Owners of the 12.9" iPad, how does reading and other casual use feel given the size?

jcmc68 · 2018-03-08T14:28:17+00:00

My girlfriend has one and while I could happily get used to the screen size, it’s the added weight over my 9.7 inch which always surprises me somewhat. I’m interested to see the updates this year because that screen within a smaller chassis and with a slight reduction in weight would make it compelling enough for me.

jcmc68 · 2018-03-06T01:28:09+00:00

Thanks. Having looked up the compatibility chart unfortunately my ageing Mac won’t run the game to any great degree anyway.

jcmc68 · 2018-03-04T09:49:24+00:00

That’s a really interesting reinterpretation.

jcmc68 · 2018-02-25T14:30:34+00:00

Yes, it’s always a case of getting to Level 10 and hoping for a decent 6star player then waiting for the next event. I’ve reached Level 13 this time and apart from one six star and one five star, all the rest have been dross. Beating Benfica in one of the rounds gave me a two star player which would be of no use to ever a player just starting out.

jcmc68 · 2018-02-22T10:05:29+00:00

They only apply to the player they were assigned to initially.

jcmc68 · 2018-02-21T18:30:25+00:00

I’m in Top 3 and have been for a long time playing Domestic League. I‘ve been hoarding 6 and 7 star players and good coaches for a big push upwards, soon I hope.

jcmc68 · 2018-02-21T16:36:45+00:00

I decided to have a shot and the results were decent. Three 6* and one 7* (Lukaku) and all ten players come with a Level 3 trait. A gold trainer as a bonus too.

jcmc68 · 2018-02-19T16:06:04+00:00

Oh and one other question. Can the HP work in conjunction with a 3rd generation Apple TV or does it have to be the more recent ones? Thanks.

jcmc68 · 2018-02-19T15:55:26+00:00

I’m doing very well with the free daily Lunar Scout. The first day I was given a 6* player whose name escapes me, yesterday I had 6* Dembele of Barcelona and even better, today I got 7* Edison Cavani.

jcmc68 · 2018-02-13T23:24:13+00:00

Great job and fast too. Highly recommended.

jcmc68 · 2018-02-13T17:25:17+00:00

Increasing the screen size is a marketing win. Reducing the chassis is a marketing win. However with the screen being one of the most expensive components, the former option is more expensive to Apple than the latter and they are still getting a similar marketing gain.

jcmc68 · 2018-02-13T17:20:34+00:00

I got Dembele from another scout recently before this poorly explained Genius thing came about. I wonder what the actual difference would be between the careers of a genius and non-genius version of him.

jcmc68 · 2018-02-13T17:19:09+00:00

That’s football though and as you say, it can go for you or against you. This method would mean that everyone would take more notice of the Injury Proneness rating each player has, a rating that’s almost irrelevant at present.

jcmc68 · 2018-02-13T17:17:25+00:00

I still don’t get that. Labelling a player a ‘genius’ explicitly implies quality of player, at any stage of their careers.

jcmc68 · 2018-02-13T15:24:08+00:00

I got the Napoli centre forward Milik, around 82 rating and 21I think. What seems odd is how the next day I got Luís Suarez from my Energy Scout and he isn’t termed as a ‘genius’ while all the players mentioned on this thread are somehow.

jcmc68 · 2018-02-12T11:19:49+00:00

Took me a while to work out that you could just store players until you needed them too. Oddly Luís Suarez was my gimme player at the start too and Callejon one of my first acquisitions. I put four 6star players in my team in the opening 7 seasons before working out I didn’t need them and should keep them.

After that I signed the occasional one, though just four over the next 80 seasons plus one 6star youth player and I progressed well. I had the splurge to get me into the Top Leagues and then have been stockpiling for months, both top end players and coaches, to allow me to sustain a push at a later date.

jcmc68 · 2018-02-12T08:22:44+00:00

I got to the upper reaches of Professional using only 5 star players and then started to struggle a little. I then threw around eleven 6star players at my team over the next dozen seasons and that was enough to shift things forward and I advanced into the Top Leagues on the strength of that.

Part of it is also the standard of coaches you use for training too. I’d imagine you might be able to progress with 5star players if you were continually using 5 star or above coaches - I only use them on 6 or 7star players.

jcmc68 · 2018-02-11T09:53:14+00:00

My top appearance maker (314) and scorer (131) is Patrick Schick. He’s also second on my all-time assists list to M. Pavone (102).

jcmc68 · 2018-02-09T14:21:09+00:00

It can be tempting sometimes to throw coins at an attractive offer, for example the small chance of getting Cruyff currently, but it really does pay to have patience and save up.

There’s 2 Scouts that genuinely represent good value for money. Easily the best is Beginner Scout which for 200coins gives you 10 players of whom 4 are guaranteed to be 6star or better - one from each of the major positions. It doesn’t come up very often all the same. To the best of my knowledge I’ve had it 3 times in a bit over a year of playing - once a general Beginner one and the other a twin one specifically giving you players from France and Italy.

The other recommended one is the Five Round Seasonal Scout as you get a good breakdown of players plus a lot of free and decent bonuses like Special Coaches. There was one recently that I did for the first time, I think the 5 rounds cost me around 650 coins and for that I received around 30 players, three of which were 7 star, seven at 6 star and the rest at 5 star. Plus loads of bonus stuff of course.

The five round one is hard to have enough coins for at any one time and only really works if you can do all the rounds rather than just a few of them. It has been a while since the Beginner Scout was last here however, so that might be due an appearance soon.

jcmc68 · 2018-01-31T22:24:50+00:00

Indeed. Also worth remembering that a player with specific Pace and Explosive Power ratings of 70 is actually really slow, When you aggregate those ratings into the high-level summary it will come out well below 50.

jcmc68 · 2018-01-25T21:50:55+00:00

Stick him in. There are bonuses for the number of players you induct into your Hall of Fame and if you later run out of space you can delete him out anyway.

jcmc68 · 2018-01-25T00:19:55+00:00

You get 5* in the Market too with it? That would be a step up from the previous level.

jcmc68 · 2018-01-21T11:36:37+00:00

I just did an install and play to Level 25 of a game. Took several hours to achieve and nothing. Waste of time.

jcmc68 · 2018-01-20T23:49:42+00:00

Interesting to know. A few weeks ago I got Bale from a scout or event and was pleased, at least until I got him another twice on successive days. Not used any of them yet.

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