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Originally posted by Crabster
Having played other team management games for a few years now (Championship Manager 01/02 and CM4). Thats soccer for those who havn`t heard of it....I feel there isn`t enough interaction with your own players in OOTP.....They should have requests and needs that they should be able to ask you as their manager.....which would encourage them or not as the case may be.....Be able to publicly or privately critisise them or praise them on there performances....The kind of stuff you hear or read about in the press...
I think this would add a huge amount of depth to the game....
What do you think ?
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I've played CM, too, and experienced what you've described above. While this sounds good, once you get into the game, there's much less to it than it seems.
The problem is, quite often the 'interaction' turns out to be meaningless in that you can completely ignore it without consequence. A few examples from my games:
1) The board often gives you messages that it considers a player to two as 'key' or some such. I've sold those players without any negative consequences. The opposite of this when the board says 'it considers so-and-so should not be part of the side.' Again, I've ignored this without consequence. The most striking example was playing as Arsenal when the board suddenly didn't like Theirry Henry (IRL, the second best striker in the priemier league, only to Van NIstleroy) In my game, Henry was coming off back to back player of the year seasons, when the board decided (for reasons I never figured out) to dislike him. I ignored this for two more seasons, then he scored six goals in a game versus Bolton and the message went away. So what was the point of all that?
2) All these 'proud to be at Arsenal' or 'honored to be training with Patrick Viera' messages have never made an impact on the game as far as I can see.
3) the media stuff in CM is looks and sounds like it means something, but I've never seen a 'build up praise' raise the player's morale, or 'play down praise' lower morale. In fact, telling the media there' room for improvement often spurs the player to 'show his manager' after a goal, but whether or not that goal was aided by the comment or not is unclear. The game simply waits to make that comment when the player next scores, is my opininon. there's no actual impact on the game.
there are other little bits, but I can't think of them right now.
There are, however, lots of messages that do impact the game in small ways, and that's fun, but, in general, there is less of this in CM than meets the casual eye.