Championship Manager Thread

[Chachi King]

I dunno about you people, but whenever i play a game I always seem to give up or score a goal within the first 10 minutes. that's seems kind of weird. I would say that 25% of all goals come in the first 10 minutes.

[Playable Back]

Originally posted by Chachi King
I dunno about you people, but whenever i play a game I always seem to give up or score a goal within the first 10 minutes. that's seems kind of weird. I would say that 25% of all goals come in the first 10 minutes.
Happens to me, too...especially against REALLY good teams like Man Utd or Arsenal.

[AvidSinger]

Originally posted by Marc Vaughan
We try to ensure that the game is as 'complete' a simulation of the soccer world as possible :)

I suggest that for the next version they get the MLS overtime rules correct. In the current version of CM, they play a full 30 minute golden goal if a season match ends in a draw, when in the MLS, extra time is only 10 minutes.

Also, in the MLS, the visiting team always wears their white or yellow jersey while the home team always wears their dark jersey.

[AvidSinger]

Originally posted by Chachi King
dammit

my team always gets 10-15 shots in and always outshoots the other team, but it goes scoreless or manages just one goal.OOOOOOH I hate that. I was managing the Cameroon national team and only needed a point to qualify out of my African Nations Cup group. I outshot the opponent 10-1 and lost 1-0.

[AvidSinger]

Originally posted by Marc Vaughan
I won't include things like 'player deaths' because I think it might be upsetting to people who know the person involved, sorry if that sounds 'uncool' - but I won't put anything into the game which I wouldn't like said about me personally .... simple as that. Perhaps you could include things like "player deaths" only in fake players mode. That way nobody will be upset since the player is imaginary.

[AvidSinger]

Anybody here besides me like to go into the game editor and add themselves as a superstar player?

[Darr]

Just looked at www.sigames.com and saw that Championship Manager 02/03 is coming out for XBox in Nov... I take it this is Championship Manager 4... What I can't understand is why they have a release date for this, yet no release date for CM4 on the PC... One would assume they'd come out with it on PC first, or at least at the same time...

[mundial]

Marc, do you know what the system requirements will be for CM4? I played the CM3 demo on a buddy's super sweet computer, but I only have a clunker. Just might have to upgrade...

[Marc Vaughan]

"Just looked at www.sigames.com and saw that Championship Manager 02/03 is coming out for XBox in Nov... I take it this is Championship Manager 4... What I can't understand is why they have a release date for this, yet no release date for CM4 on the PC... One would assume they'd come out with it on PC first, or at least at the same time..."
CM02-03 Xbox is an updated version of CM3 for this season for the Xbox.

This is being done simply because I am committed to supporting the Xbox as a platform and it isn't possible to release a version of CM4 for this season.

Hence, rather than not release a game for this season (and thus annoy people who bought an Xbox to play CM) we've decided to release an enhanced update for 02-03.

The release date for CM4 will be announced relatively soon.

"Marc, do you know what the system requirements will be for CM4? I played the CM3 demo on a buddy's super sweet computer, but I only have a clunker. Just might have to upgrade..."
I can only give a rough estimate at the moment because we haven't finished optimising things yet, but I believe:

PIII-800
64Mb RAM

You'll be able to play the game with less than this (basically any Pentium with 32Mb of RAM should be able to stumble along) ... however a P800 is the minimum that I'd suggest using personally.

Obviously the bigger and better the more leagues you'll be able to run (as usual).

[Marc Vaughan]

PS. Apologies for the delay in replying to questions - but my third child was born on Friday so I'm a little pre-occupied currently.

Keegan Vaughan weighs in at 9lbs 9oz and is already a good dribbler (yeah I know its a sad joke - I'll get my coat ;) ).

[Playable Back]

Originally posted by Marc Vaughan
PS. Apologies for the delay in replying to questions - but my third child was born on Friday so I'm a little pre-occupied currently.

Keegan Vaughan weighs in at 9lbs 9oz and is already a good dribbler (yeah I know its a sad joke - I'll get my coat ;) ).

Congrats

[Playable Back]

Originally posted by AvidSinger
Anybody here besides me like to go into the game editor and add themselves as a superstar player?

I would do that in Football Manager from EA sports for me and some of my friends. I kept getting sold :(

[panicfc]

Originally posted by Marc Vaughan
PS. Apologies for the delay in replying to questions - but my third child was born on Friday so I'm a little pre-occupied currently.

Keegan Vaughan weighs in at 9lbs 9oz and is already a good dribbler (yeah I know its a sad joke - I'll get my coat ;) ).

Congrats Marc

Now get back to work

:D

[LiverpoolFanatic]

Any chance of a Playstation 2 version???

Is CM 4 for pc coming out this November or not. I am a bit confused.

Congrats on the birth of your son.

[Marc Vaughan]

"Any chance of a Playstation 2 version??? "
Sorry but no. The PS-2 doesn't have a hard-disk or enough memory to cope with CM.

"Is CM 4 for pc coming out this November or not. I am a bit confused. "
We're planning on announcing the release date in the near(ish) future .... I'll announce it here when we do so.

[shooter6065]

Marc...........will there be a release for the US version of the XBOX?

[Mario]

congrats on Keegan's birth Mark!!!

[Marc Vaughan]

"Marc...........will there be a release for the US version of the XBOX?"
We're working on it - the original plan was for all our Xbox games to be 'regionless' - unfortunately this wasn't possible (for reasons beyond our control) ...

We're doing our best to secure an American release for all CM versions, when exactly this will be possible is anyones guess at the moment unfortunately :(

(although I can confirm that we are definitely planning an American release for EHM:FE (our forthcoming Hockey sports sim) which should be released during winter 2003)

[Neville2]

Marc,
Been playing CM for about 6 years now. I was wondering in 2001-2002 version why do Scottish reserve games stop happening after about three years. I've heard it is possibly because of some strange rule about reserves in Scotland. Just wondering why it is. Great game by the way. Unfortunately, it has ruin what used to be my life. Thanks.

[ElSoltano]

According to this http://www.spong.com/detail/news.asp?mode=full&prid=3784&type=n# CM4 will be Xbox only before Christmas.