Alright boyz, here we go!!! Football Manager 05 First impressions

[bhlloy]

Originally Posted by Marc Vaughan

Put a fix for this in today - thanks for mentioning it, it wasn't something I was aware of before ...

Also ensured that Mr. Adu is playable in the MLS in patch#1 at his current tender age

Good to hear Marc - I'm sure I'm one of the few people in the world who this actually affects, but it was really bugging me. Thanks again.

Speaking of Adu, is it still ridiculously easy to sign him for any club in a higher prestige league? Not that I mind him coming to Cardiff, but not totally realistic

[Tekneek]

Originally Posted by Desnudo

So far I'm blowing the doors off the competition with Newport County in EC South. Strangely the 4-5-1 is scoring 2-4 goals a game for me.

Uh oh. Standard 4-5-1? If it continues to work really well regardless of personnel, it may a supertactic and use should be banned.

[Ryan S]

Originally Posted by FrogMan

I'll ask the question again: what do I need to have access to the post match summary right after a game? Is it some staff, something special built for the team, does it happen on TV games or important games???

I have only noticed it (and the prematch preview) on TV games.

[Raven]

OK, so I downloaded the demo, and installed in English, yet when I open it, it's in some foreign language (German, I think). I reinstalled it, to make sure I did install in English correctly, and I get the same thing.

I also tried changing the language in-game to English, and that doesnt work.

Do I need to try redownloading from another site?

[SirFozzie]

Known glitch in the demo, one you can fix in the preferences screen

[riz]

Originally Posted by rexallllsc

I cannot wait 'til EHM has some of the new FM features. I've already played a combined 10 days (6 seasons) on EHM, and man...awesome.

6 seasons, I've made the playoffs ONCE (made it on the last day...tied Edmonton w/ 83 points but had the tiebreaker), and played #1 Calgary in the first round (I got swept 4-1).

Anyways, I've had a great time. Can't wait to get FM. I wish freaking Fry's would pick it up.

Not trying to threadjack but....glad to hear that

To get back on to the topic, there is a lot of idea-exchange going on between the FM and EHM teams as well as the OOTP team. Having all these great text sim minds under one roof makes some nice corridor conversations. And cross-playing FM, EHM and OOTP makes sure the best ideas carry over from one game to another at some point. We've already stolen some stuff for the next EHM from FM (and OOTP) and I believe Marc is also planning on nicking a few things from EHM to FM+1 as well.

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by Raven

OK, so I downloaded the demo, and installed in English, yet when I open it, it's in some foreign language (German, I think). I reinstalled it, to make sure I did install in English correctly, and I get the same thing.

I also tried changing the language in-game to English, and that doesnt work.

Do I need to try redownloading from another site?

it may be a question of download, as I downloaded and installed my gold demo without having the language problem. I downloaded the demo from jolt.co.uk fi that makes a difference, here's a link to their search page:
http://www.downloads.jolt.co.uk/?pos...otball+manager

Good luck!

FM

[Katon]

The post-match summary and the preview have the same reqiurement: TV games.

[GoldenEagle]

I akways got a preview and post game an never once played TV. I was a first division team in Holland.

[Chief Rum]

I can't explain that, GE, but my observations--and this is having started off with teams in England, Brazil, Italy and now Germany--is that Katon is right. I only ever get those for TV games.

I wish they would do it for every game, though.

CR

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by GoldenEagle

I akways got a preview and post game an never once played TV. I was a first division team in Holland.

dola,

just in case you might be confused, the previous posts on this have been with regards to the preview report and post match summary that is one of the selectable pages under Preview and Post Match. The Preview and Post Match sections, as you noted, are available for every match.

CR

[cougarfreak]

Anyone know where to buy the game on Tuesday when it's released in the US?

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by Chief Rum

dola,

just in case you might be confused, the previous posts on this have been with regards to the preview report and post match summary that is one of the selectable pages under Preview and Post Match. The Preview and Post Match sections, as you noted, are available for every match.

CR

exactly and I can also confirm that the matchs summaries (pre and post) are available only when you play on TV, as I played my FA Cup round 2 match yesterday night and only then were the summaries "ungreyed"...

Thanks everyone for the help.

FM

[GoldenEagle]

Originally Posted by cougarfreak

Anyone know where to buy the game on Tuesday when it's released in the US?

The game was delayed a week, per SEGA.

[FrogMan]

Funny story in that FA Cup match. The week before the match, the team got plagued by a ton of injuries, especially to my strikers, and since I play a 4-3-3 formation, losing starting forwards isn't the nicest things.

