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    The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge

    in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments

    Posted · Edited by abirdc
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    Well I am late to the party but now I feel like I am ready for the Youth Academy Challenge. I am choosing Hong Kong for this and I chose a very special team for this challenge. 

    Club Introduction

    South China AA

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    Why special you ask? Well, look at their trophy counts below.

     

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    By far historically the best team in Hong Kong, they are facing some hard times in recent years as they decided to voluntarily self relegate themselves in 2017. Finally, in game they have been promoted to the top division and it is my duty to bring them back the glory days. 

    Forget it, I am blabbering too much honestly, look at the season preview. I will be lucky if I can last even 1 season. Even a team like Hong Kong Under 23, an impossible save told by many has way better odds than us. The club has decent facilities though, with a 40,000 seater stadium. 

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    First up, just secure survival in the first season. 

    Oh I should add, season update date for Hong Kong is on 31 August. Save on around 15 May to get new teams. 

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    [FM23] Canadian Megapatch (w/ proper 2024 CCL format)

    in Editors Hideaway Download Forum FM23

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    On 18/03/2023 at 02:15, yellowsweatygorilla said:

    Winter 2.0 Update:
    -New CanPL playoff format, game now starts in 2023 with FCE removed
    -Real fixtures for 2023 (though some may be moved due to V-Cup)
    -L1AB added, and changes to other L1C clubs

     

    http://yellowsweatygorilla.com/2022/11/11/canadian-megapatch-2023/

    Sorry but the website posted seems to be down. Can you or someone upload the latest update to another host site? 

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    The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge

    in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments

    Posted · Edited by abirdc

    For the past few years, I have been an avid follower of this challenge. However, I never tried this challenge out as to me, transfers is the most enjoyable part of the game. 

    But after FM 2023 came out, I really can not get myself to enjoy any save. Hence I finally felt the urge to try out the Youth Academy Challenge. At first, I tried out Indonesia, which I had to abandon due to some stupid bugs. I took a closer look at rest of the Asian nations, and finally selected Malaysia, the country with the worse youth rating out of playable nations. The team I chose is:

    Club Introduction

    Kinabalu Jaguar FC

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    Introducing Kinabalu Jaguar FC, a Malaysian Club based in Kota Kinabalu. The club is an infant, established only in 2021. In game, they have won the 3rd tier of Malaysia and got promoted into the 2nd tier. 

    The club is predicted to finish 9th out of 12 teams in the 2nd tier, although I should mention that the below 03 teams are 2nd team of 1st tier teams, and they are stronger than us. This is reflected in the board expectation, as they expect us to attempt to avoid relegation.

    Their supporter base is also small, with 130 season ticket holders in a 4,000 seater stadium.

    There is only 18 players in the whole club, with only 06 defenders. The facilities are atrocious and much work is needed to be done if we can move forward. However first thing is first, we need to secure survival in the first season.

    This is me.

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    The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge

    in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments

    Posted

    On 15/11/2022 at 08:52, glennuk said:

    So even though the bugs are there in Indonesia League Two, I think they may be more visual and annoying than game breaking.

    Basically:

    Contracts: Manager (myself) and player contracts seem to end on Dec 31st even though that is in the middle (2/3rds) of the way through the season. However my contract as manager ran out (the board would not offer another one), but I was not fired. I eventually asked and got a new contract in March, making me think although the contracts say Dec 31st is the expiry, in game the AI is seeing it as 31st June. Going to test more with player contracts to see how that seems, but I have just been renewing contracts early (as in renewing in March 2024 for those who expire in Dec 2024), at this stage (end of season 1) I don't want to let anyone go.
     

    Squad Registration: 

    Summer Transfer Window is: 1st July - 25th August

    Summer registration period seems to be: 17th February - 1st June

    Winter Registration period seems to be: 15th October - 24th October

    This seems to not make sense. You can sign players on the 1st July, but not register them until 15th October. My youth intake was 1st July, but they could not play for around the first 10 games of the season as they couldn't be registered.

     

    However despite these issues (and doing well with Unterhaching), I may make Indonesia my main youth save.

     

    Anyway, anyone else planning to start in Indonesia beware of the above.

    I started my youth save in Indonesia, with Badak Lampung F.C. However I only started noticing the bugs when I tried to renew my existing players' contracts. 

     

    The players I signed from youth intake could not be register till the 10th game of the season, which was annoying. The registration rules do not make sense at all. And now I see people reporting the most alarming thing, the contract renewal issue of the manager. 

     

    I feel I have to stop this save for now. These annoying things will not allow me to fully enjoy this long term save.

     

    Is there any chance SI will fix this bug before the January Transfer Update? 

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    [India] Data Issues

    in Database and Research

    Posted · Edited by abirdc
    Addition

    Saheed Sunkami Ramon, a Nigerian Fitness Coach working for MHDN FC has a weekly wage of £12,000. Surely that's a mistake. This makes the team unplayable for long-term as well, as mutually terminating his contract will eat up all the budget of the team.

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    [FM20] Canadian Megapatch

    in Editors Hideaway Download Forum FM20

    Posted

    So I faced a weird problem. I started with St. Albert Impact on Alberta league and won the league on 2019. As I was waiting for the 2020 season to start, I got a notification that Edmonton Scottish won the league. 

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    Their league  win was not recorded in Alberta Major Soccer League page. However, this league win was shown on the page of the manager of Edmonton Scottish, as shown below:

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    I got a notification that the league fixture was released. However there was nothing shown on schedule, or the highlights in the home page. 

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    [FM20] Canadian Megapatch

    in Editors Hideaway Download Forum FM20

    Posted

    Awesome work @yellowsweatygorilla. I have never played in Canada, despite trying out many obscure leagues over the year. Seeing your file has made me interested in trying this out. 

    But I am a bit confused after reading all these comments. If I want to use Uncle Sam's USA Expansion 3.8 DB File with yours, I just have to use your main file, leaving out your continental and voyageurs cup file. What will be the problem if I do this?

    Or I can use your continental file and voyageurs cup file, alongside all of Uncle Sam's file, but that will result in league dynamic reputation to stop working? 

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