A thread for everyone wanting to discuss matters related to Career Mode Stories.
- Tips and advice in regards to writing a story?
- Tips and advice in regards to visuals, use of graphics etc.?
- Discussions about future Career Mode plans or ideas?
Please make a thread of your own, when you start a Career Mode Story. It makes it much easier to follow, when it's written in a separate thread.
But anything else, just fire away here...
@Danimal5981 wrote:It's a little too late for it now, but in my view they actually ought to talk down expectations (get the pressure off), reset and reboot and aim for success in -say- 2028, according to a three-year plan. Buy yourself time and space to implement a structure, an organization, a vision, an image, etc etc. similar to what happened at Liverpool when Klopp joined, or Arteta at Arsenal - they also made it very clear that they do expect a high level instantly, but trophies and silverware a little later. Man U need to apply the same strategy, which comes down to clear communication to the fans and clever marketing to the outside world: they are a big brand after all.
You probably don't know this, but this is EXACTLY what they are doing right now. They have headhunted people like Omar Berrada, Dan Ashworth, Jason Wilcox and Christopher Vivell to make sure the club has qualified people working in the machine room. Contrary to recent years with Ed Woodward, John Murtough and Richard Arnold pulling the strings with a pretty poor track record as the result.
In terms of expectations they may not have said explicitely that they aren't aiming for titles right now. That may also sound a bit hollow with two titles won in the last two seasons. But they do actually have a plan - Project 150 - aiming to win the title in 2028, just as you are proposing. You can read more about this here.
@CO88LER5 Athletes and professional sports people have huge egos: each time there'll be a handful that think: "I am going to be the one who turns it around at Man Utd..." - really, a lot think that way, also because the one that sooner or later will bring back glory is going to be considered a club legend: the one that ended the drought.
And they tried it with the biggest managers (Van Gaal, Mourinho) and with a proper club person (Solskjaer), they tried it with esteemed veterans (Ronaldo, Eriksen), with half of the 2019 successful Ajax-team (and staff), I mean: they literally tried everything in every way for the last decade.
It's a little too late for it now, but in my view they actually ought to talk down expectations (get the pressure off), reset and reboot and aim for success in -say- 2028, according to a three-year plan. Buy yourself time and space to implement a structure, an organization, a vision, an image, etc etc. similar to what happened at Liverpool when Klopp joined, or Arteta at Arsenal - they also made it very clear that they do expect a high level instantly, but trophies and silverware a little later. Man U need to apply the same strategy, which comes down to clear communication to the fans and clever marketing to the outside world: they are a big brand after all.
@JustinCase0110
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.
Yup, similar here (game tactics, game settings) - for me, the main frustration is that they don't keep national leagues and uefa rankings up to date. In Holland, 4 teams are always in a play-off for the last available spot in European Conference League and on top, as 6th team in the rankings we provide six teams, not five.
What I do like, was when I was far down against PSV and Sociedad and the AI started to control the game. No way for me to pull one back, but at least it's exactly what quality teams would do in real life. And by now it reverted back to immediate, but the delay in making a sub and it actually happening on the pitch was something that I enjoyed too - that's the way it goes in real life as well. The new transfer and academy system are an improvement and require you to stay alert - that's an improvement in my view as well.
@CO88LER5 wrote:
...and I really enjoyed watching City get pasted by Spurs yesterday evening!
Who didn't? 😃
I agree that the United squad is thin. So with the current squad I'd also say that you're asking for trouble, if you field a whole 'second team' for European games. I almost can't imagine how that lineup must have been.
Don't you find it easy enough to keep players fit for most games? I often sub one or two players at half time or within the first 10-15 minutes of the second. The rest of the subs are made around 70 minutes, I think, sometimes tactical to get a result, or with the purpose of resting key players and/or play some reserves/youngsters, if I already have the result I want. With this approach I never have to field a full 'second team', which also isn't often the case for these clubs anyway. Unless they play an amateur side or something.
The settings are frustrating. I startet quite a few careers, before I found the one I wanted to continue with. And I always seem to forget what to choose in all these different choices and settings. Some of them were also bugged at the time, and it's awful that you can't change these things along the way, if something doesn't work properly or doesn't fit your preference in the game.
@Danimal5981Just got too much going on at the moment to devote to writing up a story. I'd like to, but the circumstances simply don't allow.
But see above...
@Danimal5981 wrote:@JustinCase0110 I think it's currently just the two of us: @thurlow885 @CO88LER5 @LABoog4 have gone to greener pastures?
Yeah it looks like it. It's pretty much how it always is. A few weeks of nice traffic on the forum, then people falling off one by one. Then a few months of solitude here, before some writers return in the spring or in February after the closing of the transfer window.
I don't pay if too much mind. I do enjoy the "busy" weeks most, but I also understand how time-consuming it is to indulge in Career Mode Stories, playing and writing stories in detail. There are always these grand openings with brilliant ideas, and then we never come out of September, before the writer has gone AWOL and is never heard from again, haha...
It's too bad, but one just has to accept that creating this content is for one's own pleasure and not for anyone else. If I expected a lot of feedback along the way, I would just end up disappointed.
Another thing: Live starts now works. Started up with Man United last night (and drew 0-0 with Ipswich Town in Amorim's first game). It seems to work just fine, from what I've seen so far. League tables, stats, European games etc are all up to date. Maybe this fact could lure one or two writers back into the fold.
@JustinCase0110 I think it's currently just the two of us: @thurlow885 @CO88LER5 @LABoog4 have gone to greener pastures?
@JustinCase0110 wrote:
@Danimal5981 wrote:
@JustinCase0110 wrote:I have found a way to find my uploaded images and delete some of them. It's a time-consuming one-by-one process, but at least I've found a way to clear some space, so I can continue to post with images in my stories.
Care to explain how, please? I'm currently at 533 in total, but I'm sure I can delete anything related to FIFA 22, 23 and FC 24
Yes, of course. I've responded to your PM as well, but I figured I should respond here as well, in case anyone else wondered how to do it. However, I'm not sure anyone else has uploaded as many images as I have....
You just reply to a message, and in stead of pressing "add image", you select the "From my uploaded Images" option.
Then you enter some archive with every image you've posted so far. And if you go to the last page (I had 500 pages that is apparently the maximum), then you find the oldest ones. If you right-click and open the link in a new tab, you can press "Image options" and delete it there. But that whole process is just deleting ONE image, so it's pretty time-consuming. Perhaps there is an easier way, but at least I've found a way to do it now. EA don't really make this user-friendly, do they?
Thanks; indeed, the lay-out and ways to workaround here feel dated
