I’m a keen reader on the official forums, every week I search for posts by Ov and his FML lapdogs and read every bit of information they release, you really can learn a hell of a lot from ready those guys posts.
Ov tends to read something someone else posts like an idea and the crazy guy comes back five minutes later and says “yeah I just threw that together into the code” probably whilst smoking a cigar “expect to see it in the next release”. For example, coming in a new version of the game we’ll be seeing an extra screen in match that shows us the point where each shot was hit from, to any fan of FM it’s those little things that make the game so awesome, and it’s this kind of dedication and openness to new ideas that means FML won’t fail.
Then there are Graeme Kelly’s posts, not sure what he does at SI, I think has the office Jester, and gets a lot of the blame for things when they go wrong .
As far as I can make out Ovs main job is the financial system in the game, whilst Rob Cooper tends to do everything else, the fun sounding stuff anyway! His posts are probably the most informative ones you can read in the forums, whilst not as hands on in the forums as Ov, it just makes his ones much better when they do come, though sometimes he does go into too much detail for some people. One post I do remember was one saying that you couldn’t export pkms (data about a certain match) from FML and so you wouldn’t be able to do something as simple as watching a FML match offline in FM09…
This morning I stumbled upon a pkm from FML, then worked out that the option was still in FML to export one, though it wasn’t that obvious to most people, if you go to an old match up in the top right is an export PKM button. Which then got me thinking, what’s the worst that could happen if I tried to run that in the match viewer on FM09? Not a lot actually did go wrong, it loaded up and then there it was, my mighty young Mitsubishi Warriors in 3D, battling away! Whilst in the game they were called Ajax, well actually both teams where, and one side was kitted out in red and one was all blue, but the names of the players where intact and running about, passing shooting, scoring!
Awesome, whoever is in charge of getting that into the world of FML the first crate of redbull is on me! There are a few problems with importing the PKM in though, as the two match engines are so wildly different the results can differ, players can get reds that actually didn’t get reds in FML, which is very strange but understandable though.
So there you go, if the idea of stadiums in FML doesn’t get your wallet out then just think how awesome it will be when they get 3D into FML!
