This week, I want to show you how running friendly competitions in Football Manager Live can increase the interaction and competition between members of your gameworld. I am going to use to great examples from my own world, Nicholson. The Quick Cup This is a competition that I run, an eight-team knockout competition using a quick play format. Sounds quite dull, doesn’t it? Well, there’s a twist. The team which has won it the most times has their name put on the trophy. So instead of being called “The Quick Cup” you get “The Welsh Dragons Cup”. Now everyone has a reason to play, because the competition is well-advertised by me and the other two organisers,…
This is the first in a series of articles aiming to be a tutorial on how to increase the interactivity of the users within your current gameworld. To prepare for this I asked around my world, Nicholson, for ways in which various managers like to interact with each other. Before I start, I would like to use a favourite FMLive relative phrase that I have heard many, many times. “You only get out of your gameworld what you put in” Every time I hear this I feel it is very, very true. When I started playing back at the start of the Saunders Game World I stayed quiet, not really knowing what to do, or who to talk to. I stumbled around for two seasons before scampering…
First up on the official Football Manager Live forums is the news that Craig ‘Tweej’ MacLean’s badge shop has reopened! Craig explains: “I will be doing requests on a first come first served basis but priority will be given to people who have donated in advance. You can do this by using the link from my blog page where I will be also be posting finished badges and updating you on my progress in Uni fund.” So if you want a good badge and a creative person to go to University, get your new badge straight away! We also saw on the forums a lot of the regular threads complaining about the game, and concern for dead gameworlds. However, one in particular caught my…
On The Forums: A New Perspective
This week has been busier than most on the forums with the birthday of Football Manager Live, the release of the 1.3.2 update and the lead up to the first FML Council meeting. The general consensus being that the Match Engine update (1.3.2) was largely successful in fixing the Goalkeepers’ mistakes. However, the jury is still out on the progression issues. Robson Brown explains that while there won’t be any specific boosts to correct the decline, players are going to progress faster in crossing and similar skills from 1.3.2. Also, there was apparently a problem with the Greek, Zambian, and later even Russian players/managers, due to the new design of flags. In…