Series Transfer Deadline Day

[wsjm1984]

Is one of my favourite days of the year and I know its sad but I actually take the day off work and follow excitedly all day until the legendary Jim White comes on at night

That's why it really disappointments me that the day is over in around 30 seconds on FMH. it's impossible to do a deadline day deal unless you make the bit 2-3 days early and then its not a deadline day deal technically!

This day is such a massive part of Football now that I really think it should be addressed in the game.

hourly updates instead of 2-3 for the whole day?

A designated transfer centre just for this day?

I don't know how but I think it's a feature that should be added to the game somehow......

[Dec]

This is in FIFA and FM and honestly I can say I have used it once. While it would be great as an option it would slow the game down first and foremost without balancing correctly (while I don't think this is something on most people's top priorities).

 

The main issue for me is how much time would be spent on it v how many would use it to their advantage. With SI's 2 man coding team on FMH it would take up a large chunk of time that could be dedicated to something everyone would use as opposed to a few. I am a strong believer that if you ask 75% of people here most will say their deals are done by way before the window closes.

[wsjm1984]

"75% of people here most will say their deals are done by way before the window closes."

But then what could we say to Harry through the car window.......never mind Jim being out of a Job!!!!

This current window is a great example of the biggest deals been done late and in some cases I believe VERY late..,.

Again I just wondered what other people thought......

[Dec]

In real life yes but you have to consider that FMH is not really like real life. Most people bid for the players they want and finish around August 15th. August in FMH isn't really realistic as even the AI make their deals in July mainly.

 

If SI had another 18 people working on FMH then I would agree with you but for now I feel the more pressing matters are the actual negotiations, regens and improving the media.

[aykyle]

I usually prefer to wait until the window closes to make my deals. It gives me time to watch the player and allows me not to rush my judgment based on current needs.

but if I need a position immediately, I'll buy the cheapest(but best) option. while leaving me enough money to conduct my usual business

There are a lot of transfers that happen in FMH. Just because each one doesn't get an individual news feed message doesn't mean they aren't there. I personally don't think adding an hourly update would benefit much to anyone. As the reason FMH came to be is so that it's a lot more simpler to pick up and go without the tedious and time-consuming FM for PC. Adding that feature would kind of make FMH a bit boring. And adding in an option to include it or not would take even more time than what Dec had mentioned above.

[wsjm1984]

I meant an in game hour not real life hour so the game would move forward 24 times on the 31st instead of the 2 or 3 times currently.

[Dec]

*imagines hitting continue 24 times for no apparent reason*

 

Well that was a waste of 5 minutes. The game actually does extend TDD by a few times compared to any other day so you can do deals.

[aykyle]

I meant an in game hour not real life hour so the game would move forward 24 times on the 31st instead of the 2 or 3 times currently.

haha yea I know

But as Dec said, hitting the continue button 24 times would be a pain to do

[wsjm1984]

Only twice an in game year tho......

[Dec]

Still a lot of pointless button mashing which will make the user bored as it'd take about 5 minutes at least to read the bombardment of news, the processing and the clicking of it. That is an extra 10 minutes of gameplay (more like 30 I'd say) per season for something a lot of people will find extremely tedious, complain about and will never use.

[UKFootballScore]

tbh I think it's a great idea, whether or not it adds 'time' to a season it makes it more realistic and is that not the whole point of these games to make them as realistic as possible?

it shouldn't matter when most people do business whether they do it early or not thats not how it works lol id LOVE it if they made it more realistic and not just because 'most people dont buy late they buy early' stupid reason to make the game less realistic.

[Dec]

We are not saying it shouldn't be added in but that it shouldn't be priority and it will need a lot of balancing to be a "FMH feature" as quite frankly 24 continues is a waste of time and would hurt what the game is about.

[aykyle]

Tbh. The easiest way to combat the transfer window time is to make responses quicker.

I will offer a team for a player or a player a contract and on very rare occasions, not get a reply for almost a week.

I've seen in console sports games where when you want to buy a player, there's a "Team's Interest" meter. Which will tell you if a team is interested enough in your offer to accept it or not(on a scale from red for not interested, yellow for sort of interested and green in interested).

 

Obviously you can just submit an enquiry, but that hardly ever gets a actual response other than "not interested".

Because every team will sell a player if the money is right. So maybe if they tweaked the enquiry button to make it so every time you do it, you get a response with an actual number. Obviously there are issues that follow it in regards to "realistic as possible". But it's better than adding 24 new continues.

[Lee-Roy]

24 continues... I'd holiday as that would wind me up. It's a good idea but I personally am happy with the way it is.

[UKFootballScore]

it's the same on fifa isnt it where you have to keep pressing advance until it's gone, but they do the last 10 hours so it's not as bad I think 10 continues would be ok and more than enough to get a deal done

I do get though that there are more pressing issues than this to sort out and with the size of the coding team... no chance haha

[Dec]

The thing is with FIFA is that the game can take hours in career mode as that is the nature of a console where as FMH is designed for quick bursts and getting through days quickly. Even 10 continues will slow down the game 3 days.

[UKFootballScore]

tbf I have noticed they slow it down two or three days before deadline I.e on 29th August and does 3 continues per day with AM/PM/EVE going through to get a deal done

[TheFalse9]

tbf I have noticed they slow it down two or three days before deadline I.e on 29th August and does 3 continues per day with AM/PM/EVE going through to get a deal done

It's only slightly slower, though, and I think wsjm1984's trying to make the point that it's still not slow enough. However, I agree with Dec on this - it would be a waste of development time to implement this feature instead of, say, more advanced tactics creators or better match graphics.

[UKFootballScore]

Dec is there anything on this in fmh14??

[Dec]

I don't think so.

[Adamski2409]

Good idea though

[Alif Mancunian]

Isn't in real life too, we make the negotiation 1-2 days before the deadline. So on the deadline the club just introduce the player and personally i prefer choose my friendlies than clicking "continue" 24 times.