** OFFICIAL Football Manager 2012 Thread **

I am using every English league possible then the top flight from France, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Russia and Scotland. And it is still flying on a 2500k. Really enjoying it and it's maybe the first time I have played FM where Man Utd are not a really easy option. Birmingham though well they are amazingly useless as ever but you can't blame me for trying. :D

What formations is everyone using. I am getting very good results from a:

.........o Complete forward attack
..o.............o Inside forward support
.........o Box to Box midfielder
......o....o Left deep playmaker + right defensive midfielder
..o...o...o...o

4-2-1-2-1 I guess you'd call it then in attack and when I am expecting a win I use this:

.........o Poacher
..o.....o.....o Wingers + Treq
.........o Playmaker
.o......o.....o Defensive midfield and wingback
......o....o

All set to short passing low mentality at the front and the back with high in the middle - high tempo a lot of width etc.
 
Normally play 4-2-4 with wingers as opposed to wide midfielders, although based on only one of my two central strikers scoring I've reverted to:

.....striker..... (poacher)
LW...AM...RW (Left and Right wingers in attack mode, with an Attacking Midfielder in attack mode)
...CM...CM... (Defensive Playmaker on support mode next to a Central Midfielder on automatic)

standard back four.

Have implemented the basic of all corner tactics - best headerer and tallest defender attack front post with the ball played into front post. My right back is almost on double goal figures after less than 30 games!
 
molinari said:
As there is the option to turn leagues on and off, what do people recommend now for running leagues from the start - just the one you play in with a large database?
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Thats how I see it tbh, I just run the league im in (all divisions) ie if im in England i run it to the Blue Sq North and South etc

Then I have a custom database set to Large and all top division club players from Europe and South America, which gives me over 50k players and also ensures that all the teams competing for the European prizes have proper squads.

Runs mega fast :D I mean if I focus on what im doing and dont browse the net whilst playing, ill churn through a week in a minute or so... remembering though that I play the games as commentary only.

Its quick though, I think my spec would let me have 250k players before warning me about game speed... even then id doubt it would be that much of a problem.
 
I'm loving this years game.

I think some of the menu's are overly complicated for the sake of it, but I'm really enjoying it.
 
Bubo said:
Can someone remind me which countries are classed as EU for transfers in FM? There is a list of EU countries on the net but countries like Norway are not listed, and I could have sworn in the last version of FM I played (10), Norweign players were not classed as foreigners, whereas players from places like Macedonia were, neither of which are in the official EU list. I usually start with all the EU applicable countries players in the game so as to maximise potential bargain bucket signings as a LLM, but I can't remember the full list of countries.
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Answering my own post after a bit of testing. It seems that in addition to the bona fide EU member states as per this website, the following countries are classed as EU as far as Football is concerned.

Iceland
Liechtenstein
Norway
Switzerland
Faroe Islands
San Morino
Andorra

So if you are a freak like me and like to maximise the number of eligable Bosmans, then force the game to select players from all these countries.
 
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Changelist for patch 12.0.2 if anyone's interested. :)

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Football Manager 2012 v12.0.2
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General
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- Adjusted the randomisation of players when starting the game without real players.
- Added birth cities to all players when starting the game without real players.
- Top clubs won't arrange friendlies for the same day as international friendies.
- Improved friendly match income and fee calculations.
- Ensured when players sack their agent due to a breakdown in talks, they actually sack their agent.
- Fixed international manager's join date being wrongly reported in Match Analysis ticker bar and some news items.
- Fixed bug where Nottingham Forest's league fixtures were moved to a different stadium in 2013/14.

Backroom Advice
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- Improved changing squad status suggestions.
- Improved recommendations to remove players from the transfer and loan list.

Board Requests
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- The transfer budget is now restored if the chairman purchase transfer is cancelled due to the player failing a medical.

Match
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- No confetti used for semi final victories now.

Competitions
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Brazil
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- The Third Division now updates its history correctly.

Denmark
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- Fixed bug where non EU players under 21 were not automatically eligible to play in Denmark.
- Fixed the check date for Danish U19 teams.

Europe
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- Fixed missing draw date for the Euro Cup group stage.

Contracts
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- Fixed an issue were players could have started the game on Junior Marquee contract even if over 23 (wrong game start date used before).
- Fixed pro clubs not changing contract types on promotion.
- Ensured staff members demand full-time/part time deals at non-contract clubs
- Fixed user contract offer button disapearing when the user has a successfull contract negotiation with his own player just before

Finances
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- Adjusted default youth wages for English clubs
- Fixed future transfer sell-on fee being deducted from transfer budget.
- Fixed transfer involving very large monthly payments increasing instead of decreasing transfer budget.

