iajafer

Very interesting story, Mat. Thing is, we do updates in here, you know, wee paragraphs telling the other LLaMas how we're doing.

Now you're very welcome to keep us updated about how you do, but if you want to do War and Peace type epics, maybe you should consider CMS.

So once you decide what your bag is, let us know

Craig0

That's always the bugger, waiting for a job, but KUTGW anyway!

Cosmo-poof

nice CV you have there, Mat! It's always great to read stories of great failure

Iajafer is right, short updates are better, but it's definitely not easy to bring 27 years of experience into a short paragraph, so KUTGW and don't wait 27 years again until your next update.

Oh, one thing that came to my mind when reading about Mr. X - Did you sign him just because you knew him in the later course of the game? Or did you send your scouts first to check out if he would be a transfer prospect for your new club?

Most of the elder LLamas (me included although I'm a freshman) here never sign a player without having scouted them (unless you don't have scouts )

Craig0

What oliver mentioned isn't somthing you have to do, its just one of the LLM guidlines we have to make the game more realistic, like SWYCT. I don't use it, but i do use SWYCT.

Nobby_McDonald

I think this is a little different. Mr X is a player that Mat had signed originally, presumingly using scouts, or from a transfer list (ie, the list clubs receive of who is being put forward for transfer) and not a player search.
After that, then Mat knows of Mr X, and Mr X can be considered a favourite player. Real life managers sometimes return to old clubs to sign a favourite player, so surely Mat would not need to sign Mr X as he knows about him.
What would be against LLM rules/ethics is if he signed him in another game due to success in this game.

My italics idea is not catching on. Unlike the ]

shawng1

The issue with "known players" is, as RT stated, using player omniscience of the database as a shortcut around doing what RL managers have to do--that is SCOUT.

Once you've scouted players, there's no reason you can't carry your shortlist with you from job to job. It isn't realistic for you to forget that those players are out there. A manager does not have to reestablish the existence of players IRL. Of course, if you lost knowledge about the player because it's been too long since you scouted him last, you DO have to scout him again before you buy him to satisfy the board.