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Proper struggling to get into a save at the moment. What I would like to know is how all those that can have long term saves manage to not get bored.
Proper struggling to get into a save at the moment. What I would like to know is how all those that can have long term saves manage to not get bored.
constantly change targets, or move clubs to manage in a different country are my aims.
I try to do that but I just get bored. The longest save on Fmm1 that I've had has probably been 2/3 seasons, maybe 4. I just read the forums too much as well and that doesn't help. Or when I see something in the news and I want to be that team. I may go back to have a Forest save but just using the players that come through the academy or that or already at the club. I have a feeling though I'll just get bored.
Long term planning is the only way to play, or a journeyman save.
If I ever got bored playing FM I'd try to find something else to do rather than trying to start a new save.
yea i find if i get bored ill go off and play or do something else then come back to it.
I've tried the journeyman saves but I generally don't load enough leagues or load too many which makes it so slow. If I get bored of FM I always try and start a new save, I guess that isn't helping. I don't have many other games which I can play for ages though.
So, in my save at the minute, I've managed in four of Asia's leagues (Hong Kong, China, Australia, South Korea) with a couple of national team jobs thrown in to keep things interesting and I'm just as much into my save as I was at the beginning. When I start to become tired of it again, I'll look at a new challenge again, maybe trying something like hrbfcrule has done or DSYoungEsq or maybe even going back to trying to complete what I set out to do in completing rancers challenge.
It's all about keeping your save fresh. That's how it works for me anyway .
I've holidayed a save for a season and a half and it's now in January 2012. I've had a look and I'm going to be Forest who are 18th in the Prem. They also have Toloi(Brazilian CB) on loan from Man United.
I had the challenge of trying to break the domination of the Big 3/4 in Portugal, using only Portuguese players. This was fun!
I've gone off being Forest. Instead using someone's save where Swindon got took over.
im currently trying to beat every record of most wins in the premier league fa cup league cup champs league and euro super cup with my saints side. Also aiming to take over Fergie in the HOF.
Deisler you've got to take that!
Thinking about doing a career update on my Darlington save, only problem is that I'm in the 3rd season now so could be out of kilt. Would people be interested.
Yeah, suggest you just briefly cover the first two seasons if you don't have the details and then start properly with the third one.
Still nothing like taking an Icelandic to Champions League glory... still can't get 2 in a row.
can you change my title to:
"Acidmonkey's 2011 World Tour!"
Done, although for future reference this thread: Mod Requests is the one that is usually used for title changes, deletions etc.
Guys, what are your opinions on Steam? Both in a Football Manager sense and with any other games too?
Also, one very basic question I have is, if I have a game on Steam such as FM or whatever, am I able to play it if I am offline? Or do I need to be logged into the Steam thing and on the Internet to play?
I know we have some who are quite pro- Steam, like Flamers. I've always been negative on Steam but then I recently bought Terraria with it and now I'm thinking maybe I could try FM on it in the future.
As you said I am quite "pro steam". I have a consistent connection so I don't have a problem but you can play in offline mode fine so that is no worry. The main thing I like is that I can chat while I play
Cheers for the replies Acidmonkey and Flamers.
I've hated Steam ever since I had a bad experience with it when installing FM09. So I avoided it ever since.
But recently, I bought Terraria via Steam, and it seems to have changed quite a bit. I think maybe I might try installing FM on it in the future and maybe try some other games via Steam.
I was just wondering what people's general views were. Originally, I kind of hated that it was intrusive and I also disliked having a third-party application on my computer in order to access a game. But now, I figure having all of my games in one place and some of the other features, like automatic patching and updates for example, are worth it.
i was in the same boat i hated it, for the exact same reasons, but now i couldn't do with out it, so much better than before.
Yeah, I might have to give it a shot with FM too.
Terraria is really good btw.
Alot of people had problems with Steam for FM09 iirc. I would suggest give it a try again as I've never head any problems with it. If I don't have a connection(when I'm in the car to a mates usually) it just says that it couldn't find a connection and asks you whether to retry or to sign in offline. I don't think you can get the accomplishments when you're offline though but surely that isn't a problem.
Cheers for that NF.
Yeah, I'm not that bothered by the achievements, although I guess it could be interesting.
I suppose you can't get them retrospectively? You have to be playing when you make the achievement right ?
I like getting the achievements there are some fun ones to try and get. Pretty sure you have to be online to get the achievement.
yea cant get them retrospectively, they are fun but there are two that's broken but SI wouldn't accept that on the twitter feed
How can they not accept it when zero percent of people have done them. I never turn my internet off and have achieved the continental king one twice.
exactly there's only that and the professor achievement 0% of people have but on twitter they said they have been assured they work.
Would be easier if they actually tried to get the achievements themselves. Would only take a couple of hours if they cheated to see if they work.
Yeah, Steam? Bad FM09 experience and wont ever go back.
I like Steam. I've bought a lot of games on it and there are sales sometimes. I really have no complaints about them.
Anyone on tonight?
hahahaha good nite or should it be god morning lol..
Worst thing about Twitter updates is it shows me getting smashed
<----- probably the only person that doesnt use twitter
woo, means you wont know i got smashes 7-2.....oh bugger
I've not got into twitter either. I've got enough distractions on the computer, I don't need another one!
You bought a new computer recently, didn't you Dafuge?
What specs & cost etc.? I'm curious as you seem to run a good amount of leagues and zoom through the seasons!
I think I bought it a couple of years ago, can't quite remember. No idea how much it cost, but I remember it was a lot, probably not far off £1k. I could post the specs if you want, but it is probably a bit dated now.
To be honest, the speed at which I play isn't much to do with my computer, it is to do with how I play. I stick to one tactic, let the assistant take the press conferences and OI's and at the moment I watch the matches with commentary only. I also start a game with a lot less than the recommended limit for the players (something like 50k instead of 125k). I think the only time I really notice the speed is when it is saving/loading, which I don't tend to do that often.
still not found a machine Crouchy?
i noticed this the other day and is a decent spec for FM bit dated as its all about the i3/5/7 CPUs now but a quad core is still more than capable
Hoping that a new computer will get me back into the newer FMs!
Cheers for the link. I'll take a look now.
Currently 14 games in with Celtic trailing Rangers by 5 points but finally got my tactics sorted I think. I've been knocked out of the League Cup and Champions League so its not a great first season!!
I've managed to raise £13.75m offloading 6 players including Samaras (£3.4m) & Hinkel (£3m) replacing them with Landon Donovan & Lataouro Acosta for £7.35m & £1.1m respectively.
I have created a World Champions League that takes teams from over 100 countries and plays a format similar to the European Champions League. I was thinking of being a New Zealand based team and trying to win the World Champions League. I have heard people complain that it is harder to get a non-European league up in the star rating system so it rivals that of the European nations, is this true?
Been ages since I did a career thread so hoping to put one up for this save, the league and OFC Champions League will be a bit boring but the World one will be one hell of a challenge.
Well looking at the ESPN Schedule im going to be set for tomorrow playing this:
9:30 AZ alkmaar V PSV
11:15 CSKA Moscow V St Petersberg
1:30 Mainz V Leverkusen
3:30 Bayern Munich v Borussia Monchengladbach
so if anyone needs me ill be in front of the TV with FM11
Sounds lovely!
Tuesday will be just as good
FM12 announcement time must be coming fairly soon. Maybe the end of the month? So, I was wondering, is anyone on the FMCU forum starting to think of their plans for FM12 yet? I know it's a bit early but I thought it could be an interesting discussion.
What are you guys expecting from FM12? And what would you like to see? What are you hoping for most of all? Finally, tell us what your plans are on your current saves in the meantime!
I've decided that this year I'm going to go into the new game with a totally open mind and give FM12 a chance to wow me! I'm going to give FM12 a real go this year, so I hope it is going to be good!
