CMS General Discussion Thread

Things seem to work again now. 

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@JustinCase0110 wrote:

This site continues to make it difficult for us to write and post this stuff

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Where do we raise issues about the lay-out and user-friendliness of this website, because as @JustinCase0110 indicates, there's a lot left to be desired - navigation in particular.

• the cross-over log-in issue raised by @JustinCase0110 
• there's no button/scroll back to the top of a page-option
• there's a limit to the amount of images one can upload; it is complicated and user-unfriendly to get rid of older ones (another reason to delete and purge topics that are no longer in use for a matter of months or years, something the mods and admins of this forum constantly refuse)
• there's no option to either close or delete topics (and automatically free up space for new images, by deleting those in closed or deleted topics)
• there's no control on topics being posted in the right threads. Instead, users need to report the topic.
• there's hardly any feedback from mods. I know it's voluntary, I'm aware that in this day and age of internet people tend to be impatient, but leaving someone, a query or some topic hanging for more than 48-72 hours is not really respectful. I do my dishes voluntarily too, if I leave that hanging for 48-72 hrs, I've created a voluntary issue myself.
• the amount of options and time to create a post are limited: the selection of emojis is limited, the lining out of text can be done only via HTML-coding

This site continues to make it difficult for us to write and post this stuff. First there was the limit of images that you can upload. It seems to be a limit of 500 pages with 4 images on each, so one needs to delete old images, if one has posted this amount over the years.

Then they've made it incredibly time-consuming to delete these images from the "uploaded images" folder. Not to mention how difficult it was to find the folder in the first place.

And now, when I try to delete some more, I'm told the following: 

Sorry, you have to sign in to access this page. If you're already signed in, you may not have access to this page.

Needless to say, I AM signed in. So I apparently don't have access to the images I've once posted in order to delete them in a time-consuming way to create more space. It seems they keep testing our patience, now with one more obstacle in terms of writing and posting career mode stories like this.

I can still remember Ron Atkinson, but more from his roles after Man United - Villa and Wednesday in particular. His 2nd place with Villa is still the best a manager from England has ever achieved in the modern Prmier league as we know it.

The big difference is however, after Busby it went down 5 years to the point they actually relegated and from there, with tiny steps it got better and better again until the big bang under Ferguson. But Ferguson initially did worse than Atkinson. And the scenario this time with Man U, is that it seems to go from bad to worse: all new managers have decent, promosing starts and it all goes downhill from there, so it is something in that club that kicks in after 12-15 months.

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@CO88LER5 wrote:

I was trying a 'second team' to see what they would be like.  It included the likes of Bayindir, Maguire, Lindelof, Malacia, Collyer, Antony and so on...
Anyhow, I re-started the career with the scouting, etc., settings I wanted and I am now trying out Amorim's 3-4-2-1 formation. I picked the start date of when he started, i.e., after Ruud's matches.
With the squad I (and he) have got, I can't see it working for long - too many square pegs in round holes. About to play City, which I expect to get beaten against.
In the transfer window to come, I'm going to see whether I can fill some of those round holes, but the career I'm playing will mean cheap 'potential' players, even though the game has rather illogically given me something like £130 million to spend. I'm not going to do anything like that, because I'm in the head space that says two things:
1) we really shouldn't have much money (as in real life)
2) I'm working on the basis that real 'quality' players with a proper career in mind won't come to United at the moment, given how many careers we've destroyed...
Going to be interesting to see how it pans out.

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Square pegs in round holes? Are you referring to players playing out of position?

I tend not to pay this too much mind. If a player works in that role in real life IMO, I won't hesitate using him there in the game as well. Mazraoui as a right centerback for instance. I think he has minus 3 in the game, when I put him there. But he's been a top 3 performer in every game under Amorim in that role so far. So that is also where I'll use him, when I play with them in game. I do use the training/player development to adjust him better to the position though.

I agree with you in regards to the £130M being a bit over the top. United already have some good talents in Yoro, Mainoo, Garna, Amad and Højlund, and if you nurture their development and add a few quality players, you could easily assemble a title-winning squad here.

I also started with the 3-4-2-1 formation, but had a hard time getting them to play the way I wanted and the way Amorim seems to want them to play. After a few games I tweaked it some, so it was more a 3-1-4-2 formation with a regular CDM in Ugarte, whilst Bruno dropped a bit to play the CM/CAM next to Mount or Mainoo. The other "number 10" in the system would then have to be used as a striker in this formation, but instructing him to go wide and deep seemed to make it work all right. My results drastically improved, once I used this formation in stead. I've only played a few games though, so it's just my early thoughts about it, trying to get the feel of the Live Start option.