Hectic

I bet you all thought id given up to this, But nope Ive just been rather busy since becoming a mod. I have a lot of new things to learn as well as making sure i stick within the rules set out.

I manage to finish 2nd in the SFA Premiership behind Unathletic Madrid & qualified for season 3's uffa gold cup (1st time ive finished that high even in beta).Pre season has come & gone with me losing no players & gaining a few at fairly decent rep. Im hoping to push on from here but with stadiums being added yesterday & only 28 days to build a stadium that can accommodate the fans my rep requires cash could be a big issue.Having a quick mess around with the stadium builder i roughly need 4 million in the bank to build 1 large enough to satisfy my fans needs & to also generate the 75% of my daily income i require. I think i may need to lose a few squad players & reserves & maybe lower my wage bill at the next round of wage auctions which thankfully happen before the 25th feb deadline for the finance switch.

Plenty of people in the gameworld are very annoyed at this new patch, Yet it is from the forums where this idea came from. I would suggest to anyone complaining to give it time & see if there opinion changes over the next week or 2. As i can remember when the tactics skills where added during beta & i was soon on the forums voicing my concerns, Yet when i got used to this change i could see the benefits of this & soon dropped my concern of the direction the game was going in.

Made a Mod

Hi guys,
I hope that you'll join me in congratulating Nick Megarity,Serge A. Storms is back:,Steve Lamacraft and Stuart (Won the lot) Gallacher, the newest members of the FML Moderating team who have made the step up tonight.They have demonstrated over the past couple of months what great guys they are, and we are lucky to have them donate their time to making Shearer such a great place to be .Please give them your help and support as they make the transition and try not to break too many rules until they get to grips with the job .If anyone else is interested in becoming a moderator I can suggest that you follow the example set by these guys - be helpful in chat, help out in your FAs and above all DON'T BREAK RULES

Thanks,
Richard Tebbutt FML Lead Moderator - SEGA

FML Community Game ?

Whats that you here fml is about building an online community,Yet in gameworld shearer the uffa finals so far played have happened just like any other game in the season between just the opposing mangers, Where was the build up,the mail to the entire gameworld stating there kick off times ? the links to the games in every chat so those that want to watch the biggest games to happen every season can do. No none of this happened, the results just appear in your incoming mail.

Maybe us as part of the community need to do our bit you get to a fed cup final - set a time with your opposition manager & post this to all members of your fed, start the game, post a link to the game in your fed chat,If your feeling brave enough add the links to the lobby, the market place get others from outside your fed watching . let the full 5 minutes count down before kick off, It doesn't hurt & lets everybody get involved & it will certainly add to your fml experience.

I think the mods in game need to get this sorted for next season & try and get more of the community involved, Otherwise the uffa comps will become quite meaningless which is not what i feel there about. Am i alone in this i hope not & do hope SI put something in place so these finals in the future get a crowd involved which generates a buzz, fed members cheering on there own & booing the opposition, neutrals in there just to watch. Things like this was the norm during the beta test in gameworld psycho so how can we get that excitement in retail ?

End Of Seasons Woe's

I bag the sfa under 21 league by gd of 1, both me & my mate Jak finished level on points in a very nail biting climax. 1 of the last fixtures was Inter Vs Jakswans which finished 1-1 a winner for either side would of seen them take the title.He did still manage to take all the other sfa youth comps beating me 1-0 in the under 21 cup final (with a player i tipped him off about). I was 2nd again in the under 19's league & not in running for the under 17's.

The seniors continue to surprise I'm currently 3rd in the sfa premiership & looking good to finish top 5 at least, I do seem to have imbalanced my side since making my biggest ever move in the transfer market, when i signed Falcao a world class striker on 17k per day wages for 4.75million.But if as expected he settles & so do the side i can see a bright future for both club & player.

I did make it to the uffa youth gold cup final but lost in a game i wasn't expecting or quite ready for. I sign in for my evening session to find myself mid game in a friendly comp game & the moment this ends i get taken into the final (thanks Alex will remember that 1). No one in the gameworld where aware that this prestigious game was going on & with it being the 1st final i feel both me & my opposition manager should of had a private chat & agreed a time for us to play & have time to let the community know so that they could come & watch this show piece final if they chose to, Its games like these that bring the community together or is that just my humble opinion!

