Training Specific Skills

[David Malone]

A thought occurred to me when training my goalkeeper this afternoon, why can't we train individual skills, like dribbling or handling as examples over other skills? My point is for some positions some skills are useless, take "finishing" and goalkeepers, unless your GK is on free kick duty, well you see my point So my suggestion is to allow the players to manually train into a certain skill to make the player more unique, say a keeper with 6* speed etc! would add a bit of tinkering ability and fun random creations!

[Gintaras Račas]

Um, you can add skills manually, can't you? Add to defensive skills so there'll be no finishing improved. Ofcourse the game will choose which of 5 defensive skills to improve but a good GK needs all of them.

[IGOR]

Um, you can add skills manually, can't you? Add to defensive skills so there'll be no finishing improved. Ofcourse the game will choose which of 5 defensive skills to improve but a good GK needs all of them.

Than why to build heading on goalkeepers when they defend with hands not with head?

[Buffs Mad]

Than why to build heading on goalkeepers when they defend with hands not with head?

Depends if heading is actually heading or its an aerial 'skill' and so relates to catching for GKs.

-> yes I just made that up <-

[David Malone]

Not quite what I meant, I mean training a subset of skills. You are right in the fact I can train defense(I used GK as an example) but I mean can i manually train handling or any other individual skill, instead of a random defensive skill(or whatever set i pick)

[Gintaras Račas]

Can't understand why'd anyone need that. Think the games picks quite evenly between those 5 skills so no skill is left behind.

[Tyler Henley]

Can't understand why'd anyone need that. Think the games picks quite evenly between those 5 skills so no skill is left behind.

Why would I want a Central Defender with 20 speed and 21 strength? Or 18 shooting just to finally get 17 passing?

We would get a better market and more unique team compositions if we could train specific skills.

[Gintaras Račas]

Why would I want a Central Defender with 20 speed and 21 strength? Or 18 shooting just to finally get 17 passing?

We would get a better market and more unique team compositions if we could train specific skills.

If you think that DC doesn't need speed and strength then you're just dumb... And to improve let's say passing just add to attacking skills see if it adds to passing if not simply don't save it and add to defense instead, the next day it may add to passing.

[Buffs Mad]

I've no real feeling on this because I think Nordeus would have strong feelings around the concept of balance.

The only thing I'd add....while we might think it would let us make players unique it would actually allow people to make players the same. (I'd also make the chances of someone making a mistake much greater.)

Players would be clones or Frankenstein's Monster.

[David Malone]

Well yes, there are pitfalls to any solution really but while there is a "cookie cutter" build for players, having the CHOICE is the main point I am trying to convey