What team? you basically haemorrhage money in lower league football. The board usually invest a significant sum once a season anyway so don't worry too much about it.
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So Football Manager. Is it good?
- Thread starter I Wanna Be The Guy
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What team? you basically haemorrhage money in lower league football. The board usually invest a significant sum once a season anyway so don't worry too much about it.
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For Lower League Management;
1.) Utilise loans
2.) Promote and play youth
3.) Look at free transfers
4.) Sell anybody you get decent offers for
At that level nobody is irreplaceable, and it's totally possible to get by without transfer fees. Bring in a couple of loans where you can and use youth to fill gaps in the squad and/or first team.
1.) Utilise loans
2.) Promote and play youth
3.) Look at free transfers
4.) Sell anybody you get decent offers for
At that level nobody is irreplaceable, and it's totally possible to get by without transfer fees. Bring in a couple of loans where you can and use youth to fill gaps in the squad and/or first team.
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is FM19 on game pass again? I went to play it last week after downloading it, and was told by the launcher it was no longer available. I only had the option to buy showing.
That would be great if I could play it there though.
You obviously don't appreciate the unique perspective that the Scottish leagues bring to football!
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I am bumping this thread to say that I now have the Switch version as well. Doesn't seem very different at all to be honest. I expected it to be more scaled back than this compared to PC. It's good and now I can have my FM addiction portable.
Remember when I first made this thread? I can confirm lots and lots of hours later that Football Manager is good. I will be day 1'ing next years game whenever that is.
Remember when I first made this thread? I can confirm lots and lots of hours later that Football Manager is good. I will be day 1'ing next years game whenever that is.
Are you playing touch on PC? Because the switch version is just FM Touch
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I only play the switch version now...it cuts a lot of things that takes time and let you to focus on whats important, the tatics
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That would be such a sick feature but no. Could you imagine they basically just have player stats and everything from previous seasons and let you select your season? Fuck that would be amazing.
Ah, alright.
Yeah. For me its mainly about wanting to face off against legendary teams, and Messi & Ronaldo in their respective primes.
It's always released late October/early November.
There should be Databases for that, but it has been a long time since I messed up with this kind of DB so no idea how they are in recent years (or if they are there :P).
Have you tried touch? Takes away a lot of things that slow the game down
Yes tried that mode a few times in the past few years but still too much going on for me personally. But I can see the appeal if you have the time to sink.
I've been playing this game for years but I wouldn't recommend it until they start adding some kind of cursor or icon to show which player you're controlling. I've noticed a few times already that I thought I was controlling a player when he was actually AI controlled and I apparently controlled somebody else offscreen.
It's like crack. An enormous timewaster. Satisfying and maddening in equal measure.
Ahhh don't do it. FM releases are so incremental and tiny that unless you need the season's transfers I try and buy every other year, or at least wait until they hit game pass. And the match engine is usually released in a broken, easily-exploitable state before it gets patched three months later (at which point you could have gotten it on sale).
Ahhh don't do it. FM releases are so incremental and tiny that unless you need the season's transfers I try and buy every other year, or at least wait until they hit game pass. And the match engine is usually released in a broken, easily-exploitable state before it gets patched three months later (at which point you could have gotten it on sale).
My name is Betamaxbandit and im a FM addict
From playing the old CM games and reading a book while it processed results (yeah i had a real shitty PC) to recently buying an iPad so I could play it in comfort on the counch. I really like the scaled back approach Touch and even the Mobile versions offer, they are still a time sink but in no way as all consuming / divorce enducing that the full PC version is.
From playing the old CM games and reading a book while it processed results (yeah i had a real shitty PC) to recently buying an iPad so I could play it in comfort on the counch. I really like the scaled back approach Touch and even the Mobile versions offer, they are still a time sink but in no way as all consuming / divorce enducing that the full PC version is.
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Alright after diving more in to the Switch version, yeah it is quite scaled back. But.....it's not necessarily a bad thing?
I guess it depends on what you like about football manager but I much prefer touch, full FM is too bloated.
Only wish you could transfer saves between PC and switch
1200 on one save and you're only in 2024/25 Surely not?
Im on FM18 and in the year 2030 and I've done 200hrs on one save.
You are not micromanaging like me :) With my settings a game lasts 10-15 minutes.
I had a great save with Portland Timbers on FM 12. Put a poacher up top with Pace and Acceleration and they'd score bucket loads. Can't get strikers to get involved or do much at all in the last two versions.
Too bad in that edition players would retire pretty young, 35-36 years old.
The Switch version of 2020 is 50% off just now in the UK (£15).
It's about £5 on iPhone for comparison.
It's about £5 on iPhone for comparison.
Reached 2035 in my FC Andorra save in Spain, spent 8 seasons at the top three before finally winning La Liga on the last day of the season thanks to Real Madrid losing to Alaves, put about 820 hours into the save. Stopped playing as i felt ive achieved pretty much everything i could do, originally i wanted to take the Andorra national team to the World Cup but i just wasn't producing the youth players at FC Andorra to make it viable.
It's brilliant, addictive and it'll take over your life if you aren't careful. If you like football then the chances are you'll like this.
I'm about to dig in to some of this, does the gamepass version support the patches for badges and kits?
Also, where is the best place to get said patch if so?
Also, where is the best place to get said patch if so?
I've been a huge addict since CM4 days and they really, really need a huge AI overhaul at this point. On my current FM 2020 save (at 23/24 season) City bought Vinícius for 105mn € and.. made him available for loan. It really breaks the immersion.
I've managed to not play the last two versions, and I'm extremely proud of myself.
The game has hit a brick wall with its match simulation and AI, and until they overhaul significant elements of it, I'm done.
The game has hit a brick wall with its match simulation and AI, and until they overhaul significant elements of it, I'm done.
You are fortunate. Last two versions are the worst in a long time when it comes to spitting out a satisfying game of football.
Gamepass version does not allow modifying of files.
Did you by chance play FM 18 and 19 on Switch? Would you know what improvements they've made over the years?
I'm really tempted to jump in but I'm just not good with these number management games it seems.