Meanwhile, I'm planning on sticking with FM10 for a bit longer. My plan is to stick with my FM10 Saints save, plug away slowly but surely and try to achieve some of my longer term goals (i.e. Michel Vermeer breaking records, new stadium named after me and that kind of thing). But I'm going to be playing much more slowly now. I found that too much FM10 was turning me against the game and getting me frustrated. My new theory is little and often. I'm also planning to go a bit more in depth with my Saints save and to do some monthly updates, I think.
I also have an FM08 save on the go, basically because I love that version of the game and I know that I can load a ton of leagues. I'm playing it fairly casually. I find I can switch back to that version and just enjoy it so much. So I intend to keep that going. I'm not sure about posting it on here though. I don't know if anyone would be interested in an FM08 save. Would you guys be interested?
Then really it's just a case of keeping the fingers crossed for FM12 to capture my attention. I'm also planning on buying a new computer at some point and I want to get a spec which really improves the speed of the latest games for me. So, hopefully FM12 will be a new era for me!
I had some time away from FM recently (played a lot of Minecraft and Terraria) but I always missed my regular dose of virtual football management! I think the time away did me some good and now I'm looking forward to FM12 with renewed optimism.
What I'm hoping for most of all from FM12 is for it to feel more dynamic and responsive, plus for all of the core features (tactics, training, transfers and that kind of thing) to get a real polish and major improvement.
So how about you guys?
I'm looking forward to FM12, pretty much just so I can get a new long term game going!
I'm not really sure if there are any major new features I can think of that I would like to see, but I'd be happy to see lots of new improvements to current features (like the tweaks to training with FM11).
I'll be sticking with my FM11 save until FM12 release, but I don't really have any long term plans. I think I might stay with Pompey for a while, but I'm not sure if that will be enough to keep me going until FM12. Perhaps I'll have a few short stints in the countries I have not managed in yet.
I'm fairly certain about what my FM12 game will be, it will be a long term game based at just one club in a smaller nation. I'm not quite sure which nation yet, but it will definitely be European, possibly Wales or Northern Ireland.
also looking forward to FM12,
again there's nothing i can think of feature wise id like, possibly something like testimonials etc. but some tweaks to training fix the weird little things too like the feeder club thing and ill be happy
just started a new ish game on FM11 so will be playing that till im don't, as for a save on FM12 i think it will be a journeyman game with all league loaded,
I'm also going to stick with my FM11 save until I get FM12. I might delay buying the game while I get my MA thesis done though.... Might
For FM 12, I think I'll do another journeyman but with more European leagues that go down a few tiers. My last two careers have mainly featured leagues with one or two tiers and that seems to bring success at a continental level pretty quickly. I'm looking for more depth next time.
As for new features, I think agents were a nice addition to FM11 and I'd like to see more detail there. Agents for managers would be a good idea - they could have a hand in negotiating new deals and finding new clubs for you. Could be fun!
if anyones bothered ive watched all three matches today and im 78mins into Bayern's game im surprised at myself for sitting through the full day!
I think training needs to be completely revamped not sure how but it needs to change as it is very boring at the moment. I enjoyed FM11 but it can be improved with new training and better press conferences also interaction with other managers is very annoying.
I'm not looking for anything specific from my FM12 save, but I'm certainly going to start with either Leiria or Albacete.
Due to not being able to play as often this year, I've only reached League Two with Newcastle Town, so FM2012 might be the first one in the series (except CM Italia) that I miss.
I'm going to carry on with my current save until FM12 is released as well. I want to try the youth challenge on FM12 but I can't see myself having the patience to do it so I'll most likely start up another journeyman save but with more leagues this time as I kinda regret not loading up England and Spain.
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And I really hope they fix those bugs because I was really annoyed with my first Crazy Canuck career in FM11 crashed because of the xml files. I would have been in the 2050s by now.
i dont think im going to buy FM12 i just dont seem to be 'Wanting' the game at the moment. quite bored of FM im general at the moment.
I'm determined this year to keep playing FM11 until the last patch for FM12 comes out. Unless FM12 comes out with some really killer feature that makes me move immediately.
I always say this and move as soon as the demo is out though.
I am still new to FM11 and still on my first save with Bayer Leverkusen (who were poor IRL the other day against Mainz, I'm sure acidmonkey would agree!)
Anyway, one of the few things I am disappointed with is the feeder/parent club feature.
For example, I sent some scouts to Central Europe and it became obvious that a lot of the best talent was to be found in Spain. I asked for a feeder club and ended up with Cordoba in Spain's 2nd tier - a decent standard for my youth team players to gain experience. My idea was to buy some of the talented youngsters, give them a year or so with the coaching and facilities at Leverkusen and then loan them to Cordoba for a year to play in the first team - returning as more rounded players that are close to being good enough for the first team. Sounds good in principle.
The problem is with the interaction with the feeder club. There are no guarantees in them playing the loanee for a start. I think a good feture would be that you could have a meeting with the manager of the feeder club every 3/6/12 months and be able to talk about players at each club. Eg Would you be interested in taking Player X on a year long loan? We really like the look of player Y, can we give him some experience? Player Z doesn't appear to be in your plans, can we have first option to try and negotiate a contract with him? Obviously this could become interesting if a new manager took over and had different ideas etc.
I think that is a very good suggestion. It would be great to have some kind of correspondance with the feeder club before sending someone there, to find out what sort of squad status they would give him.
I hate sending my great youngsters out, only to have to recall them because they don't get any games.
Agree about the feeder clubs. I'd also like to see the chance to offer players (at the very least for loan deals) directly to a specific club or clubs. I'm sure that's how some clubs operate often without a formal agreement - usually to a lower division local team.
Having had some fun with the international side of the game recently, there are also a few things that need to be updated there. For one, I was under the impression that clubs can't withdraw players for no reason, even for friendlies (e.g. how Capello wanted Wilshere to turn up for England duty to be assessed ahead of the aborted Holland game) but it still happens for friendlies in FM. On a related note, a variation on the club request for 45 minutes of game time only as I often hear of clubs requesting their players play no more than 60 minutes or so rather than a half.
Finally, it would be more realistic if the game reflected the increasing number of teams playing 'neutral' friendlies such as Brazil playing at the Emirates or in Qatar.
yea it would be good to see more neutral international friendlies on the international side, id quite like to see training camps and being in charge of the training for the national team.
jt_northender - Yea Leverkusen were pretty bad i don't mind following Dortmund ha ha
Steve Rutherford
This is one of a kind, a five star regen coach!
This is the first one I've seen for a long time, has anyone else seen any?
how can you tell if hes 5 star rating?
When I assign him to his training area (shooting), it shows me that he is rated at five stars.
@dafuge nice coach , a bit of a question about regens , do you guys try to get two footer regens like i do , they are so rare in fm even they are half a star lower in my scout report then my other target i pretty much go after him especially if his a midfielder.
Also i am playing a lot in in low leagus so a two footer regen there is a god.
Football Manager 2012 Announced!
Suprised nothing has been mentioned here yet. Anything in there that has got people thinking about saves for FM12?
The option to activate/deactivate national leagues during the game is going to make a huge difference for journeyman careers!! Wonder if it will work with additional xml files as well?
Interesting question that. I don't tend to use them but I can imagine that being able to add new leagues as they are created would be rather good.
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Especially for people who havent got the greatest pc
I'm more bothered about Leiria's new situation being put in the game
And That would be?
Sounds like that should be easy enough to put in intially, but I'm not sure hard coded stadium moves depending on attendances are possible.
Does anyone use the classic tactics module on their files? Having had next to no luck with the current tactics model, I've reverted to this and seem to have found some success...
A 4-2 win over 2nd place, a 3-1 loss away but then a 5-0 thumping of Port Vale. Could be onto something here.
