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Hello, I'm 꽤돼.

When I first started playing FC Online, I came across more confusing terms than I'd expected.

In particular, I had no idea what “salary” meant, and I couldn't quite understand why the same player had different cards for each season.

Since I mostly played league matches (against bots) at first, I didn't give much thought to how I put my squad together.

I was happy just picking players I liked and enjoying the matches.

But after a friend put a team together for me, I gradually began to learn about systems I hadn't known existed.

Building Teams Before I Understood Salary

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When I first started playing FC Online, I thought high stats were all that made a player good.

I knew basic terms like BP and OVR, of course, but I paid no attention to salary.

I suppose that was because I mostly played league matches (against bots), so I rarely had to consider the salary cap when building a team.

Then a friend put a team together for me.

That was when I first came to understand what salary meant.

Simply put, salary in FC Online is a value assigned to each player. In modes with a salary cap, you have to build your squad within that limit.

Until then, I'd thought I could simply pick players with high stats. Now I realized I also needed to think about how to allocate salary across positions.

Looking back, it's a little surprising that I'd played so much FC Online without knowing about such a basic system.

Why Does the Same Player Have So Many Seasons?

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Player seasons were just as confusing to me as salary.

In FC Online, the same player can have cards from several different seasons. At first, I thought I could just choose the card with the highest stats, but once I started building teams, I found there was more to consider than I'd expected.

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I found the idea of a single-season team particularly confusing.

The name suggested you needed 11 players from the same season. But when I looked at other people's squads, some had 10 players from the same season and a goalkeeper from a different one.

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At first, I wondered what difference that made.

As it turned out, building a squad in FC Online meant considering not just player seasons, but also Team Color requirements, salary, and player stats.

Even with a single-season team built around players from a specific class, the lineup can vary depending on the requirements for the Team Color being applied.

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Knowing the definitions alone wasn't enough for me to understand how all of this worked.

That understanding came gradually, as I looked at other players' squads and built teams myself.

Fullbacks and Wingbacks: Similar Positions I Used to Mix Up

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Beyond squad-building terms, I also occasionally had to look up the difference between fullbacks and wingbacks.

To be honest, I'm not a huge football fan.

Still, I'd occasionally watched the World Cup and football streams, so I knew basic tactical terms like runs in behind, cutbacks, and build-up play.

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But I sometimes mixed up fullbacks and wingbacks, with their similar names and positions on the flanks.

As I understood it, the players on either side of a back four were fullbacks. Yet on streams or in the game, those players were sometimes called wingbacks.

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When I looked it up, I learned that fullbacks are usually the wide defenders in a back four, while wingbacks mainly play in a back-three system, taking on both defensive and attacking duties along the flanks.

The two terms are sometimes used interchangeably in Korea, though, so I could see why I'd found them confusing.

Here's a brief overview of the terms I found confusing while playing FC Online.

Term	Meaning
Salary	A cost value assigned to each player when building a squad
OVR (Overall)	A player's overall rating
Single-season team	A team built around players from a specific class
Team Color	An effect on stats applied when certain conditions are met, such as players having played for the same team
Fullback	A wide defender
Wingback	A wide player who contributes extensively to both defense and attack

Looking back, I don't think I'd have enjoyed FC Online for as long as I have if my friend hadn't explained salary to me.

Before that, I built teams with players I liked without giving it much thought. Once I understood systems like salary and Team Color, I gradually began to see why other people chose particular players.

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Even now, I still look things up when I'm unsure about something like player card seasons or positions.

Alongside football terminology, FC Online has plenty of terms for its own systems, so I can imagine newcomers finding some of them confusing.

Rather than trying to memorize every term at the start, I think it's fine to learn them one at a time as you play, just as I did.

That's all from 꽤돼.