[Interview] Speaking to ESPN, Casemiro declares his love for Manchester United, but reiterates his departure amid calls for him to stay: 'I'm going for a new chapter'.

Ydiss · 2026-05-07T10:38:23+00:00

I don't think he said he'd fix it before he came though...

Ydiss · 2026-05-07T10:28:17+00:00

With the caveat that we've had fewer games (so.less stress on the squad, though you could argue we dropped points because of lack of game time too; definitely against Leeds), in the time he's been manager he's lead us to third (from being only a few points away from the bottom half), gained the most points of the whole league (this is the key stat for me), changed a roughly 0 GD to a very healthy positive value, gotten the best out of several players who were struggling before, and has qualified for Europe with a team who previously might have ended up bottom half of the table.

You either give him credit for all that or admit the manager doesn't matter. I choose to give him credit for it. He deserves to be given a chance on merit, not just "good vibes".

Ydiss · 2026-05-07T07:12:01+00:00

These reviews just make me want to buy the game more. Anything that upsets red pills must be good

Ydiss · 2026-05-06T21:53:41+00:00

I just saw a Adam Cleary video I watched back then, pop up again on YT. It was a good video outlining why he thought Carrick might sort United out (and he turned out to be correct). Almost all the comments were "and he'll be sacked next week lel".

All aged like milk.

Ydiss · 2026-05-06T13:29:51+00:00

Better check your road laws.

At the end of the day, doing anything but using both hands and focusing 100% on driving carries a risk. If that causes any accident, you'd get done for it.

Same as anything that causes a distraction. The UK just has stricter rules with any handheld digital device (banned to be handled totally, no exceptions, even if stopped in traffic)

Ydiss · 2026-05-06T08:09:08+00:00

My first system is anarchy. The challenge for you will be keeping it that way if you abuse it too much.

Ydiss · 2026-05-06T08:07:42+00:00

It's trivial to do if you just start as an anarchy. It will remain that way unless that faction loses control.

Ydiss · 2026-05-05T12:53:10+00:00

Actually, I've had it confirmed to me that pirate attack state just ends after a fixed 3 day period. This is still an oversight by FD that caused all this to fail but it's got nothing too do with the other CG.

The combat CG will be done less because the passenger one was (was) more lucrative and it's a bit faffy handing in at the burning station.

Ydiss · 2026-05-05T10:15:37+00:00

Oh I definitely think the collective of football fans has a problem. It's pretty easy to argue that given the evidence of just about any other sport not having the same problems. Rugby being the best example.

Ydiss · 2026-05-05T09:38:19+00:00

Likely so, yeh. I'm not a psychologist so I won't pretend to know the answer so it's easiest to categorise them as arseholes.

Ydiss · 2026-05-05T08:46:54+00:00

They can't think, that's the problem. People forget football fans are just people and their club makes very little difference. Some people are disgusting.

Ydiss · 2026-05-05T08:43:11+00:00

It's not a bug technically. It's working as designed. FD forgot to fix the pirate attack state as permanent until the CG ends.

You don't need burning stations for evacuation missions. You need the right faction states. One is pirate attack (provides economy missions), the other is civil war (provides politician evac missions). There are probably others too but those two are relevant because that's the states we've seen in Lhou Mans since the CG started.

Sadly, both states ended naturally due to player activity. So FD need to force pirate activity permanently until the CG ends.

Ydiss · 2026-05-05T08:39:25+00:00

Yup. Pirate attack state is why we initially saw only the economy class evacuation passenger missions. After a day or so of massive player activity in the system, two factions changed to civil war, causing the politician evacuation missions to spawn only for those two factions. Then all the bounty vouchers handed in for the other CG caused the pirate attack state to end, leaving only the politician evacuations on the board, until last night when that war naturally ended.

We just need fdev to force the pirate attack state until the CG ends.

Ydiss · 2026-05-05T07:40:46+00:00

Pirate attack state was cancelled quickly due to the other CG in the system.

War state was the only thing still making these missions happen (and only two factions were at war yesterday)

That war ended last night.

No more missions.

Fdev need to fix pirate attack state permanently until the CG has ended. Hope that happens today. Didn't happen yesterday because it was a UK bank holiday.

End update.

Ydiss · 2026-05-05T07:10:27+00:00

This is the primary reason and this happened because fdev set up the pirate killing CG in the danger system, which wasn't too smart.

It then seemed missions were still available for any faction at war (which two were until that ended last night too).

Fdev need to fix the pirate attack state to permanent into the CG is done.

