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Overall, I'm very happy with this iteration of FM. I'm usually pre-sale purchaser, play the beta, then wait until the final patches role out in February to dig in. That's different this year (what isn't different this year?).
Gestures
Overall, I like the concept, although it does feel like it's just a repackaged tone system. The implementation maybe needs some work, but I'm interested to see how this is built upon in future iterations.
Match Flow
I appreciate the flow from tactical meeting to squad selection to team talk to tunnel interview. Could make better use of higher resolution, as highlighted in my previous post, but the flow, I like.
Match View
It took me a while, but I'm enjoying the new layout with the team on the bottom. There are definitely improvements to be made, particularly around making substitutions in a 5/3 competition. Right now, substitutions from the main window happen so quickly that you burn through the three stoppages. There should be a shout to tell a player to switch with another on the field (he would adopt any personalized Role/PI for the position) or once the shout is registered, you can make changes to the role as usually.
I'd like to see the tablet maximized to cover the whole screen in between highlights. Especially for those of us on lower resolutions. The match overview and dugout panels should be consolidated into the table view, rather than taking up the screen real estate they currently do.
I'm happy with how the tablet pops up over the match view. As is the case in real life, when I'm focusing on my phone or computer, I'm missing what's happening in the show or sport I'm watching. If a manager has his head buried in a tablet going over some feedback from the analysts or watching a replay, he's missing what happens in the moment.
I would appreciate if there were a replay center at half time that would allow me to quickly browse through and watch highlights of shots, fouls. I know I can click on the minute of an event on the match overview panel and see a highlight, but it's the patterns of play that don't necessarily end in a goal that inform me about my tactic.
Agent Interaction
Nice feature to have. Especially if you have to make choices about actually sending a scout to watch a player. Offers a quick confirmation of a scout's assessment of availability. I need to play with lower reputation sides to get more sense of it, but it certainly helps me eliminate a player from consideration based on their expectations. Is another area that I hope to see expanded upon.
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8 hours ago, rp1966 said:
All Windows applications should scale appropriately for all common resolutions and 4K is a very common resolution these days. No way people should be expected to drop their screen to lower resolutions.
Ultrawides are a different matter - I'm not sure there's any way to get a UI to feel right on those. Great for the visuals, but not really suited to a single window text-based application. Would completely work for a popped-out 'tablet' window alongside the main match screen, through.
4k is commonly available, yes, but it's still in it is infancy of its uptake.
And the application does scale. You don't need to change your resolution, but you should use the scale in the preferences to zoom in a bit. Other programs have this to (Excel example below), perhaps SI could make the scale selections available on the sidebar to allow for quick changes.
I just went through and compared different screens on my laptop screen (MacBook Pro - 1680 x 1050) and my second monitor (ASUS ProArt Display PA278QV - 2560 x 1440). All of these are with the default skin, on 100% scale.
A majority of the screens scale, or better put, the panels scale. The problem is there isn't enough information to fill the scaled panels and text scales relative to its point size (again this happens in most programs).
- Inbox: Laptop v Monitor
- Player Overview: Laptop v Monitor
- Tactical Meeting: Laptop v Monitor
- Match: Laptop v Monitor
That said, there were obvious issues specifically in the pre-match build-up.
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Team Selection: Laptop v Monitor
- Might be able to expand the panel width to fill up more space and allow users with higher resolutions to see more columns in the squad view panel.
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Dressing Room: Laptop v Monitor v Monitor @ 125% Scale
- This has to be a bug initially, but once I changed the scale in the preferences, it looks fine.
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Team Sheet: Laptop v Monitor
- Looks fine to me, but it is a fluff experience screen. SI could potentially add panels on the side that display formations, league context, and other matches (and results of games player earlier in the round) and disappear on lower resolutions.
A solution here might be for SI to refine scaling so users can scale text separately from the skin panels. I'm sure it's possible, but is it worth while investment of developer time?
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12 hours ago, goranm said:
Here is an example from my save for which I think the various factors mentioned by Neil don't work as intended.
Context:
In April of season 2 I signed CR7 on a free as a Star Player on a 1-year deal. His reason for joining me was my position in the league. I was winner of Serie A in season 1, but at the time of CR7 signing a deal I was 2nd, with Juventus being 1st. This is more-or-less reasonable because Juventus didn't offer him a contract, they've actually transfer-listed him for refusing to sign a contract, and no-one else offered one.
End of season 2 I'm the Serie A champion and made it to the final of the Champions League, which I lost.
Present:
I'm in January of season 3 with Milan, so CR7's first season with me. I'm first in the league, qualified for 1st round of the Champions League with ease, CR7 scored 20 in 17. PSG offers him a contract - I counter it. His requests: essentially the same contract he is already on, Star Player with 375k pw in wages. I even give him a larger sign-on fee.
His decision: signs with PSG as an Impact Sub on a 210k pw in wages.
So what could be the factors of him choosing PSG over Milan:
Location: Paris is the "fancier" city, but it's not like Milano is Milton Keynes.
