The World Cup

Something that seems very popular at the moment is the loan world cup, Which is an interim fix while we wait for the code to be added for International football inside FML, I think by now most gameworlds have run it at least once by now & with it brought a lot of good out from within the gameworld community. It is a brilliant way of getting the community interacting with one another & does bring people together who may not of even spoken to one another without this comp/event.

The build up during pre season keeps users logging in at a time most take a break from fml & with it building up all week to the main event it does add quite a lot of chat & banter inside the game. It all starts off with the auctioning off of the nations using a mixture of live auctions & private bidding all run by the mod team, Obviously this is quite time consuming for the mods who are sorting this out, But the positives do out way the negatives currently due to the amount of people taking part.

Once the auctions are over & its down to actually getting players in, Is where this begins to fail in my opinion. This is down to the amount of players that are currently not accessible for a number of different reasons.

The player hasn't been at his current club 28 days.

The player's contract will end before the loan length required will permit.

The Manager will not accept the loan offer.

The Player is already loaned out.

Of course in real life not all players can be called up for a number of reasons, But how often do you see a full starting 11 missing for an International side ? This is my only grumblings in what is realistically the flagship event inside FML at the moment & i do hope it is S.I's next addition to the game. As i feel they should be able to code a lot of this to take the work load away from the mod team & also take away the risk of the players being released by a moderator rather than cancelling the loan & returning the player to his original club.

So for me we really do need these options when running these events going forward.....

A proper auction system allowing the bids on nations using the in game reward points.

A way of assigning the nation won to a user once the auction has ended.

An International comp setting to stop the players being used in official games.

The ability to call up any player for your squad with a limit of 22 players maximum.

Caps won to show on the players profiles.

There may be things i have missed, but these basic options will make it more accessible to everyone & hopefully allow more to take part. So please S.I. pull your fingers out & get this sorted out.