Football Manager, Part I

[Cannon]

What are LLama rules?

Check out this thread on SI's forums for FM05.

LLaMa Rules (http://community.sigames.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=21019056&f=54219217&m=419200124)

I think you need to register to read it. Check it out for a different sort of FM game. It keeps the game challenging when you are sick of winning the league, FA cup, CL, and league cup every year with your roster of all stars.

LLama rules means you cant get brazilians?
i didnt know that.
if so, then i have played by them so far. i found out NO ONE would sign for me, so i didnt even send out scouts.

Read the link above. You can sign players from Brazil if you've found them using scouts while following the "Scout Where You Can Tour" rule. You'll get it after you read the link.

[Cannon]

Has anybody seen this, and what did you do about it?

I'm about to get sacked, I fear -- just got the dreaded "Despite continued supporter unrest...." vote of confidence...<snip>

Is this just a board that's not as ambitious as I am? Are they toying with me? Is it a bug? Anybody had anything similar happen as they climb the ladder toward the upper levels? I'll certainly get a top half finish, with a good chance at Europe again (If I can keep the job), but definitely won't challenge the leaders with the wages available to me.

It depends on who you ask. A bunch of us over on SI's forums have tried to convince them that it is a bug but they argue that it is just "normal" board behavior as they react to the changing fortunes of your club. :rolleyes: I think it is seriously buggy. The wage budget can force you to let a player worth tens of millions go for cheap or free just because they want an extra 10 grand a week even though you might have 100 million in the bank. On the other hand, the board sometimes wildly increase your wage budget (often once it looks like you've become a stable member of a higher division following promotion) even if there is no way you can afford it given other factors (such as tiny stadium and weak attendence).

I just pretend that my board is fully made up of raving lunatics and try to control my wages myself by never expanding them to the highest allowed and making sure I am ready to drop down to a lower level if necessary. Unfortunately, this has forced me to let rising stars go for too cheap more than a couple of times.

[astabooty]

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it sounds like you have done a lot of good for the club, i would give them an ulitimatum.

[deathtrix19]

Meh, I ignore the wage budget. They always say they want it sorted out but they can't touch me, especially as I've just won my third treble in three seasons.

[astabooty]

Check out this thread on SI's forums for FM05.

LLaMa Rules (http://community.sigames.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=21019056&f=54219217&m=419200124)

I think you need to register to read it. Check it out for a different sort of FM game. It keeps the game challenging when you are sick of winning the league, FA cup, CL, and league cup every year with your roster of all stars.



Read the link above. You can sign players from Brazil if you've found them using scouts while following the "Scout Where You Can Tour" rule. You'll get it after you read the link.

ty.

i think my next game will be as a LLM.

[TheImposter]

It depends on who you ask. A bunch of us over on SI's forums have tried to convince them that it is a bug but they argue that it is just "normal" board behavior as they react to the changing fortunes of your club. :rolleyes: I think it is seriously buggy. The wage budget can force you to let a player worth tens of millions go for cheap or free just because they want an extra 10 grand a week even though you might have 100 million in the bank. On the other hand, the board sometimes wildly increase your wage budget (often once it looks like you've become a stable member of a higher division following promotion) even if there is no way you can afford it given other factors (such as tiny stadium and weak attendence).

I just pretend that my board is fully made up of raving lunatics and try to control my wages myself by never expanding them to the highest allowed and making sure I am ready to drop down to a lower level if necessary. Unfortunately, this has forced me to let rising stars go for too cheap more than a couple of times.

Yeah, I've got a situation like that. Robin Van Persie was my best player last year, until he tore his ACL in early April. Now he's going to be ready to come back in January, with his contract to run out in June. Currently makes 62K per week, and the board will allow me to offer him 38K to re-sign. So I either hope the limit goes up before he leaves on a free, or try to get somebody to take him off my hands at a discount during the January window. Of course, he might never be the same again, though if he goes to another club I'm sure he'll soon win player of the year.

I can understand fluctuations in the wage bill with changeing fortunes, but this seems to have no rhyme or reason, and it's when we seem most flush that they suddenly jack the bill down. And the changes are huge, like doubling and halving it, which in the prem involves a lot of cash.

[prk166]

I can understand fluctuations in the wage bill with changeing fortunes, but this seems to have no rhyme or reason, and it's when we seem most flush that they suddenly jack the bill down. And the changes are huge, like doubling and halving it, which in the prem involves a lot of cash.

