Subject: Weekly Training

How so? Friendly games are for experience and training. Why force people to risk injury? That's like saying "you have to play rehabbing NFL football players in real games because getting them healthy in practice alone is a joke."

Friendly games are games nevertheless, and as such I'd imagine people in reality would play them with formations not involving players standing on the sidelines as spectators, neither would that contribute to their training for the week. If players actually play in those games in actual formations then friendly games become for experience and training, but as they aren't competitive teams play in such a manner as to preclude injuries, which in Sokker can be controlled. Hence your analogy is completely off.

Defense +3
Stamina +1
Pace +1
Technique +1

In real life, there wouldn't be a 3 week injury every other match. In real life, coaches play games with the intent to do everything to avoid injuries possible. In real life, it is possible for players to avoid contact so as to preclude injury. Here, there isn't because (you seem to forget) the computer simulation can't think. If you want reality, hang out at a local field and coach the 6 year olds. This is a sim.

Shrug. Like everything else, you are wrong about this, too.

And as a sim the injury issue that encourages these formations for friendlies can be handled by tinkering with it, not by doing nothing and condoning this.

I agree. If there was a way to do low intensity or something like in Hockeyarena, where you'd be minimizing injuries, then that would be much preferable to forcing people to protect their players. But I can't train my #1 forward in defending in a friendly to get him some Def training, and risk losing him for 4 weeks. And since there is no other way to get him training.... Not much choice here, is there?

I agree, but we should also feel some sense of respect for the integrity of the game and not exploit such flaws. Anyway, the developers are primarily the ones to blame for the way they simulate injuries as a whole.

when does training take place, US time?

it will be tonight around 1am......sometimes at 12:30 am it already happened, sometimes i wait 'till 2 am....everything in NY time ^_^

thanks. I guess I'll check it in the morning!

happens 10pm in california suckers

Holy cow, I might have recieved everyone's training this week.

Defense +5
Pass +2
Stamina +1
Pace +1
Technique +1
Playmaker +1
Striker +1

Mine was pretty good, not as many randoms as barndog though.

+1 stamina
+7 pace
+2 technique
+1 Defence
+1 striker

form stayed the same overall.




Oh, and my future NT player who missed the previous 2 weeks of training.....he played a match last night and got hurt again. Major suckage there.

Training pace:

Pace +1
Form +9, -8

Osmotic changes:

Technique +2
Striker +1
Stamina +1, -1
Playmaking +1

pop in the training i wanted so i'm happy.
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Barndog took my training!

Defense +1
Stamina +1

2 youth pops as a decent consolation.