football manager 2012 (release date is 21st oct)

New & improved key features for Football Manager 2012:

Manage Anywhere, Anytime – the ability to add or take away playable nations in your saved game as often as you want. Manage in that country at the start of the next season - meaning you don’t have to decide on which nations are playable at the start of your career.

Transfers & Contracts – significant changes to the transfer and contract systems, including loyalty bonuses, better implementation of amateur and youth contracts, an improved transfer centre and the ability to lock areas of the contract negotiation when you aren't prepared to budge. This helps you to manage your budgets and gives you flexibility in what you offer money hungry players, or agents, as incentives.

Scouting improvements – using several real life scouting reports, a new in-game report was devised which includes squad analysis, tactics information and information about goals scored and conceded alongside lots of other scouting improvements, giving you all the information you need to prepare before kick-off and throughout the season.

3D Match Improvements – new animations, a whole new crowd system, improved weather system, more stadiums, plus two brand new cameras - "Behind Goal" and "Director Cam" as well as all other camera angles being reversible - meaning you can watch and analyse every aspect of every game.

Intelligent Interface – a new adaptive layout system, which means the higher your screen resolution, the more info is easily at your fingertips. The new interface also contains new filters, customisable columns, a new tactics screen, and lots of new overview screens.

Tone – a whole new level has been added to team talks and conversations, with the new tone system, which allows you to specify the way you want to say things – be as cool as a cucumber by saying things calmly or throw tea cups around by saying things with passion. There are 5 different tones to choose from with specific comments per tone.

Brand New Tutorial – standing separate from the main game, a mode to help new players find their way around the game easily, whilst also offering tips to experienced managers on how to get the most out of the game, as well as a new in-game “how to” system.

On top of these key innovations, there are over 800 new features making huge improvements, such as the media system, press conferences, the youth system, newgens, the social networking options, friendlies, international management and many more which will be detailed in a series of video blogs over the coming months, alongside more information about Football Manager 2012.

so excited to act like a dick to the press

Being properly single for the first time in 6 years, a self-imposed money-saving regime and the ability to act like a dick to the press- I'm totally going to get this*. Haven't played it since 01/02.

*assuming it'll work on my 7yr old pc.

1. lol at yr username.
2. yes!
3. sorry at the single part?
4. i think they have streamlined the actual game a lot, so maybe will work fine? like you can change level of detail or whatever to make it easier on yr pc?

i hope they keep ilx's favourite "type in whatever you want in press conferences" feature...or i'll launch a string of expletives.

tempted by this as i try and stop drinking midweek to cope with extra work pressure.

1. thanks
2. um, indeed!
3. ah, I instigated it, it had to be done really.
4. ooh I hope so. It's mainly graphics things that screw it up, so as long as I don't have to watch the fancy 3d representations then it should be ok. Can't seem to find system requirements anywhere yet. My flatmate's trying to persuade me to play CM2 in the meantime.

i bought last years but never really found the time. Maybe i need to consider ms mac's position

I genuinely don't get how productive adults might go about playing this year after year. I played Championship Manager in 2000 and it fucked up the year 2000 for me. I thought, after that, that I would avoid these games until I had serious time to kill. Ten years passed. I played Football Manager in 2010. I didn't really have time to kill but what the hell. 2010 was then fucked for me also. My sole achievement in 2010 - in the whole of life! - was winning the SPL ten times in a row. In a way, that was a fucking big deal, at least in the context of Scottish football. In other ways it was not: it had not actually taken place in the context of Scottish football but just in my drunken head and in my Dell PC. I got a big kick out of it and I'll do it again in 2020. But you all make it sound like you can do this in the same days that you work and create and make love etc. I wish I could, because there's nothing more fun!

I genuinely don't get how productive adults might go about playing this year after year.

i'm a manic depressive stoner who works part time and also have sleeping problems. don't think productive is a word i'd use to describe me. also would never expect someone productive to be a fan of, well, gaming in general let alone something as immersive as fm

yeah, i'd have to choose btwn this, all of my other non-work activities, and gf. And if i choose this over the middle option then the third gets removed p quickly.

This time last year I was in a similar situation but because I didn't get immersed into FM I foolishly got into a new relationship that didn't really work out in a good way for anyone. I want it to take up all my non-work time tbh (though I should do music practice and so on instead).

music, language, situps and learn programming- if only there was no ilx, fm, pes or fantasy novels

1. EURGH THIS IS SO UGLY WHY ADD SO MUCH SHIT TO THE SCREEN, I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE TO LOOK AT THINGS ANYMORE.

2. Wow taking away that highlight of when I have a player shortlisted from the player search screen is not going to become annoying at all, when I clicked on a youth I obviously cannot be bothered to remember the name of 12 times in a row.

It's like they hate people who like to talent scout themselves. Which is half the nerdy fun I had with this fucking game.

I haven't got around to in-game play or anything yet, had a busy day, about to go to work and then won't be at my laptop till tuesday.

I got bored waiting for this to come out and got back together with the girl upthread. I think it's for the best, long-term.

lol srs?

Well, it wasn't actually due to FM-waiting, just spending 6weeks doing some serious thinking and realisationing. Everything's gonna be great. PES4 Master League can fulfil any other needs I have.

yeah tbh pes5 just doesn't scratch the itch taraabt isn't good enough

http://i55.tinypic.com/t6wn48.jpg

the scouting screen is shit btw. can only see a handful of players before needing to scroll down. I cant afford a new laptop with hd screen, so are there any resolution settings i can use to help here? i know fuck all about computers as you can probably tell.

oh and has anyone ever cheated using fmrte? im considering using it just to avoid me losing players to injury. Sick of that.

holy shit flare based fire in the stands!

tbrr i love the match day part of this soooo much. still not sure the rest of the game change was worth it, maybe as i get used to it.

yeah the flares are awesome, what do you mean by match day part?

the new team talks, the better graphics, the easier change of tactics

ahh ok. Team talks are good now. The team meetings suck though, players always say im wasting their time! Probably interrupting Stevie G's phil collins listening.

lol i've only had two team meetings, both while morale was low and both have been big fo the club - p much like current arsenal i guess. 1 pt off the top, having just beat utd at ot.

fuck. two games in a row, two sendings off for horrible shawcross challanges. fuck you park chu young and signing of the summer who needs cesc andre ayewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww - i'm now behind in the cl 2nd round 2-0 to porto first leg and going out to fucking blackpool in the fa cup.

hey kerr or anyone else playing this - have you completed a season yet? i have started a new one and... don't have any new youths coming through? and there don't seem to be regens coming through elsewhere like they used to (say on the day a season started in brazil [jan 2nd] each club would have a new batch but now...?)

http://www.footballmanagerstory.com/2011/09/football-manager-2012-youth-and-newgens-improvements/

oh shit did i just ignore them? fuck this shit.

GAH FUCK THIS SHIT HOW DO I LOOK AT A CLUBS REGENS THEN?

i started with barca and completed a season and it was a bit weird, before the end of the first season we took some youths on trial for the youth team but none were deemed good enough after the month so didnt sign them. Yet at the start of the new season we took on new players anyway just like always happens.
But i got offered the liverpool job when dalglish retired after my 2nd season and took it. And i just had a look at the barca under 19s and theres only like 5 players in it, the ones i all signed up on contracts age 15 or 16.

btw i read up on http://www.fmrte.com/

i like the idea of using it for getting rid of severe injuries.
But once i get a bit bored with the game in 6 months that wonderkid generator looks awesome!
You could have a player with your name with full stats hahahaha.

i'm not sure what else fmrte does but it looks like there's a LOT you can do with it. But i don't see the point of cheating with it when the game is just new. maybe in 6 months time if im bored of the game it will breathe new life into it. but has anyone here ever used it for previous games?

Here's some screenshots

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/546/ss1sj.png/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/849/ss2ee.png/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/696/ss3no.png/

http://imageshack.us/f/546/ss1sj.png/
http://imageshack.us/f/849/ss2ee.png/
http://imageshack.us/f/696/ss3no.png/

hmmm ilx doesnt like cheating hahaha

look at the screenshots here
http://www.fmrte.com/2011/10/28/fmrte-v5-0-1-for-football-manager-2012/

looks complicated tbh

fm already has an editor iirc.

when in the year were you asked about yuts on trial?

further along has anyone bought tevez? no-one seems at all interested in him, but city won't take an amount i can afford.

it was like a month or 2 before the end of season. Have you set your asst manager to deal with it?

