[Are beautiful roles like the False 9 and Complete Wingback ruined by their hard-coded dribbling?]

On 16/05/2021 at 03:14, CARRERA said:

Thats true, but shooting from range is not the primary responsibility of an advanced playmaker. He is responsible for bringing others into play with his passes. If you want him to shoot more often, you might pick another playmaker role like TQ as a Wide or central attacking midfielder, ar a RPM as a more deeper Role. Btw, shoot less doesnt mean dont shoot at all :-)

Yes. I play an attacking midfielder on attack just behind the forward in my 4-2-3-1 formation. 

[Are beautiful roles like the False 9 and Complete Wingback ruined by their hard-coded dribbling?]

I always play with with "dribble less" in team setting. Only way to have a decent possession % in my tactics. Also makes the team play faster.

Advanced playmaker is the one I dont understand as "shoot less" is hard-coded. If your midfielder has over 15 in long shots why not take the chance once in a while? Longs hots can also be a blessing with very defensive formations. 

[Determination]

21 hours ago, phd_angel said:

Mentoring, with influential players with high determination.

Mentoring with highly influential players who have lower determination attributes will always pull determination attributes down. Watch out for this.

Having highly influential players with low determination can have a bad effect though-out your squad, I have seen highly determined youngsters gradually loose determination over years. The one thing you can do is always choose a captain with high determination and never ask players with low determination to welcome new players. It can be painful to watch when your squad is affecting new signings negatively, but it is something that you over years can gradually change through squad building.  

 

[Complacent after recent success]

Ok so this is a first. In the latest player advice summary I receive this message on my 22 year old who just started in a champions league final we won.

In the "player progression observation" it stated "The Coach fears that The Player may have become somewhat complacent after all the recent successes". His personality is still resilient so I dont know how much his professionalism or ambition has dropped which I guess would be affected.

I have tried to do a search on this but very little came up. Would anybody know where I can find more on this topic? He will be turning 23 in a month. Is he sort of a lost cause or what effect will this have? Maybe this will only affect the ability to increase attributes? Being resilient he still has high numbers for determination and pressure.  

[Chief Scout]

I have always assigned my chief scout to scout next opposition as I then presumed he would have a lot of free time at the club to also dissect scout reports coming in from around the World. None of my scouts are un-assigned and this I know saw was recommended as the assignment list would then be handled quicker. I assign all scouts to specific regions or countries and if they then find anything interesting I then assign them to scout that player for a month or a number of games. I recently read about having "cross checkers" without specific assignments and that sounded quite interesting.  

I have tried to search for how Chief Scouts should be assigned but have found surprisingly little info about this. Maybe the title Chief Scout is not that important when you yourself take over scouting?  Anyway ... what assignment do you assign your chief scout .. if any?

 

[Signing Youth Intake players]

My youth intake has been pretty miserable the last seasons even though I have state of the art facilities and exceptional junior coaching and youth recruitment at Nottingham Forrest. 

I would imagine that Mauro is up for the job as he has good stats and is professional. Can he really be part of the problem and should I sign Garrone instead and let him have a chance?  Or is it just bad luck getting bad youth intakes for a couple of years even if you have everything in place?

 

[Rapid decline of new signing]

5 hours ago, IbrahimAliMaher said:

Did you sign some better players for your squad since then? The stars show his rating compared with other players in your squad. He may have been better than who you had prior to signing him, but if your squad quality has improved since then it makes him look average by comparison.

That said your scouts still need a kick up the backside for suggesting he was world class if he isn't. Always take scouting reports with a pinch of salt; mine told me De Ligt was only an average player for my division, but his stats are actually better than both my best CB (rated as 'leading players for division) even taking into account footedness. As he was available on a free I signed him anyway. 

No. No change in the roster.

[Rapid decline of new signing]

The decline you see from the screenshots was when he was already at the club, so the scouts before he was bought and also the coaches (screenshots) agreed he was world class. This all happened within 3 months.

His attributes havent changed. I was wondering if it could be something to do with adaptability and it might bounce back? He speaks fluent English though.

His performances equal that of an average player at the moment so the current evaluation seems correct. Before he was bought he was on the fringes of the Brazilian national team with 2 goals in 3 matches so he was pretty good. 

[Rapid decline of new signing]

Has anybody experienced this kind of decline for a new signing? Both my scouts before and also the coaches after he arrived, labelled him a world class player. I really though he was going to be the player bringing us to the next level, but six months in he is now competing to be on the bench. 

 

 

 

 

[Will anyone be buying FM21?]

