2025-06-18, 11:05 AM - Word count:
I've been in this league since S9, but I've managed to avoid learning how team play works. How? By playing a keeper for my first player. All the fun, all the wins and losses, none of the player-player interaction on the field.
I cherished building up Muunokhoi Sarantsatsral's character as an oddball fond of hallucinogenic mushrooms and dreams of tearing down the Great Wall of China in a retaking of Inner Mongolia for Mongolia proper. All while not particularly learning the subtleties of FM2x through FM24.
I write alternate history, and I've become fairly decent at querying AI chatbots to get them to help me find and especially cross-reference online sources. I hate AI writing, but I like AI as a way of accelerating obscure web searches.
So, I put those (alleged) skills to use for the SSL. I asked 2 different online AIs to help build me a player. I even taught them about spending TPE for attribute points, and invited them to reconsider the tactical value of anything I might spend on in the context of a league where everyone has 20 Natural Fitness and 20 Stamina.
Broadly, I had fun. It was silly and entertaining. AI even helped me selecting a Nahuatl player name - together we picked a rather over-the-top one (Tlacaelel was the name of a massively influential vizier-like man in the Aztec Triple Alliance). And, in the interest of chaos, I went for a combination of positions few would put together: striker and left wingback. Why? Being good at two disconnected positions will greatly simplify player choices by pointing me toward traits and point buys both positions value.
And now I get 10 seasons or so to use this player to actually learn how teamplay works in FM24.
I cherished building up Muunokhoi Sarantsatsral's character as an oddball fond of hallucinogenic mushrooms and dreams of tearing down the Great Wall of China in a retaking of Inner Mongolia for Mongolia proper. All while not particularly learning the subtleties of FM2x through FM24.
I write alternate history, and I've become fairly decent at querying AI chatbots to get them to help me find and especially cross-reference online sources. I hate AI writing, but I like AI as a way of accelerating obscure web searches.
So, I put those (alleged) skills to use for the SSL. I asked 2 different online AIs to help build me a player. I even taught them about spending TPE for attribute points, and invited them to reconsider the tactical value of anything I might spend on in the context of a league where everyone has 20 Natural Fitness and 20 Stamina.
Broadly, I had fun. It was silly and entertaining. AI even helped me selecting a Nahuatl player name - together we picked a rather over-the-top one (Tlacaelel was the name of a massively influential vizier-like man in the Aztec Triple Alliance). And, in the interest of chaos, I went for a combination of positions few would put together: striker and left wingback. Why? Being good at two disconnected positions will greatly simplify player choices by pointing me toward traits and point buys both positions value.
And now I get 10 seasons or so to use this player to actually learn how teamplay works in FM24.
