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the ai wise up on your tactics. and random streches of suckiness do happen.
the ai wise up on your tactics. and random streches of suckiness do happen.
The AI does not wise up to your tactics. This has been confirmed numerous times by the devs.
What the AI does do is react to your sucess. As you perform well, your reputation increases and therefore the AI will think your team is stronger and set out more defensively against you. This is particularly significant if, whether intentionally or not, your tactics are built around counterattacking and exploiting the space behind the oppositions defence, as the AI will start to be more cautious and drop deeper, often rendering such tactics rather impotent. It's not a deliberate response to that tactic, it's a general response to sucess. Tactics less reliant on exploting attacking opposition will have less trouble as your reputaion increases. That's not to say that counterattacking based tactics are bad, just that you should undertand their limitations when the opposition begin to regard you as a strong opponent.
PhroX said:Nice work Quackers
Now watch it as your board slash your wage budget and give you no transfer funds
The AI does not wise up to your tactics. This has been confirmed numerous times by the devs.
What the AI does do is react to your sucess. As you perform well, your reputation increases and therefore the AI will think your team is stronger and set out more defensively against you. This is particularly significant if, whether intentionally or not, your tactics are built around counterattacking and exploiting the space behind the oppositions defence, as the AI will start to be more cautious and drop deeper, often rendering such tactics rather impotent. It's not a deliberate response to that tactic, it's a general response to sucess. Tactics less reliant on exploting attacking opposition will have less trouble as your reputaion increases. That's not to say that counterattacking based tactics are bad, just that you should undertand their limitations when the opposition begin to regard you as a strong opponent.
Nice work Quackers
Now watch it as your board slash your wage budget and give you no transfer funds
I'm a big fan of going through every young player released by Premiership clubs when I'm managing in the lower league. You can usually pick up a few good freebies. Also, try to get your scouts looking for youngsters in Wales and Ireland. I've found some decent cheap regens for lower league teams.
The best time to send out a scout to look for regens is right after they've all been generated and before other teams have had a chance to evaluate them and sign them. Each country has a different regen date, so I'd look those up and send out scouts accordingly. Sometimes there is nothing, but every once in a while you strike gold.
I've seen that mentioned elsewhere however it seems like a bit of an exploit.
@Quackers, congrats on back to back titles, how did Lincoln do in the playoffs?
In my game I've now played Chelsea 12 times and lost every single game. They are the dominant team in the league but its a bit disappointing that I haven't been able to take a point off them.
The fourth season with Lincoln went well with us finishing 7th in the league and reaching the FA cup final which we lost to Chelsea. Hopefully next season we will be able to cope better with European football as last time round we couldn't cope with the extra fixtures and ended up finishing 12th in the league. Three of my U21 team should be able to feature next season.
Off the pitch the stadium was upgraded for a second time which was completed just before the start of the season so the capacity is now maxed out at 31k. It gets filled every game but I don't think it can be upgraded further. Its a little odd though that Nottingham Forest have been in the premiership longer but get lower attendences, it seems like the AI attendences don't really grow in the same way as human managed clubs.
The biggest news is that the club was taken over towards the end of the season so my wage budget has gone from 750k to 1.5 million a week. Has helped already as I've been able to give a couple of players new contracts.
Hmm...so my first year in the Premiership was going OK after 8 games, picked up a couple of good away wins at Liverpoool and Tottenham, along with disappointing home defeats against opposition I really should've at least drawn with.
Then I get offered the Ajax job.
Decisions, decisions....
Which are you finding more difficult, the campaigns in the lower divisons or the attempts to win silverware? With such little money it is impossible to buy established stars and compete with wages with the big clubs.
I signed this guy when I first got promoted when he was 18 for 5 million which was more than I wanted to play but his CA was already close to premiership standard.Spoiler :