke1983 said:
The Japan licensing issues are disappointing but seem like they are out of SI's hands and due to the notoriously difficult to work with Japanese authorities. Plus FM is entirely moddable so there will be a fix for it by the weekend.
Yes, but making a clear announcement about said licensing issues instead of advertising a "fully licensed Japanese league" isn't out of their hands, is it?
The rest of it, agreed - the other things will be fixed. However the issue with Japan, and the misleading info given, is really dodgy ground imo. Struggle to see how there hasn't been a bit of purposeful cloak and dagger behaviour.
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2 minutes ago, angelo994 said:Unreal. This cannot surely be true? If so SI have blatantly mislead us and the J-League will in fact never be fully licensed for FM24. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Really, really bad faith.
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Enjoyed what (little) I've played of the beta/early access and full game so far, movement and animations on the match engine are excellent.
Pretty disappointing number of issues being reported, and I had noticed the substitution thing myself on the beta.
But got to say, think the J-League licensing issues are a bit of a disgrace to be honest - was looking forward to not having to wait weeks for an editor file to have this league active. Think that SI really need to come out and clarify this situation in respect of licensing and if/when this is going to be properly rectified. I know they have said "when assets/licenses become available", but when are we looking at here? Are we looking at days? Weeks? The start of the new J-League season?
First time in a long time I've not felt able to defend SI. Really underhand and a bit of a breach of trust tbh.
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After some (a lot) of deliberation, I've decided on my club for my first save, which I will play until it gets boring, or until I change my mind & decide to start again - so anything from a week to a year....
Having played since the original Championship Manager on the Amiga, and after skipping FM23 because of a brilliant save I had started in Brazil on FM22, I have decided to again manage in a large country that I've never played in on any version of Football Manager - the Netherlands.
After a bit of research, and because they are both based on an island and the people that live there are referred to as "The Sheepheads", I have plumped for FC Dordrecht, who play in the second tier of the Dutch league. Here is there logo, which I think you will agree, is phenominal.
Although this is a club with a higher reputation than I would usually start as (2 whole stars!!!), I will still be playing in the (main) spirit of the realism thread, which can be found HERE
My manager, however, will not be me. If ever I start higher up than I usually would, I tend to use a former player as my Manager, generally one who has played for Nottingham Forest (the club I support) which gives me an excuse to put them as my Manager's favourite club in the hope I will gradually end up there, and finally win that third European Cup (I've never, EVER managed this on FM - I am quite useless tbh). And so, as he is both Dutch, and not on this year's version of the game (at least in my save), my Manager will be former Forest, Swansea, Wolves & Celtic goalkeeper Dorus de Vries. He's a former professional footballer and I've given him the coaching badges he would need to be allowed to manage at this level;
Thankfully, given that I am quite useless as previously mentioned, I've been given a 2 year contract. Not only that, it's safe to say that, in the first season at least, the board's expectations couldn't be much lower. And I would like to think that even I can manage a top half finish within 5 years, but if anyone can turn that into a slog, it's our mate Dorus (me).
Squad wise, it's a bit of a motley bunch that I will need to try and get something out of to keep us off the bottom. They look ok at first glance, and there's a 6'6" striker which is the stuff of LLaMa dreams, I feel like a bit of hoofball may well end up being order of the day! No screenshot though, as going to try and avoid player naming or any real tactical discussion as per the usual LLaMa rules.
I will be playing quite a few friendlies to try and get my head around the squad, including big local games against Feyenoord, who are my parent club, and ADO Den Haag. And also Preston, who have a sheep on their logo. But not Derby County. Never Derby County.
The bookies don't think it will be quite as bad as the board do, but then the board have appointed me so they have probably accepted their fate.
Setup wise, I have all out of the box leagues running in 55 countries, with all international players, as well as players of continental reputation added for all continents, giving me 127 playable leagues, and 213k players/staff. Hoping for a long, competitive career, not really sure what my aims are aside from just cracking on & enjoying!
Will be updating regularly (probably).....
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Thanks - appreciate it!
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Where did you find the attributeless skin? Had a look around and can't see one yet for FM24...
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Giving this a go on the FM24 Beta. Not sure how far I will get as starting a lot higher up than I normally would, but fascinated with legendary Managers. Will be using a version of Happel's 4-3-3. May well do an update thread in the careers forum.
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On 21/10/2023 at 12:03, Platinum said:
Whichever team is predicted to be last in the lowest Northern Ireland league. I'll start once the update for the main game is released and I'll make a thread in the Stories forum.
How about you?
Not sure yet for the full game. Have started a beta save with Bradford City just to fiddle around as they have a decent squad for their league and no manager. Possible I just stick with that for a bit depending on how it goes before starting a proper llama save. Really high hopes for this version based on what I've seen so far.
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2 minutes ago, Kingstontom88 said:
A lot of faith lost on this page - we need a sign...*waits for someone to share pic of a sign*
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On 16/10/2023 at 06:18, Dreambuilder said:
Cool. How old is your computer/processor? How long does it take to holiday a week in the game? (like in the benchmark thread)
8 minutes exactly, give or take. This is 1 week holiday on FM22 from 5/7/21 - 12/7/21, 202 leagues from 100 nations with 305,000 approx player count. Transfer window on, and unemployed manager - not sure if that adds to the time at all?
