Boards.ie Season 5 - Bad Beat/Moan/Venting

Mr Moon

I'm not going to comment on the last few posts they've all been dealt with, and not for the first time, the rules are on the first page!

I should be on tonight if anyone I have to play is around!!

corcaigh07

Woo Seems as though my xbox has fought back and now is working though I seem to lost the high def and it wont come back. Dont usually play in HD but its currently hooked to my bedroom telly. If you see me, play me because you may not see me again!

EDIT:messed up again when i tried to get it running on my RGB Scart. the 480p component setting looked so bad, it was almost unplayable.

Y2J_MUFC

Can't you ring MS and tell them you have the RROD? I was getting it intermittently, rang them up got the labels. I managed to play two full games of FIFA while i was waiting for the labels and all.

Sometimes i would turn it on, and it'd be fine for 10 mins, then freeze, other times I'd get the RROD when I turned it on. Just tell them its the RROD, green light on the brick. I actually through in a note saying that my disc drive was getting jammed when my 360 was on its side, and they through in a new one into it aswell while they were at it. I hadn't mentioned it on the phone at all about the disc drive.. I'd say the lads in the factory are dead on!

Otherwise you could get someone on boards to fix it for you, if MS won't fix it for free.

Mr Moon

I've updated the tables with the latest scores, can you check to see if there are any mistakes because there were two weeks to update and there's always a possibility of human error!

corcaigh07

Y2J_MUFC wrote: »

Can't you ring MS and tell them you have the RROD? I was getting it intermittently, rang them up got the labels. I managed to play two full games of FIFA while i was waiting for the labels and all.

Sometimes i would turn it on, and it'd be fine for 10 mins, then freeze, other times I'd get the RROD when I turned it on. Just tell them its the RROD, green light on the brick. I actually through in a note saying that my disc drive was getting jammed when my 360 was on its side, and they through in a new one into it aswell while they were at it. I hadn't mentioned it on the phone at all about the disc drive.. I'd say the lads in the factory are dead on!

Otherwise you could get someone on boards to fix it for you, if MS won't fix it for free.

yea, my disc drive sticks while on its side too sometimes. Yea, Im considering leaving some sort of note because I never got the RROD with this but im sending it in saying I did!

Parawind

Parawind wrote: »

LEAGUE NAME: Championship
GAMEWEEK: 7
RESULT: AC Milan(Parawind) 3-0 Aston Villa(alofthedunnes)

Axwell think you put in the result wrong for this match on the league standings cause you gave the 3-0 win to villa lol

Ill be around for league games all evening to people that I'm due to play

sparky360

Due to unavoidable and unforseen family problems, I have been unable to play my games in the FIFA league. I'm going to do my best to get this done over the weekend. Can anyone in the Premiership who has to play me pm me when theywill be free and I will do my best to be on and catch up

SRFC90

I hate FIFA 10. If it wern't for the club and the league I would never play it. That is all.

It's not a football game anymore.

corcaigh07

SRFC90 wrote: »

I hate FIFA 10. If it wern't for the club and the league I would never play it. That is all.

It's not a football game anymore.

what happened mate? wouldnt go as far as saying i hate fifa 10 but sometimes the game really upsets me. i played 09 there about 2 weeks ago and its amazing, players make logical runs, both in attacking and defending. 10, your mashing the one-two button to get some momentedum going. and no stupid lobbing in 09! thats not to say 10 has improved a few things, long passing is a disgrace in the old game but 09 feels more balanced. even the graphics are much better in 09, makes no sense!

in the league today, i felt I was fairly haunted to beat GME and the very next game, i felt a lot went against me against Stan Beardy(AC), little things like unfair frees and frees i should have got, balls going through legs, players being unresponsive(IM PRESSING THE F@ING BUTTON!!!!), hell in that game, two of my own players collided for an unchallanged rolling ball, allowing stan for a scorable chance.
(not to take from Stan's AC win, he scored 2 good headed goals and it was quite an even game)

corcaigh07

this is for you axwell lad!:D

Axwell

Finally the draw machine that is Liverpool gets a win!!

corcaigh07

and with some luck, you'll zoom pass me, my xbox is wrapped up and ready for its hols to Germany, hopefully it'll come home refreshed and rejuvented and maybe even replaced!

in other words, im wont be playing in this for at least 2 weeks, probably more.....

Axwell

corcaigh07 wrote: »

and with some luck, you'll zoom pass me, my xbox is wrapped up and ready for its hols to Germany, hopefully it'll come home refreshed and rejuvented and maybe even replaced!

in other words, im wont be playing in this for at least 2 weeks, probably more.....

