So, here we are...the bane of Satis, but who cares about him anyway, it's not like he owns these forums.


Anyone who's addicted to FM2005 post here, and anyone who's not: get addicted!

BJ, I agree with you on the game becoming much harder with the patch installed. Especially injuries: I'm drowning in them since I installed it. But on the whole i'm doing very good in terms of my team's capabilities. Like i said in a previous topic, I lead a 3rd division team into the Belgian top league, currently in 9th (of 18) place halfway the season, "exceeding the board's expectations".

My rep is now 'local'. Not amazing, but hey. I'm getting there. The main problem I have now is that my club's infrastructure and budget is way too low to attract most top Belgian players. (let alone foreign once) My max wages are 2000€/pw, hahaha. You do the math. I also have a relatively low amount of players, and I'm seriously below my wage budget. Which makes that I make mad profits on spectator income. (I just checked; my wage total is 15k € a week, that's laughable. I just hope the board adjusts the allowed wages to my profits next season.

If I see that there's not enough progress in the next two seasons I'll try and take over a major club, Anderlecht, Standard or Brugge. And try to go for European glory. Otherwise I stick with Olympic Charleroi!

I also selected the Chinese, S-African and American leagues to be available. The Idea is that I want to go on and win EVERYTHING on every continent. But that might take a long, long time. No worries tho, I've played games over 25 seasons long in previous CM's.

Some pics attached

Lol, well, about my fortunes, off course I have little time to play, fist game I had Ajax for one season, became number one and decided that's not too much of a challange... so now I started a new game with Queens Park Rangers. They play in the English championship, and the prediction was that I had to fight of regulation, but it went quite fine, I ended 12th, so I'll be going for promotion next season.

Did we just see Ox's name in the first pic?

What name? Man, I hope you didn't remember it. That would be such a dumb way for giving it away after all this time.

it was pretty dumb...

and yeah i do remember it, but i'm not some kinda mad haXOr or anything so it ain't gonna matter

btw if anyone is willing to pay for Ox's name i take checks

it was even dumber because I cut out the small appearances of my name, yet forgot the freaking huge, shiny name on top. heh. Anyway, by now I trust most (if not all) ppl here enough to have you know my name if necessary, but I still wasn't keen on giving it away just like that either.

Whatever, I guess. Here are the pics Franny mentioned again, this time edited and everything.

an ad for FM2005 which I tought was funny...especially the dog's tackle.

http://downloads.sigames.com/download/357.mov

Ox why do you play FM2005 in english?

out of habit, I guess. Since most games I play are in English, and also because it's originally an English game there's a big chance that the translations aren't that good.

On another lvl it's good for me to 'work' in English (in order to enlarge my vocabulary etc., especially in a specific sports-slang like here). And since, if i may say so myself, I can read English without problems that's not holding me back either.

Its because the rest of us could understand what the hell he is talking about

And that.

I played with the Dutch translation for a while... it seems translated by a German with a dictionary. It has improved a bit with the last patch, but still it's full of mistakes or even inunderstandable things, like "En hij speelde de wedstrijd met brio" or something like that, I remember playing with Brio trains when I was a kid, but I wonder what that has to do with football. On the other hand, I believe it's translated by a Belgian guy... that may explain things.

Yeah i think the "brio" stuff is a proper 'flemish dutch' sentence. Brio is used as a synonyme for 'glans' here. Not that i use that word often, but it might happen to some people.

like "Rinox slaagde met brio in zijn examen bh-inspecteur".

In any case, we all know that Flemish Dutch is superior!

Well, it's good to get a laugh... rediculous words like "solden" and "weeral", if I would hear them all day I would get insane, but from time to time it's quite fun.