Anyway, I have this kid, 17yo striker, whom I think has some potential. He just got back from a 3 months loan to St. Albans, right in time to make his debut on my team, in the FA Cup no less. Hi name: Calvin Andrew. I have a son named Andrew, who was playing U8 soccer last Summer. At some point during the game, Calvin Andrew decided he was gonna play like a regular starter and he started making moves on about half the field of play, ended the whole thing with a beauty of a goal. The game details going on at the bottom of the 2D screen went something like this

Andrew moves past Dean.
Andrew is coming alone with the keeper.
Andrew scores on an incredible strike!!!
Andrew is having an amazing debut.


Dang, it felt like me doing a fake play by play of me playing soccer with my son in the backyard

Playing away, we won the game 2-1 btw...

FM

edit to remove dola

[cougarfreak]

Originally Posted by GoldenEagle

The game was delayed a week, per SEGA.

So now it's not available till the 7th?? What was the cause for the delay? On their website it still says the 30th.

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by cougarfreak

So now it's not available till the 7th?? What was the cause for the delay? On their website it still says the 30th.

from their forum, in the stickied thread named "Worldwide Soccer Manager release update"

Just to let you know, the release date of this title (it's FM2005 for the North American market) will now be 6th December and not the 30th November as originally planned.

We apologise for any issues this may cause.

FM

[Raven]

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

Known glitch in the demo, one you can fix in the preferences screen

how do I do that? I can't figure it out since I dont speak German!

[SirFozzie]

It's dutch. One second, I'll find it for you

[cougarfreak]

Originally Posted by FrogMan

from their forum, in the stickied thread named "Worldwide Soccer Manager release update"

FM

The heck with that, I ordered mine from gogamer.com, ships out of california, it'll be here in 2-3 days.

[SirFozzie]

Ok... in the game: look for the magnifying glass near the top right part of the screen. The last option on the top of the screen (the closest to the magnifying glass)

That's the options menu.

The seventh option down, (the end of the first menu on that tab).. is preferences. click that.

Then the top left option will allow you to change languages, and in the mini box to the bottom left, there's three options. Confirm is the top one

[Raven]

Thanks, Foz

[GoldenEagle]

Any word on when the patch will come out yet? I have not had the gamer crash yet but I wouldn't mind getting this sucker patched before starting a dynasty.

[Eaglesfan27]

No word that I've heard, but I'm anxiously awaiting the patch to start a "real" career.

[Chief Rum]

No word yet unfortunately. And if you dare ask, someone in the SIGames community will jump you (as is typical of the hawks on that forum).

Unfortunately, I just had my first CTD and lost about a month of simming. Wonderful. This one is shelved until someone gets off their arse and finally gets us a patch. I feel like CM4 all over again.

CR

[Marc Vaughan]

Originally Posted by Chief Rum

Unfortunately, I just had my first CTD and lost about a month of simming. Wonderful. This one is shelved until someone gets off their arse and finally gets us a patch. I feel like CM4 all over again.
CR

Am currently sitting on my arse working on the patch ....

Any chance of some info regarding your problem - ie. machine spec, what leagues were active, database size etc. (and a screen capture of the crash if possible).

Thanks in advance for your help,

Marc
PS. CTD's have been very very rare with FM which is one of the reasons we haven't rushed out a patch - the majority have been people over-straining their setups with leagues or simply driver/config issues on their PC's.
Not saying this is the cause of your problem, but obviously the more information I get on what happened, the more likely it is I can replicate it and help you out ...

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Marc Vaughan

Am currently sitting on my arse working on the patch ....

Any chance of some info regarding your problem - ie. machine spec, what leagues were active, database size etc. (and a screen capture of the crash if possible).

Thanks in advance for your help,

Marc
PS. CTD's have been very very rare with FM which is one of the reasons we haven't rushed out a patch - the majority have been people over-straining their setups with leagues or simply driver/config issues on their PC's.
Not saying this is the cause of your problem, but obviously the more information I get on what happened, the more likely it is I can replicate it and help you out ...

lol...not surprised. Marc, your work ethic is amazing, I know.

Here's my info-- AMD AthlonXP 3200, 1 GB RAM, Windows XP Home, Creative SB card, ATI Radeon 9600 graphics card, oogles of hard drive space (I have the game installed on my 250 GB external), processor is not threaded. I was running one other program at the time (Internet Explorer).

I was in Germany, and I admit I was running a lot of leagues. 68 leagues in 34 countries, I think. I was playing as Wolfsburg. This is about three times the recommended level (for my computer), and for all I know, that might be the reason for the CTD. That said, I have run such huge leagues with CM and with FM before and I never saw this bug before. In the past, the only issues I have noticed with running such huge leagues is that it goes very, very slow (which doesn't bother me at all). This was my first non-memory related (to my knowledge) CTD ever with an SIGames product, and it was funny to see it happen, because it seemed to mimic the experiences of some of the people posting in that "crash crash crash" six-page thread in the bug forum at SIGames. You see, I had just read that thread for the first time today, never having had a problem, and this very night, it happens to me. What an odd coincidence.

