Is it me or do the regens get progressively worse as the game continues?
After many years of chasing regens, usually by scouting every single last one of them (now I only scout the ones that have £500k+ value after 5 days of being generated) I have decided to only buy players that are 4 stars or better, or 3.5 if they're English.
I am playing as Spurs and am in the 7th game year. I have 22 scouts. I have 5 set to scouting players under 17 in the playable countries, then the rest cover pretty much every region with no age limit. Most of the scouts have 19 or 20 in both judging current and potential ability. My assistant manager has 20 in both - the only reason I hired him as I want a consistent rating approach.
In the first round of regens there were about 10-15 players that had 3.5 or 4 stars. In the last 2 years there's been 1 or none.
I know my team is better than it started but until this year Christiano Ronaldo (Madrid offered him for about £25m - they must have had a tiff!) was getting 4.5 stars so I don't think the stars' value has changed that much. Also, I bought one Brazilian regen when he was 18 with 4.5 stars and he still has 4.5 - in current ability now!
Has anyone else encountered this? Should I be lowering my standards? Or is there just a lull currently? A lot of top names such as Beckham (signed him first season and kept him going until last year), Villa, Lampard, Xavi etc have retired recently so maybe I have to wait for them to be regenned.
Any help much appreciated as this is driving me nuts.
Thanks
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Also- has anyone ever had a decent foreign regen stay uncapped long enough to pick up english nationality? This has been a strategy of mine to make england great but it's not going very well... I usually get to within 18 months and then they called up as a sub for 5 minutes!
After many years of chasing regens, usually by scouting every single last one of them (now I only scout the ones that have £500k+ value after 5 days of being generated) I have decided to only buy players that are 4 stars or better, or 3.5 if they're English.
I am playing as Spurs and am in the 7th game year. I have 22 scouts. I have 5 set to scouting players under 17 in the playable countries, then the rest cover pretty much every region with no age limit. Most of the scouts have 19 or 20 in both judging current and potential ability. My assistant manager has 20 in both - the only reason I hired him as I want a consistent rating approach.
In the first round of regens there were about 10-15 players that had 3.5 or 4 stars. In the last 2 years there's been 1 or none.
I know my team is better than it started but until this year Christiano Ronaldo (Madrid offered him for about £25m - they must have had a tiff!) was getting 4.5 stars so I don't think the stars' value has changed that much. Also, I bought one Brazilian regen when he was 18 with 4.5 stars and he still has 4.5 - in current ability now!
Has anyone else encountered this? Should I be lowering my standards? Or is there just a lull currently? A lot of top names such as Beckham (signed him first season and kept him going until last year), Villa, Lampard, Xavi etc have retired recently so maybe I have to wait for them to be regenned.
Any help much appreciated as this is driving me nuts.
Thanks
---------- Post added at 04:09 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:06 AM ----------
Also- has anyone ever had a decent foreign regen stay uncapped long enough to pick up english nationality? This has been a strategy of mine to make england great but it's not going very well... I usually get to within 18 months and then they called up as a sub for 5 minutes!