Getting started with CM-Online

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This page should be a good start for a new manager in CM-Online.

Contents 1 Basics 2 Tips and hints for beginners

Basics

This page you will see every time you log into the game. Here you can see what needs to be done today and also what needs to be done tomorrow. Let us continue our adventure!

Tip-of-the-day: Take your time to look through todays to-do list. This will keep you updated on whats happening with your team.

This is your team. Take your time to get to know your players. This will help you when we move on to the next step. Onwards and forward!

Tip-of-the-day: If you click on a players name you will get more information about them.

Here is where you set your tactics and gamestyle for the next games. Take your time and make sure you understand how it works.

Tip-of-the-day: Take your time to read through “How to use the Tactics”

Here you will set how you wish to train your players and you can even create your own trainingschedules and that way you can controll how and what your players are training. It if good for the players to train but dont train them too hard because they might get injured or to tired to perform during a match.

Tip-of-the-day: When you feel like you know how it works try the advanced training.

This is where you get all your messages in the game. You will find messages from your scout, your players, the board and from other managers. To communicate with other managers and to get to know them is important since that will increase your chances to buy players from them and its always nice to get to know other managers.

Tip-of-the-day: When the envelope if flashing with a number that means you have new mail.

I think you are ready to take on the big guns.

We wish you the best of luck with the game and have fun!

Tips and hints for beginners

1. Study your squad to get to know your team. The most important value for your players is their Judgement. Divide players up in First Team and Reserves so you have a better view on your potential starting eleven.
2. Setup the tactics for the next game. This step will also make it more obvious where you need to strenghten your team and what players that you might want to trade away. You can learn more about the details of tactics by studying Tactics guide, but in this early stage you might just skip that and setup whatever tactics and formation you think would fit your team based on your football knowledge, gut feeling and the players value in judgement.
3. Check the Assistants Report to see what the potential of your players are.
4. Set up a more intense training schedule. Your players only need about 1-3 rest periods per day, the rest of the slots you can fill with different training activites. A recommendation is to create different schedules for your Goalkeepers, Defenders, Midfielders and Attackers.
5. Adjust your ticket price upwards if your stadium is full at your matches. Adjust it upwards in small steps until you see that the stadium is not full at every single game. That should be the optimum ticket price level.
6. Check the players available for loan on the Loan list, especially if you are managing a team from the lower divisions. This is a cheap way to strenghten your team.
7. Sign players on Free Transfer. This is especially important if you are managing a team from the lower divisions since players with decent values in Judgement rarely is available on the Free Transfer list.
8. Check the player game rating values that they receive for each game played (scale 0-10), this value gives you a good indication of how well the player performed in that game.
9. Transferlist players that you do not feel have a future in your squad. Selling players will lower your salary expenses and give you room to strenghten your team with other players. Players with low values Judgement will be harder to sell, at least for a good price. But if you have players with low judgement that you have no use for and your Assistant Report indicates that the player has no potential, list them for a cheap price anyway. Computer managed teams from the lower divisions might spot them and buy them from you, that at least gives you some money for them.
10. Check the transferlist for players to sign that will strenghten your team. It is easier to find players on the transferlist if you are a lower division team looking for players with judgement up to rating Good. If you are looking for even better players you might need to start scouting the market outside the transferlist.
11. Search for non-transferlisted players to sign. You will have a better chance of signing players from teams that are not managed by a real-life person, so called computer managed teams, or when trying to buy players that does not make it to the starting eleven in other managers' squads.
12. Play a few matches and learn the details of the tactics. By now it could be good to start studying the Tactics guide in detail and set up a strategy for your team. The tactics you are looking to utilize will also be important when setting your strategy and goals for player trades.