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[FM5]

Như thường lệ khi demo chuẩn bị xuất hiện cũng là lúc blog cho FM8 sẽ xuất hiện. Đây là thông báo của SI. FM5 tôi xin trích nguyên văn và tạm thời sẽ dịch sau. :B68:
Ngày 24/9/2007

Let’s start with pitch sizes. As those of you who are into your footy know, there is no one set size for a pitch in football, just rules for each competition and league for minimum and maximum dimensions. You now get the chance to set your pitch size at the start of the season, adapting the pitch size to your tactics or vice versa, within the boundaries of the competition your club is playingin.
Your team captains now also get set pre-season, along with a vice-captain too. You have to be careful who you choose for these roles though, as it can affect any player in your squad – choose someone unpopular, and a dressing room revolt could be on the cards.
Other teams managers now come and watch other teams fixtures, whether these be international managers looking for the next star for the national team, or whether it be a rival manager scouting for their next match, or checking out your players. If it’s a big name, the match commentator might even notice them in the stand and mention it during the game, and you may get a news item after the match too.
We’ve improved how the game handles rules about “foreign” players. More foreign players are allowed at clubs, with squad selection rules used to set who will be eligible for matches, as well as enforcing rules regarding “foreign” players and naturalisation. Most useful in this area of changes is that you can now see in a players personal panel how long he has until he gets dual nationality, which is very useful for those with feeder clubs where they send players who haven’t been able to get work permits.
Some other improvements to our previous games include better team selection routines for AI, which now take into account even more importance of matches, injuries and the like. Player progression is also improved, as are the regenerated players and the injury module, of course.
A big new feature is coach reports, which are perfect for novice managers, or those who want the challenge of managing at a club where they don’t know the players. The coaching staff will give you detailed feedback on every player in the squad, similar to the scout reports that became part of the game last year, making it very easy to get to know your strong and weak areas, and who your best players and best prospects are for each position on the pitch.
Another nice new feature is the ability to create a filter from a selected player which is kind of hard to explain, so I’ll leave it to Keith, one of the dev team members at SI. “Imagine your star striker is getting a bit long in the tooth. He's been a loyal servant to you and has banged in the goals consistently over the years, but now it's time to find a replacement. Ideally you want the same style of forward but a younger version.
In past versions of the game you would have had to manually note down the key attributes for that player and set up a filter. Fm2008 now allows you to create a player search filter based around the main strength of the player chosen. Once selecting this option a filter is created using the players position and will pick out at least 3 key attributes and then you will be taken to the player search screen where you can view the matches and then hopefully open talks with a view to signing your next superstar striker.” Clear enough for you? Good, good.
Something that people in the community have been asking for for ages is an extra option on the squad status screen to be able to specify for a player in the first team squad to be declared available for any reserve team games in the next 7 days, rather than having to move them to the reserve squad and risk their morale dropping. So that’s in FM08 too.
Have I mentioned that saving and loading are faster than ever before for one of our games? Which is pretty good considering that there is so much more information in the game this year, and therefore more for it to save.
But you’ll have to wait to find out what more is there. Not long though – I’ll be back tomorrow with a blog about some of the changes to do with the transfer system.
Miles

Như đã hứa tui xin dịch blog ngày hôm nay. Vì mỗi ngày blog sẽ viết về một vấn đề mới FM8 nên tôi chỉ dịch những chỗ này. Anh em thông cảm.
Ngày 24/9/2007

Về Pitch Sizes (kích thước sân bóng: Như mọi người đã bít không ai có thể thay đổi kích thước sân bóng. Nhưng bây giờ bạn có cơ hội để thay đổi pitch size theo ý bạn (o hiểu SI mú gì) vào đầu mỗi mùa bóng, để phù hợp với chiến thuật của bạn, trong giới hạn các giải đấu mà CLB bạn tham gia. Thậ sự tui o hiểu SI mún nói cái quái gì.

Đội trưởng sẽ được xác địch khi chuẩn bị cho mùa bóng mới, đội phó cũng được chọn ngay trong giai đoạn chuẩn bị cho mùa bóng. Bạn phải hết sức cẩn thận trong việc chọn những vị trí này bởi vì nó có thể làm ảnh hưởng đến các cầu thủ khác trong đội bóng. Bạn o nên chon những cầu thủ không nổi tiếng níu o phòng thay đồ sẽ có nguy cơ trở thàng võ đài. Cái này mới à nghen. :B68:

Những HLV của các đội bóng khác giờ đây có thể xem lịch thi đấu của những clb khác, nếu đó là những international managers đang tìm kiếm tài năng cho đội tuyển quốc gia hoặc đó là những nhà tuyển trạch của các clb kình địch đang theo dõi trận đấu và kiểm tra các cầu thủ trong clb của bạn để chuẩn bị cho cuộc đối đầu sắp tới với họ. Níu đó là một tên tuổi lớn thì BLV của trận đấu sẽ chú ý đến vị trí của họ và đề cập đến trong suốt trận đấu và từ đó bạn cũng có thể thu nhận được những thông tin mới

