[FM vs Realism]

I selected mistakes and fatigue. I'm one of those players that plays as low down the pyramid as possible. I would definitely like it to be technically harder and more draining to play high intensity tactics at that level.

[Funny Screenshots Thread]

It looks like the goalkeeper was programmed to roll the ball out to the defender. However, the defender was no longer there! 

[Pregens have incredibly low attributes]

I'm playing a save in the ninth tier, and I have experienced slightly the opposite problem of players being too good. To be fair, pretty much my whole squad of 'pregens' is at the right level. However, I also have two outstanding players, one of which would probably not look too out of place in League One. 

Is it possible to paste a couple of screenshots of the players that were generated, so we can see what sort of level you were talking about?

Here's the guys I was referring to earlier. They're definitely a bit too good for the Essex County league.

*In my case, the difference is probably explained by my team's reputation in the custom database, rather than anything obviously wrong with the pregen system.

[Funny Screenshots Thread]

Maybe he's a Glentoran fan. 

[Will anyone be buying FM21?]

I've run FM19 on my Intel Atom tablet with 4GB of RAM with a save that had several leagues loaded. it even managed 3D, although I only use 3D for the replays as I prefer 2D. Although I definitely wouldn't recommend it,the performance did exceed my (initially low) expectations. The biggest problem that I encountered was actually the battery usage. Boy did it chew through my battery. 

I still use that tablet for FM20, but these days I do so via Steam streaming from my main desktop PC. 

[What is the oddest managerial appointment you've seen?]

I saw a screenshot somewhere on here the other day of Tony Pulis at Barcelona. 

[Does anyone still play older FM games?]

17 hours ago, Gitzilla said:

Hi,

New to the forum, please be gentle. I'm a huge fan of the old versions of FM, specifically 06 and 08. I was wondering if anyone plays these versions on modern systems? I'm thinking of buying a modern laptop with no OS and installing Windows 7 on it, can anyone see any issues with this? Specifically looking at this https://www.ebuyer.com/947189-asus-m509da-ryzen-3-8gb-256gb-ssd-15-6-no-os-laptop-m509da-bq349

Would love to be able to play a huge in-depth version of 08 with a large number of leagues and full database.

Thanks for any help guys.

I still play FM2006. It goes like a rocket, even on an Intel Atom tablet, so you won't have any problems with performance. 

You'll probably have to jump through hoops to get it running on Windows 10 though. (Windows 7 is much easier.) 

[New player, slightly overwhelmed]

It depends a lot on your finances. For a team like Oxford City, it might not be financially viable to do so. 

In any case, you'd still want your bench to be capable of playing multiple positions, so that you can have all bases covered if you need to make a change. 

Sorry for the brief reply. I'm also on a work break. 

[New player, slightly overwhelmed]

I highly recommend the above guide. I thought I'd already replied to this post and linked to it a couple of hours ago, but I can't find my post anywhere. (I must be getting old!)

[Will anyone be buying FM21?]

I do have to laugh, since I played FM2006 for more than 10 years before finally going to FM18. Other than FM2006, FM20 is my favourite version. 

It's amazing how opinions can vary so wildly from person to person. Good luck to SI in trying to please us all. 

[Will anyone be buying FM21?]

I actually enjoyed the shockingly poor long shots in FM18 - I was playing a level 26 save at the time and it added a bit of realism to my save! 

[Adding expansion leagues]

@Brother Ben In the editor, look at the reputation and the training /youth system scores at each specific club. Those are the things that I've found make the greatest difference to the quality of the players produced (assuming FM is creating regens for you to populate the teams without players). I've found that good youth and training facilities lead to good quality players in the squad (relatively speaking within the nations pool of players of course). 

So, if you get to a lower division where all the teams have very low reputations, and all the facilities have a score of 1 out of 20, this is probably as low as you'd want to go.

There's other factors too, but that's how I try to scale it. 

[Funny Screenshots Thread]

23 hours ago, wkdsoul said:

Not a screenshot but a cracker of an OG.

 

That's the most blatant case of match fixing I've ever seen! I also love how the striker's celebration run made it look like they were claiming the goal. 

[Will anyone be buying FM21?]

That makes two of us. I normally only get through one to two seasons in a year these days. The joys of both working and studying full time, and also only watching matches in full. 

[Alternative to potential ability system?]

My personal opinion: I'm not a fan of unlimited potential, as I don't think it is realistic - bionic implants and some kind of matrix data dump aside, no matter what I do, I'll never be as fast as Usain Bolt or as smart as Albert Einstein. 

What I am in favour of is raising the PA ceiling a bit, but making it much harder for a player to reach that limit. This would avoid the issue of users that inspect the PA and CA values thinking that a player has peaked early. (Although, in my opinion those values aren't really meant to be known to the user in absolute terms anyway, even if they are absolute values under the hood.) 

