Recent content by Buchenwald

Long story short, I'm almost done with this challenge. I'm in 2020 and there's a glass ceiling I can't get past. This has nothing to do with skill or frustration, but the game mechanics, more precisely the Reputation system. I will make a post to explain what the flaw is, and then close this...

Yeah I agree this is a refreshing and cool challenge (one of the hardest possible IMO) Can you post the average attendance for all of the League? And post the price of tickets for your team? To give us an idea of how bad this is.

Moving up the Euro ranking will mainly affect price tickets which means more money :) It won't increase attendance much, but winning games will.

Europa League group stage is 2.2M, CL group stage is 7.1M, so one of these and you're set.. Europa League qualif round is 130K only though Looks like you will have to lose points in next season (doesn't matter if you go to Europa League via Cup) and slowly pay back your deficit (3 years maybe)

I see that World Cup winners are still totally random. Always this way with FM. Germany as eternal semi-finalists is respected at least :D

2016 : Where it all goes to **** : Euro 2016 I had the usual March friendly game with our usual 23. And I saw something horrible. My AML, Sheridan, can't play AML anymore! He only played ST for the Shamrock Rovers so he forgot. :/ Ireland 1-0 Belgium Long He didn't make it to the 23 for...

2016 : Where it all goes to ****, part 1 The year started nicely, with Eriksen starting to resemble a decent goalie. We recruited a lot of -18 European dropouts, which didn't change our team's level, but in a few years' time, we will be competitive in Europe. Or so I thought : During the two...

A very quick post and a question for you all : That's the third time I change the grass of my stadium, and after a month, the grass is again in a "very bad" shape. I'm sick and tired of having 3-4 injured players per month, does anyone know what this is? A bug? Iceland climate? I need ground...

Another quick post to post a random thought : -As of 2016 I can't upgrade my training center (even though it only has 16/20), my next focus is youth production. My youth are horrendous, so are all of Iceland's youth, and if I have to use 8 Icelanders in C1, that only leaves 17 "good" players"...

2015 : Smooth sailing Signing all pro contracts made my salary jump to 500K/year, but it's not that far away from the other Icelandic teams (they have like 40 players) I aim for group stage again. I recruited two good French defenders regens, Francois and Lukaku. I got Solem on a loan. All of...

2014 Recap Even though we won Simadeildin, Cup and League Cup three years in a row, we are still only the 6th most famous team in Iceland. This is bull* The "plan" is to keep on going to the Group Stage, enhancing youth facilities and training centers as we go. We won 8M last year and spent 4M...

I'm finishing 2016, so i'll post 2015 soon. 2015 is a normal year, but 2016 is so far the toughest year yet. Full of twists and surpises.

Totally agree with you, I recruited Jesé in a Lower League Challenge in FM12 and he went on to be Champions League material at the age of 24! Keep up the good work!

Acosta is very good, with a physical training to increase his pace and acceleration he will be a monster. Too bad he has 14 heading with 2 jumping, that's wasted points, but still. Solomun is awesome. Not a great fan of Demir (very physical, but average teamwork and determination, two key...

2014 : the turning point Okay, after two years, all the useless contracts in my team have expired and my wages are around 300k/year. Not bad for a team consistently winning Simadeildin. However, bad news : El Bahri wants to leave the team! I told him to wait a year, and he accepted. Still, I...