What is the in game editor? what can you do with it? i just start playing the game and never investigate anything!
fmrte looks really comprehensive. Can change stats on players, make your club rich, give your club a sugar daddy, change capacity, generate wonderkids, get full fitness, coaching staff stats can be changed. You can destroy teams fitness etc before you play them. i bet you couldnt resist destroying spurs! lol
looks like theres thousands of things you can do. im not gonna check it out til ive had a proper go though with this game. not gonna spoil it. maybe next year i'll max stats for accies and sign messi etc and win everything!

real bought tevez in my game

looks like you can swap players to teams with rmte and also add squad/uefa registration so you can do it mid season. Also add 2nd nationalities and languages spoken.

but i shall not be tempted

yet

http://www.fmscout.com/a-FMRTE-for-FM2012.html

Football Manager Real Time Editor is the first app to become available for FM 2012! FMRTE is mainly an in-game editor but also a scout tool available for Football Manager 2012.
FMRTE has been available since FM 2008 and we have seen it evolve greatly since then. It is mostly known as the most popular save game editor that lets you change finances, club reputation, stadiums, kits, player attributes, personal information, CA / PA, positions, heal injuries, contracts and lots more with ease, while the game is loaded.

oh man i love the idea of designing a 3rd kit

wonder how you use it to scout the young players in the game

no

mustnt cheat

be a good boy

download via steam for £26.99 using a voucher http://www.fmscout.com/a-download-football-manager-2012.html looks like today is last day of offer so buy now if you want to save money

i actually got mine via steam but paid £29. And i was playing it at 11.30pm 30 mins before it was officially out. i did it because last year i had to wait a whole week for my game to arrive from play.com

thats for the game not fmrte obviously

ahh now this is what ive been looking for!
http://www.fmscout.com/a-football-manager-2012-wonderkids.html

editor for 2011 did p much all of those things. dunno if you could design your own kits tho - would love to change our stupid fucking away shirt. also spurs usually destroy themselves, no need to cheat there (although they've just bought some sweet players *gulp*).

didn't set it for my AM, also went on holiday a lot - i usually see the second season, when regens become available, as when to start paying attention and getting obsessive! fuck this shit. Pat Rice has just fucking retired anyway.

hahaha http://www.fmscout.com/a-barcelona-style-in-fm-2012.html

yeah i always get bored midway through a season and holiday between games too

btw kerr those lists usually suck (lol it has rodwell on it)

post debut season i don't usually holiday unless it is a long international break. now obv i need to stay alert because i no longer know when i could miss something important!

i didnt know fm had an inbuilt editor. do you need to use it before you start the game? fmrte you can use anytime during it. For as little or as much as you want.

rodwell has good stats in the game though

ive downloaded that barca tactic. Wish i had known about it in my first season. I can say its adding realism not cheating!

not sure. never used it other than fucking around just to see what it is like (you know, just to see what a season w/ the greatest team ever.)

looks like theres an app that helps you scout players http://www.fmscout.com/a-fm-genie-scout-for-fm-2012-is-confirmed.html

not out yet but it does look useful. Esp for regens.

ohh yes players faces!! http://www.fmscout.com/a-fm-2012-cut-out-faces-megapack.html

How about creating Winston's Gunners? http://www.fmscout.com/a-how-to-create-a-new-club-in-the-fm12-editor.html

i had no idea you could do these things in football manager

oooh scouting app is sam bait

faces pack is four fucking gig

i know! at first it said it would take 1 month and 27days to download!!!
now its 1 day and 5 hours, lol

ive signed up on the email i use ilx for to get the scouting newsletter when its released so i'll email you when i do

Im really tempted to start my own team in a super league with the fm 12 ingame editor though at some point. Wonder how difficult it would be

sam how much do you like realism?

http://www.fmscout.com/a-FM2012-Premier-League-Logos.html
http://www.fmscout.com/a-fm2012-npower-championship-kits-ss.html
http://www.fmscout.com/a-Robertos-Manciny-Latest-Winning-Tactic.html

would love to change our stupid fucking away shirt.

tbh i don't equate realism as whether the teams have the correct logos so much as 'will stoke injure yr players or not'

it took seconds to d/l and install so you should do it

oh man it looks so much better with real logos and strips.

ok i will- can i install midgame?

bought some sweet bargains this summer: alderweireld for 3m, kagawa for 10m (lol asian sales supposedly going crazy), di maria for 12m and almunia lol and like 4 good players on frees. swept my reserves clean to pay for it obv, goodbye bendy, santos, vela, denilson, diaby, squiggle, chamakh, park etc.

my tactics for the new season will be:

           Chesney
Sagna   Merte   Alder   Verm
        Song     Ayew
          Wilshere
Gervinho             Di Maria
            RVP
          Wookash
Mattioni Juhasz  Kos  Gibbs
        Bender  Ramsey
           Kagawa
Theo               Arshavin
         Paloshi

With about 10 yuts circling, especially AOC and Ryoooooo. [yes i am basically trying to buy dortmund.]

Very Fluid with each position with about as Short passing as feasible [centre halves still need a bit of leeway for example]. Control. Absolutely no space behind the back four because lol no pace but great positioning and marking stats, full backs set to defend as well while we are at it. RVP won WPOTY btw, dunno how considering Messi is still in the game (Barca won the triple, surprise surprise) but he is scoring like... well, how he is in real life so I have him as a Complete Forward with everything working towards him, making chances and space for him. I'm fucked if he's injured but I can't really afford a good back-up while I'm saving up to try and get Neymar, Ganso, Hazard and Gotze over the next ten years (LOL).

hmm the above makes me think mebbe i could flog arteta. never really had a place for him once wilshere came back.

yeah i installed epl and championship strips, logos and still waiting on players pics d/l but it can all be done anytime during game. just follow the easy instructions on the page

Download Error

Free users may only download 1 file at a time.

Upgrade to Premium for parallel downloads.

ARGH FUCK YOU I AM NOT DOWNLOADING ANYTHING WHY DO YOU TELL ME THIS

in real life i dont shout anywhere near the amount of capslock i use suggests.

http://i44.tinypic.com/14l35ae.jpg

sam each file should have mirrors if you scroll down and look

sam i d/l fmrte and im only using it to keep players fit. tho im tempted to change the match preparation/tactics familiarity to 100% for all 3 tactics i have just so they play better.

oh theres skins too if you want them and other things. You should have a look see what you fancy adding via the ingame editor i didnt know existed til you told me. theyre not cheats, theyre just things to add to make it look more realistic. ive been playing these games for years and had no idea you could do all this

http://www.fmscout.com/c-files12.html

http://www.fmscout.com/c-graphics12.html

http://www.fmscout.com/a-fmformation-logos-for-fm2012.html

http://www.multiupload.com/3V5RWAGFQ7 d/l it really quickly via megaupload and about to install it

You don't need to search the internet any further. AT FMFormation we have the perfect solution for you. The always expanding FMF Exclusive logos contain more than 10,000 club, nation and competition logos from all around the globe to add the extra something in to your game.

Last Year our megapack had 4000 logos, this year it has 10,863 logos and we are still working.

How to Install
After the download just extract the file to the following file: "Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012"
Once you have done that go to your preferences tab and untick the ''Skin Cache'' box and tick the ''always reload skin'' box, then confirm.

i'm arsenal - anything other than a ton of injures and shitty fitness would be super cheating

ok all the teams and leagues have logos now - awesome!

otoh it didnt work for me when i followed the instructions given, so fuck it.

which one did you get? its dead easy to install!

http://www.multiupload.com/3V5RWAGFQ7 d/l it really quickly via megaupload and about to install it

You don't need to search the internet any further. AT FMFormation we have the perfect solution for you. The always expanding FMF Exclusive logos contain more than 10,000 club, nation and competition logos from all around the globe to add the extra something in to your game.

Last Year our megapack had 4000 logos, this year it has 10,863 logos and we are still working.

How to Install
After the download just extract the file to the following file: "Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012"
Once you have done that go to your preferences tab and untick the ''Skin Cache'' box and tick the ''always reload skin'' box, then confirm.

create a graphics folder in "Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012" then extract to there then do the skin cache stuff and bingo

thats what i did and it works. same for all the other things

http://www.fmscout.com/c-tactics12.html - FM2012 Tactics Find and share successful tactics in Football Manager 2012

http://www.fmscout.com/c-data12.html - FM2012 Custom Data Updates All quality unofficial data packs in one place

http://www.fmscout.com/c-comps12.html - FM2012 Custom Competitions Editor Data Files that enable hidden leagues and more

hidden leagues? does that mean you can have proper players in the german national team too? why is that stuff hidden?

license fee is ridiculously huge each year - pro evo never has a real german national team either iirc

ROFL

http://www.fmscout.com/a-fm2012-anguillan-premier-league.html

FM2012 Anguillan Premier League
You can now manage the most rubbish football nation in the world

admit it, you all want to do this one

noodle vague if youre reading this, you want to play that league dont you?

fancy having legendary players playing for you? pele,maradona,zidane etc?
http://www.fmscout.com/a-battle-of-the-titans.html

Lev Yashin
Paolo Maldini
Nilton Santos
Djalma Santos
Carlos Alberto Torres
Cafu
Franco Baresi
Franz Beckenbauer
Daniel Passarella
Bobby Moore
Lothar Matthäus
José Leandro Andrade
Sir Stanley Matthews
Garrincha
Sir Tom Finney
Francisco Gento
Sir Bobby Charlton
Michel Platini
Alfredo Di Stefano
Diego Maradona
Zinedine Zidane
Pelé
Ronaldo
Gerd Müller
Eusebio
Marco Van Basten
Romario

how about having them in your arsenal squad, sam?

