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[Calhoun]

Its about time I did this.

Its pretty obvious what the game is and what its about. If you want the boring store page stuff, you can find that here.

Now, on to the important bits. The subset of this community that is the DFC steam group has found a new love in this game. Seriously. We've put in 2 real life days and 8 hours and we're only just now nearing the end of the first season. This game is incredible. You don't have to like sports, or football, or anything. Most of us are American so our concept of football in the european sense wasn't exactly top notch, but god have we learned. Right now this game is on sale for dirt cheap on Amazon. EDIT: Sale over

We intend to see our first season off as quickly as possible and then stick to a a weekly schedule or so where we pick a night to drop a few hours on to it starting with the next season. Right now we've just about filled all the Irish First Division teams, but with enough people we could have both Irish leagues full up, and some of us are going to end up the Premiere league next season anyways.

I can't stress enough just how pleasing this game is. You wouldn't expect it, but we've had so much fun its obscene.

Does anyone here already own it? Interested? Want to know more?

I'm willing to field any and all questions! Ask away!

[Mini]

Holy crap that's cheap.

EDIT: Bah, only for US customers.

[Briggsy16]

You've just missed the Steamsale for this. It was 6.99 or 4.99 for people who own it

[mendonca]

Sounds brilliant! I'm surprisingly happy about the thought of a load of Americans trying to learn about (association) football by doing a multiplayer game of FM in the Irish First Division!

Speaking from personal experience, I reckon most people my age in the UK have already played far too much of this game already. It used to be pretty tragic how much this game impacted on sleeping cycles of young men going through key parts of their education in the late 90s.

The recent iterations look fantastic, and amazingly complex and detailed, but unfortunately I can't bring myself to get drawn in to this world again.

Good luck though! if you were inclined, I would be interested to hear about any drama / interesting signings / tactical masterstrokes / crunch games and other stuff that is going on in your game.

Who is the best performing manager? Which team are punching well above their weight, and why? Signings, coaching staff, tactics, team morale?

[Briggsy16]

I've played this constantly since it used to be called Championship Manager, as I've grown older (I'm now 21) I've just started to get bored of it.

Great game with like mendonca said, most lads from the UK have probably played at some point.

[Calhoun]

When (if) we get a regular thing going weekly, then I'd probably do write-ups. Right now though, I'm coaching Cork City, and we're number 1 in the league with a pretty heavy lead. Next is Limerick F.C. who were dominating mid season but have been on a giant downward spiral. I think third is Athlone town, but last we played was yesterday, and the third place spot is very tightly contested.

I'm on a 10 game winning streak and 14 unbeaten streak. I can't speak to the other teams as far as expectations, but I was "supposed" to finish 7th place. Its feels pretty fantastic. I think its mostly due to the other teams not understanding how to face me. I run the most balls-out offense and it works. Keep them occupied in their goal end, and they can't score on me. My guys aren't even great shots, it mostly comes out to law of large numbers.

One of our players (Silent Thunder), coaching Longford, actually got fired.

Waterford, played by Thendash, won the Senior Challenge Cup.

I don't actually know of who really counts as big names in football really, but we're only IFD teams, and I don't think any of us have signed someone super famous.

[mendonca]

I don't actually know of who really counts as big names in football really, but we're only IFD teams, and I don't think any of us have signed someone super famous.

If you or any of the other players did have any notable signings, whether famous or not (signed them on a free and now they are worth 100k+ and getting an average rating of 9.00+ or whatever) I'd still be interested. Part of the fun, from my memory, was scouting the Norwegian free transfer market and pulling out a 16 year old wonderkid, rather than dealing in the big names.

Regardless, if you do get to do the weekly roundups, I shall look forward to it.

[Calhoun]

Only player I've got worth above 100K is Daryl Horgan, and hes actually on loan. (Though in real life it seems he signs for Cork City for the 2012 season).  Most of our signings were just kids with a lot of potential. Our budgets are shoestring. Limerick gets around 6k for wages, I'm the next highest at 4.8k. Which is a little absurd considering my club practically prints money. The board nearly has a million in the bank. The others aren't so financially fortunate. But Cork City in real life has a fanatical fan following, and they correctly carried that over in the game. I get 2.5k fans coming to my regular season games, They get around 600-900.

I'm actually quite looking forward to doing write-ups and what not.

[ed boy]

I haven't played since '08 or so. What's changed since then?

[Briggsy16]

A hell of a lot has changed since then. It's best you look at their wiki pages to look at all the new changes.

[Intrinsic]

FM just gets more and more boring the more boring poop they add to it. I was a beta tester for FMLive and that game was a blast though, i wish could play at that pace and having the boring crap handled for me, i just wish there could be an offline version of it.

Love this pic ;p

[dennislp3]

I am soooooo poor lol I will see if I can pick it up come this Friday when I get my check though since I now have all my bills payed for the month (hence being poor XD)

[Calhoun]

Sales apparently run its course, Didn't actually give an end date that I could determine. That's probably the last time for a while its going to be on sale too. Still, I'd consider the game worth the asking price given the sheer volume of hours I've put in to it.

I haven't played since '08 or so. What's changed since then?

I'd love to be able to tell you but this is my first.

[MonkeyHead]

Oh man, memories of the late 90's and the "Championship Manager" series... quite humiliating when a mate found me in the roster for a Welsh Premier club thanks to my real life exploits as a young athletic 18 year old. What was more annoying that the game used names in its database to generate new players over time, so we made a point of filling up a team made up only of me and my "offspring"...

[Thendash]

*Storms out*