close Finale

So apparently you can play to many games in fml & this has resulted in my injury crisis since the new year came in , At one stage i had 13 out injured including my entire senior midfield (2 of which where long term). But through having a fairly decent squad & not 1 superstar as many seem to do I have still managed to be 3rd in the sfa premiership (about 8 games left) , get through to the sfa u21 cup final (against Jak) & with 3 games remaining in the u21 league the game against the jakswans should decide the trophy's destination. A real climax to the season you could say. But again whilst offline i get injury's to 2 key players in my u21s who will now miss the remainder of the season, We cant put off the games as the AI dates have passed so tonight I'm hoping my side steps up & bags my 1st batch of official trophy's.

wages have dropped slightly since 1.1 was added to the mix ,but still youths are going for 9 & 10k per day wages, I think these wages will finally drop to realistic prices once the stadiums are added as most managers don't yet have the budget for them & we could realistically see star players leave clubs for peanuts, shame its 6 weeks away but i can wait.

The 100k 16 year old winger has changed hands now 3x over the last 3 days (people need to start looking more carefully) & the last manager to sign him has released him back to the free agent pile. So hopefully this time he will be on decent wages , shame another numpty has signed him on trial as all this results in is higher wages !!!!!!!!!1

Super Regens

So the dust has hardly settles on the 2nd super Regen spawned into gameworld shearer,Especially the wage Jack Hayward's Blackpool Lights side ended up paying for him. Yet barely 2 days later another 1 appears & a total idiot signs him on trial & then instantly bids. Haven't these idiots worked out yet that by signing players on trial contracts nullifies everybodys scouting ability & lets the ENTIRE GAMEWORLD bid on him. Either this needs changing or people need to be educated about this little flaw. Youth academy's cannot come soon enough so please S.I. pull your fingers out & get them in beta & then into live gameworlds.

Now instead of maybe a handful of sides bidding on Mattia Favero & his wages staying quite reasonable we will get up to 50 or 60 managers bidding for him & driving his wage sky high again,

At 5.30pm there has been 23 bidders on him & as is usual with most bidders they will bid as late as possible so as not too tie up their money until they have too.

New Lows

So after being involved with the beta test of fml youth wages never really got overly silly,well after season 1 anyhow (1st seasons wage auctions no one knew they paid what they bid).
This was probably down to no one knowing how much longer the gameworld was going to run before retail,which would give us the long term stability that most of us craved.

Yet after 6 weeks in gameworld shearer i feel these original worlds will of run there course before next summer!!!
the 1.1 update is coming & the feeling i get from most managers is they will most likely move too a new gameworld with that in it from the off.Now i feel this is a step in the right direction but doesnt go far enough as yet.To me this update sorts out a few of the faults in the senior game but as yet the youth side of things is being left alone.If the updates take roughly 3 months to test & clear out all the bugs its going to be summer before youth academies are introduced. The game going forward should be brilliant but how are they going to fix the stability. Managers are getting frustrated now as signing youth regens has become very hard a basic 1 is costing 1k-4k in wages
a fairly decent 1 5k -15k & anyone looking remotely fantastic you may as well shut your eyes throw a dart a the dart board x3 & bid that.

Our 1st over the top youth wage was Vanderson Padilha on 40k wages & the whole gameworld went up in arms proclaiming madness, But that was surpassed today when Blackpool Lights manager Jack Hayward paid £100,001k per day for a 3.5* potential winger named Giampaulo Canosa. 1st Ive got too Question WHY ? was it down too him appearing new years eve & the bid was made while still intoxicated & secondly somebody else bid 100k as well , do they not realise by doing this the long term game will be over before its really begun. If youths become too expensive early on where will the players come from too replace the existing stars in the gameworld & within months the gameworld will die through not enough decent players to go around. I was hoping that shearer was going to be my long term home but at present it looks like i will be looking for somewhere else to go before the summer.

Onwards

So my seniors manage to bag another trophy (its 2 now) after an epic final in the Intertutu Cup after an epic final against Stuart Gallacher's Aldershot Phoenix 1-1 going into injury time, Veselenovic scores to put me 1 up only for Carrick to score almost straight from the kick off to force extra time.End to End during extra time & the game looked destined for penalties until the very last minute when my 6'6" Serbian beast popped up with the ties winning goal.Huge prize for winning (20k) but every bit helps.

Currently sat 6th in the social premiership with games in hand on most of the sides above me,doubt come the end of the season i will be challenging top after a run of injury's left me without 3-4 seniors & 3 more youngsters who i would of normally promoted.Think losing these players to injury will result in points dropped especially with Kardec missing for a few days & martensson out for 1-2 weeks.

Beat Ian Heyburn's Deportivo Liverpool in the 1st round of the sfa cup in a tense game with just the 1 goal separating these 2 premiership sides.