Using a Huawei Matebook with 16gb RAM & Ryzen 5800H processor at 3.20ghz
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1 minute ago, SMV90 said:
I apologise unreservedly, m’ Lord, for stating my opinion. I see now this was foolish.
Good lad.
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2 minutes ago, SMV90 said:Because we probably are with how long it’s taking. For a game that’s supposedly “polished” it is concerning.
"Approx 2 weeks before release";
2 weeks and 6 days before;
"How long it's taking", "concerning"
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6 minutes ago, Justified said:
And tomorrow is Liechtenstein U17's and surely SI would want their engagement too
Agreed, this is probably why people are thinking Thursday
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4 minutes ago, KingBuzzo15 said:
What if you play FM and watch football at the same time?
Then tough cos it's not coming out tonight 😂
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Surely not tonight when loads of people are watching the England game, you'd think they'd want as much engagement as possible, and tonight is not the night.
Here's hoping they've got the Euro 24 license and once England qualify they drop the Beta along with an announcement.....
Realistically though, I have all night tonight to play and am off work tomorrow, so will be Thursday
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I will have a look at time to holiday a week over the next few days - fm22 but still should give you some idea
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I have every league set as active/playable out of the box, and once @DaveTheEditor has released his files, usually go for about 100 countries. It's slow, but I want as immersive a world as possible. I tend to leave the game running on my laptop all of the time and pick it up and put it down in between doing other stuff so the speed isn't usually an issue.
Skipped FM23 but I think I read it was a bit faster than FM22 and that FM24 is expected to be even quicker, which is really good news for me, anyway.
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Anyone had any thoughts about where their FM24 careers will start?
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In time for international weekend would be wonderful. Away for a few days from 22nd though and wouldn't be able to play, so that's when it will happen
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12 hours ago, XaW said:
Got a bit too rowdy, I think.
That's one way of putting it lol.
@buzzing_hornet - a few of us like-minded LLaMas are still active. Have a search for the Realism thread on here. Not as active as it once was, but people post the odd update in there and everyone in that thread plays (pretty much) in line with the old Lower League Manager forum rules.
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Never forgotten it even now, 20 years on - got a tycoon takeover as Woking on CM01/02, persuaded (via his bank account) Laurent Blanc to join me in League 2, 6 years on from winning the '98 World Cup
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19 hours ago, George_84 said:
It's always tempting to switch to a bigger club, but I've also learned the hard way that is not always the best move. You say you're overachieving, but is your board having unrealistic high expectations? As long as you feel like you can meet the expectations, you can always go for it and see what happens. I sometimes find myself with the same doubts when the season is finishing, players wanting to move out of the club and not finding decent replacements or missing transfer targets. But most clubs find themselves in the same situation so a lot can change in these uncertain pre-season times.
But I do think you made a realistic transfer to Boavista. So good luck with the rebuild!
I had done 5 full seasons in Brazil and with the State Championships, it can be an absolute slog. If I'd been playing in Europe I'd have been 2-3 seasons further forward, I think.
Cruzeiro are possibly a bigger club in the grand scheme of things, but there were 10-12 clubs who are just as big (or bigger) with better squads. Boavista on the other hand SHOULD come top six at worst every year. Until I arrive, obviously 😂
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Well this was a mistake
It's a career step up, but they're £4.5m in debt and have 4-5 players who I would keep in the squad at this level & not much else. Gonna be a really fun rebuild!
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At a turning point in my save. Having got Cruzeiro promoted during my first full season, I've survived and am likely to qualify for continental football (although 12th and up do in Brazil - I'm tenth).
I've managed to turn a £16m profit in the 2.5 years I've been in charge to get the club out of financial difficulty through the consistent sale of star performers and promotion from the youth team or cheaper alternatives.
However, I have little doubt I'm overachieving and it's looking unlikely I will be able to significantly strengthen the squad - a couple of my younger stars want to move to bigger clubs, and annoyingly they have relatively low release clauses. I've not really been able to identify replacements for these players, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do about it. Not only that, but of the four teams going down, 2 had never played at this level before and have had nightmare seasons (one being my former club Manaus), and another hadn't played at this level since the 70s. The teams coming up, however, include Botafogo, Vasco & Paranaenese - all of whom are clubs a similar size as us and with better squads than the relegated clubs.
Added to that, another slog in the state championship (basically 14 friendlies and then a final against Minearo) and the prospect of my depleted squad also having to play at least 10 extra games in the Copa Sudamerica is making me feel like it's probably time.
I've been offered a job at Boavista, currently sitting at 10th in Portugal (it's November) off the back of two 5th placed finishes. They play a similar formation to me so I should be able to carry on developing my main tactic, and I suspect that I would be able to tempt a couple of the young lads from Cruzeiro who are ready to move on. It's a decent sized club in a big league, my Manager speaks the language, and it feels a realistic move for a mildly successful Brazilian Manager into Europe.
It's clear I need to take the job - anyone else get nervous at this point?! 😂
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Missing the point. This was sold as a "headline feature", and "fully licensed". Not actually true.
They clearly should have been transparent with this.