Well here is a thread for the minority of the minority. Those that chose the miserable way of life to play the FIFA soccer game on manual controls. Not only FIFA is not as popular as NCAA, manual players is like looking for dinosaurs. I'm not going to tag anyone on the original post. I don't want to bug non manual players for something they're not concerned about. I don't want to bug those that I would have thought would be interested but wouldn't. I think the thread name will be self explanatory enough for those to click and read. I just want to play against other manual players, at the times that are convenient for me. But I also want to have somewhat quality opponents to play against. Quality in character first, skill second. The latter can be improved, but not the other one in most cases. And that is why I try to stick around these forums more so than the random people's stopping point manual lobbies. So I had an idea to play friendlies with more purpose than just a friendly, and to create some variety in the teams I pick to play with, and I would like to share it with other people in my mindset. It involves somewhat of a league with little or big commitment (all up to how much you can commit), open schedule (whenever is convenient for you) and skill and style is not a big concern (flexibility to play against those you prefer because of skill, style, character, etc). For all that, there is this: http://www.operationsports.com/foru...5-os-fifa-all-manual-control-league-xbox.html I hope I can attract a few of you to tag along with me to play this. It doesn't take a lot of people to have fun, just the right people. This will keep the manual community together hopefully.
If it's very relaxed and I don't have to play scheduled games weekly, I'd love to play with y'all I'm very excited for the game and I hope I'll be able to play much more this year.
If you read the way it works, you could play a single game in weeks, rather cos you've been busy, didn't feel like playing or whatever and unless you tell me otherwise you're still in member competition. You just have less say in the club competition which may affect your member competition points. It's like you're competing in two different races, one where you're trying to take the clubs you like more to the top of the table, and one where you try to make more rank points for yourself to brag about. Which I care less but I figured I'd create that ladder like table to give people more purpose to be a little competitive, hopefully not competitive enough to fix matches. Although only I'd think of something like that cos I'm Turkish And on nights like you and I run into each other, we could play 3-4 league games back to back, because we can just keep selecting the next fixture regardless of what teams they are, cos all teams are everyone's teams.
I'd also like to mention that I'd like to run a quick season in FIFA 13. So those who say they're in, go ahead and send in your join requests from the league team management screen. And in FIFA 14, I hope to run multiple seasons with multiple division which may allow me to set up a champions league in the second season based on how fast things are going. If enough people are active enough, seasons may fly by before you know it.
I'm very undecided about it. Being on manual, xbox one will only split the small amount of people available. So it may not be worth to get it at release and rather wait will FIFA 15. During that time maybe the release boxes will also sell out and they will realize what went wrong, and I may get the improved hardware edition by the time I buy it.
There are no commitments, that's the beauty of it You play whenever, if it sounds like fun to you. Hope you join us for some manual games.
Anyone getting the early release today? I've been up early and working so most likely I'll be calling it a day by 1PM which is the release time and start playing. I don't have the ticket yet but I'm very tempted since I'll at least have all afternoon for this.
I am going to start downloading it as soon as I get off of work today. Hoping to get the house cleaned while it downloads and get in some heavy action tonight.
Someone is online, so she must be doing it. I will be around other than evening time with wife. My download is done, trying to find someone to play now
Just a question for you manual folks....what's the big deal if you play on manual? Is it because it requires more skill? Does it allow you to have more control and give you a better advantage over assisted folks once perfected (to an extent)? Are there some cheese tactics in assisted where manual makes it much harder to do? I ask this because in clubs last year, if someone made a bad pass, shot etc, the first excuse to be thrown out there would be.."are you on manual?" Just never made much sense to me if you can't make those passes, shots etc. on manual, then why play on manual in competitive matches? I can see an all manual league in which it requires more skill and will make you an overall better player in the long run, but not sure that's the case? Just wondering, not hatin'.
It's not about being better or skilled. You definitely need to master your accuracy otherwise it wouldn't be fun. Once you're accurate enough on a high percentage (we'll still make bad shots and bad passes at any point), there comes the next point. The reason I like manual is that it steps out of the scripted events of FIFA when you're on manual. The ball has more variety in what it's gonna do and where it's gonna go. Different things happen, you see goals scored in more ways that semi or assisted players score. On the other hand, with manual, I can make passes to where I want instead of it being assisted towards who the computer thinks I want to pass, and it's my responsibility to be accurate at it. And why do I want to play against other manual players? It's little things like, assisted will tiki taka pass it all over the place if necessary without losing it, it's more fair when the other guy has the same chance of making a mistake as you. On a corner kick or anything, if he gets to the header, you know the assisted guy has a less chance of missing it, while on manual different things can happen. Same with some money areas you can take a finesse shot where it perfectly curves in almost all the time when it's not on manual. So it's not looking down on people or skill or whatever stupid reason it is, I like a more realistic looking flow and manual has proven to serve that for me. And then there are negatives of manual which has been discussed by the holy xaor, I won't even go there for now.
We're already playing a beta season. Hop on when you're ready. Just go to the site: http://www.fifamifa.com Once the game is officially out and more people join and more games get played, the new season will include multiple European countries, hopefully eventually growing into a mini Europe with Champions League qualifications and such.
Because I need my engine that I built on my site to run it with little effort. And external sites are considered evil around here (based on previous lots of experience). And I will leave it at that.
