Zachary - Thanks for the update. I do have say I find the issue not being resolved unsatisfactory. I understand that as bugs go, this is a minor one, it doesn't cause the game to freeze or crash...and it seems to be confined to the MLS. So it would appear that SI has to prioritize which bugs it fixes. Note I'm not talking about what order bugs will be fixed in, but rather if it's worth SI's time to fix a bug, from their perspective. You know if this was happening in the EPL it would have been fixed probably in the fall of 2022 since this bug has been in FM since at least FM23. Now I've been playing FM/Championship Manager since 1996 but skipped the 2021 and 2022 versions (for various reasons) so I don't know about those versions. I know it was not in the 96/97 version (I don't think MLS was in Championship Manager until 1999 or 2000) thru FM 2020. (At least I didn't experience it.) So it would appear that not only is SI not fixing the bug...they're knowingly porting it into their current versions of FM. Makes me wonder about FM25. I mean think about it, FM24 was supposed to be the best FM of all time...yet SI knowingly ported a known bug (yes a minor one) into their "best version" of the game ever. I'm starting to get some EA Sports vibes coming from SI.
If you can't make the MLS work by hardcoding its unique rules into the game and you don't want to put the time fixing bugs that happen probably because of the hardcoding, then just give us a generic MLS. One that we can edit and set up the way we want. Give us a "clean" league so we can set it up ourselves. All the hardcoding makes editing the MLS extremely difficult. It can't be a contractual thing...no other soccer games try to set the MLS like it is in real life. Don't half a$$ it, either do it right with the hardcoding (this includes fixing minor bugs) or give us a "clean" league which is easy to edit. Thank you for your time.