Crazy Diamond Posted 23 November, 2011 Posted 23 November, 2011 We're coming for you... Oh and we've beaten you 4 - 0 in the play-off final. Ha ha ha.
skintsaint Posted 23 November, 2011 Posted 23 November, 2011 (edited) through the youth ranks...dubbed the next Kevin Davies Seems I might have to play with a target man soon... http://imageshack.us/f/210/94469625.jpg/ Edited 23 November, 2011 by skintsaint
niemi14 Posted 23 November, 2011 Posted 23 November, 2011 To the guy managing in Moldova; any good players to recommend? Just taken over Sheriff Tiraspol...
Crab Lungs Posted 23 November, 2011 Posted 23 November, 2011 To the guy managing in Moldova; any good players to recommend? Just taken over Sheriff Tiraspol... I'll have a look a bit later, but if IIRC, you should be receiving loads of offers from South American agents by now, assuming you've started! Decided that to really get into a game I'm going to want to really "feel" the club I'm playing for and the area it's in. In this instance, I'm going all nostalgic and taking over Kerkyra in Greece; Better known to us Anglophiles as Corfu. Tiddly club, tiddly stadium, tiddly budget, tiddly squad, big ambitions. Why? Because I holidayed there several times as a child and once as an adult and thoroughly enjoyed my time there. OK, so here goes...
Crab Lungs Posted 23 November, 2011 Posted 23 November, 2011 I was just thinking... Howabout a little challenge? Take over a considerably small club in one of Europe's leagues, give yourself a £5m transfer kitty but only £100,000 bank balance and spend as little or as much as you want. The only drawback is, the more you spend, the more pressure you've got to "win" something and secure the prize money - all of which helps if you don't want Mr Andronikou knocking on your door on behalf of the creditors. I'm calling it the "Pompey Challenge". Anyone in on it? FWIW, I think I'm going to take Kerkyra this way. I'm going spunk the lot and see if I can keep up with the big boys in the Greek Superleague. Basically, I'm going to have to qualify for your Europe this year if I want to stay solvent
Mattio Posted 23 November, 2011 Posted 23 November, 2011 (edited) Sounds good to me! Is there a way to find out how much prize/ tv/ etc money you get for each league? Would the reputation be set to a certain level or just what it was? I guess another cool challenge could be being able to vary the reputation and transfer budget either high rep or high budget. Edited 23 November, 2011 by Mattio
Smirking_Saint Posted 23 November, 2011 Posted 23 November, 2011 Just a note to say NEXT YEAR DON'T BOTHER WITH STEAM Or I will be playing it without paying It is seriously effecting my enjoyment, everything you do you have to do through steam, the other day my internet was off, Steam was in offline mode but wanted to get online to validate itself. Jesus wept.
Crazy Diamond Posted 24 November, 2011 Posted 24 November, 2011 Howabout a little challenge? Take over a considerably small club in one of Europe's leagues, give yourself a £5m transfer kitty but only £100,000 bank balance and spend as little or as much as you want. The only drawback is, the more you spend, the more pressure you've got to "win" something and secure the prize money - all of which helps if you don't want Mr Andronikou knocking on your door on behalf of the creditors. I'm calling it the "Pompey Challenge". Anyone in on it? Ha. Geeeenius. I'll stick with Gothenborg though, I still have a stupid ambition to win the Champions League despite watching my team struggle to beat sides like Halmstads BK (featuring Michael Svensson as player/assistant manager) and Jonkoping Sodra.
CWD Posted 25 November, 2011 Posted 25 November, 2011 Currently sitting in 7th place in the PL with 10 games to go. Is anyone else finding that the amount of goals getting scored is a bit absurd? I regularly have games that finish 4 or 5-3, last season had a 6-4 win against Ipswich, and have just beaten Preston 6-3 in the FA Cup. Oh and not to mention a PL game against Fulham I've just had - finished 9-3! Starting to get a bit sick of it to be totally honest.
