FC Luch-Energiya Vladivostok Succession Game

[Alex]

Each poster needs to finish the season in a 'reasonable time frame'. I think 10 days maximum.

As we're in Russia, hand over day is February 1. So that means on February 1, you save your game, and upload it.

Sugar Daddy is currently on in Foreground in our game. Come the end of Season 2020-21 (ie. in June 2021), this will be switched to background in FMRTE by the person saving the game (this way the person about to start has no reason to have FMRTE).
Then three years later, in June 2024, this will be changed to underwriter. Same rules apply (ie. switched off by person finishing the 2023-24 season).

List of managers:
2012-13: Shifty (Winner of First Division, promotion to Premier League)
2013-14: Juventino (5th in League, Cup Finalist)
2014-15: Alex (3rd in League, Europa League 4th Qualifying Round, Cup 7th Round)
2015-16: Skiptomylou (3rd in League, Europa League Quarter Final, Champions League Qualification)
2016-17: Juve/Shifty (Europa League Quarter Final, 2nd in League, Cup WINNERS!!)
2017-18: fender (League Champions! Cup Winners!)
2018-19: Alex (Undefeated League Champions! Cup Winners! Champions League Winners!!)

 

[Filipower]

Fuck me that's great name! Here we go again!

 

[Mandieta6]

Let's go, folks. I hope I can run this properly. I'll let y'all know when I can take over (or get in line). I'm not sure that my Chelsea save will keep me interested much longer.

 

[Juventino]

Just remember whose idea this was... tssssss. You should make the first post nicer, Alex. Write a little intro on the club and Vladivostok, maybe add a few pictures. We should get the feeling we're actually that far in cold cold Siberia when we're reading the team updates, hehe.

 

[Alex]

If someone wants to write an opening spiel and find some pictures, I'm happy to add them to the post

Otherwise Shifty can add them to the first real post!

 

[ShiftyPowers]

I didn't say I would definitely do out immediately!

**** me, now I'm going to have to play this before installing anything else on the new computer, which should get here tomorrow.

 

[Alex]

Na, no hurry Daniel.

We can continue to discuss exactly what we want, and I can restart the game.

Gives us a day or two to really get it right. I just thought you were keen to get in to it

 

[Zlatan]

This is great. After Christmas, I got a bit of a break from Uni and work so I'm definitely up for it then.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Get this thing up Alex, I'm ready to go.

 

[Alex]

Updated the link. It's ready to go!!

 

[yoyo913]

I know in press conferences you get asked if the far travel to an opponent will affect your team negatively... I wonder how much a factor it plays in the game.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Okay, this is unacceptable

1) The transfer window closes in 4 days. **** you.

2) Contracts end dates are June 30th??????

#1 has to be corrected, there's absolutely no ******* way I'm going into the season with that squad. #2 should be fixed too, but if it can't that is very very unfortunate, but I can deal with it if it's not fixable.

 

[Alex]

Hmmm, I'll see if I can start at a different date.

Not sure we can fix number 2, without doing it manually for all or players. Does number 2 effect is when resigning players?

 

[Alex]

Fixed the issue with start date. I had Belarus 2012 selected as start date (so that it'd be 2012, not 2011 - I hate playing in the past). I've changed it to Korea, which has a start date of January 2012, so you get an extra long period at the start

The second, I'm not sure what we can do.

 

[Alex]

Try the new link Shifty

 

[Zlatan]

Maybe the reason for those contract ending dates is that in real life Russia is planning on converting their competition to a winter competition (like the Western European ones)? I don't know if FM implemented this in the game.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Not sure we can fix number 2, without doing it manually for all or players. Does number 2 effect is when resigning players?

Yes, when I offered contracts I could only offer June expiration dates.

Getting past 4 now, gotta be up by noon to... work... on Saturday, but Saturday night/Sunday morning and then all Sunday should be good. New computer is waaaaay faster than what I'm used to.

 

[Alex]

Oh, that's annoying. But to be fair, I don't let guys I want get to within 6 months of the end of their contract anyway.

Looking forward to seeing this play out.

 

[Alex]

I have a feeling (looking at the draw) that the Russian League might change to July - June after this season.

After the huge winter break, we're in the "relegation group" from last year, to start with (basically like the split in Scotland, but in this case bottom 10 top 8). This lasts until the end of May, when I assumed the League goes back to the full 18 sides. I guess from then, the League will be played as a July through May/June League like the rest of Europe. There was no relegation/championship group in the league last year, so I can only assume that this is basically an 18 month season as a transitional phase. I'm going to simulate (holiday) 12 months and see what happens.

If this is the case Shifty, you play until June 1 (or after the last game) like in previous games. We can play this by ear a bit. Everyone afterwards will just play the usual 12 months.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Yeah, I didn't know what that meant, but figured I would just roll with it and see what happened. Transitioning to a schedule like the Ukrainian league with a long winter break makes sense. If you're doing it now, please let know in the next 3 hours if possible. Also explains why there were no season expectations.