How is the Master League?

[Brondbyfan]

Thinking about importing PES 6 but I haven't heard much about the Master League. Thought it wasn't bad in WE9, but there were some problems. Have the below been changed?

1) Nothing to spend money on except players, so like FIFA, you rapidly accumulate an unstoppable force.

2) No need for squad depth due to lack of injuries and red cards. Seriously, you can't buy an early bath in WE9.

3) Players who shouldn't be there. Look, it's nice to have Carlos Alberto in my side, but I wish you could keep the "legendary" players out of the Master League. Players don't retire until they're 37 or 38, not everyone is Gary Speed. Not to mention the reincarnations of retired players. The 17-year-old Paolo Maldini in my team has great promise but he's not very realistic is he?

4) Nobody buys your players. Probably because the game is overloaded with geriatrics and legends.

Thanks!

 

[Decado]

Personally I found you had to have 2.2 full teams. While injuries never seemed to happen, no matter how much stamina a player have, they tend to get tired after a few matches.

It would be nice if your points were addressed, but I doubt it. I wouldn't mind better stat tracking, too (which I also doubt has been addressed).

I would like the option of turning back the clock (I actually changed the ages of a lot of players). I want to build a team with players I actually know...but after 5 years most of them are going downhill.

 

[Gisli]

The fatigue issue has been, in a word, fixed. It works great now and you can play most people in at least 75% of your games, assuming you don't run them out completely during games.

Selling players is much, much easier now, while you rarely get the full value of the player. That makes perfect sense to me and both these issues being fixed makes the ML an absolute treat.

There is still the money issue, though; it looks like my team is getting mighty rich mighty fast, and I've already (after the first season) built a team I won't be adding players to for at least three seasons. I wouldn't want to gas as far as having to micromanage the stadium maintainance bills, catering and such (FIFA football manager, anyone?), but it would make sense to me to pay you a set price for the league you're in ("TV-revenue" and tickets + bonuses for top 5 finishers or something) and a set price per cup match you play. That would make the wage structuring much more sensible and you wouldn't get insanely wealthy over one season just by winning a few games.

I hate having the legends pop up in ML games so I use patches that convert the "Classic" teams to the respective current U-21 Squads. I'd be okay with the regens if they always got random names and nationalities.

 

[Decado]

You built a team in one season? Wow. Even with in PES5 it took me a couple (as long as I didn't start with Chelski or Real Madrid).

Did anyone ever make a patch to do something about money for the PC version of PES5? Hopefully something will be done for this version.