I don't know if it's just me but I'm fed up of the rating system FM uses. It's just confusing and before you bash me, let me explain.
I like management type games, have been playing them for years. I started with FM09 and I immediately stopped. It was too textual (and still is) and really complex for a starter. So I gravitated to FIFA Manager 9. It was easier to start off with, you weren't bombarded with a ton of things.
So I've been playing FIFA Manager from 9 till 13 and I liked the way they did certain things (mostly the inferace, official logos and such and real 3D matches). Now FIFA Manager is dead and I've since been back to FM since FM12, reason being, FM just had more depth which I always liked. Just didn't like the presentation.
One thing that really bugs me is the rating system used. I'm doing a comparison here. In FIFA Manager, you had a number rating and a star rating. The number rating was the average of all the skills that would make the player/staff great in his particular position/job, eg. 77, 84, 91. The star rating was more for the quality of the player/staff, it spoke more to how well he could develop. Let's ignore the star rating for now.
In FM on the other hand, it uses a star rating system for current ability and potential ability.
What really bugs me is that, for FM the stars depend on a varying factors, such as how good the rest of your squad is or how well your staff is able to judge the player's skills. In FIFA Manager, a player rated at 78 at Chelsea FC is still rated at 78 when at Burnley FC and not jumping to 88.
In my game I manage Chelsea, for me Mohammed Salah is a 2 star player. I loaned him out to Inter Milan. I was idling around one night and the job at Inter became available, I applied, got picked and started managing. Went to look at the squad and low and behold was Mohammed Salah, rated as 4 star player!!!!!
To me this only just confuses me. I would prefer where player ratings are global, meaning they don't change no matter what, they aren't affected by other variables apart from the players development. Also I would prefer if I got a number, like 77 and 78 rather than stars, helps me to identify who is better.
I have used Genie Scout which seeks to do that but finding a player in Genie Scout then looking them up in FM and scouting them, provides two different representations of the same player which just confuses me more, which one is more accurate?!?
Anyway, sorry for the long post. In FM16 maybe SI could implement a second rating system and allow us to choose which we prefer. That would be great.
I like management type games, have been playing them for years. I started with FM09 and I immediately stopped. It was too textual (and still is) and really complex for a starter. So I gravitated to FIFA Manager 9. It was easier to start off with, you weren't bombarded with a ton of things.
So I've been playing FIFA Manager from 9 till 13 and I liked the way they did certain things (mostly the inferace, official logos and such and real 3D matches). Now FIFA Manager is dead and I've since been back to FM since FM12, reason being, FM just had more depth which I always liked. Just didn't like the presentation.
One thing that really bugs me is the rating system used. I'm doing a comparison here. In FIFA Manager, you had a number rating and a star rating. The number rating was the average of all the skills that would make the player/staff great in his particular position/job, eg. 77, 84, 91. The star rating was more for the quality of the player/staff, it spoke more to how well he could develop. Let's ignore the star rating for now.
In FM on the other hand, it uses a star rating system for current ability and potential ability.
What really bugs me is that, for FM the stars depend on a varying factors, such as how good the rest of your squad is or how well your staff is able to judge the player's skills. In FIFA Manager, a player rated at 78 at Chelsea FC is still rated at 78 when at Burnley FC and not jumping to 88.
In my game I manage Chelsea, for me Mohammed Salah is a 2 star player. I loaned him out to Inter Milan. I was idling around one night and the job at Inter became available, I applied, got picked and started managing. Went to look at the squad and low and behold was Mohammed Salah, rated as 4 star player!!!!!
To me this only just confuses me. I would prefer where player ratings are global, meaning they don't change no matter what, they aren't affected by other variables apart from the players development. Also I would prefer if I got a number, like 77 and 78 rather than stars, helps me to identify who is better.
I have used Genie Scout which seeks to do that but finding a player in Genie Scout then looking them up in FM and scouting them, provides two different representations of the same player which just confuses me more, which one is more accurate?!?
Anyway, sorry for the long post. In FM16 maybe SI could implement a second rating system and allow us to choose which we prefer. That would be great.
