First Impressions: Editor

[sky.]

Specs:

P3 800mhz
512MB RAM (256mb PC133, 256mb PC150 upgraded)
GeForce 2 MX 400 32mb
20GB Hard Drive, 1.3gb free space
DirectX 9.1b


Just loaded up the Editor..... this is my first time playing CM after doubling my RAM to play Planetside a couple of months ago. I had CM 03/04 uninstalled so never got to try it. Anyways, it took approximately 5-6 minutes to load the database. Has about 25.5k players. Searching for players is improved, in the previous CM games it searched the database before you even finished typing the name, really annoying especially if you typed something wrong, but in FM they fixed this and you can type in the name, then hit Enter and it will start searching.

Other than creating myself I changed the ECC European Champions Cup competition to CL European Champion's League. Changed Oliver Kahn's name, and added the season ending injuries for Djibril Cisse and Sun Jihai. I also took the time to look through the new features, which are really really neat. Each player now has special "attributes" that suit their personality, such as "Likes to run down right flank" or "Likes to try killer shots". Cristiano Ronaldo has the attribute "Tries Tricks" and "Likes to beat man repeatedly" really nice addition. I also took a peek at the Club details, and noticed that Chelsea now has Roman Abromavich as the Chairman. And a budget of 135,000,000 Chelsea fans rejoice, they seem to have heard the complaints of the low transfer budget of CM 03/04.

Saving the database was quicker than I thought, I clocked it at only 3-4 minutes. All the editing plus exploring took around 40 minutes. And no crashes, very stable. My computer is very fine tuned, but unless you've got all sorts of worms and spyware clogging up your comp, you should really enjoy this game and the speed boost. I don't need Nygreen's Pre-Game editor anymore

I'm going to start a new game now, if you dont see me posting in the next 3 days I am probably on a marathon


EDIT: Forgot to mention that installation of the game comes with a very VERY nice Editor Manual in PDF format that explains every single feature of the Editor. This is very sweet and shows that the developers really care about the gamer.

 

[jani]

would changing the data in the editor effect the game itself?

i remember in previous versions, editing data would most likely lead to the game crashing after a few seasons playing.

 

[champdave]

Just out of interest, why did you get PC150 RAM when the PC133 RAM will limit it to PC133 speeds anyway?

Not tried the editor yet though, started a game a while ago so there's not really much point.

 

[Rangers#50#]

Tried the editor to change some competition names and looked quite good with loading time much faster than expected but an unofficial will still probably be needed.

 

[NIDOKING]

First thing I'll do when I get FM is edit Argentinian League, who always had a terrible bad DB specially for the teams that are not from BsAs

 

[Tom]

good to see the editor has improved, but the again with michael at the helm

TROD.

 

[ngyc]

man utd only have £4.9m transfer budget my friend told me in TCM, man utd have £20m+ i don't think anything know how much man utd have for their transfer budget after spending large amount of money on rooney

 

[Hyun]

OMFG 4.9 you say? Try Leeds'151k budget.

I swear to God, play Leeds for a day and you'll learn to appreciate the value of 1k.



Go play some hard team guys. Seriously challenge yourself to think hard instead of whining about a shopping spree.

 

[Punkt]

Re: First Impressions: Editor

Originally posted by sky.
I don't need Nygreen's Pre-Game editor anymore
.

actually was Nygreen that made the official editor of FM.

 

[Áļéאָ]

surprised?

 

[sky.]

I think I got the MCM real time editor with Nygreen confused.

I think I would look forward to one anyways.. the Nation for creating a new player might be buggy, I created myself and the Nation was wrong also the injuries I set for Cisse and Jihai didn't kick in

 

[rpvankasteren]

You have to set them at or before the start of the game, or they won't get injured.

 

[Haukur Gudnason]

Tough moment it was, for me to send Cisse out for the season.

 

[ngyc]

i did it. i even put mutu out until may 2005 and terminate his contract as well

 

[NIDOKING]

Well... Editing the Argentinian League this happened to me:

- I gave Free Transfers to 81 teams by clicking Clear on all the teams
- Save and Exit
- Create game on FM and look for loans on each team, take note of them for further editing (it's cool to see all teams with grey players )
- Exit FM
- Enter editor again, begin to edit Altético Rafaela, edited 20+ players
- Save and Exit
- Create game on FM with the original DB, looking for players that were there by error to transfer them to their original club (Cesaro to Peñarol; Marzuk to Ben Hur), cheking players that went on loan, and check the Reserves and U20 players to add again
- Exit FM
- Enter editor again, make the final details explained above and not explained also for completing Rafaela.
- Save and Exit
- Attemped to create a new game on FM to see the final work done, but when the game was creating, FM crashed, and crashed every time I tried to create...

So, there's a bug somewhere, and I guess I'll need to backup everytime I save or...

Bueh, I lost 1 entire hour, and I tried to post this on FM Forums, but for some strange reason, I cannot log there, so, I hope someone of here could give me a solution, or post this at SIGames Community

Thanks in advance

 

[Tom]

well personally mate, editing that much ammount of data (e.g. destroying players lol) is never going to have a good effect on your game I'll have a look on the FM forums for anyone with similar probs

TROD.

 

[NIDOKING]

Sorry if I'm Monster-reborning this, but I have to thank you and clarify there's no error in the editor, the error was mine, accustomed to CM 03/04 random values (only 0, -1 and -2) so, I putted on a player a higher Current Ability than his potential (-2 is for weak players and I wanted a strong one, problems of thinking in editing like CM 03/04) but now, that I putted -8, it's ok.

A question is if I'm ok with this parameters or what are the real value of this when editing:

-10 = 180~200
-9 = 160~180
-8 = 140~160
-7 = -120~140
-6 = 100~120
-5 = 80~100
-4 = 60~80
-3 = 40~60
-2 = 20~40
-1 = 1~20
0 = Random

I'm guessing, so, it's probably all wrong, but well, I hope anyone could clarify me this only doubt.

BTW, My Argentinian League Edition is going far well, I hope I finish it before January, where the Transfer Window will open again >.>

 

[rpvankasteren]

They are variables, so the resulting numbers can be anything from 0 to 200, but they do have a likelyhood bias towards just about the ranges you set.