International Management
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- Fixed 23-man World Cup Squad news item stating that the user needs to cut an incorrect number of players.

Newgens and Retirements
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- Adjusted the ratio of Welsh newgens appearing at English clubs
- Adjusted common names of newgens so less similar common names appear at same club

News
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- Fixed a MLS news item string which wasn't displaying correctly how many years a contract has been renewed for.

Player Happiness
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- Reduced the number of back-up keepers requesting to leave for first team football.
- Improved the length of time players remain unhappy for.
- Fixed incorrect check stopping user been able to chat to players about their unhappiness.
- Stopped players whose previous club was extinct from getting problems settling in the area inappropriately.
- Stopped players requesting to be transfer listed when the reason they are unhappy isn't suitable for them to request to be listed.

Player Interaction
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- Players who are on loan with a view to a future move now see this as the manager keeping their promise to sell them.
- Respond to comment button is no longer present if the news item isn't directed at the user.

Team Meeting
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- Captains are more likely to express an opinion in the team meeting.
- Players away from the club no longer appear in the team meeting.
- Made sure the meetings that the captain feels happen too soon after the last meeting aren't counted as actual meetings meaning the user could potentially not be able to hold a team meeting for months.
- Fixed issue with best and worst reactions not matching the overall morale change bar.

Team Talks
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- Adjusted the player reactions to "warn against complacency" themed talks when winning big
- Fixed the team talk feedback panel in the assistant manager profile to show up properly for the last match
- Stopped team talk effects from refreshing when selecting the default "No individual talk" option in positional/individual menus
- Sweepers included in defensive positional team talks

Training
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- Excluded injured players from possible players noted on the training report
- Adjusted the decline in tactical training familiarity levels in the offseason
- Excluded positive progression news items from assistant manager appearing on players currently injured

Transfers
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- Stopped high profile non-european based players from being interested in joining lower end leading division european clubs
- Fixed issues with players who aren't allowed to go on loan by thier club to users club, still being listed after the unrealistic loan filter is used on player search
- When small DB is used ensured non-active sugar daddy teams don't have big shortlists when they only have a handfull of real players loaded in
- When small DB is used ensured non-active teams shortlists are actually more reflective of thier squad size at the sart of the game
- Fixed loan rejection news item from stating that they want the wages paid in full, when infact they just wanted a bigger contribution to the wage

UI
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- Fixed issue with some tables not sorting correctly by default
- Fixed the National Pool stats views not updating correctly
- Fixed the MLS draft and waiver list menu links on the client.
- Fixed User is unable to use position of a sent off substitute
- Fixed a bug with the Transfer Tutorial
- Fixed "Can break any tutorial step by click, hold and release left-click on a drop-down"
- Fixed layout issue that caused the training workload slider to disappear
- Fixed bug that allowed non-nationals to be called up to a national side as part of a group call-up
- Fixed Crash in the How To System
- Fixed a bug with the transfer tutorial
- Fixed an issue with the team talk panel when selecting No Individual Comments.
- Fixed confirm dialog dialog not appearing on the add/remove leagues panel when continue is clicked
- Fixed table headings flashing during text commentary on stats panels.
- User can now schedule a friendly on the same date as one that he has just proposed then cancelled.
- Fixed respond to comment interaction options reappear after user has already responded.
- Home countries players can now be called up to the GB under 23s squad
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Cool an update already! Going to try and force steam to get this for me just so I can finish my saints season tonight. Top by 4 points in Le Champ with 7 games to go :)

Also has anyone seen the new youth intake bit?? Thought it was a much better way to do it than the last few...
 
Are there any torrents for these? Last time I checked SIOSI they split the files into like 20 parts with each part taking 2.5 hours to download, unless you paid for it of course.
 
Bubo said:
Are there any torrents for these? Last time I checked SIOSI they split the files into like 20 parts with each part taking 2.5 hours to download, unless you paid for it of course.
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Ive got the torrent file for the metallics - let me upload it somewhere
 
Bubo said:
Are there any torrents for these? Last time I checked SIOSI they split the files into like 20 parts with each part taking 2.5 hours to download, unless you paid for it of course.
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I will put the Metallic pack with all updates in a rar and upload it to https://www.wetransfer.com/ for you. The other pack will take longer to upload, i only get 1mb/s.
 
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That is rather spiffing of you, hope the bandwidth hasn't been exceeded by the time I get home tonight :)
 
Thanks to everyone involved for recommending GMG, just ordered FM2012 for £23, got the key instantly, put it into steam and it works perfectly, thanks guys.
 
thinking of getting this (dvd) but was wondering if it would run on a netbook and what would be the best way of installing it without a dvd drive? im running fm11 on my netbook atm but it can only manage running to english leauge 1
 
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