Master League improvements [Archive]

LiL MeSsI

23-02-2011, 20:52

Ok Konami please please read my improvements

I strongly believe these improvements im putting forward to you will greatly benefit us pes fans and thus your sales/profit.

1) DOnt invlove the press! stupid idea that will be a novelty feauture, instead carry on adding new stories to the top of the master league bar as you did in 2011 e.g. "Essien Lauds Lampard" or "Jovetic the wonder kid"
i would like to see some more varitey in these throughout the season, they really fresh things up!

2) abilitiy to trade players in negotiations! why is this missing.

3) this is the biggest improvement you can do, allow us to be fired or leave and change teams in master league at the end of season, allow clubs to try and sign us. TO REALLY MAKE THIS FEAUTURE GREAT INCORPERATE THE NATIONAL TEAMS INTO MASTER : E.G. ALLOW US TO MANAGE BOTH CLUBS AND NATIONAL TEAMS IN MASTER LEAGUE, FOR INSTANCE ONE SEASON I MAY MANAGE AC MILAN, THEN LEAVE AT THE END OF THE SEASON BECUASE ITS 2012 AND THE WORLD CUP WILL START ALLOW ME TO MANAGE JAPAN FOR EXAMPLE. THEN HAVE THE OPTION OF CONTINUING MANAGING THEM FOR 4 YEARS UNTILL THE NEXT WORLD CUP, OR RETURN AS A CLUB MANAGER

seriously konami. this will liven up the master league as it had been stagnating over a few years now,
if you just can only make one improvemnt please make it my third one!

thank you very much for reading

Aidan-lfc

24-02-2011, 22:51

I strongly agree with all your points :) I would love to see a player+cash trade option in negotiations and also to be able to offer a club a certain amount of money for the player myself instead of my scout doing it for me! Also, you need to keep hold of the Champions League and Europa League licenses, this makes PES ML a good game mode! Offline ML is nearly the complete package, and adding moving clubs, player+cash trades and keeping the rest of the ML as it is could see PES12's master league the perfect Master League :)

LiL MeSsI

25-02-2011, 18:13

I seriously wouldn't care if they took online mode and everything and focused more time on Master League because it is absolutely amazing and it can be even better with the right improvements, but I know some people would strongly disagree but for me Master League is untouchable compared to Career Mode on Fifa :)

Aidan-lfc

26-02-2011, 14:35

Well it seems to me like ML is PES's prize possesion. I think they will continue to work on both as not everyone enjoys playing online (me included) and also some people don't have online connections. Offline ML is nearly there, and with a few little burshes here and there, it will be the perfect mode!

wipsnadepoo

18-04-2011, 15:00

Brilliant ideas!

TICKATOCKA

06-06-2011, 10:34

more divisions would improve master league

abu97

03-07-2011, 13:24

Managers should look real. If you can, put some presets in on he licensed teams - Barcelona can have guardiola, madrid can have mourinho etc.
Also there should be a reason whilst players get injures(calf, headache)

MastaLeague

04-07-2011, 05:05

Wow good thread.

The Eristic

17-07-2011, 02:19

Not enough out of contract/released players at the end of each season, and occasional weird behavior with the players who should become said free agents! I've had a 63 OR 21-year-old with his renewal talks on hold turn into a 48-rated 15-year-old when the season changed (the time he should've become a free agent), right in the middle my negotiations with him! Others just plain disappear from the game, I assume to be reborn later in youth teams. Sucks, because ML is all about signing free agents when you use PES United and the ML Defaults! There's nothing quite as satisfying as snatching up the kids with potential dumped from the bigger teams to make space or free up wages, then taking over the world with them!

andy2003b

03-08-2011, 11:05

it should be be like pro evo 6 where you could still sign players even though they are not in any of the leagues! For example when you started doing your own side you could get the cheap players from south korea or japan or even iran.

Agree with the player exchange as well and been able to change teams

xedeluxe

06-10-2011, 20:35

agree with you..

if also they can add this as my suggestion

1.real club atmosphere : example : you arrive at your club ( manchester united ) and on your 1st season your team get overall 20 red and 53 yellow card and by that your performance as manager will slightly cause you at the end of the season as the president may kick you out of the club and if your team keep losing and losing like 10 games 1 win 2 draw 7 lose and it will result a violence atmosphere in stadium or etc and the result your club will have to pay after being charge by UEFA / etc .. , and when you play on your derby match it would be better if all of the news goes to your club especially when you coach a big club and at UCL final.

