Shippers77
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Id like to start this off by saying that I have played FM for years, 05/06 my earliest memories of playing the game, across that time I have always been fairly active on the various FM forums knocking about and have always rolled my eyes at the various threads over the years that all say things along the same lines "tactics dont work!! why am i not winning every game!!! this ME is BROKEN!!!" however this year I have been driven to becoming one of those people!!
I do consider myself a "casual" player, I may dabble here and there with my own tactics but mainly ill download a bunch I like the look of and have a mess about with them, Ive never expected plug in and plays to literally give me 100% records cause where would the fun in that be? but over the years ive found a strong tactic, bought in and developed players to suit the tactic and thats where my enjoyment has come from. This year however tactics seem to have a shelf life of about half a season, maybe a full season if you are lucky, now I know the instinct reaction this is to tell me that the AI teams get used to how I play through scouting and adjust their gameplan accordingly but this year that has been majorly cranked up, hence the question in the threads title, I really feel like FM20 could be too much for many casual players.
Ive got four saves running at the moment, all employing different tactics, based in different countries and with all of them ive found the same problem of tactics losing their effectiveness very quickly. The latest save is the one that has made me post this really . Starting as Birmingham I have a two tactic system (switching between the two depending on home/away, underdog/favourite) very strong season with a lot of draws. ended up finishing third and losing in the play off final, into season two, largely the same team and all of a sudden the team cannot score, is leaking goals dramatically and come october I am in the bottom three and look poised for the sack, other saves with Llandudno (wales) Palarmo (Italy) and St Pauli (Germany) have largely worked out the same for me. At this point it seems to me that the only way for long term success is to change tactics every season or even halfway through every season, in which case how are you supposed to recruit players if you know that the team shape and tactic will HAVE to change sooner rather than later?
Maybe the new patch will change things up a bit but at the moment this veteran of the football manager series is feeling very demoralised and really not feeling like wanting to play the game all that much!
The death of the casual player?
I do consider myself a "casual" player, I may dabble here and there with my own tactics but mainly ill download a bunch I like the look of and have a mess about with them, Ive never expected plug in and plays to literally give me 100% records cause where would the fun in that be? but over the years ive found a strong tactic, bought in and developed players to suit the tactic and thats where my enjoyment has come from. This year however tactics seem to have a shelf life of about half a season, maybe a full season if you are lucky, now I know the instinct reaction this is to tell me that the AI teams get used to how I play through scouting and adjust their gameplan accordingly but this year that has been majorly cranked up, hence the question in the threads title, I really feel like FM20 could be too much for many casual players.
Ive got four saves running at the moment, all employing different tactics, based in different countries and with all of them ive found the same problem of tactics losing their effectiveness very quickly. The latest save is the one that has made me post this really . Starting as Birmingham I have a two tactic system (switching between the two depending on home/away, underdog/favourite) very strong season with a lot of draws. ended up finishing third and losing in the play off final, into season two, largely the same team and all of a sudden the team cannot score, is leaking goals dramatically and come october I am in the bottom three and look poised for the sack, other saves with Llandudno (wales) Palarmo (Italy) and St Pauli (Germany) have largely worked out the same for me. At this point it seems to me that the only way for long term success is to change tactics every season or even halfway through every season, in which case how are you supposed to recruit players if you know that the team shape and tactic will HAVE to change sooner rather than later?
Maybe the new patch will change things up a bit but at the moment this veteran of the football manager series is feeling very demoralised and really not feeling like wanting to play the game all that much!
The death of the casual player?