THIS GAME is AWEsOME....

For rookie manager in season 2, let me shout from the rooftops....THIS GAME IS AWESOMEEEEEE.
The best rush is playing against stronger opponents, expecting to get a workout, but ending up with a thrilling match. Oh such tension.. Something like everton and chelsea.

My opponent in the CL quarters, was ave quality of +24.6. Average age is 26.6 of which 6 are under 24yrs, so he has many experienced and old players. He has 1 GK and 2 stks only, which he plays every game. His squad is 17 players only.He is top of his log, with 1 loss in 19 league games. Me, I'm shaking in my boots. My ave squad age is 22.5 and ave quality is 19.3

First leg,at home was 2 -1 win. I was so excited I almost wet myself. Tonight, I was expecting a thrashing, as he went out shopping for mc and dc' s .
Final score was 4 - 4.
What a thrill. Pick a finger MoFo.
The best part of this game is not winning but in competing against managers that have balanced squad of 22 players, a slightly higher rating above yours and who know how to use proper formations and tactics for the players that they have.

I expect to lose the semis but I had a great run this season and in great position to qualify for next CL.
If only I could save my tokens for the nursery.

Yeah, except when you lose with double your opponents quality, and a counter formation...

I remember being as enthusiastic as you are in my first 30 days of playing or so.. now it's just meh..

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Originally Posted by magic3

I remember being as enthusiastic as you are in my first 30 days of playing or so.. now it's just meh..

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I was going to say to the OP, Play the game for around a year then tell us what you think!

I've been playing for 13 months now (15th season), and am almost as enthusiastic now as I was when I started. Sure, there are down times, but on the whole, I still like it.

Rayco
If after 1yr you are still as into the game as the first few seasons, then either your approach to the game is different or your interest in football comes first. Either way, enjoy what you do or find something else that drives you.

I expect to lose matches and not to always score goals. after all it's two computer generated teams competing against each other, in a social arena.

I started playing this game with around ten mates, 9 months ago, im the only one left and when I tell them I still play they all say 'really?!?!?' or words to that effect. For me its getting worse, the game stats, results just don't make sense at all anymore. I can beat an evenly matched team 4-0 one day and then draw 1-1 with a team 10-20 Q lower than me (which looked abandoned) the next, even when ive had 20 odd shots on goal 73% possession at home. The player ratings were 7-8-9 for the whole team? Maybe me but its just getting a little to random for me.

Ive 85 tokens and a scout team (due to me tanking 2 consecutive seasons) think thatll see me through another 2/3 competitive seasons and ill call it a day, just don't have the same enthusiasm for it tbh and bar buying a good team I don't feel I influence it enough. To many uncertain factors in the game (we are unsure of what does or doesn't effect the game for sure). Its a shame, as with a little investment and hard work, less greed this game could be the best FM game to date.

The only improvements we seem to see are all cosmetic, rather than the game itself, when there are so many issues with it. Would also like to add that this is not a 'rage quit' post, as im top of the league by 12 points, been thinking about it for a few seasons :D

Agreed, there is room to unchained this game into the monster it can become, both socially, educationally and for the footsie enthusiast and strategist. And it's not like they don't have corporate sponsors and investors.
Management skills cannot be bought overnight with tokens. It's nice to overpower a league but there is a different satisfaction having to plan,fight and earn wins with limited resources and time.

I'm into my fourth season now and tell myself once i reach the 10th season, thats it.

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Originally Posted by Jeffrey Lim

I'm into my fourth season now and tell myself once i reach the 10th season, thats it.

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For me I will retire around season 15, or if I can still playing I will play until when I reach season 27...

The boss leve, until then I got half an hour to an hour over coffee and the odd brewsky. I figure three years at no rush nor stroke/ heart attack

i will keep playing this game simply because it doesn't take up to much time and as long as u remember it's a free facebook game u wont be to dissapointed !!!!!!!! For what it is it's not to bad

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Agreed, there is room to unchained this game into the monster it can become, both socially, educationally and for the footsie enthusiast and strategist. And it's not like they don't have corporate sponsors and investors.
Management skills cannot be bought overnight with tokens. It's nice to overpower a league but there is a different satisfaction having to plan,fight and earn wins with limited resources and time.

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Yeh but the more you play the game you realise that regardless of how good your team, formation or tactics you are still liable to get ****ed over! Levels 1 though 4 you can basically win by just turning up

So what is different from level 5 onwards? Is that when the pyramid starts to take shape in the managerial hierarchy and you wave bye bye to the foot soldiers and more especially to Bot Robot? ( does bot robot) exist in the future, for us rookies)
Is that when you actually play against other managerial football individuals?

