FML v The Real World

The Match Engine in Football Manager Live often comes under fire for various strange outcomes and events.

I think what some of the gamers playing FML often forget is Football is a great game driven by the fact that just anything can happen and often can.

Can you imagine the uproar we would have on FML if a top ranked team with loads of rep who season after season were competeting for the Premiership title with loads of finances were to spend £50,0000,000 on signing arguably one of the best strikers in the world someone like Torres and then he didnt score for 8 games!!!

The guy would probably rage quit and moan like a bitch on the forums. Si would ignore this moan and FML would lose a subscriber.

Its things like this that make football what it is unpredictable.

Not everything can be determined by stats and code sometimes things just pop up and get in the way, like a beach ball on the pitch ala Liverpool V Sunderland.

This brings me to my next point.

FML March Goal of the Month as voted by the managers of FML.

The winning entry was a cracking goal :-

and you get someone comment on the voting thread that this is a Match Engine bug!!!

Well view this goal and tell me they arent similar ?







My point is stop blaming everything on Si and the match engine and step up and take the fact that its often a managers tactics or management that are at fault not the game.

In respect of tactics I would just like to say how refreshing it has been reading some of the comments from FML Super Tactics Guru WWFan on this thread

Richards take on things have really given a nice insight to some of the mechanics behind the game.

FML The Memories No5

There was a time that I used to love this game so much that I would find myself waking up in the middle of the night and logging on to see if I had won an auction!
I also used to find myself logging on first thing in the morning checking what had happenned since I went to bed.

I used to live and breathe FML, I remember back in Le Tissier I was tormented by that pesky little git Pato.

I used to hate him, He would terrorise my defence, He was like a ghost he would just run past defenders as if they couldnt even see him just a splipstream where he had been.

Anyway getting to the point.... FML Memory No 5 is when the Mrs woke me up one night and asked

"Who is Pato and why do you want him to die"

Apparently I had been threatening to kill him in my sleep!!!

Thats the kind of intensity and pleasure you can get from FML, it can cause you to dreaming of being a murderer!

The bust up that lead me to quit FML!!!

Ive left a couple of weeks but now is the time to tell the world what lead me to quitting FML.

As if.... No gossip here!

Now I have your attention please go and vote on the Goal of the Month

This is to decide the best goals scored across the ALL gameworlds during March.

Vote Here