Culture: Italy pretty much same level as France
Footballing (Club) Culture: Italy by far
League Reputation: in-game Serie A is 3rd, Ligue 1 is 5th
Club Reputation: both clubs have 4.5 stars, Milan is above PSG on the list
Teammates: as of this season Milan has ambitious new owners who brought in Haaland and Pulisic on their own accord. Other notable teammates: Donnarumma, Lucas Hernandez, Tagliafico, Camavinga, Greenwood, Tonali, Kessie and most recently De Bruyne. So it's not like I'm lacking top level quality.
Overall it seems very odd that he would choose to be Neymar's backup in PSG when he's the key player of a team challenging for the CL.
Is it possible CR7 wants a new challenge, ie win a title in a different nation he hasn't competed in?
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If you set a shortlist to inactive, you won't get inbox messages about the players on it.
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6 hours ago, witticism said:
More waste of space:
Just poorly thought out really
6 hours ago, witticism said:How you feel about game mechanics does not excuse bad UI design.
Look at this profound waste of space
4k resolution is a bit much for FM.
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On 04/12/2020 at 17:02, samiam said:
Anybody have thoughts about how to best replicate Arteta's 343 formation? I can't seem to get the wide forwards to come inside enough. Any thoughts on my Tactic screenshot below in it's ability to replicate Arteta's system? I want the three forwards to sit tighter but can't get them to do that. Maybe setup as 'Very Narrow'?
I'd try something like this.
Give PEA player instructions to sit narrower and roam from position.
Give Luiz instructions for more direct passing.
I'd consider giving Bellerín a PI to hit cross from deep and aim crosses to the far post, with the hope that PEA is on the end of it.
Haven't tried it personally. But that is where I would start.
Alternate Player Roles
Lacazette: DLF-S
Willian: W-A
Bellerín: IWB-A and underlap right, instead of overlap on the TI
The Libero setting on Luiz might be wrong too.
I'd consider removing the Prevent Short GK Distribution as well.
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On 03/12/2020 at 17:24, BamBamBam said:
Signing youth foreign players from the EU and beyond....Especially brazilian
The cap on foreign U21 players will be the most restrictive part when it's implemented.
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The biggest thing for me was to read the descriptions of the player roles and team instructions. Don't assume you know what each thing does from your real-world knowledge
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23 minutes ago, eacerda23 said:
I'm sure it's been asked but I can't find the answer. If I've purchased the pc version, do I have to purchase the xbox series x version separately?
Yes, they are separate platforms (no different than buying on PlayStation, xBox, or PC)
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1 hour ago, Tee2 said:
Looking good Harper - how is Chambers working out as a DM? Never struck me as an obvious option, but it's all there, isn't it? Tackling, passing, positioning, all ready to be built upon.
The depth chart I provided isn't entirely accurate to my midfield arrangement is a currently use it, but more reflective to how I am building the squad. I am most often playing a flat three midfield
Xhaka (CAR) - Willock (AP-A) - Partey (BBM) is my go to combo right now.
Elneny (BWM-S) - Willock (AP-A) - Partey (BBM) is my defensive arrangement
Ceballos (MEZ-A) - Partey (BWM-S) - Willock (AP-A) is my offensive arrangement
Smith Rowe rotates with Willock, but as a RPM rather than AP. Ceballos may rotate in as a direct AP-A replacement.
Chambers is on the bench in all of these scenarios and if he comes on, the formation changes. If he starts, the formation changes to the 4-3-3 DM arrangement.
I'm not sure if I'm doing the right thing bringing Grealish in. He blocks the path of Willock and ESR in the central midfield. and Saka and Martinelli as an AML. But, Villa is likely going down and I just started offering bids for Grealish and when they accepted £45M, figured I should take advantage since his release clause is £80M and his relegation clause is £50M. Might consider that a bug in the transfer/squad management AI, now that I think about it.
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1 hour ago, Tee2 said:
Looking good Harper - how is Chambers working out as a DM? Never struck me as an obvious option, but it's all there, isn't it? Tackling, passing, positioning, all ready to be built upon.
He's good for a defensive option, that I've noticed, anyway. He's mostly the bench/backup option. Played mostly in the cups and early EL games (drew Gent and Brugge in the first two knockout rounds of EL). Hasn't played against any real challenging competition.
Great for the bench since he can slot in as a DC, DM, or DR in the event of injury, same with AMN as a DR, DL, MC. Fills a HG spot. If I got a £30M offer for him, I'm ship him on though.
When he starts, it's as a half-back. Usually hangs out near the center circle and helps retain/recycle possession. Guess he provides cover when Tierney or Taylor (FB-Au) and Bellerín (FB-Au) or Maitland-Niles (CWB-At) go forward.
Mostly ratings in the ~7.0 range as a DM (HB) playing against the weaker teams.
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Lots of discussion here. The newest MacBooks have Big Sur and don't have a problem.
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53 minutes ago, TopKent said:
Every single var decision is an overturned decision for offside. Never see it go to var and get awarded. Had the occasionally penalty over turned which is good but every time a goal is checked for offside it's always offside. Super annoying.
