Description of issue
Ever since the winter update the areas of job history, season reviews and spurious timeline entries have been killing the immersion of the game.
Here's a concise history of where I've gone so far and when things started falling apart:
- Started unemployed and got a job at Gottne IF. Waited until *after* the season review then joined...
- Umea FC, where I stayed for a season, and again waited until *after* the season review then joined...
- Malmo FF where I stayed for a season, but resigned 2 games *before* the season review to take up an offer from...
- Stad de Reims, where I finished the season in Ligue 1 (2026)
So here are the issues I"ve observed after the end of the season with Stad de Reims:
- Job History. My job history hasn't been updated since leaving Malmo. Not a sniff of any time at Reims. Current game date is June 2026. Screenshot attached
- Season Review Presentations. Didn't get a season review presentation at Reims. Got an email in my inbox but no link to the presentation that usually appears (bottom right corner). In my experience, if this happens once, it will continue to happen for the duration of the save no matter how many seasons I play. Screenshot of inbox entry attached
- Manager Timeline. I achieved 5th place in Ligue 1 with Reims which is pretty respectable but the manager timeline had two confusing entries - "Where's the Goal?" and "Pointless" which seem somewhat derisory but our league finish was anything but. These entries make no sense whatsoever.
Interestingly enough, the graphical job history at the bottom of the timeline seems to reflect things correctly:
Analysis / Experimentation
From what I've observed over a couple of different saves is this aberrant behaviour seems to be triggered by moving clubs *before* a season review is/was presented for your last club.
In an effort to confirm this, I took my earlier save at Malmo FF, waited for the season review presentation to show, then resigned and moved on to Stuttgart where I simmed the remainder of the Bundesliga season (with the editor so I couldn't get sacked) to the penultimate day before the final playoff - lo and behold I was presented with a season review presentation and my job history was also shown correctly.
Further Information
There were no custom databases loaded for this save and it used the latest db (2330 ?)
These issues, minor as they may be are killing the immersion factor of the game for me, particularly when you consider the amount of time that goes into a longer save.
As things stand it does not feel 'safe' to move to another club in fear of the above issues irrevocably spilling out, and I'm tempted to down tools and walk away.
Do you not have automated CI checks for simple game mechanics such as club transitions? Regression tests?
I'm a contract software tester with over 30 years of experience - my rates are reasonable. #justsayin :-)
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