2.kit option - example you are sponsored by nike. at the end of the season nike will come up with and option of 3-5 nike kit and you decide to choose which one you like for your next season kit. its boring to use the same kit especially after 12 years coach the same club .. < the only reason why i always start a new master league or i use a default pes without patch so that i can edit kit after the season over..

3.youth team - a youth team is like your 2nd team like barcelona and barcelona b. a 1st team able to call up any youth team in your club anytime they want and you can play them again with youth team if you doesnt need him . you also can manage about your youth team transfer. like if your youth is a such promising and your team is full of superstar you can manage to sell him right away without promote him to 1st team and sell him. and you also can bought a player for your youth team .. minimum age for youth team is 15 and they would only able to join 1st team at 17 or 16.. and a youth team should atleast play another leagues. sugesstion 3rd division or 2nd divison for a big club youth team..

4.retiring as manager should be an option in master league. idk if there is already one but my highest record of coaching a same club is 14 years and i start a new one because of the boring same kit for 14 years. it would be great after such a long year of managing and you can enjoy your statistic with 1000 game 750 win,170 draw,80 lose. total goal 1679 , assist 1432 . best player ever : neymar,messi etc. highest transfer, best win. worst game.. etc etc

5.a pre season match should be add.. like a us tour/asia tour .... all big club did this in pre season and also a little cup in pre season. like audi cup for barca,milan,bayern .... and a league super cup...

Jenks45

19-10-2011, 16:18

more divisions would improve master league

Couldn't agree more. Two leagues just isn't enough!

kevindemente

28-10-2011, 11:05

stingo

06-11-2011, 19:14

Does anyone know if you can get fired on PES12 Master League? I started mine last night and have lost 6 games out of 6, am sat at the foot of the table and the Chairman is not too happy.

Unlike you guys I dont want to manage any team other than the one I am currently at and would be really annoyed if I got fired just as I was starting to get into the game.

Thanks for reading :thumbsup:

Yes you will get fired as soon as chairman rating reaches 0. This is the most annoying and horrible part in ML to me aside from stupid training and idiotic cutscenes. It is already hard to play ML on anything above regular (and regular is too easy), but if you lose too many games to stupid deflections, own goals, goal keeper errors and scripting then you wasted your time! I am not playing this for a challenge to survive. I am playing for fun to build a strong team even if it takes more time then chairman desires. TAKE THE FKN CHAIRMAN OUT OF ML !!!

kevindemente

07-11-2011, 11:03

Yes you will get fired as soon as chairman rating reaches 0. This is the most annoying and horrible part in ML to me aside from stupid training and idiotic cutscenes. It is already hard to play ML on anything above regular (and regular is too easy), but if you lose too many games to stupid deflections, own goals, goal keeper errors and scripting then you wasted your time! I am not playing this for a challenge to survive. I am playing for fun to build a strong team even if it takes more time then chairman desires. TAKE THE FKN CHAIRMAN OUT OF ML !!!

Totally agree. I hate the chairman, he doesnt seem to be of sound mind if I'm honest. Like its not hard enough to avoid GAME OVER when you run out of money, now you have to worry about two things possibly ending your 'fun'.

I think his trust percentage is currently 15 after we got 8 points in the last 6 games so if the ONLY way you can get fired is if it hits 0% then I am confident I can see the season out.

Another problem however is the Expected Earnings. They are currently -£1,900,000. If I win my remaining home games I may break even, but its gonna be tight. Does the Expected Earnings take into account the sponsoship money and fan club now or at the end of the season? I am preying its at the end of the season :unsure:

nightkid

08-11-2011, 17:06

Does the Expected Earnings take into account the sponsoship money and fan club now or at the end of the season? I am preying its at the end of the season :unsure:

nope it doesn't take into account the sponsorship money

kevindemente

09-11-2011, 14:35

nope it doesn't take into account the sponsorship money

I may be ok then. I have about a million to come in from the Sponsorship people. What about Fan club and merchandise? That arrives at the end too I hope.