My drivers should be up to date. I just got this computer in the last six months, and I know I updated the sound and video drivers for sure when I got Rome:Total War last month (heck, I just bought the video card two months ago). I also have SP2 for Windows XP installed.

I was running every top flight league in Europe that the game offers (even Belarus and Iceland) and the vast bulk of the leagues I had running were European leagues. I had no Asian, African or North American leagues, and only a little bit of Brazil and Argentina running. The database size was large (huge always stretched my memory too much with this many leagues), and I didn't have any additional nation's players added.

I would give you a screen capture of the CTD, but, you see, it didn't even give me an error message, just disappeared--so you would only be getting a screen capture of my desktop.

It happened on my game in late October, 2004 (in game), as I was preparing for a match. I right clicked to add a seventh sub to my lineup, and that was the last thing it did (promptly disappeared when I did that).

I hope some of this helps, and I will be glad to provide more info if I can. With any luck, this is something you have already run into.

CR

[Chief Rum]

dola,

I don't currently have a virus scan program installed (should I be revealing that? ), so I know that's not it.

CR

[Marc Vaughan]

Originally Posted by Chief Rum

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Can you email me at [email protected] so I can chat to you off-board please.

[Chief Rum]

Sent.

[Eaglesfan27]

For some reason, I was really expecting the patch out today when I got home from work.. too bad my intuition was wrong

[Desnudo]

A helpful hint for anyone playing in the lower leagues. You can schedule preseason friendlies at home with premier league clubs and possibly sell out the stadium.

[ice4277]

I hope there will be a patch that will prevent me from ever being thumped 8-0 on the road again. Ouch.

[GoldenEagle]

Has anyone notic that with fictional players there seems to be a good number of players releases with good abbillites just in the wrong positions?

[Marc Vaughan]

Originally Posted by Chief Rum

Sent.

I don't appear to have recieved your email - please either PM me here or email my alternative account at [email protected] (as it might be my spam filter at SI being too aggressive ..).

[Ben E Lou]

CLICK ME

[FrogMan]

woah, SkyDog posting in a FM thread, what's next? posting on the Hattrick forum??? nah, he wouldn't go that far, would he?!?




FM

[Desnudo]

Is anyone here interested in participating in an FM online league? I'm thinking we'd wait until the patch, but I'd love to get one going.

[Katon]

I'd be interested, but unfortunately time-zone issues would probably make it impossible for me to participate.

[Eaglesfan27]

I'd be interested as well.. I think the biggest challenge would be matching up time schedules.

[Crapshoot]

Originally Posted by Eaglesfan27

I'd be interested as well.. I think the biggest challenge would be matching up time schedules.

Bingo. I'd love to do it, but I wonder if we could find matching time for all of us.

[Desnudo]

My time is pretty flexible. I'm on the west coast, which would make linking up with London a challenge although I could be on during London evenings. How does everyone's schedule work?

[LionsFan10]

If an online league gets going, I'm definitely in. If you guys will have me.

[Desnudo]

Originally Posted by LionsFan10

If an online league gets going, I'm definitely in. If you guys will have me.

Of course you're welcome to join. I'll start reviewing some of the established games on SI to see how things operate. I also have some web space so I could potentially set-up a playing schedule, rules and what-not.

I think the main thing we'd have to figure out is where to start. I.E., Premiership (assuming we'd go English), working our way up from the bottom, or somewhere in-between. Personally the old English 1 or 2 interest me since there you have promotion and relegation possibilities and still can sign decent players.

[tanglewood]

I'd be very interested in an online league, but again, schedules could be problematic.

[McSweeny]

i've been having some weird problems with alt-tabing out. Today it crashed straight to my desktop two or three times with no warning and no message. Just closed up and acted like it was never running in the first place. Very annoying, considering it did it just after i had beat Holland 4-2 in my first World Cup 2006 group match as Ireland

All my drivers are up to date and all my windows updates are taken care of. Got a brand new Athlon 64 3000+ and i'm running XP SP2. Hope this will be taken care of in the patch

[Desnudo]

Man, some of the new media stuff is hilarious. I got this quote from a player I just signed:

Motteram to Teach Fans Real Football

"New Newport Co signing Carl Motteram has told the club's fans that his ability will leave them drooling.

Speaking to journalists after his 140K move, the 22-year-old attacking midfielder declared that if the fans had been getting bored at Newport Stadium over recent months, he was about to show them how football should be played."

[Sharpieman]

I can't wait to get this game, it will be at my house on Tuesday...screw waiting for the American version.

[Chief Rum]

lol Desnudo.

What really moves that into the sublime is that I had Motteram at Tamworth in one of my CM03/04 dynasties, and although rated excellently, he was always a huge underachiever.

Hopefully he does better for you.

CR

[Desnudo]

Hehe, I may be out of luck. I had a look at his hidden stats and he shows 6/20 for important matches and 19/20 for controversy. Sounds like a bomb waiting to explode.