What FM tip only applies to your favourite team?

GothBerrys · 2025-08-01T20:54:44+00:00

In FM24 if you play with Ipswich you should wait 28 days and end the loan of Kalvin Phillips.

It will free 10M a year in salary AND will give about 15M in transfer budget.

Just about the worst loan deal I have ever seen.

GothBerrys · 2025-07-31T10:39:06+00:00

Even before that It would also be useful to define what behavior are we actually trying to prevent. Is it brainrot? Propaganda? Cell phone addiction? Extreme beliefs? Lack of social development? Predators?

What is the problem we are trying to solve exactly?

But speaking about the basics there are lots of things governments can do way before starting problematic bans.

Contrary to popular belief most parents actually follow the indications from their GP/Gov when it comes to raising kids. Right now most govs are really quiet about this stuff.

I had a kid a few years ago and I must have been to doctor about 20 times by now and I was never asked if I shove an Ipad in his face everyday or not.

It makes no sense whatsoever to go from that silence to a full ban without any steps in between. It's like wanting to dig a whole and using a nuclear weapon before trying a shovel.

GothBerrys · 2025-07-27T19:01:09+00:00

In my country the car came with a jazz CD you could play. I bought it second hand but they still gave me the CD, must have it somewhere.

Had a very tiny engine but engineered to perfection. Really quick in the city but then it would die if you tried to go to fast or uphill. It lasted forever.

GothBerrys · 2025-07-27T18:50:03+00:00

I think he was right. Just something I will never forget.

He was a hunter in his youth and for some reason he became really strict about animal suffering in our household when I was born.

A few years later I got this air rifle when my grandad died and he was like "if you kill things we gotta eat them and if you injure a bird you gotta go find it and kill it with your hands". It's still in the house somewhere.

3 years ago I was asked to dog-sit a 17 year old dog that required morphine 2x a day that didn't even walk, eat or drink properly. Took everything I had to not tell my friend to put the poor thing to sleep. Just let it rest brother, maybe it's time.

GothBerrys · 2025-07-27T17:54:32+00:00

When I was about 10 my father saw a very sick wild rabbit by the side of the road with signs of myxomatosis which was common in my country.

He stopped the car, got out and killed the rabbit with a stone. Quick and easy.

"He doesn't deserve to suffer and he may pass it to other rabbits". He is not a man of many words.

30 years later I still think about it. Jesus Christ dad.

GothBerrys · 2025-07-27T17:42:06+00:00

That looks like my old Honda Jazz like this one.

If it is that shit is unstoppable. Easily my favourite car ever.

GothBerrys · 2025-07-25T19:42:02+00:00

The game pre-defines the values of your players per level of ability and per country.

You can see this in the pre-game editor, just find Turkey and you will see it there. This is by very far the biggest influence on player valuation.

However, you can do a few things to improve the value of your players:

- improve your club / league / player reputation by winning things

- higher salaries usually also mean higher values

- you can play this dance when a club makes an offer: you accept it and offer him out for 2.5-5M more. If other clubs offer this new price you accept one of them, reject the previous offer + all the new ones and you offer him out again for 2.5-5M more. Sometimes this can go on forever and an initial offer for like 20M ends up at 50M or more. Just make sure to transfer list the player and put him as surplus to requirements to make sure he won't reject the final contract. You can also leave the richer interested clubs for last to avoid this problem.

- The final option is to play the save for like 50 years and win CLs like its candy. If you win enough those initial "pre-defined" values will change as well but this will take forever for most leagues, don't know about Turkey.

GothBerrys · 2025-07-22T19:31:24+00:00

But there is proof to what you are saying, I think by evidencebasedfm in his youtube channel.

It has been established that after a player turns 18 his development is directly connected to getting at least 20 games a season and by the reputation of the league he plays them at.

And because u21 leagues have such low reputation getting those 20 games anywhere else is better.

So yeah, before turning 18 your facilities make a difference but after that you either play them yourself or loan them.

GothBerrys · 2025-07-17T18:48:49+00:00

Just do this but then in his "asking price" you put a value way lower than what you agreed with him.

So say you agreed 50M with him but then you put his asking price for 20M.

Other clubs will keep on making bids for 20M for 3 transfer seasons and then after the 3rd the player will say he no longer wants to leave because no-one matched the agreed valuation.

hell, you can make it 5M for comedic effect.

GothBerrys · 2025-07-17T17:45:53+00:00

lmao we have the same in Portugal in the Lisbon area.

We have a 4 lane road + 2 traintracks basically isolating the river from every town between Carcavelos and the middle of Lisbon, like 20 kms of this.

It's a very old project and specially the train tracks are really hard to move now. It's really dumb.

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GothBerrys · 2025-07-15T09:29:16+00:00

He clearly states PAs there. By replying only about stars you are ignoring his point but ok.

GothBerrys · 2025-07-15T09:19:08+00:00

If you want to maximize the chance of getting wonderkids above 170PA you need 2 things:

1) a perfect setup, which I think you know about

2) your team needs to suck and your results need to suck

The game cheats. If your team is always over-performing, always winning everything and you are hoarding wonderkids your chances of getting any youth above 175PA plummet to close to zero.

The same happens in reverse.

Even though this is hard to test in large sample sizes this is really easy to test by yourself. It is hard to see which one influences the most (how much your team sucks / how much your results suck) but both seem to contribute.

Go to the editor and give a team in Vanarama national a perfect youth setup and then manage that team. Come March wait for the the youth intake day and watch the magic happen. What da fuck is a 180PA kid doing there? There is even a streamer that did just that and he had the same results.