found a fix for the german national team . real players will be called up. get it up you german greedy fucks
http://www.fmscout.com/i-1387-FM12-Susie-Real-Names-for-Clubs-Competitions-and-Awards-Fix---BETA.html

meh. however if some how i could have saved my best regens from over the years to play them, then i'd be excited. marcelinho and serge keita would destroy baresi and beckenbauer

man rip serge, miss u 2008 boo. 47 goals from rw two seasons in a row and more 20/20 stats than messi

sam use fmrte to recreate the regens! im going to do andy craig, my awesome scottish left winger who had amazing stats in 2011

apparently the portuguese league and teams are all fake too. no porto or benfica. FCP looks crap

btw did you get the team strips and logos working ok?

oh man the d/l from here football manager 2012 (release date is 21st oct)

looks amazing. you gotta do it! esp in conjunction with http://www.fmscout.com/i-1387-FM12-Susie-Real-Names-for-Clubs-Competitions-and-Awards-Fix---BETA.html

these are essential along with the team strips. looks so much better now.

http://www.fmscout.com/c-kits12.html

FM2012 Team Kits Quality selection of real 2D & 3D kits that work in 3D match view

my porto and benfica look like the real players to me?

nah i'm too busy wondering what to do w/ the 14m sevilla gave me for arteta

the team names arent real though? it says fcp instead of porto etc

sam i promise you if you d/l all these things and take the 20 secs to install them, it will improve your enjoyment of spending the arteta money!

imfrte for mac users btw http://www.fmscout.com/a-iFMRTE-for-FM2012.html

and finally http://www.fmscout.com/a-fm12-essentials.html

maybe. i just cannot be fucked tbh. i have absolutely no problem with FCP, i knew who is was as soon as I went looking for Hulk (fucker went to Utd instead).

did you go green with rage?

anyway add those things, trust me, they look awesome

btw did you know you could do this? http://www.fmscout.com/a-fm2012-england-levels-7-and-8.html

im not kidding, the real logos, division names with logos, real strips etc make it so much better. even in the 3d game

no i did not know i could do that, because i am not that fm-autistic.

it most probably does look better! i just don't care to do it. i dont care if it is fcp or fc porto, or whether our shitty away kit is the real shitty away kit or a representation of our shitty away kit. i do care that fucking valencia wouldnt come to me because of a .4m difference in agent fees offered because 'it is not an acceptable wage offered'. fuck fucking football fucking agents.

ok ok. i'll try it. is there a 1 link that is worth doing, because you put up like 20 and im not doing them all.

eurgh fucking denilson 'i want to leave, y won't u let me' YOU HAD THREE OFFERS TO FUCK OFF AND YOU DIDNT, WHY ARE YOU BITCHING AT ME

ok di maria is out for 4 months. should have known that buying a cheap injury prone player at arsenal was cursed.

Put Ayew on that wing, he's not a central mid anyway.

lol finally got city to agree a bid for tevez only for kia to refuse anything under an £11m p/y contract. fucking greedy cunts all around.

its cool, kagawa can be thrown out there. just annoyed that my star signing wont be seen till november.

here are the ones i got and say are essential Grab them all.

http://www.multiupload.com/3V5RWAGFQ7 d/l it really quickly via megaupload and about to install it

You don't need to search the internet any further. AT FMFormation we have the perfect solution for you. The always expanding FMF Exclusive logos contain more than 10,000 club, nation and competition logos from all around the globe to add the extra something in to your game.

Last Year our megapack had 4000 logos, this year it has 10,863 logos and we are still working.

How to Install
After the download just extract the file to the following file: "Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012"
Once you have done that go to your preferences tab and untick the ''Skin Cache'' box and tick the ''always reload skin'' box, then confirm.

create a graphics folder in "Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012" ie "Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012/graphics "
then extract to there then do the skin cache stuff and bingo.

2) real kits download both http://www.fmscout.com/c-kits12.html instructions on the page or copy them to
Win Vista/Windows 7: C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\graphics\kits\
Win 2000/XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\graphics\kits\

if kits and graphics dont exist create them.

3) http://www.fmscout.com/i-1387-FM12-Susie-Real-Names-for-Clubs-Competitions-and-Awards-Fix---BETA.html

Extract the files and save them to this folder: Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\football manager 2012\data\db\1200\lnc (actually go in via program files/steam etc. its different to where the 1st 2 apps listed above.
follow the instructions on the page carefully. 1 & 2 before you get this one.

once you have them all

Run Football Manager 2012 and go to: Preferences > Display and Sound
Make sure that you tick the check box on the page called 'Always Reload Skin on Confirm' and un-tick then box saying 'Use Skin Cache'. Hit Confirm.
There should be a box that pops up saying 'loading image data for the new skin'. Once this is done your graphics should be working within the game.

easy! (it must be, i did it, and im computer illiterate)

* do 1 & 2 before you do the 3rd one

oh and fmrte will sort your agent/transfer problems if it annoys you that much

im at 48% for http://www.fmscout.com/a-fm-2012-cut-out-faces-megapack.html

but im not paying £10 to get a fast download

ok sam just got notified of the youth intake in march. theres a friendly between my under 18s and the youth triallists on march 17. Hope that's of use to you

let me know you you get on installing those things. if you need help come on aim and i'll help you

lol i like shitty agents. i presume if i was a real life manager i'd end up in a fist fight with one - thus shit seems realistic.

fyi a valencia's bargaining chip which was obv 'other teams are interested, so fuck you' backfired and utd offered him out a second time with those other teams lol pissed off by that dude, i was the only one in and offered a million less in both fees than he walked out last time, think its gonna go through.

ok it iz downloading

all 3 are well worth it but esp the 1st 2. its easy to install but i'll help if you need it. it just looks so much better.

youre stuck arent you?

lol no i was just doing my nut in as my back 4 ignored all tactics to let spurs beat us 3-1 on the opening day of the season. half tempted to sell the fucking bunch of them and theo after such a shit game and just play regens. forgot it had downloaded while this happened.

hah, well now you can install them. Which ones did you get?

the first one, if it works i'll get the 2nd and then 3rd. patience scot.

the 2nd one is a tiny file and will take a second to d/l

it worked.

hurrah! looks good yeah? you will like the next one with the real strips.
3rd one will give all leagues/cups their proper names as well as the clubs

2nd done..

cool. What do you reckon then?

kinda cool i guess. any more i should give a toss about?

did you get the 3rd one? and the championship strips?

check http://www.fmscout.com/a-fm12-essentials.html the training ones look great. could be very handy. The barca tactics looks awesome tbh wanna try that in my next match

Training http://www.fmscout.com/c-training12.html <---- looks very useful.

Tactics http://www.fmscout.com/c-tactics12.html

other database stuff http://www.fmscout.com/c-data12.html

other skins http://www.fmscout.com/c-skins12.html apparently these can be customised so that it will contain all the info you want on 1 page rather than clicking thru stuff but i dont know how difficult that will be to use. Probably beyond me.

ok i dont understand how to set training schedules. i downloaded the schedules and installed it ok. but i dunno how to implement it. Anyone know?

ok that 4gb pictures file has downloaded overnight. just installed it.
still no clue how to use these training schedules

ok lol did you hack my game?

http://i43.tinypic.com/33tlafs.jpg

nah if that was me it'd be a lb

...in the dressing room?

oh holy shit!!!!!!!!!!!! i downloaded the barca tactic and fuck me its absolutely amazing. I had 80% posession. Messi (yeah i signed him for £100m) runs riot dribbling round everyone,the passes are superfast and movement is amazing and im tanning teams 7-0. Sam you NEED to get http://www.fmscout.com/a-barcelona-style-in-fm-2012.html

oh and theres a new version of that 3rd download you were going to get http://www.fmscout.com/i-1387-FM12-Susie-Real-Names-for-Clubs-Competitions-and-Awards-Fix---BETA.html

No! I am cool with my own 65% poss and organically getting there. I am refusing to buy anyone (incl. regens) who doesn't have a MIN of 16 first touch, 16 passing and 16 technique anyway, so in 5 years I should be there. Valencia was the only exception. Well him and any other 4 star players under 10m.

where tf did you get 100m from? at Liverpool? Bankrupting the place?

http://i43.tinypic.com/24mffbp.jpg

adam in xavi role and henderson as iniesta lol

you bojan?

what is aoc like in a couple years time?

why do you have messi and suarez in each others positions?

messi is 'fake #9' he drops deep and dribbles from everywhere suarez is villa and attacks by cutting in to right foot. Gerrard is shit hot in that position scoring loads. if he retires i'll put messi there and put carroll up top i guess unless Bojan is a better option. Bojan is quite effective in the RW position if i change things about. AOC ,Bojan are developing well and are ready for some 1st team games according to my asst manager who also says i change their squad status from back up to rotation.. Josh Mc is developing well and will be ready for some 1st team games soon according to Tito.
Got bojan for £7m as his 2 year loan at roma ended and barca didnt want him. Got the other 2 for £6m at the start of this (my first season at liverpool). Contracts were due up i think.

