retired_ohiostatesteff

No, it’s not.

I brought Solihull Moors from Conference North League to Premier League in 7 years.

But from time to time it’s challenging me. By instance:

Currently I returned to the Coca Cola League, mid table position and my Solihull Moors squad is out to revolt.

FitTrainer

im not 100% sure, a quick search in the bugs forum would tell you for definite though.

retired_pinedahead1974

i love the game, my only gripe is the lack of 1-on-1 conversions. Otherwise i prefer the game to be a challenge.

retired_rotert

If I returned, FM2007 would be too easy IMO. Once you've played a couple of games you know how to beat the bigger teams, what formations work best against (for example) Liverpool's 4-2-3-1, which took me ages to crack.

2008 needs more attention to detail on behalf of the user, but is ridiculously slow on PCs under 2GB (like my old one), which is my only real gripe with it. Personally, I got impatient a) waiting for processing to complete, and then b) tweaking tactics. It can take a long time, but IMO the extra effort makes it better than 07. Just takes 3 times longer to get through a season successfully.

The unrealistic shots on target vs goals is just a statistic and plenty of people have got round the losing games aspect of the bug, myself included. Okay, I haven’t been down in the Blue Square but I’ve been as low as League 1, lost quite a few but worked it out eventually. Now I’m challenging for the Prem within 5 seasons. Others here HAVE been successful with lower league teams so it can be done.

If you want a game where you cobble together the best players, set up a tactic that works “every” time, enabling you to just pick the team, sit back and watch the highlights, then previous FM incarnations do that. FM08 works the brain nearly every game, and for me that makes it a better product – despite the obvious flaws (board confidence, transfers, the afore-mentioned shots-to-goal).

I really hope that someone brings out an FM07 Weegie for next year’s transfers so those going back can continue to win easily.

I genuinely hope FM09 does not get “easier”, but simply sorts out the minor quibbles that so many are taking a bit too personally.

FitTrainer

having my first bash at llm and doing dafuges challenge at the mo. took a previously unplayable team (chippenham) and guided them to promotion in their first season. now, one thing i did notice during that time, is a marked DECREASE in chances missed/goals disallowed/controversial moments from my other long term game, where im managing liverpool. i think i only got 3 or 4 goals disallowed all season; with liverpool it could be that per week!

retired_ohiostatesteff

I hope it gets harder

Solihull Moors from Conference North League to Premier League in 7 years is not realistic.

Not harder in winning a match but in attracting relative good players, which is rather simple now.

retired_marcias

I've put my own constraints on that anyway in that I'm only signing players from the North East of England in general (or at least will be, I have signed one Scotsman who was born in Glasgow!). Having a team 100% born in Whitley Bay seemed unrealistic so I have expanded out as far away as Durham and Sunderland, maybe even Middlesbrough and Hartlepool.

There are always ways to make the game more difficult for yourself if it is what you want, but fewer ways to make it easier if you just can't get the hang of its complexities (team talks... )