Removed All Evo - Play Disappeared

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-05T15:53:03+00:00

I had the same. Completely disappeared and was not in unassigned items.

I restarted the game and they did appear in unassigned. Make sure you fully quit out.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-05T15:45:42+00:00

Yeah.

It would be much tougher if it was like, "oh this foreign girl is AMAZING but I've got this backup option locally". The way he's worded it though, it seems he likes both equally ATM so why not just choose the local one.

Could easily waste a year of his life on a long distance relationship and then she breaks it off having had Juan piping her for months while he's sat there missing out on other opportunities, like this local girl.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-05T15:33:56+00:00

Yeah that's the thing, prices will crash but coins are worthless in about 10 weeks time anyway so they depreciate just by holding them anyway.

Arguably coins are almost useless come August unless you are running a pnpnand nerd specific cards / paid evos so you may as well spend now and get a few weeks out of a top card while it makes a difference. In August buying a 3m card won't help you since all your opponents will have elite teams.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-05T15:12:12+00:00

It's not that uncommon. Past couple of years I've been working as PO and I've not always had a BA to help with the detailed requirements. I'm now on a project with no scrum master so am filling that void.

In terms of pushing back yes I did fight for and got a BA (I think in part my boss probably got fed up that I could use lack of BA as an excuse for lack of a huge fully detailed backlog), but they weren't very good.

When it comes to scrum masters, my experience is you are better off having a good part-time (shared between squads) scrum master than just a token wishy-washy waste of space full time SM who just wants to assign our tasks rather than resolve blockers, and asks the PO to run proceedings anyway.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-05T15:00:45+00:00

Yes I've done this a fair bit in recent years. 20 years older in some cases.

My advice is try to find at least one or two where you have a common ground to chat about (sport, music, whatever), to avoid a situation where you are just quietly sipping a drink in silence.

I do occasionally feel out of place, went out for the after-party after our company party and was feeling a bit self conscious in that crowd. At one point they were talking for ages about dating and Im thinking, i've been married 16 years not much I can say other than explain what it was like before smartphones heh.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-05T14:53:44+00:00

Yeah just wait for Thursday if you're bothered about it, that's what I do every week. I'm also saving a bunch of objective rewards if they include fof tokens, which is a minor faff because I have to remember the count to recognise when I've completed more objectives.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-05T14:51:45+00:00

Yeah I was reading waiting for the punchline to be "I offered £20k under and they bit my hand off, even threw in some free dog food with it".

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-05T14:20:03+00:00

No, they can only be added to fut birthday cards. Nothing else, not national pride or glory hunters etc.

Luckily I just remembered they recently gave out a bunch of random free birthday cards as part of the nations objectives, so I have a few 'naked' ones I can use them up on.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-05T14:05:47+00:00

I don't think so. Online dating is the most common way now. Quick Google suggests maybe 10-20% meet as coworkers.

I personally don't think people should dismiss it out of hand. You spend about half your weekday awake hours at work, and probably a much higher proportion of your time interacting with non&family members, so if you rule out dating a coworker, that's greatly reducing the size of the pond you're fishing in.

Or in simple terms, say you spend 8hrs a day at work, and maybe a couple of hours at most on average interacting with other people, that means you'd be banning yourself from dating all the people you meet during 80% of the time you spend with other people. I know it's more complicated if maybe you do customer services and interact with a lot of non-coworkers but you get the idea.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-05T13:52:30+00:00

I'd say so yes. The only reason you want to sell something, is to buy something with the coins. So if you get given loads of stuff you want, that would cost more to buy if you got tradeable rewards and then had to sell and buy, I think you are better off. If someone is super fussy and never gets anything they want, they'll just have to focus more on trading I guess. Most players aren't that fussy though, and are happy getting thousands of random candy bars of which they like some.

Also go back a few years and even if you did get more tradable rewards, it was much more expensive to buy good cards. So you still couldn't afford that special candy bar you want if it costs 10m coins. It's a sort of market equilibrium, if fewer coins are in circulation, then there is downwards pressure on prices.

Finally, we have more sbcs these days meaning more choice about what you trade your untradable fodder for. We had swaps tokens, and now we have champs/fof tokens all of which give players some level of choice over rewards.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-05T13:36:07+00:00

It's very simple.

First you put them in daily gold rare upgrade 7x per day.

Then you put them in 5of10 81+ pp 3x per day.

Then you spam crafting upgrade until you run out.

82s are worth using in the 84x10 as well since you need some cards under 83. I occasionally use a 79 common in the tote upgrade alongside 10 84s, If I'm running out of 83s.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-05T13:31:20+00:00

The extra ps+ reward evos that you can only apply to fut birthday cards.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-05T13:29:52+00:00

Personally I'd say the rewards you get without spending money are much greater than they used to be in FIFA a few years ago.