Chúng tôi cũng đã thay đổi cách để giải quyết luật “foreign” players. Sẽ có nhiều foreign players hơn được phép chơi tại các clb, với những quy định trogn việc lựa chọn những cẩu thủ có thể chơi được trong trận đấu cũng như là buộc phải tuân theo luật về foreign players và những cầu thủ bản xứ. Thay đổi hữu dụng nhất là bạn có thể bít được bao lâu nũa thì anh ta sẽ được nhập quốc tịch dựa trên lý lịch của anh ta, điều nay sẽ rất hữ dụng đối với feeder clubs nơi mà bạn sẽ gữi những cầu thủ mà chưa có được work permits.

Một số sự cải tiến về những thông số của các trận đấu trước như những cầu thủ thường xuyên được ra sân, những thông tin về chấn thương,...Sự phát triển của các cầu thủ cũng được thay đổi.

Một sự thay đổi lớn là báo cáo của các HLV, nó sẽ là trợ thủ hoàn hảo cho cho các HLV mới hay cho những hlv mà mún làm việc tại một clb mà họ chưa bít tý gì về những cầu thủ mà họ sẽ huấn luyện ( giốngHLV ngoại đến vn làm việc quá Các thành viên trogn ban huấn luyện sẽ cung cấp cho bạn những thông tin chi tiết hơn về các cầu thủ trong đội, tương tự các scuot cũng cung cấp cho bạn những thông tin giống như mà họ đã từng làm trong bản FM7 và các bản trước.

Một điểm mới khá thú vị nữa đó là bạn có thể tạo ra một bô lọc từ những danh sách cầu thủ. Để rõ hơn thì một thành viên của SI cho bít:" Hãy tưởng tượng tiền đạo ngôi sao của bạn đã bắt đầu bước vào giai đoạn cuối của sự nghiệp. Anh tà là một cầu thủ trung thành với bạn và liên tục ghi bàn trong các mùa bóng trước, nhưng bây giờ đã đến lúc tìm một ngưởi để thay thế. Và tất nhiê người thay thế lý tưởng nhất là một tiền đạo trẻ có cùng phong cách chơi với anh ta nhưng trẻ hơn". Nghe có vẻ hay nhỉ :B58:

Trong những phiên bản trước, bạn thường chú ý đến những chỉ số quan trọng cho cầu thủ và khi tạo một bô lọc. Fm8 sẽ cho phép bạn tạo một bộ lọc dựa trên những chỉ số mạnh mà cầu thủ cần chọn phải có. Một khi tạo bô lọc thì bạn phải sử dụng các đạc điểm là ví trí chơi của cầu thủ và 3 chỉ số mà bạn mong muốn cầu thủ tìm kiếm phải đạt được và sau đó là bạn ngồi xem những hình ảnh về cầu thủ được chọn qua những trận đấu vàhy vọng bạn sẽ chọn cho mình những ngôi sao tương lai.

Một chi tiết mà các fans thường hỏi là tuổi của các cầu thủ mà đạc biệt là những cầu thủ trong đội 1 mà bị đưa xuống đội 2 sẽ có thể làm giảm tinh thần vủa họ trong trận đầu típ theo.

Và tất nhiên là việc load và save game sẽ nhanh hơn so với các phiên bản trước

Ngày mai, tôi sẽ trình bày típ những vấn đề về sự thay d8o6i3 trong hệ thống chuyển nhượng.

Hic xong òi :B58:
hạn gặp lại ngày mai Ngày 25/9/2007 :B68:
Nội dung ngày 25/9 đây, xin nói trước là FM5 chỉ trích nội dung chính bỏ hết râu ria