If you were going to use that tactic. How would you line them up with your players?

oh yeah bale fell out with spurs. £13.5m bargain. He's amazing in the suarez position too as is downing. Well covered for that position.
Sold joe Cole for £10m lol and Dirk Kuyt for 20.(to bayern)

carragher is past it lol. Wigan offered to buy him but i decided to keep him and offer a player coach role. His coaching attributes are pretty awesome. Only thing is he will bugger off to the first managers role he gets.

and obviously i sold pretty much all of my reserve side. Got decent money for them all. my unused subs can play in the reserve games along with the best under 18s, who i have FIVE regen wonderkids. Worth having a top top youth system as long as you scout allover the world. By getting foreign coaches you get better knowledge. lots of obscure rated scouts with pot ability ratings of 19/20. Try get them from all over.

i know this from playing previous fm games rather than reading about it. think ive gave you similar advice in previous fm threads

btw james mccarthy has great stats but wigan wont sell him.

obv i wanted him as an ex accie but no dice so far. only got a transfer budget of £25m left. Want to keep that incase some highly rated youngsters show up.

this is the susies screenshots btw

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/4329/awardsnames.jpg
http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/648/germanyyi.jpg

i didnt even know the fa cup was budweiser now LOL

James McCarthy was p much my first big signing once I got the sugar daddy money at Leyton Orient on the last game.

LOL you don't need to tell me about scouting knowledge, I have that game DOWN.

If I was to go into that formation, it'd be:

Chesney>Reina
Sagna>Johnson
Gibbs>Bale (more attacking than Vermaelan)
Kos>Kelly (how is he in the future btw? Same for Wilson, Flanagan and Robinson? Worth trying to get?)
Alder>Wilson (feel like pace is important in your defending, so Merte and Juhasz wouldn't work)
Bender>Lucas
Ayew>Adams
Wilshere>Gerrard
Kagawa>Henderson
Gervinho>Suarez
RVP>Messi

Di Maria, Valencia, Ramsey, Song, Theo, Verm and Arshavin not really fitting in. :S

oh man that formation would work for you. Why not import it as your 2nd or 3rd tactic and try it in a game against someone.

i taught you all you know about scouting son, the threads are still in the archives!

Kelly (how is he in the future btw? Same for Wilson, Flanagan and Robinson? Worth trying to get?)

Oh yes. Season or 2 in reserves with cup games in 1st team and a few league games then chuck them in the deep end. Worked well for me. Especially when tactical familiarity is 100%. (i used fmrte to getTic-Tac krunccrni standard to 100% as season had started (i won 1st 9 league games)and dont have pre-season to work on it) but keeping fmrte to bare min atm. fitness/injuries only.
Won every game since i got this tactic and im 100% in march for wins. left it on holiday for 3 months overnight just to see how it would do and it won every game so decided to save from there and keep going lol.

just about to play man utd in champs league quarters.

how the fuck is tim wiese still making the germany squad??
AG you are welcome to take over from Dalglish when the time comes.

also ahoy have you got sven or lars bender?

Ramsay is always awesome against me. as is wilshere.

bender?

Sven

i thought sam was using that as a nickname for someone, lol

I bought him at the start of the game for 6.75m to sure up my midfield post-Cesc, p good- not amazing tho. Tried to get Mascherano this summer but couldn't agree terms (because fuck agents.) and then Barca changed their mind and took him off the TL.

lol kerr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borussia_Dortmund#First-team_squad

i'll tell you who is really good. Thiago of Barca. he was great when i was there. if he becomes available i'll maybe go for him.

everyone keep http://www.fmscout.com/c-files12.html bookmarked

this http://www.fmscout.com/a-football-manager-2012-wonderkids.html list looks pretty accurate. The ones with gold stars all have great stats.

best young keeper ive come across is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thibaut_Courtois signed him for barca. When reina is past it i will try sign him for liverpool.

signed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mateo_Musacchio for barca too. He's a great prospect.

how is wellington silva doing for you?

oh cool http://www.fmscout.com/a-fm12-stadium-backgrounds.html has just been released

I sold him cheap to Bayern for the 50% sellon fee. Overloaded with attacking flair players and he has a shitty attitude.

Musacchio imo is exactly why I don't like those lists. Refuse to buy any wonderkids that won't potentially end up on an All Time Players list, as opposed to 'well if Baresi got injured, I guess he'd do alright' types. Baresi or gtfo.

Courtois is the guy Chelsea signed and loaned to Athleti, right?

i got him from chelsea yeah. He's #1 ahead of Valdes now at Barca. So im guessing i wont get him back

Musacchio is playing alongside pique. He might not be baresi but he's damn good for a cheap buy.

backgrounds

http://i41.tinypic.com/24xkoap.png
cool, huh?

not my pic btw. lol at the guys name though

i was gonna say, "Julio?"

another fucking year, another fucking fm game where print screen seems to not work for me.

I thought his name was Señor Squad for a second there

here is mine

http://i41.tinypic.com/15wlydh.jpg

im on a laptop so it took me ages to work out how to print screen when i got it last year.

So do I get this straight: do I need to install a shedload of add-ons and patches for this to become playable?

Why can't they include all this stuff and let you tick boxes? Idgi. I'd like to play the 2012 version but it's such a hassle to do all of this.

btw i use it as 'windowed' if that makes any difference

yeah to get the stuff we're discussing here you need add-ons but its dead easy to do. get them here http://www.fmscout.com/c-files12.html

if sam and i can do it so can you. its well worth it. im enjoying it even more. it just looks so much better. Why didnt anyone tell me before that there was an in game editor to do all this?

I know I can do it, I just think I can't be bothered. Is it so hard to release this game with all of this, or most of this, included? It's not like the game comes on 40 3.5" floppy's.

you really dont need add-ons. they are alright but dont in any way effect the game. unless you are kerr.

i hate backgrounds. they make the game slower and esp w/ ones like yours, the colours make it hard to see certain things.

repost for you G

here are the ones i got and say are essential Grab them all.

http://www.multiupload.com/3V5RWAGFQ7 d/l it really quickly via megaupload and about to install it

You don't need to search the internet any further. AT FMFormation we have the perfect solution for you. The always expanding FMF Exclusive logos contain more than 10,000 club, nation and competition logos from all around the globe to add the extra something in to your game.

Last Year our megapack had 4000 logos, this year it has 10,863 logos and we are still working.

How to Install
After the download just extract the file to the following file: "Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012"
Once you have done that go to your preferences tab and untick the ''Skin Cache'' box and tick the ''always reload skin'' box, then confirm.

create a graphics folder in "Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012" ie "Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012/graphics "
then extract to there then do the skin cache stuff and bingo.

2) real kits download both http://www.fmscout.com/c-kits12.html instructions on the page or copy them to
Win Vista/Windows 7: C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\graphics\kits\
Win 2000/XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\graphics\kits\

if kits and graphics dont exist create them.

3) http://www.fmscout.com/i-1387-FM12-Susie-Real-Names-for-Clubs-Competitions-and-Awards-Fix---BETA.html

Extract the files and save them to this folder: Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\football manager 2012\data\db\1200\lnc (actually go in via program files/steam etc. its different to where the 1st 2 apps listed above.
follow the instructions on the page carefully. 1 & 2 before you get this one.

once you have them all

Run Football Manager 2012 and go to: Preferences > Display and Sound
Make sure that you tick the check box on the page called 'Always Reload Skin on Confirm' and un-tick then box saying 'Use Skin Cache'. Hit Confirm.
There should be a box that pops up saying 'loading image data for the new skin'. Once this is done your graphics should be working within the game.

easy! (it must be, i did it, and im computer illiterate)

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 31 October 2011 23:42 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Training http://www.fmscout.com/c-training12.html <---- looks very useful.

Tactics http://www.fmscout.com/c-tactics12.html

other database stuff http://www.fmscout.com/c-data12.html

other skins http://www.fmscout.com/c-skins12.html apparently these can be customised so that it will contain all the info you want on 1 page rather than clicking thru stuff but i dont know how difficult that will be to use. Probably beyond me.

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker,

oh cool http://www.fmscout.com/a-fm12-stadium-backgrounds.html has just been released

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker,

oh holy shit!!!!!!!!!!!! i downloaded the barca tactic and fuck me its absolutely amazing. I had 80% posession. Messi (yeah i signed him for £100m) runs riot dribbling round everyone,the passes are superfast and movement is amazing and im tanning teams 7-0. Sam you NEED to get http://www.fmscout.com/a-barcelona-style-in-fm-2012.html

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker,

yeah none of that is essential, it is just fm-nerd shit and you can ignore kerr.

Yeah, I've always played without extra kits/logos/player photos/backgrounds etc.

been reading this thread both with interest and a deep underlying fear that I am on the cusp of diving into this yet again and wasting three months of time... :-/

Kerr please, that's just not healthy anymore, it's overload

the pictures package that was 4gb that we spoke about earlier is great btw but id get the ones i posted above first

but honestly, theyre great! if you get them you wont regret it.