Re: FM12
To be honest, I'm a bit non-plussed about the announcement. Sure, I can see that ability to add/remove leagues the further through your career will be a big bonus for lots of players, but until I see it with my own eyes, I am slightly sceptical on how well it will be implemented in the game. What I don't want to happen is long term games becoming severely unstable the further into your career you get because of this. As I play careers that last 20+ seasons, I would be really frustrated if a crash happened after I had commited so much time to the save.
Also, the fact that there will be 800 new features has also left me feeling slightly concerned. That's potentially 800 bugs that will need ironing out between release day and the Feb/Mar patch. Perhaps I'm more from the school where 'if it's not broken, don't fix it' comes to mind. I don't need new, shiny, meaningless features to buy the game, but I do understand that SI need to do this to appeal to the mass market. I will probably buy FM12 regardless, but I would much rather have a more all-round polished game with improvements to the match engine and 3D graphics. Unless I've misread the announcement, there's no mention of any improvements to the match engine
However, I'm pleased that press conferences and teamtalks are being improved. I really dislike them at the moment, they have too big an influence in the game, and become very monotonous after a while. I'm hoping the new 'tone' feature will do the trick.
As I said, I will probably buy FM12, but maybe not on release day as there's nothing there to excite me at the moment. If this is true, this will be the first time ever that I've not bought the game on the day of release. However, I do have an open mind, and I'm willing to be proven wrong, but I think there's going too many bells and whistles for my liking.
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I'll buy it on release day, simply as I want to play as an updated Leiria
ill get it on release day two its one of three games im intending to get.
Kind of with you AK. I was a late starter on FM11 and am still getting into it, especially whilst enjoying my current career. I'll probably wait on FM12 til the new year
I'm getting FM12 on Steam on release day as usual.
As some of you may know, I don't care about most of the features. I just want a bug free MLS.
I'll probably not buy it on release day. The game tends to be properly playable only from patch 3, so I'll probably buy it then instead. If I buy it, that is. I'll see. Have to see how the new features pan out first. But right now I am liking my FM10 game so have no urge to rush over to a brand new string of failures on FM12
Btw, when they say 800 features, I reckon a good amount of those are pretty small things. But ofc with that much new stuff there will be a risk that bugs will not be ironed out by release day. It's a lot of ground to cover.


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by butterfly11 Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 07:27PM Report as inappropriate
A bit much to have to do on your own
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There were a bit too many braid styles in here for me, but overall I love these hair ideas. It is always challenging to keep your hair off your neck in a creative and pretty way. It's nice to get some inspiration.
by HeathRene Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 04:09PM Report as inappropriate
How do you braid your hair against your head!? I love bang braids, but can't do it!!! UGH!!!
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Sock buns don't work on my curly hair:(
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My hair is so Blondy and puffy ,hope this bun suites on me
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Rafael Nadal, Back in the Dirt
He resembled the man we remember. The hair was the hair; a little shorter, but not short. The biceps were the biceps. The Nike NKE 0.09 % get-up, as always, was customized for him: "squadron" blue bandana and shorts, a shirt in Barney the Dinosaur purple, a touch of orange sherbet around the neck. He swooped that famous lasso forehand. He took forever between serves. He sweated. He toweled. He grunted. He sounded like a man lifting a heavy credenza. Yeah. That was his grunt.
He was terrible in the opening moments. It had been 222 days since Rafael Nadal last played singles tennis, the last time being an immolation in Wimbledon's second round to a rampaging Lukas Rosol. A knee injury was blamed for Nadal's absence—a partial tear in his left patella tendon—but the delay dragged on in maddening spurts. He was said to be getting better, then not so better. Training, but not playing. Nadal seemed to be on his way back for the Australian Open, but then removed himself with a stomach bug. It got to be aggravating. Rafa promised, Rafa denied.
Now here he was, finally, in Vina del Mar, Chile, his first appearance in South America in eight years. His opponent Wednesday was Federico Delbonis, a 22-year-old from Argentina who entered the match with world ranking of 113 and a career record of 9-14. Delbonis was predicted to be a speed bump. Then he wasn't a speed bump. Delbonis took the first two games easily, knocking Nadal around the court with a heavy forehand. But in the fourth game, playing at deuce, Delbonis pushed Nadal deep into the alley on the forehand side. That's a defensive shot for all but the best, but Nadal came around on it sharply, cracking a rocket forehand that ripped the inside line. A helpless Delbonis watched it pass like a comet. Nadal jabbed a triumphant fist.
Hello, Rafa.
They went back and forth for a while. Nadal stayed in control, but he was rusty. Of course he was. Seven months is seven months. During this period, tennis has moved underneath his feet. When Nadal left the game, he was the second-ranked player in the world. He is fifth in the planet now, not bad for someone on ice since June, but it's Nadal's lowest ranking since May 2005, before he won his first of 11 Grand Slams. In his place, Andy Murray has risen, taking Olympic gold and then his first Slam at the U.S. Open, and playing with a new confidence. Novak Djokovic is Novak Djokovic, World No. 1. Nadal's most indelible rival, Roger Federer, hovers at No. 2, at age 31. Nadal's countryman from Spain, David Ferrer, sits at No. 4.
The men's game has still been good. But it hasn't been the same. There's saying in boxing that "styles make fights" and the same is true of tennis. Nadal's physical, punishing game provided a perfect contrast to more traditional opponents, especially Federer's elegance. The rivalry matches between the heavyweights became mesmerizing, almost mandatory. Fans of men's tennis found themselves in the odd space of rooting for the favorites. A tournament denied a semifinal with the Big Four was somehow less of a tournament.
For too long, the Big Four was the Big Three. Not bad. But shorthanded.
Nadal was in Chile for the clay, of course. Vina del Mar is not a top tournament—the Journal's Carl Bialik pointed out on Wednesday, it's the type of low-level ATP event Nadal has traditionally avoided. But its red clay is like a comfort blanket for Nadal. His presence at Vina del Mar was not unlike the Stones showing up to play a small club. The Tennis Channel excitedly arranged a broadcast. Analyst Justin Gimelstob checked in via phone. "The whole city is absolutely electrified by Rafa Nadal being here," he said.
Nadal closed out Delbonis 6-3, 6-2. He is favored to win in Chile, despite his extended absence, and from there is due to play in Brazil and Mexico. The most obvious short-term goal is the French Open in Paris, also on red clay, where Nadal has won a remarkable seven times, including last year. He is likely to face strong competition from a motivated Djokovic, seeking the only major he still hasn't won, not to mention Step Two of a calendar Grand Slam.
This little match at Vina del Mar was simply a baby step for Nadal. Nothing more. Fans have missed that bandana, that lasso forehand, and even that heavy grunt, and there will be great pressure upon Nadal to recapture old greatness. But that wasn't the message of the day. The message was that Rafael Nadal is back playing tennis. It felt like a relief. It felt like enough.


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I have a load of data that consists of websites and the "power" of their backlinks. The lowest power is 1. The highest is 949876. The average is 6056.
I want to be able to assign a site a ranking from 1-100 that denotes how powerful they are. I thought I could do this using a nice graph like this one (It's supposed to be a smooth curve ;-) http://i.stack.imgur.com/0fIRa.png
So, on the $x$-axis I have values from $0$ to $100$. I know the following points: $$x = 1, y = 1$$ $$x = 50, y = 6056$$ $$x = 100, y = 949876$$
How can I find $y$ for another value of $x$? .. or am I approaching this in totally the wrong way?


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Love Stories Suck!
Posted in Nobody's JournalAugust 25, 2011No comments
Don't blame me. After all, when I love, I love with all my he(art). But, I've been seeing this message all over NYC, and given the current state of my personal life, (i'm a nobody, so my break-up went unreported) the sentiments kind of resonate with me. Check out this "Love Story" from Guilmoore:
Yes, Love Stories sometimes suck, still everybody (including this NOBODY) LOVES to fuck! #imjustsaying. Have a great day, LOVE SOMEBODY or, avoid the hassle and just Fuck somebody really good. Bottom line, Nobody Cares.


