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Hi Erik, Your work is amazing, thank you very much for sharing all of these tournaments, they add so much to the game. There is an annual pre-season friendly in Scotland between rivals Greenock Morton and St. Mirren. It is known as the Communities Cup. In real life it was actually played today. They play it as the sides are often not in the same division but are rivals. Would there be any chance you could create it for FM? The venue is usually Cappielow (Morton's ground) but can switch between the two. Totally understand if not possible. Thanks

Hi @bluestillidie00, any luck with the SPL? I know it is probably miles from the top of the list! Thanks either way.

This is brilliant work, thanks. Does anyone know if applying promotion/relegation fixes for the senior levels will throw this out of sync? I know there are files that take care of real life promotions and relegations in the top six levels. Thanks

Skin is OPZ, think it is the Blackout one that comes in the pack. Facepack is also OPZ, but I also have the Action Style from sortitoutsi and not sure if all are in OPZ or some are from OPZ and some from Action Style. The adboards only show as numbers as I am working on a personal update to other packs that are out there but can't get time, so it just defaults to number boards I use to figure out what will show where.

Craig Samson is the GK Coach at Aberdeen. However, first game of season after 23.4, playing as Celtic at home to Aberdeen and Samson is selected by Aberdeen to play Right Back. I understand he may be registered as a player/coach, but this would be as a GK. His profile shows GK/RB. EDIT - Ignore, caused by an update file changing him to player/non-player and the database not then populating any position, which left the game to do so of its own accord.

Robbles said on his discord today that he is just back from a holiday, so I would imagine he will get things out within the next week or so. If you are desperate to start a save with JLeague, the league file by wizard on steam works, and you can use the player data file from here and load it in the editor, then remove duplicates (people have shared some of them here, add Kagawa, reactivate Lincoln etc.). If you have the facepack, you can then alter the IDs via the Command prompt to match the updated data file. Unfortunately, I only have a two week window to get my long term save going due to work commitments, and I used this player data file (removed duplicates in editor first), wizard's league file and fixed the facepack, all working well. Robbles is by far the best, but to save on post after post asking when the update is coming out, there are workarounds like the above to get anyone started who doesn't have time on their side.

@zangelmi Thank you for this and for your pre-season pack. They are brilliant. I have this loaded, and it works in the sense that the leagues are playable etc. I know the national team only play friendlies, but in my UEFA list, they show as 'British North Borneo', as if the nation name has not changed. Is it just a case of me loading the file in the editor and changing the nation name? EDIT - I had another question about the logo, but it was the @2x version I forgot to update. Just the nation name I can't get to work. EDIT 2 - Don't worry, ended up making a new fmf file just to change the nation name, as another of my files must have been working to overwrite what your file does. All sorted. Thanks

Hi @DaveTheEditor this is unreal, every year I am in awe of how you pull this together. For academies, I like to send scouts to the nations where they have the academy setup you create as part of long, long term save. Can I check I haven't missed any that may exist within your files? I can see: Africa Algeria Angola Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Central African Republic Ivory Coast Egypt Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Liberia Mali Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Sierra Leone Tanzania The Gambia Republic of Congo Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Asia Qatar Lebanon Thanks for any help if I have missed any from my list.

I know this great file is for a 32 team World Cup, but does anyone know of a file that reflects the newly confirmed 48 team format for 2026 and beyond?

@vannishtelroy There are two really good lower leagues, one by Mozza and one by Jreid. Jreids is up to date and includes the development (youth) leagues too. Not sure if Mozza's is up to date yet.

I think the JLeague transfer window only closed on 31st March, so it makes sense to presume the guys who manage the database are updating it all and removing duplicates. Most are because the players have left Japan, and logically, the end of the window is the best time to release a new version. We are only a few days beyond the window having closed.