Player win bonuses are now done collectively rather than individually, with you deciding in pre-season what kind of bonus to allocate to the squad for each competition, with these monies then given to the players at the end of the season based on how the team have done in the respective competitions.
Wages and appearance fees are now tweaked to be more realistic too. Individual goal and clean sheet bonuses are still there, of course.
Now, the conversations with the chief execs brought up some other interesting little facts. Such as "you know that many managers now just get a pot of money, and can allocate to wages and transfers whichever way they want to?". Now, we didn't want to overcomplicate anything and make people require a chief executive sitting there with them whilst playing the game, as that would have pushed the price of the game up way beyond anyone's budget for gaming so what we've done is thus (and I'm starting this on a new paragraph even though it's frowned upon grammar wise, but it's important, because sometimes the smallest features are the best).
You now have more control of your transfer and wage budgets by going to the "boardroom" screen, and asking to adjust your budgets. If you have excessive transfer funds, you can plough them into your wage budget, and vice versa. Great player becomes available on a free transfer, but you don't have enough wage budget? No problem - just move some money from your transfer budget to cover it. Lots of spare wages, but no money left in your transfer budget? Again, no problem, just transfer some over. The extra control is particularly useful if you're a smaller club, but just as useful for the big clubs too. It really makes a difference to the way you play the game…
Something else we decided to change a bit was adding in specific exchange requests in transfer bids, which appear when you are putting in bids for players. Rather than just saying "they are looking for a left back", if the club concerned are interested in your left back, he'll get named in the transfer offer screen.
A bug bear of mine from previous games which is now sorted is what happens after you offer a player to clubs, and some of them aren't interested. Instead of getting a pile of news items, you now just get one that lists all the clubs that aren't interested, and their reasons why.
Which brings us neatly onto the transfer center, of which there were some screenshots when we made the initial new features announcement about the game (http://www.sigames.com/news.php?type...rticle_id=1275). This is a great new way of sorting out all your transfer bids, with lists of all bids in by you for players, or for your players, making it nice and easy to manage all of your transfer bids, including the status of each bid or contract negotiation.
Finally for today, another small but beautiful new feature. For those who've played the game for a while, you'll know that when you're playing many leagues, you can't sign players from some countries, such as Brazil, until they're 18. And by the time you can, they've signed somewhere else. Yet, in real life, players sign pre-contracts to join clubs (a bit like Alexandre Pato's recent deal). And now they can in FM2008 too. Hurrah.
Tune in again tomorrow for a blog about some of the changes to the news system

Dịch típ đây

Các cầu thủ sẽ có được những phần thường mà sẽ dựa vào thành tích chugn có được hơn là dựa vào cá nhân, bằng những quyết định trong giai đoạn chuẩn bị của mùa bóng bạn sẽ xác định rõ mức thưởng cho mỗi giải đấu, số tiền mà các cầu thủ nhận được vào cuối mùa bóng phụ thuộc vào thành tích của đội bóng đã đạt được trong giải đấu. híc giống FFM quá

Lương và phí cho mỗi lần ra sân bây giờ trở nên thực hơn. tiền thưởng cho cầu thủ ghi bàn và thủ môn giữ sạch lưới vẫn như thế

Bây giờ, những cuộc nói chuyện với ban lãnh đạo sẽ mang lại những cảm giác thú vị và thực hơn. Chẳng hạn, bạn bít rằng trong thực tế nhiều HLV chỉ kiếm nhiều tiền, và xác định lương và tiền chuyển nhượng với số lượng bao nhiêu cũng được theo ý muốn. Giờ đây, chúng tôi không mún làm cho mọi thứ trở nên quá phức tạp và giúp cho việc yêu cầu ngài chủ tịch ngồi đó và xem trận đấu, điều này sẽ giúp cho bạn có thể nâng giá trị của trận đấu lên mà còn giúp cho việc tăng số tiền trong quỹ chuyện nhượng.

Với bản FM8 thì bạn sẽ có thể điều chỉnh quỹ lương và chuyển nhượng bằng cách vào boardroom và đề nghị họ thay đổi quỹ chuyển nhượng. Tuy nhiên nếu tiền chuyển nhượng quá nhiều thì bạn có thể chuyển sang quỹ lương và ngược lại. Ví dụ nếu có một cầu thủ giỏi mà bạn có thể sign free nhưng quỹ lương của clb lại o đủ? Với các bản FM trước thì bạn mất tiêu cơ hội này rùi nhưng FM8 lại khác bạn chỉ cần di chuyển tiến từ quỹ chuyển nhưỡng sang quỹ lương là xong. Níu quỹ lương quá dư thừa nhưng quỹ chuyển nhượng lại o còn 1 xu? với các bản FM trước thì chỉ có ách nhìn mà thui nhưng với Fm8 thì bạn đừng lo lắng vì bạn chỉ cần chuyển tiền ngựoc lại là xong. Điều này rất hữu ích đặt biệt là khi chơi clb nhỏ.

Một sự bổ sung. Níu bạn chú ý ở FM7 khi bạn make a bid một chú nào đó thì sẽ có câu đại loại như they are looking for a left back" nhưng ở FM8 sẽ cụ thể hơn với tên một cầu thủ nào đó có thể chơi ở vị trí đó.

Một lỗi lớn trong các phiên bản trước là khi bạn ofer một cầu thủ nào đó cho một clb khác và một số hay có thể tất cả sẽ trả lời they aren't interested. Vởi bản FM8 thì khác, bạn chỉ có một list tất cả các clb mà aren't interested và lý do tại sao họ lại như thế.