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6 Glitches That Accidentally Invented Modern Gaming
#3. A Disgruntled Employee Invents the Easter Egg
When most people think of the birth of the action RPG genre, they think of The Legend of Zelda. Link had a forebearer, however, in the form of a 1979 Atari 2600 game simply titled Adventure. It worked pretty much the same way as the early Zelda games: Players picked up items to help them move through dungeons, and slew monsters and dragons. It was a pretty straightforward game, and a relatively popular one at that.
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It's because it was so orange.
But back in the late 70s and early 80s, Atari was kind of a shitty place to work. Most games were made by just one person, and they didn't even get credit on the box. So when Adventure's creator, Warren Robinett, got to work on the game, he decided to stick it to The Man by hiding his name in the game's code. But instead of just adding "SUCK MY DICK. 8===D SINCERELY, WARREN ROBINETT" he decided to hide it in a really clever fashion.
Robinett, being the sole programmer on Adventure, knew perfectly well that the game had a really bad graphical glitch brought on by the system's limited hardware: When too many objects appeared on the screen, the images would begin rapidly flashing -- a phenomenon typically referred to as sprite flickering (if you've played any of the old Mega Man games, you probably know exactly what we're talking about).
Robinett decided to exploit the glitch by including a secret item in the game: A small 1x1 pixel square that was the same color as the floor, making it effectively invisible. If picked up by the player and brought to another part of the dungeon, players could intentionally trigger the sprite flickering. This would also cause a black bar that served as a dungeon wall to flicker. Players could walk through it, and inside was a plain purple room with "CREATED BY WARREN ROBINETT" written on the floor.
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And thus was born the first Easter egg in video game history. By the time Atari found out, it was too late and too costly to recall the cartridges, so they just called it an "added value." (Robinett had luckily already moved on from the company by that point.)
One of the suits at Atari was the guy who, in describing it, coined the term "Easter egg." Today, if a game doesn't have well-hidden levels, items or unlockable sarcastic voiceovers, we feel cheated.
#2. Street Fighter Accidentally Invents Combos
Street Fighter II inspired nearly 20 years worth of fighting games. It's still played in tournaments today. Well, the Hyper Street Fighter II Alpha Turbo Mega HD remix is, anyway.
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When developing what would be become Street Fighter II, producer Noritaka Funamizu noticed that there was a glitch that would let you sneak in two punches as part of the same move. He discovered it during the car-smashing bonus stage, also known as the best damn bonus stage ever.
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Uppercutting the shit out of cars -- this game had it all.
The bug took perfect timing and let players sneak in a couple of extra hits, which was important because this was a multi-player game. If gamers fighting against each other could exploit this, they could string together several hits without the opponent being able to respond.
Noritaka left the bug in the game because he figured it'd be too difficult for players to pull off anyway (the rest of the development team didn't even know about it). But he underestimated the dedication and, quite frankly, insanity of competitive fighting game players, and soon these "combo" attacks became all the rage.
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Starting with Super Street Fighter II (one of what would turn out to be many, many iterations of the game), the bug became official. The game started keeping track and rewarding a higher score for these combination attacks. It added a completely different dynamic to the game -- specifically the ability to instantly come from behind in a fight that seemed lost, by stringing together an insane combo:
Now, making a fighting game without combo attacks would be like, well, a Tomb Raider game without giant boobs. If you've ever played Tekken, Soul Calibur or pretty much any fighting game in the modern era, you can thank Noritaka Funamizu for letting a glitch slide.
#1. A Programmer Sucking at Games Gave Us the Konami Code
If you've played Gradius you don't need us to describe it. If you haven't, we can describe it in one word: LASERS!
The game and all of its sequels are known for being bastard hard. At any one time, it is perfectly possible for there to be dozens of individual danger zones on the screen. By danger zones, we of course mean areas on the screen you'll die instantly and make you have to start again, without any of the power-ups you just busted your ass unlocking.
This wasn't an isolated thing and you weren't the only one who sucked: Kazuhisa Hashimoto, one of the guys who helped freaking create the home port of the game, couldn't play it. After watching his ship explode endlessly during play testing, he eventually thought, Screw this, I'm the programmer! and created a code -- a simple set of button presses to give himself a full set of power-ups, no doubt laughing to himself as he played back through the game.
So why are we calling it a glitch? He accidentally left the code in the game when it was released.
That code is what is now famously known as the Konami Code (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A). It's a string that old-school gamers know by heart (they should -- it was the only thing that let them get even half way through Contra). Not only did the code make it into Konami's subsequent releases, but the code has been somewhat of an Easter egg in dozens of other games from other developers. In Resident Evil 2, it gave you infinite ammo; in Quake 4 it completed all your objectives for you; and in Tony Hawk 2 it let you unlock Spider-Man.
Someone did it in real life, and it created Bjork.
And after that, the code started leaking into the real world, becoming a bona fide pop culture phenomenon. Just try entering it here (we really don't want to spoil the surprise, just trust us). Dozens of other websites have implemented Easter eggs when you enter the code -- our favorite is probably the Marvel.com version, in which a tiny rodent wearing a Deadpool mask would leap onto the screen and berate you for it.
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The only really disappointing thing is nothing happens if you enter it on the Konami website. Amazing, considering even ESPN used it to make rainbow unicorn farts all over their homepage.
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RAGE PC Game for $5.99 + free shipping
Rage is one of my favorite PC Games. Great plot, awesome FPS, and most of all, beautiful graphics.
Cheapest price by far. The recent Steam sale had RAGE on sale for $10.19.
Free shipping. NO MIR.
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Wow, you're right; Beats even Steam's recent sale.
Great find, thanks!
Glad to see that woot finally let someone post this. I tried to post it for hours but it wouldn't let me. Great price on, what in my opinion, a great game.
I was surprised by this one too. I've hated most of id's recent games, but this one was pretty fun.
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|The Most Rev. Henry J. Mansell, archbishop of Hartford, left, talks with Joe Mengacci, a member of Saint Mary's Hospital's board of directors. Dan Moen, CEO of LHP Hospital Group, and Chad Wable, president and CEO of Saint Mary's Hospital, during the Saint Mary's Hospital Champion Dinner at the Villa Rosa in Waterbury in September 2011. Relations between LHP and Saint Mary's have cooled thanks to two lawsuits filed by divisions of LHP. Jim Shannon Republican-American
LHP Southwest Connecticut LLC, one of two subsidiaries of LHP Hospital Group Inc. that filed a civil lawsuit against Saint Mary's Hospital last month, has voluntary dismissed its suit in Texas and re-filed the complaint in a federal court in Connecticut.
The "notice of dismissal without prejudice" was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division. The lawsuit was also re-filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New Haven, where it has been assigned to Judge Janet Bond Arterton.
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Deal Alert! GET PAID to take home Revlon Nearly Naked foundation
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Oh, no, if only I'd seen this before. But fun stuff here, and I'll be back around to check this out again.ReplyDelete
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I'm definitely going to try this out today. Hopefully it gets somewhere. Lol. I'll let you know how it goes! Thanks for the tips!! :DReplyDelete
- Steffy MJuly 17, 2013 at 2:36 PM
I don't have a working printer currently to do the Video Values but had the 2.00 coupon on my Wellness card which brought it down to 3.99, which is still pretty awesome. I have wanted to try this but hadn't gotten around to it yet so yay! thanks for the heads up :) wearing today and Shell is probably the best shade match I've ever had in a DS foundation and the finish is lovely, doesn't even need a setting powder which makes my combo/dry skin very happy!ReplyDeleteReplies
That's great! You could watch the videos at home so the coupons are saved onto your account and then go to the library to print them if you'd like - I've done that before. Since you already bought it, you could go in with the coupons and receipt for a price adjustment - I've done that before! Or just buy another ;)Delete
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oh now that's a good idea, note to self :)ReplyDelete
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The Commuter Dash 5k run/walk is a FREE event hosted by PART and Triad Air Awareness to encourage people to try alternative transportation at least once between April 6-July 6, 2013. High Point Mayor, Bernita Sims, will kick-off the Triad Commute Challenge 2013 in Downtown High Point on April 6, 2013 at the High Point Theater starting at 9am. Free public transportation to the event is available. Visit us online at http://triadcommutechallenge.com/ to register and learn more.


