A few suggestions on the player-club relationship.
1) When you come back to the club you once played for, your starting relationship with Boss and Team should be based on what it was before you left. The Fans can hate you alright, because they think that you betrayed the club, but the Boss and the Team are all professionals, and no grudge should be held.
2) When you switch from a stronger to a weaker club, you should get a better starting relationship with everybody. Because they consider it luck that you joined them, and it must be noticeable.
3) After some star rating value, when joining a new club, you should get an elevated starting relationship with Fans and Team. Not Boss, because he needs you to prove yourself in this very club, but for the Team and the Fans you're a respectable person, so it should be taken into account.
Thanks for the 1.15 update!
But i noticed something weird. Now in some cases when you are hitting the ball some blinking progress bar appears on the lower end of the field screen.
I might guess that it's a timer bar showing you the time you have to kick the ball. But why is it blinking, and why does it appear in some cases and doesn't in the others?
Finally, the whole idea of showing you the time you have is good, but that bar is somewhat distracting and annoying. Could you add the option to turn it off, or maybe replace it with numeric countdown somewhere in the top corner of the screen?
The penalty shots are too easy, i've never missed a single one in a career. You just target the corner of the net, select the max power and then hit just a little below the center of the ball. Goalies don't have a chance.
I suggest turning penalty shots into some minigame, so it's more challenging. Thanks.
Noticed today that the game gets a serious lag for a moment when the PASS, GOAL or ASSIST word is about to appear.
Seriously, there just isn't anything that can devour the CPU cycles THAT hard.
There was no such thing before the 1.14 update. So i hope you could sort that out and optimize the game a little. Thanks.
Another pack of feature requests. Sorry siread =).
1) The charity option - to directly donate some amount of money to increase the relationship with everyone.
2) The yellow and red cards. You can play more aggressive and get more chances but risk getting a card.
3) Please please please, the named player profiles! To see your teammates strengths and weaknesses and, at some star rating value, to be able to teach them.
4) The superstar players which at some point appear in the game. Like, the bosses in the game, who have the extra skills and whose teams are VERY hard to beat. The press writes about them, publishes their interviews, compares them with you. They switch clubs when they desire, they can even join your team, and if you don't share the fame with them, they leave.
I know it's not easy to implement, but that would totally make this game even more interesting!
The major challenge for the game is to make you wanna play more and more. So, there should be something you could strive for. At 22, my player is already 100% upgraded, with 100% lifestyle rating, a Euro winner, a WC winner, the multi Champions League and the English/Spannish championships and cups winner. What else is to do? What to do with the money that keeps coming in?
I used to switch clubs every two seasons, to win the champions title the first season and to win the Champions League the next one - just for the challenge. It also got boring.
Maybe the game needs some club management options. Like to be able to invest into some low class club, invite some good players and to move it up into the football elite.
Another feature request:
5) Make the clubs different! What's the point is moving from some Hampton to Barcelona if they both give you the same money? The clubs should offer you a different salary based on your star rating and the "star rating" of the club itself. So you'll definitely want to switch for a better club at the first chance.
A few feature requests.
1) The money bonuses for winning the matches or at least the titles.
2) The money bonuses for winning the national team matches.
3) More proportionate sponsorship payments. After star rating 30+, 30 bucks per match doesn't really matter much.
4) Make up some fake brand names for the sponsors, so each category of goods you can endorse has several companies. The less respected brands are easier to get sponsorship from, but give less money, and the better brands pay more, but are more demanding.
Thanks
The prices are totally okay. If you play good, you don't need too many energy drinks anyway, so the money is plenty. What needs to be fixed is the relationship with everybody. People just tend to hate you more than you deserve it.
After the update, the rating system and the relationships with Boss, Team and Fans based on it is inclined to bully the young players.
If you so much as don't play stellar in the match, say you tried to score several times but it was a little wide or a post, you get huge hate from everyone. You miss a few passes in the first half or fail to score or assist - you get replaced, and usually your team fails eventually. Of course, after the match you're the most hated one.
Really, what the hell? I could understand the hate if the rest of the team was performing brilliant. But why am i being hated if the stupid teammates screw up their 1-on-1 chances i give them with my passes?
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When you're 17-18, all your spare Energy goes to training, all your spare money - to either NRGs or the real estate. It's even wise not to start dating so you get less problems. So when you're being hated all the time, it becomes a vicious circle - and the only way to get out of it is to change the team at the end of the season.
I think everyone could be a little more supportive, especially since i'm still the most productive player in the team.
Yellow and red cards might be awesome.
The way i see it: during the match, every time you get the ball, somewhere inside the game it's decided whether it was a clean takeover or a dirty one. And there is some foul-o-meter, which goes up every time you don't play clean, but slowly goes down when you're playing normally. When the foul-o-meter reaches some red zone, you get a card. First time, it's yellow, then it's red.
To make it more fun, there could be some "aggressive mode" switch during the match, and when it's on, you get more chances at cost of playing dirtier.
Obviously, the same stuff must work internally for the NPCs on the field. So, if the team you play against is pushing all the way, their players likely foul more and sometimes they should be penalized for that.
The new ball control feature is kinda controversial. Sometimes it simply doesn't work, and sometimes you accidentally hit the ball instead of controlling it - and in that case you hit it wrong. It's the most useful when the ball is rolling across the screen, in that case you can completely stop it. But even then you have a limited time to hit it, otherwise you'll just lose the ball.
The latest update has obviously made the game slower. Now one of my CPU cores is completely busy even on the main screen and still it's not running smooth.
A pretty nice and enjoyable game.
Yet it would be even more awesome if there were a few things:
1) A way to mark the "quality" of the land you already tried by blowing it up. the sign showing the best of the previous attempts is nice, but it's totally not enough. You have to blow up a lot of land - simply to make it possible to drive through, and sometimes these clear-the-way blasts reveal some nice gold deposits. With the game progress, it's getting more and more difficult to remember what holes are depleted and what are still good.
2) A way to mark the land as not for occupation by the settlers. it really sucks when the dudes build their shacks right on the place you're still going to blow up, even if there is a totally depleted place nearby which has access to the same set of buildings.
The game needs more ways to spend money.
Before i turned 23, i had all the stuff bought and all the skills maxed, and money keeps on pouring in. I mean, besides buying tons of NRG drinks, what else can i do with it?
My player is a damn super star, the all-time top scorer and a football prodigy. Why the hell he's supposed to go around the clubs and bargain for a contract, while, in fact, all the clubs should stand in line offering some crazy deals?
Also, why am i never getting any offers from the clubs from the other countries? And why the clubs willing to buy me off the current club mid-season are always some crappy team from a crappy league?
Anyway, it would be nice to see the clubs fighting for a good player. And as a nice addition, make the contract bound to time the player must spend in the club, so you have to pay some fine if you wish to switch to a club which doesn't want you all that much.
So far i passed 17 rooms, out of which two with Platinum rating.
Can't help but wonder if such possibilities were planned ahead, or i'm just finding the solutions more optimal than those considered the best by the developer.
Age: 21 |
Goals: 353 in 265 matches (20 in 21 international matches) |
Assists: 193 (15 in international matches) |
Hat tricks: 43 |
Star Man: 132 times |
Farthest goal: 52.9 |
Max goals in a match: 6 |
No wonder i named my player Leo Messi :)
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