Archive for the ‘Editorials’ Category

May 01

Promotion and Relegation

 

One talking point on the forums this week was promotion and relegation and, surprise surprise, the relegated side was the most disgruntled. I must admit, I find most of the best threads on the official SIG forums by scrolling down and middle-clicking on all the ones that have been locked, are hopelessly misspelt or contain a lot of stars and/or capital letters. My apologies to those of you who write in full sentences and can remain civil, but I probably never read your threads. Anyway, this one was locked so I opened. Essentially the OP was miffed that he was relegated despite teams above him breaching the league’s AI rights limit. He argued that since he had a…

Apr 29

Dark Matter in the FML Universe

 

“I want you to share my excitement at the discoveries, past and present, which have revolutionized the way we think. From the Big Bang to black holes, from dark matter to a possible Big Crunch, our image of the universe today is full of strange sounding ideas, and remarkable truths. The story of how we arrived at this picture is the story of learning to understand what we see.” –STEPHEN HAWKING Hawking was of course talking about the real world, but a similar process of evolution takes place in the virtual worlds of Football Manager Live. From the launch of the first alpha world and throughout the initial beta phase FML has seen many changes already, but the…