Sam theres other skins optimized for these backgrounds. Just not tried them yet. Game isnt any slower either

http://i43.tinypic.com/303ajk0.jpg

that looks horrible imo.

first four games of the season 3-1L v. Spurs, 5-0W v. Leicester, 3-3D which had to be save from going 3-1 down v. Pompy, 0-0 draw v. Newcastle.

Deserve to be fired if this continues.
Got the players and the tactics to suit them, they are just aren't listening to them.

Phil Jones and Wellbeck in midfield? What madman is running Utd in your universe AG?

sir fergie! there was injuries i assume.

got rid of the stadium things because it was hard to read. everything else i installed works great

fuck this, i am resigning. fucking cunts fucking won't listen to tactics fucking fuck them. losing 1-0 to lever at home because they won't fucking close down a man who is running at them, or the guy standing in the box absolutely free for him to pass to. this has happened like 5 fucking times, of course they scored from it. fuck them fuck them fuck them.

10 fucks, kudos :)

Does Balotelli play with fireworks in the new version too, or do I have to download a patch for that?

oh thank fuck the first major update. knew there was a reason why today would be the day i start again. ok must remember to pay attention in march. wonder if i can use trial days to steal other teams trial players.

an update?

Sports Interactive have a habit of releasing the game before they sort the 4000 bugs and usually release an update the week it comes out. Dunno, steam automatically had a big update, so I presume its that.

ahh. that means i will need to quit the game then restart to get the update? let me know the differences.

add pfunkboy1973 to your steam friends. let me know who you are obviously hehe

oh apparently f12 does ingame screenshots if thats of use to you sam

you don't need to start again w/ updates, or at least you didn't need to last two seasons.

i meant do i need to restart steam to get the update?

i guess

i restarted my laptop a window did come up for a second saying steam was updating but thats it. doesnt look like the games any different and it didnt say fm12 had been updated. dont think the version # has changed

the update was the 27th. i already got that
http://www.footballmanager.com/news/5440

did you d/l the game via steam or buy the dvd?

bought it like a normal person

hey kerr in yr barca tactic, under player instructions how are players passing stats shown? i've just cut almost everyone down to at least 'short'

let me do a screenshot, i was actually just looking at them!

i bought it via steam so maybe we got priority for the update 4 days ago?

http://i41.tinypic.com/ws1tky.jpg

or do you mean all the player instructions? each one is different. i can take a screenshot of then and email it in a zip for you if you want

http://i44.tinypic.com/fxtlz7.jpg

tbh why dont you just download the actual tactic and use it?
http://www.fmscout.com/a-barcelona-style-in-fm-2012.html

you can have 3 tactics so install it and decide if you want to use it as your starting or not.

it does your individual player instructions and your setpieces too. it really IS barcelona tactics.

if you dont like it or doesnt work great for you then you can scrap it.
have you started a new game as barca?

can anyone tell me how to do the schedules in training? apparently that makes a big difference when done properly

i d/l and installed from http://www.fmscout.com/c-training12.html

i imported as it said. but i cant see where i can actually implement the schedules as 0 players are down as using it,theyre all still on the default ones.

i did but it doesn't feel right. they are too good to manage. its like im using cheat codes.

high line you have there - sure it works for the likes of kelly and johnson?

seems to!

are you gonna install the tactic to try? you really should. its terrific.

what is your steamname btw?

now finding this works even better. esp as messi and bojan swap positions with each other (no wonder gerrard was scoring so many)
http://i41.tinypic.com/5eu3ys.jpg

also could play suarez in where bojan and downing or bale on left. its quite good to have so many options. Was well worth retraining bojan to an amc.

also lol at fm12 advert at halftime of arsenal game

my stream name is Sutrarama

i'm gonna have to figure out a team to manage. Thinking maybe do Arsenal again but turn off first window transfers, go on holiday till Jan and then start.

(before i think about tactics.)

oh yeah i shoulda known that as its your lastfm name

if you turn off first transfer windows does that mean noone signs players or just you?

i kinda like that idea myself of holidaying til jan. might do that next time i start a new game.

no-one iirc

that explains why its there then. That will make it more realistc teamsheet wise then

are we the only guys playing fm 2012 or is pandemic playing too? G needs to join us.

Feb 29th I come back from holiday and wonder where to get a job only to see that Jose had been sacked a week before! Real in 4th with a need for someone to sort them out? Shit yes.

boooooooooo

are you sacked yet?

as i lost my first game, at home, i presume its coming any day now.

ronnie in a huff yet?

this club is a fucking shambles. no coaches (maybe they left w/ jose.). conceded as many as the clubs around the relegation zones. morale is fucking low. the one player they bought in january was fucking fellaini.

lol ayew went to arsenal anyway without me being involved. some transfers are just so fucking obvious.

are you going to sign coaches?

well obviously. i've already p much got my first team coaching sorted, gonna look into sweet yut coaches now.

just take the arsenal ones?

it is march 26th and i still don't have my youth day - whats going on? do i have to ask my assistant to do it? because i want control, not someone else to be at it.

do you have it unticked under team policy?

wow may 27th 2014 wenger,ferguson and redknapp all retired. Mourinho wants man utd and arsenal jobs. poor spurs.

ok wtf there must be a bug in this game, mancini just resigned to take over at COLCHESTER.

loooool

i always thought that a manager shouldnt really be considered great if they can win everything w/ like utd or barca and should do the 'go through the leagues to win it' for true immortality. maybe mancini thinks the same.

also lol at me complaining up thread - it happened the day after.

they probably got taken over by some oil rich sugar daddy, but still. its even more ridiculous than the time fergie left utd for leeds in my 1st game.

my current game of fm10 has just seen alan shearer retire after 15 years at the helm of a still obscenely rich real madrid. Total trophies won in that 15 yr reign? 1 Spanish Cup!

you gonna update to fm12? you maybe can still d/l it from steam via discount vouchers for £26.

sam were all your trial youths shite then?

gonna hold off until 2013. i'm the kind of miser that wants at least 3 years out of my games. This thread is testing my willpower tho i admit.

as it should. i buy it every year and more than get my moneys worth, ie i play it until the new one comes out. But this year is the dogs bollocks. Esp now ive found out about the ingame editor and faces packs and the other things. And ive not even delved into fmrte yet.

i love seeing all the players managers and even coaches faces on the screen. it may not be essential to the game but fuck me it does enhance it. esp considering how quick and easy it is to do. i thought you would need to be a programmer/designer to do it, but no!

of course fm11 and fm10 have all the addons too for their versions if you dont upgrade.

i expect theres patches to have the correct teams in the correct divisions or you can use fmrte to change the teams in the division.
Apparently you can edit tables so you could put the game on holiday to todays date then with fmrte you can edit the league tables etc to the real life results as they stand now. tho it would be easier just to buy fm 12 tbh!

and just for you here are all the patches for fm10 - enjoy!

http://www.fmscout.com/c-files10.html

Through our official store http://www.fmscout.com/a-download-fm-2012-cheap.html you can legally and securely download Football Manager. You can now download Football Manager 2012 for just £26.99 (PC and MAC). New discount code is: uTz7C

This is the digital download edition, so there's no physical disc or shipping involved. It works as simple as pay - download - install - play. Steam is required, to download and activate your game.

The game has been released! (21 Oct - 00:00 GMT)
Fresh discount code is valid until 15 November!

Very kind of you mate. I've never used any patches or stuff before. Which ones would you say are essential?

ones with player transfer updates. They usually have real league divisions too in them. obv you would be starting in 2009 but with 2011 line ups. But im sure if you are still using an old game you can handle the dates being wrong.

i assume you have the actual official game update first?

http://www.fmscout.com/i-859-FM2010-Patch-103.html

its the one for the game itself

looks like http://www.fmscout.com/i-915-Summer-2010-Update-Pack.html has all the transfers up to the start of the 2010/11 season

hahahaha every player becomes a free agent in fm 2010
http://www.fmscout.com/i-874-Free-Agents-Database.html

More than 280.000 got sacked , starting from Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi to Apisalome Turuva of Fiji or Matana Paongo of Tonga.

Absolutely all players are free agents now.

go get your dream team!

fm10 epl facepack http://www.fmscout.com/i-723-Premier-League-Facepack.html

fm10 team logos etc http://www.fmscout.com/i-747-Metallic-Logo-Megapack-for-FM-2010.html

dunno how long that would take to d/l sadly

best just to look through them all and see what you fancy as i never used patches other than the official updates on fm10

if you get the fm12 game then i can help you anytime

cheers. haven't gone back to the 2010's for ages anyway tbh. Current game is in 2036 atm and I'll just take another job in this universe when i get sacked/resign from my current position. I like the imaginary player aspect more than the real.

yeah it is fun. With that happening you dont need to worry about not having real life players/managers at the right teams.

do get http://www.fmscout.com/i-644-FMRTE-Beta-for-FM-2010.html though. You can edit anything you like with it.
budgets,wages,salaries,ground capacities scout/coaches stats ,players and loads more.

ohhhh i got the scotland job just before the world cup finals. Peru in first game GONNA GET REVENGE FOR 78 YA BASTARDS!!!!!

