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I don't like the way you have to keep making sure your players are happy, it's like Sims! Also it seems like you have to pick every correct option to beat even the weakest of teams.
 
GIBURROWS said:
I don't like the way you have to keep making sure your players are happy, it's like Sims! Also it seems like you have to pick every correct option to beat even the weakest of teams.
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Phew, it's not just me. :) We lost badly and the team performed atrociously but I can't be too negative in what I say or say it in an aggressive or angry tone because the players will get upset. :rolleyes: The number of players I've had to make promises to about improving my man management is ridiculous. Especially when you consider I'm at Man Utd and I haven't even used the "Fergie hairdryer" setting yet! :mad:

I think you're right on the every correct option to beat a weak team. There've been matches where I should easily have won by half-time. I win 1-0 or 2-1 having only scored AFTER half-time. :confused: If I replay the game and massively change the team, not formation, just who plays, the game is much easier. Some of the so called 'weak' teams play like Barcelona and make me look like a team on the brink of relegation from the football league!
 
Obviously we will all still buy it but I very much doubt I will put in the hours that I have done as it's just about keeping morale high and having to play young wonderkids to make them better, loaning them out still does nothing.

There maybe a backlash for having an opinion but I think we should expect more.
 
Does anyone know what the difference between the beta (that I've got) and the demo is (that I haven't got yet)?

Found the answer myself on SI Forums:
If you have the Pre-Order Beta, you will not need the demo. The two games are identical, except the demo is 6-month only with Quickstarts, whereas the Beta is the full version of the game. Please keep all feedback in here if you are playing the demo, thanks
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GIBURROWS said:
Obviously we will all still buy it but I very much doubt I will put in the hours that I have done as it's just about keeping morale high and having to play young wonderkids to make them better, loaning them out still does nothing.

There maybe a backlash for having an opinion but I think we should expect more.
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Totally agree. It seems to be impossible to really shout at the team if they've performed poorly without most of them getting upset or angry at your team talks. You have to molly coddle the players and be oh so nice to them when we've drawn a game we should have won. :mad:
 
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If someone gets sent of in one game they get a warning if they then get sent off again and its within the same month then its a one week fine and then they are unhappy and I end up having to sell them, I basically have to stroke my players hair and tell them a story at night, too few options when being passionate as well and no hairdryer treatment, these are the things killing this game for me.

The 3D is awful as well, shocking for 2012.
 
GIBURROWS said:
If someone gets sent of in one game they get a warning if they then get sent off again and its within the same month then its a one week fine and then they are unhappy and I end up having to sell them, I basically have to stroke my players hair and tell them a story at night, too few options when being passionate as well and no hairdryer treatment, these are the things killing this game for me.
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Dealt with a red card by warning the player. Think it was Rooney. Was expecting a lawsuit for denying the player his human rights. Thankfully the warning was accepted. I don't think I've hard to deal with a player getting more than one red card in a short space of time since FM06/07 time.

GIBURROWS said:
The 3D is awful as well, shocking for 2012.
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Do you mean how it looks or how well it matches the commentary? What gets me is how my players will move towards the player who has the ball but won't actually intercept them. At all. Ever. Say the player passes to his team mate and the ball just happens to pass one of my players just inches away, my player won't move to make a quick, cheeky intercept. Not sure where that option is in a player's instructions. I get incredibly frustrated watching a match because I cannot understand why my players will not even think about a cheeky intercept for a ball passed right in front of them.
 
Do you mean how it looks or how well it matches the commentary? What gets me is how my players will move towards the player who has the ball but won't actually intercept them. At all. Ever. Say the player passes to his team mate and the ball just happens to pass one of my players just inches away, my player won't move to make a quick, cheeky intercept. Not sure where that option is in a player's instructions. I get incredibly frustrated watching a match because I cannot understand why my players will not even think about a cheeky intercept for a ball passed right in front of them. BOTH to that.


I have had a few players get sent off a few times and then I go mental as they have cost me the game and they get all hissy for a few months and it goes either way.
 
GIBURROWS said:
BOTH to that.
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Crikey! :eek:

GIBURROWS said:
I have had a few players get sent off a few times and then I go mental as they have cost me the game and they get all hissy for a few months and it goes either way.
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Well, apart from fact that we sound like two very grumpy old men, I'm very happy to find it isn't just me with these complaints about FM13. I'm by no means an FM tactician, as demonstrated by the fact I manage Utd :p, but I really am glad that someone else is getting frustrated with the same things as me. :)

Hopefully the full release on Friday will have some improvements. Knowing my luck, our issues won't even be acknowledged, let alone addressed/fixed. :(
 
Well I have had CM/FM since 96/97 and the game has come along way but not enough in 15 years for my liking.

I was stating it from the point that I do well tactically in the first year then buy some good kids and train them up and by the time I am in the premiership they are amazing but I still struggle to do anyone any real damage and usually win by 1 goal.
 
GIBURROWS said:
If someone gets sent of in one game they get a warning if they then get sent off again and its within the same month then its a one week fine and then they are unhappy and I end up having to sell them, I basically have to stroke my players hair and tell them a story at night, too few options when being passionate as well and no hairdryer treatment, these are the things killing this game for me.

The 3D is awful as well, shocking for 2012.
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What? Warning? What is that! GIVE HIM 2 WEEKS WAGE! SHOULD TEACH HIM NOT TO DIVE INTO TACKLES! That *****!

:D:D
 
I would love to, I would be extremely strict with my players but you can't be in this game as it turns out all of the players are pre-madonnas so you just end up losing morale which coincides with losing games which will inevitably get you the sack!
 
I'm finding the player interactions ok, team talks seem a little tricky (but then in the last one you could always be agressive if you were drawing/losing and everyone would perk up, that's just unrealistic)
 
Loving the new classic mode, makes it a lot easier when I'm playing on a slow machine :D

Haven't played the original mode yet though, waiting for my PC to be fixed so I can fully experience all of the stuff :)
 
I'm usually very calm, except it something goes wrong. I be aggressive then. Works quite well, obviously you have to be careful about what you say to certain players but you should notice which ones require special treatment very quickly.

Chatting to players about their form is good too.
 
Does anyone else struggle to offload players? I started 3 games, 2 with very small teams, and 1 with Roma. In all 3 games I couldn't sell players *asking price was what they were valued). With Roma, i got 1 offer, which I accepted, but the player rejected.

Any ideas?

I put them out for loan, transfer and on my unwanted list.
 
The__Malteser said:
Does anyone else struggle to offload players? I started 3 games, 2 with very small teams, and 1 with Roma. In all 3 games I couldn't sell players *asking price was what they were valued). With Roma, i got 1 offer, which I accepted, but the player rejected.

Any ideas?

I put them out for loan, transfer and on my unwanted list.
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Have you tried offering them to clubs? Personally I've found it pretty easy to offload (Only experience as Norwich so far though).
 
benbo96 said:
Have you tried offering them to clubs? Personally I've found it pretty easy to offload (Only experience as Norwich so far though).
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Yeah, tried everything.

Decided I will go with Truro City in the Blue Square South. They are in admission, with a transfer embargo, and not enough players to fill the substitute bench. Predicted 22nd obviously. This should be fun :D:D
 
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