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Sutton Four Oaks Ward is the most northerly Ward in the city of Birmingham. The Ward includes
the neighbourhoods known as Hill Hook, Hill Wood, Roughley, Doe Bank, Ley Hill, Four Oaks and Four Oaks Park with Mere Green being its commercial centre, offering a Community Centre and Library.
The Ward is characterised by a mixture of attractive, well-established and newly developed residential areas and by green belt to the north east of the town.
Four Oaks Ward's most notable feature is Sutton Park, which gained National Nature Reserve status in 1997. It is an amenity unique in the Midlands and one of the largest local authority parks of its kind in the United Kingdom. It is the remnant of an extensive forest which once covered most of the Midlands region and its association with the people of Sutton Coldfield dates back to the former Borough's Royal Charter of 1528. Most of the land area covered by the park is situated within the boundaries of Four Oaks Ward.
Once within the park, its natural features (including woodland and wetland) are large enough to give the illusion of open countryside. Sutton Park, which is also designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest, provides a rich habitat for a vast range of wildlife and plants.
Mere Green boasts a wealth of retail establishments as well as offices for service sector organisations providing good quality local employment.
The Ward is well connected by road and rail, served by the three 'Cross-City' rail stations of Four Oaks, Butlers Lane and Blake Street. These enable people to travel to Lichfield Trent Valley in the north and Redditch in the south, via Birmingham New Street station where the national rail network can be accessed. The M6 (Toll) motorway, the A5 and the A38 as well as a network of motorways are all accessible within a short distance.
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LORENA (October 17, 2012)--After a mistrial and an acquittal on a similar charge, a former Lorena man was back in court Wednesday in Waco being tried for aggravated sexual assault of a child.
Christopher Shannon Robles, 30, is on trial for the aggravated sexual assault of a child younger than 14, an incident that according to court documents happened in May 2002.
It's Robles' third time in court for the same offense, although the first two trials involved an incident that happened at a different time and to a different victim.
A spokesman for the McLennan County District Attorney's office said Wednesday the first trial, in February, ended in a mistrial.
The case went back to trial on April on two counts in connection with the alleged sexual abuse of a child who was only 6 years old at the time of the alleged offense, and ended in an acquittal after the jury deliberated just 90 minutes.
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GENESEO, N.Y. - Geneseo alumnus Bryan Sawyer, a 2002 SUNY Geneseo School of Education graduate, has won the 3rd Annual Top Teacher Search from the nationally syndicated television program "Live! With Kelly." Sawyer is a special education teacher for grades 2 and 3 at Karigon Elementary School in Clifton Park, N.Y. He was among 12 teachers from across the country competing for the honor.
Show host Kelly Ripa thanked Sawyer for the service he provides his special education students and parents.
"We want them to do as much as they can," said Sawyer on the show. "They are part of our school and community and if we set the bar high for them, there is no limit to what they can do."
In the annual competition, the program searches for teachers who make a difference in and out of the classroom. Teachers are eligible from public and private schools, from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. Sawyer was nominated by a parent of twin boys with autism.
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Louisville Marriott East Opening
A new luxury hotel, Louisville Marriott East, is set to open on June 21. This $30 million rebuild of the former Park Inn, located at 1903 Embassy Square Blvd., features unique architecture that includes an open-concept lobby, and bourbon-inspired decor. Operated by Louisville-based Musselman Hotels LLC, this property will bring the amenities and service level of the top downtown hotels to the east end of town. The hotel also offers a new bourbon-themed restaurant, Charr'd Bourbon Kitchen & Lounge, showcasing local, bourbon-infused food, unique cocktails and more than 80 types of bourbon. Executive Chef Ryan Montgomery, formerly of Jeff Ruby's at Belterra Casino, will head up the kitchen. For more information visit www.marriott.com.
Bristol Bar and Grille Part of Urban Bourbon Trail
The Bristol Bar and Grille is proud to announce that its downtown location at 614 W. Main St. is now an official stop on the Urban Bourbon Trail, the self-guided tour highlighting Louisville's best bourbon bars. The restaurant, winner of more "Best of Louisville" awards than any other local restaurant, offers an extensive bourbon list. Open to anyone age 21 or older, the Urban Bourbon Trail is a free program that allows individuals to fill their passports with stamps from all 20 participating stops to receive a special gift. Trailblazers are encouraged to take their time enjoying bourbon responsibly, as there is no time frame for completing the program. Passports can be picked up at any of the stops on the Urban Bourbon Trail and at the Louisville Visitors Center (located at 301 S. Fourth St.), or participants can download the app for iPhone or Android. For more information, call the Downtown Bristol location at 502.582.1995, or find out more about all five Bristol locations at www.bristolbarandgrille.com.
Lis Lis Designs Open House
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The Diaper Fairy, Louisville's cloth diaper delivery and laundry service, was highlighted this week as one of five diaper services from across the country in an article in The Wall Street Journal entitled "What's the Cost." The June 6 article, which can be found in both The Wall Street Journal's online and paper publications, summarized the benefits of diaper services and provided a cost comparison in different cities across the United States.
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Starting July 1, state visitors and Kentucky locals will be able to embark on an adrenaline fueled tour of the most exciting zipline adventures that Kentucky has to offer. Zip the Bluegrass is a new program, free to join, that features five distinctive Kentucky locations: Mammoth Cave Adventures, Black Mountain Thunder Zipline, Red River Gorge Zipline Tours, The Big Zipper and MEGA Zips in Louisville. Participants will receive 15 percent off general admission at each of the remaining four locations after their first zipline visit. They will also receive an embossed seal for their passports from each stop, and a prize upon completion of the tour. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/zipthebluegrass.
First Choice Market
First Choice Market, a 20,000 square-foot, full-service grocery store located at 3044 Wilson Ave., is now open, serving an estimated 35,000 citizens in Louisville's Park DuValle area and surrounding neighborhoods.
"This grocery has been a long-awaited addition to the HOPE VI revitalization of the Park DuValle neighborhood, a valuable retail service that the residents have needed and requested," said Mayor Greg Fischer. "First Choice will not only serve as a valuable anchor tenant for a new retail complex, it will bring needed jobs to the area and also will play a role in creating a healthier neighborhood by making fresh and wholesome foods more easily accessible to residents. I applaud the dedicated team of private and public sector leaders who have made the dream of this store a reality."
First Choice Market will anchor the new retail center called Wilson Crossing and will feature a wide-selection of fresh fruits and vegetables, a deli counter and bakery to complement an extensive line of grocery items. The store will be managed by local, independent grocery operator ValuMarket, which has five other stores in the Louisville area.
"As developers with an emphasis on urban development, we understand the importance of having a full service grocery store for neighborhood sustainability," said Robert Holmes, developer of First Choice Market and Wilson Crossing. "It was critical that we had a store owner/operator that had the kind of experience the ValuMarket organization brings to the table."
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I've been told by a high school choral director that drinking sweet drinks, such as soda, before singing is not not healthy/good for the voice. Is this true? If so, why is it bad for you?
It is often not sweet drinks, per se, but what's in the most popular sweet drinks.
So for example, soda (I assume the UK equivalent would be a 'soft drink' like Coca Cola?) often contains caffeine, which has a dehydrating effect and therefore affects the voice. This was borne out by a study in 1999 'Effect of caffeine on the vocal folds: a pilot study'* which (if I understand the abstract correctly) concluded that caffeine does produce an alteration in voice quality but the effect can vary for each person.