Well keep me and Moon posted on things because the season will be closing towards the end of the month and we will have to sort out games not played and people who quit etc and alrter the league tables accordingly.

corcaigh07

will do. i had planned on a new xbox, hell, i bought one on the 18th Dec and it RROD'ed on the 25th Dec. now though, with money being tight and stuff, i'll pray this xbox comes back replaced and i'll catch up at the end of the month. hopefully UPS can actually make it ok, it should have gone out today.

Mr Moon

corcaigh07 wrote: »

and with some luck, you'll zoom pass me, my xbox is wrapped up and ready for its hols to Germany, hopefully it'll come home refreshed and rejuvented and maybe even replaced!

in other words, im wont be playing in this for at least 2 weeks, probably more.....

Shouldn't be too long, mine went in Oct/Nov and it took about a week to get back to me!!

Axwell

To those in the Premiership - Arsenal (Smegball - SeanMeisterSa) has had to quit the league as his xbox has packed in.

As per the rules any remaining fixtures will be awarded a 3-0 win.

All players who quit are considered relegated.

Reganovski

I have a problem with my broadband for the last 2 weeks. Connection is horrible...3MB is actuall 0.5MB broadband. Engineer is suppose to be coming next week to sort.

SRFC90

corcaigh07 wrote: »

what happened mate?

I really am beging to dislike it. I don't feel its a football game anymore, more a strategy game where people know exactly how much power to put on free kicks from every part of their opponents half to score, play a certain amount of passed to drag the partially retarded AI out of position allowing an easy chance to score, people scoring ridiculous goals because they know if you sprint left, faint back, spin around and burp simultaneously, their opponents keeper will drift forward 4 yards allowing him to shoot from the half way line and score.

It seems just too predictive and scripted to be enjoyable. Most times you can just tell within 5-10 mins of a game whether you have any fair chance of winning a game.

• Passes will go through your players legs all.game.long.
• Blatent free-kicks/penalties will not be given.
• Throw-ins bizzarley given the wrong way
• Tackling a player becomes impossible as evertime you do so the ball will ricochet either back into his path or a teammates path.
• It's ridiculously easy to scored chipped shots, ridiculous.
• Through balls make it too easy to score.
• AI players react dangerously slow.
  
  and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

Pro Evo's old gameplay + Fifa's graphics/licensing = Football. And as I said, if it wasn't for the club and league I would not be playing this game.

corcaigh07

SRFC90 wrote: »

I really am beging to dislike it. I don't feel its a football game anymore, more a strategy game where people know exactly how much power to put on free kicks from every part of their opponents half to score, play a certain amount of passed to drag the partially retarded AI out of position allowing an easy chance to score, people scoring ridiculous goals because they know if you sprint left, faint back, spin around and burp simultaneously, their opponents keeper will drift forward 4 yards allowing him to shoot from the half way line and score.

It seems just too predictive and scripted to be enjoyable. Most times you can just tell within 5-10 mins of a game whether you have any fair chance of winning a game.

• Passes will go through your players legs all.game.long.
• Blatent free-kicks/penalties will not be given.
• Throw-ins bizzarley given the wrong way
• Tackling a player becomes impossible as evertime you do so the ball will ricochet either back into his path or a teammates path.
• It's ridiculously easy to scored chipped shots, ridiculous.
• Through balls make it too easy to score.
• AI players react dangerously slow.
  
  and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

Pro Evo's old gameplay + Fifa's graphics/licensing = Football. And as I said, if it wasn't for the club and league I would not be playing this game.

i agree with everything you said, its sad really. its not a bad game, i mean, its still better than Pro Evo. play fifa 09 again, you will be amazed at how little work they needed to do with that game to get it right. the worse thing about 09 was ronaldo being completely overpowered and the long passing is a lot worse in 09. fixing those 2 things in 09 would be a fifa dream come true as 09 was largely fair and not so scripted.

its crazy how if your on-screen players decide to be ****e, thats it, you've had it. there was one game I had against splender in this where nothing, absolutely nothing went my way for long periods of the game. constantly nutmugged, terrible passing, every break going to the opposition-it was actually quite bizarre and wasnt to do with my skill or how good splender was. not to take from splender, he's a decent player and qualified 1st from the qualifying leagues ahead of me but i was lucky to lose 4-2.

Moiph

Lads I've never come across any of these problems

Mr Moon

Moiph wrote: »

Lads I've never come across any of these problems

Lucky you!!

I really dislike this game compared to last years!!

qwertplaywert

Is there a qualifing league anytime soon?

