AcidBurn Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Can anyone think of a good pun for an Everton game? And please nothing nasty from the Liverpool fans. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidmonkey Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 The bitter sweet story of the Toffees? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rancer890 Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Everton? I had a plan of starting a Toffees save after the patch comes out. Although with a totally different goal than yours (they're probably be different ). Will Donovan be at Everton on the next patch? I would say something similar to what acidmonkey said. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcidBurn Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 I think acidmonkey is spot on. I will be starting one early next week and hopefully they will not end up crashed or deleted or something similar. Not sure about Donovan he has a similar loan deal to Beckham but they only put Beckhams short term loan in I think. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rancer890 Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Cheers AcidBurn. Won't matter too much though, as I'll want to sign Donovan permanently at Everton. I think I finally found an top English team to support. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcidBurn Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 I get it now lol. Everton is a good game their midfield is the best outside of Chelsea in the prem I think. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartwork Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Well I've slowly started getting more time on FM now. Also thinking about my thread title. Might think about changing it to something like "Look at my massive Wand!" but on second thoughts it is a bit crap and I might as well stick with what I've got. I'm in the playoffs now and heading towards New Year after bettering Sutton who have started to plummet. Not sure whether promotion would be the best thing atm though. Some of my best signings have been defenders and my goalie, Nick Jones, who's played every game so far. My central defenders have stayed the same, Mark Willy (who I chose as skipper against the advice of my team and backroom) and Tommy Osborne (who despite not scoring since September/October is my top scorer with 5 goals), and my RB and LB are signings made during the season. Andrew Downey and Precious Koko (who I mainly signed just because of the name ). I'll probably do a mid-season summary at the end of January, saying who's currently at the top of each league, who's in the drop zones, etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartwork Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 I'm also now very rapidly losing patience with a new signing that's only played 5 games for me. I've become fond of a 4-5-1 formation so reliance on the striker is vital. Danny Egan just hasn't done anything in those games (well, he scored a late equaliser against Tooting) and in my last game against Hendon we were 2-0 down until I replaced him with Leigh Bremner, where we then turned the game around and drew 2-2 again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangaea Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Danny Egan! \o/ He carried my team for several years. Was a bit of a heartache when I had to let him go last season. He was with us for 7 years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartwork Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Well my coaches and scouts recommended him but he just doesn't fit into my team. I've listed him for loan atm. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangaea Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 At which level do you play now? My scouts found him too, and he did very well for me for a number of seasons. But the last two he was only a sub. Since he had done so well for me I let him go on Bosman instead of trying to get a small fee for him. He's in Ireland now, doing pretty well. I'd assume most players at that level are quite randomly generated though, so perhaps he just ended up pretty decent in my game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartwork Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 I'm still in my first season, in the Ryman Premier. I'm making an unexpected playoff push after a 12 match unbeaten run (which came about after I found out about the wonders of 4-5-1, when I was using 4-4-2 we went on a 6 game run without winning), in which we're now level with 4th place AFC Hornchurch who we play next (\o/). I'll probably be screwed next season in the BSS if I do go up though, but promotion is promotion. And it would be good for the club's 150th anniversary being celebrated in 2010. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gundo Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 Does anyone have a comp with similar specs to mine - Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.60GHz 3.59GHz, 2.00 GB Ram, Windows xp sp3? Just curious as to how many leagues your running and DB size. I know the star rating system thing is bugged when setting up new games, but it only rates mine at 1/2 star for both and recommends I only run the English leagues down to league two! Thought it would of been more capable than that to be honest. I ask because never run more than one nations leagues before, should I just ignore the star ratings all together? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rancer890 Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 Does anyone have a comp with similar specs to mine - Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.60GHz 3.59GHz, 2.00 GB Ram, Windows xp sp3?Just curious as to how many leagues your running and DB size. I know the star rating system thing is bugged when setting up new games, but it only rates mine at 1/2 star for both and recommends I only run the English leagues down to league two! Thought it would of been more capable than that to be honest. I ask because never run more than one nations leagues before, should I just ignore the star ratings all together? Ignore the star ratings. I don't find them useful at all. I think you can easily run 20-30 leagues on a large DB with those specs. Although I had similar specs except I had Vista, if that's a big difference. Did you do some test runs? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gundo Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 I did do some test runs but because I only ever run one nations leagues I'm unsure with the speeds of processing??? