How do you play FOF?
 

Do you playcall every play or simulate games/seasons at a time or what?

What do yall do?

Never have played a game with any version....always just manage and sim.

I've always played by manually playcalling the offense, and letting the coach call the defensive plays.

Honestly, I'm not at all comfortable with the new playcalling. I don't have access to every play, only plays for a given situation. I understand the principle... For now I'll persevere and see how I feel in a few season's time.

Controls-->Edit Single Player Options-->Limit Play Choices when Calling Every Play. Select "NO" on this option.

SP. Make all personnel decisions. Ask coaches reccos for lineups. Sim game until/if it gets interesting or I want to sub people.

Aha! Thank you!

In the FOF2004 era, before joining the multiplayer community, I manually playcalled offense for every game. It was just how I enjoyed the game.

Later, after I started playing multiplayer, I eventually figured out how to enter the numbers in the boxes to somewhat approximate the offensive rhythms I had developed from calling plays. I didn't call plays much, if at all, in FOF2007 or FOF7.

Now, the new playbook and gameplanning mechanisms allow a much more precise implementation of those rhythms. I find myself calling plays again to relearn how I want to create game plans. I highly recommend doing at least some playcalling to get a feel for what plays you want to call in certain situations and then working with your playbook and gameplan to achieve that result.

GM, mostly sim but once I get my team in order, I sit up in the press box and watch the games.