The British Voice Association recommends steering clear of alcohol, coffee, tea and cola. Their voice care leaflet is at: http://www.british-voice-association.com/downloadable-resources.htm
Any drink that is a diuretic (regardless of caffeine) can cause problems because if you are urinating more often, you're losing valuable water - and staying hydrated is important for a singer.
Sweet drinks that contain milk can also cause problems if drunk just before singing because dairy products create thick mucus, making it harder to sing.
So, in summary, I haven't seen anything that specifically points to a problem with a drink being 'sweet' (or containing sugar) but it's perhaps more likely that those drinks have other ingredients that may affect a singer. As a final thought, singers ideally should maintain a good level of fitness, so cutting down on drinks with lots of sugar may be part of that maintenance!
*Ref: Akhtar, Wood and Rubin at the Department of Speech and Language Therapy, Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London, UK.
There are two potential problems for "sweet drinks" (more likely, carbonated drinks)
Milk is a bad choice because it causes mucus buildup.
In summation, water is the best choice for optimal vocal performance. You can get away with drinking carbonated drinks or caffeinated drinks, but you may find notes hard to sing as you feel a burp coming up. Not to mention, sweet drinks are loaded with sugar, so you don't need them anyway!


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I read that in the MSSM with mSUGRA boundary conditions, the mass spectrum of the model is determined by five parameters at the GUT scale: $m_0$ (universal scalar mass), $m_{1/2}$ (universal gaugino mass), $A_0$ (universal trilinear coupling), $\tan \beta$ (ratio of Higgs vevs), and sign[$\mu$] (Higgs/Higgsino mass parameter). I have two questions: First, why is it the sign of $\mu$ rather than $\mu$? Second, why $\mu$ can take the two opposite signs?
I guess I know the answer now. In the MSSM, once we minimise the scalar potential of the Higgs, we obtain: $$M_z^2 = 2[-|\mu|^2 + \frac{1} {\tan^2\beta - 1 } (m_{H_d}^2 - \tan^2\beta m_{H_u}^2)]$$ For simplicity, in the large $\tan\beta$ limit, this can be written as, $$M_z^2 = -2 (|\mu|^2 + m_{H_u}^2)$$ Where $M_z$ is known from experiments, and the soft-breaking parameter $m_{H_u}$ is determined by the GUT-scale input parameters (universal scalar $m_0$, universal gauigino $m_{1/2}$, and a universal trilinear $A_0$) So there is a constraint on $\mu$ (i.e. for a choice of input parameters, we want $\mu$ to take the value that gives the correct $M_z$). Solving for $\mu$: $$|\mu| = \pm \sqrt{-0.5 M_z^2 - m_{H_u}^2}$$ So, the sign of $\mu$ is free but not the value of $\mu$, and the solution could be positive or negative. The absolute value appearing here is because, in the universality condition where everything is real, $\mu$ must be real.
That's correct - EWSB imposes $\partial V / \partial H_u = 0$ and $\partial V / \partial H_d = 0$, leading to (see Martin p.91)
$m_{H_u}^2 + |\mu|^2 - b \cot \beta - m_Z^2/2 \cos 2\beta =0$
$m_{H_d}^2 + |\mu|^2 - b \tan \beta + m_Z^2/2 \cos 2\beta =0$
If we input the soft-breaking masses $m_{H_u}$ and $m_{H_d}$, $\tan \beta$, and the $Z$-boson mass $m_Z$, we can solve for $b$, soft-breaking bi-linear, and $|\mu|$, but the sign of $\mu$ remains undetermined.
The CMSSM/mSUGRA uses this convenient parametrization which trades $b$ and $|\mu|$ as inputs for $m_Z$, sgn $\mu$ and $\tan \beta$ as inputs.


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Completed in 1997, these two skyscrapers are the world's tallest twin towers. Standing 1,483 ft (452 m) high, they were designed by the Argentinean-American architect Cesar Pelli. The twin towers house Petronas, Malaysia's government-owned oil company, as well as associated Malaysian firms and multinational companies. Built of steel-reinforced concrete columns clad in stainless steel and glass, with a design based on geometric patterns originating in ancient Islam, the 88-story buildings are connected at levels 41 and 42 by a double-decker pedestrian skybridge, and each tower is surmounted by a 242-ft-high (74-m) pinnacle. At the lower level, the Petronas Towers also include a concert hall that is home to the Malaysian Philharmonic and a business reference library. Source: Columbia Encyclopedia.
Fun Fact: Several scenes from the film Entrapment were shot at the Petronas Towers.
Photo source: Ángel Riesgo Martinez
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I've been playing a lot of ranked in League of Legends and I've had games where I end up with a positive K/D score. For example, I played Shen, scored 16/3/12 and we lost. My team fed but I still lost points, 18 LP to be precise. Do you lose points when you lost and get them when you win or is there some other system effecting my rank?
Your in-game score is irrelevant for LP gain/loss. It is calculated based on the game's estimation of the relative skill differences between your team and their team, as calculated by win/loss history; and by the difference between your current LP and the game's estimation of your skill level. This second category helps dampen the effects of streakiness, and ensures that there's a penalty for a loss even in D5 of a league.
As a side note, if you have that many kills as Shen, and your team keeps dying, it's possible that you need to work on your teamwork a bit more, saving people with a well-timed taunt/shield.
Your kill/death ratio has very little to do with the LP you win/lose. Else it wouldn't be fair for the support since he'll get almost no kills. Besides, everybody would be scared to fight due to the possibility to die (and lose LP accordingly). This way, nobody would help you in fights anymore.
The way LP is distributed is hidden though. The matchmaking system makes a calculation on who will win, and their odds of winning.
The less chance you have to win, the more League Points (and hidden ELO points) you'll get if you do manage to win. If you receive a high amount of LP, the system expected you to lose versus the opponent. If you'd indeed lose, you wouldn't lose that much LP
The other way around is possible as well. If you win and receive a low amount of LP, the system expected you to win. Therefore, you gain a low amount of LP.
If you get near the promotion series, it's possible you gain very little LP (even 0 LP gained is possible). In meanwhile, your hidden ELO goes up. You'll get better at the game while the system determines if you are indeed worthy of promoting. If your ELO matches your LP standings, you'll be able to promote since you've proven yourself worthy of that division/league.
So to answer your question in short: Yes, you lose points when you lose and win points when you win.
The amount of the points you win or lose is based upon several hidden variables. Known is your ELO and your opponents ELO have influence on the points gained or lost.
If the system thinks you should win, you gain little LP for winning and more for losing, but your opponents are statistically seen worse then you. If the system thinks you should lose, you gain a lot of LP for winning and less for losing, but it'll be a harder game since the other team is statistically seen better.


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This is thread to discuss today's blog on transfers and contracts, which you can find at http://community.sigames.com/showthr...28#post7077828
This is thread to discuss today's blog on transfers and contracts, which you can find at http://community.sigames.com/showthr...28#post7077828
Sounds really promising with the contract locks. I have one question about them I hope you can answer. Currently on FM11, some agents with 19 or 20 as their "Fee" Attribute, when dealing with a large club (I'm Lyon in 2049) won't budge their fee requests. I've got one requesting an agent fee of £22m, and can only afford £6.75m. So say I was to lock it immediately on the first offer at £6.75m, would he immediately reject as it is nowhere near his demands with his 19 Fee attribute? Or has the agent fee negotiation been made a little more flexible?
There was a discussion about 'loyalty bonuses' in another thread, in light of the Cesc and Meireles transfers. I'm interested if loyalty bonuses in the game continue to be paid out even after a player is transferred, unless the player has submitted a transfer request?
