: Wed Sep 09, 2009 9:34 pm
I finally won the world cup - thanks to Alex letting me know what the problem was with players going to Oz on loan.
The one remaining issue I have for Patch 5 or the next version is this :
There's still clearly a limit on the number of stars and qualities which a club can have. So if I'm promoting a world class player I've nurtured through the alliance, but I already have plenty of internationals with quality, then that world class player will not get any qualities or stars. This can then lead to odd situations, like I have two international gold star players who have better attributes than two world class players without qualities in the same positions.
In previous versions, I'd loan out all my star/quality players while I promoted from the alliance. Fiddly, but effective, and I could usually get myself a whole team of gold stars after a few seasons. This time round that cunning trick doesn't appear to work. So if I want world class players who can compete with the Aussies, they need a star. If I want a star, then I need to offload an international class player with a star. Yetas international class players with stars are quite capable of hitting top attribute ceilings in their positions, I'm basically selling a dead cert top player for a possible/maybe top player (there's no guarantee of stars anyway).
Perhaps the answer is to have attributes and stars limited within each class, rather than across the club, so you can have 2 x gold star, 4xsilver star and 8x each of the qualities in each class of player.
Just a thought. Still a great game, and I actually cheered to myself when I won the world cup with England at last. Yes, I am that sad.
