What do you most want to see in New Star Soccer 5? *Official Thread*

[siread]

I will start working on NSS5 in the not too distant future (before the end the year) and I would love to know what features or improvements are most important to players of NSS4. Now, I am happy for you to list as many requests as you like but please put your TOP 3 feature requests at the top of your list, preferably in bold.

Thanks.

Ideas already suggested:

Multiplayer mode

More interaction with the managers, e.g. ask the manager to play a certain player, to buy a certain player with the relationship influentiating the rate of sucess

More interaction with teammates, e.g. you should become friends after a while and if you move perhaps it'd be possible to persuade them to join you

Difficulties

Ability to become a manager when you retire

Ability to play as your son as you retire

Larger variety of celebrations

Press conferences

Stands not always full

Using the items you buy, e.g. drive your car ocasionally

The ability to play some mini-games during daily training

Get somebody to mentor you / mentor somebody

Cutscenes

Automatic replays from various angles (e.g. PES)

Multiple stadiums

Unlockables

Revamped quick match screen with a larger variety of settings, like stadiums and weather (e.g. FIFA)

Classical / important / memorable matches to play as challenges (e.g. Liverpool 3-3 AC Milan)

Challenges e.g. 2 goals in 5 minutes

Lottery

More casino games

Bad referee calls

Lower teams like U18 or reserves or B teams that are linked properly

Dives

More complete newspaper along with more info on rumours or such

Revamped player AI

More 'destructive' ways e.g. make alcohol turn you into an alcoholic or make you drink automatically if you usually drink manually (in NSS4 ofc ), thus leaving you sometimes in a state where you can't even open the room blinds let alone train

Make valuable / important / legendary players (legendary in relation to the club he plays in of course!) have a say on the team's management, perhaps on the purchases that are made e.g. if your favourite team is Arsenal and Fàbregas dislikes you you may not be able to get to Arsenal (of course the manager's personality has a say here too, personally I can't see Wenger letting Fàbregas have a say on the team's management despite he being a legend for the Gooners)

More competitions

More player costumization e.g. hair styles (ahem, that's why we filled that db field )

Instead of deciding your stats on your own, have some sort of questionnaire at the start to automatically give you stats based on your real life personality

Advantage rule

More stoppage time

Difficulty time settings

More awards

Your wife / girlfriend and sons / daughters having names

2D engine - confirmed

Starting off as a kid who goes to high school and then get scouted

Club rivalries

Friendlies

Ability to be a referee or a chairman

More information on the clubs before the match e.g. results of previous matches between both clubs

Block tackles using the system present in NSS3 i.e. press the lob key and you'll chase the player who has the ball and automatically try a block tackle

Combos between certain keys to make special moves / shots

UEFA coefficients

FIFA rankings

Option to disable transfer mode, thus letting all players not age and keep their stats the same whereas your own stats still age naturally

Different personalities / capabilities / moves / styles for your own player and for the other players e.g. Mascherano should be able to get 150 in Stamina whereas other people would still be limited to 100, Walcott getting like 175 pace and us mere mortals being restricted to 100

More of a game-like feel - full interactive clicking to buy and place things around so that the game doesn't become too menu based.

Gifting your family, friends and gf instead of just giving them a share of your paycheck

Giving purchased things some purpose e.g. having a car reduces the time it takes you to go somewhere

Overall atribute (PES-like)

Better autoshot - remove the directional arrows if autoshot/autopass is on and automatically shoot and pass like in PES or FIFA

Have pace and acceleration actually work e.g. Walcott will always outrun everybody else, or almost everybody else

More chaotic clearances (but not like Bendtner's ) - Instead of always properly clearing the ball upfield when there's a lot of pressure going on, give possession away or put it out for a corner or throw-in.

Have real-life weather e.g. if it's raining in London IRL while you're playing at the Emirates, then make it rain in-game

Only get trials from lower-league clubs and from your own country only

Give your opinion on your club's latest signing

Go to new season button

Double nationality or request citizenship if you've been in a country for x years

Have your player learn a certain language, and if he doesn't, he won't be able to communicate so well with his teammates

Be stripped of your captaincy if you do something bad (*cough*Terry*cough*)

Accessories and wristbands and so forth

Decimal match ratings

Have a player be an expert in this but definitely not in that e.g. Carlos Martins from Benfica is an ace when it comes to take freekicks and shooting from far out but his stamina is 0, really, it's 0

If you were able to get to a certain level then you should be able to play as a certain player e.g. you get to Messi's status, you can play as Pelé

One-button control like in SWS

Bigger variety of minigames

Simpler data format like in PES' Master League

Better atmosphere e.g. vuvuzelas, your supporters singing more and more and more as you play better

Time wasting e.g. you're 1 up against Arsenal and you're Preston North End, take your time when taking a goal kick

Text-based mode like in NSS1/2, even if it's an option

Bubblehead players

edit CM: try not to suggest ideas that have already been suggested or i will poke you with a stick

[Conway1992]

1.Multiplayer Mode is a must,on the same computer I mean

2.More interaction with managers e.g ask manager to play a certain player,to not play a certain player,ask him to buy a certain player,all down to your relationship with him.

