Game engine change?

[pcmacdaniel]

It changed towards the end of last season. It's probably intended to prevent mutants from being OP (ex. Friendly trick and upselling).

I wouldn't call the results 100% unfair. The engine is still favoring correct tactics, but the skills matter less.

Problematic here is two things:

1. Most managers don't understand how to setup correctly from a tactical perspective.

2. A manager that is random tactically will cause major problems for a skilled tactican when skills dont matter. A manager that looks for patterns and understands counter-formations and counter-orders will be looking for a pattern that does not exist.

Same applies to a change in the pattern. For example I beat Team A in semi-final of CL and quarter-final of cup in last two seasons. This season we play in cup final and he changes the system and it catches me off-guard. The less the skills matter, less protection for token buyers/farmers when these scenarios arise.