Broony88 Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Downloaded the new update today and started with Dundee United. Got a combined £8.7 million for Gauld and Souttar, signed Mannus, May, Polworth, Kenny McLean and Murray Davidson. Unbeaten and top after 4 games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 I've decided to start an Arsenal save after watching highlights of them seemingly start their usual collapse. I've usually always had a decent save with them aswell. Sitting top after 5 wins in 5 games. I the CL I've been grouped with Lyon, Dortmund and BATE. Started off away to Lyn and went fairly attacking after battling with what tactics to use, and got pumped 4-0! Used my more conservative tactic in the next match away to Man United and won 2-0. So from now I'll be using a "big game" tactic and a more attacking one for the easier games. Only thing is my "big game" tactic sort of nullifies Ozil, and its possible I'll drop him for them to help the system, he's tremendous aswell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou Brusch Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Only visible update on the Winter Transfer patch is a different typeface in a 3D match Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forameus Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Only visible update on the Winter Transfer patch is a different typeface in a 3D match It was actually a pretty big update by SI standards, but yeah, not much in the way of actual clearly visible changes.# Change list is below for anyone interested, at least the ones they've talked about. UPDATE 14.3.0DATABASE - Updated to January 2014 PERFORMANCE - Fixed rare crash related to city inhabitants in edited save - Fixed rare crash when holidaying to next fixture - Fixed rare transfer deadline day crash - Fixed crash related to Turkish player names - Fixed rare crash when histories have been corrupted - Fixed rare crash when recalling players from loan - Fixed rare issue occurring during and after matches COMPETITIONS - Fixed State leagues not being scheduled when adding Brazilian leagues - Fixed past Winners screen for the Polish Ekstraklasa using positions from the Regular Season and not the positions from after the Split - Bulgarian and Romanian Players no longer need a Work Permit for British Clubs from January 2014 - Fixed user not given opportunity to Postpone Premier Division match due to International Callups - Improved scheduling of domestic fixtures before/after European matches - Fixed user not being asked to set length of End of Season Break after last match of season - Fixed MLS teams being unable to register players for Club World Championship - Improved the selection of players in the MLS Draft pool - CFA League Schedule now correctly matching other French Leagues - Improved A-League AI teams' signing of Marquee players TRANSFERS & CONTRACTS - Relaxed some German transfer preferences to allow users to sign more players from outside of Germany - Prevented AI managers from leaving jobs before playoff finals - Increased amount of international management sackings - Prevented the AI from signing a player on loan when the player has already played for two teams in the current season - Prevented players loans getting extended automatically when being loaned to South American sides - Tweaks to transfers made by the AI for users players - Prevented recently relegated side from the lowest playable league from entering a loop of hiring and firing managers on a daily basis INTERACTION - Fixed backroom advice not appearing for some clients online - Fixed Youth Setup Category not upgrading despite request being accepted - Fixed player wanting to discuss failure to qualify for Champions Cup despite having qualified - Fixed irrational response to player being congratulated on first international cap - Fixed a few issues of strange/contradictory responses in team meetings MEDIA & NEWS - Fixed transfer records being incorrectly broken with lower fee when using South Korean Won - Fixed manager to go odds displaying already sacked manager - Fixed backroom advice link allowing user to repeat private chat - Fixed remove Offer from Backroom Advice not functioning correctly - Fixed Champions League top goalscorer record broken shows previous record as -1 - Fixed code displayed in news item when international team changes national captain without a current manager - Fixed incorrect calculation for number of players signed in transfer window press conference question - Fixed sextuple news item not generating - Fixed press conference question considering league to be a close run contest incorrectly - Fixed press Conference question incorrectly referring to non-striker as striker - Fixed missing headline on AWOL news item - Fixed duplicated information in player debut news - Fixed league specific question being asked in post-match press conference USER INTERFACE - Fixed user's ability to select different player roles on the Player Coach Report screen - Prevented Nations duplicating when user changes Match Detail on Detail Level screen - Fixed sorting of club scouting assignments - Fixed filters resetting on the Team Selection Overview screen - Fixed Opposition Instructions clearing when user uses the Set Piece Wizard in Match - Fixed Match widgets staying faded out after highlight has played out - Fixed Home and Away