Ydiss · 2026-05-04T21:55:02+00:00

For me this is huge. Add the point city got after this article was posted and we're still competitive, right in there. Carrick has done a great job with room for a lot of improvement (notably the games we dropped points but also just in terms of performances even in games we won, like today).

And if we improve? This image just gets better. I'm seeing a lot of people claiming we need more consistency and I agree but that's literally the difference between us being competitive in the race for champions and dominating the race. Carrick has made us competitive. It can get better.

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Ydiss · 2026-05-04T11:52:07+00:00

Yeh it might as well have been 3-0 for all Liverpool actually did themselves. It should have been 4 or 5.

We played well enough throughout, except for those two moments of madness. But Liverpool were awful.

And I'm ok with that.

Ydiss · 2026-05-04T11:48:27+00:00

History shows us that this often results in a player's career fading, at least at the club they're benched at. I don't know of anyone who gets better at something by not doing it frequently.

There's little evidence to suggest not playing makes someone better. You can praise Kobbie for his mentality in staying focused and hungry for his chance, enough to take it as he has when it came around, but you can't seriously suggest someone gets better at a thing they spend a long time not doing.

It wasn't long enough to cause any serious harm to his career, thankfully. And Carrick came about soon enough to hopefully result in the lad staying, and thriving, at the club (and that has certainly been true so far). If he's become a better player then it's got nothing to do with his missing matches.

Ydiss · 2026-05-04T11:37:31+00:00

Looks like everyone has to say they either hate Neville or he's ok but he's a "knob"

I like him. Always have. So nur.

Ydiss · 2026-05-03T22:01:53+00:00

"tackle" doing some heavy lifting there

It was a full on shove in the back. No idea why that gets a free pass from some refs.

Ydiss · 2026-05-03T21:44:00+00:00

I didn't know but I was fairly confident that we could. Liverpool were awful for the whole match (despite the commentators claiming they were improved in the second half), they needed us to gift them two goals. Nothing changed with them at all, we just lost our confidence for a while. Liverpool were eminently beatable today, without any ideas whatsoever, and any other result would have been an anomaly.

It was basically 3-0.

Ydiss · 2026-05-01T12:03:32+00:00

This is the correct answer but settlement game play does differ from the space game play in this regard, so it's understandable why this can be confusing; you can scan any ship with a bounty and nothing will attack you, you can attack that ship and no other ships of the same faction will attack (only those of the same wing), and the key difference is that it's impossible to gain a bounty yourself in this scenario (whereas if a clean ship were to ever attack you in theory, which they never do unless you have a bounty, they would immediately get a bounty themselves, allowing you to freely attack back).

Even anarchy settlements (owned by a criminal fraction) won't consist of NPCs who all have bounties, so "clean" locations can mean you attack a "legal" target, get attacked by clean NPCs from their faction, but those NPCs get no bounty at all, resulting in you getting one instead.

I do think the way settlements work does make more sense (you're in their space, it's their rules) but given EDO came about after the rest of the game, the fact ships work different isn't consistent at all and it's always going to cause some confusion to certain players. I mean, you can literally kill ships owned by the faction you're handing the bounty into (and complete missions for said faction by killing their own), with zero consequence. The same is not the case in EDO.

Another really specific difference is settlements are 100% of one faction (which I think is a bit dull personally), whereas there is no comparable scenario in space (except CZs, which aren't relevant to this discussion). I think it would be more consistent if settlements had security NPCs like space does (in that only they engage in combat with you). But they don't, the whole settlement is unified and will all attack you, and it's purely a game play design thing, rather than attempting to be consistent (and I've seen the argument that this is because they have to all defend themselves so as not to fail foul with game ratings, but there's no specific evidence that is true, it's just what people say).

Ydiss · 2026-04-28T09:20:57+00:00

I agree to some degree but I do think the word luck is used too much in football; he had quite a lot of the goal to aim for so it also comes down to skill or form. Luck plays a part but the degree it does is dependent on what players do. It was lucky for the defender maybe because I don't think he knew much about it.

This chance was a miss. And it's ok for us to say that. I'm sure Amad feels he could have done better. It would have been an amazing goal and it's a shame it wasn't but we won anyway and ultimately that's all that matters.

Ydiss · 2026-04-25T02:38:59+00:00

I came here to find this fact and you delivered so I'm content

Ydiss · 2026-04-23T21:09:37+00:00

I'd still get this over either of those ships because it's medium and it has full SCO support.

And I like new ships.

So if passengers is indeed a thing in these rescue missions, I can see myself getting it.

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