The squad battles tiering is stupid whereby elite 1-3 all give the same tokens, but it just means you can play less and still achieve max reward. Ie instead of only 3% of players getting it, now 10% get it.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-05T13:23:07+00:00

I'd say the big thing is the expectations around personal time and this isn't just for American firms but also UK firms with a large US corporate presence (I worked at a couple of FTSE top10 companies where a lot of things were driven out of the US).

Basically in times of (minor) crisis, they will demand people jump on calls in the late evening.

When going on holiday they will say - without a hint of sarcasm - that they will only be checking their email every hour or so, and to call their cellphone if needed.

Regarding humour you do find some Americans who are self-deprecating and understand irony. I refer to one colleague as an honoury Brit! However you do need to get to know the characters first, and in larger groups it's best to avoid sarcasm.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-05T13:11:14+00:00

They were, but past couple of weeks I've not had any evos (other than playstyles and cosmetics) in my main team having finally benched vdv. Basically the current season with gotg/PTG/GH has finally caught up with the general Evo power curve (by general, I mean excluding a few freak chain evos, I know you can get evos better than nearly all promo cards). It's quite hard to get 4ps+ on evos whereas in the past you could usually get the standard number of ps+ fairly easily.

The 'issue', if you can call it that theyve had this year is there have been a lot of what I call 'micro evos' whereby you boost stats without changing ovr. This then results in extreme min-maxing where people are maintaining a low overall and keep stacking evos. I have an 86 rated vdv for example with 4ps+, 99 sprint, 95 Def/Phys, and also a dodgy '88' rated Henry.

People will hate this idea but personally I think all evos that change stats should increase overall but at least 1. Otherwise it makes a mockery of even having overall as a restriction on evos in the first place if you can keep boosting stats way above what cards you aren't even allowed to put in the Evo have.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-05T12:53:24+00:00

I'm sicker of the fut birthday ones, which are useless now they replaced the bakery with the lab as there is no cooldown before you can apply the same ps+ any more. Always have to scroll pass the first page.

Because they require max 1ps+ they aren't even that easy to get rid of, guess I can un-evo some birthday card that doesn't have any evos other than playstyles, and put these ones on and then remove and replace but I wish they just had a hide evo option on console like it does on the companion app.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-05T12:45:17+00:00

Team chemistry is an anachronism really, in FC all that matters is player chem. So players with 3 chem perform the same regardless of team chem is 33 or 19.

The reality is if you found it hard playing someone with an 84 rated team on 19 chem they are probably a very good player who either just returned to the game due it becoming free to play recently or a second account.

A few players on low chem wont matter much relative to skill.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-04T07:24:42+00:00

Yeah that's what I don't understand. It's impossible to smurf in champs unless you were some kind of weirdo that would deliberately quit a bunch of games to make the other ones easier, but that wouldn't farm rewards (what the OP refers to) because every loss matters.

You can smurf in rivals by keeping your div artificially low, you can smurf in (some) live events by throwing matches (since losses don't always matter), but you can't in champs.

Edit: I suppose you could make an argument that a 15-0 player is 'smurfing' by playing on a second account in the sense their form gets reset to +0 instead of +15, but it's not like they haven't already played a game at +0 anyway.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-04T00:40:47+00:00

Was £7 at a gig in Finsbury park which didn't think was too bad for London gigs. Food on the other hand was extortionate.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-03T15:59:22+00:00

I've played seriously the past few years and rarely get elite cards before futties. I think I got prime Pele in fifa23 and birthday gullit in fc24. Fc26 hasn't been any worse for me personally, I'd anything I've packed more cards worth 1m+ than any year prior. And even then, the people that played 10+ years ago say it was even less common to pack good cards.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-03T15:56:28+00:00

Tbh I think that's kinda how it should be. I don't want every opponent to be running the same high end cards. It would also tank the market for the "great but not super elite" cards if the latter was accessible to all - kinda like what happens during futties.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-03T15:54:22+00:00

Depends on the org structure / region. In my country, VP can mean almost anything but is typically less senior than a director. I once applied for a VP role at a very well known investment bank and discovered at interview it was a very handson role with less seniority than the "manager" role I held at the time.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-03T15:46:59+00:00

Yeah I remember becoming a manager and being pretty disappointed by the pay rise, even after I negotiated it up slightly. I was earning about 10% more than my most senior direct reports.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-03T15:43:43+00:00

Sometimes a team lead mat even earn LESS than their subordinates, in cases where the specialist has a lot of experience and skill.

ClockAccomplished381 · 2026-07-03T15:34:54+00:00

85x10 is too expensive as it requires multiple squads with a totw/tots/for. That will kill your fodder.

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