3.More interaction with teammates,they should become friends as the game moves on,and if you move you should be able to persuade them to join you.

4.More difficulties

5.Ability to become a manager when you retire,which should have few management features

6.Ability to play as your son when you retire to continue

7.More celebrations when you score like in FIFA(maybe button combinations should do different ones)

[Cookie Monster]

1 - Online mode

2 - Press conferences with a massive variety of sentences and all, from criticizing the team to kissing your manager's ***

3 - Manager or Player/Manager mode

4 - Stands not always full (i'm a broken record yes)

5 - The ability of actually doing something with the stuff you buy (hmm this may be close to the top 3 actually...)

6 - Agree with Conway, the ability to play as your son would be nice too

7 - Difficulties

8 - More interaction with the manager and vice-versa: for example be able to tell him that he should move this player forward, tell this one to get back on form, recommend a certain staff member from your previous club for example

9 - The ability to play a few training mini-games in actual team training, not like individual training like we have now

10 - Get a player to be your mentor

11 - Be able to mentor a young player

12 - Instead of getting a yellow card just like that after a tackle, can we have the ref calling us over and actually giving us the card?

13 - Automatic replays after a goal, from various angles

14 - Support for multiple stadiums

15 - Unlockables

16 - Revamped quick match setting screen with more settings

17 - Classical matches, e.g. Liverpool v AC Milan CL final

18 - Challenges like score 2 goals in 5 minutes etc

19 - Lottery

20 - More casino games

21 - Bad ref calls

22 - Reserve teams, B teams and U18/U21/U23 teams (start off in the U18 and build your way up)

23 - Dives!

24 - More complete newspapers. Instead of having only news about us or our team, news about everything that's going on around the world, especially transfers.

[statto]

- More of a feeling of big club/small club through stadiums. Increased attention to detail when you move or change clubs or countries (modular stadiums? We could do something similar to NSS3 but with 3D "tiles" instead of 2D tiles). Perhaps nation-specific choices or themes.

- Rework of the interaction. Make the relationship sliders more meaningful in the relationships aspect of the game. Perhaps befriending players on the team or disliking players on the team. If you dislike a player who dislikes you, and he's not a "professional" (high ego, w/e) he could be less likely to pass to you during a game.

- Revamped player AI in-game


- Non-game/indoor game team training. For instance, keep-away drills, passing drills, give-and-go drills... possibilities are endless here.

- More destructive choices. Alcohol will boost your confidence and your friends, but you should make it fairly easy to become an alcoholic (though this is a tough line to cross). Hangovers would be a good addition too, drink too much and you can't even open your blinds the next day much less train.

- More of a 'tabloid' aspect to players who achieve a lot

- Different difficulty levels. Easy NSS4 is too hard. Easy NSS4 should be a superstar in 2 to 3 years. Impossible NSS4 and your career should peak in or around the Championship or League One.

When you can, keep it simple.

[lulospawn]

NSS5? Really? I mean... Shouldn't NSS4 reach its peak first? Wouldn't NSS5 take all the attention that updates for NSS4 deserve?

Anyways...

There's only one thing I'd really really like to see in NSS5, but I'm not sure it's possible to achieve. The ability to change your football surroundings. That is, if you play in a certain team and start winning lots of games and, well, taking it to higher levels, making it win competitions of all sorts, the team should notably improve (moneywise, better players, bigger stadium, more attention, etc), and the player should receive the correspondent recognition. Like, when Napoli acquired Maradona, he lifted the team to a whole new level and he got a say in future purchases. In the same way, if a team spends big money on you and you play badly or rest too much, you can become the known cause of the team's decline.

Also, as Conway suggested, it would be awesome to have a separate relationship with each player. It sounds crazy in terms of design, but it could be a 0 - 10 visible value assigned to each player. That would give place to a lot of interesting scenarios.

For instance: Your selected desired transfer is Man City, but for some reason Robinho hates you. Chances are you won't receive any offer, being Robinho the most expensive player of the team (having something of a say). Maybe the manager's ego will play a part it in, too.


One thing is for certain... NSS needs stuff like this, making the game more complex and making it more of a footballer career sim than a football sim. Specially since career mode is a feature mainstream football games are feature more and more (horribly at this point, but you never know what's going to happen in a future release).

EDIT: I just read Cookie's input and I remembered something really important that I wanted every since NSS3... Stuff you buy should be more useful in the game. Specially means of transportation vs. free time/energy replenish.