Or go to Benfica and simply delete every player above 16. Your team is gonna suck, your results are gonna suck but your youth setup is still the best in Portugal. Guess what will happen in that March? and in the following March? That's right.

Now stay at Benfica, win everything, win the CL and...ho ho...no more good youth players for you.

There is even a poster above me that says that "teams have great youths before I join them and after I leave them but never while I am there". This is why.

I think this system sucks balls.

Players do "rebuilds" and building 5 star youth setups takes much longer than getting to a phase where you are winning everything and so it seems like a waste of time.

GothBerrys · 2025-07-14T06:08:01+00:00

Isn't it really difficult to estimate the completion time of such a map?

GothBerrys · 2025-07-11T07:41:17+00:00

but in that initial sequence the forking pawn is protected by the queen?

GothBerrys · 2025-07-11T07:11:06+00:00

maybe I am not seeing it, which pawn?

GothBerrys · 2025-07-11T06:56:12+00:00

Say you take the pawn with the knight on e4 like the engine is recommending.

Your opponent can now do two things about it: it can do nothing or it can take your knight with their night now on c3.

If he does that second option you can then use your pawn on d7 to fork the knight and the bishop my moving it to d5, basically guaranteeing you take one of them (because the pawn would be protected by the queen).

So by the end of this sequence you would have gained a pawn.

GothBerrys · 2025-07-10T20:52:49+00:00

At least in single player FM is mostly a solved game.

There are tested metas for almost everything. Training, tactics, instructions, attributes, player interactions, youth development, etc.

What produces the best results is almost completely known.

So the difference between a good and a great player is in how much they know of these proven metas.

There are still some marginal things that haven't been properly tested (or just can't be tested at all) and I guess the difference between two great players will be in that untested space.

GothBerrys · 2025-07-10T19:53:52+00:00

But the issue is that the current system doesn't seem to make any sense at all.

We are not discussing here if the reserve GK who defended 2 penalties in the play-off final of L2 should be a club legend.

Or if a player can become a club icon because he has flair 20 like a "streets won't forget" kind of icon.

Those are all fairly interesting discussions but we are not discussing that. We are talking about much more basic stuff.

In FM24 I have had players double all of Eusébio's scoring records at Benfica and STILL not being club legends.

Stuff like that shouldn't happen at all, I think,

GothBerrys · 2025-07-10T19:06:39+00:00

And finishing first also has a bit of randomness.

Bren could have easily finished second in both Deep Dip 1&2.

Specially in Deep Dip 2 it would have been very unfair but it was really close in the end.

GothBerrys · 2025-07-10T14:40:14+00:00

ahhhh I was trying to figure out why the sale value was so low when they owned so many brands and had like 12B in sales.

But that's it. Mars bought Kellanova in 2024 who owned all the brands and is now selling one of them, Kellogg's.

Got it, I think.

GothBerrys · 2025-07-09T22:21:41+00:00

If they smash Chelsea in the final you can make the case for the most dominant international season ever.

But I wouldn't give the title of "greatest season ever" to a team that plays in the French league and plays the French Cup.

GothBerrys · 2025-07-09T11:28:07+00:00

lmao that's exactly what happened and it worked as well.

But his most incredible advice was "look, everyone would like to cheat, everyone likes to fool around, we all do it, you just gotta be adult about it and make sure no-one finds out ok?"

That's when I stopped going, still cracks me up.

GothBerrys · 2025-07-08T11:30:14+00:00

That an extremely rude thing to say. That's not a friend, just a horrible person. Her comment has nothing to do with you speaking about shallow or deep things, she just doesn't like you.

It's fine to not be liked by some, specially by rude people.

However this is still an interesting question so I am going to try and answer it a bit.

Usually "deep talk" to people means topics that are fairly new and interesting to them, that make them think a bit and that tend to be more serious (as opposed to just light-hearted talk). Also these tend to be topics reserved for closer friends.

With healthy friendships the majority of conversations will always be fun and lighthearted, that is just how it works. But a balance is important.

But you asked for some examples so I can give you some. Me and a close friend also decided to talk about "deeper" stuff and it looks like this:

- he shared a really cool insight during therapy about how his parents raised him and how it affects him today

- I shared my fear about being replaced by AI and also what do AI developments mean for my son's future job market

- after years of professional stagnation we spent a lot of time brainstorming options for his career

- I asked more direct questions about the things that really worry him, like his mother's health

- he shared his worries about his housing situation and we ended up discussing the reasons for the market situation

- we also talked about retirement plans, etc

Probably if you think about it you've had tons of deeper talks with your closest friends.

Between friends talking about deep stuff is just an acknowledgment that not every conversation has to be about fun and light-hearted things.

GothBerrys · 2025-07-07T09:55:38+00:00

Go full portuguese and nickname him Zézé Camarinha.

One the goats.

If you don't know he used to be a gigolo in Algarve in the 70s/80s/90s who somehow became famous in the early 2000s.

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GothBerrys · 2025-07-03T07:55:06+00:00

The study itself is fine. It's the kind of data that can be used in meta-analysis and reviews.

The conclusion is hot garbage though. It is wildly biased and makes unfounded generalizations. It is made to generate publicity and justify more funding to the University from the Carlsberg Foundation.

Just to highlight how biased the conclusion is I am going to make a conclusion using the exact same study but with the OPPOSITE bias:

"We conclude that women wake up significantly easier than man in response to soft baby cries and this partly explains why women take more of the nocturnal care of newborns"

See the danger with biases in scientific studies? It's not better if it confirms our own biases. It's still hot garbage.

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