Cool really looking forawrd to the contract locks, specially when you go for a player who is on £5K for the club he is with but asks for £50K from you.
really like the non-contract offer, as sometimes this is a way to get a longer look at a player rather than via a trial and hopefully get more commitment from the player.
not seen a new feature I don't like yet.
looking forward to seeing further new features.
A lot of good improvements so far mentioned. Can't wait to see what else is in store.
Does loyalty bonus mean it has to be paid every season or am I understanding it wrong? So if I offer £5m, I then have to pay the player 5m a season to stay!? And if he then leaves two years before contract end, I have to pay 10m to him?!
yeah, but what if you join a club which has lots of players on huge loyalty fees? And if you sell them you have to pay them off. It's going to destroy journeyman games a bit isn't it?
Is there an option to pay off the loyalty bonus?
Or perhaps you could get them to sign a new contract without a loyalty bonus? That would get rid of the added expenses.
Are loyalty fees paid weekly, monthly or yearly and is payment period negotiable?
I had this basically when I took over a club, some players were set to "Match Highest Earner" and I signed a guy on 150k a week and guys that were on 20k a week suddenly earning 150k. GAH
So I renegotiated their contracts to something a bit more reasonable without match highest earner. They still got a nice pay rise out of it though.
He Miles has said has answered his question. When a player is transfered out the remaining 'loyalty bonus' that is owed is paid up. So it will not be paid after the player leaves.This didn't really answer the question from Kanukki.
Any improvement on AI intelligence/Transfers? In my current game Fergie has signed Kalou and he's survived 4 managers to line up in left midfield every time we play them. Needless to say they are no longer a challenge.
Further, if there is that option, will there be a way of telling the player that you'll only get rid if someone gives a very good deal? There's no way of doing this at the moment, its very black and white regarding players wanting out: either yes, I'll get rid ASAP, or no, I want to keep you (with subtle variations). With the implementation of loyalty bonusses will there be 'Yes, but only if you submit a transfer request, or yes, but only if you submit a transfer request and there is a massive offer for you (e.g. Fabregas, or Sneijder in the negative)
Hopefully they have written it into the game because I agree that them requesting to leave is not loyalty. I don't think they have though, But I could be wrong hopefully somone from SI will answer
The changes to the player contracts and negotiations look good. I was hoping that the method by which you offer players contracts might be looked at. As it is in the game now, at the end of the season you get a news report telling you which players only have a year left on their contracts. If you have a big squad this can be a big list! And even though you have selected to get your assistant handle contract negotiations there are still a lot of big players on contracts with only a year left.
It would be great if on this screen you could select the players you want to keep around and instruct your assistant to hammer out a new deal with them. If there are players on the list that are unhappy and don't want to sign, your assistant would inform you. I think that this would save so much time and would be better than going through every player and negotiating with them. Obviously, if you want to do the negotiations yourself that would always be an option.
Another point about contracts I was hoping would be improved is staff contracts. I spend a lot of time looking for staff that have a 4 star or higher rating for every aspect of training. Every season I lose at least one of these to another club. The problem is how quickly it happens. The other club offer him a contract and the next day he is gone. If you miss the news item, its tough luck, your coach is gone. At the very least the coach should come to you and tell you that he has been approached by another club and give me a chance to match the offer. If he still wants to go then fine - but I want at least a month's notice to get a replacement!! When you quit a job IRL you have to give your employer notice - should be the same here.
I'm really impressed with all the things revealed so far
I absolutely adore the contract lock system. Many, many, many a time I've tried to sign a player who wants just 1k a week more than I'm allowed to offer. This in itself is worth buying the new game for! Can't wait to see what else is in store.
I love the locking system and the getting rid of the agent's fee. Right now I make sure I don't pay an agent more than the player gets in a signing on fee (and both are negotiated down as much as possible) so these two additions are well appreciated. If you tried to make a player's contract more incentive based with the old system, they would love the boost in bonus payments and still want more wages. Greedy buggers.
What about loan offers? Can we finally negociate percentages instead of having to give what they ask for or give up on the player?
Something I'd love to see.
Every now and then, when managing a Lower League team, sometimes teams would put in an offer for one of my up and coming young players, I'd love to see the option as a transfer bonus that my young player could be loaned back to me for the rest of the season or maybe even the next season as well, when he signs for the other team.
Quick question...in North America, agents are not paid by the team; they receive a percentage of their client's wages...usually 10-15% depending whether its Canada or the US and if the agent is also acting as a manager as well. I'm not sure how other nations require agents to act, but taking direct payments from teams is considered disturbing practice, almost akin to bribes. Question is...will I still, as a team manager, be required to pay agents during contract negotiations in the MLS? Or will tghe agent just fight for the best possible deal for their client, knowing that they will be receiving a percentage of it?
Sounds good but I'm still vastly disspointed in the fact that coaches in the international teams just coach for free and have no contract from the national squad whatsoever. This really dissapoints me
I don't know if you can already do it in the game, but one option I've always wanted is to buy multiple players from a team in the same negotiation, so I could for example offer 2 of my players to buy 2 from another team
miles said
"As mentioned in the blog that included the news merge, I wrote about the revamp of the transfer centre"
Which blog was this? i don't see anything about news merge or the transfer centre.
All bells and whistles. What about the important stuff? Will AI managers be smarter? Will transfers be more realistic?
some good stuff here, interesting to see how it plays out. Looking forward to the demo to see whats really changed under the hood
Something that I would like to see added is a little more intelligence from the board regarding contract negotiations for existing players, in my current FM11 game I am in charge of a Cardiff side who could do with lowering their wage budget which we currently exceed, a number of key players are willing to take pay cuts however I cannot offer them the reduced salary because the board has decided that the most I can pay a player is £350. Being unable to get a £1500 pw reduction per player is shall we say, frustrating.
Very very nice indeed.
I do have a couple of questions though:
1. Can you assure us that clubs - especially big ones like Man City - would make more intelligent transfers, within reason of course?
2. Is there anything we can do to get players to leave agents or tell the media that "contracts broke down due to excessive demands of agent"
All good additions, but man it is really about time SI incorporated the option of having what are known as 'option' clauses on contracts.
This is where you might sign a player on say a one or two year deal with the agreement that the your club have the option of activating say a further year at the end of the initial contract period. Players that for example have a poor injury record or haven't proved their ability at the level of the relevant club will obviously be more inclined to agree to such deals, and will have an incentive to play well so that the club want to keep them.
There are countless examples of this in the real world of football. For instance Blackpool had such an option with Charlie Adam which enabled them to sell him rather than lose him for nothing as his contract had technically expired at the end of last season:
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Will it be possible to buy a player and loan him back to the selling club directly through a transfer clause? E.g. in order to make the club more willing to sell the player or for player to get a working permit before joining your club?
You know that you can set the transfer date to the end of the season? This would effectively be the same thing.
Although it would be nice to have that option as an actual clause.
What would be nice is to be able to offer contracts to players for say 5 months. A few teams, especially in the lower leagues, buy/recruit players in the summer on these types of deals until January for a few reasons such as the player might be a marquee signing and be on a fair chunk, and if the team/player are doing poorly, its easier to release in January with no financial implications, or the player has suffered serious injuries and the club wants to see the player is over it and sign him. Trials is not the answer as you can have for maximum of 4 weeks in non competitive matches, whereas short term contracts you can.
Or is this all covered in non contract terms?
Are big players more likely to accept non-contract terms for a lower league team? also, can a player be on non-contract to more than one club?
I cant agree more about the staff contract. Good coaches were too too easy to be lured away in FM11. When it comes to FM12, it happens much quicker. Frustrating. Dont understand why the game had to be design in that way.


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J!NX : League of Legends Rammus Plush Toy with Sound
Rammus got tired of poking his friends whenever he tried to hug them, so we built a set of soft armor for him. He wore it on Summoner's Rift and promptly got crushed. He said, "Not OK." So we bailed on the soft armor and decided to make a plush doll, instead. It's so cute and cuddly that it will Taunt you into hugging it over and over again. Rammus got a hold of his own doll and promptly Defensive Ball Curled-up with it on the rug. He was so pleased he started purring, so loud it caused Tremors all over the neighborhood. Rammus is a tender little guy, and now you can cuddle up with him just the way he wants you to.
