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Old 02-24-2015, 06:11 AM   #1
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Home sweet Home (FHM2)

Last week we re-designed the manager home screen with our ongoing goal "immersion" in mind. We want this screen to be a "one place to see as much as possible when going day by day" much like the corresponding screen in FM. You now can select between different sets to be displayed (whatever you think is useful for you) except for the box on top/left which always has your next game with record against that team and your upcoming schedule. The box with results from last night alone is gold in my opinion.


Disclaimer: all logos are only for showing the screen, the game will not ship with any original logos!
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Old 02-24-2015, 08:12 AM   #2
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Looking forward to play this game!

Looks so much better, just love it!
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Old 02-24-2015, 10:53 AM   #3
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Looks awesome!
Thanks for modifying the page to see all the necessary info at once!
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Old 02-24-2015, 11:02 AM   #4
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Looks amazing!!
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Old 02-24-2015, 11:05 AM   #5
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Looks fantastic. Very much in the style of OOTP and I loved being able to access the information I needed easily in that game. Looks much simpler to use and a huge improvement. Well done guys!!!!
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Old 02-24-2015, 11:23 AM   #6
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Looks fantastic. Very much in the style of OOTP and I loved being able to access the information I needed easily in that game. Looks much simpler to use and a huge improvement. Well done guys!!!!
To be honest, the screen is heavily inspired by Football Manager, not OOTP (I played some FM 2015 the other day). But yeah, I think Markus had the same inspiration last year as well.
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Old 02-24-2015, 11:35 AM   #7
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Making the boxes customizable is a big big positive for this screen.
Looking really good!
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Old 02-24-2015, 12:10 PM   #8
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This looks amazing
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Old 02-24-2015, 02:00 PM   #9
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looks good
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Old 02-24-2015, 02:17 PM   #10
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Now, can we please please have this be the screen that the game defaults to during simulation?

Sorry to see something great and ask for more, it really looks awesome!

Being a creature of habit(EHM) I will most likely have the team leaders in statistics be there. Love the waivers being there, can't count how many times I've simmed through a week in FHM and someone gets claimed without me even knowing they were on waivers.

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Old 02-24-2015, 06:40 PM   #11
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To be honest, the screen is heavily inspired by Football Manager, not OOTP (I played some FM 2015 the other day). But yeah, I think Markus had the same inspiration last year as well.
Haven't been to impressed with FM15. I reverted back to FM14 as I thought that was the best version for a while. Think in FM15 they went for gimmicks rather than good solid features and the 3d game is very flawed.

Love the FHM2 home screen wherever it was inspired from you have done a great job.
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Old 02-24-2015, 06:50 PM   #12
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Haven't been to impressed with FM15. I reverted back to FM14 as I thought that was the best version for a while. Think in FM15 they went for gimmicks rather than good solid features and the 3d game is very flawed.

Love the FHM2 home screen wherever it was inspired from you have done a great job.
I know what you are talking about. I have a hard time to connect with FM15 (which is most likely better so I don't waste FHM development time ).
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Old 02-24-2015, 10:14 PM   #13
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Customization is great and this screen is fantastic too, a really big improvement.. Bravo, Sebastian!
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Much cleaner, nice improvement.
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Love the look of it. In the top left hand corner where it displays the date shouldn't it be Dec for December not Dez? Also the uppercase G's look like C's. I thought words were spelled wrong at a quick glance.
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It's a very nice screen, but putting on my typographer's hat leads me to making the following nitpicks:

In all the yellow highlighted headings, there is text that is centered that should be left-aligned. In the "Standings" section, for example, 'Conference' should be left-aligned so it lines up with the team names. In "Yesterday's Scores" the 'Away Team' and 'Home Team' should be left-aligned, not centered. In the "Waiver" section, in the heading, 'Name' should be left-aligned and 'Cap Hit' should be right-aligned. Having 'PIcked' centered is fine except that the text in the rows below the heading is left-aligned. It should be center-aligned to match the heading.

In the "Finances" section I think it would look better to have all the monetary in the same vertical line with the individual dollar amounts horizontally right-aligned (columns of numbers should always be right-aligned). Put the club position after the dollar amounts in the 'Budget' and 'Player Payroll' rows.

Also, "Fixtures"? What's with this wacky European terminology? It's "Upcoming Games" or "Upcoming Schedule" darn it!
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Love the look of it. In the top left hand corner where it displays the date shouldn't it be Dec for December not Dez? Also the uppercase G's look like C's. I thought words were spelled wrong at a quick glance.
The Date is based on the language on your computer, for me it is German (Dezember). The Font is broken but Daniela is working full-steam on OOTP at the moment so we have to wait for her to change it.
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The Date is based on the language on your computer, for me it is German (Dezember). The Font is broken but Daniela is working full-steam on OOTP at the moment so we have to wait for her to change it.
Seb, mind if I ask you what options (yesterday scores, waivers, etc) you can choose from for the customizable boxes?
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That looks fantastic my friend.

Very much looking forward to FHM 2.

Keep up the good work and dont let curmudgeons bring you down. You are doing amazing work laying the foundation for this franchise moving forward. I know I am, and Im sure many other share this sentiment, here for the long haul so do your thing Sebastian.

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Also, "Fixtures"? What's with this wacky European terminology? It's "Upcoming Games" or "Upcoming Schedule" darn it!
Yeah from my plumbing days I always think of fixtures as toilets and sinks etc.

The screenshot looks good though.
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