Comments on: Giving us Something to Play For

By: Football Manager Live Portal | Editorials | Towards Football Manager Live 2.0

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 06:56:57 +0000

[...] should have a big effect on the early exploitation of economies in gameworlds, but finding ways to better incentivise the official leagues without creating massive gaps between the clubs will be an important factor in a gameworlds [...]

By: Football Manager Live Portal | Community | On The Forums: World on Fire

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:37:51 +0000

[...] related aspects of the FML financial model. GW1’s own Gareth Millward backs up his earlier “Giving us Something to Play for” article with a editorial on the discussion in the developers forum. Whilst he his obviously on [...]

By: Football Manager Live Portal | Editorials | Giving us something to play for? SI’s latest prize money revamp

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:02:23 +0000

[...] Development | Written By Gareth Millward | January 8, 2010 | View commentsComments In July, I wrote an editorial on the structure of prize money in Football Manager Live. In it, I essentially called for a dramatic reduction in income sources which weren’t [...]

By: sonoro

sonoro — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:45:31 +0000

How about media money beeing spread more generously to the teams that play positive and beautifull football, some teams insist on having success on negative football that no-one would pay to see on tv, if you manage to have positive and negative reactions to gameplay from the stadium supporters, u can deal with this suggestion.

By: Football Manager Live Portal | Editorials | Are Game Worlds Dying? Part 2 – Mergers and Larger Worlds

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:29:27 +0000

[...] Giving us something to play for, Gareth Millward’s article emphasised the lack of purpose behind the current competition set up, the lack of a reason to do better. Although much of that article focuses on the monetary aspects, the same principles can be applied in another way. This is in large part the focus of the new reputation system, still in early stages of beta so I’m not going to discuss it in any great depth here. But increasing the number of reputation levels (up to 20) and linking reputation to individual competitions will enhance there value, making them more important and more rewarding. [...]

By: Suneee

Suneee — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:37:46 +0000

I agree with the more money for league winners etc.
I also agree in the no money in friendly comps (gotta consider aswell, that the amount of friendly tournaments will be a lot lower).
But I question how you would get the big names signed early in a new gameworld?
Like a Ronaldo for 3.5 million. You would not be able to sign him until 1-2-3 seasons has been played. And looking at the older players, that is just to late for them.
Otherwise, I completely agree. Come up with a solution to my mentioned problem and I am backing you completely

By: Fabrice

Fabrice — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:01:07 +0000

You’re perfectly right, this is a crucial point for the future of the game. And rewarding performance will also help resolving another problem which is the non interest for “over 30 years old players”, which is not in line with reality.

By: Gareth Millward

Gareth Millward — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:31:56 +0000

Sorry, mate. Someone with the same initials.

By: Stephen Westrip

Stephen Westrip — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:53:24 +0000

Millie,

I don’t have a team in Fowler . My team is Horsham Rangers AFC in Lineker!!

By: Emmet Turley

Emmet Turley — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:56:53 +0000

Ya iv always thought this too abut giving more money for winning premier league or fishing high etc. Its way too low needs to be risk reward insentives. Buy big palyers to try to win it get reward with extra money. Richest teams should be the most succesful ones.

They should limit corporate fans to the elite teams whove won alot of silverware too, that would be huge insentive to win things.