This is amazing, thank you. With Sky Sports holding the rights to the Scottish Premiership too, is there an easy fix to just replace the league logo? Not sure much else would be different other than logos? No problem if not, jus thought it might be close enough to get an easy additional league in there. Thanks

Does anyone have versions verified for the lastest patch, or will these ones work anyway? Thanks

Mitchell Robertson is 17 and plays for Celtic B in real life. He is also listed as part of the Champions League squad with UEFA. His number is 93. https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/clubs/players/250169812--mitchell-robertson/ I think before Scott Robertson left, many thought when they saw Robertson listed in the Celtic B squad, it was Scott, when in fact it was Mitchell. Given his age, is he likely to be included in the Winter update? EDIT - Ignore, he is in the game, my mistake

There is a discord and it is busier

Does anyone know if it is possible to figure out journalist UIDs in game? I want to collate a UK facepack for use with Nik33s media file so that their faces show at press conferences they attend or via news feeds. I guess that due to database add on files everyone uses, the UID would be different from user to user. I've never used the in game editor, so don't know if it would be as simple as sourcing UIDs from within the in-game editor if you can search for journalists. Unlike agents, there is no way to click on an individual journalist (that I know of). The only way to see them is via the media source page where they just appear as a list of names linked to the source. For example, Clyde 1 Superscoreboard and Sky Sports in this example list them, but I can't actually get their UID, either here or via press conferences.

@stevemc is this pack still available for download? I am going to start something similar for Scottish media but would love this pack as a starter that I can add to? Thanks

I agree, I think the issue SI had was with dynamic boards mainly because the dynamic advertising is triggered by bidstack and if everyone were to just use custom, it would be hard sell to the advertisers, which I understand. Static boards though...there aren't that many hard coded. If SI hard coded a section of each stadium to enforce advertising with the boards of sponsors they could open up the other static boards en masse for individual modding. At the moment, it is triggered to just repeat a small sequence of boards. Some stadium models have 70 boards. If 10-20 went to advertisers and modders had freedom to add fan banners or real club sponsors for immersion purposes it would probably be a happy medium. Guess they could actually apply similar to dynamic, enforce a few triggered by bidstack and leave two or three spaces for custom.

I think it always uses both if you try to allocate too many boards to the stadium via the xml file. I understand to a point the issues around dynamic adboards and external sharing of a pack openly. Just wish someone from SI could explain what is going on in terms of allocation of static boards for those working on personal use static boards that have no impact on the dynamic aspect which had caused issues if in the public domain.

Sorry, I don't know if there is a default based on capacity. The randomly assigned part is really frustrating. I am playing as Celtic, and using Celtic as my base. I am kind of amalgamating static boards from the fan pack and what I have of rabs last version. However, it doesn't seem possible anymore to assign a run of boards together that doesn't result in at least one of the boards appearing somewhere else. If I had four boards that were designed to appear in sequence, I can get them to do so, but then elsewhere in the stadium one of them will appear randomly and obviously no longer in sequence with the others. I have also noticed that there is little logic to the random allocation in that the same board can appear at the end of one stand then immediately again in the next stand. The more I look at it, the more I am inclined to use no boards that need to run in sequence and to just accept repetition of some boards in random places and over an over. With Celtic, who have a capacity of 60,000, I found I could use 44 boards without it starting the overlap issue I described. It could be that 44 is the maximum number in stadiums of that size or similar. Even then, board 0 appeared eight times, and the actual number of boards in the stadium is over 70, but coding wise it couldn't cope with more than 44 entries in the XML file without starting to create overlap boards with one half of one and one half of another.

Thanks alian, Some are my own, most are drawn from previously released packs before the controversy around created dynamic boards. I am trying to combine various packs for personal use, but it will take a year or so given time needed against time available. Plan to do every team where the team had ads in pervious packs. I've lost some of the static I had though e.g. those from the 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 of rabcps last patch for fm21. I think it might be to do with allocating too many as individual boards. Think the game might be saying either this or that as when I use the standard boards only one shows. I'll work on it more and try to figure it out.