[Joke result - SI please sort this out]

On 15/04/2022 at 19:42, Spurs08 said:

You tried something that seemed logical, but it didn't work. That happens. It doesn't mean the game's broken.

 

I would probably suggest that making a wholesale change in formation for a big game isn't normally the way to go. The team aren't familiar in it, you don't know how they'll play in it, and it's a very big change for a one-off match. I'd be more tempted in future to make subtle changes to instructions. Your idea can work, but it is pretty risky and didn't come off here.

That said, I would generally agree that FM is too biased to attacking football. Defensive or counter-based tactics can work, but it takes a lot of effort and tweaking to get there, whereas a 4-2-3-1 gegenpress is pretty simple to just use successfully from the off. Maybe that's realistic - a clever defensive tactic may be much harder to set up than an attacking one, where more of the success comes from the coaching side. But even if so, that isn't great from a gameplay perspective.

I would suggest your plan failed not the game broken, that’s football both in fm and real life.. except it and move on… it’s only a game 😜😜😜😜

[Aprils Fool Joke from SI Games]

On 01/04/2022 at 20:02, Daveincid said:

I highly recommend not to^^ The magic will be gone It's the same as playing with third-party-tools which shows you players PA^^

I decided the magic wasn’t required on this occasion and the baggies continue to struggle… the dream is still totally real 😝😝😝

[Aprils Fool Joke from SI Games]

I may do this….West Brom could do with some financial help 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

do I"……………….

[£0 initial transfer budget.]

3 hours ago, Brother Ben said:

That's brutal, I love it 

Second that thought 🤭🤭🤭🤭

[An addition that could add a new level of excitement to the game!]

Kits in the games are down to information provided by the club researcher to si and then added as close as possible. Also not all clubs change kits every year. Most have a 2 year cycle(West Brom do)

[Injury time improvements]

How is this unrealistic?  It happens in real life as well. He is probably adding the extra bit for the injury. Injury time is always a minimum announced in real life as well. 
mostly announced as follows - the ref has indicated a minimum of x amount of injury time

[Scouting shortlisted players issue]

6 hours ago, redhawk said:

Ah fantastic, having played for 20 years you would have thought I could spot that. Thank you.

Every day is a school day…I missed it as well 🤣

[How to increase staff attributes?]

Time spent at club I think and what courses they do

[Recurring newgens across different saves and game versions - let's make a list]

Starts new game search for SI employees 

[Staff missing height and weight in my game?]

Is it that much of a weight issue or is it weighing on your mind 😉😝😝😝😝😝😝

[January Transfer update]

1 hour ago, PhilT said:

Thanks Lewis, much appreciated

Folks 

the winter update is being worked on at present.. no released date as yet but keep looking for the updates 👀👀👀👀

[FM22 is beginning to feel like it's scripted]

It’s not scripted and happens in real life as well.. football is a funny old game 🙄🙄🙄

[Corner Prowess]

Interesting as I must be the only one not scoring goals from corners or free kicks.. and that’s using the default set piece routines….maybe mine is bugged 😢😢😢

[Testimonials]

My understanding is it’s 10 consecutive seasons for this 

[DoF stupidity in FM22]

And mine 🤔🤔

[Please let us pick penalty taker in a popup window]

I thought this (ad already changed now the game has been fully released.. however I’ve not got a pen yet to check

 

[Youth / Training facilities]

On 08/11/2021 at 18:30, MasterKano said:

I fully agree, the one-by-one aspect when upgrading is ridiculous when your club has the resources... the lower league clubs with a lesser budget I can understand upgrades being done gradually but for the clubs with a hefty budget they should either accelerate the process or as a balance the

board should offer you the option of skipping several levels of upgrades by taking out of your transfer/wage budget.

Great idea, however not to take cost out of your wage/transfer budget. 
 

[Beta saves]

Updates however u may not get all the features.. best to start new save 

 

[[Suggestion] Scouting costs/range revamp]

I have thought the same, surely your scouts in the country I wish to scout should be used

but no I was trying to scout scotland, had 2 Scottish scouts and the game sent my french scout instead

how does that make any sense 🤔🤔🤔

[Make staff more logically grouped by squad (eg first team / U23 / U18)]

On 06/06/2021 at 15:35, Cid said:

Year after year it baffles me how I'm supposed to manage staff working on different squads at my club.

For example right now in my Brighton save I go to Training -> Coaches -> Edit Coach Assignments, and I see all first team coaching staff listed, but also U23 coaches...but not the U18 coaches. What's that about?

Then if I go to Development Centre, in the top menu there is 'Staff' and I can select either U23 or U18 staff, each of which gives me the overall summary of the staff for those squads, but no way to see who's in each team, or their attributes. If I want to see the actual members of either the U23 or U18 coaching team, I have to go back into Staff in the main left-hand menu, then Overview. And from there if I pick Coaching, it only shows me the first team staff...but at the bottom are two blue links for the U23 and U18 staff and aaaargh why are they down there now?!

It doesn't seem at all logical. So my feature request is to make it easier to see staff for a specific squad only, grouped in a sensible place - here's one screen where I can manage the first team staff, here's another for the U23 staff and here's another for the U18 staff, not all together sometimes and all jumbled up all over the place.

I totally agree on this one, not necessarily a request, just a tidy up 

 

[Reloading for Son]

I’ve never had one in over 15 years of playing since cm days...😢😢😢

[Profitablility of Friendlies - it doesn't work like you think]

12 hours ago, phnompenhandy said:

Oh, that's really interesting. I wonder if any experiments have been done to give a closer estimate of the real financial outcomes of this.

On a partially-related note, here's a tip for a lower-league manager. When a big club come to poach one of your star youths and offer a derisory transfer fee, don't be too quick to reject it. Throw in an arranged friendly with them and your fee from that could be over ten times the transfer fee. I've got some nice little facility improvements from such arrangements in the early years of my career.

All good if it’s a negotiable offer if not reject away 🙄🙄🙄

[Karlan Grant]

As I said pretty much as I thought not a premier player at all 

impact sub for me and a good championship player that’s all 

 

[Tactic Selection]

Not sure this would work to well

one of my favourite parts is creating my own tactic and using my choice of players in it.

preselected tactics would be the same as loading and using someone else plug n play effort

not one of my I’m out 😄😄

[Allow Job adverts for Any role like fm19 had]

So please clarify what ur asking/suggesting.?

im confused and as we are now on fm21 as well 😉😉