retired_montybrogan

Afternoon lads

Question for you. I've been playing FM since the legendary days of CM 01/02 and this is the first time i've thought about this as i'm thinking of doing it when i get home.

If you a bought a crap player with, what you think to have a very low potential, who plays for a crap team e.g low rep, rubbish facilities etc and brought him to your team with immense facilities and rep, would his potential rise.

For example, you buy a player from a random country, i dunno, kazakhstan who's club has a low rep and what have you, and brought him to your club that has top traininf facilities etc, would his potential increase as your giving him a much better chance of improving?

Thanks in advance if anyone decides to respond :thup:

retired_mssa007

PA stays as it is. But the chances of CA improving with better facilities would certainly be true.

retired_cycleman8

I never would have guessed

retired_montybrogan

what does that mean skintsaint?

Ok cheers Swarfega.

But say in real life you brought some kid in from the unknown when he was 15/16, wouldn't you think his potential would rise?

retired_montybrogan

Do you reckon they should implement something of this sort into the next game?

retired_halfshell69

no - what would rise is the chance of him reaching his potential.

E.g. 2 players with a PA of 170

one joins tranmere, the other chelsea, the first would have something like a 10% chance of reaching his PA, the second more like a 50% chance (randon percentages just to give some idea of what i'm saying).

As it is i feel that the current PA/CA system is fine - it's not perfect but i'm not sure a truly perfect system could be implemented.

retired_montybrogan

yeah your right there Ched, didn't think of it like that

Nice one, so i'm not gonna try that out now haha

firefighterhilf

There have been absolutely loads of arguments about this recently, I'd recommend skimming through the first 4 pages of this forum and you should find a good few threads arguing the merits of PA, and offering some excellent suggestions for improvements that could be made to the development model.

Here's one I wrote earlier