Crazy Diamond Posted 25 November, 2011 Posted 25 November, 2011 Crab Lungs, just noticed this which I thought might interest you. Minimal Fuss Tactic This links to a specific post - a guy is using this tactic in the Moldovan second division and he's doing really well.
skintsaint Posted 26 November, 2011 Posted 26 November, 2011 the 4222 devisto or whatever it is called is the one I use...score goals for fun....let goals for fun in too tho..
Benj Posted 26 November, 2011 Posted 26 November, 2011 Just finished my first season, top of the Championship 116 points, 35 wins, 11 draws, 0 defeats. Won the League Cup, beating Man U 2-0 in the final. Just been offered the job of Great Britain manager at the Olympics, going to be interesting
Crazy Diamond Posted 27 November, 2011 Posted 27 November, 2011 I'm using a tactic with a track record of great success regardless of player quality or team quality, but my strikers are missing the easiest of chances. Six clear cut chances and no goals? It's SO f*cking annoying. Anyone got any suggestions as to how to get these ****s to score?
Clapham Saint Posted 27 November, 2011 Posted 27 November, 2011 I'm using a tactic with a track record of great success regardless of player quality or team quality, but my strikers are missing the easiest of chances. Six clear cut chances and no goals? It's SO f*cking annoying. Anyone got any suggestions as to how to get these ****s to score? What's the tactic?
Crazy Diamond Posted 28 November, 2011 Posted 28 November, 2011 What's the tactic? Minimal Fuss, I've linked to it above. Turns out it was all in my head, my striker finished top scorer in the division - which we won!
Crazy Diamond Posted 28 November, 2011 Posted 28 November, 2011 That tactic I mentioned. This is a guy who got Bury into the Championship. In the F.A Cup they got a trip to some other team in Manchester... Yeah. It's a bit good this tactic.
SuperMikey Posted 28 November, 2011 Posted 28 November, 2011 I urge those of you who are playing as Saints - sign Jan Chramosta. Got him for £5.75m and he's been worth every penny so far, he's scored 14 goals in 11 games (including 2 amazing strikes against the Skates).
Crazy Diamond Posted 29 November, 2011 Posted 29 November, 2011 Achieved my main ambition of the season, IFK Gothenborg are in the Champions League group stages! We beat the Albanian champions 10 - 1 on aggregate, then Partizan Belgrade and overcame a two goal deficit to dispatch HJK. Our group is comprised of European champions PSG, Werder Bremen and Shakhtar Donetsk. No trip back to England yet! In the league we've got three games in hand and are two points clear, but we lost to lower league opposition (managed by Henrik Larsson) in the Cup. Anyway, here we go, Gothenborg vs the champions of Europe!
Crazy Diamond Posted 30 November, 2011 Posted 30 November, 2011 The Champions League adventure was rather short and painful. IFK Goteborg 2 - 5 Paris Saint Germain (although we took the lead!) Werder Bremen 2 - 2 IFK Goteborg (we came back from two down!) Shakhtar Donetsk 5 - 2 IFK Goteborg Paris Saint Germain 3 - 0 IFK Goteborg IFK Goteborg 2 - 5 Shakhtar Donetsk IFK Goteborg 0 - 3 Werder Bremen So all in all we didn't do that well, but given no one gave us a chance in the third qualifying round, I'm not too displeased. Finishing third place in the group will be the aim next year, again provided we get that far. There might be a favourable rearrangement of the European qualifying places which would be nice. The money was also nice - it's been put to good use with new youth facilities and I can now offer players £7,500 a week as opposed to £2,5000 a week! Only one or few mind, the wage budget is £80k. We retained the league title which was nice, next year more of the same hopefully. It's all been achieved using the 'Minimal FuSS' tactic I linked to above, it's very good and the creator, FuSS, is always tweaking it. Version 0.4 will be released soon, definitely worth a look, but make sure you have the players necessary for it. Physical stats probably count for more than other attributes, you need fast and strong players.
Crazy Diamond Posted 7 December, 2011 Posted 7 December, 2011 And it's all gone quiet over here. What's the latest, people?
skintsaint Posted 7 December, 2011 Posted 7 December, 2011 currently managing Saints from game start and now in 20/21 season. Won Champs League once, Europa League once, FA Cup 3 times, Carling Cup once. Lallana still going strong at 32 - 40 England caps also. SMS now has 54k capacity and sells out frequently.
