Improvement suggestion for FM12

[BristolCitySupporter]

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[/FONT]I am currently doing some coursework for a QA Game Tester course and have come up with a suggestion for improvement of Football Manager 2012 and would like to get people's opinion on whether they think this idea would improve the game, so that I can use this as material to support my suggestion when I write it up.

The suggestion is: The ability to change your mind/cancel after you have initially confirmed a substitution of tactical change.

Your changes won't be made until the ball goes out of play. Therefore, the match situation can change before your changes are made. However, you cannot cancel them. There are situations when this is particularly annoying.

Example 1: You make an attacking change because your team is losing/drawing but before the change is made your team scores and you no longer want to make the attacking change, but the game does not allow you to cancel it.

Example 2: You make a defensive change because your team is winning but before the change is made your team concedes a goal and you no longer want to make the defensive change, but it's not possible to cancel it!

Example 3: You bring off a player who after you have confirmed the substitution to return to the match screen scores his 2nd goal of the game and therefore is on a hat-trick, but you still have to bring him off when a real life manager could just not bother with the sub or take someone else off!

The question I am asking for my survey is: Would you like to see the option of cancel/changing your substitutions before they are made in the game?

I appreciate any feedback, Thanks.

 

[Death Ball]

During the Germany - Portugal game, Löw was to bring in Klose for Gómez but cancelled it when the latter scored (so said the commentarists), so I would very much like it.

However, making this change might involve serious problems regarding the game's response. Considering how the game performs so nicely the translation of mental abilities and positioning and almost everything, I would think that if we have not that choice it's because the way the match engine works, cancelling a change when already confirmed would involve several serious problems that may not have a solution.

Then again here's this: when a player gets a red card or a serious injury it allows you an immediate change and, if you had a sub confirmed that had not yet gone into action, it gets cancelled and you can make one new, so it should be doable.

Also: Features missing FM2012 new features FM2013 thread

 

[BristolCitySupporter]

During the Germany - Portugal game, Löw was to bring in Klose for Gómez but cancelled it when the latter scored (so said the commentarists), so I would very much like it.

However, making this change might involve serious problems regarding the game's response. Considering how the game performs so nicely the translation of mental abilities and positioning and almost everything, I would think that if we have not that choice it's because the way the match engine works, cancelling a change when already confirmed would involve several serious problems that may not have a solution.

Then again here's this: when a player gets a red card or a serious injury it allows you an immediate change and, if you had a sub confirmed that had not yet gone into action, it gets cancelled and you can make one new, so it should be doable.

Also: Features missing FM2012 new features FM2013 thread

The point you make about the red card/ injuries is a very good one!

 

[lan lodger]

Can I just say you support a great team. Mciness will take us to the prem ;') And I think it's a good idea that you can cancel your substitutions, for example in real life in the euros gomez was going to come off for klose, but then gomez scored and lowe stopped the sub. This happens alot to me in FM, I make a striker for striker swap but he just scores the second i do it

 

[Piginho]

Yes.

 

[W4NKER]

Three improvements...

1. Team Talks.

2. Team Talks.

3. Team Talks.

 

[LFCMarshall]

1. More varied Press conference questions, and one's that relate specifically to the game

2. Team talks better, with less silly things affecting the whole morale!

3. Teams like Man City actually sign top players, instead of signing a load of average players that never play, basically better transfer market!

Editor side:

- Make it so you can transfer list people and make them unhappy

 

[BristolCitySupporter]

Can I just say you support a great team. Mciness will take us to the prem ;') And I think it's a good idea that you can cancel your substitutions, for example in real life in the euros gomez was going to come off for klose, but then gomez scored and lowe stopped the sub. This happens alot to me in FM, I make a striker for striker swap but he just scores the second i do it

In all honesty, he has a lot of work to do!

It is very annoying when it happens, that why I'm using this for my coursework. Just need enough material to back it up!

 

[Eileen]

I think it's a good idea that you can cancel your substitutions, for example in real life in the euros gomez was going to come off for klose。

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[gogogo golem]

I think you should be able to cancel your substitutions because if a player who is playing poorly and you are about to take him off if he starts looking dangerous or solid in a defenders case you wouldn't want him to come off anymore.

 

[BristolCitySupporter]

Exactly, it can be quite frustrating!