Stadiums and Projected Rep

Been pondering stadiums recently. Next season player will scale from 1-12 (well probably 4 -12 as it's broken) and the top tier will award from 9-14.

So I was wondering the effect this will have on rep. I'd like to hit the ground running so if I get rep say 9 at the start of season 3 I want the stadium to be in place before I get there.

Here are my wild calculations:-

Lets explain that a bit. Max team rep now is 8 and my team is 7.5 so 94% of max, if I project that to a scale of 12 then that's 11.25.

I've already reached the Cup Semi - Final so earning a 7 for that and assuming I get top tier once the season starts I'll pull a 9.

So overall almost 11 rep. Now this could change the player rep (despite being broken) is relative I think so if everyone signs better players than this could go down. I might not get top tier football as if I finish last in the final stage of the EFA I'll be second tier.

I'm going to have a look at a 9/10 stadium, even if I get top tier in season 3 then I'm almost assured championship football season 4 so gives me some security.

Why Now?
A two tier stand takes at least a week to build and another week to get the seats in, so if I need one it needs to start happening now.

Ok so rep 9 is 9,000 fans straight off the bat I can see I need a new stand. What to go for.... If I'm pretty confident of Premiership football then the Ospitalita is the one to go, I'm going to have a mass of corps and their where the money is.

So I've got a nice upgrade path in place, if I was playing it a little safe then Aziendale.



Now I'm not going to click build on that yet I'll get the stand up then build the rest but that's my thinking anyway. This is a £2.54m upgrade that'll pay for itself in 150 days.

As I'm going to get 56 days to pay it'll knock a third off the price, that's a bit rough and ready but principle is sound.

I've taken the most expensive seats as this will help a lot at lower rep levels. If your really confident of hitting high rep and staying there then go for cheaper seats which pay for themselves much faster.

To demonstrate that point:-

As you can see I've had to take my rep up to 12 just to fill the corps out but it pays for itself very quickly.

Almost Rage

I managed to kind of turn things around in Coppell in fact it's pretty much a walk in the park in there as it's so dead.

However I have the BF and it's quite funny seeing opposition players that have played 20 games got a 6.6 av rating and not even score all season pile drive 30 yd screamers. I think I've signed too many in too short a time at least the players are not all superb morale so have some feedback.

I have no idea what makes them superb morale or not or indeed if that makes any difference anyway. To be honest other than Aq Fee and Biography the players might in fact be dire or it might the tactics or it might be form or morale.

Been playing two years now and still have no idea just a little message as the timer goes down that's all I ask 'your team are hungover' 'their team fired up' can accept it then.

I mean if I don't get it after two years what chance does a n00b have, kind of nuts then that there are some pondering the massive churn rate the game has suffered from.

I do sympathise with the forum chaps that suffer from this to be honest my cure is to log off I find in less than 60 seconds I don't give a monkeys anyway:) Casual gamer must think and act like a casual:)

Anyway I calmed down and logged on again and thought about at least trying to sort it out. Boy have I signed some young un's the starting team had one player over 25. So once again losing 1-0 to a very dodgy long shot I think bollox to it and bring two £18k 29yo's, one sets up the goal, 1-1. Next game 2-0.

The odd thing is they play the same but I'm just luckier.

I'm convinced the Biography page is bugged, and I'm convinced the ME sets up player confidence levels in accordance with biography. So a 6.8 team plays a 4 team your on bad form so you lose.

The scale should be 13 to 3 so even though your players are not exactly purring the 17yo rubbish teams would still get slapped about. This is why the ME seems off.

I won the Lottery Well kinda

I know the academy system is kind of like a lottery and is brilliantly explained at the FML Analyst blog you have a clear choice. Get 16 kind of ok youths in an obscure nation or chance your arm in one of the big nations and have a chance of a future mega star.

I was looking really to just have a youth team and hopefully one or two would be decent enough to come through. Of course there is always a chance in an obscure nation that you'd get high potential but more likely you'd get 2.5 - 3.5 star potential players through.

For that reason I took the safe bet and chose Libya, hardly a footballing mega nation but if a 3 star comes through with the right hidden stats then happy days.

