How to play Sensible Soccer in the Super League?

capehorn · Groupie in Training Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Age: 29 Posts: 96

When you say SWOS, which version do you mean? Does SWOS 96/97 count?

I agree later versions of the game play better. My latest suggestion was 96/97 and the top seven teams in the PL that year. I had thought that that was the idea we were going with but re-reading Graham's post it seems to be saying that we would be playing SWOS.

So I am willing to agree that 96/97 would be a better version to play and would like to put forward that suggestion again.

LinesMachine · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:19 pm Post subject:

capehorn · Groupie in Training Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Age: 29 Posts: 96

I have no problem with that, as long as the opponents are the same for everyone. I think on EAB I said it was the same as letting people pick their own characters when we played Chaos Engine.

LinesMachine · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 3:16 pm Post subject:

...yeh I just read your bits on the EAB thread and totally agree. We've been allowed to make charachter choices before where the stats and playing styles are different.

Ok cool. Well lets just hope SWOS eventually gets voted in. I've got a feeling it would be a massively competitive round!

Graham Humphrey · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:10 pm Post subject:

I did actually mean the 96/97 version is the one we'd play - sorry if I didn't make it clear before.
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capehorn · Groupie in Training Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Age: 29 Posts: 96

Ok, so 96/97 is settled.

Another question is - do we have all players equal on or off? That makes a big difference.

LinesMachine · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 7:25 pm Post subject:

Graham Humphrey · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:57 pm Post subject:

I thought it only affected two-player games, i.e. it's only to even out games where both teams are human-controlled.

Could be wrong in which case I vote off too.
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capehorn · Groupie in Training Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Age: 29 Posts: 96

That's a shame because if we voted on then the matter of which teams we pick would be irrelevent!

But yes I vote off as well.

LinesMachine · Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 7:43 am Post subject:

Jon Hare · Newcomer Joined: 13 Feb 2010 Posts: 18

I'm asking myself if anyone ever heard of our great site sensiblesoccer.de . There we have national and international competitions, we often meet for playing offline in different countries. We're playing SWOS 96/97, meet on a server, and even play some small leagues with 4 players logged in at the same time.

We have a world ranking for different SWOS versions like 96/96, Xbox SWOS (on offline tounreys only), Classic Sensible Soccer and even SEGA Sensi Very Happy

It's a huge adminstration to do to manage more than 10,000 members (around 150-200 are active players) and all the leagues.

Feel free to ask questions if you have any. It's definitely worth a visit.

Yours
Jon

LinesMachine · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 11:35 am Post subject:

Looks like Sensi is proving a popular vote.

Can I just take the opportunity to ask for clarification over how it will be played?

As I understand it:
Version will be 96/97
League competition
7 Premier League Teams
You get to pick the 8th (your team)
The 7 opposition PL teams will be the top 7 finishing of 1996/1997 actual league?

Is that correct?

Graham Humphrey · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 9:09 pm Post subject:

Yep!
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LinesMachine · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 12:29 pm Post subject:

Sensible World of Soccer 96-97 (1996)(Renegade)[cr HF](Disk 1 of 2)[a2]_001 by Linesmachine, on Flickr

Just a quick blast to see how things stack up with the current Sensible Soccer structure for the next round.

I played as Blackburn Rovers and won 6 and lost 1. The game I lost was against Aston Villa, which is odd. Normally I lose against Man Utd in this set up.

As it stands it will definitely go down to goal difference. Even I am going to eventually have a flawless 7 games without loss.

As for players choice of teams; Blackburn will prove popular as they have good strong skills throughout the entire team, they are probably the highest skill level outside of the top 7. However, there is no one on 5 star level so no star players essentially. If you go with, say, Southampton then Le Tissier can prove a huge asset up front on his own. He really is that good.

Anyway, looking forward to playing for real now.