Hi Tegimus

What effect does 'Ability' have on a player ?

I have a young player who could become a superstar (potential 99 and Learning 4.5 stars) but his Ability is just 2 stars (average). How will this effect his development ?

howie1234 wrote :
Hi Tegimus

What effect does 'Ability' have on a player ?

I have a young player who could become a superstar (potential 99 and Learning 4.5 stars) but his Ability is just 2 stars (average). How will this effect his development ?

Ability just means his Current Ability. It will improve as his attributes develop.
Potential is the maximum Ability that a player can acquire. The player's training speed will slow down as the gap between his Ability and Potential narrows down. So the only thing that matters is his Potential, ability is a just a measure of his current level.

I feel that the term is a bit confusing indeed since a lot of new players ask the same question. May be we need to avoid showing that on scout reports and let the managers get an indication of ability by looking at the player's attributes.

Tegimus wrote :
I feel that the term is a bit confusing indeed since a lot of new players ask the same question. May be we need to avoid showing that on scout reports and let the managers get an indication of ability by looking at the player's attributes.

just add 'current' in there. lol

I really don`t bother with that too lol.
Xp first before rating,

Ah ok, thanks for the replies.

Guildmaster Chax wrote :
because exp gain is limited.
if you sign too many youth, by the time they reach 60+ exp, their career lifespan would only have 1 or 2 seasons left at best :p

I have an 19 yo with 40 exp. Hopefully he will have more than 1 or 2 seasons after he reaches 60 exp (around by 22 yo).

Agrochão wrote :
I have an 19 yo with 40 exp. Hopefully he will have more than 1 or 2 seasons after he reaches 60 exp (around by 22 yo).

You have a real gem under development :D
I will be surprised if he doesn't hit 80rating/80xp by 25/26 yrs

Fathima wrote :

Agrochão wrote :
I have an 19 yo with 40 exp. Hopefully he will have more than 1 or 2 seasons after he reaches 60 exp (around by 22 yo).

You have a real gem under development :D
I will be surprised if he doesn't hit 80rating/80xp by 25/26 yrs

Fathima wrote :

Agrochão wrote :
I have an 19 yo with 40 exp. Hopefully he will have more than 1 or 2 seasons after he reaches 60 exp (around by 22 yo).

You have a real gem under development :D
I will be surprised if he doesn't hit 80rating/80xp by 25/26 yrs

200 million investment, and potential 99. He is my most precious payer.

Agrochão wrote :

Fathima wrote :

Agrochão wrote :
I have an 19 yo with 40 exp. Hopefully he will have more than 1 or 2 seasons after he reaches 60 exp (around by 22 yo).

You have a real gem under development :D
I will be surprised if he doesn't hit 80rating/80xp by 25/26 yrs

Fathima wrote :

Agrochão wrote :
I have an 19 yo with 40 exp. Hopefully he will have more than 1 or 2 seasons after he reaches 60 exp (around by 22 yo).

You have a real gem under development :D
I will be surprised if he doesn't hit 80rating/80xp by 25/26 yrs

200 million investment, and potential 99. He is my most precious payer.

Shame this player plays in my league. I remember reporting him.
I don't care if you boost about him now, its your $200m.
But you have a great squad.

Agrochão wrote :
I have an 19 yo with 40 exp. Hopefully he will have more than 1 or 2 seasons after he reaches 60 exp (around by 22 yo).

Agrochão wrote :
[quote=Agrochão]
200 million investment, and potential 99. He is my most precious payer.

i have 2 similar players, but their potential are crap. lol

Hello, Tegimus. Do you have an estimate of how long it will be before some new active leagues get added to the F4F game world?

Justin Holden wrote :
Hello, Tegimus. Do you have an estimate of how long it will be before some new active leagues get added to the F4F game world?

Our initial target was to open new leagues once we hit 500 users, but now we are thinking of expanding even before that since we are getting emails from many new users that they are leaving because they don't find their own country's leagues in the game. At the latest we might be opening new leagues in 3 or 4 season's time.

Just open leagues in top 180 countries, it might be whats holding our growth lol.
It will be a large server then.

180 countries lol
But you have a point. At least make the Rest of World, Rest of Europe, Asia, Africa, Americas etc

Has there been any thought about making the pyramid structure "skinnier"? For example, in England there are still lots of Bots in the League 2 level. So instead of multiplying by 4 as you go down, what about only splitting in 2? Might force more competitiveness in League 3 level, where any decent team just dominates all the bots.

I would like to know something about off side-trap will my player's still do offside trap even if I instructed them not to?

From what tegimus said before
If you don't turn offside trap on, your defenders wont deliberately try the trap, but good attackers can still get in front seemingly "breaking" the offside trap and hence the commentary.

If you have many defenders or opponent has less but good quality attackers then better to turn off the offside trap and man mark players.

Tnx Fathima I hate offside trap"Breaking" I wish it can just say attack bit my defender and score than breaking offside trap which I did not tell my defender to perform

@Tegimus, I think the Teamless Market change was a net plus, especially for financially weaker teams, but also overall for general competitiveness.

However, my vague impression is that it's also damaged the rest of the Transfer Market, considerably dampening interest. Since I don't have the money to bother monitoring that closely, I'm only guessing. But I'd like to suggest you check it out. There would be all kinds of ways to moderate such an effect. Most obviously, just restricting the number of players getting onto the Teamless Market. In any case, some kind of optimal balance must be achievable.

GrafBelisarius wrote :
However, my vague impression is that it's also damaged the rest of the Transfer Market, considerably dampening interest.

I think the interest got reduced only for average players in their 30s. If you have a great prospect to sell, or an old player with great rating/xp still having atleast a couple of years on his legs, they still go for a good bit of money. You can see that easily if you check out the Recent Transfers list