retired_GoBlue31

Playing rubbish teams.

Oh well well well, what a suprise the retarded over bias towards utterly dire teams at the bottom of the league or in the cup remains in FM.

Why is it god damn near impossible to beat the team which is bottom of the league ? This hasn't changed since FM07 and is equally annoying. We all know that in football strange results happen, on the day anyone can beat anyone. But not in FM land, NO.... every ****ing time, every god forsaken time you lose to the dirt at the bottom of the table. It's like, they have played 30 games, won 0 scored 2. You play them and they beat you 6-0. I'd rather play top of the table than bottom of the league because they are easier to beat.

The same happens in the sodding cup as well. Oh look i'm playing someone from League 1 in the cup, oh look they are super stars. On FM07 in the 20 seasons I played I didn't win the domestic cups once because EVERY EVERY EVERY SINGLE ****ING SEASON I went out to a lower league team. Is it any different in FM08 ? is it ********. First I get taken to a replay by a 98th minute equaliser or some equally retarded bullshit. So I lose the replay and out of anger I hit the PC causing something to **** up and it reboots. So I play the game again, I lose again. I decide to cheat by reloading it, except even doing this I STILL CAN'T ****ING BEAT SOME **** TEAM FROM DIVISION 10. SORT IT THE **** OUT. EVERY ****ING TIME IT HAPPENS, ITS NOT A ONE OFF ITS NOT OCCASIONALLY, ITS EVERY MOTEHR****ING TIME.

retired_GoBlue31

I'm back.

Why are playing ratings so pointless ? 6-7-8 ? yeah well that tells me alot. I've just lost 3-0, all my players had 6s and 7s. All their players also had 6s 7s and a couple of 8s. Where is the feedback ? how do I know who has actually played bad ?

It should be common place for players get 3's and 4's. There is 10 numbers here you know, use them all. If you ever look at ratings in newspapers after games how often does the entire team get 6-7-8 ? never. Players should be scoring 4-5 on a regular basis.

Also just because you lose your team shouldn't automatically all get worse ratings. Why is it I have 30 shots on goal, 19 on target, 60% position but I lose 1-0 to some freak goal as per usual. All my players get 6s and 7s ? I played them off the park, they should be on 8s and 9s.

While i'm on about ratings, lets go back to my old favourite. The board/fan confidence.

This seems to be based on average rating and nothing else. They think my top scorer, a goal every other game is rubbish because his average is 6.94 yet they think my crap DR is the best thing since sliced bread due to an average is 7.04. They think i should drop one of my players due to poor form. He's played 10 minutes in the last 3 game as a sub ffs. He scored a 6 each time due to the retarded rating system.

retired_GoBlue31

and whats with the bloody weather ? It rains every week and no matter how much or little rain there is the pitch turns into a river making the match play totally different.

How often does a pitch turn into a total quagmire every time there is any rain ? oh yes that's right.... it doesn't. For the last 2 months I have had to play every single game in a swamp where the ball moves about 2 feet. At one point a player rounded my keeper and shot towards goal except because of all the water on the pitch the ball rolled about 5ft and stopped on the goal line.

In FM the biggest tactical deciding factor is the bloody weather. I don't see Arsenal hoofing it up the pitch playing long ball every time it rains. The pitch needs to behave in a realstic manner and be consistent over the season. Your pitch should degrade if you have a lot of home games in a short space of time AND the weather is bad. It shouldn't randomly change from a lush pristine green park to a bog in the space of a week. Hey heres an idea, how about the pitch gets worse during a game IF there is heavy downpour ? ah yeah right, that would require some effort and some kind of GRAPHICS to be used.

retired_macca1875

My chairman has lost the plot

Earlier on in the season I was fighting off bids for my star right back, I had accepted a bid for £5m before changing my mind at the last minute and pulling out of the deal.

My chairman has just accepted a bid of £770k.

retired_B_RAN

The game was released October 18. It's November 10. I received the game one day before the beta patch, and I've been unable to play it ever since. First it was the closing down bug, and then it was the massive, crippling morale issue that was introduced by the beta patch.

So I've owned the game for three weeks and have not played beyond a few friendlies.

retired_cajuncocoa

I just want to add that I'm not complaining! I love FM08 and am just as dismayed to see so much negativity. I see this thread as a bit of ironic fun. I think most people on this thread are just expressing their frustrations with individual games, not anything that's intrinsically wrong with the game itself.

retired_cajuncocoa

You say that but my experience is quite the opposite, one of my frustrations is that FM is too realistic and non-league teams have *never* in any game I've played got into the Third Round of the FA Cup.

retired_GoBlue31

Making subs.

Why does it take like 5-10 minutes for a substitute to come on after confirming it ? You see the ball go out of play about 3-4 times yet no substitution occurs. Instead it plays on, and on, and on, and on, and on. Eventually about 10 minutes later your substitute decides to enter the fray, invariably the opposition have scored by now.

As for the cup I have just gone out, AGAIN, to a lower league team. 0-0 they get a replay. at the replay they take me to extra time (I had 35 shots, they had 2) then beat my in extra time.

retired_kbrocks

My despite awoiding relegation, hwne i was odds on to be relegated, my board still seem unable to overlook my 4-2 away loss to Bayern Munich.

timothyopiel345

You know what REALLY bugs me? When you can be dominating a team, having chance after chance and not scoring, only for the next highlight in the match to be them suddenly taking a freekick or corner (with no build up in the match engine to show you how they got to that stage) and scoring from it.

You can go through an entire match of chances for your team, only to have (for no apparent reason) the opposition suddenly getting a set-piece chance and invariably putting it away.

It works both ways, sure, I've had my fair share of set-pieces out of nowhere, but it more often than not is a trick that the opposition seem to be able to pull out of their asses at will.

I'd just like to see the build up to the chance, so I can work out how to prevent it.

Christ, it's irritating.