[Is this the game for me?]

Yeah. Your opening post pretty much describes the exact purpose of FM Touch, so I'd definitely start with that.

[Do you immerse in the game world?]

Thanks. I will take a look. 

[Do you immerse in the game world?]

I guess I should also add that I'm actually role playing in my own game this year. In my save's version of reality, West Ham was renamed to London Olympic. A bunch of their loyal fans took umbridge with this and stopped attending games, boosting Leyton Orient and Dagenham Redbridge's attendances. Around 7000 fans then created a phoenix team called Thames Iron Works who started in the Essex Senior League, who Carlton Cole (who I'm role playing as) is currently managing. 

[Do you immerse in the game world?]

5 hours ago, Brother Ben said:

That's the one!  I know he pops back in every now and then to update people on stuff, just wish i could remember the name of the thread.  It was pretty epic

Another one I've just remembered was one with two fictional rival teams called the Bandits and the Sheriffs. That was an amazingly epic thread. 

[Do you immerse in the game world?]

8 hours ago, Brother Ben said:

I've never done it myself but I remember a guy on here who created his own nation that was so in depth he had people on here asking how certain fictional sides were getting on.  I think if I had spent weeks (probably months) creating a database like that I would be a lot more immersed and keen to see how the other teams were doing as they'd be my own creation

I think I remember that thread. From memory, they used to play the game in real time, and every Christmas their family would sit around the monitor with them to watch the cup final. 

It's pretty awesome that FM could become a Christmas family tradition. 

[Time to complete a season]

Neither. I play full matches. I started a new save at the beginning of April. I've been playing a little bit most days and I'm currently 8 games into my first season. I did spend quite a bit of time early doors doing editor stuff rather than playing FM though. 

[How do you get your team to win more tackles?]

What are your possession stats like? (If your team has most of the ball, then there will be less opportunity for your players to tackle the opposition.)

[How many nations do you usually load?]

I voted 1-5. As most of my games are extreme lower league saves, at most I'll have the main country and a couple of other nearby countries loaded. 

[** Downloading Football Manager 2010 **]

Would it perhaps run off of a mounted ISO file if the OP can find someone with a device with a CD drive to create it for them? 

[Ever seen this before???]

I had a similar thing happen in FM19 when I promoted a grey player in an injury crisis. I think he was all 7s in my case, but it still made him one of the best players in my squad at the time. 

[Just installed FM on the wife's computer]

I installed FM18 on an Intel Compute Stick so that I could play in hotels when I was on a motorcycling vacation. For similar reasons, I also installed FM19 on an 8 inch Windows tablet. 

[Playing FM20 on a very low end pc]

Yeah. Give the demo a try. I ran FM19 on an Intel Atom tablet, and the experience exceeded my expectations. So it is possible to play on lower spec hardware, as long as your expectations are realistic. 

[What is Your Favourite Team Mentality?]

I use all of them depending on my specific tactics and match situation. However, I tend to use Counter, Balanced and Positive the most. The others I only generally use for more extreme situations towards the end of the match, or if I'm trying to replicate a specific style of football that requires it. 

[How can I advance faster?]

If you're just interested in flying through games, maybe give FM Touch a go. The career progression is much faster compared to the full fat FM.

[FM19 Erling Haland declining although priemer league top goal scorer for 2 seasons]

Personally, I completely ignore/disregard the star system. I'd suggest taking a look at the player's progress in the Development > Progress chart instead, to get a better overview of their progression.

[Funny Screenshots Thread]

Sorry, it's a video rather than a screenshot, but this passage of play was too comical not to share. It's high quality football in the Essex league!

[Funny Screenshots Thread]

Once, in a Glentoran save, I was top of the league with something like 10 wins, 10 draws and 1 loss. It was a mighty tight table at that point. But, I went on a bit of a run and ran away with the league in the end. 

[Will anyone be buying FM21?]

If you're lucky. From my experience, it's more likely to go something like this: "Hi there, I'm John, and right now I'm investigating why this recursive function call never reaches the base case. After that, I'll be looking into why the root of my min heap isn't the smallest node in the tree."

 

 

[Will anyone be buying FM21?]

Bear in mind that a major software house can have an open bug list hundreds of thousands of items long (I know my company does). There's no way they can possibly fix everything that is raised in a single iteration, especially if something has knock-on effects elsewhere. 

I'm not saying that the issues you've reported aren't important or deserving of fixing, but there could be a very long list of items in front of them in the queue. (Either more urgent fixes, or equally beneficial fixes that were raised earlier.) 

[Funny Screenshots Thread]

This guy is incredibly well named considering the amount of chances he missed in the last match against me. Why mark indeed, you may as well leave him alone and free.

[Thoughts on starting with a big team to learn the game?]

If it's purely about learning the tactics, I'd do a season or two with FM Touch first prior to moving back to the full fat version. The logic being that there's no tactical familiarity, so you can continuously make changes to your tactics until you get a feeling for how things work. Secondly, the games come thick and fast on FM touch so you'll have more time playing matches and experimenting with tactics. 

[Those of you who manage the lowest teams of all?]

I enjoy trying to get a bunch of guys with questionable footballing abilities playing something that resembles decent to watch football. 

To be honest though, I'm not sure FM scales that well to the lowest divisions in the game.  I realise it's all relative, but, in my opinion, it's a bit too easy to play sexy attractive football with a bunch of no hopers - I'd love to be forced to go long ball or super direct, just to get some kind of results. 

That said, I still wouldn't play FM any other way. I think it's been around 12 years since I managed a team as high as League One. (CM01/02 was the last time that I managed in the top flight.) I'm currently managing a team in the Essex Senior League. 

[Bojan at 16]

It could have been FM2006, but it would have been a coincidence, as all of his attributes were randomly generated in that version. (His potential was also somewhat random, as it was set to -7).

[How important is the consistency attribute?]

Years and years ago (FM04 or FM05, so too long ago to be meaningful to this discussion) I played a friendly between Dagenham and Redbridge and Schalke 04, where I gave every Dagenham player 20 consistency, and every Schalke player 1 consistency. The final result was something like 7-4 to Dagenham - when Schalke clicked, they ripped Dagenham to shreds, but for 70% of the match they couldn't string two passes together. 

[Strangest League that you have managed in?]

My FM19 save started in the 9th tier of the New Zealand league system. My FM20 save is currently in the Essex Senior League.

Regarding weird rules, I haven't played there myself, but I remember Loki Doki getting relegated from the Uruguayan premier division because the relegation system uses a system where the points are averaged out over a couple of seasons.