Recent Posts by Dimitri
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Let’s wait for the new economy system first?
There was a close fight for the title in season 79. For a long time there was one point difference between Feyenoord and Ajax, but when in round 35 PSV beated the Amsterdam team the fight for the title was decided. Feyenoord champion, Ajax 4 points behind.
It wasn’t the only succes for Charles and the harbour city though. Not only did they win the national cup by beating Ajax 4-0 in the final, they also managed to win the Champions League, and even the club world cup! The quadruple! Because of this the Netherlands will be number 4 in the country rankings next season. Charles said he wants to try to get Holland to the top of the UEFA ranking, will he manage? I’ll do my best to help him with that :)
I agree that the mechanic can be annoying for (good) managers, but the only benefit of a manager making a player untouchable, is that he won’t click ‘transfer list player’ by accident, right?
What is the point of a manager making a player untouchable?
Ok, I’m interested, you know any players who sucked as youth players but were still contracted by big clubs cause of their big potential?
In real life scouts are looking for talented players. A talent is someone who is good for his age. A scout can’t tell how strong someone will be in the future: some talents become stars, others fail.
In the game it’s the same. To change that is not realistic, and also not more fun I think.
“for w.e reason when fired or sold these very stagnant players develop in other teams yet for some reason dont at my club”
If this is true, there are two options: either you are doing something wrong (and they are doing something right), or the admins are screwing you :P
Did you add this to your to do list?
Did you have time to discuss it already Gabriel?
After just missing the title two seasons in a row, AGOVV finally got it in season 78. This time it was a close race with Feyenoord. It didn’t look that way at first: AGOVV had won 26 of the first 28 matches and seemed to win the title easily, but in the next seven matches they only gained nine points. They were only one point ahead with three matches to go, but since both teams won their last three matches, they kept the one point difference. Feyenoord becomes stronger each season though, so perhaps they win the title next year.
Defending champion PSV was only at the fourth place this time, but did make the most goals by far (135). But it won’t be easy for them to get their title back.
The international results of the Dutch teams were decent. No spectaculair results, but a lot of teams qualified for the knock out phase, which means the fifth place was stablized. And the difference with number four Argentina is only five points, so who knows…
And what happens with the current money? Let’s say a club sells a player for 300M just before the new system starts, has it just lost a good player without any benefits?
Is it hard to do by hand Gabriel? Rebuilding is fun, so I think I would’t mind to pay say 20 dollars for not getting fired in 2013.
Welcome back and good luck!
Yep, not getting fired would be a good feature for VIP members.
$4,560,090 now, avg stats 84, but still a good player: 10 goals in his 8 league matches.
Most of us know about ‘rebuild mode’: instead of focussing on short term results, you focus on the long term, getting talented young players and developing them. It’s fun to do it, I think, to see how your players become better and better. There is one disadvantage though: since on the short term you lose a lot of matches, the board will think you do very badly. This means that if someone else applies for your club, you’ll be fired.
Imagine how this feels: you put a lot of work in a club, put together a real good squad of talented players, and just before you expect the good results will start, someone else takes over your position and reaps the fruit of your labor. That sucks, right?
Wouldn’t it be better if the board is more tolerant of bad results in rebuild mode?
Again a very exciting season. AGOVV and PSV had the same amount of points with three matches to go, AGOVV was ahead by just two goals. Then they won their next matches with 14-0 and 12-0! Between them and the title was just an away match against Ajax… which they lost 4-2. So by winning the last three matches PSV again became champion!
Also Feyenoord did very well this season by qualifying for the CL by taking the 4th place. They have a very young squad which will probably compete for the title in the near future. NEC for the second time in a row just managed to avoid relegation, but they will probably compete for European football in two seasons. There were also two new managers and decent results in Europe, the Dutch League is doing well at the moment!
So what does the board say? Win the league with 20 points ahead?
Damn cheating cpu managers!
I’m already scared of your team Charles :)
The description of the changes suggest it’s a good idea to invest in players now, yes.
I’m not looking forward to the changes, it looks like it will be a whole different game with it. But I’ll see how it goes.
The Dutch league was very exciting this season:
1. PSV 100
2. De Graafschap 100
3. AGOVV 99
4. Ajax 92 (losing against PSV and Feyenoord in the last two matches)
A high level on the top in The Netherlands, but also some teams that will be good in the future, like NEC. And Charles with Feyenoord has a squad with only young players, but already made it to place 7.
I think AGOVV has the best players, but I guess PSV was a bit more lucky this season. I’ll try to defend the title next season again!
I typical example of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect :
“i know wtf im talking about "
“if i knew that stadiums building didnt do shit for income i wouldnt have invested in the uselessness it is.”
Maybe it’s a feature, not a bug, but I don’t understand it. How is it possible that the match between the numbers 1 and 2 of the Dutch league has such a low attendance? Much lower than my other home matches…
http://www.rubysoccer.com/game/match_report/2624916
That won’t fix much 1, and it a much worse solution than doubling the wages, but if money is reset, players should be reset too 2, then you might as well reset stadiums, then you might as well reset the whole game.
I wouldn’t like a game reset though.
1 You’ll still have managers bad with money and managers that know how to make money. What you want to do, reset to 100M every season?
2 If not, how is it fair to a club that just sold a 300M player to another club?
Making the finals of the CL is easy if you are in a league with only six human managed teams? Strange logics.
I make money by developing youth players and selling the ones I don’t want to keep. And I make money by winning games. And I don’t spend money on big wages, things I don’t need (scouting, physio) and I only put my coaching on 10 when I could afford it. I do spend money on making my stadium bigger. I hardly spend money on buying players.
If you have money problems, even with the doubled wages, you’re doing something wrong. Don’t blame the game, but improve your game.
“If you have 10 coaches and 3 physios and spending around 60K to stadium maintenance, you will spend 380K”
I’ve stopped reading after that. How many cpu-teams you see with 10 coaching? And why 3 physio? I’ve always played with 0 physio, if I can, so can you.
Now, another example. My midticker team (who made the CL finals this season) has 29 players, Player Wages $327,212. With a smaller squad, 300k per week is a normal amount for wages.
When the wages are doubled, the extra money spent per season would be $14.4M.
Now look at the prices in the player market. Is 14.4M a lot of money? Doesn’t seem so…. I make a lot more than that in a season by just selling players. And I see managers of ‘poor teams’ doing the same.
Is’t the only distorition in the game created by this change between good and bad managers?
Not a bug, but a feature. See the announcements.
I think it’s a good change. Now you have to actually care about wages. Who cared about wages before the change?
“what about teams that are in lower divisions and a player is asking 100k as a wage but the board will only allow 60k then that team will loose that player, not all the teams are billionaires, "
is a good argument for the change, actually.
Either cut expenses or make more money selling players, I’d suggest (I use a combination of both).
I suspect the formula is simple btw: if a player would ask for 10k before the change, he asks for 20k now. So in about three seasons time, the money spent on wages will be doubled.