retired_sara maria

Why?

It's a player saying hey "I think this guy is good." (what's his motivation for saying so?)

Are you going to say "Oh, right, he must be then, where's my chequebook? (or howeve you lot spell that. )"

Surely you'd want another opinion / look at him.

retired_tye1234

The only thing I'm thinking of is a manager asking a 15 year old to see if he knew of other players in his school or somthing like that.

I think I will have to ask a kid tonight for advice and see what happens.

retired_tye1234

Absolutely he must be scouted. I would assume that Llamas will always scout a player for three Matches before signing them. I had hoped you would be able to send a scout and your ass-man to look at a player at the same time. But from my brief play last night you send one or the other.

retired_chelaxix

Hmm we could run a challange as well to see who gets the most parent clubs in a few seasons that should be a laugh.

retired_mujerenforma

Yeah, that would be hysterical!

retired_pmetzger1

Most LLM

retired_tye1234

Well said

retired_princess160

On the risk of getting blatant tips: either scouting is totally fecked or I'm doing something wrong. My scout is alledgedly scouting England since the 2nd of July. It's now the 2nd of August and scouting is 'in progress'. He has not named one single player, however, whereas the clubs around me are sweeping up players left right and center.

The job centre hasn't been fixed, by the way. NO ONE wants to be a scout for Forest Green. Not even a no hoper with only 1s for stats.

6 people offered their services as a coach. Too bad they are all employed already, I can't pay their transfer fees.

It's about time this got fixed.

retired_raistlin1979

Started a demo game with Aaelsund, Norwegian First Division. My impressions so far...

The Good
<UL TYPE=SQUARE><LI>New Skin - More colorful, the bottom taskbar with icons is *really* useful.
<LI>Setup Wizard is really nice, as the old one was a nightmare for new players.
<LI>Scouting reports. - The new scouting method & assignments are simply an awesome concept - may need tweaking. See "The Bad."
<LI>Scout already had basic assignments by default. Pretty nifty.
<LI>Player/Manager Interactions - Pretty nifty at first glance, haven't tested much yet.
<LI>Board staff recommendations - Would be better if they disallowed additional staff instead of just recommending against it.
<LI>Board scouting restrictions
<LI>I &lt;3 Variable Detail... but if I turn off Champions/Euro Cup, I really don't want to see the results every week either.
<LI>Player Recommendations. My elder Norwegian full back was able to recommend someone, although the recommendation seemed like crap to me. My star French midfielder had no suggestions - as it likely should be. </UL>
The Bad
<UL TYPE=SQUARE><LI>What's the point of showing coaches in the Scouting &gt; Assignments screen when they can not scout players? Just clutters up screen.
<LI>Injury cross in the match players stats window isn't very noticeable... maybe red?
<LI>Scouting - Fog of war on attributes is really disappointing. In Norwegian quickstart, I know attributes of all players in the 1st division?
<LI>My scout seems to have a *lot* of information about 20-30 players for only having spent 9 days scouting. I'm surprised he's so knowledgeable about personalities after so short a time. </UL>
Bugs
<UL TYPE=SQUARE><LI>Tell a scout to scout a country. Then remove that assignment. Try adding that country again - original country does not exist. Workaround: select another staff member, then switch back. Options have reset.
<LI>Split View screen inside a Match no longer saves window customizations from match to match.</UL>
The Unknown
<LI>Finances - In the initial transfer window, I saw a couple teams want 3x valuation for a player, and some players go for a pittance. It's obviously too early to tell if finances are stable long term.

retired_raistlin1979

Hogie,
Too much yammering, not enough Demo playing. Go try out the feature a bunch of times and tell us how it works.

Okay, that sounds messed up. You should probably report that as a bug. I had my scouts go after Norway, and each time it took them about 10 days.
Job centre worked fine for me. As Aaelsund in the Norwegian First Division, all potential scouts & coaches were Scandinavian, with the vast majority being Norwegian. Fancy that. I'm also like how I got variable results... lotsa coaches, but slim pickings for scouts.

So maybe there literally are no scouts interested in Forest Green at the moment. And really, who said that only unemployed coaches would answer your advertisement? Job Centre != Cheap Staff On Demand.