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Just wondering how everyone got into LLM...
with me it started with games like football manager & football director where you didn't have a choice you had to start in the lowest league (the old division 4 ), been a bit ignorant I'd started to think I was the only LLM after unsuccessfully trying to convert my mates & overhearing people at college chatting about their successes with Ajax, Man U & alike. It wasn't until last summer while browsing the net & coming across taipans (correct me if I'm wrong) site dedicated to LLM that I realised there were lots of other LLaMas outthere.
anyway...just curious to know how everyone got into it
(Advanced apologies if you don't think my question's relevant)
I think all of us LLM's know the feeling when you're tied for the top spot with a slightly greater goal difference facing the worst team in the league...
Sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose.
It's the times you win and feel on top of the world for those few minutes before you press continue and start worrying about next season and relegation that make it worth it. Those are the times that I play in the lower leagues for. Those are the times we all suffer a hundred loses for that one promoting win!
On a more personal note I started playing LLM because I couldn't beat flippin Man U with Arsenal and got so frustrated that I vowed never to manage in England again moved to Argentina before severely missing European football, changing my name, and heading back to the conference for my first LLM experience.
I've yet to turn back. (Or see premiership football again)
I support (what was \o/) a relatively Lower League team, plus it's the way it should be. I used to love the really old games where you would start as Man U and the game would start you in the bottom division. Not realistic maybe, but as I said, the way it should be.
I started with Boston in 00/01. It has always appealed to me to start with a team in any sport simulation thats at the bottom and work them into a world beating team. Mind you theres more failures than success but hey, the hard slog is addictive
Football Director... ah, memories. Wasn't that the first game you could negotiate player's contracts, or was that Football Director 2?
Football Manager was where it started for me too, with the little white and black stick men highlights. There was a problem with it though... you could easily win the FA Cup in Division 4.
(Oh, and there were only 16 team leagues and only place the other teams once!)
I started off in the Lower Leagues, Scottish Division 2 with Livi, and went on to Telford when the Conference came about and I've started low ever since.
i one day thought, "wouldn't it be good to pick a shÃ*t team and take them to the top?" so that i did, but i chose r & d because they had £10,000,000 in the bank and i used loads of decent players that were available from the web. a couple of player namings and bollockings later i decided i would really make myself try hard to play the llm way, so i chose yeovil. i got bored after about 2 games, the same happened for a load of games before i finally got the hang of it and got rid of the want to manage big teams and big players. i have been playing the same for about two years now even though i rarely post in here, and i wouldn't ever go back to the "other" way, it just seems pointless not to mention boring.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by iajafer:
I started off in the Lower Leagues, Scottish Division 2 with Livi, and went on to Telford when the Conference came about and I've started low ever since.
Anybody mention Liverpool() and I'll ban 'em <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Yeah Ian, tell us about your experience at Liv......ingston.
In pretty much all sports simulations I start with teams that are total basket cases. I like whipping them into what I want rather than taking a team where everything's already set up for your success.
How the LLaMa became 
), been a bit ignorant I'd started to think I was the only LLM after unsuccessfully trying to convert my mates & overhearing people at college chatting about their successes with Ajax, Man U & alike. It wasn't until last summer while browsing the net & coming across taipans (correct me if I'm wrong) site dedicated to LLM that I realised there were lots of other LLaMas outthere.
) and I'll ban 'em 
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