kevhamster

Is everybody else still having this problem with FM08?

I've started a new game, and to keep things a little more interesting, I unticked the 'use real player names' box (don't know if that's the source of the issue or not), and my club didn't start with a scout.

I've been advertising in the job centre for ages, with no response at all.

To experiment a little, I advertised for all of the other staff positions, and have received a good response for all of them, even for a fitness coach, which I couldn't got for love nor money in FM07.

I'm loath to use the staff search screen when the job centre is allegedly working ok, but at the moment, I have no left sided players at all (even really carp reserve or youth players) and only 3 strikers, one of which is out with a long-term injury. Although I have 8 central defenders!!

I'm getting desperate, and this is stopping me from enjoying FM08 as much as I otherwise would.

So, is anybody else suffering with this? Has anybody had any response to scout adverts, or is it just my bad luck?

Lukewarm

Just go with it.

Tim Madisun

Have you added the patch, kev? I've signed a few average scouts on the patched version. Not a great deal to chose from, but there you are.

Also, which country are you based? My experience is Conference North with Hyde Utd. Could it be country specific?

scottn72

At risk of tipping here, but, you may want to offer an existing staff member the job, if you're really desperate.

kevhamster

Yep, I've applied the beta-patch. And being the adventurous type, I'm managing Basingstoke in the Blue Square Southern. Maybe it's down to the fact I'm using the randomly generated players and staff. Might need to start over using the proper players, which is a shame because I find the facegen faces quite amusing!

Bigs

I have this problem in England, in Wales I find the response is really poor, in Scandinavia I have found generally the response is really good.

I have also found that its far easier to find a scout in the second season as opposed to the first.

Tim Madisun

I agree with this too, very much in fact. First season, the scouts were carp so I offered one year deals with the intention of finding better.

Second season, there were some quality scouts applying, so the hand of management was swift and merciless.

However, although I now have some excellent scouts, no-one of any merit will sign for me. There's a moral there somewhere :thup:

kovalenkov

Portugal 2nd Div. No Scouts in club, none applied, plenty interested on staff search. :eek:

SORT IT OUT SI!

rourke

It seems to be a bit hit and miss - country, club, maybe even game-dependant. In Romania I had no real problem - it took me about a month to get responses, pre-patch. That said, pre-patch the average response time I saw for AI teams in the ECN/ECS (or BSN, BSS, if you prefer) was, as memory serves, somewhere over 2 months to sign a scout if they didn't have one to start with, with the longest taking about 4 months.

Post-patch, no idea, although IIRC scout advert response wasn't on the list of things to be changed.

Kriss

i've reported this as a problem because I believe it to be so.

I'd like to hear from anybody else who unrealistically can't sign scouts.