It all started in 2009, when I tried FIFA Manager Demo. It was decent experience but that game was very flawed. I played it for a month or two (in game time) and then just deleted it. After few months, FIFA Manager 10 came out and my friend told me about it. I was going to check it out and I searched it in google. On of the results of that search was FM09 so I wanted to try that new game. FIFA Manager was never interesting after that ( not that it ever was). I remember getting the demo and looking at Man United players and thinking WOW, they are all very good! Short after that, I bought my first ever game, FM10. Then I started to get active on the forums. Funnily enough, FM-Base was the first forum I've ever register at. It's still probably my favorite forum, even though I stopped contributing in FM section long time ago due to becoming an moderator and later on admin on domestic FM forum. Ok, that enough with the side story.
In FM10, I was complete noob. I didn't have a clue what am I doing. I was raging, fuming at the game when things aren't going in my favor. I would even save/load when I was going to play Liverpool/Man City cuz I couldn't handle a loss against them. And that was happening more often then not. Then FM11 came out and I started becoming active on FM Base. I was reading what others had to say and start upgrading it with my own knowledge and experience. I became fascinating how FM works and wanted to know every aspect of the game. Because of that, my Uni experience suffered and I even started skipping exams to play 'just one more' game. I would stay up for two straight days just playing the game and messing with the editor. Oh the editor, how infinite possibilities it had then. You could to many wonderful things with it. I was loving it, I was creating so many new leagues, rules and general competitions. I've even figured out how to use something called advanced editor. I was so deep in FM that I even infected my roommates.
Then FM11 came out and it's my favorite by far. I had terrible laptop but I managed to run the game for 22 years as manager of Burnley. I've spent so many hours scouting the players, preparing the tactics, etc.
In FM12 I discovered online and that I'm actually very very good at it. But I didn't like it. I wanted to play CL, cup games etc, I want to build my own team, use my own youth players. And then something snapped. I still played a lot of FM, but I only played with two clubs. Man United and Vitesse. Some of you maybe remember my tactic with Vitesse I posted here.
FM13 was not very fun to me. Dunno why, maybe because at that time I had some personal issues and simply couldn't focus hard enough on the game. Yeah, I still had like 10+ years with Man United, but that's nothing compared with previous versions.
FM14 was very boring to me. I knew every players CA and PA, their hidden attributes, best players, wonderkids etc. due to nature of my job. Yeah, creating super team with Man United was fun for a little, but I abandoned that idea and started only playing with Brittish/own players.
FM15 was by far the most boring FM ever. Like in FM14, I basically knew everything. I needed to spice it up a bit so I even downloaded Marshalls db to change the game dynamics for me just a little bit. Nah, it didn't last long. Then I think I found some save game in 2030 that Tezz posted and I thought "Great, I know nothing about players in 2030, lets do this", but there wasn't any interesting players that I wanted to build my save around.
So after this long monologue, I have to ask you guys, what do you do to spice things up? How do you keep your passion up? I've gone from the point that I cared so much about the game that I was willing to cheat, to the point where I didn't play FM in 4 months.
Thanks
In FM10, I was complete noob. I didn't have a clue what am I doing. I was raging, fuming at the game when things aren't going in my favor. I would even save/load when I was going to play Liverpool/Man City cuz I couldn't handle a loss against them. And that was happening more often then not. Then FM11 came out and I started becoming active on FM Base. I was reading what others had to say and start upgrading it with my own knowledge and experience. I became fascinating how FM works and wanted to know every aspect of the game. Because of that, my Uni experience suffered and I even started skipping exams to play 'just one more' game. I would stay up for two straight days just playing the game and messing with the editor. Oh the editor, how infinite possibilities it had then. You could to many wonderful things with it. I was loving it, I was creating so many new leagues, rules and general competitions. I've even figured out how to use something called advanced editor. I was so deep in FM that I even infected my roommates.
Then FM11 came out and it's my favorite by far. I had terrible laptop but I managed to run the game for 22 years as manager of Burnley. I've spent so many hours scouting the players, preparing the tactics, etc.
In FM12 I discovered online and that I'm actually very very good at it. But I didn't like it. I wanted to play CL, cup games etc, I want to build my own team, use my own youth players. And then something snapped. I still played a lot of FM, but I only played with two clubs. Man United and Vitesse. Some of you maybe remember my tactic with Vitesse I posted here.
FM13 was not very fun to me. Dunno why, maybe because at that time I had some personal issues and simply couldn't focus hard enough on the game. Yeah, I still had like 10+ years with Man United, but that's nothing compared with previous versions.
FM14 was very boring to me. I knew every players CA and PA, their hidden attributes, best players, wonderkids etc. due to nature of my job. Yeah, creating super team with Man United was fun for a little, but I abandoned that idea and started only playing with Brittish/own players.
FM15 was by far the most boring FM ever. Like in FM14, I basically knew everything. I needed to spice it up a bit so I even downloaded Marshalls db to change the game dynamics for me just a little bit. Nah, it didn't last long. Then I think I found some save game in 2030 that Tezz posted and I thought "Great, I know nothing about players in 2030, lets do this", but there wasn't any interesting players that I wanted to build my save around.
So after this long monologue, I have to ask you guys, what do you do to spice things up? How do you keep your passion up? I've gone from the point that I cared so much about the game that I was willing to cheat, to the point where I didn't play FM in 4 months.
Thanks
