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[A. J. Raffles]

Don't forget to include decisions on what your footballer eats, whether he is allowed to drink (and if so, how much), how often he needs to go to the gymn and which muscles he needs to train (with a certain risk of injury, of course) and how often he gets to see his family during the playing season. And should you accept that offer for a McDonald's TV ad for which you'll get a lot of money, but in which your footballer will be wearing an extremely silly chicken costume or do you think his public image might suffer too much?

[Playbahnosh]

Hmm...intersting idea A. J. but that woud over complicate things. I was thinking more like RPG style not simulator style. But the two can be combined though.

[A. J. Raffles]

Right, so you're not intending to have your footballers evelop and improve through training etc. but only through playing in matches, then? That would sort of get rid of the realistic element, though, wouldn't it?

[Sean]

Raffles you're idea is more the 'Real-Life' aspects of the footballers life wherby from what I can tell Playbahnosh is dealing more with the sport related stuff. Training and Matches mainly I presume. Your suggestion covers a much broader scope that really isn't needed. It may be novel to be able to pick the players diet but in the end it's just that.. novel.

[DeathDude]

Depends on how much aspect of your players you want to include, personally it's an interesting feature I believe, but again more for the hardcore sports junkies, if there was an option to turn it on and off that'd be cool, so that way the hardcore gamers would be happy and the casual gamers too as well.

[Playbahnosh]

You gave me an idea. When the player startsd the career mode, they can choose from realistic and arcade(weel, sort of) simulation, so they can choose the ammount of gameplay elements in the game itself. This way, everybody is happy. How's that sound?

[DeathDude]

That would be a cool element indeed, and yeah if you could choose before season starts that would be a good place to put it in.

[Sean]

So Play, you actually makeing this game?

[Juni Ori]

A. J. Raffles, on Jan 22 2006, 11:15 AM, said:

Don't forget to include decisions on what your footballer eats, whether he is allowed to drink (and if so, how much), how often he needs to go to the gymn and which muscles he needs to train (with a certain risk of injury, of course) and how often he gets to see his family during the playing season. And should you accept that offer for a McDonald's TV ad for which you'll get a lot of money, but in which your footballer will be wearing an extremely silly chicken costume or do you think his public image might suffer too much?

You forgot the most important factor: Sex!

[A. J. Raffles]

Juni Ori, on Jan 23 2006, 06:14 AM, said:

A. J. Raffles, on Jan 22 2006, 11:15 AM, said:

Don't forget to include decisions on what your footballer eats, whether he is allowed to drink (and if so, how much), how often he needs to go to the gymn and which muscles he needs to train (with a certain risk of injury, of course) and how often he gets to see his family during the playing season. And should you accept that offer for a McDonald's TV ad for which you'll get a lot of money, but in which your footballer will be wearing an extremely silly chicken costume or do you think his public image might suffer too much?

You forgot the most important factor: Sex!

Ah, no. Surely there's a restriction on that? It'll only interfere with their training during the season.

[Juni Ori]

Not all of players are forbidden of sex!

[A. J. Raffles]

Juni Ori, on Jan 23 2006, 08:06 AM, said:

Not all of players are forbidden of sex!

Well, maybe the Finns aren't. But then again, they have to have some incentive to encourage people to play football instead of ice hockey.
Seriously, though: wasn't there a news story about one national team a few years ago, because that team was forbidding its players to engage in certain activities with their wives or girlfriends (or boyfriends, for that matter)?

[Juni Ori]

Yes, and that was in my mind when I mentioned sex in the first place.

[A. J. Raffles]

Juni Ori, on Jan 23 2006, 09:43 AM, said:

Yes, and that was in my mind when I mentioned sex in the first place.

Oh, and there was me thinking you were preoccupied with certain things...

Anyway, back on topic: I think one advantage about the footballer-sim thing would be that it probably hasn't been done yet, and it would also help to give more meaning to your "stats", because there would be more factors which could affect them and make them less of a static you-picked-a-troll-so-now-you're-forever-stuck-with-a-character-who's-too-dumb-to-read-a-map kind of thing.

[Qbix]

A. J. Raffles, on Jan 23 2006, 02:01 PM, said:

you-picked-a-troll-so-now-you're-forever-stuck-with-a-character-who's-too-dumb-to-read-a-map kind of thing.

You..... play too much ADOM AJ.