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Okay so firstly, this FM save of mine is simple, its a touch one because I always do a touch save to try and figure out how to play before I maybe try it on the usual FM full. However with this tactic I'm completely lost, like it doesn't make sense to me, and it most probably won't make sense to you guys. Some background information on the save, in my 4th season and I started at city, but I always like starting at big clubs achieving the league there and moving on, therefore I decided to move to Dortmund cause in my opinion Dortmund are a little less big that Manchester City this year in Football Manger. I played a really nice way, I focused on making sure that I got the ball to the final third like Pep Guardiola did at Barcelona, then allow that team to do the attacking themselves and I'd say I did this well, this is what I won in the two seasons at city: https://gyazo.com/bf4caeebfb17545d6b0a8d9e53d5c218 Not ground breaking, although I did nearly go my second season undefeated however the only problem was too many draws and final lose to Everton at home (a crushing way to lose it) and then I decided maybe my time is up here, so decided to move to Dortmund, because I love them as a club, they're a great club and I wanted to be the first since Klopp to over thrown Bayern from the First Division League, unfortunately for me, the best I've managed for this Dortmund side is: German Cup Semi Final vs Hamburg (At home - should be easy win) - but lost on penalties (1-1) German Cup Final vs RBL (0-1) Both times Bayern were knocked out and I should have won both Terrible league finishes, 4th (Champions League spot - not tooo bad, but could be better) and 6th and currently 6th in my third year. Over my time is Germany, I've had some really good wins: https://gyazo.com/2d575f94e3d1525713d1d851e5382ac0 However as you saw, we managed to get wins away to RBL, Schalke and Bayern (The most needed win) but then dropped stupid points to Nurnberg, Braunschweig and Hoffenheim - now I don't expect to win every game (These were all away by the way) but quite frankly if we're beating Bayern away and RBL (The league winners 2nd year in) then quite frankly I expect us to beat these teams if we are going to win the league here in Germany. I find that in FM I can easily build a solid home tactic and that anyone that comes to me, I can beat, as shown from last season here: Home Results: https://gyazo.com/0ebe89fa57768543b6f392eee59c514d Away Results: https://gyazo.com/3b39be3cae212bcfb4e2d93e67af4fd9 Did better than Bayern at home and the only side in the league to stay undefeated (What a fortress right?) going away however is a real big problems and this is something I need help with most definitely in fm, so if anyone has any answers or can direct me to another forum that gives good tips to set up a team for away games that would be helpful, but anywhere lets carry on. No progression has been made and I do this a lot with clubs, I seem to never be able to squad build proficiently and I personally believe its because I don't know my club DNA wherever I go, I never know it. Never know who to sign and what players I need to improve the squad to develop progression. These are all my signings over the past 3 years with Dortmund: 1st season: https://gyazo.com/8f3336df24ff6f309a56bfaa9b1ad327 2nd season: https://gyazo.com/c4197066d82807d1e44b1eab2e99b713 3rd season: Jorginho (Napoli Defensive playmaker) 23M I have money to play with by the way 191Million. Okay so now I've gave you an insight of my career, I'd like to show you the tactics we are trying to utilize our best players with: https://gyazo.com/d095a75ff63336463ac026111e0039ca Now I know what you're thinking what the hell is that, but you need to remember I like to try and control my team from the defensive third to the middle third and then the final third, at that point, it is there choice and there creativity that will indicate the game, now they seem to be doing this at home and very easily although away, its physically impossible. All of the images below are of my game against Napoli in the Champions League (AWAY) - The key struggle area. Defensively this is how we set up: Now I understand, that we should be compact and number 14 could either come back into the space to make a back 5, but I don't have the roles on to do that, however we're defending in a fairly deep 4-4-2, pressing a fair bit and the gaps between 14 and 16 in midfield is far too big as well as the center half number 4 and my fullback defending their number 14. Need help with this. So, how do I set up in the defensive third trying to build up possession? Lets take a look: Here you can see, we're playing a 2 at the back when in possession and two in the middle, my left back cuts inside as inverted wing back on defend and 33 in midfield is there because he is my deep lying playmaker and I want him to stay back, so when we go forward we can have a lot of the possession and then it allows them to do their own thing, however, if we look at this, we're playing a square in the midfield at the back and therefore we should be able to stop counter attacks quite easily but they can still be apart of the build up play. number 16 is in the middle of the park and yarmolenko cuts inside and then the fullback goes out wide as pushes all the way up, the two strikers ready to make good runs and 14 winger out wide. That is the end of my tactics help needed sort of thing, if anyone has any questions let me know, but I really need help with transfers and maybe some tactical faults, probably a lot, I'm still trying my best to learn with fm, so please no hate, criticism allowed but fair comments gents!

I have just recently installed FM18 and I noticed that I have a one star rating for 3D capability, does anybody know if this is likely to have any effect on my ability to play/view the game? I have never had a problem with any of the previous versions in terms of being able to play the game in 3D, apart from there being no fans in the stadiums. I'm only asking because I have yet to play any matches and want to double check that I'm not going to have any problems before I attempt to do so I don't have problems when it comes to game speed as I have all the leagues loaded in about 5 or 6 countries and still have a 4.5 star rating

As I always play in 2D Classic ME, I'd like FM to have the option that when we select a player on the pitch (i.e. their circle is highlighted/name displayed) that there is also the ability for the player to leave a snail trail after them to indicate where they have traveled on the pitch, especially useful when watching in any of the non-comprehensive highlight mode.