On 12/10/2020 at 23:45, ChelseaSince86 said:

Actually liked the video but I hope to christ the "you opened your arms widely and improved body language" bit is not something we have to choose, before then having to choose conversation responses.

Choose how to welcome the player etc.  Not keen on that, at all

 

Will buy it ahead of release no doubt, as I do every year.  

Better take up those yoga classes if you want to succeed in the next version of FM. :-)

[Determination]

There really is some sort of "determination bug" in this game. Starting a game with team leaders who have low determination can really turn into a vicious circle. No matter how high determination your new signings have they will be influenced by the team leaders and gradually decline before they finally climb up the hierarchy themselves. By the time they themselves have taken over and become team leaders they will have declined in determination to the level where they now are influencing your new signings or youth players negatively who then start to drop in determination. For 4 seasons at Forrest its just been a constant drop in determination of all the high determination youngsters that have come into the team. Even star signings drop in determination when they arrive. I learned the hard way not to let the captain welcome any players .... determination dropped immediately after the welcome period was over. 

I have now spent the complete transfer budget in buying Tonali who was appointed captain immediately due to high determination, but unfortunately he has not climbed to team leader. Instead my world class striker with 12 in determination jumped to team leader and now yet another round of determination decreases has hit the team.      

[Little FM things that annoy you...]

On 08/08/2020 at 16:30, ExeChris said:

Half way through the season, doing ok if not spectacularly, just below half way.  Then suddenly none of the strikers can shoot, keeper decides to dive over shots straight at him, defenders clear balls straight (and I mean they move there before the kick / header is made) to opponents and midfielders decide passing to their own team is pointless. 

Keeper knocks every kick straight to the opponents right midfielder (instructions say aim for target man) and we start taking throw ins direct to their player without any of ours being within 5 yards of him?

I don't know how a team (top league in Chile) can suddenly not be able to play football at all? 

Do tactics still get "hacked" if you only use the same formation all the time? Meaning the AI will judge that your tactic has been "read" by the opposition and render it pretty much useless.  

Doesnt happen to AI teams of course who can play the same formation for decades. 

[Will anyone be buying FM21?]

During Covid I bought FM for the first time in 15 years and as a previous addict I was really looking forward to spend time on my guilty pleasure. I am playing Nottingham Forrest and won in the playoffs to get promoted first year. Second year I finished 7th in the Premiership and miraculously won the Carabao Cup . Now in my third season I am maybe going to get a spot in the Europa League. How did I do it? I have no clue as the results seem to come at random. What is even more serious.... I actually didnt have fun. I am so frustrated playing this game that I actually have to remind myself that its all going quite well.  

I play standard tactics and dont check to much online what works and what doesnt. With the results I have had, you would imagine you would have a sense of achievement.... but instead it just seems like hard work all the time and you never have a sense of what works and what doesnt. It actually does seem like the ME is a step ahead of you at all times and you have never been handed the tools to figure out what is actually happening in a game. It also seems like all games you play are balancing on a knifes edge and the slightest little mistake in the eye of the ME will cost you dearly. I mean its plain and simple mind boggling what you encounter over a season. 

For the last couple of months I have spent a ridiculous amount of time on this game cause I was too stubborn to give up. I just couldn't believe that there was not a certain something I had totally missed which made this game so extremely frustrating..... and that's when I finally went online to find out that there were so many others that had that same feeling.

There are many aspects of the game that are nice but nothing works if the core of a game is thoroughly flawed and it this case the ME brings everything down. As in any field of the entertainment industry a computer game has to be judged on one thing only in the very end. That one thing is if its fun ... if you are having a good time. Too this question I can honestly say that this game has not in any way been fun, far from it actually. It has in fact has been extremely frustrating.

Did it get too complicated? Did the programmers want it too realistic? Did nobody focus on "gaming experience". In my opinion the one thing that is certain is that they completely lost the plot on this one. I will certainly not buy FM again... its just not fun. Probably a blessing in disguise that I chose to return to FM in this version as I would be spending way too much time on what was once a great game. Hopefully SI will be able to rectify this, but I wouldnt be at all surprised if they will feel the repercussions of this blunder on the bottom line next year.   

   

    

      

[Bale - attributes - question which goes to the core of FM]

In my saved game I was thinking of loaning him at Nottingham Forrest, but at 32 he was rated as an average Championship player by my scouts. Seemed quite weird as he was still dominating and playing extremely well for Wales and had also put in a handful of very good performances for Real Madrid the first part of 21/22 season. Couldn't take the risk though as 25% of his salary was still significant. 

Were the scouts right? Or could he have played well with consistent football at 32?