Và một đểm mới khá thú vị nữa đó là bạn có thể sign một cầu thủ từ các quốc gia khác ví dụ như brazil dù anh ta chưa tới 18 tuổi ( giống như pato mà AC vừa làm đó)

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Để dê theo dõi FM5 tách ra từng ngày vậy.
Nội dung ngày 25/9 đây, xin nói trước là FM5 chỉ trích nội dung chính bỏ hết râu ria
Ngày 25/9/2006

Player win bonuses are now done collectively rather than individually, with you deciding in pre-season what kind of bonus to allocate to the squad for each competition, with these monies then given to the players at the end of the season based on how the team have done in the respective competitions.
Wages and appearance fees are now tweaked to be more realistic too. Individual goal and clean sheet bonuses are still there, of course.
Now, the conversations with the chief execs brought up some other interesting little facts. Such as "you know that many managers now just get a pot of money, and can allocate to wages and transfers whichever way they want to?". Now, we didn't want to overcomplicate anything and make people require a chief executive sitting there with them whilst playing the game, as that would have pushed the price of the game up way beyond anyone's budget for gaming so what we've done is thus (and I'm starting this on a new paragraph even though it's frowned upon grammar wise, but it's important, because sometimes the smallest features are the best).
You now have more control of your transfer and wage budgets by going to the "boardroom" screen, and asking to adjust your budgets. If you have excessive transfer funds, you can plough them into your wage budget, and vice versa. Great player becomes available on a free transfer, but you don't have enough wage budget? No problem - just move some money from your transfer budget to cover it. Lots of spare wages, but no money left in your transfer budget? Again, no problem, just transfer some over. The extra control is particularly useful if you're a smaller club, but just as useful for the big clubs too. It really makes a difference to the way you play the game…
Something else we decided to change a bit was adding in specific exchange requests in transfer bids, which appear when you are putting in bids for players. Rather than just saying "they are looking for a left back", if the club concerned are interested in your left back, he'll get named in the transfer offer screen.
A bug bear of mine from previous games which is now sorted is what happens after you offer a player to clubs, and some of them aren't interested. Instead of getting a pile of news items, you now just get one that lists all the clubs that aren't interested, and their reasons why.
Which brings us neatly onto the transfer center, of which there were some screenshots when we made the initial new features announcement about the game (http://www.sigames.com/news.php?type...rticle_id=1275). This is a great new way of sorting out all your transfer bids, with lists of all bids in by you for players, or for your players, making it nice and easy to manage all of your transfer bids, including the status of each bid or contract negotiation.
Finally for today, another small but beautiful new feature. For those who've played the game for a while, you'll know that when you're playing many leagues, you can't sign players from some countries, such as Brazil, until they're 18. And by the time you can, they've signed somewhere else. Yet, in real life, players sign pre-contracts to join clubs (a bit like Alexandre Pato's recent deal). And now they can in FM2008 too. Hurrah.
Tune in again tomorrow for a blog about some of the changes to the news system

Dịch típ đây

Các cầu thủ sẽ có được những phần thường mà sẽ dựa vào thành tích chugn có được hơn là dựa vào cá nhân, bằng những quyết định trong giai đoạn chuẩn bị của mùa bóng bạn sẽ xác định rõ mức thưởng cho mỗi giải đấu, số tiền mà các cầu thủ nhận được vào cuối mùa bóng phụ thuộc vào thành tích của đội bóng đã đạt được trong giải đấu. híc giống FFM quá

Lương và phí cho mỗi lần ra sân bây giờ trở nên thực hơn. tiền thưởng cho cầu thủ ghi bàn và thủ môn giữ sạch lưới vẫn như thế

Bây giờ, những cuộc nói chuyện với ban lãnh đạo sẽ mang lại những cảm giác thú vị và thực hơn. Chẳng hạn, bạn bít rằng trong thực tế nhiều HLV chỉ kiếm nhiều tiền, và xác định lương và tiền chuyển nhượng với số lượng bao nhiêu cũng được theo ý muốn. Giờ đây, chúng tôi không mún làm cho mọi thứ trở nên quá phức tạp và giúp cho việc yêu cầu ngài chủ tịch ngồi đó và xem trận đấu, điều này sẽ giúp cho bạn có thể nâng giá trị của trận đấu lên mà còn giúp cho việc tăng số tiền trong quỹ chuyện nhượng.

Với bản FM8 thì bạn sẽ có thể điều chỉnh quỹ lương và chuyển nhượng bằng cách vào boardroom và đề nghị họ thay đổi quỹ chuyển nhượng. Tuy nhiên nếu tiền chuyển nhượng quá nhiều thì bạn có thể chuyển sang quỹ lương và ngược lại. Ví dụ nếu có một cầu thủ giỏi mà bạn có thể sign free nhưng quỹ lương của clb lại o đủ? Với các bản FM trước thì bạn mất tiêu cơ hội này rùi nhưng FM8 lại khác bạn chỉ cần di chuyển tiến từ quỹ chuyển nhưỡng sang quỹ lương là xong. Níu quỹ lương quá dư thừa nhưng quỹ chuyển nhượng lại o còn 1 xu? với các bản FM trước thì chỉ có ách nhìn mà thui nhưng với Fm8 thì bạn đừng lo lắng vì bạn chỉ cần chuyển tiền ngựoc lại là xong. Điều này rất hữu ích đặt biệt là khi chơi clb nhỏ.