Seems to me to keep stable they should have a stable approach to the situations. If they give you wage budget X in the summer, it shouldn't change during the course of the unless something dramatic happens like bankrupcty. Is something like this happening? Seems to me that the board could warn ya that the player has to go at some point.

I'm wondering if they're trying to add a change in direction by a board like at Barca where they were saddled with debt. Back when they were in the hunt for Ronaldinho there was speculation about whether or not they could secure the financing for him. They also cleared out some players (Saviola, Kluivert, et al.) to reduce the wage bill. But I don't see how that means dumping a player on a free to comply. At minium should should be able to wait until the summer.

[Pires'sBestMate]

Rustu

Lauren Campbell Toure Cole


Ljungberg Jenas Vieira Reyes


Henry v.Persie/Bergkamp


My Arsenal team. Lost league to Man U on last day of season. Henry scored 5 against Maccabi Haifa. Sold Pires to Barcelona for 8m. Released Mathieu Flamini, Jens Lehmann and Pascal Cygan.

[Eddie26]

Rustu

Lauren Campbell Toure Cole


Ljungberg Jenas Vieira Reyes


Henry v.Persie/Bergkamp


My Arsenal team. Lost league to Man U on last day of season. Henry scored 5 against Maccabi Haifa. Sold Pires to Barcelona for 8m. Released Mathieu Flamini, Jens Lehmann and Pascal Cygan.

How does Bergkamp play with his wheelchair? Is he tough to bring down? ((Still better than Pires though) :D

[panicfc]

okay new around these parts.

Bought FM off Ebay - games ships from Thailand. I start with Standard Liege, go a month and it won't save the file. Do I just need the patch or is their something wrong. Then I read the disk "Works well only on Thai Windows"....I'm on a Mac.

I emailed the seller to see if its just a defective disk or is this a real scam.

[Eddie26]

okay new around these parts.

Bought FM off Ebay - games ships from Thailand. I start with Standard Liege, go a month and it won't save the file. Do I just need the patch or is their something wrong. Then I read the disk "Works well only on Thai Windows"....I'm on a Mac.

I emailed the seller to see if its just a defective disk or is this a real scam.

You my friend bought an illegal copy. ANYTHING you buy off Ebay from Asia is FAKE. You got scammed but I hope you get your money back. You are probably better off ordering it from a US site. That's what I did. Cost $45 plus comes with the ability to save.

Thai Windows...that's classic. There is no difference between Thai Windows and US Windows except the language. Of course their Windows is probably a bootleg too.

[scaryice]

okay new around these parts.

Bought FM off Ebay - games ships from Thailand. I start with Standard Liege, go a month and it won't save the file. Do I just need the patch or is their something wrong. Then I read the disk "Works well only on Thai Windows"....I'm on a Mac.

I emailed the seller to see if its just a defective disk or is this a real scam.

I bought CM4 off Ebay from a guy from Thailand. Says "For Sale In Thailand Only" but worked perfect for me. Can't really help you with your situation, though.

[panicfc]

I'm going to give him 24 hours to reply, then I'm going to hit Ebay and neg rep his ass back to Asia.

[astabooty]

I'm going to give him 24 hours to reply, then I'm going to hit Ebay and neg rep his ass back to Asia.

Don't tak it out on that guy.
The problem with your game has nothing to do with whether or not it is bootleg. It is probably a bug and is probably resolved with the patch.

head on over to sigames.com and then the forums and they will help you out a lot quicker and better than we can.

[prk166]

You my friend bought an illegal copy. ANYTHING you buy off Ebay from Asia is FAKE. You got scammed but I hope you get your money back. You are probably better off ordering it from a US site. That's what I did. Cost $45 plus comes with the ability to save.

Thai Windows...that's classic. There is no difference between Thai Windows and US Windows except the language. Of course their Windows is probably a bootleg too.


Ebay is the pawn shop thiefs used to call utopia back in the days before the Internet.

[panicfc]

Downloaded the patch, if it works - he's safe. If not, I'll seek getting my money back.

[scaryice]

You my friend bought an illegal copy. ANYTHING you buy off Ebay from Asia is FAKE.

Are you serious? So no companies release games in Thailand? I understand a lot of the jerseys are knockoffs, but are all the games on Ebay fake?

[astabooty]

Are you serious? So no companies release games in Thailand? I understand a lot of the jerseys are knockoffs, but are all the games on Ebay fake?

no

[astabooty]

Downloaded the patch, if it works - he's safe. If not, I'll seek getting my money back.

have fun.

you going to start out with f-word?

[panicfc]

Amazingly...it appears to have worked. I need to run a longer game...but it was saving yesterday.