Uknowmehfo

We don't believe in tipping here (too much Scottish and Catalan influence in these boards if you ask me)

Anyway... play the game until the 'hunger' fades, it's what usually happens with my saves... no matter the version or the game length

retired_jessieb

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Hi, I'm new to the LLM forums but have always played to most of the LLM rules, and now use all the rules. It just seems like common sense to me.
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Welcome, and they are guidelines not rules.

I love a good long game and think it only gets interesting after about 10 years. My last CM3 game was 20 years +, and I saved it to a CD. I went looking for it last week, and can I find it?...No feckking way can I find it.

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It always seems a waste after building up a game for so long to be tempted away on to a shiny new version.
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I think if you are happy with what you are playing stick with it. All that glitters is not nessessary gold. CM3 was a nice stable platform which leant itself very well to the guidelines of LLM. I don't think once you are that far into a game that it can ever run its course. Even if you decide to start afresh with the new game, save you old game so that you have something to fall back on, and make sure you clearly mark the CD.

retired_nekh_20

I have had quite a few long games with the CM3 series. I will always play a game and ignore any new versions if the enjoyment is still there. Usually though, there is a month or so between each new game where I have burnt out current version of the game that I am playing and ended up waiting for the new one.

retired_jessieb

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have noticed with CM03/04 that not a lot of obscure teams make to rise to Conference, and quite often a team that is relegation from Conference makes it back in 2 seasons
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Found the same thing in my game. I like the idea of strange and obscure teams being promoted, and up to 2010 my CM0304 game it was the same teams time and time again.

retired_kswansonwoolf

Yep, same for me. Only obscure team that made it up to the Conference was Enfield, after almost 15 seasons.

Uknowmehfo

It's better in leagues as Spanish ones: 17 teams down each year and 17 up... You always get some 2 or 3 obscure and unknown teams each year... And it gets better with time... I'm at 2017/18 now and the quality of the teams that are being promoted to 2nd Div B is worse every year :cool:

retired_jmathias

The most beautiful thing in long term CM game is when you see one of your promoted youngsters becoming a full star and then geting nicked by a premiership club for a minimum release clause.

I am playing Norwegian league. Currently with Gjovik-Lyn in 4th season and got many many youghsters promoted. Sweet

retired_nick88

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The most beautiful thing in long term CM game is when you see one of your promoted youngsters becoming a full star and then geting nicked by a premiership club for a minimum release clause.

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I know that feeling. I just got a promising youngster promoted and I can see the vultures circling already. :eek: Hopefully I can hang onto him for a while.

retired_pmetzger1

I'm hoping to keep my 01/02 game alive. We'll wait and see.

retired_sina9090

I always try to keep a backup of a savegame on CD before giving a new version a try, that way if I don't like the new version I can always reload the old version and continue from where I left. Plus its fun to rediscover an old savegame (e.g. CM3) on an old version.