alian62

January 12

54 minutes ago, Ilici Man said:

shame. have you run into a way to have the all star team select players from every team except the last year's champions? that's another thing i've hit my head against

Never got that far. Maybe log it as a bug in the bug forum , pre-editor section . I've been logging it since 2017 but gave up .

January 11

5 hours ago, akkm said:

Obviously completely agree on the best feedback action is to not buy the game as things currently stand as there's no real need or incentive for SI to change otherwise...broadly speaking at least.

I also don't necessarily disagree on the likelihood of a competitor emerging or at least a successful one with the head start and all that SI has. Of course the actual market could become so lucrative that it could entice someone to enter the market with the intention of getting a chunk of it. Clearly they'd have their work cut out to gain traction.

Re EA's offering...was that part of the fifa game itself or a separate entity. Fifa players weren't likely to crossover exclusively to a management sim within that offering in the numbers EA would want and even more likely FM players were even less likely to crossover to play FIFA management as well given it's likely limitations comparatively.

I wonder what numbers play the mobile games on offer and could that, with people's demands on their own time, eat into people wanting to play the longer format. It certainly doesn't seem close to that yet at least.

Anyway, the points about what competition would do to push SI and the likelihood of a successful competitor for SI makes for a nuanced discussion and both points are entirely valid.

A strong competitor would highly likely mean SI wouldn't be able to get away with or even attempt to get away with things that have gone on in recent years so it's obvious a competitor would improve standards. It's just how the real world works and especially in business where having to strive for better and innovate and drive standards can help grow a business and not doing doing can have detrimental implications.

SI seem to have landed in a consequence free realm for themselves which is great from their perspective and a relatively comfortable place to be and for sure the lack of a competitor can lend itself to this.

It's ok for people to cite this here and it can be a good vent or message to SI in what is a feedback thread after all. People just want it to be better and the point of what competition could do is only a natural one.

The likelihood of success as things stand is another discussion but things can always change.

Overall I 100% agree the best current course of action is to not buy the game but no more than the likelihood of a competitor emerging...the odds of this happening in the numbers required to jar SI into changing things isn't that high against the backdrop of the trend of increasing sales numbers.

So again SI can and will continue to operate in a comfort zone where people feeding back/complaining on a forum only has a small (and arguably decreasing) impact on things...sadly given the state of things this seems to be the case

It's like the Twilight Zone 😊

January 11

6 hours ago, forameuss said:

That argument is always so weak in my mind. The equivalent of that comic strip of the guy riding a bike and shoving a stick in the spokes. If someone wants things to change on a product they're not enjoying, continually buying it has to be the worst way to go about it.

The competition argument is similarly pointless when it's quite clear that that is NEVER coming. They had a competitor in EA, and even with their deep, grubby little pockets, they were beaten so badly in the genre that they pretty much folded (and admittedly absorbed the "product" back into the main game, where it stagnates to this day). No other developer is going to enter the space as a genuine alternative because they'd be absolutely mental to. FM has two main technical strengths - their match engine and their database. Any competitor would start out at a disadvantage stretching to decades on both fronts. It's why the only alternatives are grubby little mobile games.

No white horse is coming over the hill. If you want change, stop buying. You'll be financially better off, and you can spend that - and your time - on something you might, you know, actually enjoy.

Don't think it's pointless . Any competition is good but yes they would very starting from scratch . EA wasn't a bad game as I played it up until the last game in 2014 but EA itself was a bad company . Certainly not saying the Football Manager series are bad though as I get my monies worth out if it but in needs to take a big leap forward because it's been the same game for many years . I guess this is what FM25 will bring, Hopefully 🤔

January 11

7 hours ago, Ilici Man said:

check the other topic oJMPx found the solution for the ai generated players and i've been able to replicate it. if you want all star games that look at all the teams from a competition to select players, it should work fine. i've set up a national vs foreigners game, oJMPx has set up several all star vs foreign team games and i'm sure the are other situations that can be created.

the problem i'm running into, and honestly it's not only here that i've bashed my head against it, is how the game selects teams based on region. i chewed my fingernails off when i tried to make lower league regional cups until someone mentioned that the game selects participants based on their stadiums for some reason. now, i've encountered an issue with regional all star games. in the us it's simple since they have regional top divisions already set up, but if you have one series and try to make it select teams based on their local region or regional division, it does not work properly. AGAIN, it selects real players, it's just that it doesn't correctly follow the regional rules as i set them. so you would end up with 90% players from one region and 10% from another...