Axwell

qwertplaywert wrote: »

Is there a qualifing league anytime soon?

There will be one but it will be about 6 weeks before its up an running. This league has to end then we have another one to start and include the last qualifiers in it. Once thats up and running we will be starting another qualifying round so just keep an eye out for the thread.

joe123

Mr Moon wrote: »

Lucky you!!

I really dislike this game compared to last years!!

Yep. But ive been saying this about a week into its release! I would love to ask the programmers what exactly they have done to the game as I loved last years Fifa.

Its very hard pinpoint but everything that has been said thats wrong with the game Ive experienced it too.

Town Man

The last few weeks I can't do anything right online,

Players who are fast getting caught by players who are alot less slower then them when sprinting
Tapping the ball to pass to the nearest player yet I get this crossfield pass along the ground to the opposition
One of my fullbacks ALWAYS being 5 yards behind the defensive line keeping the opposition onside
Lobbing of keepers is ridiculous
Crosses that are to a player yet you never gain control of them to attempt a header
When the opposition clears a corner or free, I find I am unable to gain control of the nearest player but somebody furthest away
Soft frees being given against and stonewall frees not being given

Axwell

NOTE TO ALL PLAYERS:

We are coming to the end of the fixtures for the current league. The premiership has 1 week of fixtures left, the championship has 2.

ALL players are encouraged to get their games out of the way as we dont plan to have much of a gap between this and the next season so there wont be weeks of catch up waiting for people to finish fixtures overdue.

So send pm's here or on xbox and arrange your games.

RALEIGH_BURNER2

Axwell wrote: »

NOTE TO ALL PLAYERS:

We are coming to the end of the fixtures for the current league. The premiership has 1 week of fixtures left, the championship has 2.

ALL players are encouraged to get their games out of the way as we dont plan to have much of a gap between this and the next season so there wont be weeks of catch up waiting for people to finish fixtures overdue.

So send pm's here or on xbox and arrange your games.

Whats the situation with Richie going to be for this season, as there is gonna be such a little gap between this and next season? Will he be able to catch up on 26 games in such a short time or will the points be awarded to everyone else?

Axwell

If he gets his connection sorted before the end of the league then he will have the chance to play his games and its up to him and everyone else to make themselves available to play the matches. If he doesnt get his connection sorted then his matches will be void..same always.

RALEIGH_BURNER2

I understand he's had to deal with unforeseen circumstances etc. but is it really fair on the other people who committed to playing the league from the start and were able to fulfill there fixtures in time?

I just think it is a little bit unfair that he already has a 12 point head start due to people dropping out before he can play!

In future seasons will this be allowed?

Axwell

He hadnt planned being not able to play this long, he had moved house just as the season started and had said to me he would be a few weeks late starting but then due to other things happening it turned out he has had to move again. He didnt know this at the time and so hes only getting sorted in the new place now and there wasnt anything he can do about it. Chances are he isnt going to get all his games if even any played, in which case his games are void as per usual which he is aware of. He has always played his games and is a long standing member of the league, as I said his circumstances were unexpected and there was nothing that could be done.

corcaigh07

whens the predicted end date of season 5 axwell? My xbox only managed to start its journey today so you wont see me until the end of the month I suppose and thats provided it comes back repaired which is by no means guaranteed either!

Axwell

Well the last fixture in the premiership is the week of the 15th..but theres only one game so people will be expected to use that as a catch up week. The championship finished the week of the 22nd, hopefully there wont be need for a catch up week in it but if there is we will look at that. That would mean the end of the month the lot should be finished and then there will be a week where me and Moon sort out the tables and promotions and relegations etc and the qualifying league. After that we will look at organising the next season and getting it going.

Mister Robinson

Ive to play:

RichieMUFC - Real Madrid x2 (Net Probs)
TuneTuneTuner - Inter Milan x2
Reganovski - Atletico Madrid
MarkSRFC90 - Barcelona
Kirk The Dog - Valencia
Corcaigh09 - Chelsea (RROD)

I'll be on tomorrow night to play if anyone is on.
Has anyone had problems playing Tuner? Cause I can never join a session with him. Yet I don't have NAT probs.