Một sự bổ sung. Níu bạn chú ý ở FM7 khi bạn make a bid một chú nào đó thì sẽ có câu đại loại như they are looking for a left back" nhưng ở FM8 sẽ cụ thể hơn với tên một cầu thủ nào đó có thể chơi ở vị trí đó.

Một lỗi lớn trong các phiên bản trước là khi bạn ofer một cầu thủ nào đó cho một clb khác và một số hay có thể tất cả sẽ trả lời they aren't interested. Vởi bản FM8 thì khác, bạn chỉ có một list tất cả các clb mà aren't interested và lý do tại sao họ lại như thế.

Và một đểm mới khá thú vị nữa đó là bạn có thể sign một cầu thủ từ các quốc gia khác ví dụ như brazil dù anh ta chưa tới 18 tuổi ( giống như pato mà AC vừa làm đó)

[FM5]

Blog ngày 26/9/2007

Still reading these? Excellent. Although I suppose with the demo out on Sunday, it's next weeks blogs that will get missed.

Oh well - I'll worry about that then. Today's blog is about some of the changes to the news system inside Football Manager 2008.

Now, this is quite a strange blog to write, as there is so much crossover into other areas. So some of this might get repeated over the next few weeks in other blogs, but I'll do my best not to.

Every year we add more news items to the game and more variation too, to try and immerse the player, you, in the virtual world of football management. Sorry to shatter the illusions like that, but whilst FM is a way of life, it's not actually real. The news system is therefore imperitive for ensuring that you know what is going on not just at your own team, but throughout the football universe.

A few years ago we stopped the "one line" news items to go for more descriptive news items to get them to act more like short, informational, newspaper articles, and we've taken that a few steps further this year with the work of our "media corner".

This expansion includes non-player bio's, which provide a load of information about non-players for news items, referee bio's for, wait for it, yes, you've guessed it, a load of information about referee's for news items.

There's season ticket news, telling you how many season tickets have been sold so far, and how many are expected to be sold throughout the season, improved news items specific to records which your club or players might break, reworked media manager functions, effectively a tidying up of the triggers inside the game for news and lots more, even going as far as analysis of cup rounds, including news about shocks and progress for that round.

Then I could also talk about the new media items, such as when an ex-player returns to his old club, or the new transfer offer news items. But that would be giving too much away, and I'd rather you found some of those for yourselves when playing if that's OK. And if it's not, well, my lips are sealed, so it'll have to be.

If I was feeling really daring, I'd start talking about the increased inter-continental club competition media expansion, with things like pre-match odds and postmatch questions for those competitions. Or maybe I'd start going on about the past meetings button in pre-match news that makes it easy for you to see lots of information about past meetings, and even more info than you get in the "match flow" feature that will be blogged about much closer to release.

Maybe if you'd bought me a couple of drinks, I'd talk about the changes to the tickerbar and informational display, which shows competition news for the current manager and some competition statistics, but there'll be more about that in the next few days when I start talking about the interface changes. Or I might go on about the updated news system which means a highly likelihood of personal news that is more relevant to you in your inbox. Or even

But no. What I want to talk about here are 2 things.

One is more statiscal based news, such as "Marlon King breaks the 20 goal mark for Watford in their 7-1 demolition of (insert your own least favourite Coca Cola Championship team here)." which adds loads more personality to the news items.

The second. Well, the second is a whole new way of looking at news. Not only do you now get your own club news, you also get a special news section for the competition you are playing in, which shows and keeps all the major news that is going around in your division or competition, which can be invaluable in keeping you informed with what's going on at other clubs around you.

There's so much more I could talk about here, but I don't want to ruin the game for you by saying too much. So I'm going to shut up for now, and return tomorrow to start going through some of the new interface and usability changes inside the game, which is going to end up being a multi-day blog.

Blog hôm này nói về some of the changes to the news system inside Football Manager 2008.

Fm8 sẽ có sự bổ sung về tiểu sử của những nhân vận phụ ( non-player bio's), sẽ có rất nhiều thông tin về non-players, tiểu sử của vua sân cỏ áo đen,

Ngoài ra sẽ có phần tin về vè của mùa bóng nó sẽ giúp bạn bít được số lượng vé đã bán ra. Và những dự đoán về số lượng vé có thể bán ra trong suốt mùa bóng, việc phát triển thêm những cái mới này sẽ giúp bạn thâm nhập sâu hơn vào game, ngoài ra chúng tôi còn tía thiết lại hệ thống media

Và một điểm mới nữa là khi một cầu thủ trở về với clb cũ hay và các bạn hãy khám phá khi chơi hén (mà mơi nói đại cho rầu)

Một loạt tính năng mới trong phần media, với những thứ linh tinh trước trận đấu và những câu hỏi sau trân đấu mà liên quan đến một gải đấu. hay những thông tin về các cuộc đối đâu trong quá khứ sẽ giúp cho bạn có một loạt thông tin về đối thủ và vấn đề này sẽ đề cập rõ hơn trong match flow được đề cập trong vài ngày tới.

