"It would have been when I was about 13 years of age, so about the 96/97 Championship Manager mark. He used FM as a form of escapism, disappearing into a virtual world for hours on end where he was in control and he called the shots. "Even though it was a legitimate, realistic corner setup, I still felt uneasy when Christopher Samba was my top scorer on 50 goals."Īsked when he fell in love with the game and the addiction took hold, Jonsson reveals how therapeutic the simulation game was in his childhood days. "I don't like it when it becomes unrealistic"-Jonsson questioned whether or not he should keep playing with an Icelandic domestic side after building a new 11,000-seater stadium purely because, in real life, that's bigger than the country's national stadium-"it makes me feel uneasy."Ī well-known bug in Football Manager 08 was a corner trick, where a certain setup of player placement and type of delivery could yield strong centre-backs buckets of goals a season.
There was a guy whose central midfielder scored 70 goals in a season-he broke the game engine. "There was a guy who posted on the forums how he had taken the club predicted to finish 20th in the league and finished first, and the points gap between second was big. I know there are players on the Sports Interactive forums who try to figure out the game. He doesn't try to "figure out" the game engine and manipulate it to win "easy," though. Jonsson finds pleasure in micro-management and rewarding himself by finding those rare players who make the searching and trawling worthwhile.
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I sold him for a lot of money-it's finding players like him that drive you through the hours of checking free agents' statistics."
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He came for a trial and he was amazing, and he was my leading scorer every season for a long time. "In Football Manager 07, I had a Spanish striker who stayed with me for I think 10 seasons. I would spend hours inviting every available free player for a trial to see if they were any good, in hope of finding one gem. Once you get into the Champions League you pay more attention the only way to succeed is to increase your scouting range and spend hours checking free agents. "The seasons before reaching the Champions League are very easy, and you can play them at maybe three times the speed of a normal one. Then I construct a system that somehow allows them all to play-even if it's one game in, one game out because they are so old and unfit. "I find the best Icelandic free agents, even if they're 36 years old and played 20 years ago. Quizzed on his method, it's always the same:
With Icelandic teams, there were no agreements." "Only the Northern Irish league had a lower in-game reputation level, but with those clubs you could form partnerships with Premier League outfits. My regens would decide to leave Champions League football with me to go and play second division football.in Denmark! Before Sports Interactive (SI) introduced the dynamic reputation adjustments to the leagues (meaning the Icelandic Premier League's reputation never enhanced to a level where good players wanted to stay), this was HARD. "My best games have always been with an Icelandic team, trying to win the Champions League. No, he takes on a much harder challenge every year without fail: to win the UEFA Champions League with an Icelandic domestic club. He's never done the classic "Conference North/South to Champions League glory" challenge so heavily purported in forums and communities, but has tried other, more condensed ideas. Its addictive powers are known across the world to most football fans (and their significant others too), but for Daniel Jonsson, it was akin to a lifestyle for a number of years. The ensconced Icelander has played it religiously for close to two decades, enjoying micro-management, stern challenges and, most notably, an escape from real life issues. For every player who opts for the fleeting hour after a tough day at work, there's another dressed in suit, shaking the door knob as he settles down for a tense FA Cup final. Football Manager means something different to everyone commitment levels range from the reasonable to the ridiculous.
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