It's gonna be a photo finish!!!!:unsure:

stingo

09-11-2011, 22:23

Expected earnings only makes sense at the beginning of the season when you just got paid sponsorship money . At all other times it pretty much displays wrong information so simply disregard it

kevindemente

10-11-2011, 09:10

Expected earnings only makes sense at the beginning of the season when you just got paid sponsorship money . At all other times it pretty much displays wrong information so simply disregard it

Cool. Thanks Stingo

I managed to score more than 2 goals in a game last night. I beat Crystal Palace 5-1!!!! It felt good. Hopefully the chairman agrees.

Lost the following game 1-0 though :angry:

EDIT: Played four games last night and only picked up one point. Down to just 6% trust with about 8 games to go. Not looking good :(

kas786

23-11-2011, 23:12

I wish the unrealistic transfers could be switched of or something. I play with CPU transfer frequency set low and it's frustrating to see that after my 2nd season C. Ronaldo has joined Bayern Munich, Puyol signs for Real Madrid and Drogba joins Athletico Madrird!

This means that I can no longer play against a single realsitic team after season one as all the good players are too spread out and have been wildly transferred. It's also annoying when Bayern sign the best players - it means I can never test myself against the greatest players in the game as you can only ever face Bayern in the Champions League.

This also makes the clubs unrecognisable and completely unrealistic hence I find ML too unbearable to play as a result. The frequency of transfers are to many and too unrealistic at the LOW level setting.

KONAMI please amend this!

poiuytreza

14-12-2011, 09:47

My wishlist:

1. I would really like it if you could switch teams in master league, get offers from other teams when you're doing well, get fired if your doing bad.

2. Have seperate 2nd divisions for each master league competition, now if you start a master league the second division always consists of the same teams. I want different second division teams for each league. It doesn't matter if the teams are fake, because we can patch them. But how great would it be to start a master league with a Barcelona B and promote to first division and make them into a top team.

3. Don't remove teams just keep on creating new team. In pro evo 2011 Anderlecht was a belgium team that played champions league, now in 2012 they didn't make the champions League and was removed and replaced with Genk. Instead of removing these teams just add Genk but keep Anderlecht. The more teams we have to play with the more fun the game gets.

4. Have the possibility to attract rich investors to your club, when you play master league make it so you can attract rich investors. The upside is they bring a lot of money in a club, but the downside is that they come with demands you have to follow or they will leave the club and take their money away.

5. Real choaches, add Morinhio, Gardiola, Villasboas ,... to the game.

6. Add different weather conditions. Snow, heavy rain, ... and make it effect games or even cancel games and move them to a different date if the pitch is unplayable.

7. Do your own transfers, if a player or a team wants more money you can decide yourself to give it or cancel the negotiations. This was pretty good in pro evo 2011.

8. Add an option that you can choose to manage both a national team and a league team, for example manage the Belgium national team while playing master league with Chelsea. So if their is a world cup add the end of the saison you can play on with Belgium, if you qualifyed during the saison. So you get a real realistique football saison, you play your club team matches and when the national team plays your club teams are free. So you can try to win the championschip and qualify your national team for the world/european cup. I think this would make master league even more fun.

Last but not least I would like to say that PES is one of the best game I ever played, but I think it can become even more awesome with these inprovements.

sonystar

02-01-2012, 17:31

amin_fcb92

04-01-2012, 00:06

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04-01-2012, 00:08

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mattbianco1

04-01-2012, 12:21

I would like to see the following in Master League:

1. To be able to move clubs. (Job offer and/or sacked etc.)
2. More teams; if they can't be licenced give us more editing slots for emblems.
3. More emblem slots - If there is 3 leagues to edit like this year (4 if u count Premiership) why give us 18 slots too little?
4. Two cups available in English League. And correct format i.e. a 2-leg Semi-Final in the league cup.
5. Why does the league finish in June?
6. Cup competition - Only Semi's & Final should be played at a neutral venue.
7. Crowd - Just because a team is low down the standings, they may still fill the ground. Norwich for example will fill the ground every week in the Premiership. Wigan wont. No matter how well they are doing.
8. Crowd again - at every game the fans wear blue & white and red & white stripes.
9. Stadium editor - make extra parts available (LMA manager years ago had loads.)
10. Stadium again - be able to select a section for away fans at games. (Old trafford/St. james have a small pocket.) Other stadiums have full stands available.

