What I find really weird is stuff like this:
You're clear favorite to win a match. You loose it. That's OK, that's football. So you cheat, you reload it (I hate doing this, but I did it to prove my point). So, even after reloading, you loose it again. Well, maybe there's something wrong with the tactics (even though they were working fine until now). You change tactics and reload the same match. You loose again. Repeat 10, 20 times, different tactics, different lineups, different instructions. You always loose. Even if you dominate the match, a defender or the GK will do a very stupid mistake out of the blue. Like suddenly my decent GK can't grab the ball anymore. Or I'll always get a penalty against me. Or I'll always get an almost impossible goal or two scored against me (by the way, this is happening in the Portuguese 2nd Division but it also happened before I got promoted).
I have to ask...is the Match Engine broken or is the game simply scripted? I've always defended this game against the 2nd accusation but I'm starting to have my doubts.
First off it is lose, not loose. Now onto your quite frankly ridiculous post.
There are far more factors in winning a match than tactics. Press-conferences, team talk, training, morale etc are all as equally important. If you are the favourites heading into the match you have probably got complacent yourself and just thought it'd be an easy game, so you give the wrong team talk, your players think it will be an easy game then they mess up. Then YOU JUST MOVE ON, TAKE THE LOSS, LEARN AND MOVE ONTO THE NEXT GAME. Reloading it achieves nothing, if you've saved on the actual game day then everything I alluded to earlier has been factored and locked in. It is down to you to get the team-talk, team selection etc right now which you are not hence you reloading it.
Also if you are changing tactics just before a game you think that'll work? No wonder why so many people struggle with FM, a lot of players are still naive. Look at it like this. If your team have been playing say a possession based 4-3-3 all season then out of the blue on match-day your team is told they're playing a counter attacking 4-2-3-1 how will they react? In the normal way, they'd ask what the **** is this guy doing managing a football team if he thinks we will just adjust to that ON MATCHDAY and win the game.
You reloading the game 10,20 times and still losing is indicative of poor management skills or being a bitter person who can't accept defeat. You lose the same game 20 times over and have learned nothing? And you have the audacity to question if the match engine is scripted? Hilarious. Mistakes happen man, get over it. They happen nearly every week in football and if you're going to tell me in every match you've reloaded the game was lost due to a mistake by one player then I'll laugh at you.
Can you please define how you dominate games? I have seen plenty of people point to possession stats and again, I laugh. Having 60% possession isn't dominating someone. If you have 20 shots and 7 on target you are being tactically out-thought by the AI.
One thing I see all the time is people ask is the game scripted, simple question back at them, why? Why would SI do that? What do they achieve exactly? They couldn't do it anyway unless they did something incredibly complex with the ME. Which is code in the ME's ability to differentiate between AI and Human.
I know this came off blunt, harsh and I look like an SI apologist which I am not. FM14 has its flaws and it is inferior to 13 but posts like this annoy me. When I was new to the game I shamefully reloaded a handful of times and WON BECAUSE I LEARNED WHY I LOST IN THE FIRST PLACE. If you are losing the same game, 10, 20 times over then the problem is lying at your feet. Holiday your reloaded games in the future and I guarantee your assistant will win it for you more times than you will. ****, upload the save of the game and I'll play it for you or someone will and I am sure someone will win the match first go. Disproving your ridiculous theory.
Of course it is based off of an assumption that you DID save on matchday but it makes it worse if you didn't and have gone through the week leading up to the match and haven't noticed any problems. If you're giving the same team-talk, press conference etc then again, that is your problem and surely you'd learn from that?
The thing is, a lot of FM players are naive (as aforementioned) or new to the game and haven't grasped it yet because of its complexity (Si's fault for not making it very friendly to new players) and when they fail they quickly shoulder the blame on SI because they can't accept maybe, just maybe they are bad at the game. Of course awful ME bugs cost you the game sometimes and you have right to complain. But you losing the same match over and over is your fault, not SI's.
