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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 directly related to official competition performance, such as stadium income, general income and media money; and this should be replaced by a greater emphasis on prize money, based on finishing positions within the league pyramid. Well, on Monday, the new FML Future Developments forum contained a suggestion from Ov Collyer: Suggestion – Give Prize Money More Importance The general idea behind this suggestion is to tie more of your income into your performances in competitions in a given…
Christmas is over and the New Year has begun, with the reset, restart, (whichever you prefer) scheduled for March 2010 now is the time to start looking at what other changes might be considered essential for a successful re-launch of Football Manager Live. If we backtrack the development process from the estimated date of re-launch, around a month required for Q&A testing, before that a period of initial beta testing, and of course some time required for the actual coding. This leaves a development window of maybe 3-4 weeks from now to flesh out any initial ideas, at least for any major changes to the game. So it’s now that any ideas you may have will be…
It seems like the plans have been finalised from the community day. Marc Duffy has announced via the forums and through the developer blogs that the council has taken place, and there will be a full disclosure of everything that went on in the week beginning Monday 23 November. In the meantime, since Marc has revealed who actually went to the meeting, I can now reveal some of the things I learned which are not covered by the NDA. 1. Never, ever, ever go to Russell Square tube station The nearest underground stop to the offices in which I study is Russell Square, on the Piccadilly Line between King’s Cross St Pancras and Holborn. Thing is, it doesn’t have an…
Start making a game and stop listening to idiots… It’s not often that I don’t have an opinion about something and this original thread started by Goodyscot, caught me: “In seeking to please the vocal minority you’ve managed to alienate and ignore every lesson you should of been learning from other MMO’s”. What do I actually know about MMOs? My answer, not very much. To explain how I got started in Football Manager Live, when at university I was in halls with about 9 other like-minded friends. We would regularly get together over a few beers, get CM97/98 out and press “done” for hours at a time. Each of us had our own team, player searches would cause an…
