Fredrik

There's these options but I'm not certain they work as I want.

It's the console thing that worries me the most. I'm on record talking about the editor but that's probably a niche thing and unrelated to the big picture. I'm worried they will start with micro transactions and/or make "achievements' a much bigger part of the game. Online/multiplayer too. I mean, fair play to those that play these things and like it but this would bea fundamental shift for the (much) worse. Miles has dropped some hints this is their way forward saying that players should find new things after 500 hours of gameplay.

I'm pretty sure 0 means random and 1 means 1. Random doesn't necessarily mean Man City though or even possible to.

You're not the only one, if it's the pre-game editor you mean. I won't play without it. I see so many small things I want to change every time I play and I do. I also create nation rules in order to play in lower leagues or obscure nations. Won't do without the editor.

You likely can't with Andorra. Most countries have hardcoded rules for name generation and migrants/diasporas/etc. If memory serves me right then pre-1922 Ireland is your best bet as basis nation. My number one hate but I'm not holding my breath that they're going to make these things visible. EDIT: creating an additional nation has its own challenges. You need to move one nation out of Europe for intl tournaments to work.

It's entirely possible all this will be nothing come late November and the game is released with around the same number and severity of bugs as usual. Some people will complain about exclusion of some features and the inclusion of another feature but the game itself would be fine. It's also entirely possible that there's an ongoing epic meltdown behind the scenes which is why there's a delay. I'm an avid editor and won't buy the game unless there's a working pre-game editor. I understand I'm a tiny minority but it's still important to me. I invite others with similar(or different) concerns to voice them. I get a bit antsy about possibly not having an editor but we'll see. The whole upgrade and delay means I'm less certain this time.

You have confirmed you actually have 166 teams? Including reserve teams.

I saw a plausible prediction. Honestly, any other prediction is just fear. Fear of SI breaking something. AFAIR there wasn't an editor for CM4(or was it FM4 can't remember).

Have you set regional divisions for these clubs in the editor? There's another thing too in the advanced rules which is how groups are organized. It's set to reputation by default. Under Stages and then Group Settings. Check if you have something there and if removing does anything.

I am going to focus my Beta on things that can break because of the addition of the women's game. Nation is one thing but surely they've done that... Names are an obvious thing, just like that clubs have both a male as well as a female team. Some of this is gameplay but I'll try to check for signs it's separate where it needs to be separate and combined where it needs to be combined I can just imagine the moans when the first male wonderkid is named Emma or Patrizia.

It was hidden until maybe 10 years ago but after that I don't think it was ever hidden. The editor news,or lack thereof, is a sad state of affairs. I've noticed on various Facebook or Reddit groups etc that when people talk about the editor they typically mean the in-game editor.

In FM2022 there were : East was West and West was East though since this particular league was in the Western Hemisphere.

WHERE do you write Serbia? Can you show a screenshot?

Do the teams have stadiums? Are the coordinates for the stadiums set? If all this is set I don't know.

As I just replied I also think so. Lots of lower level US clubs have a city set but no stadium. These teams move around if I create regional groups for lower leagues once I set the stadium correctly.

I've created lower league pyramids in the US and it seems to me that the location of the stadium influence regionalisation of groups. It's not certain though. Some things just don't work and it seems multiple languages is one of them. US is set so most people speak Spanish which is obviously not true. Furthermore, it doesn't seem like newgens etc use the obvious naming convention and regional hotspots for such people. Then the problem of this thread doesn't seem to work in general. I am afraid the workaround with multiple cities doesn't work completely either but IMO if you have "ethnic" or similar clubs it will do it. Besides, some of this is the problem that there are several layers of organization of a country. Not just what the game calls local region but metropolitan areas are often absent if a higher level exist.

The weak point in the game logic is unfortunately bilingualism. I've tried to set bilingual cities but it never really works. I've resorted to creating new cities at times so that for example Montreal would exist as two cities in the database. One French-speaking and the other English-speaking. . It depends if the clubs are language dependent(which at least at times is clearly the case). On the other side my own projects haven't been conclusive whether languages really influence eg transfers.

I have tried similar things countless times. You can make it fairly good but the game can't handle multiple languages well in general. I also feel that a local/native speaker etc may not see the results as someone who isn't. Start by setting language to any city if it's monolingual. Then set percentages for the region (the part except the aforementioned cities) so that the total percentage is 100%. The big issue here is what to do with the national language. I would suggest English(or French) could work depending on which country you're actually thinking about. If it's an African country I think it can work due to name pool being national in character. If the country you're discussing is India I'm unsure what setting English to national language does with player names. Another note is that it can't hurt to make sure that your nation's players have their city of birth set. It won't mess up names and in the best case it may even help with assigning names to the correct regions. This should be particularly important if some names are distinctly regional. None of this is foolproof but IMO you should start around here.

Unfortunately starting division level has been there since FM22

It would be easier if we had the file itself but barring that I have a few questions. Did you start a new game? It may be obvious to some but changes are only applied to new games. Just in case. Did you make sure to include this editor file when you started the new game?

I see it a bit differently. Even the so called objective data is often wrong. Things like second nationalities, ethnicity, skin colour are often not right. Many researchers seem to think eg. skin colour is 5-14 instead of 1-20. Others just refuse to acknowledge languages spoken(eg. an average Swiss without known city of birth can IRL be assumed to speak German or maybe French but the game says Italian. Yes, I know this isn't really about game play but some if breaks immersion for me. I also understand that in some cases it's because both SI and head researchers know some of this is political/"historical" and don't want to ruffle the feathers of some people. Or they themselves are full of it. After that rambling point I just want to say that if researchers can't get objective stuff right, then I have no particular expectation they will get subjective things right. In the end I wonder what kind of tests SI run? Are they ever telling a head researcher eg. "your country has too high CA/PA" or "your country is too low on determination". My gut feeling is they rarely. Only if it's blatant and made certain teams or players overpowered enough to get lots of complaiints.

I presume you haven't touched kit colours? I think that may be the issue. Could you please check what the kit colours are for those teams? I think you need to set this too.

You could try to only use teams when needed. The option should be under U23 Teams Type and U19 Teams Type.

Of course it's relevant if you've changed something that can affect the nation rules. Did you add ar remove any Japanese teams?

You could perhaps use the nation transfer preferences the other way round and block "Maltese" transfers.?