To be honest, and this is my personal opinion, I have right to say it, SI should stop releasing FM for 1-2 years and create completely new manager from the beginning. New game code, new innovations, new ideas, improved tactic system and of course training. Scouting should be more interesting too.

SI can't do that, Football Manager is their only income stream, so taking a year off to start from scratch is utterly unrealistic.

By Thule_91 | On 11 November 2014 - 02:59 AM

You know what? Tacitc, training and scouting could be and SHOULD BE something absolutely special in FM. It could be incredibly great fun. But NOPE, it is what it is. If you think it's worth to buy it, THEN GO AND DO IT. Game makers will never have conclusion to make something better. Cuz everybody are buying their game. Even if its Sh**y. I'm mad.

FM is a deadman.

What do you want it to be then? SI are damned if they do, damned if they don't now. They're the only football management game in town, so they have to cater for all sorts of markets that want things that are sometimes contradictory.

At first they attempted to placate the 'It must be super realistic at all times!' crowd, which led to lots of micromanagement in things like training and press conferences. This led to the people who don't have the time or the inclination to deal with that sort of intricate game complaining that it was too fiddly (and also a barrier to new players),which in turn led to FMC.

Basically, it's never going to be perfect, it's attempting to simulate something that even the most brilliant scientists in the world can't do, human behaviour (granted, it's a sub-set of that behaviour, but the point still stands).

#215756 So why, exactly, can I not coach a North Korean team?

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11 Nov 2014 08:30:36

Without an add-on, created in the editor by either yourself or someone else, you won't get any league that isn't in the initial list. It's always been that way.

#214494 Too Many Cooks

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08 Nov 2014 18:21:25

Try and keep the song out of your head, you will fail.

#213841 The Wrestling Thread.

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07 Nov 2014 17:39:49

He really can hit that move from anywhere

#213627 Playing as your local team

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07 Nov 2014 12:18:24

My living now will probably change in the new year, once FCUM open their new ground over in Moston.

#213621 How long have you been playing CM/FM?

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07 Nov 2014 12:10:55

MPSM was the easiest game in the world (on the C64, this didn't work on the ST version I played) All you had to do was play 1-8-1 and you'd win pretty much all the time.

Soccer 7 (a game based on a short lived indoor tournament from the late '80's, concocted for TV when English teams were banned from Europe) was also dead easy, if you had the patience, as you traded for players. So all you had to do was keep trading for slightly higher value players each time, and you'd end up with an unbeatable super-team.

#213616 How long have you been playing CM/FM?

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07 Nov 2014 12:02:12

37. You obviously didn't spend enough time perusing the £1.99 shelves at your local games emporium. Cult was the budget arm of D&H Games (like Hit Squad for Ocean and Kixx for U.S. Gold) purveyors of many, many football management games

#213612 Playing as your local team

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07 Nov 2014 11:58:59

Living Now : Rochdale, Oldham or Man City
Born : Man City

#213610 How long have you been playing CM/FM?

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07 Nov 2014 11:55:25

http://www.mutant-caterpillar.co.uk/shop/images/C64_Tape_Soccer7.jpg

*drops mic*

#213598 How long have you been playing CM/FM?

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07 Nov 2014 11:30:29

I see your Football Manager 2, and raise you a Multi Player Soccer Manager:

http://www.stadium64.com/gameinfos/multiplayersoccermanager/multiplayersoccermanager.jpg

#213584 How long have you been playing CM/FM?

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By KEZ_7 | On 07 November 2014 - 10:38 AM

I started with CM4, which I think was about 2003. I was bloody 11 then and I'm 22 now, spent half of my life playing CM/FM!

Bloody kids.

#213581 How long have you been playing CM/FM?

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07 Nov 2014 10:36:03

Since CM Italia, eeee, them were t'days

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/xPrUwXm2XFIpJnkpGX6Nmw9aqa9VoU1zTCr2YOR0.jpg

#213575 The Wrestling Thread.

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07 Nov 2014 10:13:47

I pay about £9 all in (unblock-us and $9.99) for the proper version, with the added bonus of being able to play stuff on my XBone (unblock-us appears to work via witchcraft)

#213296 FMC FLUT skin for FM 2014 – DARK VERSION v.1.0 [updated 29.05.2014]

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06 Nov 2014 19:41:32

You aren't trying to put it in FM15 are you?

#213142 FM and Linux

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06 Nov 2014 15:50:25

The blocks might be down to the rendering type chosen, and what the linux drivers for your graphics card are like, compared to the windows ones

#213015 Football Manager 2015 Demo?

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No, the demo uses quickstarts, which are just saved games. And it wouldn't be included with the demo anyway

#212580 Scorpio v2.1 for FM 2015

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By TobeyMason | On 05 November 2014 - 11:02 AM

When will this be ready

Waanchup, welcome to the wonderful world of 'arewethereyetarewethereyetarewethereyetarewethereyet?'

#211892 Using the FM 2014 editor with FM 2015 database

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03 Nov 2014 10:29:03

It won't be until the 7th. I've never bought it, but it's a couple of quid if I remember rightly.

#211888 Using the FM 2014 editor with FM 2015 database

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03 Nov 2014 10:19:29

The in game editor is, yes. The database editor is free.

#211885 Using the FM 2014 editor with FM 2015 database

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03 Nov 2014 10:02:53

The data editor isn't real time (and you wouldn't be in the database anyway). You might be able to do it with the in-game editor, but that's not free.

#211574 Scorpio v2.1 for FM 2015

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02 Nov 2014 15:22:18

Not easily, if it's a few years old and was described as 'HD Ready', then it's probably 720p

#211567 Scorpio v2.1 for FM 2015

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02 Nov 2014 15:13:44

Your TV is probably 720p (1280x720) rather than 1080p, which is what 1920x1080 is

#211536 Scorpio v2.1 for FM 2015

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02 Nov 2014 14:47:18

A bigger monitor, usually.

#210448 Keeping Originals

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30 Oct 2014 20:02:22

Should be fine.

#210437 Keeping Originals

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30 Oct 2014 19:45:33

Have you put the megapack faces into a subfolder? (i.e. graphics\faces\megapack or something similar)

If so, you could put the extracted folders into a folder that takes precedence over it graphics\faces\default for example)

That way it gets to those first (FM uses the first image it finds) and uses the megapack images for anything else.

#209800 Scorpio v2.1 for FM 2015

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By sparks199 | On 28 October 2014 - 20:48 PM

Was this skin made by a baby ... it looks and feels horrid .. i really hope there are much better skins ...

it is so out dated .... move with the times .. it couldn't get worse if your tried

Oh joy, it's you again. Given the standard of the skin you released, I'd not be throwing stones in this particular glass house.

By castor.troy | On 28 October 2014 - 21:00 PM

Why don't u go mouthrape uself
disrespectful bastard

And we'll have none of that either.

#209310 Susie Mods Skin

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I suspect those are actual boxes, so I'd need to replace the images with something more transparent. I'd be very surprised if the sidebar would take kindly to being moved to either the top or the bottom of the screen, but it might be possible.

#207809 FM 2015 Beta released

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By JL94x4 | On 23 October 2014 - 17:33 PM

Where is player search then now? I don't mean the search bar i mean the bit where you can filter players, by loan listed, transfer listed etc? Can't find it anywhere.

Scouting?

#177058 Susie Twatball Championship 2014

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26 Jun 2014 15:14:00

Bloody hell, 60 points for Suarez