If you're on tomorrow mate we should try again for the 10th?? Time :P

corcaigh07

Axwell wrote: »

Well the last fixture in the premiership is the week of the 15th..but theres only one game so people will be expected to use that as a catch up week. The championship finished the week of the 22nd, hopefully there wont be need for a catch up week in it but if there is we will look at that. That would mean the end of the month the lot should be finished and then there will be a week where me and Moon sort out the tables and promotions and relegations etc and the qualifying league. After that we will look at organising the next season and getting it going.

sounds like ill be very lucky to get another game in so. bar my hissy fit, ive been fairly good for fulfilling fixtures so sorry to anyone i have left to play, short of buying a new replacement, its out of my hands.

corcaigh07

Mister Robinson wrote: »

Ive to play:

RichieMUFC - Real Madrid x2 (Net Probs)
TuneTuneTuner - Inter Milan x2
Reganovski - Atletico Madrid
MarkSRFC90 - Barcelona
Kirk The Dog - Valencia
Corcaigh09 - Chelsea (RROD)

I'll be on tomorrow night to play if anyone is on.
Has anyone had problems playing Tuner? Cause I can never join a session with him. Yet I don't have NAT probs.

If you're on tomorrow mate we should try again for the 10th?? Time :P

tuner has been grand for me, only major problem i had connecting with was you! although to be fair, i think it was more me in that situation! NAT actually changed somehow, it was bizarre. good way to check out your NAT is by playing 1vs100, that game will mention if you are on a strict setting.

Yapamillias

Parawind wrote: »

Championship

Championship
(Yapamillas) Man City 3-1 AC Milan (Parawind)

He scored in the first 3 min..and I know first hand how well he is at defending...so i set out to camp on the edge of his box and wait for him to make a mistake...turns out i had to wait almost 70min before i got the goal and then he had to try grab the winner...i had pato in my pocket after the first goal...would not have said anything had he protected his lead and won the match...i threw everything i had at him...and it could have gone his way quite easily...prob the 2ndmost exciting game ive played along with the other game i played against him earlier this season

Whats the story axwell...is the boardsrepublic league table updated?...im quite interested in the promotion race...maybe a screenshot of the table on boards?? (id do it but im not too sure if the current one is the updated one)

Moiph

I still have to play:

Real Madrid twice (pending on Richie's net getting sorted)
Chelsea (pending on Corcaigh's RROD being sorted in time)
Athletico Madrid
Liverpool
Man City

I also had fixtures left against Arsenal and Juventus, both of which have left the league. I'm available most of this week for anyone that has to play me (AS Roma).

Y2J_MUFC

RALEIGH_BURNER2 wrote: »

its really fair on the other people who committed to playing the league from the start and were able to fulfill there fixtures in time?

I just think it is a little bit unfair that he already has a 12 point head start due to people dropping out before he can play!

In future seasons will this be allowed?

Well, I'm not sure what you want me to do about that?

How was I supposed to know people would drop out?
And its not like I planned to be out sick (hospital visits, the lot) for such a long time?

Just put me down for losses for those games. I don't mind one way or the other. I'll just be happy to get back playing a few games again.

Eircom calling today supposedly. I've played about 20 laggy games of FIFA online with a 3 modem with one bar of signal since I've got back from holidays (most of the people I played quit because of the lag :pac: ) so I'm looking forward to getting battered by everyone anyways!

Mr Moon

Lads, can I ask you all to please do your best to play any outstanding matches you have to play.

I don't want to hear that I've been online every night and no-ones on.

PM them here on Boards and message them on live! If you don't hear back from them let me know.

We want to get season 6 started as soon as we can once this one finishes.

All fixtures can be found here and if you click on your team you'll see the fixtures you have outstanding along with recent results. (If you notice any incorrect results please let me know so I can ammend)

Also, if the following players are around I still have to play you. Can you PM me a day and time you will be on. I'm sending you all a PM too.

Man City x 2 (this isn't going to get played as he totally ignores my messages whenever he's online)
Real Madrid x 2 (Times running out Richie, enjoy life in the championship )
Aston Villa
Atletico Madrid
Chelsea
Liverpool
Valencia
Sevilla
AC Milan
AS Roma

Axwell

Yapamillias wrote: »

Whats the story axwell...is the boardsrepublic league table updated?...im quite interested in the promotion race...maybe a screenshot of the table on boards?? (id do it but im not too sure if the current one is the updated one)

Moon looks after the tables and updates them each week once the fixtures from the last week have been played etc.

Axwell

For those of you with fixtures left to play the following arent available..

Premiership:

Chelsea - xbox away for repair so hes not able to play games at the min
Man City - Away on holidays for a few weeks, not sure when hes back as he didnt give a date
Juventus - not in league anymore
Arsenal - xbox broken so unable to play
Real Madrid - unable to play games at the min and unlikely to get to

Championship:

Bordeaux - not in league anymore

If ive left anyone out thats left etc let me know.

