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|Championship Manager Season 01/02|
| FAQ/Strategy Guide |
| By dwarfman1990 (Nick Comber) |
| Version 1.03 |
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Updates
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Version 1.03:
============ - Changed all the the ASCII art

Version 1.02:
============ - Corrected some more spelling mistakes
- Changed ASCII art at the bottom
- Added ASCII art at the top


Version 1.01:
============ - Corrected some spelling mistakes
- Added a few more players
- Added ASCII art at the bottom
- Made some underlinings different so it is easier to read


Version 1.0:
=========== - Completed 'Miscellanous'
- Completed 'My Records'
- Completed 'Frequently Asked Questions'
- Completed 'Outro and Thanks'
- Made addition to 'Cheating'
- File size 39KB


Version 0.6:
=========== - Completed 'In-Game'
- Completed 'The Transfer Market'
- Completed 'Cheating'
- File size now over 30KB


Version 0.2:
=========== - Completed 'Introduction'
- Completed 'The Basics'
- 1/5 of 'In-Game' Completed



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CONTENTS
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1) Introduction

2) The Basics
a) Game Settings
b) Getting Started
c) Choosing Your Team - League Guide

3) In-Game
a) Controls
b) Your New Job
c) Player Attributes Explained
d) Staff Attributes Explained
e) Matchday

4) The Transfer Market
a) Finding Your Ideal Player
b) Making an Offer/Offering a Contract
c) Players Recommended by Me

5) Cheating
a) How to Cheat
b) Cheating Programs

6) Miscellanous
a) Keeping All of Your Staff Happy
b) My Favourite Tactics
c) How Not to Manage Your Team Well
d) Managing an International Team
e) Updates for CM

7) My Records
a) Roll of Honour
b) Longest Period at One Club

8) Frequently Asked Questions

9) Outro and Thanks


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INTRODUCTION
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Welcome to my very first FAQ! This is a complete FAQ/Stragety guide for
Championship Manager 01/02, so I hope that after reading this your CM
knowledge will be greatly broadened. To find what you want quickly in
this FAQ all you have to do is press Ctrl+F and then type in the title
from the contents list that you want to go to and press 'Find Next'.
I hope you enjoy this FAQ!


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THE BASICS
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Game Settings
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When you first install and run CM 01/02 you will automatically be taken
to the 'Game Settings' screen. This is where you can fine tune CM's
options to your every desire. Below is a list of what options do what:

Language: There are a total of ten languages in CM 01/02 to choose from
so people from all over the world can play in their native language.
The language choices are: English, Danish, Dutch, French, German,
Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Portuguese and Swedish.

Currency: Choose the unit of currency that is used in CM 01/02. These
are mostly the old European currencies but of course they have included
the important ones that are œ, $ and Yen.

Wages: Choose how CM will show the wages. They can be shown as weekly,
monthly or yearly. This is a good option as you can figure out how much
the wages are setting you back every year.

Screen Mode: CM can be played on either a Full Screen, which means the
game will take up your entire screen so you will not be able to use
your taskbar or minimize the game while playing. Or there is Windowed,
which allows you to be able to use the taskbar and use other programs
while still running CM. Users with slower computers should always use
the Full Screen mode (believe me, I used to have a slow computer!).

Background Changes: This selects whether tha game's background picture
will change for every time you go to a different page. Again, users
with slow computers should have this turned off.

Sound: Turn the sound on or off. The sound is pretty boring, just the
crowd cheering during a game. I have my TV on in the background instead
of sound. If you do use sound, you will have to have the commentary
speed set to 'Slow' or 'Very Slow' for it to be heard.

Database: This selects how many players will be in your game. You can
set it to minimum, normal or maximum. Minimum will only have players
from your selected leagues(s) and some other major players. Normal will
have players from youe selected league(s), major players and players
that are associated with the league(s) you have selected. Maximum will
have pretty much everyone. Again, users with slow computers should have
the minimum setting on.

Matches Stored: This allows you to select how many matches will be
stored in the game. It is reccomended to select the minimum option,
which is 5000. This equates to about 11 and a half seasons of the
English league. I don't know what happens after you exceed the limit of
matches stored, because I have never gto that far.

Auto-Save: This allows you to select whether you want CM to
automatically save your game after a certain amount of time. You can
tell it to automatically save every week, 2 weeks, month, 2 months, 3
months, 6 months or year of time passed in the game.

Save Compressed: In CM you can now compress your saved games when you
save them so it takes up less hard drive space, but obviously, since it
is compressing when it is saving, it will take a bit longer to save
your game. Just turn this option on to enable it.

Save Safely: This option simply carries out a check of your hard drive
every time you save your game to ensure that there is enough space to
save it, if you haven't got enough space, you will be told and you will
have to free up some space to be able to save. You should always have
this option turned on

Flashing Text: All this does is make the 'You Have News' icon flash
when it comes on. Again, users with slow computers should have this
turned off.

Background Matches: If this is set to 'normal' or 'on', you will be
able to view the current scores of other matches in your league or
competition. Only users with VERY slow computers should have this
turned off.

Print To: This selects whether the game will print to your printer, to
a text file or both.


Getting Started
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OK, now that you have sorted out your settings, you can finally start a
game! First you will be taken to the league selection screen, where you
can select what leagues you want and how many you want. Below is a
table which shows how many leagues you can run according to what
processor and memory you have:

Processor Memory Number of Leagues*
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All 16MB 1
P133-P200 32MB 2 (Max 3)
P200-P350 64MB 3 (Max 6)
IMAC 233 32MB 1
IMAC 300+ 64MB 4
P350-400 64MB 6 (Max 6)
G3/G4 128MB 16
P400+ 128MB 10 (Max 15)
P400+ 256MB+ All

*Background Leagues count as 1/2 Leagues


You should press 'Select' on the league(s) that you want to manage in.
But if you just want to follow what is going on in a league just select
'Background'. (See below for my league guide to help you choose).

Right, now you have selected your leagues everything will start to load
up. If you have a slow computer and have selected 1 league, it will
take about 10 minutes. With fast computers, it is a matter of seconds.
Mind you, if all leagues are selected, it will take ages to load on any
computer.

Now everything has loaded you can now select what team you would like
to manage (if you have selected more than one league, you will be asked
what league you want to start managing in first). To select a team,
simply click on the teams name and then click on 'Take Control' in the
top right hand corner.