I decided to challenge myself again with FM2012. I chose Gloucester (because of the 7k stadium!) but this time I selected to not have real players, so all random and fake names. I got a less crappy *** man as his stats are:
Mental - 10,12,8,8,10,2,11,9
Coaching - 1,7,7,6,7,6,8,10,9
So he only has an 8/8 for scouting actual and potential leaving me to scrutinize all possible transfers. I wanted to find Simon *** (wonderful CB) in this game but I can't seem to find his fake counterpart.
I have had one playable youth with the rest being the greyed out generated players, two reserves (one is quite poor) and the rest of my senior team. I've shifted everyone to senior team and leave the youth and craps to play reserves to stay match fit. I'm still about $140 in the clear and have been scheduling friendlies with both major teams like Burnley, Hull, and Blackpool as well as playing obscure teams like TSN and others to rape and get moral higher.
I've been playing with a 4-3-3, with two center mids and a def mid, two wingers and a striker. So far I've only tasted one defeat but have been scoring quite often and best thing is I'm not leaking as many goals as I expected. I play attacking mentality with shouts of retain possession, hassle and stay on feet. I tweak the system minimally depending of in my guy is a winger or inside forward, wingback or fullback, but leave the general shape as is.
Granted, winning BSN/BSS isn't rocket science, but in FM11 I've always leaked goals like mad. This save I've tightened up quite a bit.
So far, I've liked the game. However, one thing I cannot stand is when I play elevated camera with game speed at full throttle it looks like the camera is having a seizure whenever it hits either end of the pitch. This never happened in FM11 so hopefully SI will look into it. I'm rather fond of that view
I'll post stuff every once in a while here as my game continues
Mental - 10,12,8,8,10,2,11,9
Coaching - 1,7,7,6,7,6,8,10,9
So he only has an 8/8 for scouting actual and potential leaving me to scrutinize all possible transfers. I wanted to find Simon *** (wonderful CB) in this game but I can't seem to find his fake counterpart.
I have had one playable youth with the rest being the greyed out generated players, two reserves (one is quite poor) and the rest of my senior team. I've shifted everyone to senior team and leave the youth and craps to play reserves to stay match fit. I'm still about $140 in the clear and have been scheduling friendlies with both major teams like Burnley, Hull, and Blackpool as well as playing obscure teams like TSN and others to rape and get moral higher.
I've been playing with a 4-3-3, with two center mids and a def mid, two wingers and a striker. So far I've only tasted one defeat but have been scoring quite often and best thing is I'm not leaking as many goals as I expected. I play attacking mentality with shouts of retain possession, hassle and stay on feet. I tweak the system minimally depending of in my guy is a winger or inside forward, wingback or fullback, but leave the general shape as is.
Granted, winning BSN/BSS isn't rocket science, but in FM11 I've always leaked goals like mad. This save I've tightened up quite a bit.
So far, I've liked the game. However, one thing I cannot stand is when I play elevated camera with game speed at full throttle it looks like the camera is having a seizure whenever it hits either end of the pitch. This never happened in FM11 so hopefully SI will look into it. I'm rather fond of that view
I'll post stuff every once in a while here as my game continues