[Quickfire Questions and Answers Thread (Tactic and Training Questions Only)]

Ok, weirdly enough after reinstalling it is working as it should when I go on holiday before going through team selection or starting the match. It still runs 4-4-2s if I finalize my team and then go on holiday, though. I can live with that.

Thanks

[Quickfire Questions and Answers Thread (Tactic and Training Questions Only)]

Try actually going into the match and then holidaying maybe?

Happens then, too.

Good to know it's not happening to other people (so far, anyway). I'm going to delete my install and give it another try.

[Quickfire Questions and Answers Thread (Tactic and Training Questions Only)]

Is it just impossible to get your assistant manager to follow your tactics? I play long games, so I tend to sim a lot of matches. I noticed that one of my players had a really long string of games with low ratings so I took a look at him and saw that he was exclusively being played as a winger even though he's a striker. The other problem with that is that my formation is a 4-3-3, so there shouldn't even be any wingers. Looked at the other players and figured out that it was being run as a 4-4-2.

I thought, 'ok, I've setup something wrong' and started looking around. When I go on holiday, I set match options to 'Use current match tactics'. Can't find anything else that might be changing this.

I look at my assistant manager and see that his favorite formation is a 4-4-2. So I fired him and got someone that liked a 4-3-3. He still ran a 4-4-2.

Hired a manager that liked 4-5-1 and built a 4-5-1. When I simmed the game, he ran a 4-4-2. Used a real-time editor to change his favorite to 4-3-3. He still ran a 4-2-2.

Modified all the players so they're only good at one particular position. 3 FCs, 3 MCs, 2 DCs, 1 DR, 1 DL. Still ran a 4-2-2.

I thought 'oh maybe it's because I'm using a custom database and something in there is throwing it off. Setup a new game with the vanilla database. 4-2-2.

Tried 10.2 and the release version as well. 4-2-2 every time.

Is this something that everyone else just knows and I'm just now realizing? If not, how do you get your assistant to run the tactic that you set? Playing every match isn't really feasible, because I like the seasons to move pretty fast and I usually just run a couple key games manually.

(For the record, when I sim a game I'm submitting the team and getting to the match analysis screen when I go on holiday, otherwise the assistant manager runs a totally different team, but that's another gripe entirely)