Crazy Diamond Posted 8 December, 2011 Posted 8 December, 2011 currently managing Saints from game start and now in 20/21 season. Won Champs League once, Europa League once, FA Cup 3 times, Carling Cup once. Lallana still going strong at 32 - 40 England caps also. SMS now has 54k capacity and sells out frequently. Noice. To keep the good news coming, here's the nPower League Two table in 2016.
Crazy Diamond Posted 8 December, 2011 Posted 8 December, 2011 Best screenshot ever. Could have been that little bit sweeter - the game before that was nearly a relegation decider.
Crazy Diamond Posted 10 December, 2011 Posted 10 December, 2011 If you think Huddersfield did well, then try some of this... Not bad, given an Allsvenskan campaign is 30 games long.
SuperMikey Posted 12 December, 2011 Posted 12 December, 2011 Wow, nice one man! Looks like Man City are going to walk that group though. Your GK looks like a bit of a woofter as well.
Crazy Diamond Posted 12 December, 2011 Posted 12 December, 2011 Wow, nice one man! Looks like Man City are going to walk that group though. Your GK looks like a bit of a woofter as well. Oh on the contrary, we qualified first! They had to beat us to get through. We're now in the quarter finals which is unreal. As for Dias, he's a legend. A regen but I've been messing around with face packs and I thought I'd try and match the computer generated face to a real one..
Matthew Le God Posted 15 December, 2011 Posted 15 December, 2011 Patch 12.1.0 is now out, Steam should automatically update your game.
Smirking_Saint Posted 15 December, 2011 Posted 15 December, 2011 Patch 12.1.0 is now out, Steam should automatically update your game. Oh good another chance for Steam to crash and generally be sh*t. FWIW, 2017 and Crawley in the prem GTFI
Crazy Diamond Posted 15 December, 2011 Posted 15 December, 2011 Oh good another chance for Steam to crash and generally be sh*t. Nail. Head. On. It's ****ed everything up for me. It can't decide if it's updating itself or not. Stupid ****ing ****ty thing. IFK Gothenburg are European champions at least, beat Real Madrid (who were 1/2 favourites) in the final. My Finnish, Icelandic and Swedish regens beat the likes of Ronaldo and Neymar.
Crazy Diamond Posted 16 December, 2011 Posted 16 December, 2011 Yep. Steam has ****ed everything up, as usual. I've had to totally uninstall and now won't be able to play for ages, as the internet is so bad around here. ****ing stupid. If anyone wants in, I'm thinking of rounding up the creators of Steam and holding a public execution.
supersonic Posted 17 December, 2011 Posted 17 December, 2011 Steam error - This game is currently unavailable. Please try again at another time HELP?? what does this mean? I hope that in future FM do not use Steam, it is ruining a perfectly good game!!!
supersonic Posted 17 December, 2011 Posted 17 December, 2011 and now it seems to have deleted FM12 from my laptop. unbelievable. I'm seconds away from never playing this game ever again. Absolutely useless
Crazy Diamond Posted 17 December, 2011 Posted 17 December, 2011 and now it seems to have deleted FM12 from my laptop. unbelievable. I'm seconds away from never playing this game ever again. Absolutely useless Same situation as me mate. By the sound of it you need to just delete the lot, including Steam, and start over. Whenever there's an update I have to do exactly that because Steam is so ****ing useless. You might not have lost your saved games though, on the bright side.
supersonic Posted 17 December, 2011 Posted 17 December, 2011 Same situation as me mate. By the sound of it you need to just delete the lot, including Steam, and start over. Whenever there's an update I have to do exactly that because Steam is so ****ing useless. You might not have lost your saved games though, on the bright side. I only bought the game a week ago so I'm only in August and have a monster deal lined up for a loan transfer so I would be disappointed if we do lose games. I'll try it again tomorrow but if not, I'll try that. Have you done what you said?