(hopefully)

lol spain left iniesta out of the squad as he hadn't fully recovered from injury and england left rooney out completely. Capello is still manager hahaha

a tactic btw for those who take smaller teams rather than the top ones

http://www.fmscout.com/a-fm12-tactic-grixs-counter.html

This tactic has brought me great success with my beloved SAFC.

It is a counter tactic so should be good for smaller teams but defence is important.

GK- 1on1s important as is handling and distribution is set to short.
FB - Crossing Stamina Passing Work Rate
RCB- Heading Jumping Tackling Agression
LCB- Pace Heading Passing Positioning
RMC- Playmaker. Not set completely but makes most of the chances. Passing Creativity Decisions Long Shots
LMC- Ball Winner. Tackling Stamina Passing Composure.
AMR- Crossing Passing Finishing Still to find a star for this position
AML- Dribbling Flair Creativity Finishing Passing. The match winner
STR- The poaching machine. Finishing Pace Composure Off the Ball
STL- The Target Man STrength Finishing Passing Creativity

None of this is concrete but use V3 mostly to start once in front switch to V2. This seems to counter again and you hold your lead. Alternatively you could reverse this or use one if successful.

No shouts
Ass Man takes opp instructions

Team Talks are important this year and sure you can work it out however no pressure seems to work well.

Download
http://www.fmscout.com/datas/users/grix_counter_v3_sunderland_dec_2013_18399.tac version 3

http://www.fmscout.com/datas/users/grix_counter_v2_sunderland_dec_2013_18399.tac version 2

Who is your ass man, sam? lol

http://www.fmscout.com/datas/users/2011-11-01_00002_18399.jpg

lol sunderland obv but he also posted a screenshot of him winning almost every game so it certainly works for him

lol kerr you have officially gone mental

bet you're using them though...

god help me I'm thinking about getting this, beats being an internationally exhibited visual artist

Nah. I genuinely don't give a fuck about patches. In fact I kinda miss the charm of made up badges, and am annoyed I have no idea what half the things mean now I get asked about Spanish named prizes and comps, on account of speaking English.

youre such a grump! youre the darraghmac of fm12!

sam out!

the real badges,strips,competition names enhance the game so much. its fantastic.

They really dont over here. Understanding tactics and training and youth development on the other hand

Also beating barca. Cry little Leo, cry. The fascists are coming.

sam see your players who ignored your tactics? did you have them on high creativity? that might explain it.

Yeah I'm starting to come around to the fact that I can't play 'very fluid' anymore, no roaming either.

im sticking with my barca tactics for whoever i play now. im winning every game from 2-0 to 10-0

I had the Arsenal tactic down to a tee last time and played it again this year- guess it was realistic again.

Barca still 13 points ahead. But I could win the CL, just had an 8-7 ag semi final win against the gunners. Also absolutely gutted my b, c and u19 teams to re-do them this summer. Only signing I made or will make that isn't transfer listed or on the cheap or a youth is Cavani.

looks like i got an update. status screen says 12.0.4 now instead of 3

what is yours sam?

shite, the update has somehow changed stats on all of my players and they are all significantly lower. messi and co all have only 15 for pace,dribbling,finishing yet they were nearly full.
i thought id try fmrte to fix it but apparently it wont work with the update. i cant even use the fitness thing. Still beating teams and top of the league after 4 games but i hate the fact its reduced everyones stats to below what i started with. stupid update.

ok fmrte is supposedly the best scout tool too

As a scout tool it will let you see player's attributes, their current and potential ability, their value and how a club would like for the player. FMRTE has been available since Football Manager 2008, and we have seen it evolve greatly in that time.

but it doesnt work with new steam update so will need to wait for the fmrte update.

coulda done with the scouting help in the close season.

oh and this is a guide i found for the fm11 version http://web.archive.org/web/20110703081909/http://www.fmrte.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=909 but supposedly the new one has more features.

ok new patch http://www.fmrte.com/2011/11/04/fmrte-v5-0-2-for-football-manager-2012/

that was quick. Now to figure out how to reset the stats to what they were.

its funny how i wanted to avoid using this for other than keeping players fit yet the stupid update is making me use fmrte. its like the gods are trying to make me cheat. but i will resist.

sam will guide me in my hour of need

So I just tried to buy this. Maybe I have bought it. I don't know. I seem to have downloaded and installed something called 'Steam'. Why exactly, I have no idea. I seem to need some kind of validation code before I actually get the game. I haven't got one. According to my e-mail: "Your order is being validated. To prevent fraud, an additional check of your purchase is required. To this effect, your key will only be sent once your purchase has been validated. The aforementioned check can take up to a few hours. We strive to deliver your key to you as fast as possible." I've been waiting a few hours. Getting bored now.

yeah you need to have a steam account. even if you bought the dvd you still NEED steam now. its to prevent piracy unfortunately. I already had steam anyway as its simpler to use.
The validation is manual so has to be actually done by a real person and i guess its friday night... hope you dont need to wait to long. Because i had pre-ordered from steam i didnt need to wait for validation.

if you need any help with the game jamie feel free to ask, i have thread bookmarked so happy to help anyone with it.

I'm sure I will need help (eventually). I assume you used to go by a different name?

did you use the link/code to get it for £26.99?

pfunkboy/herman g neuname/algerian goalie etc aka the hamilton accies/liverpool supporter.

Right. No - £29.99.

ahh damn. coulda saved you 3 quid. i paid 29 too. now i know to read these forums to get discounts
http://www.fmscout.com/
http://www.fmrte.com/

as well as the patches etc. if you need help with any of that im happy to help

I just caved and downloaded this (illegally tbh)

Let the mayhem and "lol i'm sad playing this for hours" time commence

dont you need to validate it through steam to play it?

not when i download it illegally. that's why it's called illegal innit

It's a cracked version. Not saying I'm proud of it, but FM probably has done me more harm than any other game, so I kid myself and say it owes me one

you may as well use fmrte then

are you staying up all night playing it?

You don't need steam fyi. But it helps with updates and stuff.

you do. they changed it so that to play the game you must use steam. there was a big controversy about it

well, it HAS to be activated through steam to be able to play it

Well, not the cracked version obv.

Also lol at the notion of playing it all night long. At one time I would've probably, but I don't have the time, energy or instigation to do so anymore.

Is this the first release since 2007 that isn't faster than its predecessor? Speed is about the same, whereas in the past they'd really work on the speed with every new release.

Making it possible to switch leagues on and off during the game is a godsend!

one piece of advice- not having messi shortlisted in december. if i see another 'messi to win ballon d'or, some dick comments on messi as the best' story i will throw my laptop out the window.

has jamie got his game yet?
G if you dont play all night im not sure you belong here , lol. Who doesnt play all night when they get the game at first on a weekend? Unless you have a family of course (ie jamie)

Yup, I've finally activated and downloaded it. I'm going to be Southampton to start off with.

Kerr, like I said I understand I'm the pariah here ;)

I downloaded that Barca tactic you posted K, but how do I load it? I put it in the tactics folder, but I can't seem to find how to load a tactic, they changed the UI.

http://i39.tinypic.com/14incax.jpg

you have signed the kerr family?

roberto carlos has a preference to "be a chairman somewhere in Euope" - bloody hell those dagistanis must pay well

regens. Spurs signed martin o'neill from hamilton. Then guess who took over from 'arry?

didnt know that was an option. used to be coach/scout etc

Its pretty much always ex players who take over teams anyway in previous games.

what team did you go G?

PSV, always start with that to get acquainted to a new release. But I'm looking for a nice English team in the lowest playable league to bring success, money and titles etc

use the patch to start in the non league then!
http://www.fmscout.com/c-comps12.html

Nah, I'm looking for the lowest active Northwest Yorkshire team tbh. Any ideas?

bound to be in the non league then!

The Advanced England League Expansion includes:

Fully activated Level 7 Regional Premier Divisions
Fully activated Level 8 Regional First Divisions
Inactive Level 9 County Divisions created to allow promotion / relegation to Regional First Divisions
Northern League Cup, Northern League President's Cup, Northern League Chairman's Cup, Southern League Cup, Isthmian League Cup, Southern League Championship Match, Isthmian Charity Shield, Northern Premier Peter Swales Shield
NEW ***The Above cups will become inactive if you disable leagues following promotion to Level 6***
FA Cup rebuilt to include Extra Preliminary, Preliminary and 1st Qualifying Rounds
FA Trophy rebuilt to include all qualifying rounds
All County FA Senior Cups ***In separate version to be released in November***
Player of the Month, Manager of the Month, Team of the Week, Top Goalscorer, Player of the Season & Manager of the Season Awards for Regional Premier and First Divisions
FA Ground Grading Requirements
Missing City data
Missing Club data
Media Sources for Premier League, Football League and Non-league football
Real Fixtures for the Premier League down to the Regional First Divisions

if the game actually came packaged with that from the start i bet noodle vague would totally do it

actually i dont believe G.. i know he played it all night and just isnt admitting it as he wants to pretend hes 'cool'

there's probably a secret invite only elite De Subjectivisten online league where they all pm each other talking shit about us

The LOL English Premiership is the top division.

