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I see the sliding bars like this, Not Much, Average, Lot. I will use the sliding bar if I think a player should do a lot of running by setting it to Lot. It is as if I am saying to him "I want you to run forward a lot"
A bit like what you said. That is how I approach the new sliding bar system and then change them as I see fit.
I will have to watch this topic so it doesn't get too tactical or tippy.
By the way, drop signatures, they don't do anything for you. Welcome to LLM.
Managers IRL use them to tinker their systems and try and accomodate new signings into the line-up...
Lleida were tinkering with slight variations of their basic tactic and team formation until matchday #12 last season, until the new manager found a tactic that suited the best their players and finally had them promoted from Spanish 2nd Division B to Spanish 2nd Division.
I accept that tinkering is part and parcel of the game but I feel that by playing matches in the way above, it cheapens the LLM ethos until it is dirty like an unwashed prostitue...err...
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The important thing in both cases is whether you score early and often, isn't it?
I think the slider recreates the real life experience fairly well. In real life you tell your midfielder to close down. He does what he thinks you want, but you tell him close down more. He still isn't satisfying you, so you yell from the touch line, "no dummy, I said close down more".
That sequence of events is essentially replicated with the slider system. You set him to close down at, oh lets say 10. You see he is not satisfying you slo you slide it up to 11, and then goose it up to 14, when you still aren't satisfied.
Sounds like the process is similar to me. You tinker all the time in real life, it just doesn't feel quite so "mechanical" as it does when you use the slider of the arrows in FM.
Speaking as someone who bemoaned the demise of "wibble-wobble", I think that SI are going in the right direction with the slider idea, but there's still a long way to go.
Were I even able to arrange any friendlies (home or away) against opposition of even the lowest quality the game supplies and have more than 17 people turn up in the first place, my team is so un-motivated by the simple fact that it's a friendly that they play so badly it's impossible to learn anything anyway.
Personally I don't think in terms of the numbers when using the sliders. When I'm watching the game if I feel my midfielders need to close down their oppos a bit more I ratch it up a notch or two. I think that's a reasonable re-creation of what I'd be seeing and doing from the touchline, altho' I don't have your experience of that.
I have however been spending much of my time over the last week with unwashed prostitutes and I can tell you they're lovely people
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by iajafer:
No no, it's exactly the same in FM2005. Players and Team _never_ play the same in Friendlies, League and Cup. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I beg to differ, Mine play sh*te in friendlies, league and cups
The LLM way on tactics... 
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