We never set release dates (or demo dates) until the game is in manufacture. But we'll let you know as soon as we know here, on our website, and our forums.

Miles

Please tell me step by step how to download FM 2006, the full version.

Thanks

Hey i was curious to know if it will have Juventus in Serie B with minus 17 points along with the other 3 Italian teams. Also with Rotherham on minus points?

I have been reading lots and lots of reviews about FM06 and FM07. I'm stuck, which one should i go for? is it worth buying 06? I have downloaded the demo and love the fact it is exactly like the real season with Liverpool having to qualify from Stage 1. I'm a Liverpool fan.

We try and use the real world as much as possible, so teams that start on negative points in real life will start on negative points in the game.

As for which to go for, that depends on whether you want to wait a couple of months before playing, as FM07 isn't going to be out til then. FM06 is a great game. FM07 will be better :)

Hi Reece,

The player bios work on ingame stats, so will be there for every player, club and manager.

Miles

So this is just a sexed up version of the Talented Manager/ Strong full back/ Continental club reputation descriptions? And if this is the case if i bought a lot of quick, good passing and technical players, the club would recieve a similar reputation to say, Arsenal?

What i percieved it to be was a summarised history of the club, and it's major acheivements. Like the trophy history screen but in the written word. If i'm being honest the trophy screen to me feels soulless, and a personalised description about the team's major acheivements, style of play, and favoured personnel would be very welcome, as at the moment we can see they are favoured, but not why they are favoured. Maybe personalised descriptions could be submitted to you, vetted, and uploaded as a data update occaisionally. The same sort of thing as Wikipedia, but for FM. That would be immense.

Hmm. Not really sure what you mean. If you mean "is the new game completely re-written from scratch" then the answer is no. But I'd say that well over 100 new features kind of stops it from being a "glorified data update". If it was half a dozen new features, then I'd agree with you. It will be interesting if you still think that when all has been revealed in a few weeks.

Gustavo,

We are constantly investigating ways to release the game in Brazil, and I hope it will be possible.

Miles

in the early cm fm games you could go to a team and see who the star player was, by the little star icon at the side of there names. Do you no if that feature will be back in, it was always a good quick ref. to se who was the top dog in the team

Dean,

That's gone for good - sorry. There are some "stars" in the game though, but you'll see those in the coming weeks...

Miles

well its all very well you saying there are over 100 new features, but this entry (and the next from the looks of it) is just about the interface, which seeing as there is nothing wrong with the interface in 06, is totally irrelevent to me and i'm sure plenty of other people. stop the "we don't want to ruin the game" rot and tell us what we will get for shelling out £30.

Adam/Dan (for some reason it says "Adam" on the main area of myspace and then "Dan" when I go to reply) - the first 3 blogs will be about the interface and various options within it. The new one is WAY better than the last, and the addition of the stuff as blogged above adds a lot to the game, with lots more information available to the user, a vidiprinter etc, and the things to be announced throughout the rest of the week.

Then there'll be another plethora of features announced over the next few weeks, so I'd suggest a little bit of patience. I would also suggest that, as with any other game you are going to "shell out £30" for if you don't like what you read, you try the demo when it's released (which will be a good few weeks before the game is on the shelves) and make your mind up then, rather than before you have all the information....

Will teams that already have feeder teams in real life have te same feeder teams in FM 2007? (For example Manchester has an agreement with Antwerp FC).

wassup from sunny South Africa.  FM2006 is a great game, but 1 or 2 small things bugged me a bit, and would like to know if they have been looked at for FM2007:

1.   sometimes my club would reject transfer bids for my players automatically, without the "reject all Bids" option being selected

2.   The supporters would start protesting because my team was at the bottom of  the league after two weeks, having played only 1 league game because of european commitments... (got fired once because of that..)

3.   I think the "offer to clubs" option was better in FM2005 than FM2006.  The current one is not user friendly and you often get no results

I know they are small issues, but if sorted out, will add just that little more to an already great game! Keep up the good work!

Wassup from sunny South Africa.  FM is an awesome game, but there were 1 or 2 small things that bugged me in FM2006. Would just like to know if they have been looked at or not for FM2007.

1.   The supporters start protesting after 2 weeks in the season, when you are 3 games behind in the league due to european commitments... led to me being fired once.. (playing as Leeds and Ajax)

2.    Sometimes transfer bids for players from CPU teams are rejected automatically by my assistant, despite there not being any "reject all bids" selected.  

3.   I think the "offer to clubs" option for players was better in FM2005 than in FM2006.  The current one was not user friendly and often yielded no results..

Brett

1) there are lots of reasons why their could have been protests! No complaints about that in the testroom on FM07 though.

2) Again, no reports on that from the testroom.

3) Maybe people just didn't want your players or you wanted too much money for them? Try reducing their sale value and see if that helps.

Please have some boerwoers and Simba ketchup crisps for me. I haven't put an order into the South African shop for ages....

This all sounds good. But a bit hard to wait for the game to come.

There's one thing i miss from former games. And that is the clubs stadium pictures showing when you play a game. Why was that feature taken away? There have been many stadium background packs available for download to FM06, but that is just not the same, as you cant see those pictures at match screen, but only when you go to each clubs info screen.

Is it to much to hope for anything happening about that?

Will their be an option to force your feeder club to let your players play a certain percentage of matches in their team?

Thanks for the quick reply.  If I knew there was a testing forum, then i would have made my comments there earlier! ;)  (btw, the supportes started protesting the season after i finished second in the league and won the FA cup and were delighted with my performance)

And i am having some simba chips and biltong as we speak..

Basically my question SI, sorry.

So this is just a sexed up version of the Talented Manager/ Strong full back/ Continental club reputation descriptions? And if this is the case if i bought a lot of quick, good passing and technical players, the club would recieve a similar reputation to say, Arsenal?

What i percieved it to be was a summarised history of the club, and it's major acheivements. Like the trophy history screen but in the written word. If i'm being honest the trophy screen to me feels soulless, and a personalised description about the team's major acheivements, style of play, and favoured personnel would be very welcome, as at the moment we can see they are favoured, but not why they are favoured. Maybe personalised descriptions could be submitted to you, vetted, and uploaded as a data update occaisionally. The same sort of thing as Wikipedia, but for FM. That would be immense.

That depends on what other settings you use.

All will be explained in the fullness of time.

Can you please only ask questions about the blog above, or else this is going to be completely unmanagable. There's lots more to reveal in the coming weeks, so there'll be lots more room for comment.

If you've got general comments about FM06, or questions about that, then please go to our forums on our website at www.sigames.com where you'll find lots of people to help :)

All i want to see is more arguments between managers and more rivalry's developing i just won the championship with Fulham in 2011 and I was expected to finish midtable and not one manager made a comment all season yet they talk about each other quite a lot, I'd like to see arguments coming up over wot's been said in the media or anything. How about being misquoted in the media haha..I think that's all this game needs

Thanks,

Gary

Hey Miles

i just wondered if you were planning to introduce any leagues below the conference North/South and if on FM2007 transfer prices in the lower league would be more realistic as in real life clubs from the conference down never spend money on players and are usually pretty happy to sell their for small amounts but on FM 2006 players who stats aren't even that good from low league comand prices of about 20k