Recent content by NoGoals

Have a stated wage budget of ?150k p/w, the boardroom screen states that I am currently spending ?170k p/w on wages. Except, I'm not, adding the wages up gives ?120k p/w, with no extra wages being paid out to players on loan, or ex-players that have moved on. That's a calculation error of over...

The thing is, why did they produce such a spiteful, perverse match engine? Surely it cannot be good business sense. I, for one, will never buy FM again, and I have bought every release in the last 12 years or so. If you are going to stick two fingers up to your customers like they have done...

Sigh. Of course I don't expect all results to be exactly the same. And if you have 5 games between the same 2 teams, you won't get 5 different outcomes, either team A wins, team B wins, or it's a draw. But that's beside the point. I think I stated clearly (or at least I intended to) that over...

Sorry mate, but, respectfully, I completely disagree with you. Whatever algorithms they have for the match engine clearly favour the A.I. It is easily proved - make a copy of a save and play a season (or series of matches) as yourself and in the other one let an A.I. manager take control of the...

The match engine is such a mess, being so heavily weighted in favour of the A.I. team, that I can't believe that this has not been rectified in the patches. Leads me to think that there are legacy code issues that will not be easily fixed in future games. What is for sure, similar to what you...

Have you ever seen the producers of something troll their customers so extensively? It is mind boggling. I hope no-one buys next years game.

When playing in League 2, with all your tactics and training sorted and all that, and you keep getting beat by teams of mostly 'greyed-out' youth team players (often 4 or 5-0), you know that SI have completely ****** up the ME. They should have had the honour to not release the game until later...

Unfortunately, they just released a really awful game. The match engine is perversely loaded against the human player, all last minute winners or thrashings by teams vastly inferior to the users'. It's like S.I. have just stuck two fingers up at their fanbase. I have much anger towards them. I...

Thanks for the reply Ursulla - I respect your opinion completely, and it is tempting me to have another go, but it doesn't alter the fact that this year's version is full of bugs. If it was simply really, really hard I would go back to it, but it has more problems than that, I don't trust this...

You know the stories about people who have had interventions or been divorced because of Football Manager? Well, that's not been me. But it should have been because I have to be one of the most loyal/addicted people ever to play it. I've bought every version, and though they've not been perfect...

Apologies if this is the correct place to post, it is definitely a bug but is also ridiculously frustrating. Has it been noted before that if you take over somewhere mid-season, onerous season expectations result in getting the sack before the season's end? This was a problem in FM13 in my...

When taking over a team mid-season, the current version of the game has reverted to old habits of judging straight away on the start of season expectations. I took over a team with rubbish players in 23rd place in November of the season, finished 8th and they sacked me in May. This is...

Even though on the tactics screen the GK appears to be there when the team is selected, when I play the games every shot by the opposition goes in. I have come to the conclusion that he must really be behind the stand queuing for a pie. What should I do to get him to come back and play?

No mate, they were on 50% more than agreed (and status erroneously set to 'Backup to the First Team') the moment their contracts commenced when the transfer window opened. Cheers for the suggestions anyhow :).

If anyone has bothered to read this far, I have ascertained that it's deffo a bug, and only happens when you agree terms with a contracted player outside the transfer window (the window in the Conference was only closed for a couple of months of the year). I was able to scroll back to a point...