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangaea Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 Depends a lot on personal preference too. If you hate watching the processing screen, like me, you don't want too many leagues. But if that's a non-issue, just put in as much as you want. The game will get slower the more seasons you play, but I think it has improved over the years. I'm now 10 years down the line and it's not a huge difference. While testing the boundaries for uncle ron's England file I ran some long holiday tests. I noticed that the timestamps on the different seasons didn't increase a lot down the line. So I don't think the game slows down as much as it once did. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iacovone Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 Agreed Pangaea, I've not noticed huge slowdown with this file. The only major difference now compared to the start of my career is continuing the game after playing a match. That takes a minute or two to register/process but then once back on the results screen I'm back to normal. I don't have a problem with loading times personally though so perhaps I'm a bit more tolerent of the slowdown. Gundo - I have a laptop with about half the specs you have and have been running 23 leagues on a large DB. One piece of advice - unless you're desparate to play in Brazil I would avoid loading that league as it contains so many competitions. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elrithral Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 One issue with number of leagues loaded is save size due to data. Slowly, but surely it gets quite big and this also slows the game down. I'm in 2026 with my International story save, but i'm using Gill's retain all players file and the save is already 75mb+ and gradually getting horrendously slow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gundo Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 Cheers for your help guys, I'm going to do some more test games this afternoon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DodgeeD Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 As iacovone said, Brazil is one to avoid if you are running a lot of leagues. The state championships mean there are about 8 extra leagues running simultaneously at the start of the year and there is a noticeable difference in processing speed in my game when they are running (Jan-April) and when they are not (rest of the year). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gundo Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 Ok, I loaded a game with Norway(all), Spain(all), Italy(all) and England(all) leagues running on a Large DB. It took 1hr 42mins to run through 3 months gameplay on Holiday, does that sound a reasonable speed to you chaps? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UELLfan Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 I'd say that's fast enough. However, my 'fast' and your 'fast' may vary a lot considering I play with some 100+ active divisions Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iacovone Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Sounds just fine to me Gundo. Now hurry up and get your career thread started Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidmonkey Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 yup get a thread up so i get more to read Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UELLfan Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Replacement laptop for the 'dead pixels' i7 laptop arrived today. Apart from the fact that the screen is gigantic on FM it also flies processing compared to my 3800+ x2 Athlon \o/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyGabriel Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Please can a mod move my Nasoni Waqaseduadua thread to the Stories forum? I think it would be more suited in there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Please can a mod move my Nasoni Waqaseduadua thread to the Stories forum? I think it would be more suited in there. It might be worth checking over there first but I have a feeling that embedded images are banned in FMS. You may need to remove them first before moving the thread. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bermybhoy Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Anyone got any experience in amateur leagues? Have started a career unemployed with a few nations running, and got offered a job with some Belgian 3rd division outfit. Not got as far as playing a game and they actually look ok on paper, but seems a struggle to find anything more than marginal improvements to the team. Will it just end up massively frustrating? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeLikeFM Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Anyone got any experience in amateur leagues? Have started a career unemployed with a few nations running, and got offered a job with some Belgian 3rd division outfit. Not got as far as playing a game and they actually look ok on paper, but seems a struggle to find anything more than marginal improvements to the team. Will it just end up massively frustrating? I found it easy to improve the squad with loans while Amatuer in England. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mista T Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 I've never really had a good nomad career before, but my attempt at a crack of one comes with the top two divisions loaded from: Brazil, England, France, Italy and Spain. I find this version of FM a lot easier as you can succesfully transfer how you think your team should play into the game, rather than fumbling around with sliders and such. Anyone have any tips for a beginner traveller? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raware Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 I found it easy to improve the squad with loans while Amatuer in England. I also found it easy to improve the squad with loans while Amatuer/Semi Pro in England. There's no limit so you can sign as many as you want. Seems there maybe some locality associated with it too as the players that were willing to join me were all within 30 or so miles of the club (Forest, Derby, Leicester, Mansfield, Chesterfield, Sheff Utd, Notts County, Burton, etc). