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[SpritePuck]

Quote: Originally Posted by mfp

My worry with the way they've done preseason is now that there's money to be won, how likely are you going to experiment in the preseason like real teams do?

This is offline CM so do as you wish. I will personally experiment. Losing some potentual funds is worth finding out how my squad is. I do not play my stars in early rounds of the FA Cup and stuff. Of course if others want they should go all out and play the best each match.

IDK how sim you play is your call. Sometimes I call up young players for International friendlies, sometimes I play the countries best. There is no right or wrong to me in offline gaming.

[mfp]

Quote: Originally Posted by SpritePuck

This is offline CM so do as you wish. I will personally experiment. Losing some potentual funds is worth finding out how my squad is. I do not play my stars in early rounds of the FA Cup and stuff. Of course if others want they should go all out and play the best each match. IDK how sim you play is your call. Sometimes I call up young players for International friendlies, sometimes I play the countries best. There is no right or wrong to me in offline gaming.

I prefer a realistic experience in CM but maybe I'm not as strong-willed as you 'cause if there's a couple mil on the table, I could see myself playing to win rather than experimenting.

Obviously people can choose to play how they want, but the point is that I'd rather see CM's features be realistic to begin with.

It's not a big deal in the end but personally I would have been fine if they'd just have let us choose our opponents for preseason and give us the proper number of subs. For years that's all we've really been asking for.

[Zac]

Quote: Originally Posted by mfp

I prefer a realistic experience in CM but maybe I'm not as strong-willed as you 'cause if there's a couple mil on the table, I could see myself playing to win rather than experimenting. Obviously people can choose to play how they want, but the point is that I'd rather see CM's features be realistic to begin with. It's not a big deal in the end but personally I would have been fine if they'd just have let us choose our opponents for preseason and give us the proper number of subs. For years that's all we've really been asking for.

You don't have to do a pre season tourney, you can do regular games and still have the subs. But you can't choose your opponents.

[SpritePuck]

Quote: Originally Posted by mfp

I prefer a realistic experience in CM but maybe I'm not as strong-willed as you 'cause if there's a couple mil on the table, I could see myself playing to win rather than experimenting. Obviously people can choose to play how they want, but the point is that I'd rather see CM's features be realistic to begin with. It's not a big deal in the end but personally I would have been fine if they'd just have let us choose our opponents for preseason and give us the proper number of subs. For years that's all we've really been asking for.

I totally get you. It will especially with a smaller budget be hard to not play to win the big cash. I was missunderstanding your point.

[Altimus]

Quote: Originally Posted by baseballguy

That's fantastic. I need to start a career tonight.

Quote: Originally Posted by ZO

Had pretty much the same experience playing them in the pre season tourney. It was also nice to see teams in these doing more than 3 subs also. And actually starting young guys, not just subbing them in later in the game.

It is. Made me smile when I saw it because I was just expecting a starting 11 of their best with 3 random subs.

[Altimus]

There is temptation to try to dominate and win the tournament but at the same time when you see other big teams experimenting, it should push you to do the same. I was trying to win the games but at the same time went into each game with a plan of who was gonna play, how long, etc.

Also a big thing is injuries. Pushing\playing too hard may result in injury. In the final game of the group stage I pushed a little to hard maybe for a positive result and Hazard tweaked his ankle so I was like oh oh, time to settle down. Thing that sucked most for me playing as Chelsea was Cesc was injured to begin the tournament and Oscar went off to Copa America.

To me, the big thing was being able to experiment with different squads in a "tournament" environment with teams doing the same rather then the reward. Plus for the 5 star tournament, you get €3 million just for the group stages.

[Zac]

In regards to the pre season tourneys, I did find the first bug last night. I got of of the group stage. But then when I lost the semi game, the board sent me an email telling me they were disappointed I didn't get out of the group stage.

[Zac]

Someone asked me about transfers in a PM. Figured I'd post it here also.

From a quick test just now, it appears to be exactly the same. I did a new quick MM, simmed until the final day of transfer window. And all the teams in the EPL had no or one, maybe two transfers. But more teams with none than anything. Yet I was seeing all sorts of stories for other leagues. So its hard to say what was actually changed because there is no transaction log. But from a first quick glance, it appears nothing was changed with transfers.