Overall though point 1 is by far the most important.

Also agree with player swap deals. This used to be available.

Oh one more.

11. Why do we have to pay a fee for loans?

kishores_bin

15-01-2012, 17:35

> Either improve the player conversations with bit realistic sequences or remove them completely.( I am guessing that Konami introduced it this year to develop in he next series, hoping for good improvements if it is going to stay).

> Bring the top news and speculations displayed somewhere during the prematch buildup,(Atleast as in PES 2011 with more coverage). It livens the season so much.

> Also provision a menu to display the complete stats of all the players in the current season and their ratings.

> Display man of the match after the game.(A short cut scene of an interview with him would be amazing).

> If club boss missions are to stay, a bit of stupid missions are good to add more challenges in the mode, but let them be little realistic and harsh. And when his backing is getting low and he wants me to sack, provide us offers from other clubs to continue the mode, managing some unknown clubs with real zeal, putting the disappointment behind.

> Improvements in youth team management is welcome.

These improvements will take already rocking master's league to next level..

PES FOR EVER..:lol:

sonystar

30-01-2012, 00:19

Stop those stupid players comment.

NOt every player can go every freaking time and complain about not playing. Make it so that, if they not play in let¨s say 5 games, the come and complain. This is also only for players with high overall rating.

NOT all youth can go and complain because they do not play.

ALSO make reserve team with youth and players that don¨t play,, so you can send them to play there. I need real youth players.

Cup competition - Only Semi's & Final should be played at a neutral venue.

FINAL ONE: the most important is also, you could let us the management to decide, the players prices, for example i play with UTD. I put before the season and asking price for a player. IT doesn't mean they cant ask less for a player. BUT it is important me to value my players.

AND OF COURSE LICENSES. PEACE

lakie85

28-02-2012, 01:01

All i want to do is this:

1. Pick my team
2. Play the matches
3. Build my team using the transfer market and youth squads
4. Look at stats during the season

Everything else is just junk and should be either gotten rid of, or enable the player to switch it off. It's incredibly annoying to keep having to skip through moaning players, chairman requests, training cutscenes, assistants telling me how i should play the next game and that "there is a change in team strength to report" when there is no change at all. I really don't care!!

Anyway, on the subject of team strength, does training actually do anything?? I seem to improve areas only for them to drop back to their original position when i train something else. But if i don't change it, the players moan that they're getting bored which means another screen to skip.

Oh and get rid of topics as well, they're pointless. The green exclaimation mark on the main screen will suffice for areas that require attention.

Get rid of all that Konami, and you got yourself a good game...

zeus0407

15-03-2012, 21:56

i think there should be some really bugged or better say stupid things fixed before getting new ons, they are dong this all the time, you guys mostly want something new, then they add new things but real problems are still there

MONEY
- pure cheating, if you have some player and his market value is around 10 000 000 so is his salary, so if you have more players with big market value, you just cant earn money for them, and i dont want to use those cheats for money.
If player gets selected for best 11, or top scorer, or assists, or any other reward his market value rises too much, so you cant have team you would like, you cant finance it even if you win league, cup, Champions league, but on the other hand, CPU can have all players he wants and still they dont bankrupt, Barcelona has 15 players over 10 000 000, im my ML right now and they dont have any problems financing the, plus, they are top club so they have all level 5 staff and improvements. Thats pure bullshit, i need to avoid having top scorers or god save me best player in the world.
I bought Lukaku, he is excellent and he was cheap, but now i need to get rid of him or someone else cause they want too much money

TRANSFERS
- why oh why did you remove option to give your player for exchange in some transfer!!??? that is very much normal in real world
- why did you remove option to directly place an offer for someone, instead of stupid scout negotiations just to recive a message like "player was keen on move, but its hard to get someone who is standard" and you can get this message over and over again, for 3 or more seasons even if you are in top 5 clubs and player is from lower club in best 50 maybe

SPONSORS
- carp. you are amongst top 10 clubs and you get bullshit sponsors, and for long term
- why cant you just get an option to chose between multiple sponsors based on you performance, scored goals, or something else