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeLikeFM Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 I also found it easy to improve the squad with loans while Amatuer/Semi Pro in England. There's no limit so you can sign as many as you want. Seems there maybe some locality associated with it too as the players that were willing to join me were all within 30 or so miles of the club (Forest, Derby, Leicester, Mansfield, Chesterfield, Sheff Utd, Notts County, Burton, etc). I found that too. Would have made it much easier if I wasnt a foreigner Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangaea Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 Seems there maybe some locality associated with it too as the players that were willing to join me were all within 30 or so miles of the club (Forest, Derby, Leicester, Mansfield, Chesterfield, Sheff Utd, Notts County, Burton, etc). Would be awesome if this was implemented further up too. Part-time players really shouldn't be moving across the country, not least from one country to another, to sign for another semi-pro club on a part-time contract. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeLikeFM Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 Getting a real hankering for my old game Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidmonkey Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 well after a massive bout on CoD ive started getting back into my FM game so theres a good chance of an update over the weekend Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangaea Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 CoD blows. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raware Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 CoD blows. Have to agree. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidmonkey Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 only people who say it blows are people who suck at it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangaea Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Nope. Was very good at it. But it got boring. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackripper Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 bored of noob toobs lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidmonkey Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 noob tubes are easy to counter lol, jump seems to bounce under you and away , Just had best come back in fm just now, was trailing 2-0 to Bishop Aukland at half time looking dead and buried, goal in 59th from a fluke, a well taken break away in the 77th minute, before we took the lead in the 86th min, i then changed the tactics telling everyone to just lash the ball at the other end of the pitch when they get it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidmonkey Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 so close yet so far aimed to finish my season at the weekend, playing the final 22 games, i nearly did it but failed on game 36/42 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jld123 Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 First post in here, I've got a question. I recently ended my first save which had all leagues loaded from England, Italy and Spain, plus some other players loaded. I had to end it because in 2030 the game had slowed down really noticably and it got frustrating. So my new save has just got England loaded down to BSN/BSS. I was thinking of doing a career update but thought it might be difficult to keep it interesting with only the one country loaded. What do you lot think, and are there any existing updates with only one country running? I started out at Tooting & Mitcham and was thinking of calling it "The 2nd Best Career Thread Featuring Tooting & Mitcham", any opinions, dafuge? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Sounds good to me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatski Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 Hi there, I would love to start a career thread here, having been hanging around and enjoying some of the threads for the last few days. I was thinking of running it in parallel with Gundo's Challenge. Hope that sounds good. Do you think that I should play 1/2/3 seasons before I start posting, just so I know that I am 'into' the game. I want it to be a proper thread that lasts a while... Only problem being I may get confused with screenshots etc. And finally, do you think a monthly update with links to the matches is best, or a 2-updates-per-season (one at Xmas and one at the end of the season), or just one big update at the end of a season, à la dafuge? Sorry for all the queries... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 Hi there,I would love to start a career thread here, having been hanging around and enjoying some of the threads for the last few days. I was thinking of running it in parallel with Gundo's Challenge. Hope that sounds good. Do you think that I should play 1/2/3 seasons before I start posting, just so I know that I am 'into' the game. I want it to be a proper thread that lasts a while... Only problem being I may get confused with screenshots etc. And finally, do you think a monthly update with links to the matches is best, or a 2-updates-per-season (one at Xmas and one at the end of the season), or just one big update at the end of a season, à la dafuge? Sorry for all the queries... I would start a thread when you start your game, personally I find it easier to write about things that have recently happened. Personally, I think monthly updates are too often. You only really need to post updates that people will be interested in, which for me is restricted to end of season updates and noteable events. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangaea Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 Very much agree with that. Honestly, I don't see the point in monthly updates. That sounds more like a story to me. Easier to follow a career with seasonal updates. Playing a couple of season first so you know the save won't die right away is nice, but as dafuge says it's easier to write when the events are recent. I often forget stuff just from playing through the transfer window first Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeLikeFM Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 Its all about personal preference. Erithral and iacavone's updates are two of my favourites here and they are monthly. And of course mine, which is amazing, and monthly Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roseboy64 Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 Would do one but already finished dafuge's challenge. May start one of the other ones when I get bored with this save. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidmonkey Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 i started monthly but found it interupted the flow of me playing the game, always stopping to write update, started now with seasonal updates (stolen from Dafuges, layout, will be adding more things to it when i get the chance though, eg. going to post the Regular Starting 11 tonight,) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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