This plush is huge, towering over your desk toys at 16" tall. Width and depth are both 13" respectively.
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Hawks Dunk Dawgs
Tuesday night was a big night of basketball in Union County as the Myrtle Hawks squared off with the Bulldogs in New Albany.
Memorial gym was rocking as both sides cheered on their favorites, but in the end it was the Myrtle fans who had the most to cheer about as their girls won 63-54 and their boys won 81-57.
The Lady Hawks worked hard in the first half to establish a sound lead over the then-undefeated Lady Dogs.
"We played good the first half. Elizabeth Cobb had some good layups and Amber Williamson made some key plays," Lady Hawks coach Chris Greer said.
Aspriona Gilbert was the leading scorer for Myrtle with 19 points. Greer said Gilbert played her best defensive game of the season.
The Lady Hawks improved to 8-3 on the season, and the Lady Dogs added their first loss making them 5-1.
"I have to give New Albany credit. They are a great team and they are hard to beat. They are young and quick. they kept the pace of the game up," Greer said.
New Albany's Kebrina Lucas and Paris Sanders were two of the key players keeping the pace of the game up.
Myrtle had trouble keeping up with thier quickness at times but Cobb managed some good assists and slowed the game down to allow the Myrtle win.
The Hawks came out strong against the Dogs and played a close first half ending the openign period with a narrow 14-11 lead, but in the second period the Hawks racked up 27 point and shut down the Dogs offense allowing only 9 points.
"We played as good as we have in a while. I think our half court defense was as good as it has been all season," Hawks head coach Jonathan Ashley said.
The Dogs Tookie Bowling had 25 points and Brandon White had another good night with 18 points, both of the above brought down some key rebounds to help their team.
Ashley said he was proud of the way his team played.
"They have a good team and it will be a battle every time we play them," Ashley said.
Jimel Judon was on top again for Myrtle scoring 24 points with Justin Jordan close behind scoring 21.
The Bulldogs and Hawks will have a rematch during Myrtles homecoming on Dec. 7.
"Its going to a tough game. Anytime you get that Union County rivalry going its a good game," Ashley said.
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I follow minhag techeilet and I am on a university student's budget. Does anyone know where to get tzitziot with techeilet online for relatively little?
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Seeing as there is no known company making Murex trunculus besides Petil Techelet, and on the other hand even the discounted techelet from then (for soldiers) is 100nis, I doubt anything lower will be the real deal. If on the other hand, you are interested in squib "techelet", which btw according to the radzin chassidim (I have spoken to the person who distributes it, son of the old Rebbe za"l) it is possible that both types can be halachically considered techelt. So if you want to go by that, they can go for as low as 50nis. BTW if you want me to send you Murex trunculus from Israel where if can be bought for cheaper, be in touch.
There is a "trick" called Ramabam Tafranim (literally Ramabam sewers [sewing], but meaning - rambam for poor people). Assuming you did your reaserch you should know that there are three opinions about the amount of techelet strings you need. Rambam(1), Raavad(2) and Tosfot(4). most people take Rambam because it is cheaper or because they think a Rabbi said so (for example there is an incorrect rumor [which we personally discounted] that Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein said so. I personally hold Raavad.
In any case, to the trick: Some people will buy Raavad or Tosfot and then cut the strings in half, and tie them to white strings making a string which is half white and half techelet, this will come out considerably cheaper (if you intended on having more than one pair). There are some opinions that this constitutes another knot and is halachicaly problematic while others don't but for more about this it would be wise to have a seperate topic about the knots in techelet as well as the opinions regrading the amount of strings (hint - some opinions claim that others make you over on deorita shatnez and say you are not wearing tzitzit at all)
The Techeiles Chabura (http://www.techeiles-chabura.com) sells Bada"tz certified, murex-dyed strings for slightly less than Ptil Tekhelet's American costs.
When I was a soldier is Israeli army (about 7 years ago) I remember they (Ptil Tcheles) were selling it with 50% discount to soldiers. So, if you are soldier, you can use this option.
Another trick is as follows. If you make Tcheles by the opinion of Rambam you can buy a Tcheles of Raavad (same price) and split it to two sets of Rambam. I personally made it number of times. The idea is that in set of Raavad one whole string is colored, while in Rambam you need only half string to be colored. So, you buy one set of Raavad and another simple set of white strings. Then, you cut the colored and white long strings to halves. Tight the halves together, and you have two sets!
Going down the Bing list, and the Resellers list from P'til Techelet, it looks like "cheap techelet" is an oxymoron. There's a non-Jewish vendor calling himself "The Shoferman"who claims to have $20.99 "Original Blue" strings using snail dyes, but he also says the color runs--a good indicator that they are NOT real techelet dyes, as the comments point out. That leaves P'til Techelet and their resellers. P'til Techelet sells complete sets starting @ $70 on their order page. The comments also point out that their Hebrew site has the sets for NIS 160, (about $45.33), so if ordered there using NIS, they can get the real thing from the manufacturer @ at least 1/3 less than most other places - "relatively little", as requested. All the resellers I've run across that have pictures of the package sell them for at least $70. with one exception - Ben's Tallit Shop, who has them for $60.
I sell tekhelet for £35(thin) and £40(thick) which is $57(thin) and $65.40(thick) For more info go to www.Tekheletuk.com


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I have a HelpDesk Task list that consist of a such columns.
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Now i need to create some chart that will take information from this task list, and give me such an info like: Technician Vadim has 10 tasks, 3 of them completed 50%, 7 comlited 100%.
Is it possible to do it? I've tried it with PKI, Indicators, without success.
Please i really need it. If you can show me the way or even direction where to dig, i can do it. Just tell me where and with whith tools i have to do it.
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I will take an Intel iCore processor over an AMD anyday. I am saying bad.
Bad deal. You can get a better computer for cheaper custom built through pieces from Newegg that'll outperform this significantly. The AMD A10 APU is a good proc (not so much for overclocking), 12GB of RAM is a marketing ploy. You need no more than 4GB for current stuff. I have 8GB just in case. What matters with RAM with an AMD A10 processor is the RAM's speed. this will no doubt be 1066 RAM. 2TB hdd is nice, but they're like $80 on sale every once in a while. Today through Monday, they'll be cheap for sure. I'd pass.
Another problem: HP. HP has really poor quality control on their products. They tend to not be high quality anyway, and aren't expected to ever last long.
As far as Intel's iCore series goes....AMD's APU's outperform them for cost all day long. You can't get anything intel to outperform an AMD APU for the same price, when you carefully pick the parts. For almost $500, you can definitely get a much better build either AMD or Intel.
Most of the people asking if this is a good deal aren't the type that want to build their own PC nor will they care about AMD vs Intel.
Now, for those folks, is this a good deal?
As for HP quality, this can go either way. As a kitchen computer, we have a refurb'd HP and it has been running daily for for 2 years now. No problems. A couple friends that have purchased new HPs, however, have had them go belly up.
For people that think they can build this themselves for less money aren't adding everything up correctly. The case, Power supply, optical drive, RAM, Motherboard, processor, 2 TB 7200 RPM HD, memory card reader and finally the Operating system will come awfully close to that price. I mean you can use less RAM, steal the OS, skimp on the case- but you are still not considering the time invested - not just building the hardware, but putting on the OS and all the other programs, updates, drivers etc. I love building PC's, but it is definately not for everyone. This is a decent deal going on here. The only negatives are a 300 watt power supply and no HDMI out. If you don't add a video card, (or if you add a very low power one) the power supply is adequate. HDMI out would be really nice in case you wanted to use this as a media center- unfortunately you would have to add this