retired_pmetzger1

Jimbo,

You've fallen into the trap of interpreting the guidelines all too rigidly, and forgetting why most of them exist.

The reason for that one (in my interpretation at least) is about drawing a line in the sand. People come in here and want to start making all sorts of justifications for themselves making their game lives easier. In real life I know that X,Y and Z are good players" etc etc. With a clear line drawn people know where they stand.

Now lets put our sensible heads on (Aunt Sally). For a start the game allows you to list your favourite team, and it would be realistic to expect you to know something about your favourite team. So if yours is Barnet, problem solved...

Emm

Yes.

LLM is a game.

Real life is real life.

Bromley would kick you out if you went along now and tried to tell the manager what to do.

A player would kick you in the chackers if you offered him a contract with Bromley, took him there, and you were kicked out by the manager again.

Easiest way to understand is to keep the two separate. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Iain, I get what you mean. It just goes against the realism aspect. Everything else seems to be geared towards realism, realism, realism, then it comes to this and it goes completely the other way.

In real life a manager has knowleadge, (based on his own experiences, whether they be as a player or a fan), before he gets his fist job.

If your only thinking behind this is that it it should be ignored because real life and game-play should remain seperate, then that would suggest using knowleadge from a previous game which is an abomination. Now I know that is NOT what you are suggesting. It just seems strange that every rule/guidance note/whatever, is geared towards realism, (except this one).

mkus. Yeah, that's not a bad idea, but then what about their opposition? It's a bit of can of worms I suppose .

I don't want to get anyone's back up with this, so please excuse me if anyone is offended by the manner of my questions.

KingsbayYHPE

But it doesn't.

The realism in LLM is always "as realistic as the game allows".

It's definitely not realistic to mix up real life and FM.

I'd reckon that anyone who applied for the Bromley job, being a student, would be laughed at...there's a wonderful reply posted on the net to a Championship Manager veteran who applied for the Middlesbrough job, the Chairman showed a good sense of humour in turning him down.

If you have a real life knowledge of Bromley players you have the difficulty of random stats to overcome and the star man in real life ends up being a haddock.

Computer generated players don't match real life...you just have to look at the complaints in GPTG to see that "Wonderboyinho" should have 20 rating for creativity, "Bobaldo" shouldn't have finishing higher than 13.

As for offended by the manner of your questions..not at all.

What confuses and irks me is why people come in here and think the guidelines are summarily and randomly issued, not that they've taken up to 10 years to be proven.

retired_brad1080

Wow, finally! I have been waiting for this! Can I sccrap FM for good now?

retired_pmetzger1

Do you always try to make things so complicated?

Set a scout to watch whatever division Barnet are in.

Emm

Yeah i did read the Boro reply .

That does it for me :thup:. You are correct of course. Maybe the idea that mkus touched on might be an answer. You could maybe have limited knowleadge of your favourite clubs players when a new game starts. Almost as if they were somehow pre-scouted.

Emm

Do you always try to make things so complicated?

Set a scout to watch whatever division Barnet are in. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Don't be ridiculous. That's far too straightforward and simple. Don't you know anything ?

arman920

Jimbo to avoid your dilemma, do what I do, manage in a country you know nothing about (football wise) Turn off real names.

The only realism problem then is falsely assuming a different nationality, but that's de riguer these days

creative36

I quite enjoy playing with Random Players.
It's still not a perfect option - small nations have some bizarrely talented players in my current game - but I never have to worry about letting my real world knowledge get in the way, or risk having a good player from a previous save cross my path.

Emm

I've only ever managed 1 season in Brazil, 1 in India and a few in Italy before the names get right on my man-breasts.

Saying that, I'm now in the habit of giving all my players nick-names so I don't suppose that's an issue anymore.