Mate, the game doesn't work this way. I just don't understand where you guys take all these ideas about "AI compensate something" or "AI learn your tactic and then it stops workiing"... when I hear it I just can't hold my laugh...
You see a ton of highlight of the corners and the throw-ins because a ton of half chances and clear cut chances are created after the corners and the throw-ins... that's why... and that's all... no magic here...
"Short corner" and "long bullet throw-in" help you to boost your result about 40-30% compare if you would played without it and if you remove it then be ready that your results drop by this amount... I'm just ready for it because I like tougher challenge and when I win because of these exploits I just don't get fun from the game.
Without these "exploits" it usually takes me 2-3 seasons more to win Champions League with low league clubs such as Middlesbrough or Leeds because in order to win Champions League without these exploits you need to have a really strong team which consist of the best players...
Heh, funny thing even with these exploits I see that people complain about that they lose sometimes and I just can't imagine what happens if these exploits would be fixed… Btw, this tactic would be affected the less than other tactics because it scores much less from the corners than other tactics.
My english isn't very good, so I'm sorry if I can't express myself as well as I would like. But I play this game since the very first Championship Manager, so I know one thing or two about it.
You are mixing things. I said nothing about the AI learning your tactics. This is a myth people that people have been repeating for years, but still a myth nonetheless (like the second season syndrome, general training affecting tactics and others).
What I said about the AI compensating is because of what I experienced in my game. I was using your tactics, since V1, and was having not only great results, but also great football being played, with lots of open play goals and highlights. And with the more recent versions, it seems that all goals and highlights now come from set pieces. So much that I stopped using it, because it simply wasn't fun anymore. I enjoy watching intricate passing, off the ball movement, one-twos, through balls, and not corner after corner after corner. If your more recent tactics are indeed better, I should be still be seeing good football and lots of open play highlights, plus the set pieces highlights and goals, but thats not what I'm experiencing. And that happened in all of the saves were I was using your tactics.
I was thinking something like this: it's so easy to score from the set pieces exploits (specially when playing with a good team), and as you said, you create so many chances from it, that perhaps after scoring two or three early goals from it, your players become complacent and your team simply don't create or finish many chances on open play anymore. And if you weren't using the exploit, your team would probably still score two or three, but with more open play chances. That's why I asked what is your experience with your tactic without the exploits. If you were experiencing better football without it, because without the exploits, your team has to find other ways to score, if it makes any sense.
In the end, I'm not complaining about you tactics, because, as I have said in previous posts, they are probably the most effective for FM15 (and for FM14 with Epic also), and you sharing it with us is much appreciated. If I'm allowed to complain about anything, it would only be because in the later versions I stopped experiencing the beautiful football that I was seeing before, and started seeing almost only set pieces highlights. That's what I'm trying to find an explanation for.
LOL ahahaha at the begging of the season, I thought it would be a very good result to finish somewhere mid table... but just look what happened 