[POLL] Game Speed

And when RedAL925 tried it, after he quit, I was left with the stats screen. It should work pretty well.

We are considering varying the gamespeed, and one proposal would be to allow the home team to select the game speed at the outset of each match. Please vote on that proposal.

I like varying team levels better than game speed. Gives those in A and advantage, and incentive for those in B & C to reach A asap. Also more team variation. Just my two cents.

Btw is the next step to allow home teams to select assisted controls as well? Or house rules by allowing them to pressure up top? That would be home field advantage, pressing ala Barça when you're home. More goals. Goals is $. $ rules everything.

Btw #2, doesn't matter if it's fantasy sports, real sports or in my dream games. Not a fan of switching (messing with) rules up once the season starts. (unless it's a unanimous, life-threatening removing adjustment)

Also I voted no, not because of the reasoning given by the poll. But more because of Btw #2 in my list.

Assisted controls will never happen. Pressure spamming will never happen - regardless of the fact that a very few teams are able to impose it on the pitch in real life.

The idea here was to allow for variability. People are complaining it's slow, so the thought was to allow those people to speed the game up slightly for at least half of their games - their home games. Those who prefer slow can slow it down for their home matches. And those in each camp will find opponents who play the same way in away fixtures, thus virtually guaranteeing everybody will play more than 50 percent of the matches in the speed setting they prefer.

Normal gamespeed seems to work if you're quicker on the buttons, you can string together some really nice, fluid passing and I think the timing is a bit more intuitive on Normal than Slow. Slow requires real patience. You have to wait that extra split second for your guy to get into place, knowing the defender is closing you down, but it has its benefits, too.

This is a very slight adjustment proposal, as is standard when a new cycle begins and we're forced to either adjust on-the-fly or delay the start of the season until everybody is comfortable with the new game. We did this last year when we switched from online friendlies to match lobbies and from normal to slow gameplay.

no no no no no no no no no no no no no

Maybe "home field advantage" is a poor choice of words, but clearly this is a divisive issue to some people. We're trying to come up with a compromise for everyone. If we can't, nothing changes.

Ask yourself: does game speed REALLY change the competitive balance? Am I going to suddenly beat shiftee because we're playing on Normal speed instead of Slow? It's doubtful, but maybe that's just me

See my biggest issue here is changing while already starting. It was going to be point #3, when you rush things errors and mistakes occur. For me changing rules after the season has begun should be an obvious no-no (again for any type of league you do, be it fantasy sports, real sports, some type of sports, etc.)

Even tho I prefer normal game speed, I'd rather have a constant speed for all games (rather that be slow or normal) than constantly switch back and forth throughout the season.

For myself, I don't see slow vs. normal being a big difference in making one better or worse, and I don't think those who want normal speed are saying that either. I just see it as making the game more enjoyable overall

I haven't played enough games on normal speed to vote yet. I will play some friendlies over the weekend with whoever would like to play me.

When I posted in the general discussion forum, by no means did I believe that normal speed or changing the controls will affect the result of my matches. My reason for posting was simply for the best experience possible with FIFA 14.

For instance, with the league settings, I really see no difference in the ball control or speed of each individual player. ratings don't matter. I feel I have to make the ultra conservative pass just to hold possession. This is not fun.

I'm disappointed so far with FIFA 14. This is not a slight on the league. I think the league is amazing.

The mechanics are the mechanics and there's nothing we can do about it - player weight, turning and momentum are EA's shiny new toys. Game speed is one of the few things we have control over, as we'll never reduce this league's controls to assisted.

But I also think it feels MUCH more Semi than 13 ever did - your passes feel like you have a 45-degree "manual passing cone" into which you're feeding the ball, and that's your margin of error. You still have to be spot-on with the passing direction - I've missed simple passes by just a few yards on semi-assisted - something that didn't occur much in FIFA 13 unless you were under severe pressure or off balance.

This game speed proposal was in response to people's complaints about the inherent slower gameplay in the new game combined with the league Slow setting. This is why we ask for feedback. And we need suggested solutions. This was one that obviously people aren't subscribing to, and that's fine.

Let's see where we stand:

If the consensus is to move to normal speed, I don't understand why we would wait until the end if the season. The "fairness" argument goes out the window if the change is implemented at the season's midway point—everyone will play each opponent once on slow and once on normal.

Keeping the slow speed when the consensus is that normal is considerably more fun just means we all have to play 10+ more games on a suboptimal setting. For what?

I have changed my tone on this for only one reason: I feel dirty scoring on crosses (or mainly scoring in crosses, as in 70% or more of the time). I like multi dimensions. I mean I can keep playing on slow, but I can pretty much play the game in my head as it will be crosses galore as it's the easiest and sometimes the only way to score for some in this setting that we have now.

Voted

No offense but this makes zero sense. People who are cross whores won't stop because we go to normal. I've had at maximum 3 crosses in a game as haven't had many problems scoring goals. Hell I have only 1 clean sheet in 5 games so far

I said I feel dirty. As in I don't like scoring like this or this being the only way to score. I play sim like, not cross the ball 10-15 times and hope to get more than a goal. As in I can actually open up my forwards on normal and score normal goals. Again I could still play slow, defense is just too overpowered and easy.

Also I could care less how the others play, playing slow, normal or fast won't change their ways. Those who lob it up will keep on lobbing it up, those who just use the triangle button will keep on doing that. I could complain how some play but what's the point? As long as it's semi sim I'm fine.

One last point, I'm glad you're scoring goals! I'll trade you 3 goals for a clean sheet, I have plenty of those.

And one last note, I go down 1-0 on a corner and can't really attack through the middle since it's always packed and the forwards moves his leg as fast as an ant moves a bottle. So I have to resort to crosses, yuck.

Agreed. But I'll at least enjoy the match much more. Even my one win wasn't terribly entertaining. When you know you're opponent isn't going to launch crosses all game, the slow game speed makes it that much easier to clog the middle. I'm already not very good, especially at F14, but slow game speed and only a nominal fear of crosses makes it that much harder.

would like to see some more votes here..

Looking like normal. Too bad I still suck