It's difficult to create subjectivity (VAR and offsides) in binary system (computer programs).
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1 hour ago, Joey Numbaz said:
Yeah, I'd be a little careful running it down all the way. If you can plug it back in for a bit when you hit 30-40% I think that would help a lot in terms of reducing cycles and not running it down too low (it's really not good to run the battery down all the way regularly), so you will be able to run it longer in 3 years on a day where you need to. That's the kind of tradeoff you are making basically.
And yeah the Apple Care+ is huge. My battery in my late 2016 MacBook Pro (bought in Feb. 2017) swelled up something fierce about a year and a half ago. I am sure running FM all day and night is what did it. You could have cooked eggs on the touchbar if I had it open while running FM on a monitor. That thing gets super hot. I had 7828 hours played on FM19 and currently 4613 on FM20 (I started FM20 in May, I like to wait for all the patches). I basically have it on 24x7, except for when I need to reboot and run it side by side with my work laptop all day. Since I play all leagues on full detail, there is a lot background simming going on.
Anyway, i brought it in, and they replaced the battery, but it would have been about $700 without Apple Care they said. Which is insane, but it is what it is.
Yeah, I'm basically running down to 25-30% before I plug in. Been multitasking with FM in the background this evening (4ish hours) and I'm at 68% battery.
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Currently in March 2021
Squad
Competitions
2020/2021 Cash Transfers (No Additional First Window Transfers)
Ajer: £5M upfront, £15M installments, additional incentives £2.5M
Lacazette: £20M upfront, £30M installments
Sead Kolasinac: £5M upfront, £4M installments, £12M installments
Özil: £150k wage contribution
Luiz: £24.5k wage contribution
Sokratis: £7.5k wage contribution
2020/22 Loans
Cedric: £18.5M Option
2021/22 Future Transfers Arranged
Szoboszlai: £11M Upfront, £21M installments, (additional incentives worth £9M)
Grealish: £15M upfront, £30M installments
Anticipated Departures
Willian, Mari, Xhaka, Cedríc, and Elneny
Anticipated 2021/22 Squad
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Daggers
The last few iterations of FM, I've brought Santi back to the club for one last hurrah.
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40 minutes ago, Joey Numbaz said:
Regarding the battery, one of the great additions to MacOS Big Sur is that now the laptop defaults to optimized battery charging where it can keep it at 80% instead of 100%. It's supposed to learn your routine and ramp up to 100% but I don't know how good it is at this. I don't know why it wouldn't just have a setting from say 50-100% and you decide how high to charge it. That being said when this works, it is phenomenal for long term lithium-ion battery life. Keeping it pegged at 100% while plugged in all the time is not at all good for these batteries long term.
Yeah, I haven't had it long enough to have a routine, though, I am not plugging it in overnight since the discharge is minimal in sleep mode. If playing in 2D is less intensive on the processing, I might switch to that.
I've gone through 9 cycles in 6 days; 1.5 cycles per day, on pace to hit 1000 cycles in a little under two years 😳 I think I did that math right.
Obviously, some of that is using the computer more than I would normally, while learning the OS and having a small portable laptop with excellent battery life for the first time. I did get AppleCare+, so I guess I shouldn't be too concerned and just plow through it with reckless abandon.
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I was clicking through the board request menu and noticed I was able to request more staff for the Youth Candidate team. (Screen shots aren't related, I requested the coaches first to see what would happen).
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33 in 37 games for my lone striker. 26 in 28 in the league.
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3 hours ago, oddmlt said:
Does somebody know why the abilities show like that ?
With attribute masking on, attribute value is narrowed down the more you scout the player.
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@craiigman or anyone else Mac savvy person, with regards to battery life and playing unplugged. Do you have any recommendations? If I'm able, should I stay plugged in even if I've charged to 100%? Or should I unplug at 100% and run off battery and run through charging cycles more frequently?
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47 minutes ago, Jono_DH said:
Well, I was very much up for the challenge of playing with the new work permit rules. Just started my third season with Sunderland and, on my game at least, this latest update (21.1.3) has made things a whole lot less strict.
I had over 10 players in the under 23s who I’ve been applying (and failing to get) work permits for for the last year or two, and now each new application is resulting in them getting a permit. In addition, the vast majority of scouted players coming through are now listed as likely to get a work permit, whereas before it was very rare to see that, with most coming through as unlikely.
I’m sure Miles and the team are keen to say this was a “minor” update, but if this is how it will work going forward, it seems to me they were some way off being correct initially.
Seems to me that the only part they were off about was how leagues would be classed for points. Looks like they implemented the core of it, but retained the existing work permitting guidelines or had a tighter classification of competitions than reality.
I wouldn't be surprised if there is more work to be done to accurately replicate the competition tiers, minutes/appearances thresholds, U21 restriction et al, now that they are public, but for a first stab, it doesn't seem "way off" to me.
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What is "testing changes only" in UCL registration? (screenshot)
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I believe it is this way because it allows you to check if your squad meets criteria. Not something I recall being mentioned in the lead up, but certainly helpful.
In previous versions, the In/Out selection could not be toggled until the registration day.