FM5: hôm nay chả có gì hay ho hết

[FM5]

Hôm nay mình tạm thời pót blog chứ o dịch được vì PC bị hư rùi bạn nào dùm hô thanks
Ngày 27/9/2007

Facegen technology is a well used tool in the games industry for creating human like faces. These faces are able to age, change shape according to height & weight, and even smile or frown depending on how the players are feeling. But it does not tie into photo's, or not in the way we are using it, anyway.


What this means is that real players (where we have licenses) will still have their photo's in the game. Where we don't have licenses the photo will not appear, as we do not have permission. But neither will a Facegen image, as that wouldn't be allowed either.


So Facegen characters will appear for new youth team players that start coming into the game at the end of the first season. They'll appear for supporter spokesmen too, and any other "fictional" character inside the game. So I hope that's now cleared up. And they look great, and add another dimension to those who love continuing to play the game after the "known" players have all long retired.


Going back to the usability study, one of the things that came as a big shock to us was how many people struggled to find the continue button in particular. So this is much bolder now, although is not the bright green anymore that you may have seen on some of the screenshots. You'll get to see it when the demo's out, but looks nice and sleek now.


Little things needed to be added, like more icons that make it more obvious to the user what they are used for. And text descriptions for what they are for for people who can't work it out, by hovering over them. Less mouse movement was also important, so some of the button placing has changed, and extra buttons added too to make some sections of the game that people might have missed in the past more obvious to people when they are playing the game. We were actually amazed by how few screens were visited inside the game, even by experienced users, and that lead to the birth of the match flow idea, although that will be dealt with in it's own blog later on.


Some things inside the game had to be made more obvious too, like having the database size displayed on the game status screen, or making squad selection rules easier to find so that you don't mistakenly try and pick those players in matches, team information is more indepth for national teams, and lots lots more.


Still with me? Good, good. Although I've got to go now or else the demo won't be ready for it's launch this Sunday, and that wouldn't make you happy, would it?

[branchtell]

hehe , save load nhanh hơn kìa :B90:
Kiểu này Omni khó chống cự :B47:

[FM5]

Ngày 28/9/2007

And one of those results have lead to the new advisor system. The idea of this is a little box that helps you our when you are stuck on a screen. A bit like the paperclip thingy that those of us who use windows don't like very much, but less annoying. Hence the original idea of an animated talking football with a moustache and big eyes didn't happen because, well, it would have been ridiculous.
For new users, or people who get stuck on a screen in the game when trying to do something, it's going to be invaluable. For those experienced users, it's very easy to turn off from the preferences screen, so you aren't forced to use it.
Now, as an experienced user, I haven't used it that much, so sat down with Phil & Ed who were heavily involved in getting it up and running to ask them about it, and this is what they had to say
"The Advisor system was born out of the results of a study conducted into making our User Interface far more intuitive to the user. One of the points raised by this study was that new users could sometimes become lost in the game, especially the first few times they played. So, the idea to design a small system to help such users through their first steps in Football Manager seemed a good one.
The Advisor offers beginner level support and guidance to the user on some of the most common but most important actions they will take in the game. Items such as selecting your line-up, continuing the game, and buying a player are covered. The user will be presented with a list of suggestions for actions they may wish to take in context with what is on the screen at the time. If one is selected, they then take the steps through that particular advisor until they have completed it, at which point they will hopefully now know what to do in this part of the game.
For example, if the user navigates to their Squad Screen, the Advisor will appear and ask the user if they would like to pick their line-up. If they wish to do so, they will be shown how to get to the Tactics screen with both textual and graphical hints, and then advised how to actually make a selection and assign a player to a shirt and position.
The system is designed to be unobtrusive, clear, and concise. It covers the absolute basics of how to do something that the user will then find beneficial every time they play the game, with the ultimate aim of making the user feel completely comfortable with the interface and the actions in the game. Visually, the advisor appears as a small pop-up box, positioned to allow as much key information to be displayed without being obstructed - in particular areas the advisor is referring to.
Once a user has completed their way through the various advisors, they too can choose to turn them off, or to re-appear at a defined time should they find themselves needing a refresher."
So there you have it from the horses mouth. Or, for those of you who know Ed, that should probably be the goat's mouth.
However, we haven't just been looking at issues for new users. There's lots of cool stuff for power users too.
For example, when the game is processing, you'll now be used to getting hints and tips and latest scores as this happens after our last few releases. This year, we've also added in a variety of stats to that, so you can see things like top goalscorers, league tables, matches without winning and losing etc.
Or I could point to the recently viewed players panel, which lists all the players you've looked at for the last 2 weeks of in-game time. Or the special "free transfers" filter on the world transfers screen.
Or the multiple colums in tactics screen thingy. But then that doesn't really give you much club of what I mean. So let's ask Michael…
"When changing your tactics before a match you can now hide the pitch, which will reveal extra columns with information about your players, the extra information can be very helpful in picking the right players for the match. Some of these extra columns can also be revealed without hiding the pitch, by increasing the width of the window when playing in windowed mode."
That's enough for today I think. Just think - this coming Sunday, you'll be able to play the demo, so by the time the blog comes round on Monday, you'll be able to try out the things you learn about the game straight away! Or you'll just be ignoring the blogs entirely, and I'll feel unloved. But hey - don't even give that a second thought, or let it ruin your weekend or anything.

