Hi Aymeric,
Thanks for the update, but I can’t see anything new – every big French team plays its matches with players at 100%, so what’s changed compared to before?

That the role is becoming a little more significant in shaping players’ styles.

Well done to the managers who reallocated all that via the store :)

This update’s brilliant… but still nothing’s been done about that MDM, which makes no sense whatsoever and which 90 per cent of the French-speaking population are complaining about

Things are looking up, but there’s still nothing for the mdm. I’m seeing loads of matches that don’t make any sense anymore.

Well then, all those who were complaining that it took too long to earn points and level up… Isn’t there a single one of them who’s going to come out of their cave to say thank you?

The first game where you score points when you lose. Original

I’m not happy – the new players have an advantage over the old ones (😁😁😁😁). Well done, Aymeric, and thanks for continuing to develop your game and keeping us in the running.

Thanks, Aymeric, for these updates. We’ll have to see how it goes, but managers who play every day – especially against top-tier teams – will be rewarded for their daily efforts. It’s a great way to develop the CDFs and other infrastructure a bit faster than before!

It’s already become tricky enough to get an NG close to its potential without too many hiccups and without spending too much time on the coating… if we focus on that again, we’ll end up with NG75s for 82 potentials… and even then…

As for the points, they’re fine for those who want to reach level 10 more quickly… that’s all…

That’s a good thing – it balances out the impact of playing style on the scores. It remains to be seen how the negative impact of the opposing team is handled within the chosen playing style; does it also depend on physical attributes?

As for the points, this responds to a request to progress more quickly to the higher levels.

It makes no sense that a rank 4 player would get 5 points if I beat them as a rank 10 player and only get 4 points myself. 😅

#match?mid=6894606&report

The loser has more points than the winner!

One solution might be for points from defeats to count only towards the club’s points total, but not towards the league table. vf

-Win: 4 points
-Draw: 2 points
-Loss: 1 point
Everyone’s keeping score...

@aymeric,

I don’t seem to see ‘physicality’ listed in the table summarising the impact of playing styles – would it be possible to include it?

We’re not quite sure how it works – typically, is a team’s negative impact amplified or mitigated as physicality decreases? Can an overall positive impact of 100 per cent turn negative depending on the opposing team’s impacts?

Or is it something completely different?

So it’s not really worth training players with a particular playing style anymore. A few extra NG points, but nothing to write home about.

It would be nice if future changes could be announced a year in advance, so we could adapt and not waste time training power players, positional specialists or the like for nothing.

As this has quite a significant impact on training plans, it really should be announced several seasons in advance.
...... so to have it announced right in the middle of a season with no warning is a bit harsh!

A draw is worth the same number of points as a defeat – does that make sense to you? Otherwise, not bad considering the style and how tired we were!
Kisses

I’m not sure if this has actually been implemented… I didn’t really notice any difference in my match today, and my opponent didn’t get their 4 forfeit points 😅

Are you sure about that?
Just because it’s shown doesn’t mean it’s true.

I’m absolutely certain he had 30 points before he played me, and he still has them.

@A45 Thanks for these game updates, and a BIG THANK YOU for the recent change allowing clubs to score points even when they lose – that’ll help us level up a bit faster… that’s cool 🤝

Great, everyone’s going to be level 10!
It’s a bit like how all sixth-formers pass their A-levels, or how every country is soon going to reach the final stages of the World Cup.

On a more serious note, this reform should be accompanied by the introduction of levels 11, 12 and so on.

So what’s the problem with it taking 4, 8 or 12 years?
This is a competitive game. The aim isn’t for every new player to quickly reach the top by using Vfstore and racking up defeats, which can earn more points than some victories.

What’s the fun in reaching the summit of Everest by taking the escalator that was installed to help an asthmatic with one leg get there?

It’s true that in today’s education system, it’s not good to frustrate people; we have to make everyone believe they’re on a par with the best.

I’d just like to remind you, though, that the maximum number of points you can earn from a friendly match is 3!!
Whether you’re playing against a team with a VF rating of 3 or 8, you can only earn a maximum of 3 points… so if you lose, you’ll only get one point… It’s not exactly earth-shattering either!!!
In the league, a new club starting out at Level 1 isn’t going to find itself up against seven clubs with a VF rating of 8!! So, once again, the number of points they’ll lose from defeats isn’t exactly massive either!
In IE, I don’t think many teams will accept that members who are just starting out or who are still fairly weak at the game play their 10 IE matches… at the expense of others…
So, once again, the impact of points in the event of defeats seems limited to me…
And it’s the same in the cup… beginners or lower-level players will lose one match and then be knocked out… so the impact is negligible…
In short, yes, it’ll help your club progress a bit faster so you can build new facilities, but stop believing that in two or three seasons everyone will have their CDF 10 😅😆
It’ll be quicker, but it’ll still take ages to reach CDF 10 level 😉

The best approach would have been to decouple the points awarded for levels from those awarded for the rankings; and the rankings are, moreover, of purely relative value.
But this has already been proposed, without success.

For the past 15 years, I’d believed that a lack of fitness affected performance in matches, so I’d coach with physical condition in mind. When making substitutions, I’d always take off the players who were losing the most fitness.

Now I know why: I lost matches after making substitutions, thinking that with fresh players and slightly weaker opposition, I could achieve better results… It seemed so logical to me, but I was completely wrong…

Hi, whether there are points or not, it doesn’t make much difference…
In my view, there are actually more pressing matters than that…
I’m waiting for changes that’ll probably never come…
It’s a real shame, but we’ll just have to make do, lads😉

I thought there would have been more discussion about the impact of physical fitness on fighting style AND on training than all this talk about points...

In terms of fitness, could we shorten the gap between two matches? At the moment, there are 11 days between the two matches, which is quite a long time, especially given that some players aren’t 100 per cent fit when they’re playing every two days.

Akram had to train his players to adjust the settings…
Just like in my last training session… I focused on stamina, and lo and behold, stamina was useless once my players were trained.
Ovulation’s great, it’s great – I can’t wait to get back to it 🫩

Alongside the reduction in style based on physical attributes, hasn’t there been an increase in style-related bonuses? At 99% in a particular attribute, I’m getting a bonus of 66.9, whereas before the update I think it was around 61–62.

It would be quite nice, as far as stamina is concerned, if it were no longer a choice to be made with the NG.
We could earn XP through training… And stamina would be gained solely through playing time.

Similarly, the decline in older players’ performance could be made more complex: in principle, an older player gains in tactical awareness (passing? positioning?) but loses out on speed, power and stamina. It would be nice to see players shift over the course of their careers from a speed/power profile to one more focused on short passes and positioning.