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Asshole
4th September 2008, 05:38 PM
Im sure a few of you will have heard of the "challenges" people create for fm08, such as the don fabio challenge, where you attempt to emulate capello's career, usually i dont bother looking at these but i stumbled across one the other day i thought might work with a bit of interest, works like this:

One person starts a new game, as for instance a blue square south team, they take one season with the club to see how they do, after that season you save the game and send it to another player, along with tips on players they could re-loan etc and the targets for the next season,

For instance, Player A starts in the blue square south as bath, if for instance they manage to get promoted, they would pass the save file on to player B with a note (although in this case we can post it in this thread or use a blog) saying:

Two good players to re loan are frankie artus and jennison myrie-williams of bristol city, need a new goalkeeper as ours was inconsistent last year and will probably need a new center back, Target for the year: achieve 20th or higher in the blue square premier

Then player B plays it through, if player B FAILS to achieve the targets then they miss out on the next cycle, if you feel the target set is unfair it can be overruled by the others playing the game, for instance, demanding promotion two years in a row is stupid, any outlandish targets WILL mean you being dropped from the next player cycle

and basically the aim is to get the team as high as you can, and also slowly to remove other players from the game, untill there is two left,

A few rules though:

1: no targets for the first year

2: No cheating or saved game editing, its easy to see if somebody has cheated, and their save will be deleted moving on to the next player with the last unmodified save

3: No stupid targets, while i am sure most people will want to win, this game works a lot better with more people

4: you have 2 weeks MAX to complete your designated season, if you fail to achieve it, we again revert to the previous save and you are removed

5: no interference during another managers season save for the note you may leave at the start, all players may give some ideas on the first season, you cannot ask the person before you to sign certain players, or to improve facilities etc, its entirely their choice



So anyway this idea seemed pretty fun to me, and was just wondering if anyone else wished to take part?

I will play through the first season, then it will move on in order of sign up, unless when you sign up you wish to take a different spot in the order so, just leave a message saying count me in if you wish to play!

We will be playing as bath, unless anyone takes extreme offense at this, chosen due to its close proximity of a league 2 a league 1 and two championship sides, including bristol city who always will become a parent club, giving you useful talent for the first few years.

as i said leave a message, really would like at LEAST 5 players, any less and we can forget it :)

Cycle 1:

1: Asshole.............Target: none................Achieved: league 1st place (Promoted) + Fa trophy
2: Gr_..................Target: 19th place.........Achieved: League 9th place
3: Jack
4: Trapstar
5:Cragie babie
6: Steff
7: Sir bryan
8: Wats Up

Cycle 2:

1: Asshole

Gr_
4th September 2008, 06:14 PM
im in..

Asshole
4th September 2008, 06:21 PM
cool, feel free to direct some friends here im gonna limit it to 10 spots, so it wont take forever to get back round to you, so first come first serve,

the game will be started on 8.0.1 patch, anyone with that or the .2 patch will be fine, anybody who is yet to update will need to grab the .1 patch at the least

.2 ruins the game a bit imo

dave
4th September 2008, 07:38 PM
im in slag, but i want to play now so send it so i can crack on ¬_¬

TraPStaR
4th September 2008, 09:56 PM
sounds like a fun idea... but i need to get the game first... ill keep ya posted.... when u thinking of starting?

Craigie Baby
5th September 2008, 02:40 PM
yeah ill play !

steff
6th September 2008, 02:10 PM
05-09, 18:30 Asshole steff, why are you not joining the fm08 challenge ?!?! :o

I'm down with it. I went to the pub and never seen your message until now. I wasn't going to join since 8.0.1 and 8.0.2 are completely different games but then I just remembered that with my 8.0.2 patch I'll have most of the updates anyway. The only thing really is no updated players which won't matter.

Asshole
7th September 2008, 03:49 PM
your added in as number 6

Asshole
7th September 2008, 06:31 PM
Now we have a seperate section for this, to make it easier can we put our mid and post season reports in seperate threads, save us all from trawling through here, after completing your season, if you meet your targets can you let me know if you want to take part in the next cycle please :)

and if you know of any other oddthoughters who want to join filling the 10 spots would be cool :)

Sir Brian
9th September 2008, 08:14 PM
is it too late for me to join??

Asshole
10th September 2008, 08:20 AM
nope, sticking you in on cycle 1

wats_up
10th September 2008, 01:56 PM
Ill give it a blast.

Asshole
11th September 2008, 09:24 AM
ok sticking you in too

Asshole
9th October 2008, 08:23 PM
has anybody seen dave?? Gr_ said he passed the file on, so dave should have it, this game is not over i will hunt him down and attempt to find out where we are at, so Gr_ can you please come in and set him next years targets if you have passed it on, if not please contact me, you too jack.