How are results determined?

[Teri Miller]

exactly. they freeze the game a few minutes before to produce the simulation. the commentary is done real time based on the results. if this game was completely real time, there would be no need to freeze the game 3-4 mins before the start. thats the smoking gun right there.

Make your mind up. you said in your earlier post that things you do in the commentary affect the commentary? and in this post you say the game freezes to simulate the game. Contradiction in a nutshell ?

[Saransh Vatsa]

This probably one of the reasons Why you cant do any change in the last 3 minutes before the start of the game. Result simulating.

By far the best explanation for those 3 minutes I have ever read!!!! Kinda perfect explanation, and it might be true as well!!!!!

[rastaman70]

As a game designer of 8 years i can tell you that you are wrong. Players, Tactics and formations etc do have an impact on results. Once the game has commenced however it is extremely likely that the result has already been simulated and the games commentary is simply for effect.

simple question: did you help design this game?? if so, you need to do more work on this because it reeks of amateurism, and its not your fault, but those of the whole programming team. if not, then, you have no clue as to the code and what they use to determine their results. we can speculate all we want, but without actual hands on knowledge or at least an insider giving info, we have nothing but speculation.

I cant stop reading this stuff because its very interesting how these companies use time and pressure tactics to force you to spend money and by game manipulation they do this. look at C@ndy Crush saga, they use the time tactics to force you to buy and it works...too good. its very addictive and makes a ****load of money. this game uses the same tactics with the auctions.

point is, the things you do during the commentary affect the commentary, based on what has been posted here. there are too many strange things to think that this is a real time game.

[BigB79]

As a game designer of 8 years i can tell you that you are wrong. Players, Tactics and formations etc do have an impact on results. Once the game has commenced however it is extremely likely that the result has already been simulated and the games commentary is simply for effect.

So what your saying is nothing we do during the game ie subs, change of tactics will not alter the game at all?

Totally disagree with you. I've seen a few people over the past year that have shown tactics and formations on this game have no impact at all on results. Ask itayfranko and ratsaman70 amongst others.

[Tutsirai Paunganwa]

I have had problems with this myself where I knew I was going to lose a champions league semi final. My team had home field advantage with 13% possession advantage yet in the game itself it was about 50/50. My defenders were 5 points higher than his strikers. My whole team was 100% rested and these useless strikers scored two goals on me.

I also noticed as soon as the game starts the total number of passes for the game is already there so judging from completed passes I knew I would lose the game and for sure I lost in penalty shoot out. Check this I am in level 2 right now and my main striker has 42 Attack value and this guy missed the penalty kick and this guy has a 16 skill point striker who scored winning goal of the game. This is bad! these guys are full of **** and need to explain themselves.

[kuky_k]

Tell me then if i change player and he scored how did game know i will change him in future? You are talking crap or they invented time machine.

Its not game where you need to play or something, this is only game of numbers. You create random number generator and let him too choose who will win and wich player will score. If you have better player you have more chance to win and thats it.

And formation have nothing to do with win. Its not first time i counterd weaker team and then lost.

[littledude072]

Tell me then if i change player and he scored how did game know i will change him in future? You are talking crap or they invented time machine.

Its not game where you need to play or something, this is only game of numbers. You create random number generator and let him too choose who will win and wich player will score. If you have better player you have more chance to win and thats it.

And formation have nothing to do with win. Its not first time i counterd weaker team and then lost.

id go with time machines, theyre more reasonable
heres a note from the top of my head. EVERY rant where players complain about losing upon disconnect ranted here. havent seen a person rant because the person was losing, disconnected, then lost some more

This probably one of the reasons Why you cant do any change in the last 3 minutes before the start of the game. Result simulating.

man, starting to make sense

[Fate85]

Tell me then if i change player and he scored how did game know i will change him in future? You are talking crap or they invented time machine.

Its not game where you need to play or something, this is only game of numbers. You create random number generator and let him too choose who will win and wich player will score. If you have better player you have more chance to win and thats it.

And formation have nothing to do with win. Its not first time i counterd weaker team and then lost.

It should not be too far-fetched to think that there may be an algorithm that dictates that a player in that STARTING position would score, meaning to say... er I'll just give an example:

Paul Scholes is your starting AMC.
Halfway through, you sub him because you think he's been pathetic.
You bring in an SC, Gonzalo Higuain.
You move Higuain from AMC to SC.
Higuain scores.

Now what if that switch that you just made, from AMC to SC, didn't matter? What if the AMC ie. Paul Scholes, would have scored anyways irrespective of the change because it's just been simulated pre-game that way?

[khris]

But if game is simulated before the match.... game do some posible simulations, becacuse, If you play, and you are winning 3-0, game crashes, and when you login to the game again, you see a 1-1....¿? ...the game do 2 simulations? nope. That's an error. Game do the simulation when match start, and depending of what you decide, subs' etc... at the end of the match, the server save the result.
the second option, is that an error of conection can happen during the match, thats a problem of facebook, not nordeus, so in this situation, result can not be saved, and theres a simulation that the game do.
The only thing I think that can be pre-programmed by game is the probably of injuries, what players are more agressive, that, depending of last matches, with the idea to do matches with some variables.
That's what I think. well, the 1/2 lol

[Qambu Yaasi]

What I do believe is that the result of the game is simulated based on the starting 11 you put out and the orders you set. This explains why sometimes you can never score after you make substitutions when you are 4-5 nil up by the 50th minute. Once you make a substitution, the game engine has to make a recalculation that may or may not skew the result.

I don't expect the game engine to rival Football Manager or Championship Manager as this is a web based game. I have low expectations on the logic of the game so I am easily contented. It's still a fun game to play for me, regardless of the ****ty results that could occur.