I found that solution years ago . But trying to replicate an East vs West in tge same country like the USA doesn't work

January 11

As I said before in your other post is that the All Star section is broken . You can't fix it . I'm surprised its still even in the editor and doubt it will be for FM25 as in reality not many countries even do it anymore .

I've even gone to the extent of looking in the Comp Editor and it doesn't work .

SI are not interested in fixing it after years if myself logging it as a bug .

Politely I would move on as I did

January 11

4 hours ago, diLLa88 said:

As long as steam reviews remain Very Positive nothing is going to change and I guess it is better to just accept the reality of this game never going to be as good as it once was. I've been frustrated for several years as I tried to post bug reports and provide feedback in this thread, only to get confronted with no fixes and hostile moderators .

I haven't launched FM24 for a month now and it will probably remain this way. Time to retire on this series after ~25 years. I have zero expectations that FM25 with a completely new engine will be anything better.

Getting that way myself . I'm revisiting older games now .

There is only 2 ways this game will ever improve. 1 is for sales to take a nose dive and 2 is for another competitor in the marketplace that makes a decent manager game .

Unfortunately the marketplace is littered with 2nd rate football manager games that are only interested in you spending money via coins while playing the game

January 10

16 hours ago, snowofman said:

no as the datahub does not open until your team has played 5 league games

and as it's team data, you would have nothing to compare/view if yo're unemployed

More intersted in the Past Meetings park . Was looking to see if that part can be opened to view if unemployed where as you can choose any team to see past meetings between them .

January 9

Is there a way to put the data hub option into the sidebar to use when you are unemployed ?

January 9

Is there a way to put the data hub option into the sidebar to use when you are unemployed ?

January 9

Since its 2015 game i can only think its a date issue with your league set up

January 8

I will just get my wand ? Maybe upload your file might help

January 8

All of us Australians look like that

January 7

Memory card or Ram ? I'm sure you posted this before ?

January 7

1 hour ago, dannyo666 said:

Surely all bugs have bee reported by now which is why i cany understand the radio silence from SI....Gonna spark a new save of 24 with davids patch today and see ifi can play this game at all

Xmas and New Year might have a bit to do with it . They prioritise what's important and what can wait to be fixed . I can understand why they don't come on these forums though as some people think it's ok to abuse them for all the problems .

January 7

5 hours ago, wazzaflow10 said:

just had the pleasure of watching Raheem Sterling get caught by a player with pace of 10 while on a breakaway. dope. meanwhile some no name right winger is turning chillwell inside out every highlight. time to take a break from this game. catch you all in march after the last patch.

Doesnt mean that a player will always run at that attribute . Not sure what Sterling is but if he was 18 then that doesnt mean he runs at 18 attribute pace the whole game

January 7

9 hours ago, Ilici Man said:

Oh ok never seen that before ?

January 7

2 hours ago, Ilici Man said:

Does anyone know if it's possible to have half-court penalties like the us league used to have in the 90's?

I've been looking in the editor and I can't find any rule like this

Isn't that tennis? What are half court penalties.

January 7

You would think with the introduction, in real life , of 5 subs that injuries would be less common . But what we are seeing is the arrival of the super subs . These are in teams that flog there staring 11s until the 90th minutes or there abouts and , depending on the score line , bring on the Subs . This is why late goals are so prevalent now .

January 7

You need a Wife , Girlfriend or be a sperm donor or adopt .

January 6

1 hour ago, kazik said:

It's January 6th, 2024, and the game is still broken.

Mmm no it isn't. The fame is perfectly playable .

January 6

15 minutes ago, chris72 said:

In the 2nd season Extensive highlights The match engine spends most time Waiting for the next Highlight to download

I rarely get to see Most of the game or parts of the game This was not the case In my first season

I know game to game this may vary but a majority of the time all I see is Waiting for next highlight To download

I would like to watch the game a bit more in Extensive highlights

The amount of issues with this game

That sounds like memory / ram .not the game

January 6

7 hours ago, Dreambuilder said:

I have never built a new stadium. Do you mean that the new one always look like the old one in match?

The generic look if a stadium depends on seats . They look the same up to 7000 I think then they look the same up to 10000 and then up to 20000. There's not much variation. Maybe others might know more

January 5

You need to ask in the editir forum

January 4

3 hours ago, NineCloudNine said:

Is it just me or can we no longer add new local regions? I created Merseyside in FM23 and moved all the relevant towns/cities into it, but that doesn't seem to be possible now, unless I am being dense (which is very likely!).

I just over write the Mongolian ones

January 4

Yet the ground will look the same

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