TRAINING
- also one of the stupidest things made by far. you removed individual training (one thing you did real good in years) and replace it with global training, so now you get situations where goalkeepers train skills that you need for your midfielders or strikers. bring back individual training or make training by position!!! there are individual trainings in real world, plus positions trainings!!!!
- youth team is is also effected by this, and you lose real potential like that
- bring back card system back, and some skill cards like covering for defence, of DF leader

there are much more problems that are needed to be fixed before applying new things

Epicfootyfan

03-04-2012, 23:56

My excellent master league improvements:
1. Optional press conferences - e.g. Praise people, say people should be in national squad!
2. Rivalries - Big atmosphere, test players in big matches, also create rivals - they steal your players, they beat you to the title.
3. Real life managers - no one has license so could be easier than other licenses. Teams do well under the best managers and when they have no manager, they do badly. You could interact with managers and see them on pitch!
4. Community shield - Cup and league winners play each other - big match!!!!! At wembley or Stade de France. Get a trophy - licence?
5. Better calendars - country likenessess - England have 1 early, 1 late match, England have no Winter break, League ends first, then cup final, then uefa competitions!!
6. MOVE TEAMS - option to be sacked/ leave if did too bad/good. Find another team when they have no manager or arrange for their manager to get sacked!
7. Loans - you pay only 10th of value, loan lots more players - maybe youth players! Loan transfer markets and get month loans - loan a player for 1/2/3/4... Months!
8. Youth/reserve team - demote to get form & small matches, promote if done well. Can have 30 players or get 50 player spaces for team, play training matches/youth cups!
9. More leagues - can be fake as can customise but make more badge/stadium slots.
10. Faster loading - customised so much takes about 1/2 mins to get from dressing room to pitch at match start!
11. Manage international team - pick players who improve/good form, schedule freindlies. Play competitions, runs in parallel with club teams so can manage international and national.
12. New kits every season with special sponsorship - Samsung sponser kit next season, kit now made by Kappa, that was good in PES 2008/2009!
13. Option for more free agents - high- low. Only bad players in PES 2012, in real life you have Upson, Zenden, Hargreaves, Tevez...
14. More Player interaction - you will be rested for youth etc.
15. Photo Album like Become a player and trophy cabinet!
16. Better transfers - realistic player prices and their wages are 10th or 5th, more interest/bids for players that are listed and some others that could tempt them away! Offer players to clubs to get them sold faster or for more money!
17. Better match scores - man of match, scorers...
18. More cup celebrations - different animations. Live scores pop up like stats do in the corner.
19. League cup - to add to Country cup - most countries have it!
20. Contracts renewals can be done anytime with more ease!
21. Sell and buy merchandise & put ticket prices up/down to increase attendance or earn more cash!
22. Transfers - able to swap players and negotiate a good price like PES 2011!

Sorry it's a long list - had to be done! Hope it works & each idea is mostly equal no matter it's no. Ranking.

yrebud

03-05-2012, 22:15

GET RID OF THOSE SCRIPTED FREE KICKS! drives me potty!
LESS 'GHOSTING' WHEN DEFENDING. some attackers just waltz right thru you.
GET RID OF BORING MISSED BY MILES REPLAYS!
HAVE THE ABILITY TO SPEAK TO THE CHAIRMAN! im top of the league thou he still hates me for not playing/buying a shit player.
IMPROVE PENALTIES!
GET RID OF THE TRICKS! NEVER EVER USE THEM! NEVER WILL.

BUT THANK YOU KONAMI FOR NOT BEING FIFA. XX

porto matt

04-06-2012, 19:30

I don't know if anyone else has noticed but it seems that there is hardly any long term injuries now which makes it quite unrealistic

on the earlier pro's, i found sometimes i had to manage with 3 or 4 key players out at once but now it's just without 1 or 2 for just a week

more red injuries for me (for the next pes, not for me literally!)

metsuri69

05-06-2012, 08:45

more red injuries for me (for the next pes, not for me literally!)

:tongue: This is true, also more player injuries during matches, and I mean long term injuries.

Wouldn't hurt if this injury rate was manageable by a slider in options for instance.

Skeezix

15-06-2012, 20:46

I was thinking that they could have ML like in past PES. A little bit of fake.
Like you need to create a team, its emblem, stadium, everything, start with the default players and in second division, and earn points everygame, which can be used to buy the players, kit sponsors, stadium parts, etc. Like the old Master Leagues but improved. Only Division One and Division 2. Mixed teams from dif. leagues, thats why it was called Master League, like a European Dream League. And you fight to be the best of them all, starting from the very bottom.

