***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[Suntan Superman]

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One thing I enjoy about this game, is that I get punished now for alt-tabbing for too long, in previous iterations it was easy to forget during a game, now it seems there's more consequences, the opposing team switching tactics is a huge thing.

Loans might need some work though, I have Hector Bellerin, Gedion Zelalem, and Tom Thorpe on loan from BPL clubs, they should probably be playing at higher levels(I'm at Viborg FF)

Also, you do realize you're playing with Arsenal right?

[rsnomar05]

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One thing I enjoy about this game, is that I get punished now for alt-tabbing for too long, in previous iterations it was easy to forget during a game, now it seems there's more consequences, the opposing team switching tactics is a huge thing.

Loans might need some work though, I have Hector Bellerin, Gedion Zelalem, and Tom Thorpe on loan from BPL clubs, they should probably be playing at higher levels(I'm at Viborg FF)

Also, you do realize you're playing with Arsenal right?

I realize I'm playing with Arsenal, but when 8 of my starting 11 get injured, plus 3 backups, that seems like a problem with FM. Especially with others in this thread and on the SI forums complaining about too many injuries.

Fortunately my squad is beginning to get healthy, so I'm hoping that was just a fluke.

Also, if you play in windowed mode, you won't have to ALT+TAB.

[ChubbyBanana]

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Got Celtic through the Champion's League Qualifiers and into the group. Won 6-1 on aggregate against Maribor to get in. Here's the group Draws. Pretty happy with our group. Least we're not in group A.

[Joshua1207]

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Just finished up my first season

Spoiler

Not too bad for Aston Villa at all. Finished up the season winning 6 out of my last 7. My expectations are to qualify for the euro cup next season, and I think we have a good chance of doing it.

[rsnomar05]

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Beat Chelsea to advance in the COC, and was rewarded with a quarterfinal draw vs. L1 side Peterborough:

[ChubbyBanana]

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First Champion's league Group Match in the books. My team and Board's goal was just to make it to the group stages, so no matter what happens I should be in good shape.


First match though proved fruitful

[rsnomar05]

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First Champion's league Group Match in the books. My team and Board's goal was just to make it to the group stages, so no matter what happens I should be in good shape.


First match though proved fruitful

Nice win, I see Commons bossed the game. And also that, from the results screen, Ludogorets somehow drew Dortmund and Pool lost to Besiktas. The SI crew must have watched some of the real Liverpool and Dortmund this year and addressed things in game accordingly.

[ChubbyBanana]

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Nice win, I see Commons bossed the game. And also that, from the results screen, Ludogorets somehow drew Dortmund and Pool lost to Besiktas. The SI crew must have watched some of the real Liverpool and Dortmund this year and addressed things in game accordingly.

Funny how that happens isn't it?

Yeah Commons has been pretty reliable for me so far. Callum McGregor has been a joy to watch develop so far also. He's really taking to my liking him for first team action. He's got 4 goals in 7 apps. Commons has 5 in 7 apps (four as a sub), and John Guidetti who's on loan from Man City is really working it up top having 7 goals in 10 apps.

[rsnomar05]

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Funny how that happens isn't it?

Yeah Commons has been pretty reliable for me so far. Callum McGregor has been a joy to watch develop so far also. He's really taking to my liking him for first team action. He's got 4 goals in 7 apps. Commons has 5 in 7 apps (four as a sub), and John Guidetti who's on loan from Man City is really working it up top having 7 goals in 10 apps.

Only one player in your starting 11 is below a 7 in average rating? That's insanely good. Your tactics must be working well.

[rsnomar05]

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The injuries are absolutely killing me right now. I'm miraculously on a long unbeaten run, but Sanchez just returned from 1 month injury to get injured for 2-3 months in his 2nd match back. Debuchy and Chambers are both injured, so I'm forced to start Gibbs at right back. I have 9 players out injured for 1 month or more, which is actually much better than the 11 guys I had injured two weeks ago.

[rsnomar05]

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Van Gaal didn't last long:

[ImTellinTim]

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If anyone is looking to update to the latest and greatest version of the cutout mega facepack, there are lots of people out there seeding the torrent at the moment.

EDIT: The entire 7+ GB file only took me a bit over 30 mins to download.

[rsnomar05]

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Leicester must wish they hadn't bothered to show up:

[Anners]

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rsonmar, how often are you seeing more then 4 goals per game and stupidly high scoring games? It was quite often to me so I've not been playing it at the moment.

There has just been an update though, so expect things to change. Last beta the match engine changed dramatically.

[ImTellinTim]

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Today's update:

STABILITY & PERFORMANCE

Improved general performance
Improved trackpad performance
Fix for issues affecting 10.6.8 NVIDIA Macs
Fix for crashes during processing and going into a match
Fix for crash on quit

MATCH ENGINE

Improvements to goalkeeping
Improved goals from direct free kicks
Fixed consistently, unrealistic high scorelines in lower leagues
Fixed skin tone issues
Fixed headed backpasses leading to goals
Reduced own goal levels
Hundreds of other changes to match AI
Further polish to animations

TRANSFERS & CONTRACTS

Fixed issue where selling a player for a large fee would reduce the users transfer budget
Fixed issue where users could sometimes not offer a contract to a player they had made an enquiry for
Fixed issue in contract negotiations where including the ëOne year extension after X league games would prevent the user from agreeing terms with the player
Fixed issue in contract negotiations where selecting Use Existing Terms would prevent the user from removing some competition bonuses

INTERACTION

Improved balance of the ease at which a player can be talked around when they are unhappy
Improved balance of the amount of teammates who support players in their unhappiness
Fixed issue where players would ask to leave for first team football before they simply asked for more first team football
'Request Tutoring’ option has been added to increase the amount of tutoring options the user has
Fixed the ability to offer continent-specific tournament football to players not playing in that continent
Fixed rare instances of promises to accept a bid for a player being broken when no bid was made
Balanced the regularity at which players will request new contracts
Fixed board meetings being generated harshly and the ability to set yourself multiple points targets from within a board meeting

COMPETITIONS

Amended Champions Cup seedings for 2014/15 season
Improved Liverpool Champions Cup Quarter Final scheduling
Fixed drafts not being scheduled correctly
All A-League matches are now on TV
Fixed players not coming off DL6 at the end of their stint
Fixed Re-entry Draft Two pick duplication
Fixed issue where Young Designated Player contract logic was being applied incorrectly at times preventing User offering a contract to a player
Fixed issue where Free Agent retained Season Ending Injury status meaning they couldn’t be registered
Fixed NYCFC manager job becoming Insecure when they join MLS
Toned down NYCFC trade activity before they join MLS

MEDIA & NEWS

Fixed AI managers being incorrectly questioned and talking about the user struggling
Fixed Team of the Year player in incorrect position
Fixed not enough nations available to manage
Fixed subscription selections being reset on save/load
Fixed results in League Cup counting towards club’s Highest Scoring League Game record
Fixed English Premier Division Top Goalscorer Record is Sheringham with 1 goal
Fixed view Incident button on controversial penalty incident news item doesn’t show the foul
Fixed completely blank news item

MISC

Adjusted Dutch wages in both Eredivise and Juplier League
Fixed an issue where a player would retire immediately after signing as a Player/Coach
Fixed an issue where a player would retire without giving the correct reason
Adjusted coaches training workload
Fixed an issue with transfer budgets after adjusted season expectations mid-season
Fixed the issue of a users profile changing unexpectedly

FMC

Various skin fixes
MLS now be playable in Challenges

http://www.footballmanager.com/news/fm15-beta-update-1503-available