[Little FM things that you love]

Joining a new club and mentally putting together some kind of tactical system to fit the players available, then seeing my vision actually come together on the field as a cohesive system. 

[Defending Set Pieces is a Nightmare!]

One thing that may make a difference that isn't mentioned here is also training defensive set pieces regularly. 

I don't have any proof that it helps. But logically, if your team is struggling to deal with set prices, then spending more time working on them on the training ground could be beneficial. 

[FM 2006 not working on windows 10 has anyone figured out how to fix this problem?]

Hey guys, I'll send you all a PM when I get a spare minute. I'm currently in hospital with a newborn baby, so it's a bit hard to share the details right now. 

[Sports Interactive and the Impact of Covid-19]

My software house also had to work from home for around four months, so I can appreciate your situation. As you said though, regardless of the upheaval, our industry is in the privileged position of being able to continue working and there is a lot of benefit in terms of mental health in being able to keep some kind of normal routine, even though it's working from home instead of the office. 

I'd like to think that the majority of the fan base will be patient and understanding of the situation. Whatever new features make it into release at the end of the year, I'm looking forward to getting my hands on them. 

[Little FM things that annoy you...]

When I get that I assume it's related to different attributes. For example, a player's determination may have improved, but their professionalism also might have dropped. 

[Adding expansion leagues]

I spent a couple of months making a New Zealand league system for FM19. I forward ported it to FM20, but it was a quick update due to me no longer having the time to focus on it. 

What I learned from the experience, is that there's a lot of effort that goes into making a multi-league system work just right and making sure there is a noticeable difference from, say the tenth tier and a slightly higher division in the league system. 

But the big thing is that the fixtures need to be tested over a number of seasons to ensure that the fixtures generate correctly each season. If you're considering using an editor file that hasn't been well used or tested, I'd highly recommend holidaying at least three or four seasons into the future as a test before you start your main save to make sure that there's no unexpected surprises. It would be really frustrating to get a couple of seasons into a save to then find out that the fixtures don't generate in your next season. 

[Start of LLM]

One simple thing to add. If you don't like the greyed out players, there is an option when you start a game to automatically populate teams with newgens if they don't have enough actual players.

[What are your house rules?]

Back on topic.

I always start with a lower league team. Usually a semi-professional team so that I can have some form of squad retention. 

When I join a new team, for the first season, I won't buy any new players unless there is a critical gap (I once joined a team with no central midfielders). Instead, I'll try to come up with a system that attempts to get the best out of the existing squad. That gives the existing players time to prove themselves. After that, I normally try to buy/loan a maximum of 2-3 players per season, and slowly improve the squad over a number of years, rather than buy and sell players en masse.

I also like to give older experienced players their last hurrah by integrating a mix of older, more talented players in the more static positions with younger, more athletic players covering or running off of them.

[Does anyone else have no idea what they're doing?]

I'm not a tactical guru by any stretch of the imagination, but I do have a few suggestions:

• If you want to try out tactical changes, I'd strongly suggest using FM Touch. The reason is two-fold: firstly, there's no tactical familiarity, so the players will play your tactics to the best of their abilities. Secondly, the games come thick and fast, so you can pretty much do nothing else except for play games, and tweak tactics.
   
• Start with a blank canvas. Personally, when I get a new version of FM, I start with a completely neutral tactic with no settings applied at all. I then watch the games (in full match mode) and slowly make tactical tweaks, one setting at a time, until my team are playing roughly the way that I want them to.  The logic to this approach is that, if I limit concurrent changes, and only modify a single setting at a time, it is much easier to see how that setting is interpreted by the players/match engine.
  
  Now that FM comes with basic preset tactics, you don't necessarily have to start totally from scratch, but I would recommend, that if you start with one of the default tactics, that you only make small discrete changes at a time, so you can see how your changes affect things. 
   
• When you're working on tactics, watch the games on full match mode for a bit (or at the very least comprehensive). For me, I learn so much about what works (and conversely what doesn't work) within my team's tactics from watching my team's transitions, and turnovers. When I'm testing out a tactic, I'll often pause the game at every transition, to try and determine why the play broke down and the general shape of both teams at that moment. If there is a trend I may then make a tactical tweak and see if it improves things.

I'd also suggest posting a thread in the tactical forum. If you expand on your original post to also cover the team that you're currently using, and the the type of football that you want to play, and make it clear that you want to learn, then I am sure that somebody on that forum will be able to give you good advice, and even more importantly, explain the logic behind their suggestions in great detail, so that you can learn from it.

[Question About Taking a 10th Tier Team to the Prem]

In the pre-game editor, you can choose the type of contract allowed for a club for each playing status level. Does anyone know if that can also be done in the in-game editor, because that would allow the OP to achieve what they're trying to do.