Sure, but mathematically it's awful. For example, on Fifa 12 I got tilted and sold my entire team, worth about 200k, and spent all of it on packs in an attempt to bink something. My return was about 30k in stuff, and that was probably above expected. A 7500 coin pack is going to yeald an average of about 2.5/3k worth of stuff.

I'm not judging dude, I just hate packs with a passion I'd have so many coins...

i made 2mil profit in coins last year, i know that gold packs are -ev(a lot less -ev than last year tho)

I've had 2 packs, got like 40k worth of stuff because i binked a cech in the one you get for doing the manager tasks at the start.

benny that team is sick why is everyone using 3412? i may try 4411 or 451 anyone had any luck with that formation?

H2H i played with 451 for a long while, recently changed to 4411 to get cazorla closer to goal and make me less vulnerable to counters

Teach me?

price fixing a certain player(silver/bronze work best due to lower supply) while buying him on auction on the cheap for supply is probably the easiest way

lol. I figured I'd receive this type of response. Funny though, wp.

Must take a long time?

Can you grind your online fut while offline too or do you play each exclusively as complete different teams?

thanks it's nice to be able to pace abuse now haha... i took 3412 as the trio of Eto'o Welliton and Doumbia were too much to turn down when i searched for fast players and they fit best in a 3 up front. Then needed to get good linkage in the other areas so that formation was a good choice to link the midfield to defence.

fwiw just realised i've got 4 teams: Porto, sick Serie A, pace abuse and a bronze, just like cashy without spending any $ or getting any packs. sickos!

nope

How do you defend vs the chipped/lobbed through ball?

So many times I'll be on the push, and my opponent gets it and just lobs it straight down the field and my defenders either don't react quickly enough, or react and run the wrong direction. I usually run a 4-1-2-1-2 or something with 4 in the back and a CDM. I've tried setting to Defensive and High Pressure because I read that worked but they still get burned over and over.

On the other side, how do you make that pass in a way that your striker will outplay their defenders? I've tried to copy it some but it seems way too hit or miss when my opponents can do it to me at will.

If you look back a few days ago, I explained how I went from using 4 in the back to 3 CB and 1 CDM in the 3-4-3 diamond formation.

It helps a lot with lob passing dickweeds

Yeah, I read that, thanks. It will be quite expensive/annoying to convert my ult team to a 3 in the back formation though :-/. I suppose I will slowly get to work on that.

I guess I was hoping for some in game strategies.

edit: decided to put together a silver 3-5-2 team. Quick shopping shows some silver players are stupid expensive, wtf, people pay 5k+ for silver rares?

Seriously ea, why?

Go 2 up in fut, guy scores 2 and makes me watch his Shi-te goals on replay.. I score 3 more n punish him with keep ball, starts whining at me .. awesome to punish him 8-2 up in 76th min and apparently I disconnect .. its very sad

diaby is a don hope he stay injury free for arsenal in coming months def get an IF version pitty he's always injured rate him highly as a player irl!

PATCH

This will be our first official update of FIFA 13, and will address the game issues that have had the biggest impact on our fans:
Connection stability in Online Seasons when finding an opponent in the Arena, and at kick-off.
Career Mode freeze while starting a new career with free agents.
Career Mode hangs when using Game Face.
Stability in Career Mode when players retire or are being bought back from loan.
Users will no longer be able to lower difficulty settings in a FUT Seasons match.
Napoli of Serie A will now have fully authentic kits and crests in FIFA and FIFA Ultimate Team.
Legacy defending and passing assistance options removed in Pro Clubs.
Freeze in Pro Clubs Results screen.
Matchmaking settings in Pro Clubs (with "ANY" and "Match Keeper") will provide the desired results.
Changes made in National Squad not properly reflected in Manager Mode screen.

FUT also down wonder if anyone can pick some bargains up!

I woke up at 3:30 and saw the notice of maintenance scheduled for 4:00 and spent the next 30 mins bidding for players! Be interesting to see who I get

i dont think there is maintenance tonight

earlier on twitter they said it was delayed until tomorrow night

opened 42 gold premium packs last night - theoretically this should be worth 42 * 7500 = 315000 coins.

i was expecting to hit about 200k or so as the packs are meant to be -EV but i can report that i hit the following

Benezema - 83
Mata - 44
Vidal - 10
Agger - 6
Feillanu - 8.3
Lichensteiner - 7.2
Welliton -11
Ba - 5.5
Jose Enrique - 6.5
Other Shinys -32
Decent Kuts -1.5
Squad Fitness - 5
Position Mods -6
Free Coins - 6.5
Stadiums -5.3
Formation mods - 17.8
Shiny Contracts - 25
normal contacts - 20
standard gold players 36
Rest -6

Total = 346330 aka 31330 profit on actual pack cost

Where do you get notice of maintenance?

Facebook as I 'like' the FUT webapp

Anyone used Schweinsteiger on UT? Any good?