DS

ok i need some help here. I know that potential ability is how good a player can get. But my problem is current ability.

I thought a players technical and non technical abilities judged how good he is so what does current ability do and whats its relation to technical and non-technical ability and also its relation to potential ability.

stinger061

Basically the higher a players Current ability, the better his stats will be. Potential ability refers to the highest possible level that a players CA can reach and therefore how good they will become

Kennethvds

So if you change the current ability from 120 to 150, his stats will rise?

MetalMan

correct (If his potential is higher than 150, that is)

JAT

I somewhat disagree.

I say that Technical skills and so on declare players' strong points and weaknesses.

Current Ability says how good players' strong points and weaknesses are.

So player may have excellent ability but poor Technical and so on stats.

Lowering player's ability may affect on Technical and so on stats but not that much. You can try to lower for example Ronldinho's Ability to 1. He should have somewhat OK Technical and so on skills anyway.

JAT

There is differences for sure between CM2 and FM2006, but anyway.

On CM2 there was a player with ALL visible skills at least 17 ( Except Technique 1 ), and Ability 1...

On FM 2006 there seems to be somewhat similar style, so that good visible skills to not necessarily tell that player has good ability.

DS

Well I raised just the current ability and potential ability of players and not there technical and non technical stats and the players didnt really improve alot.

However, I also made some players have higher technical and non technical stats and i gave them like 180 current ability and 200 potential ability. I put some of the technical abilities to 20 and they arnt 20 because the current ability isnt high enough so if i put it to like 190 they will be higher.

This is making more confused, it would be very good if just raising current ability made players better but i think u also need to raise the technical abilities and non technical abilities.

JAT

As I said, I think that "Technical skills and so on declare players' strong points and weaknesses.

Current Ability says how good players' strong points and weaknesses are."

So with higher Ability player is better even with same Technical and so on skills.

JAT

So like if you have a player with Ability 200 and Long Shots 10 versus player with Ability 100 and Long Shots 10, first player is far better on Long Shots.

But Ability 150 + Long Shots 20 versus Ability 200 + Long Shots 15, well I do not know which one is better then...