Not done it yet but no doubt will. I'll buy from Green Man Gaming though bit cheaper
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Not done it yet but no doubt will. I'll buy from Green Man Gaming though bit cheaper
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Yes, I've been offered a 10% discount with Sega but do you still get the pre-beta access?
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I've got that offer as well. I don't think it'll end up cheaper than buying from Steam or some other shop but it won't be any more expensive I hope!
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Well Sega is £31 downloaded direct - Steam is £35, but you get the pre-access. I don't know if you get pre-access with the other places. I expect you would, but who knows - It doesn't say.
In the 92nd minute my AMR finally gets to the byline and pulls back a perfect ball for my CM(A) to smash home at the near post. Time for death or glory, so I hit the Overload button.
Amazingly we get the ball back from the kickoff and some neat passing gets the ball back out to my AMR. He floats in a beauty to the back post for my onrushing DLF(s) (who at 38 doesn't have the best of legs!) to bundle the ball into the net for a 93rd minute winner
Aaaaaand, being on the receiving end of this sort of result is why I can't play the game anymore without my laptop being in serious jeopardy!!!
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Yep. Steam and SEGA both definitely offer the beta pre-release access. As for the others, I would guess that they do as it's all done through Steam now but SEGA/SI/Steam might not include smaller retailers in the deal for the beta access.
Advice please.
I remember reading a while back that star youth players frequently had significant drops in their Determination attribute. Apparently this may be based on the fact that they're better than their competing players in the respective age group.
Does anyone know how to halt this drop? I've got a young CB with Crewe in the EPL. He's 17, rated as potentially being "World Class" and has the basic attributes to become amazing. However, in the past two seasons his Determination has dropped from 19 to 14!
I remember reading a while back that star youth players frequently had significant drops in their Determination attribute. Apparently this may be based on the fact that they're better than their competing players in the respective age group.
Does anyone know how to halt this drop? I've got a young CB with Crewe in the EPL. He's 17, rated as potentially being "World Class" and has the basic attributes to become amazing. However, in the past two seasons his Determination has dropped from 19 to 14!
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I've never heard that. More obvious is having coaches better at mental coaching.
My senior and youth coaching is more or less at 4.5 stars for every category.
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Do you have any players who could tutor him? I think determination is a trait a player can learn from a tutor.
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Ah. Was he perhaps being tutored by someone with lower determination than him? Course this all depends on whether determination is something a tutor can influence or not!Should have mentioned that. He was being tutored
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It might also be his hidden attributes. Not all players with high determination will make the grade although it is unusual. Is he determined/professional? What is his ambition like? I've had a player like yours who looked great on paper but he was a lazy so and so and didn't have much ambition. As a result some stats went skywards whilst his determination and (importantly) his work rate dropped significantly. What is your guys' work rate like out of interest?
Personality: Ambitious. Work rate and Teamwork 15 and 16 respectively.
Marc, you're right, his tutor had slightly lower determination, but it had already fallen from 19 to 15 before being tutored by the guy. Is now at 14. Sent him on loan for a bit, so we'll see how he gets on.
Cheers for the advice
Marc, you're right, his tutor had slightly lower determination, but it had already fallen from 19 to 15 before being tutored by the guy. Is now at 14. Sent him on loan for a bit, so we'll see how he gets on.
Cheers for the advice
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Would be interesting to find out why he dropped from 19 to 15 before being tutored. Do you have any other players with high determination who could tutor him?Marc, you're right, his tutor had slightly lower determination, but it had already fallen from 19 to 15 before being tutored by the guy. Is now at 14. Sent him on loan for a bit, so we'll see how he gets on.
Cheers for the advice
Out on loan now, will see what happens in the winter transfer window when he comes back.
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Loans are good providing they are played in the first team regularly. Do training facilities make any difference at loan clubs? I've had so many loaned out to clubs that promise first team games and they get very little. Annoying! I guess the best thing is to loan to clubs that offer to play as 'valuable' key players.
I haven't really experienced much in the way of tutoring and I've always wondered how it really benefits the players. There is tutoring 'off the pitch' which is what you are talking about I guess, and tutoring on the pitch which may help with key attributes. I didn't know that about determination stuff though. Very interesting.
I haven't really experienced much in the way of tutoring and I've always wondered how it really benefits the players. There is tutoring 'off the pitch' which is what you are talking about I guess, and tutoring on the pitch which may help with key attributes. I didn't know that about determination stuff though. Very interesting.
Training facilities do play a part in the development a loanee goes through, as well as his initial decision - i.e. the reputation and training facilities at a club will see the player chose that club over another.
One thing I tend to do with young loanees whom I have high hopes for is to do a brief bit of research on that particular team and largely ignore the "valuable key player" setting. If several clubs wants to loan a right back of mine, I'll have a look at the various squads to see if my player is better than their current choices of right backs. If so, then they get the nod.
An annoying situation I had yesterday was Middlesbrough loaning a young striker under the "valuable player" status, but 7 games in and he'd made one sub appearance in the league and played a couple of cup games. It turns out they had 3 or 4 higher quality strikers ahead of him. I recalled him, offered him out on loan and sodding Middlesbrough offered again (still as a valuable player)!! Sent him off to Ross County in the end
One thing I tend to do with young loanees whom I have high hopes for is to do a brief bit of research on that particular team and largely ignore the "valuable key player" setting. If several clubs wants to loan a right back of mine, I'll have a look at the various squads to see if my player is better than their current choices of right backs. If so, then they get the nod.
An annoying situation I had yesterday was Middlesbrough loaning a young striker under the "valuable player" status, but 7 games in and he'd made one sub appearance in the league and played a couple of cup games. It turns out they had 3 or 4 higher quality strikers ahead of him. I recalled him, offered him out on loan and sodding Middlesbrough offered again (still as a valuable player)!! Sent him off to Ross County in the end
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So I've finished the 2016/17 season and I know syke will be beside himself with shock that I've made it so far into the future on an FM save!
I have now gotten the debt paid off and have a nice £3m a week wage budget and £96m transfer kitty to play with. So the question is what do I do to improve my squad? We won the title from City quite convincingly and, whilst we didn't get past 100 points or equal/beat our highest points total, we did score more goals than ever and conceded fewer goals than ever.
I have James Wilson, Angelo Henriquez and Richairo Zivkovic to come back from loan to give me backup to Rooney/Welbeck/Morata. Morata's form dived quite a bit by the end of the season and I'm thinking of selling him. Welbeck can often be fantastic for 2-3 games in a row and then will go many games doing absolutely nothing. I'm finding Rooney quite inconsistent; I play him as a false nine when he's a striker and as an attacking midfielder when he's playing behind the striker.
So with nearly £100m to spend, where would you improve my squad? I'm now in June 2017.
I have now gotten the debt paid off and have a nice £3m a week wage budget and £96m transfer kitty to play with. So the question is what do I do to improve my squad? We won the title from City quite convincingly and, whilst we didn't get past 100 points or equal/beat our highest points total, we did score more goals than ever and conceded fewer goals than ever.
I have James Wilson, Angelo Henriquez and Richairo Zivkovic to come back from loan to give me backup to Rooney/Welbeck/Morata. Morata's form dived quite a bit by the end of the season and I'm thinking of selling him. Welbeck can often be fantastic for 2-3 games in a row and then will go many games doing absolutely nothing. I'm finding Rooney quite inconsistent; I play him as a false nine when he's a striker and as an attacking midfielder when he's playing behind the striker.
So with nearly £100m to spend, where would you improve my squad? I'm now in June 2017.