Team stats switching in Match Overview - Fixed Assistant Manager Advice automatically updating in Match Overview - Fixed Important Attributes panel in Player Tactics not updating - Fixed Scout Report Training Development & Happiness displaying blank bars for player out on loan - Fixed Cup tied players not appearing on Fixture Details panel FMC SPECIFIC - News Item priority improvements to Manager News Website - Assistant Training will correctly update the training pie chart - Stopped players learning new positions when subbed into that position for very short periods of time - Improved player training when user changes tactics frequently MISC - Fixed double prize money payout in Norway - Fixed rounding issue in Sponsorship news item - Fixed issue with illogical stadium completion date - Fixed issue with £0 Sponsorship - Improved newgen creation in View-only leagues - Fixed issue where proposed plans to improve a stadium had fallen through and weren't explained to the user - Fixed issue where a board only increased a transfer budget from -£2k to £0 - Adjusted the creation of African and Albanian newgens created in Italy PRE-GAME EDITOR - Fixed a number of unique crashes when verifying files in Advanced Rules - Restored a number of verification warnings that were previously not generating - Fixed an issue where fixture rules were removed when adding lower divisions to existing structures and converting to Advanced Riles - Fixed an issue where certain leagues' default rules appeared with no dates or promotion/relegation information - Improved the functionality of average points tables in custom nation rules - Fixed a rare issue where a player would be given a positional rating of 20 and it would not extract into the game properly IN-GAME EDITOR - Fixed an issue where a player's unhappiness was removed, only for it to return the next day - Enabled the editing of nations MATCH ENGINE v1454 - Increased dribbling speed at higher end - Improved pass and shot accuracy slightly at higher end - Improved goalkeeper save AI - Fixed keeper trying to pick up ball at feet but not being able to hold it - Fixed some instances of unrealistically dreadful poor touch - Fixed some full backs going forward too quickly off the ball - Increased likelihood of certain attacking roles dropping deeper to look for ball - Improved destination height of headed clearances - Fixed up "Mark six yard area" at corners to mean zonal marking of the edge of the six yard box - Fixed headed clearance trajectory bug - Slight reduction in overhit passes - Fixed potential own goal bug when player tries to stand still with ball near own goal line - Prevented midfield players going too deep when defending own area - Increased speed defenders will push up out of box when ball won back or cleared in deep areas - Reduced instances of defenders turning back on ball and retreating too quickly when team is generally well positioned defensively - Fixed error causing defenders to mark opponents and drop too deep into own area - Tweaked pace and target point of some short passes to feet when receiving player is under pressure - Slightly encouraged some more passes in behind opposition d-line - Reduced some further instances of overly long first touches - Reduced premature pot shots from distance when placed to take ball closer to opposition goal - Encouraged taking on of opponents by players likely to run with ball more - Some small dribbling AI tweaks - Encouraged ball forward to target man a bit more - Tweaked pass AI slightly - Tweaked cross AI slightly - Increased fouls slightly at lower levels - Reduced mentality choice slightly for low directness AI teams - Increased use of direct play strategy for smaller teams - Potential fix for odd throw ins - Fixed an issue when the subbed player doesn't drop the ball - Tweaked pass choice AI - Tweaked run with ball AI - Tweaked when to cross AI - Tweaked when to shoot long AI - Tweaked shot choice AI for top players - Tweaked header accuracy slightly - Tweaked when to clear ball AI - Fixed error causing many corners to go too close to goal line - Tweaked off ball movement around ball player - Fixes and tweaks to passing AI - Fixed some issues causing poor dribbling and first touch decisions - Some tweaks re when to shoot or not - Increased urgency of off ball movement in some situations - Fixed offsides being called after player has moved back onside before pass - Fixed bug where dive by attacker could result in penalty regardless of where it occurred - Improved keeper reactions in some situations - Made keepers sweep up balls more aggressively when needed - Improved keeper positioning when narrowing angle - Fixed a pass being reported as 550 yards in distance - Fixed unrealistic examples of keepers holding shots - Fixed keeper making unnecessary save attempt when already letting ball run out - Fixed keepers making buggy attempts to save ball when they have it under control already - Improved goalkeeper distribution - Fixed buggy offsides being given when player fouled - Fixed some instances of players continuing with pointless attempts to intercept balls that are destined for opponent - Made players quicker to move to slow moving ball when under pressure - Fixed some instances of buggy poor first touches - Less risky passes around own danger area - Some minor general passing AI tweaks - Tweaked long shot AI slightly - Reduced instances of silly passes when player in goalscoring opportunity - Made players less gung ho about drifting offside - Fixed buggy kick offs where the 2 players get in each other’s' way - Fixed some keeper clearances being given insufficient elevation - Fix for some crosses not being attempted - Reduction in dangerous and long back passes - Reduced DFK conversion slightly - Further fixes for keeper handling and judgement of ball issues - Removed illogical zonal marking on free kicks around corner of penalty area - Reduced unnaturally looped kicks from ground - More minor tweaks to on ball decision making AI - Fixed rare occurrence of player "teleporting" randomly on ball - Reduced unrealistic instances of long shots - Fixed bug causing some shot velocities to be reduced - Fine-tuned shot and pass accuracy - Fine-tuned player ratings - Fixed underhit long kicks - Fix occasional penalty awards when offence nowhere near area - Fixed rare occurrence of match not kicking off after goal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMMjag Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Out of interest, anyone know what the lowest playable league is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colbert Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Most countries go down to the fourth or fifth tier. In Scotland it's League 2, but there are custom databses which make the Highland/Lowland leagues playable. I tried to make a custom database which would incorporate the junior set-up into one big Scottish pyramid, but I struggled to get promotion and relegation to work correctly. I've heard of a database which extends the English pyramid all the way down to the 11th tier, but I haven't tried it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMMjag Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Most countries go down to the fourth or fifth tier. In Scotland it's League 2, but there are custom databses which make the Highland/Lowland leagues playable. I tried to make a custom database which would incorporate the junior set-up into one big Scottish pyramid, but I struggled to get promotion and relegation to work correctly. I've heard of a database which extends the English pyramid all the way down to the 11th tier, but I haven't tried it out. Yeah I've generally found the Highland/Lowland databases a bit unreliable, there was a Finnish one too that I tried and didn't work right. I imagine out of the leagues which are part of the game it would be somewhere in Asia like Hong Kong or India that has the lowest rep. But I've just downloaded the Gibraltar database and considering their top division is rated at half a star, I think the Gibraltar second division is the answer to my question Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wardy Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Key to the town in order? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killiesquirrel Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Most countries go down to the fourth or fifth tier. In Scotland it's League 2, but there are custom databses which make the Highland/Lowland leagues playable. I tried to make a custom database which would incorporate the junior set-up into one big Scottish pyramid, but I struggled to get promotion and relegation to work correctly. I've heard of a database which extends the English pyramid all the way down to the 11th tier, but I haven't tried it out. I've tried that out, it works well the one I used. However, I'm impatient and hate not being able to sign half decent players. You can play in the Liverpool leagues and stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrestersKTID Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Expanding the youth and training facilities has paid off. Got 4 or 5 ,5 star potential guys through the youth system with killie in last 2 seasons. Norwich bid 1.4mil and 30% sell on off the bat for one. So keeping him naturally ha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Do Hull City turn into Hull Tigers after the first season? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle_do_nicely Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 I won the SPL in my third season by about 10 points. Went into my fourth season, managed to beat Steua Bucharest (sp?) on penalties to get into the champions league group stages. Got about 7 million pounds in the bank just for that. Won my first 5 league games and was about to play Shakhtar away in the Champs League... And I went to reload my saved game, but for whatever reason it had crashed and wouldn't let me reload. My backup save game was from before the season started, too, which was gutting - although tbh thank christ I at least had a backup there. Cheated a bit (kind of, don't feel guilty about it because fucked if I'm putting up with the game's shite and missing out on all dat money) and kept reloading save games until I got the same results as before - this time beating Dinamo on penalties. edit: actually I cheated a bit more than that, I was frustrated at the fact a few transfer deals in and out had been lost in the crash, so I used the editor to move the players I'd signed to my club, and offered the players I'd sold away. I tried to be as honest as possible - gave the players I signed the exact contracts they'd had pre-crash which were mostly a lot higher than