Ned will be there though because ned is everywhere

Ned just won that league shhhhht Kerr don't rat him out!

ok i have just spent about £30m on u17s

WHO????

i cant fucking get into my game. problem with steam. bastard steam

Castilla is essentially the worlds best youth team now.

Effing hell I've never seen my inbox so cluttered with agents offering useless Brazilians that are on a free with an asking price of bloody millions. Fuck that shit tbh

Lol Kerr, that's why you should go with a cracked version WITHOUT steam lol

nah it was peerblock that was blocking it

G have you installed fmrte?

Yup, how can one go without ;)

i had a funny feeling a pirate like you would have it.

i found some sort of user guide http://web.archive.org/web/20110703081909/http://www.fmrte.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=909

Player Match Exercise Cheat:
This is probably the biggest cheat possible for FMRTE, as it will grantee goals and that means certain victory. You can do this on as many players as you like it will work 100% of the time.This is best to do the day of a match, what you need to do is go to the player's information screen in FMRTE and at the bottom there is the details bar.

Select the players match exercise:

Change it to 32700 or 29634.

Save it then go back to the game and play your match, Ignore the players fitness as it will show something like 39%. That doesn't matter you will score lots of goals

Does that work?

dunno but that just makes the game pointless. woohoo i won 12-0 again, this game is so realistic and i am so good at it!

xp No idea, I don't tinker about with it that often. But I'll try to see what happens

what have you used it for?

apparently the match fitness cheat only works when your about to go to kick off

Tried it, didn't do nowt, sounds like bollocks to me

it says once youre about to kick off you change your players match fitness to 29634 and it should work

Tried it once but it didn't do anything. Besides I'm not down with trickery like that anyway, like a hoy hoy said

Ok, tried it again. Leading 0-14 at half-time. No fun. Don't know why they even build in these things.

lol 14-0??????

Yeah. Apparently, entering that number you posted in the match fitness box, nearly every touch becomes a goal

hahaha . handy to know that if theres ever a team i cant beat i could use that.

wonder why match fitness would make such a difference

what is it like watching that on the 3d engine? do they just shoot from wherever they get the ball?

It doesn't, it's just a stupid thing the programmers put in to use as a cheat. And I keep asking why they would do that in the first place and have it "leak" like this. Seems silly to me.

xp I never watch 3d. Classic 2d all the way for me tbh

if players get the ball in their own half take on 7 players and chip the keeper for a wonder goal i will totally try it!

No not from wherever, but the ball somehow ends up with the player I adjusted that number of, and that player scores

It doesn't, it's just a stupid thing the programmers put in to use as a cheat. And I keep asking why they would do that in the first place and have it "leak" like this. Seems silly to me.

― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 6 November 2011 01:28 (21 minutes ago)

video game programmers being stupid dicks shocker

it is feb 1st. barca have drawn twice (once against us) and lost once. we have drawn once (v. barca) and lost once, having played 1 game less.

i'm gonna on holiday under march 27th so i can do my nanowrimo and listen to black flag.

sams having a tv party tonight

Sam otm

G is pretending he will be in bed while he will actually be playing fm12

lol i tried the cheat and won 23-0

but yeah it takes away a bit of the fun. would be better if it was a guarantee you win cheat but you only beat the top teams by 1 or 2 goals in a 5-3 thriller or something

that would still suck tbh.

if you want to just win every game there is already an in built reality cheat called 'managing barcelona'.

ok i cannot sell kaka for the fucking life of me. he has another 3 years left of a 10m/per year contract, at which time he'll be 34. he already cannot make my first team and offering him to clubs for £0 has... everyone going 'ummm we have a wage structure, plz stop bugging us'.

i mean i can afford to keep him around, the money isnt the trouble. but he's good enough to not put in my reserves, not good enough to make my first team and just in the way of lots of youngsters like canales who i should play more but i am busy trying to put kaka in the shop window/get my moneys worth.

just fucking leave already ricardo.

2 solutions use fmrte to swap him with someone.
or
Add new manager and choose man city and buy him for shitloads and swap deal including silva and aguero at the same time

i used to do that in championship manager days i assume you still can?

or use fmrte to end his contract or use fmrte to add to your balance and wage budget etc

when I had a world-beating team of 23-year-olds in FM09 I did the thing of spending tens of millions on a youth team, but that game's combination of it being so difficult to loan out players and top players not really declining until their mid-30s kind of ruined it.

This thread is making an entry into FM12 so very tempting, but aaaah I'm already ridiculously busy without adding the required five hours of FMing a day to everything.

Sam, can't you kick up a controversy, speak to him and tell him he sucks, transfer list him, offer him to clubs every week etc. Make his life miserable. If he's still pulling a Bogarde and is fine with being benched for years to come raking in the cash, go for the editor and injure him for life imho

seems easier to add a 2nd manager and go city. make some cash and swap a few players

he's cool to go, just no-one will bid for him.

still don't vibe well w/ easy cheating. maybe i'll do it with a club who deserve to get rid of a shitty manager (jose went to city and won the league.)

also half the fun of fm is feeling sweary until you figure out a way to sort things out.

just noticed that last season spurs bought eboue for 15.75m and now he is transfer listed. lols.

also first time i misspelt it sours, which i like.

mata is unhappy at chelsea, and i think i can pull off 30m+kaka to get rid of him.

did you?

http://www.fmscout.com/a-fm12-training-and-match-preparation-guide.html
looks great

ended up being 43+kaka and 9m p/y AND then he got injured for 4 months, but i already prefer mata. he can play anywhere, he counts towards my homegrown which is v. precious considering i'm going to let adan, alonso and arbeloa go at the end of the season, he scored 1 v. barca and 2 v. valencia.

i wish there was a way i could abolish my c team. i have absolutely no use for it. i have a first+second team, then castilla for guys 17ish-20 and an u19s for players 17ish and under.

my yuts just came back from 2-0 in the cup to win 4-2 so fuck it, this is too easy and i'm just gonna sell di maria, benzema, alonso, surin etc. and try to work towards something. i am 9 points ahead of barca, who have cocked right up this season (they have had 1 big signing since i started and that was a forward, no forward looking to replace puyol or abidal or xavi etc.)

lol i just assumed barca were second. 18 games in I AM 17 POINTS AHEAD OF BARCA. I think i'm gonna go ask Ozil and CR7 if they wanna go on holiday for a couple months and play more 16 year olds.

still on FM10 so not the right thread, but just wanted to congratulate myself on clinching the lge with LFC after just 29 games! A feat unprecedented in my FM career. Won 27 drawn 2. I did get knocked out of both the League and FA Cups by Chelsea at the first hurdle mind you which the board isn't letting me forget.

Man City spent £113m in the close season. Currently 6th. I spent £1.7m on a back up RB whilst selling them a DM for £40m

Just over half of the first season with PSV. Second in the league, 5 points behind Twente. Ajax is only 7th though ~ biggest evidence of the great realistic improvements that were made! ;)

I'm really struggling against the small clubs in the league though, like the bottom six I can only win 1-0 or 2-1 if not drawing or even losing. Effing annoying. I know I'm doing something wrong tactically but I can't figure out what it is.

what r yr current tactics?

do you have full familiarity? until you do players may not respond

Like once a month (well not now my laptop hates me) when my familiarity takes an obvious bump up is when I change one thing to my tactics, and then try to get it to move back up so i can slowly turn them into a pass-and-move demon.

currently wondering about playing just one centre half. i think, given time and full backs who know when to stay back, i could make it work and put a guy in the hole behind my 2 forwards.

"full familiarity" I don't even know what that means tbh

I just have a tweaked tactic. Playing 4-2-3-1 mostly, 4-1-4-1 against the weaker ones. But even with the former they still can't break the defensive wall down.

Maybe my players are just twats.

oh the left hand side of your tactics screen, where you can save and change between set tactics, it will have a blue bar saying how familiar your team is to that set tactic, depending on how often they play that tactic and what they do in training/match preparation.

Ohh right, thanks! Will have a look at that!

Doesn't mean my players aren't twats though ;)

you can use fmrte to change your 3 set tactics to full familiarity btw

under 'match preparation' on your fmrte team screen set everything to 100

I have set everything to perfect. Now let me play this game and see how much fun I have.

Why even play the game?

I'm not cheating, Kerr. I find a strange satisfaction and perfect outlet of anger losing stupid games tbh

Yeah I mean an fm account managing sunderland should be given to everyone who ever attends an anger management class.

Glad i used paypal
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15690187

The Steam video game service, used by 35 million people, has been compromised by hackers.

Its owner and operator, Valve, uncovered an intrusion into a user database while investigating a security breach of its discussion forums.

The attackers used login details from the forum hack to access a database that held ID and credit card data.

Valve said that, so far, it had no evidence that credit cards were being misused or Steam accounts abused.
Losing trust

The defacement took place on 6 November and the Steam forums were taken offline when Valve learned of the attack.

