What is wrong with form ?

[Yanichou]

I tried everything, but whatever I do my player's form is always mediocre.
I tried changing the way i train him, playing against bad players to pile up wins, the opposite ... Nothing works !

Can someone help me ?

[MylanEsteban]

I had a women prospect in my academy, low form, unable to improve. She asked me to leave, i took her back in academy one year later, top 10 ranked in less than 3 month

[Foxmeister (Skittles)]

Post update my players still cant get above the 2nd lowest form, I have a legend potential player who I've trained for 3 years now in her final juniors year and she still struggles to get to J5 finals let alone past the R16 in J4s. she has the stats of a low end WTL player but is sunk by continuous bad form even against the theoretical lowest players in the game

[Terminal Velocity]

This is a common issue in these simulations when it comes to morale and form. Happens in FM series too, when your players get sad they play even worse and lose to almost everyone.

I understand they want to make it simulation-like but usually the end result is nowhere near realistic, and in many cases there's a downward spiral side-effect which ruins plays for many ingame months.

They should tone it down so that bad form or low morale is just a tiny penalty in the performance of the player. I know it's not ideal but a downward spiral is neither.

[dustbiter]

Hire a good potential player who joins with worst form and three tourneys already registered, this causes a losing streak and morale and form to stay bottomed out. This kills the fun as you can see the player is doomed to go on a losing streak and you can't do anything about it.

Form boosting training seems too weak to help the player recover. Make it more significant at bringing up negative form towards neutral, if you are afraid that it's too easy for the player to hit positive form with just training.

[Elton]

There is clearly a bug with a player having a mediocre form regardless what you do. One of my players had a mediocre form the entire season. The other players behave as normal.

[Rebound]

Hello! Sorry for that. Two updates with balancing changes have been published since your message, we'd be interested to know if this has solved your problems.

[76561198009286158]

Hello i don't know if is still not good. But what i see that in the second season i cannot even win in a smaller tournament. I like the 2023 game but this year i don't haviing fun playing the game i think i will stop with this and go back to last years game

[Sparrow.tz]

The only real solution is to go in the save file and change it.
You can also put 100 in emotion/stress and the other but from all the test I've done it does nothing or not much.

The solution they want you to do is to play little tournaments but this is bs and it have low chance to work and will ruin more the rank of your player if they are in the top 20... I'm starting to question how bad you have to think it's a good solution or if they even test their game.

[76561199738123983]

Hello! In the latest patch two months ago, the form system has been rebalalanced.
Players gain globally more form points (think the difficulty level like a multiplier)
Players, now, gain form even if they lose against better opponents
Players gain less form round after round (to avoid cumulative effect)
Players gain more form through the trainings
The effective approach on training is to chose precisely your training sessions to target specific attributes with low form bonuses and priorityze trainings sessions which boost form!
This is something we will try to automatize in the future when you chose a program to boost form (we agree the actual automatization is not working very well).

Finally, note that rest slots impose a slight form penalty. It’s important to strike the right balance between maintaining your player’s physical condition and optimizing form. Don’t hesitate to use healing slots to improve physical condition without negatively affecting form.

Happy to discuss further here or on Discord, you can make a bug report, like that I can test with your save file and maybe better understand your issue.