the ones they were on moving them to my club through the editor, and it slightly balanced out because I ended up accepting the first offers I got for the players I'd sold, most of which were for a fair bit less money than before - for instance in the game that crashed I sold Lucas Piazon for 2.6 million, but from the backup I ended up selling him for about 1.2 million because that was the first and only offer I got for him.) I was gutted when the save crashed too because I had signed Rangers best young player for about a million quid and he scored in every single one of those 5 league wins. Really enjoying the save but tbh I can see it getting a bit stale soon - saying that it is pretty fun how I'm signing all these 4 1/2 - 5 star potential ability guys, some of whom are already ready for the first team, for pennies while everyone else keeps signing absolute shite on overinflated wages - barring Dundee Utd who are actually fairly canny most of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBairn1876 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Blair Alston is 12 stone 1lbs. Garry O'Connor is something like 11 stone 9lbs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD1711 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Started a game with Airdrie on Monday, had hardly any time to play it but straight away I got Rangers away in the Challenge Cup (only lost 1-0) so a welcome boost to the finances. Signed Martin Hardie, Jack Boyle, Kamil Witorski, Andy Kirk, Jamie McCluskey, David Graham and a couple of youngsters on loan from Hibs as part of my agreement. Beat East Fife 1-0 in the League Cup and started my league campaign with a 2-1 victory over Dunfermline. Decent start to my career as Airdrie manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMMjag Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 Best named FM regen ever: Naturally he was signed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBairn1876 Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Messie Jessie! His name was crafted to be in a football song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMMjag Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 My Partick Thistle save. My fist attempt at FM14, begun on Boxing Day 2013. First 8 seasons spent mostly bobbing about between 2nd/3rd position with the odd domestic trophy thrown in. I was losing faith I'd ever win the league any time soon. Then out of nowhere comes the brilliance of season 2022/23: Only defeat was a very narrow and unlucky one against The Rangers at Ibrox. I got to the final of the League Cup before Celtic beat me with a goal in the 120th minute. The same opposition beat me in the Scottish Cup semis. I was also unlucky to be narrowly beaten at the Europa League last 16 stage by a strong Inter Milan side. So a great season with areas to improve on next season. P.S. Rory McKenzie is an absolute must sign for any Scottish Premiership team. I signed him in my 4th season and whilst his wage demands were very difficult to accommodate for (~£10,000 p/w), he's been an absolute hero for me since in the right wing position. Same applies to a lesser extent for Ragnar Mar Larusson. Unfortunately I've already agreed a deal to sell him to Olympiakos for £4.5m. Goodbye Ragnar P.P.S. I love the sound it makes when you press F12 to take a screenshot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidan-bufc Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 On the Gibralter update. Says the current number 1 keeper might not get in the next squad due to lack of games for Southampton! He's the only full time player in the squad.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capitão Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Looking at my teams finances and under wages there is Non-Football Costs, what exactly are these? I'm assuming it's supposed to be the wages for board members/directors and anyone else not in the playing or coaching staff but mine are through the roof, it's gone up by 12 million in the last season and is pretty much on par with my player budget. Surely the tea lady and kitman aren't getting paid that much?! Is there anything I can do to cut these costs? There is also a lot of money coming out from dividends and the club is making quite a big loss, despite me performing well on the pitch and bringing in a lot of money. I'm expecting my budget to be cut for next season and it's really annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeeperDee Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Looking at my teams finances and under wages there is Non-Football Costs, what exactly are these? I'm assuming it's supposed to be the wages for board members/directors and anyone else not in the playing or coaching staff but mine are through the roof, it's gone up by 12 million in the last season and is pretty much on par with my player budget. Surely the tea lady and kitman aren't getting paid that much?! Is there anything I can do to cut these costs? There is also a lot of money coming out from dividends and the club is making quite a big loss, despite me performing well on the pitch and bringing in a lot of money. I'm expecting my budget to be cut for next season and it's really annoying. Are you managing Sevco? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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