At first the firm said the discussion groups were offline for maintenance.

However, a message posted to the front page of the forums by Valve boss Gabe Newell on 10 November has revealed that the sites were shut down because of the defacement.

Valve's investigation of that incident revealed that the "the intrusion goes beyond the Steam forums".

The initial investigation showed that the attackers gained access to a Steam database that held "user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information".

Valve has not said whether this was the full database of Steam's 35 million active accounts or a subset of that total.

Mr Newell said Valve had no evidence that the encrypted credit card information or personal information on gamers had been taken. However, he added, "we are still investigating".

He said it had only discovered that a few forum accounts had been compromised and used to carry out the defacement.

But Mr Newell added that all forum users will be required to change their passwords when the discussion site re-opens, which the firm is trying to achieve as quickly as possible.

He advised users to change passwords on other accounts if they are the same as the one used for the Steam forums.

"I am truly sorry this happened, and I apologize for the inconvenience," concluded Mr Newell.
Code changes

Steam is a gaming service that lets people buy, download, play and chat about a huge variety of games, only some of which are made by Valve itself.

About 1,500 titles are currently available on Steam including Skyrim, LA Noire and Modern Warfare 3 as well as many independent and free games.

Security expert Paul Ducklin, writing on the blog of security firm Sophos, handed down advice about what to do following the breach.

He said users should change passwords, monitor credit card statements, consider removing card numbers from Valve's servers and sign up for the Steam Guard security service.

He also urged users to insist businesses take steps to make it much harder for hackers to penetrate their systems and use stolen data.

"Community pressure has persuaded many businesses to improve their password-handling code," he said.

Glad I got it illegaly

glad i bought it in an amazon

i've just been handed a transfer budget of 274m. 274m!

like i kinda just want to spunk it all because lol why not but then i'd have genuine guilt for a computer game. wtf is rong with me

Was your wage budget equally upped though? Otherwise you'll probably find you can't even spend all that on good players even if you wanted to

then he can adjust budget

You playing w/ Arsenal? Was it a sugar daddy thing?

he said he didn't want to play with a rich club as it was too easy. So he did real madrid instead

i'm currently 40m a year under my wage budget.

i picked a team that needed a manager. usually i do a couple seasons with an easy team to get the gist of what is going on, and then i'll do something like last season where i made leyton orient champions of europe.

so far, 100m for messi has been rejected. wonder how far i'll go. think i'm gonna cut myself off at 180m if they keep saying no.

I'd be very interested to hear if Messi'd even want to go Madrid, I can't imagine he would!

i dunno, last season he had to suffer the embarrassment of coming 4th! and my press conferences have been very anti-franco and pro-pep, so hopefully things are changing (they aren't.)

in contract negotiations, for the second time, after a £45m bid for Wilshere was accepted and refusing to pay the agent a £6m bonus. so what does he do? he offers me to pay THREE MILLION A YEAR LESS THAN ALREADY AGREED AND ONE AND HALF MILLION LESS THAN HE IS CURRENTLY BEING PAID BY ARSENAL TO WILSHERE just so he'd still get that bonus. They have made football agents as cuntish on the game as you presume they'd be in real life.

at £130m for Messi now and still being rejected.

So... after a contract dispute with Barca, Celik, 21 year old with absolutely incredible stats and the player who nearly knocked me out of the CL semi-final by scoring 2 in the second leg (he didn't play in the first, thank god) was going for a pawtry 11m. He is an AMC.

I have too many AMCs. It seemingly happened out of nowhere. I've moved Wilshere to LW. Rott, a regen I bought at 17 has knocked Ozil out of the German team can also play at CM I guess. Same with Trabelsi. Germain, who I swear is better than Messi but currently out for 3 months, can't play anywhere else. *breathes* Greenwood and Goddard have *so* much potential to the point where I don't want to sell them, in case anyone else reaps the rewards. Rafael was the star of my Brazil team who lost in the WC semis and won player of the fucking tournament.

I play 4-2-3-1, with two wingers because Chamberlain has to play (he scores like a goal a game). I've given up on a DM, in part because we weren't scoring enough, partly because Ramsey/my attacking playmaker regens were too good and because Busquiets/my regens weren't up to scratch.

Celik comes in a month and considering people are already annoyed at being 8 points off the league, I expect mutiny. Maybe give up on wingers and just play with 5 different central midifielders? I've been thinking about a way I can play with one centre-half, but I don't think it will work out. Or sell someone off? The only reason my squad is half-balanced atm is because I sold off anyone over 28 and now I don't want to give up the regens I worked hard to make 3time CL champions.

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I have showered and applied for two jobs already today. Whenever I talk about meaningless hobbies I feel I need to throw these things in there.

http://www.footballmanager.com/1888/

dammit somebody make that as a mod now please

50% off in the Steam sale. caved.

Welcome back to the dark side NV. Please enjoy this motivational picture and daydream a little about the sort of malformed Eastern European regens that could be suckling from your nurturing teats any time now.

http://i.imgur.com/YtUmFSO.png

starting off my traditional "predicted 24th in League 2" team, this year it's Newport.

new tactics engine is lush

Yeah the tactics are a treat in this, easily the most fun I've had with it in ages. I've just hit a barrier, my ludicrously high intensity pressing game, suicidally high defensive line and murderous pace up front no longer cutting it against all the little teams (i.e. all of them but the top 3 or 4 in Europe) just sit deep and give me the ball. Beginning the gradual transition to a team of musclebound brutes who kick the shit out of the opposition, sit right back and rely on a set-piece or maybe one or two incisive attacks per game to get the win. Something very satisfying in watching your team bully their way to a clean sheets record. Yer man Oleg Russian in the screenshot up there is very much a harbinger of the new way.

Wish there was a way to specifically train up his aggression

like only feed him once every other day or something

How goes it on the Welsh coast, NV?

Wheels well and truly coming off the Villa project now. A shock 1-0 defeat in the league to Birmingham City had the fans up in arms, swiftly followed by a 3-0 capitulation to Schalke away in the Champs League, leaving us dangerously vulnerable to the dreaded head-to-head rule.

Gave the team a good tongue lashing both at half- and full-time, only for my star signing of the summer, Lucas Ocampos (who had been injured in pre-season and was making his full debut) to complain about it to the press. Told him where he could go in a fairly boisterous one-to-one meeting and he skipped the next training session. Back on the transfer list with ya.

Injury list is now looking totally absurd, including my main striker out till the end of the season.

And I've alienated my first-choice goalie as well. He disappeared halfway through last season for the Cup of Nations so I gave my 19 year old wonderkid a run in the side. Did so well that he's remained in the side ever since and now my proper first choice has handed in a transfer request and been banished to the reserves due to lack of playing time. Predictably the bottom has fallen out of the wee lad's form and my other guy won't even talk to me.

No money left to strengthen in Jan because my eyes were bigger than my bank balance and it's all gone on lovely little regens who are nowhere near ready for the big time. New tactics not sitting well with the lads at the moment.

I'm moaning but this is probably all motivated by the death drive that always kicks in when this game gets too easy, start roleplaying at the expence of trying to win games

i'm right at the beginning so i don't know yet, but my wage cap starts nearly maxed out and i've got a usable squad of about 16 players. looking to offload one particularly overpaid back-up at centre half and get some loans in, then i'm planning to go with an aggressive-ish 4-3-3 or 5-3-2 for more defensive games with a couple of swashbuckling wing backs and a stodgy-looking midfield 3 covering for them.

tbf all the board have asked is that i stay up first season, reckon that's eminently doable

Jack Wilshere's agent just asked for £4.3m in order for him to re-sign. Ta-ra hope he's happy at Chelsea.

Inside the Cult of 'Football Manager'

http://i.imgur.com/LX8EA06.jpg

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/11/football-manager-2017-review/

http://i.imgur.com/iwXRSo7.gif

Lmao

holy shit

any cunt moaning that FM is too real for them doesn't deserve to call themselves an FM player

now i just need to go and rob a post office so i can upgrade my computer

35% approval rating on Steam but I haven't come across any Brexit moaning in the reviews yet, most of the complaints are about the AI and the match engine

the 35% was from chinese people who were upset there was no chinese language version so they had websites troll SI boards and steam to make them change their mind (they did)

the game wasnt even out and they were giving it low ratings.

http://www.pcgamesn.com/football-manager-2017/fm17-chinese-localisation

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-10-31-football-manager-trashed-on-steam-by-angry-chinese-fans

http://www.pcinvasion.com/football-manager-2017-death-threat

i dunno man, games journalism, *shrug*

i read a bunch of reviews today and they were the standard complaints that i see every time there's a new FM: the game engine's broken, the AI cheats, too many injuries etc. i never buy FM until the price comes down, and by then it's always patched, but most of these complaints are just losers who don't want to put the work in. i didn't notice a bunch of angry Chinese gamers any more than i came across any butthurt Brexiteers tbh

because all the negative reviews were before the game was officially released forcing sega to agree to a chinese language version. There was thousands of bad reviews then.

25% off FM 2019, *finally*

here we go again

considering it