FOOTSTAR

[Devlin]

Wat precies de voor/- en nadelen daar van zijn weet ik ook nog niet precies..

Basically when you are looking for a team, you have two options: selecting a human-controlled team or a server-controlled team (known as bot team). There are some really big differences you should know that we'll explain in the next paragraphs. To join a team, just go to the team details page and select the "Join the team" option on the right information box. To search for a team you can go to the Search >> Division page on the top menu and start looking for teams on top or lower divisions (your choice).

Now, as we told before, there are human-controlled teams and bot teams (server-controlled teams). You can easily identify a bot team: just go to the team's details page and look for the manager info (Positions section). If it says "unknown" then you're looking at a bot team. If not, you'll see the current manager's nickname: you're looking at a human-controlled team and you can know more about the manager by following the link on the nickname

About the differences between a human-controlled team and bot. Well, there are many: the first and most obvious is that by having a manager controlling a team you'll have an additional challenge to face rather than working with a non-communicative manager ?. By choosing a bot team you won't be able to discuss the terms of your contract and you must accept the terms offered by the server. With a human manager it will be precisely the opposite: there must be a negotiation between what you want and what the manager wants/can offer you.

Also another notable difference is that playing in a human-controlled team you'll be able to have not only your personal training, but also your team's training. This doesn't mean that you'll have two trainings at the same time (you'll only train what's defined on your individual training, but you'll train more if you're training the same as your team. But we'll give you more details about this on the Training section).

One disadvantage when you're playing in a human-controlled team is that you might be required to train fitness by your manager and therefore waste valuable opportunities to train your skills. Also, as you'll start with low skills you might be put on the bench until you have reasonable skills to play. On the other side, by playing on a bot you'll only have personal training but you'll always be selected to play (if there are less than 11 human players on the team). This means that you can train at 100% without having to train fitness if you don't want to (although you'll perform badly with low fitness).

You should also know that you can receive offers from manager controlled teams if you're on free transfer. In this case you'll be informed by FS-Mail if you receive any offer. You should then discuss the terms of the deal with the manager.

Another important thing you should know is that if you're on a bot team, you can leave the team whenever you want. You really don't have a long-term contract as if you were in a human-controlled team and you'll always get a €500 wage. A strategy could be to, at the beginning, opt to develop your skills and experience in a bot team and only then move to a human-controlled team, when you feel more confident. But you can also opt on training a little more by playing less at the beginning on a human-controlled team (and possibly having a higher wage).

A final note about foreign bot teams: you cannot join/play in bot teams of foreign countries. For example, if you're a Portuguese player you won't be able to join a Spanish bot team. The only exception is when the manager of a foreign human-controlled team is fired from the team. In that case, and if you have the option to remain on the team, you'll stay at the bot team.
You can however move to foreign human-controlled team.