Crazy Diamond Posted 17 December, 2011 Posted 17 December, 2011 I only bought the game a week ago so I'm only in August and have a monster deal lined up for a loan transfer so I would be disappointed if we do lose games. I'll try it again tomorrow but if not, I'll try that. Have you done what you said? Didn't have a choice! Removed Steam completely, no traces left, reinstalled then had to leave the game to download overnight.
skintsaint Posted 19 December, 2011 Posted 19 December, 2011 Bah he retired....too early, was hoping for a couple more seasons. Not a bad career though. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/593/15587885.jpg/
niemi14 Posted 22 December, 2011 Posted 22 December, 2011 The latest update is utter gash. I thought it was my laptop and some of the add ons i had downloaded making the game glitch but it seems many others are having the same problem. If I try and start up a game now you cannot hold a team meeting and what's worse is that whenever you enter a match situation and have the team talk options, no matter how you say the insturctions, whether negative or positive etc, 80% of the players gauge an awful reaction; says they have switched off, look stressed, in danger of losing discipline. I just completely uninstalled and re installed it losing all progress and downloaded add ons to see if it was some dodgy add ons affecting the game but open it up again and it's exactly the same. Complete bull****. http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/football-manager-2012-discussion/89110-team-talks-dont-work-since-update.html
skintsaint Posted 24 December, 2011 Posted 24 December, 2011 been playing fifa manager 12 at my dads over xmas...enjoyed it a lot more than i wanted tbh. havent got the update yet but if it fecks my game up it might be time to switch.
Colinjb Posted 24 December, 2011 Posted 24 December, 2011 Judging from reactions here it sounds just as well I've stuck with 2011.
saintsforlife7 Posted 25 December, 2011 Posted 25 December, 2011 There's a special xmas achievement to unlock over today and tomorrow, anybody unlocked it?
Ludwig Posted 26 December, 2011 Posted 26 December, 2011 The latest update is utter gash. I thought it was my laptop and some of the add ons i had downloaded making the game glitch but it seems many others are having the same problem. If I try and start up a game now you cannot hold a team meeting and what's worse is that whenever you enter a match situation and have the team talk options, no matter how you say the insturctions, whether negative or positive etc, 80% of the players gauge an awful reaction; says they have switched off, look stressed, in danger of losing discipline. I just completely uninstalled and re installed it losing all progress and downloaded add ons to see if it was some dodgy add ons affecting the game but open it up again and it's exactly the same. Complete bull****. http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/football-manager-2012-discussion/89110-team-talks-dont-work-since-update.html oh no, players reactions to teamtalks aren't linear... the game is slightly harder - such bull****, not realistic at all, eh?
Ed Rooney Posted 26 December, 2011 Posted 26 December, 2011 got the game for christmas, played FM or Champ Man in its previous form for years, what is this steam ****e all about. Put the disc in expecting quick load...4 and a half hours trying to load via steam, WTF !!!!!
Crazy Diamond Posted 27 December, 2011 Posted 27 December, 2011 got the game for christmas, played FM or Champ Man in its previous form for years, what is this steam ****e all about. Put the disc in expecting quick load...4 and a half hours trying to load via steam, WTF !!!!! Yep. You'll have to get used to it I'm afraid. Sadly the numbers of legal sales of the game are high and so they've no intention of dropping Steam as long as that remains the case.
Crab Lungs Posted 28 December, 2011 Posted 28 December, 2011 Right, it's time to start over with the Pompey challenge. I've been away from the game for far too long since I moved out but now I'm ready to tackle it again. Bring it on. Oh hang on... ideas on a team, anyone? Obscure if necessary...
Benali Saint Posted 29 December, 2011 Posted 29 December, 2011 Not got the game yet But with steam I doubt I will bother
Matthew Le God Posted 29 December, 2011 Posted 29 December, 2011 Not got the game yet But with steam I doubt I will bother The game being on Steam has made no difference at all for me. If anything it is better, as it auto updates.
Thedelldays Posted 29 December, 2011 Posted 29 December, 2011 football manager is slowly eating itself...steam, crap update, bugs etc
skintsaint Posted 29 December, 2011 Posted 29 December, 2011 The game being on Steam has made no difference at all for me. If anything it is better, as it auto updates. well you would say that wouldnt you Need to start a new game, any ideas...dont want to start too low, thinking of Lille.
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