Hey beta990,
first, thanks for your work.
Are you still working with xbox files?
Here´s my review after simulating with 3 different teams for 3-5 seasons.
- Fitness
While i like your idea of the fitness-system, i think it´s a little bit too hard.
Especially for low and little teams.
When you have english weeks, you have to play with half-dead players.
But as it is optional, it´s not that important.
- Transfers
The increased player values are good, but need some adjustment:
- Remaining contract-time should a have a little bit more influence
- The values need some better balance in
age, ovr. & position.
- A 82 ovr. rated player, playing in Austria should not have the same value as a equal rated player from German Bundesliga. (Because of the lower league)
- At least the asking price from the clubs, shouldn´t be the same.
While speaking of asking price from other clubs.
CPU will always ask for a higher offer from me, than from the other CPU-Clubs.
For example:
Hoffenheim wanted 27m for Volland (79) from Bayern, just to sell him 1 week later to Zenit for laughable 12m.
The playervalues my board recommends are also a little bit too high.
On the other side, if i put a high-value player on transfer list, i get very bad offers. (Di Maria anyone?)
Saw more players re-signing a new contract with their clubs. (If contract length >6months)
Dont know how you think, but i would prefer less renewals and more pre-signed contracts with other clubs.
I would love to see even more transfer movements.
Sometimes some medium/low clubs in BPL and Bundesliga dont transfer even one player in 3-4 transfer windows. You wouldn´t see this in real life.
Better clubs should go for the top players from the lower clubs in their leagues.
Less top-player movement is good, yet i think it´s too less.
I see a lot attempts from CPU, but it seems player are refusing offers from different clubs all the time.
At least the top-clubs should go more for perspective players.
Some stupid transfers are also still happening. Barca signed with Rene Adler (81)an other GK in the first transfer winter. Because Bravo (83), Ter-Stegen (82) and Jordi Masip (70) is not enough,...
Have you changed something about the playerwages?
Because my players are feeling underpaid all the time and dont hesitate to let me know,.......
-Scouting
I can see better workrates and some better physical attributes for youth players.
Maybe change the age to 15-17 ?
Still some flaws for me:
- Sometimes weight & height dont match.
- Low height CB & GK. (>180cm)
- 16years old with good potential requests a contract, or he is gone. I dont want to sign them that early with such a low ovr.
It is nearly impossible to get a south-american scout. (Regional-Scout & Youth-Scout)
Let´s be honest, nobody gonna get a bad scout for his team.
We all will go for the 4/5*-Scouts. Maybe you can include this?
-Player-Growth
Im still not sure, if i really can see that much more growth for my players.
CPU-Growth seems fine. But sometimes one player will grow 4-8 ovr. in a season.
Dont know, it acts kinda strange to be honest. Would say vanilla is more balanced.
Beside that i have more decline for older players. It also begins earlier compared to vanilla.
A lot of players starting to decline with 28-30. I think Xabi Alonso is a good example for the opposite.
GK-Growth is kinda strange. Either much growth or nothing at all.
High Pot./Low ovr. (86/69) should have little bit faster growth than High Pot./Middle ovr. (82/74)
-Less player retirement
Dont know if that was really needed?
Especially considering we have earlier decline with your changes.
Some examples:
Gerrard retired with 38 and 70 ovr.
Robben retired with 36 and 78 ovr.
Ribery retired with 35 and 78 ovr.
Pizzaro retired with 38 and 67 ovr.
Xabi Alonso retired with 36 and 72 ovr.
It wouldn´t be as bad, if they wouldn´t stick with their initial clubs, till the end.
GamePlay
Hard to say, as i couldn´t test as much and i dont know what to look for.
Maybe you can tell us, what you have changed?
Why have you tuned the referee foul- & cardstrictness down that much?
Will you still face enough fouls?
Still i like a lot of your changes and appreciate your work.
PS:
To get a better sense for transfermarkt and realistic player values, i always use:
http://www.transfermarkt.com/statistik/transferrekorde?saison_id=14%2F15&land_id=&ausrichtung=&spielerposition_id=&altersklasse=&leihe=
see the faq on how to change...man you did this patch and to answer my simple question takes 1 minute and for me to find the answer to my question takes 20 minutes...just tell me how to increase the chance that top players will accept the damn contract