In previous FM versions I was able to upload my own photo and see it in the game. In FM 2018 I am asked to upload a photo but this is used only to create a computer generated image based on my own photo. This looks so awful that I would like to replace it with a real photo. I have tried the same technique that I use successfully for player images but this fails to work. Can anyone please tell me how to have my real photo appear in the game?

Hello, a warning first: this is a rant, coming from a guy who's a game designer for a job, who's played football professionaly (although at lower leagues) and who breaths football as if it was air. But it's not a complaint for the sake of it, it's just that I'd like the game to go back to its roots and fix its problems so I can enjoy it again. I used to love it. I've been buying Football Manager since 2008, every year. Fm17 will be the last one I've bought. The game has become a frustrating experience, a faulty simulation where you don't feel like you're training a soccer team anymore, but rather you're trying to figure out a way to beat a machine and its unrealistic rules. Don't get me wrong, the game is great in many regards - outside of the pitch - but it really falls short in its most important aspect: the match and its preparation. I'll try to be brief and directly go to the faults I really can't accept anymore. - Tactics interface is a mess You're leading a match by 1 goal by the end of the first half and you completely dominated the game, but you decide to play more defensively in the second one, just to be safe. But wait, if you change the mentality you're also changing the team's width, tempo, and style of passes! Each individual role is influenced by the team mentality anyway. Oh, but they're influenced by the team structure, too. I change one single thing, I change everything. In reality, if I want to tell my players to keep playing as always but to risk less and retain possession, it only takes me the time to say it, which is 1-2 minutes. In this game, it can take from 15 minutes to 20. Then you've got to watch the game carefully, in real time, to see if your instructions are working. Because the one little change you made could make everything go down the drain. More often than not, I watch the entire game second by second. If I wanted that kind of involvement, I'll get a license and train a real team. - Individual roles are too rigid The example above means you have to change the individual roles, too, to keep the balance.. Yeah, because you can't just tweak the individual instructions, nope. A winger will always dribble, even if he's in a 1 vs 3 situation. An advanced playmaker will always dribble unless you change his mentality to support, but then he'll occupy a different position in the pitch. You want your striker to be lying deep? Then he'll be forced to hold the ball and try risky passes. You can't change that. It's like, that's the only way to interpet the role. But in reality, of course it's not. You want your team to follow your instructions rigidly, with the exception of your creative player who should have unlimited creative freedom? You can't. You raise creative freedom for the whole team (meaning that your defenders will try silly things too) or you don't. Where's the freedom of past versions of the game??? - Tactis are way too important Football is simple. Better players will more often than not win the game. There are exceptions, of course. But when Juventus loses against Acireale, Bari and Ascoli in a row because their opponents are parking the bus, you can see there's something really wrong there. Tactics may make the difference when the teams are on the same level. They can't make miracles, and consistently at that. Moreover, in reality most teams will find a formation that works with their players, and they'll keep it like that for the whole season with few exceptions. Juventus doesn't play a 4-3-3 direct passing tactic against lower teams and a 5-4-1 short passes, possession strategy against stronger teams. Juventus doesn't have to change their formation every year because otherwise they'd lose against each new club coming from the second division. It's unrealistic. Even lower teams must keep their identity. A coach that changes his formation every week is a bad coach, and the players will suffer the lack of a precise style. Of course, in this game, the complete opposite is true. - In-game explanations are too vague It's not even clear if "dribbling" means to try to run past an opponent defender, or simply to move with the ball into open space. Are they the same thing? In reality, clearly they're not. In this game they probably are. I say "probably" because, who knows? Once again, this might be influenced by the player and team mentality, too. Maybe. Who knows? I don't think even the programmers know that anymore, considering that your assistant coach's "suggestions" are even more vague and quite often simply wrong. It feels like the match engine took a life of his own and even the programmers lost all control over it, and they're just like "meh, it seems to work, let's keep it like that" That's probably why they reduced the player's freedom with individual roles. I think they want to prevent you from finding errors in the ME that you could use in your favour. But when you have to limit the player's freedom to hide the game engine's flaws, you're doing everything wrong design-wise. I'll end it here, with my final suggestions that could, in my opinion, solve EVERYTHING in one go: - give more tactical freedom to the players, not a set of rigid options; - remake the Match Engine from scratch, guys, and KEEP. IT. SIMPLE. The tactics interface, too. Very complex games like Europa Universalis have way much more variables than FM, but the player always feel in control. That's not the case with Fm anymore, and it's been like that for years. Thank you for reading, feel free to say your opinions and attack me, too, if you feel I've not been fair. One last thing: I can win the game. Won Serie A and Champions with Lazio. It's just not that fun anymore, because I don't feel in control and many, too many flaws are breaking the illusion of realism. I've got tired of that. Please, please fix the game.