EDIT: And being able to mentor a player of your team (allowing him to easily build up the skills you excel at) and having a mentor or a player you idolize should be awesome. Maybe when starting a new game you could be prompted about your fav player in a given list of players, each of which will positively affect the growth rate of certain skills (Okocha affecting your passing, flair and control, for instance, while Di Stefano should affect your pace, dribbling and shooting, etc)

[rahel]

1 - Having the main South American championship (Libertadores, South American, South American Recopa) and the world also as Club World Cup.

2 - Aiming to further customize your player, hair, accessories etc ...

3 - And you can also customize Stages ...

[Eagle]

-Being a manager after retire.
-Much options about home and cars (like in NSS3)
-Advanced private life-young teams, reserve leagues
-Different stadiums.
-Much transfer options.
-Sometimes club shouldn't give permission to transfer.
-Ceromonies before and after match.

-Chants
-Much realistic transfers.
-Protesting the referee and seeing card
-Arguments with opposite players
-More animations after goal (as I now there is 4 animations in NSS 4)



-Waiting 9 months for child

[Soha]

1. Multiplayer career option on 1 pc
2. Possibility of making more decisions on the pitch- from possibility of reacting on fouls, dives, referee decisions, everything what can happen on the pitch. Let's say we click a button and we have menu from which we choose option by clicking a button like in goal celebrations.
3. Dribbling system- more improved and maybe other than in other football games (e.g. hold dribbling button and add to it another button to perform move we want to do)
4. More advanced relationships with people in game- making friends and enemies on the pitch and out of it- playing the ball beetween someone's legs, hard tackle, making with defenders what we can, etc etc
5. More interaction with non-football site of world. i don't mean 'sims' but more advanced media (the most), family etc site of game.
6. Diving
7. Player's mistakes (better=less) like ball bouncing on 5 meters (low technique and some 'luck' to got that)
8. No physical skills improving from 0. Let's get points or maybe quiz to get our physical starts. let's say that we can imrpove/change just 10 points, not 100 (we start with 90 pace, 70 strength, but later we can change that on 95 and 75 etc)
9. Talents (+ and -) which can be learned- long throws, special tricks, psychical improvements which allow our player to score where we want in important penalty shotouts, to use 100% of skills in important matches.
10. Shots like in pes- just hold direction button without that arrow we have now- arrow is good for passing, but shoting could be more depending on skills and randomness
11. Possibility of feeling derby and most important games, they should be different from other games- interviews, all that fire before and during the games.
12. 'Playing on position' used in rating system cause as DC i can play like MC and that's great... should be calculated how many % of time i was as i shoud and how much i played out of position.
13. Player should be choosed by their skills and physical attributes during corners and free kicks, even when setting wall, cause now center defenders who has 190+ are on half when funny 165 player is coming on corners...
14. Captaincy- as captain we have some influence on managers' and chairman's decisions like transfers, changing manager, etc or possibility of shouting/talking to players on and out of the pitch
15. Goalkeepers shouting.
16. More tactical AI (mostly in defence) and some tactical moves like side defenders going up by channel created by midfielder or or going around them by line, cros-changes beetween attackers, changing sides by wingers, when DC go up, DMC/MC stay back etc.
17. Improved tackling- normal could be like in pes/fifa that we knock the ball away from player or just take like now in nss4 and slides more like in pes where it's intuitial i think. for now playing as defensive player isn't that fun as it could be
18. Set pieces drawings before match which shows who where should go on corners for example (defensive and attacking)- by this each player is response for his area and depending from where danger or score was this player takes most responsibility for that.
19. Talk with manager or even chairman about more topics.
20. Setting the wall when playing as GK.
21. Possibility to choose we want to catch or punch the ball
22. Signals showed by corners taker- left hand up, right hand up, both hands up.
highlighted some important for me too

i will edit this post later surely

[CXXVII_TFC]

Here's an idea, what about bad referee calls, when playing in lower leagues... and ability to dive to attract a foul, but with chance of simulation being called...

Also here are some big big things for me
- Give advantage when there is a foul, instead of immediate whistle
- Games should not end right on 90 if there is a team attacking
- There should be stoppage time, and not just this 1 min added time once every ten games or so


Also, would be interesting if you could become a ref after your playing games...

[dark_rocker]

multiplayer mode...only

[Domo]

1) Yeah multiplayer mode is cool

2) Manager mode

3) Cool conway. Play with your son

I can't still understand how can we play this game on online. I guess u mean i am a team u too if is it like that cool but as a just player. It's impossible

[west_ham_ 4_life]

1) Online Mode
2) I think its in Football manager 08, but the ability to suggest possible transfers to your manager of teammates from former clubs.
3) Multiplayer
4) Different difficulty and time settings.

[maivia87]

1) A multiplayer mode
2) The possibility to build your own house
3) Press conference
4) A Manager mode

[Eagle]

women's league (for Domo)

[dark_rocker]

women's league (for Domo)

I agree possibly