Re: (Semi-OT) Your biggest CM triumph

On 02 gru 2003, Victoria Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:17:35 +0100, Maciej Hrynczyszyn
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On 30 lis 2003, Victoria Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>>> When did you start CM'ing? 
>>CM 3 00/01.
> Hah! Another 00-01 CM'er. :)

Temporarily retired :-) Waiting for 03/04 at reasonable prices :-)
 
>>> What is your biggest Champions Manager triumph?  
>>Dover from Conference to Premiership in 4 years, championship title
>>in the 7th year and - IIRC - CL win 2 years later. 
> Any particular reason why you (or indeed others) go for lower
> Division English clubs to manage?

At the beginning Dover lacks money even for sending out a scout. You have 
to do your best with the players you have, search for players out of 
contract, etc. Simple rule - the more troubles initially, the bigger 
satisfaction when you've finally won something. As someone has already 
said in this thread, managing LFC is not a challenge. And there are only a 
few things that beat the moment when you can sit back, relax, smoke a pipe 
and check out the milestones of your career :-)
 
> I presume maybe the earlier CM versions only had the English leagues?

I don't know about versions before 00/01, but in 00/01 IIRC you could 
choose from more than 20-something leagues. Including polish II liga. It 
lacked Czech and Hungary leagues, though.
 
>>> What secrets did you use or did you do it "straight" without
>>> editors? 
>>Handmade tactics :-)
> Oooh. :)

Proper use of offensive wing-backs :-) Hats off to Jamie Victory at DL :-)

>>> I still have got to get to play CM and yes I am intrigued,

BTW, take a look at www.hattrick.org. Yes, it's more than simplified, but 
it's fun. And you compete against other people :-)

>>> (3) CM is for geeks. ;)
>>It used to be. It's no longer in text mode :-)
> Oh had no idea what it looked like. Text is very Unix-like...

Well, I didn't mean ASCII like in roguelikes, or VT100 :-) Before CM4 
there was no this fancy 2D match display, only commentary at the bottom of 
the screen.
 
>>M the roguelike addict, off to MD thesis
> MD thesis, argh. If that's like 2nd year boards, I don't feel half
> sorry for you, Maciej. :(

It's PITA, unfortunately.  And there's always not enough time. 

M,

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 Maciej Hrynczyszyn                                               Nada.
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