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I was one of those bemoaning the game at first but I'm now 6 months and many hours into my first season and really enjoying the game. Can't see any of the bugs mentioned like high scoring, injuries and player unhappiness. It helps that I've created a realistic setup with many leagues all playable across the world totalling 130,000 players with my league and all international competitions on full detail. It also helps that I try and stick to realistic formations and tactics. I also have atribute masking on and I only sign players from the ones recommended by my scouts or other staff.

Have you got offers on any other players? Even though they have not signed contracts the wages will have been deducted.

Only just dawned on me but unless I'm doing something stupid the set piece template only addresses corners. How are free kicks and throw ins setup?

You are right. We're playing a high tempo, direct, counter style. Originally the idea was for the DLP to occupy the DM strata and receive the ball off the defenders but that didn't work. He was more involved when moved to the central midfield strata but we were more passive because of it. I'm playing with a balanced mentality most of the time. The idea is to not always be direct but mix it up and I quite like the way it works. Just needs a little more tinkering.

Was using DLPs but found we became to passive in an attacking sense so changed to a BBM.

Does your save file keep growing season on season or has it peaked?

I see where you're coming from. Building tactics is something I enjoy though. Will continue to build tactics from scratch but I will limit myself to the 11 available formations in game. Hopefully that will be a compromise that will keep the game from getting easy. p.s already ran into problems. Wanted a 4-1-4-1 defensive formation but its not in the game so had to settle for the less than ideal 442.

After considering everything I moved my DLP into the central midfield strata on a support role with a DM on defence. It's early days but he's now more involved in play and our gameplay has largely remained the same. We were doing ok until we come up against an AI playing pressing tactics and we got absolutely annihilated. Now that's another topic 😉

Don't know if I'm missing something but I can only see the files to download to make the game harder. Has he created a document detailing the fields he edits?

Question for all you editors. I want to make my game harder. Which parts of the database should I change to make my game harder?

I play the same way as you but one big difference. I create my own tactic from scratch. I keep it real though using real formations and roles you would find in real life. Tactic building is my thing. Why would preset tactics make the game harder?

I'm not worried about space. More about how much slower the game will become.

Focusing play down the middle sounds interesting but that will impact my attacking play which I am happy with at the moment. BPD take riskier passes. Would have thought that would make the situation worse. Thinking of adding play out of defence. See if that has any impact.

Both standard CD one stopper one cover

At the moment in my 433 DM formation my DLP is hardly involved. He has the least passes of most of the players and the central defenders ignore him and play balls to the fullbacks who then pass to the midfielders. How do I get the deep laying playmaker in the defensive midfield strata to become more involved in the game?

I'm not going to get political in here but don't believe everything you read in the mainstream media.

Mines already over 200mb after 4 months in game. I have a database of 130,000 players which is above the maximum recommended by the game by 5k.

Mine started at 96mb and after just 4 months (in game) it's risen to 213mb. How big do save game files get?

I agree with you that pressing in game is not reflective of pressing in real life but then the engine generally does a poor job of representing real football. Hopefully that will be fixed next year. I can't argue with your stats either but that is not my argument. When you use gegenpress or any of the combination of instructions that make it OP then whether it is pressing correctly or reflecting correctly in the stats it IS giving you an advantage over the AI. For whatever reason the AI does not cope well with it and we are seeing people on here and YouTubers etc all able to adopt these tactics and dominate their game no matter what team they play.

When you say not pressing effectively I disagree. I think it's more a match engine or more precisely a match animation issue. When gegenpress is in effect you see players closing down more than they would with other systems but not as you would in real life. I believe if the animation engine was better it would show the players jockeying. It cannot be argued that pressing is OP and anyone who uses it has an advantage over the AI.

That's where I went wrong. Just been sacked in my Hereford game after just 4 months in charge. I rigidly stuck to basic player roles on the belief that these players could not carry out more advanced instructions. It also didn't help that i refused to play any form of pressing as I have become overzealous in my hatred of the meta gegenpress tactic.

I do feel on most instances of complaints on this board it is more the player than the game. Well done for sorting it out 👍 Ps that's not too say this game hasn't got some genuine issues.

I avoid using them as well.

You won't want to hear this but it will be down to you and your tactics. The good news is is it is fixable. You just need to figure through looking at statistics through the data hub through your players qualities etc etc what you are good at and what you are not good at.

@Cleon Hi Cleon I have recently come back to FM and have just finished reading the first two pages of this thread with interest. Apologies if it's been asked elsewhere but I am intrigued why you chose to use wide centre backs when you first started as a division 6 Brazil side. I know you couldn't see their attributes but surely defenders at this level would not have the passing skills to be successful at this role. Or does the passing stat not matter? Would love to know your thoughts about why you chose these roles at this level?