Lượt dịch

Để giúp cho các bạn lần đâu chơi fm, chúng tôi đã đưa vào một hệ thống advisor system mới. Đó là sự xuất hiện của một ô nhỏ với những chú thích khi bạn rê chuột lên chỗ một vị trí trên màn hình. Điều này sẽ giúp cho các bạn mới chơi dễ dàng hơn khi chơi. Tuy nhiên, đối với các bạn đã quen với FM thì các bạn có thể tắt nó đi trong mục preferences.

Mấy cái còn lại chỉ loanh quanh về mấy thứ này thui. :B68:

[icecreamboy]

vấn đề kích thước sân bóng khá là hay, khi bạn chỉnh pitch size nhở có nghĩa là khán giả sẽ gần sân hơn, như ở việt nam là HAGL hay ở anh là arsenal ngày xưa, khi đó áp lực của khán giả sẽ lớn hơn với các đội khách sẽ gây căng thẳng cho các cầu thủ yếu bóng vía ^^, và cũng sẽ cổ vũ các cầu thủ chủ nhà tốt hơn, nhưng mặt khác nó cũng là con dao 2 lưỡi vì sẽ gây sức ép cho các cầu thủ chủ nhà cũng như các cầu thủ trẻ bạn mới cho ra sân

[ToiYeuHNACB]

Kiểu này thì đúng là FM8 đã có 1 bước đột phá đáng kể so với những bản FM trước đây.
Mà công nhận FM càng ngày càng thật

[FM5]

Ngày 1/9/2007, blod của ngày hôm nay anh em tham khảo trong ki thưởng thức demo.

Are you enjoying the demo then? If you haven't downloaded it yet, you should look at the weekends blog to find out where you can get it from.

I expect there are a lot less people reading today's blog than last weeks, but that's what happens when demo's are released. Which makes you special for reading it., so I'll try and give some info out that you can bamboozle your friends with in conversations.

Things like "Have you noticed the weather indicators in Football Manager 2008 yet, that show you what the weathers going to be like?". Or "Have you seen that the team stats and player stats now have an overview panel, but the old views are still available through the view panel?"

Let's be honest though - people are likely to think you are a bit odd if you mention facts like that. So how about this one instead - "Did you know that there's an improved notes and notebook system inside the game, so you never need to waste trees and ink again?"

I asked Svein about the new system and this is what he had to say…

" With Football Manager 2008 we improved the notes system so it can be used in more situations than before. Instead of being limited to players and staff, you can now create notes about pretty much anything and nothing.

You will notice that almost any screen that relates to a player, staff, team, competition, etc in the game now will have a "Notes" section available. From this section you can create one or more notes about the player, team, etc you are currently viewing. The note you create is "about" the player or team (or whatever) you are writing about. You can also attach custom categories to a note. Only notes that are about the player, team, etc you are viewing will be listed in its "Notes" section.

From your own "Manager Overvew" screen you can access your own Notebook. Your notebook is a collection of all the notes you have created. You can also create your own notes here if you so wish.

Basically you can create a note about almost anything. As before you can have notes generate a single reminder or recurring reminders."

You can also set up the notes to give you reminders, and what with lots of important things to remember whilst you are having your virtual career as a football manager, we tried to work out ways to make it easier to remember all these things. What with modern day human brains being sieve like with so many things to remember, like exactly when and on which channel new episodes of the Simpsons are on, rather than the re-runs, we've added in a calendar section to the human manager screen. This calendar, which can be viewed as daily, weekly, monthly and annually to suit your needs, doesn't just tell you when notes are due though. It also lists all of your fixtures, and other important dates, like registration dates and the like if the competition you are playing in has them.

And what's really clever is that if you can't be bothered to look at the calendar, you'll get a news item each month telling you all of the important dates for the forthcoming month. Which is nice.

