PSV? Weren't they in Champions League this year? If you can choose PSV, I would like to choose Ajax or Feyenoord (both Holland). If not, can I choose a team in the lower divisions in England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain? If I can I wouldn't mind Nottingham Forest (England Div 1) or another club similar.
Kidrock ended up with NAC Breda. You aren't allowed to choose any team that is in those 5 countries or is currently in Cup Competition. That is why PSV was not acceptable. If we could have taken a lower division team I would have taken Carlisle United.
Okay, can I give you my choice club tomorrow? I need to do some research. I want to be THE BEST OF THE BEST.
I want to pick 1. Benfica (Portugal) 2. Willem II (Holland) 3. Hearts (Scotland) 4. Belerenses (Portugal) 5. NEC (Holland) Pls tell me which of them is qualified.
At the moment the only thing I can say for sure is that Benfica is not available. I'm not sure about Holland, but I think Willem II should be available.
I think I changed my mind. I too would like to play in Holland. I'd like Vitesse as long as they still qualify. If they don't I'll stay with Hibs.
Castor27, I think I've checked that Vitesse isn't qualified. They're in the UEFA Cup this season. Plus, there is a HUGE bug in the Holland League in case no one knows. There are no reserves for the teams!! Anyway, the EP2 was released but it didn't fix this problem (and many others). I read on the forum that EP3 will be much better and will be released at the end of this month or at the start of next month. Do we wait that long or what?
On third thought. I think I am going to wait before finalising a team. I am considering the 2 above but I know they will have played a full season before I take over and I don't want to take over a team that has tanked or whatnot. Will we be able to get a savegame for around the end of May 2003?
http://home.trollnet.no/havard/cm4/index.html I've started putting together a webpage for the league, and have already made full pages for the teams I have added in. (Brann and Zenith) I have also added a few pages for the other teams picked. And you're right Newgirl - we may have to wait for EP3 - so this could end up being a test start. CK - about your team - if you would like to get wet immidiatly you should opt to select a team from a league starting in the spring, and Cat is eager to compete with you in Norway (have a couple teams in mind here). Advantage if starting in a spring league is: You get to start ASAP when only a few teams are in the league so it will be more time to upload stuff and show you the ropes. Of course if you start in an autumn league you could maybe find out all these things without being activated as you can see what the active teams do. A league starting in the spring usually have fewer league games, so you might end up without games for a longer period than those in autumn leagues. So if you have opinion about wanting to start in a spring league, or wanting to wait for later speak up. If you have no preference what so ever I can go ahead and just add you in with Cat as either Lillestrøm or Stabæk in Norway. Autumn League options could be for example teaming you up in Switzerland with Zac (Young Boys, Luzern), or maybe Belgium with me (Lierse, Germinal Beerschot Antwerpen, AA Gent) and others too.
Ok I'll add you in as Lillestrøm. To do that I need the manager profile you want to use in the game. First Name: Last Name: Nationality: Date of Birth: Fav Club: (None is an option) Club: Lillestrøm (we've got that one down now) Some use their real name, others dont - it is up to you. Also most (so far all) pick a European nationality or even the nationilty of the league they play in as nationality matter in CM for what clubs might later hire you. As for DOB you will become at least 35 in the game so anyone picking a later date (perfectly ok) will just be scaled back to 1967. Favourite club is a new option in CM4 - dont know much what it will do (maybe increase the chances of you getting a job at the club picked, or knowing more about players from that team/league). I dont think it matters to much and will most likely pick none for myself. For the players added so far it is 50/50 with picking a team or sticking with none.
First Name: Jack Last Name: Yattering Nationality: German Date of Birth: 5-14-67 Fav Club: None Club: Lillestrøm
http://home.trollnet.no/havard/cm4/ Updated all the spring teams, so now let the info sink in and fire away with questions
We will use this start to test the waters while waiting for the next enhancement pack, then things hopefully will go smother when we start up proper. I did put up two informational links at the CM4 page for now. One about training (just screenshots) and another textfile that is from the walkthrough from the CM4 manual. Apart from this, the thing I think is most important to see to first is to be sure you have a decent assistant manager (AM). If you do not have an assistant manager some options in the games can not be used (asking assistant to handle training, pick teams, help in other areas). Getting a new assistant to the team is not the easiest of tasks as the game will find you plenty, but only a select few will be interested to sign with you unless you can thrown crazy amounts of money after them (and you can't). So if your staff does not come up with an assistant manager, the easiest way is just to offer the best suited if the others in the staff the position as assistant manager. If you do not think any of them are suitable to man such a position I can try to find an unemployed staff that can fill the position (or even check a couple of the plenty of others if they will talk to you.) When you have an assistant you have to assign him roles (some options shown currently in CM4 Screens ¤ 6 ¤) One of the options to have your assistant to for you is handle training. Should you opt not to use the assistant for this purpose I have put up a link about training at the site. It shows the default training schedules, the training activities and a description about each training activity. All except goalkeepers are set to follow the general schedule as default, while goalkeepers follow their own schedule. That leaves 2 other created defaults unused (pre-season and no-match). There is also an option to create your own schedules should you want to do that. After deciding about the AM you have to figure our if you want to/need to schedule more friendlies. In CM4 players need mtach practice to be ready for the season, so you should at least have a couple of games prior to the season start. Of course you have the option of having the assistant arranging friendlies (and even playing them should you want to). You should also pick the team for your first friendly as explained in the walkthrough. (Again the assistant can pick the team, but it will be more your accomplishment if you do it) When you have decided upon all this you post the info for me here so I can move up to the first friendlies. Also, if you want to try and sign someone (check finances for funds) just mention what you need/want here and we can start looking into it too. So if all goes well we can get a couple of friendlies underway during the weekend to test how this flows.
fyi heatho, I am looking at the stuff, but I haven't had a lot of time to digest it. Entertaining family "and stuff" during the Easter weekend. I'll try to post the info you need tonite or tommorow. Probly tommorow.
Okay, if you can find a good AM for me that's unemployed and wouldn't cost to much, then go for it. If not, then just promote Thoreson to AM. Set me up with a friendly for Molde or Odd Grenland. Or both. POSITION GK (goalkeeper) - Baron DR (defender right) - Bjarmann DL (defender left) - Kippe DC (defender centre) - Wehrmen DC (defender centre) - Reinfjord MR (midfield right) - Berget ML (midfield left) - Beqri MC (midfield centre) - Kristofferson MC (midfield centre) - Kopperud FC (forward centre) - Dadason FC (forward centre) - Strand Is that all the info I need to post for now?
