CplCurmudgeon - Comments

I've had similar years. The absence of FM25 just means a renewed determination to make FM24 more varied and interesting. I'll be back in the Editor next week given any FM fix before November 25 will be FM24 now.

You referred to 

SI don’t seem to have taken onboard any of the communities work on Newgens faces

Which has almost entirely been done using AI. So, were SI to ‘take onboard’ any of the ‘communities work’ it would involve use of an AI image generator.

Perhaps you didn't realise the community was using AI image gen?

The SI model does look cartoony, I agree. Sadly for the reasons I previously stated, they are unlikely to provide realism akin to the communities work without an AI, and that will involve licensing in one way or another.

Either way, they've got too much on their plate to improve that now. I don't understand the point of complaining about one of so many shoddy features when the community does a better job anyway. It's a non issue.

Yeah, but I've a feeling people are saying the sanctions don't occur even when added with Editor?

I confess to adding a salary cap or max wage to all the major leagues in the past, which doesn't work either, you just end up with loads of free transfers because AI clubs can't manage squads or finance effectively.

Can't wait to see the meltdown of entitlement, faux outrage, and pearl clutching over at SI Forums but have to say it's made it easier to skip this one.

I'm not buying a game in March that I'll lose interest in with the end of the season at start of May. Like a lot of people, my enthusiasm for football peaks when it's actually being played. So this makes life easier.

That said, it's a ducking computer game and I'm, not going to get my knickers all twisted in a demonstration of snowflake prepubescent teenage angst.

FM24 only got 452hrs compared to the usual 1000+ on account of getting boring and bloated year on year, but I'm going to have to reinstall for an FM fix this winter.

I think potential should be fixed as a concept. After all, Kalvin Phillips potential isn't the issue, the lack of realising it is the issue. Wasting away at City, greed over ambition, the inevitable mental health damage of all the criticism and sense of failure will all have stalled his progress.

FM doesn't handle PA well at all. It's binary, not dynamic, not enough factors play into a player reaching a peak and to many players do reach the PA too easily. 

For every overrated player on FM there are several who have a much lower estimated potential. SI needs an overhaul here if anything, the PA system is awful in my view.

Nothing to suggest it has. The game has some questionable finances. I've seen huge clubs relegated and lose absolutely no sponsorship despite languishing in the 2nd tier for years - that's broken as all hell.

So this leaves me wondering whether a Ryzen AI 9 365 with 880M iGPU is going to be sufficient. I've been lining up laptop replacements and putting it off to see what FM25 specs are like (ignoring the fact the game might be a minimum viable product like CM03/04)

I don't want to have to sit at the desk to play FM, but I recall FM23/24 looking a tad rough on a 780M or Intel Iris Xe and lagging like hell at 60FPS in games.

A few here…. 

https://www.uefa.com/womensunder17/news/0289-19d503b22e01-86bc6eafea35-1000--ten-women-s-players-to-watch

This has been broken and irrelevant for as long as I can recall. It's one of the many screens in FM where you can literally hit SPACE and ignore it as cosmetic fluff.

I see Shaun has Onedrive.

Onedrive Recycle Bin. It'll be there. It's my usual fall back for calamity of this nature assuming FM folder location is in your documents folder.

Click the Onedrive Icon in taskbar and hit recycle bin…. it'll take you to Onedrive Web. Sort my date for easier access, think default is something else.

 

Looks like something out of Word 98. Almost as if SI paid no attention to current logo design trends.

Dynamic Minimalism, Glassmorphism, Symbolic Logos & Metaphoric Storytelling, Playing with Typography, Geometric Shapes, Gradient and Bioluminescent Color Spaces all ignored in favour of something that looks like it was created alongside Clippy.

 

You referred to 

SI don’t seem to have taken onboard any of the communities work on Newgens faces

Which has almost entirely been done using AI. So, were SI to ‘take onboard’ any of the ‘communities work’ it would involve use of an AI image generator.

Perhaps you didn't realise the community was using AI image gen?

The SI model does look cartoony, I agree. Sadly for the reasons I previously stated, they are unlikely to provide realism akin to the communities work without an AI, and that will involve licensing in one way or another.

There are issues with anything outside of ‘personal use’ with AI. SI will likely need an expensive licence. It's staggeringly obvious, or should be, that SI can't just rinse an AI for 500000 faces, nor can it use an AI freely within game to generate on the fly without either a licence or their own model. 

I feel your pain. Get well soon @Daveincid.

Glorious work as usual, I'm sure everyone will happily (and patiently) wait.

Thanks Markus. Very little sleep or gaming, but the most wonderful expeience  in the world! Just ahead of Mons Real Names Pack for FM and the FC12 Kitpacks 😂

You'd think, wouldn't you? 

This should work fine, I think I found time to add histories, but it's otherwise unchanged. Enjoy.

Just here again, very late this year to even start playing or downloading, to say thank you! Honest to goodness this is such a game enhancing experience, a wonderful and comprehensive kitpack that I've used for years now.

Grateful thanks, for this and every year of visual immersion!

See other post. I've added a file to download. I've given up editing, partly time constraints, partly people just stealing the work after hours of tweaking and editing. Then there's the demands to change something you've built for yourself and shared, some of it is just rude.

Here, I've not really been editing, but I did update this for a friend. 

Someone might have made one. I gave up editing because the files were being used uncredited as templates all over the place, or just ripped off outright.

I've got a baby daughter too since June, barely played the game tbh.

If I make one, I'll let you know, but there's just no time right now. You might find Erik Eagles or Zangelmi have made one on Steam?

Here we are again, another year, another FM, another heartfelt thankyou to @mons for all the work over the years in making FM so much more useable.

by delivering the most complete version in the series' history

Hmmm. Complete because it's on everything? Or complete because they've fixed all the glaring issues that have been around for several iterations?

I remain skeptical.

Hyped for Unity and other improvements, but after just over three decades of FM I'm keen to see an overhaul of various elements, not just graphics.

Thank you. She's not quite here but working through notifications I've missed while waiting for things to move along.

Enjoy your weekend!

Wait one…. I'll grab it. Sorry, expecting a baby daughter, just a tad busy 🙂

Manually recreating him. 

But he wasn't ‘cleared’ at all, the case was dropped when a witness suddenly decided not to cooperate.

That said, you don't get charged with multiple offences unless there's enough evidence to charge with, and the lack of a CPS prosecution isn't the same as innocent of all charges. 

As a result it's widely reported that neither the mens, nor womens teams, are comfortable with him being reinstated.

I can't see SI reintroducing him unless a football club is willing to deal with the backlash and give him a game.

Just in case you miss the other one

Here you go. 

Correct. Gave up creating content. Works perfectly, just hasn't been updated to newest patches and won't work unless updated to 23.4 in the Editor.

This. Well said.

The only ignorance is yours pal. It's not called the Scandinavian League, it's called the Royal League (Expanded). Perhaps learn to read or address your literacy levels before embarrassing yourself.