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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 20, 2007 2:09:16 GMT
A new online game, (and by new I mean not new, but I've only just found it), in which you play in a Hattrick-style world, but as a player instead of as a manager. footstar.org/First off you have to sign up - the confirmation email came through in about three days for me - and then you get to sign in and pick your player. I eschewed the possible world of wonders that would accompany being called Leroy Hatzichristodulu and went for the easier laugh instead. My new player : Homer Hawkes (9225). Homer is a left footer from New York, playing for New York's favourite team - the, uhh, Detroit Lightning. The New York Detroits are a bot team paying me $500 a week for the benefit of Homer ruining their team. The game includes human-managed teams, but while humans can leave you out of the team, a bot team will always give all their players a game in a week. Plus, the game includes individual training orders where you get to pick which of your skills to improve. On a bot team you can pick any of these and train at 85% efficiency. On a human team, the manager sets the training - if you pick the exact same training as the team then you train at 100% efficiency. If you pick anything different you train at 75%. As I've got zeroes for every skill so far and want to pick what I train I'll be staying with the NY Detroiters for a while. *edit* ...to put your player number in. Easier to search for you then.
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Post by Moo on Nov 20, 2007 9:09:34 GMT
Divot | Player | ID | Team | Division | Stu | Homer Hawkes | 9225 | Aztlan FC | USA - B3 | Mr Bismarck | Herman Stammers | 756 | Baltimore Vikings | USA - B3 | Moo | Buster Commander | 27036 | Carlisle United | ENG - Premier | Narkle | Andreas Lagerlund | 35007 | BK Malmo | SWE - C9 | Hornet | Scotty Pepper | 52499 | London Town | ENG - B1 | Stewpot | Desmond Kingsley | 8969 | Dallas Leafs | USA - B1 |
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Post by coffers on Nov 20, 2007 9:13:54 GMT
No really.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 20, 2007 14:51:36 GMT
You're welcome.
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Post by coffers on Nov 20, 2007 14:53:26 GMT
Excellent response. :thumb:
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 20, 2007 17:01:27 GMT
It's ian-terestingly FM-esque. You can set all of your individual instructions yourself and they're not shown to the manager, which means that the manager can ask you to hang back at corners, cross from deep and not make forward runs, but you can choose to go all Bellamy on him and do what you want. (Obviously this isn't a concern when you're on a bot team.)
You also get to pick your own moraley-type-thing, whether you're looking to leave the club, happy with the boss, annoyed with your role in the team or "looking to work hard to prove himself to the manager" and all that jazz.
You can also interract with the other human players on your team by saying hello, telling them jokes, praising their performances or, if you want to be a dick, you can insult them or even say you don't want to play alongside them any more, which could be useful if you're a star player on a human-managed team...
You can talk to players on other teams when you've bought a mobile phone and they've given you their numbers - until then you can use the internal messaging system.
Relationships seem to be an important part of the game - if you're too nice you won't get ahead, but if your team mates hate you, they won't pass to you.
If any of you do sign up, let me have your player ID and I'll drop you an abusing email until we can afford to stick each other on Friends and Family.
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Post by Moo on Nov 20, 2007 22:09:16 GMT
Not interested.
Yet.
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Post by Moo on Nov 23, 2007 12:55:53 GMT
I'm Buster Commander (27036), a right footed "player" from Liverpool, playing for their third team... AFC Newcastle. I bought a mobile phone. Now what happens?
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Post by hornet on Nov 23, 2007 13:24:18 GMT
Buster Commander. My registration's pending. :humb:
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Post by Moo on Nov 23, 2007 13:28:54 GMT
Now, if we'd thought about this more carefully, we'd have all started on the same team.
I was almost Buster Pal before I saw him. There's some belting names to choose from, I must say.
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Post by Stewpot on Nov 23, 2007 13:59:43 GMT
User is that the name you want to be called in the game?
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Post by Moo on Nov 23, 2007 14:06:46 GMT
It's what you are called, not your player's name.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 23, 2007 15:51:03 GMT
"My friend" started a player, as usual, called Herman Stammers.
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Post by Moo on Nov 23, 2007 16:05:59 GMT
Number? Is Herman in Engerland?
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Post by coffers on Nov 23, 2007 16:13:44 GMT
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Post by coffers on Nov 23, 2007 16:15:20 GMT
Does the registration address need to be gunuine or can I make something up, that looks vauguely acceptable? Same with the registration name.
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Post by Moo on Nov 23, 2007 16:17:29 GMT
Something vaguely acceptable, i guess. I wouldn't have thought that Stu would have put his real name in.
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Post by coffers on Nov 23, 2007 17:09:37 GMT
Tried to register with false name and address, I'm still waiting for acknowledgement.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 23, 2007 17:25:29 GMT
Herman Stammers is 756.
Post-game interviews should be fun with Mr Stammers.
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Post by Boony on Nov 23, 2007 18:58:07 GMT
Especially if I'm interviewing him...
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Post by Moo on Nov 25, 2007 11:57:28 GMT
Boo
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 25, 2007 13:19:24 GMT
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Nov 25, 2007 13:23:09 GMT
So, Homer Hawkes had his first game this weekend, travelling to Chicago to be the team's best player in a 6-0 defeat away to human team Aztlan FC.
After the game, the Aztlan manager came out onto the field and shook my hand and asked if I'd be interested in signing for his team.
I said I'd be interested, but that I had to be playing and I was worried because I was clearly not as good as his players. If he could assure me that I wouldn't rot on the bench, then I'd be interested.
I'm waiting to hear now, on my new mobile phone. A piece of plastic shite that doesn't even have a camera, games, mp3 player, organiser or any of the other vital stuff. It's a phone that's just a phone. WTF is up with that?
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Post by Moo on Nov 25, 2007 18:32:07 GMT
Is that legal?
I might go see what the craic was with Buster Commander. I'd be surprised if he played with anything other than his todger yesterday.
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Post by Moo on Nov 25, 2007 20:18:25 GMT
Question: There are three training times - can we put something in each of the three, or do we have to pretend we have to sleep?
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