Mr Moon

Axwell wrote: »

For those of you with fixtures left to play the following arent available..

Premiership:

Chelsea - xbox away for repair so hes not able to play games at the min
Man City - Away on holidays for a few weeks, not sure when hes back as he didnt give a date
Juventus - not in league anymore
Arsenal - xbox broken so unable to play
Real Madrid - unable to play games at the min and unlikely to get to

Championship:

Bordeaux - not in league anymore

If ive left anyone out thats left etc let me know.

Championship

Juventus - not in league anymore

Arsenal - not in league anymore


Must be some jinx with Arsenal and Juve dropped out of both leagues!!

Axwell

NOTE REGARDING SEASON END:

Myself and Moon have discussed the seasons fixtures and what remains etc and it has been decided there will be no additional catch up week. There is only 3 fixtures in a gameweek so people have had plenty of time to catch up over the christmas and previous weeks.

The Premierships last set of fixtures begin Fri 15th with only 1 game in that week meaning plenty of time for people to catch up on other games between now and the end of that week.
The Championships last set of fixtures begin Fri 22nd again with people only having 1 match that week to play allowing time to catch up on overdue games.

At the end of those gameweeks any games left unplayed will be void and points will not be awarded to either team unless it is a game involving a player who has left or not participated in the league. Also in the cases where people have participated but are away/RROD etc we will award points where necessary.


From then we will post who has been promoted/relegated and start a thread for people to confirm their participation in next season which we plan to start very shortly after this one. Once we have confirmation of name we will be starting the team picks across 3 divisions to include the qualifiers from last season.

Y2J_MUFC

Mr Moon wrote: »

Also, if the following players are around I still have to play you. Can you PM me a day and time you will be on. I'm sending you all a PM too.

Man City x 2 (this isn't going to get played as he totally ignores my messages whenever he's online)
Real Madrid x 2 (Times running out Richie, enjoy life in the championship )
Aston Villa

Fcuker! :P

Thats likely, even if I don't play my games!

Parawind

Axwell wrote: »

For those of you with fixtures left to play the following arent available..

Premiership:

Chelsea - xbox away for repair so hes not able to play games at the min
Man City - Away on holidays for a few weeks, not sure when hes back as he didnt give a date
Juventus - not in league anymore
Arsenal - xbox broken so unable to play
Real Madrid - unable to play games at the min and unlikely to get to

Championship:

Bordeaux - not in league anymore

If ive left anyone out thats left etc let me know.

I think Kriby(Man city) is back around the 23rd

Axwell

Parawind wrote: »

I think Kriby(Man city) is back around the 23rd

Yeah he said around the 24th but we will be finished at that stage.

joe123

Real Madrid(2)
Sevilla(2)
Aston Villa
Athletico Madrid
Man Utd
Bayern Munich
Chelsea


Just noticed im down as having played sevilla but we havent played either of our games yet? Unless ive forgotten??

RALEIGH_BURNER2

Y2J_MUFC wrote: »

Well, I'm not sure what you want me to do about that?

As you decided to disregard my comment saying that I understood that you had several issues preventing you from getting things back on track. My main point that I was trying to get across is will such long absences be allowed in future leagues?

Y2J_MUFC wrote: »

How was I supposed to know people would drop out?

I don't expect you to be able to see into the future so I amn't blaming you for that, but i was just making the point that when or if you can fulfill your fixtures that you'll have a 12 point head start.

Y2J_MUFC wrote: »

And its not like I planned to be out sick (hospital visits, the lot) for such a long time?

RALEIGH_BURNER2 wrote: »

I understand he's had to deal with unforeseen circumstances etc.

I'm not looking for an argument here, I know you've played the past four seasons without any problems getting fixtures played. I just wanted some clarification on certain issues with this as it is one of the first cases that something like this has occurred where a player has stayed in a league for such a prolonged period but is unable to compete on a regular basis or at all.

Axwell

He doesnt have a 12 point headstart, he hasnt participated in the league so at this stage he has 0 points, also based on the fact we will be finishing next Friday its unlikely that Richie will be getting any of his games in so he will remain on zero points.

As you said yourself it is the first time its happened and it was expected to be honest that Richie would have been able to play his games by now so he might have to bite the bullet on it at this stage that he wont get to play his games as trying to get them all played in a week just isnt going to happen.

As regards future seasons there will be some changes to a few rules which myself and Moon will talk about and be posting at the start of the season, especially regarding fixtures and not playing them on time. With only 3 games a week there is no reason for people to have fixtures going back 6 weeks ago and not getting them out of the way.