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Are you enjoying the demo then? If you haven't downloaded it yet, you should look at the weekends blog to find out where you can get it from.
I expect there are a lot less people reading today's blog than last weeks, but that's what happens when demo's are released. Which makes you special for reading it., so I'll try and give some info out that you can bamboozle your friends with in conversations.
Things like "Have you noticed the weather indicators in Football Manager 2008 yet, that show you what the weathers going to be like?". Or "Have you seen that the team stats and player stats now have an overview panel, but the old views are still available through the view panel?"
Let's be honest though - people are likely to think you are a bit odd if you mention facts like that. So how about this one instead - "Did you know that there's an improved notes and notebook system inside the game, so you never need to waste trees and ink again?"
I asked Svein about the new system and this is what he had to say…
" With Football Manager 2008 we improved the notes system so it can be used in more situations than before. Instead of being limited to players and staff, you can now create notes about pretty much anything and nothing.
You will notice that almost any screen that relates to a player, staff, team, competition, etc in the game now will have a "Notes" section available. From this section you can create one or more notes about the player, team, etc you are currently viewing. The note you create is "about" the player or team (or whatever) you are writing about. You can also attach custom categories to a note. Only notes that are about the player, team, etc you are viewing will be listed in its "Notes" section.
From your own "Manager Overvew" screen you can access your own Notebook. Your notebook is a collection of all the notes you have created. You can also create your own notes here if you so wish.
Basically you can create a note about almost anything. As before you can have notes generate a single reminder or recurring reminders."
You can also set up the notes to give you reminders, and what with lots of important things to remember whilst you are having your virtual career as a football manager, we tried to work out ways to make it easier to remember all these things. What with modern day human brains being sieve like with so many things to remember, like exactly when and on which channel new episodes of the Simpsons are on, rather than the re-runs, we've added in a calendar section to the human manager screen. This calendar, which can be viewed as daily, weekly, monthly and annually to suit your needs, doesn't just tell you when notes are due though. It also lists all of your fixtures, and other important dates, like registration dates and the like if the competition you are playing in has them.
And what's really clever is that if you can't be bothered to look at the calendar, you'll get a news item each month telling you all of the important dates for the forthcoming month. Which is nice.
These important dates are also now added to the competition schedule panels too. We're just too good to you….
Before I forget, I should also mention that there are new wizards for setting up the game. And filters and shortlists now save to the harddrive. Ter's just mentioned something about Feeder clubs showing up in different colours on league tables too, which I didn't know about, and learning a new thing every day is very good.
Two other things that I did know about, to round off today's blog.
First off is some changes to the player comparison screen, or not really changes, but a new way to do it, which is that you can now use the polygon analyser (that thing that looks a bit like an oddly shaped spider without any legs that you get if you change views on a players stats screen).
There's also now a news text filter, making it really easy to find specific news items or news items about specific players, by using the search box just above the news items.
Clever huh?
That's enough for now, I'm back tomorrow. Get back to playing the demo!
Miles
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