Quote Originally Posted by Narf View Post

I bolded a sentence about some "favour bar" ... there's no such thing - this is a possession bar. Try switching to an illegal formation during a game and you'll see it working live - that "favour bar" will quickly go to 80/20 against you.

I would also argue about the game engine not being able to apply a score to a player in a different position. It's quite simple to do so - you have 2 teams with 11 players each. Eliminate the goalkeeper as it would never let him attack and it's down to 10 each. All 20 of them could easily be marked in the following form:

Code:
<team_number><player_index>
Where each of the fields is presented by a single number - 1 or 2 for teams and 0-9 for player numbers (it always starts from 0 in programming). No matter how many substitutions and or which positions they are made - if players 10, 15, 17 and 24 are scheduled to score - they will.

I'm not saying it works that way - I'm saying it can. Just my 2 cents.
Narf, my hero. I TOTALLY agree with you on absolutely EVERYTHING you said. I couldn't have said it better myself....well maybe, but you beat me to it.

As a programmer myself, it is refreshing to hear from another person with experience. It gets frustrating with people with no experience stating that its impossible for the results to be pre-determined. We both know that it is possible but I cant prove that it is true. Nor do I care to. I have better things to do with my day. I just put that possibility out there so people can think about it.

All very good points. Nordues certainly has to up their game if they want to show us that they are serious about providing a game that is fair and enjoyable. Of course not everyone is going to be happy with this game, not matter what Nordeus does, but that is human nature. It just seems that Nordeus should be doing more. As a result, more people will speak out like you and me.

Colin OUT!