Hopefully someone here can help with this (it may actually be way easier than I realise):
Is it possible to export a list of the UIDs of all the clubs (or a subsection of them) in the game?
Wow, you must have an intensive workflow to need a Max w/ 32GB!
But yeah, FM will run like butter with a lot more leagues than you're looking for and large DB.
I play on my M1 Air (16GB) with 13 nations and ~30ish divisions on a large DB and it's pretty nippy.
Entitled much?
SI Games are a business. They already told us last year that making FM Touch had become economically unviable.
signing up with Apple to make the game an exclusive to Apple Arcade made it economically viable again.
The options were Touch on Apple Arcade (which by the way also has a number of other excellent games) or no FM Touch at all. There was no secret option C.
It’s possible I’m misunderstanding, but from the way you’ve written it, it sounds like you’ve put together a team full of players based on their POTENTIAL, and then been surprised that their CURRENT performance in a top flight league is poor?
While it's possible (we have no idea what SI/Sega's contract with Apple says) it's by no means either certain or likely.
Look at NBA 2k as a comparable yearly "big name" title - the previous AA versions of that game are still available today.
Your son's wrong. Even after just one match, it's pretty clear to anyone paying attention that the match engine (arguably the most important part of the game) is significantly changed.