I got four the first season (none this season) and they all looked a bit rubbish. There was one though that I looked at and though well he could go well.

I started him out on the wing and he isn't really that sort of player so tried him in the middle. He's a little demon!

Death of the FML Awaits

Ohhhh I do like being a drama queen!

Been thinking about the economy, it's going to explode unless something is done.

I hear the Miller economy has finally slowed but bear in mind the activity is half that of retail worlds, with a mature draft system the player database doubles in size and the wage modifiers are kicked in..... AND they had only four FA's think it might be five now.

Retail we have double the number of managers, have six FA's (two extra Premier Leagues), less players and won't see wage modifiers until season six. BOOOOOOM!

So I'm expecting that inflation will get much much worse. This is very bad I've heard some managers claim Inflation isn't bad but that's nonsense.

I'm sure some are reading this thinking 'omg he's off again predicting doom and gloom' two choices:-

1. Listen and try and get SI to do something.
2. Hope that I'm wrong.

Grrr BF

I got the BF horrible thing, game starts 3 or four clear cut chances in the first 10 mins you know the game is saying 'yeah good team nice tactics but confidence has gone'.

I just accept it as a fault\feature of the ME, does do my head in a little but if we won all the time then it would be boring. Of course there is a cure to this, getting better players!

I keep looking for players and bidding but whilst I'm thinking £6k the GW seems to be thinking £30k:)

Ahh well three days till another game in Turk gawd this game is slow.

Economy Worry

Booya
Youth Academy Prediction
Cor if I was as good at FM Live as I was predicting the behaviour of FM Live managers then I'd be great.

There is some concern for the economy currently. All of this depends on how active the GW's remain. I really wish they'd tweaked stadiums to give a lower return across the board and then spread the crowd numbers further down.

Stadiums are not a money sink but a money generator, almost exclusively for the top teams as well. That's my next prediction, forum threads claiming that the rich get richer made almost entirely possible as they have access to a developed income which lower clubs do not.

I'm not turning communist, I think the stadium upgrades should be made less cost effective at higher levels and more cost effective at lower levels. We'd have more of a money sink then.

I always felt that starting income at £80k a day and scaling upwards was a mistake, should have started at £50k. I also think six FA's is going to create too many rich teams which is going to keep inflation high. I don't know really it's pure guesswork without access to the database, certainly Youth sucks a lot of money out:)

Very solid start with a 2nd spot finish in the EFA in Voller form now has gone out the window. We're still hard to beat mind so getting the odd draw but it's not going great.

Still a little puzzled at how a team with 7 ability can lose so easily to a team with 3 ability. Still hopefully we can have a hot run at some point in this stage to just scrape half way up the table, just then need to turn up for last stage to secure top tier in Season 3.

One of subs expired I'm not renewing that one, in fact they all run out by October and I still don't think I'm getting value for my £5 odd. I could do just one GW but I know I'd just get immensely frustrated.

The games appeal is to a Casual LLM Manager who doesn't mind fantasy teams, I'm not really casual or that fussed on LLM. Now if it was Hardcore Rags to Riches then I'd be very keen!

Do wonder if there are that many Casual LLM types out there, I guess SI think there are.

Waiting for The Right Player

I keep looking at these released players and whilst i would love to have a 19yo £350k Aq Fee player on £3k a day I absolutely don't want him on £30k. That's not an asset but a liability:)

There are quite a collection of 30yo's just sitting there waiting to be picked up but as I look at these I'm seeing players that are 10-20% better than what I've got but are 50% higher in price.

In both GW's projected is very healthy and wages are quite low, it's hard to tell but the way both teams have started their league campaigns their looking good for top tier in season 3.

So no real drama on at the moment and in both GW's despite it being early season it feels like I'm middle of the table and middle of the season.

Things are going to be tougher next season as we enter the final run and the fight for Premiership / Championship football will be very much on. Some nice players coming out in Season 3 and it does look like a lot of the existing managers have priced themselves out of the market.

We'll see I'm enjoying it currently even if things are moving slowly.