And leave the real thing for League Mode... I never play a league because it is very boring without transfers and other stuff that is lacking
So leave real money, Champions League, transfers, training and all that with the real teams and leagues, for League mode.

For me, that would be good, but is only my opinion :tongue:

Themailman

16-06-2012, 15:41

I would like it similar to Football Manager where you can watch the highlights of any game between any two teams at any time and have the highlights in a different style, like Match Of The Day with a normal camera view (with replays of each highlight) no music but with Commentary and crowd and background noises instead, and also have the ability to save any of these highlights and when you view the saved replay you have the ability to change the volume of the crowd and background, commentary and music. I would also like awards like Goal of the week, month, season and year with a video of all the candidates, this time with music (e.g http://www.mcfc.co.uk/citytv/Features/2012/May/Manchester-City-April-goals-of-the-month-2012 but with goals of the league instead of just 1 team )

Also me and my friend had an idea.
So basically you can host you're own online private master league/become a legend with real starting lineups not default master league lineups and you can be a player
which you create, a manager which you create or a scout which you create.

So basically as a player you do the same as you do on BAL but you can also play for a team which your friend is the manager of and the manager can play as the whole team (accept from you) or go in to coach mode and watch (with you playing as yourself) With a scout you can basically watch matches and look at players and if your friend hires you as a scout and just say you watch a match and after it has finished (Unless you leave the match) you saw a player who was good you can look at the player and select the option send to shortlist so then the manager (your friend) will receive a message saying about the player and he has the option
to say whether he wants to sign the player or not.

We got the idea because my friend was playing career mode on FIFA 12 and he asked me to find him some players on my career mode so I found him some good players and they turned out very good for him so now every time he wants to find a good player he asks me.

THEMAILMAN

DazNeary

23-06-2012, 20:49

For the master league I would like it to be simplified, on PES 2012 there was too many features I didn't use or care about. I'd prefer a master league/career mode designed similarly to FIFA's; it should just be pick a team, manage team, make transfers, play matches, none of this office cutscenes with my assistant telling me about my next game. Since I don't play online that much I NEED a master league that I can play for months without getting bored.

If PES had a master league mode similar to FIFA's career mode then I think that would be great. Also, don't have the training schedule, maybe have it where I can upgrade my training setup which then makes my players stamina last longer/they recover better after each match or something.

I don't think the creating a manager part is needed either, just pick a name for your manager, that's good enough for me, I don't care what he looks like.

That's just my opinion though.

abu97

23-06-2012, 22:05

Not a big deal to be improved for master league in PES 2013 so some of you may be left dissappointed.

Small improvements like reduced cut scenes are going to happen but no big changes like more divisions and changing clubs.

However, transfer negotiations will be more realistic and detailed and player interaction will be better with variety in communication

El Pocho

22-07-2012, 01:15

agree with thread starter on kits...we need options it get soooooo boring....

3rd Kits & 2nd GK Kits....Suuuucccchhhh aaaa muuuusssstttt!!!! If you buy a license use, it atm these little but lovaeable features are being wasted.....why?

Master League.... ability to LOAN PLAYERS and them not DISSAPEAR IN THE GAME not loanable available for you or aforementioned team. Ability to SWAP players like old days as part of deals to bring them down. and one final one ability to have a AFFILIATE CLUB where you can send players for example yearly with no objection from the other club.

Contract renewals at any time....yes!

Real moneys would be good but for example the Messi or Cavani should be 60-70 and 40-50 Million value atm lets not turn this to a anti football fest....

Swanee

26-08-2012, 00:29

I dunno why they just couldn't copy fifas career mode im a pes fanatic and I hate FIFA but the little things in fifas career mode are way better than the master league ie. Transfer negotiations,ability to loan players,ability to bid for more than 5 players, a realistic news feed with current in-game events that you read about not just the same headlines over and over again like Hazard- Boy Wonder!!
I know I said why not copy career mode up above but basically copy real life we all want a realistic game and that doesn't just mean the gameolay!! Personally I can't see too many big or notable changes for this year but 1 can always hope!