These important dates are also now added to the competition schedule panels too. We're just too good to you….

Before I forget, I should also mention that there are new wizards for setting up the game. And filters and shortlists now save to the harddrive. Ter's just mentioned something about Feeder clubs showing up in different colours on league tables too, which I didn't know about, and learning a new thing every day is very good.

Two other things that I did know about, to round off today's blog.

First off is some changes to the player comparison screen, or not really changes, but a new way to do it, which is that you can now use the polygon analyser (that thing that looks a bit like an oddly shaped spider without any legs that you get if you change views on a players stats screen).

There's also now a news text filter, making it really easy to find specific news items or news items about specific players, by using the search box just above the news items.

Clever huh?

That's enough for now, I'm back tomorrow. Get back to playing the demo!

Miles

[FM5]

Blog FM hôm này né bà con ui. Chủ đề là FM 2008 Features: Bits & Bobs

A few tears today, as this is the last of the new feature round up blogs. Not much point doing others now that you are all playing the game, after all, although hopefully you'll find a few things in today's blog that you haven't seen yet.

That doesn't mean the end of the blogs though - oooh, no. There's some related-to-game-but-not-related-to-gameplay stuff for a few days, which will be followed by some indepth guides to some of the new features, so still lots to go until the game is released. At which point whilst you are playing it, I'll be sleeping. Which at this current moment in time, I'm looking forward to quite a bit.

So, what to talk about today. How about finances? And some loose ends that I haven't covered elsewhere? Sound good? Then let's begin…

Finances first. Now, this stuff is "under the hood" but shows how deep we go into this stuff to make the game as realistic as possible. The finance module has been hugely revamped to reflect the changing face of football globally, with Riz (creator of Eastside Hockey Manager who has now moved over to the FM team) looking after it along with other stuff. With lots more money flowing around in football, whether from larger TV deals or foreign investment, and bigger sponsorship and corporate deals, we have to show all of that without just making it so that every team has huge amounts of money.


Now, I'm not going to go into all the ins and outs, as you should find that out for yourself by playing, and seeing what happens to transfer values and wage values in the longterm of the game. And this would be different for each league and club anyway.


However, I have picked out a few examples of things that have changed or been added to help the finance module be the most realistic yet.

Corporate Match Day income now better reflect the amount of corporate money coming into the club.

Sponsorships are also modelled better, with figures researched being used from our database, aswell as the possibilities of not just kit sponsors, but also stadium and general sponsors, so it's possible to have multiple sponsors all putting money into the kitty.

There are lots of new fields in the database for income and costs too, to ensure that we aren't just making stuff up! Sorry, I mean "predicting using very clever equations".

You're now told how many season tickets you are selling, which is nice, and this has the correct boost to income. But if you make too much money, you might find your club investing the money elsewhere to bring more in in the long run, on top of the Directors taking money out of the club if they want to. Just like real life.

OK - enough about money stuff. Here's something else. I call it "bits and bobs" as it's stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else!

For those who have played the demo, you'll know about this already, but for those who don't, we now have season expectations in the game. And this is kind of linked to finances too, as if you tell the board you're going to do better than they expect, they might give you more money to spend. It also increases the expectation of supporters and the board, so the extra pressure on you mounts up, and if you don't do as you say, you're likely to be out on your ear pretty damn quick. If you want less pressure, suggest you're going to do worse than you want to, and have extra time to build things up. But do keep an eye on the boards long term goals, as these need to be taken seriously if you want to keep your job.

A feature I use a lot, being the kind of manager who likes to bring players through from the youth team, is having the chance to get one of your more experienced players to mentor a younger player. Sometimes though, I got it badly wrong, and ended up having time wasted for both players, by "marrying them up" incorrectly, so both got annoyed. Now, if you have a coach with good youth stats, if you go to a players training screen, they may well recommend someone to mentor them for you.

What else? How about the ability to build up a good backroom team together, and having them work together for a while, creating a good bond between them, and you could find them moving with you when you move to a new job.

If you're a big player of network games, you'll find it faster, as we've reduced the workload on the server on matchdays making your own computer do a bit more work.

Feeder clubs have also been improved a lot, with a little thing such as being able to search for a new parent club without having to cancel your original, the work permit display stuff that I mentioned earlier in the blogs series, being on loan for a season counting as a whole year, rather than the shorter time, which will help with getting dual nationality, but more importantly, once you've been in a job for a while and the board are happy with you, you'll get the option to choose what kind of feeder club to look for.

There's still lots of other bits and bobs, like being able to choose between decimal or fraction betting odds, using Ctrl K (PC) or Cmd K (Mac), or being able to have more foreigners at your club that the limit in a country, and loan out the others, but I'd rather let you discover those for yourself, and I look forward to seeing the posts on our forums when new things are discovered with the full game.

Now, today promises to be exciting. As if all goes to plan, we should actually know our release dates later this morning.

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