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So what is different from level 5 onwards? Is that when the pyramid starts to take shape in the managerial hierarchy and you wave bye bye to the foot soldiers and more especially to Bot Robot? ( does bot robot) exist in the future, for us rookies)
Is that when you actually play against other managerial football individuals?

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You'll need to wait around a year before it becomes more tough and competitive, but no doubt there is a chance you will come across some active managers until then. This can depend on different servers as well.

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For rookie manager in season 2, let me shout from the rooftops....THIS GAME IS AWESOMEEEEEE.
The best rush is playing against stronger opponents, expecting to get a workout, but ending up with a thrilling match. Oh such tension.. Something like everton and chelsea.

My opponent in the CL quarters, was ave quality of +24.6. Average age is 26.6 of which 6 are under 24yrs, so he has many experienced and old players. He has 1 GK and 2 stks only, which he plays every game. His squad is 17 players only.He is top of his log, with 1 loss in 19 league games. Me, I'm shaking in my boots. My ave squad age is 22.5 and ave quality is 19.3

First leg,at home was 2 -1 win. I was so excited I almost wet myself. Tonight, I was expecting a thrashing, as he went out shopping for mc and dc' s .
Final score was 4 - 4.
What a thrill. Pick a finger MoFo.
The best part of this game is not winning but in competing against managers that have balanced squad of 22 players, a slightly higher rating above yours and who know how to use proper formations and tactics for the players that they have.

I expect to lose the semis but I had a great run this season and in great position to qualify for next CL.
If only I could save my tokens for the nursery.

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The previous posts are bang on: everyone feels good about this game for the first few seasons and this is exactly what Nordeus wants. They want to sucker you into the game with win-win-win and do EVERYTHING possible to get you to buy tokens. I am not making this up. This becomes obvious only after playing for half a year as you get **** on with LOL results, too many injuries and ****ty auction lists.

Honestly, this game was like crack for me in the first 2 seasons, and I bought tokens to improve my team and won quite a few trophies and made a few more accounts to play even more teams, but I quickly realized that it is not worth putting money into something that is built to suck as much money out of your bank account as possible with what is the equivalent of stealing. Yes, I said it: stealing.

IF you can consider a casino stealing your money, then this is what T11 is. But they use the guise of a football manager game to do so.

Take Blackjack at the casino for example" I can make decisions to hit me or hold based on the hand I am dealt. I have the equivalent decision with my team in T11. At blackjack, I play against the house/dealer and am supposedly given a fair chance at winning. At T11, the game engine is not fair at all, or for me to be more correct: it is more liable to give an unfair result when you have a winning hand, so to speak. After writing this I think comparing T11 to blackjack is not appropo, as T11 is more like a SLOT MACHINE at times, where the result is purely random. Troll/LOL teams can come in, put in a coin and pull the slot machine handle and totally OWN a scout team for a jackpot win.

I dont expect all higher quality teams to win all of the time, but I do expect logic to dictate results. The odd upset should happen, but when you counter a team with formation and tactics, this should only happen rarely instead of frequently.

Hmmm, seems I was inspired to "rant" . Sorry if I look like I want to burst this bubble of yours...nope, not sorry at all. This is a warning to you to give you an idea of what you can expect from this game as you progress.

I have two level 8 accounts, and a few more lower level ones, so I have a good idea what to expect from this game and how it works. Do I know everything about this game? NO, and nobody does because Nordeus doesnt even provide information on their game except for basic informtion to get started. The "ask the devs" thing they do occasionally is a joke because they dont really answer **** we want to know. But I digress...

Enjoy it while it lasts DiZZee, I hope you enjoy the game but dont spend ANY tokens to do so. Cheers!

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So what is different from level 5 onwards? Is that when the pyramid starts to take shape in the managerial hierarchy and you wave bye bye to the foot soldiers and more especially to Bot Robot? ( does bot robot) exist in the future, for us rookies)
Is that when you actually play against other managerial football individuals?

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I was using level one through four more as an example tbh. Like july says it depends on servers but the more you play the more active the managers and the harder it gets, there are probably level 1 leagues that have alot of active managers, just your luck i suppose.

The thrill of the new season has not diminished yet. For some reason, that's the day I keep thinking about T11 (it starts at 11PM my time) all day long. New scout list, new cup draw, champions league draw.. then of course 3rd day, refreshed scout list, league opponents.. and then after day 3 it becomes a bit of a letdown at this point..