Hi guys,
I created an account specially for this. I've been playing FM/CM for a verrrry long time, when Eric Cantona, Gianluca Vialli, Fabrizio Ravanelli were the bomb... But now, I've seen it all.
Since I'm getting older, 2 kids, full time job and home to maitntain and thus don't have time to play all nighters, I'm playing FM touch. I choose my favourite Belgian team: KV Mechelen. They relegated last year after a tough battle (and aparently some unsuccessful matchfixing, shame on us) from 1st division.
They decided to try to promote as quickly as possible and go for the strategy to maintain a team, worthy of 1st division. So my goal is to get them there as quickly as possible and build for the future to challenge for the title in Belgium.
Right now I'm in my first season and it's winter break. We're not doing bad, but not doing great either. We just missed the first chance to qualify for the promotion playoff. Due to the strange Belgian competition structure, this is already decided before winter break. That's where I am now. I was really surprised to see my assistant arranged a home friendly against no team less than Barcelona. Also 1 against Wolfsburg, but I still need to play that. I thought playing those games I would be destroyed and it would be disastrous for team morale. Nevertheless, I decided not to cancel and arrange new friendlies, but take these games for fun, as playing them for real later, I probably needed to play another couple seasons...
So I just played the first game against Barcelona, and here it comes: I won, 1-0 on a penalty. I had more possession on the ball, more shots and more chances (CCC's, yes), a 2nd division Belgian team against the mother of all possession play Barcelona. No kidding. you think they were playing B-team players who needed match fitness? Think again, Messi player, Suarez played, they were at full force.
I'm honestly totally clueless on how to play this game. I'm struggling with an A-force team to make decent consistent results in the B-league, but I just won against frigging Barcelona.
How does this game work? How is it balanced? Of course you can say that it was because of motivation, but still, they should brush me aside at least by 2 goals.
Only thing I can think of is a misbalance because of team reputation globally, even though KV Mechelen is the last team that won a European trophy (around 30 years ago). Then motivation against smaller team really drags down performance, but aparently too much...
I'm used since CM changed to FM that results could be really illogical (just like real life, you can have offdays), but this is too much for me.
Anyone else experiencing the same extreme inconsistensies?
Feel free to have a look at the game, you can download the file here:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlYoPLqcSzNShc5VLaYmoR75zFSJYg
FYI: if anyone thinks I restarted, I swear I did not. This is the first save I play where I decided to accept things how they go, At least more/less, I have to admit I had 1 restart after the 1 signing I made (Anthony Vanden Borre) was injured for 6 months. I really wanted him to be successful and him being injured took away the fun in this save.
I'll now play against Wolfburg, let's see how that goes,
Cheers...
I created an account specially for this. I've been playing FM/CM for a verrrry long time, when Eric Cantona, Gianluca Vialli, Fabrizio Ravanelli were the bomb... But now, I've seen it all.
Since I'm getting older, 2 kids, full time job and home to maitntain and thus don't have time to play all nighters, I'm playing FM touch. I choose my favourite Belgian team: KV Mechelen. They relegated last year after a tough battle (and aparently some unsuccessful matchfixing, shame on us) from 1st division.
They decided to try to promote as quickly as possible and go for the strategy to maintain a team, worthy of 1st division. So my goal is to get them there as quickly as possible and build for the future to challenge for the title in Belgium.
Right now I'm in my first season and it's winter break. We're not doing bad, but not doing great either. We just missed the first chance to qualify for the promotion playoff. Due to the strange Belgian competition structure, this is already decided before winter break. That's where I am now. I was really surprised to see my assistant arranged a home friendly against no team less than Barcelona. Also 1 against Wolfsburg, but I still need to play that. I thought playing those games I would be destroyed and it would be disastrous for team morale. Nevertheless, I decided not to cancel and arrange new friendlies, but take these games for fun, as playing them for real later, I probably needed to play another couple seasons...
So I just played the first game against Barcelona, and here it comes: I won, 1-0 on a penalty. I had more possession on the ball, more shots and more chances (CCC's, yes), a 2nd division Belgian team against the mother of all possession play Barcelona. No kidding. you think they were playing B-team players who needed match fitness? Think again, Messi player, Suarez played, they were at full force.
I'm honestly totally clueless on how to play this game. I'm struggling with an A-force team to make decent consistent results in the B-league, but I just won against frigging Barcelona.
How does this game work? How is it balanced? Of course you can say that it was because of motivation, but still, they should brush me aside at least by 2 goals.
Only thing I can think of is a misbalance because of team reputation globally, even though KV Mechelen is the last team that won a European trophy (around 30 years ago). Then motivation against smaller team really drags down performance, but aparently too much...
I'm used since CM changed to FM that results could be really illogical (just like real life, you can have offdays), but this is too much for me.
Anyone else experiencing the same extreme inconsistensies?
Feel free to have a look at the game, you can download the file here:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlYoPLqcSzNShc5VLaYmoR75zFSJYg
FYI: if anyone thinks I restarted, I swear I did not. This is the first save I play where I decided to accept things how they go, At least more/less, I have to admit I had 1 restart after the 1 signing I made (Anthony Vanden Borre) was injured for 6 months. I really wanted him to be successful and him being injured took away the fun in this save.
I'll now play against Wolfburg, let's see how that goes,
Cheers...
