retired_cycleman8

Easy Level : Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd
Med Level : Southampton, Sheff Utd, Notts Forest
Hard : Aldershot, Crawley, Bognor Regis

retired_randman

WHS

retired_w0lfpack1

Its wayyyy too late for that suggestion. In all likelihood, they had a feature-freeze before Christmas, and a code-freeze sometime in January - assuming they're making a patch to reflect the January transfer window.

Weren't interfering chairmen first introduced as part of a patch? I remember a lot of people complaining about that...


That said, I think the OP can take some heart - SI have typically tweaked and tuned the difficulty from patch to patch. If the consensus were that 8.0.1 is too hard, it would be likely that 8.0.2 would be a little easier .. and vice versa.

retired_Yiannab

Never ever should FM have difficulty levels, leave that for the not so realistic management games.

retired_nel1603

I'm not really bothered about having difficulty levels as I would need to choose hard then (otherwise I'd feel like I was cheating).

I would like a choice of 'no sacking' which a lot of people don't like. When I play I always play as the same team. If I get sacked I restart. It would be nice just to carry on although i rarely get sacked.

FitnessandNrg

Can someone explain why it is such a bad idea to have difficulty levels? I am sure most people on here, including me, would go on the hardest one but I dont see why we cant have easier levels for other people. It would mean less people coming on here and complaining about AI cheating and things like that

circlewalker

Too much work for too little reward, especially when there are far better ways of helping out users who are struggling with the game.

alidog

I don't think the game is too hard. I'm currently playing a cavalier 2-3-5 formation (Back to the olden days!) and I've just won the league with Newcastle. OK, I'm in 2011, but still.

My problem has never been the difficulty level, it's the lack of feedback. I hate playing "slider roulette" and trying to find the optimum balance of seemingly random sliders to get your team to play coherently.

alidog

There ARE difficulty levels.

Choosing your level of experience at the start of the game, eg Pro, Semi Pro, International etc is just that. Choose "International" and you get way more time from the board and can attract better players. Choose "Sunday League" and you're really swimming against the tide if you've chosen a big club.

However I'm dead against anything where you can choose "Easy" from a dropdown box to make it easier to actually win matches. That's just all wrong.

retired_femmestrength

Wrong. Lower league opponents are weaker and board expectations are more relaxed. After half a season with Arsenal, Chelsea or Man Utd half of your opponents will start with maximum time wasting.