Mitza

Who in the world approved that Portal screen? I hope to God that is a mobile / console screenshot because I can't even begin to express how bad it is. The only valid reason I can think of is that they want to dumb it out for new players - if your aim is to bring more players, why brag about the record numbers in the exact same post? Dumbing the entire interface down means a couple of things - an insult to the player's intelligence, a lack of usability testing, and a terrible precendent for the game's UX. I doubt that they removed any other features than those menitoned so in that case, all of the actions you could take from a single screen (your home) in previous FMs have been moved behind god knows how many layers and layers of clicks. I am a UX designer myself so I can be a bit biased, but from experience, no designers in their right mind would ruin a perfectly working and successful product by running a complete overhaul of its interface that millions of people already have familiarity with. Not sure what the direction is here or what problem this is meant to solve. FM is a very complex game and can be difficult to learn in time, and it can be improved and even simplified, but this isn't working for me. It genuinely looks like it could be AI generated.

Okay, let's go through some of your points Fair, that makes sense. But it doesn't 'just go up', it very rarely goes up at all. For those members that can use coaching coarses, sure. For sport scientists, physios and so on - they do change in time. My point is around scouts and DoF - that start as freshly retired players - don't go up in time, or do go up very slowly. Pleased to show more examples. Here is a list of all directors of football with a minimum of 15 JCA/JPA in the year 2041. Show all staff in search using the ingame editor is turned on, and I unchecked all staff interested in my club so it should be showing all of them in the game. Out of 115 results, not a single one of them is a former player that retired during my save game. The game resorts to generating good DoFs by itself - which is fine in part, but you can't tell me that in 18 ingame years not a single former player DOF should have managed to reach a 15 JCA/JPA. Let's reduce the parameters so we can include freshly retired staff players, and include a decent PA of 150 to only include those that could actually reach a better JCA/JPA. We've reached some familiar names - so there are some real players retired as staff. You can see that not a single one of them is employed in two pages of scrolling - apart from Darwin Machis who has been moved with the ingame editor by me as he's a former player of mine. I can go through each one of those employed to show that they are regen staff if you don't believe me. Moreso, you can see that the list very quickly dries off - not a single scroll page and we're back to game-generated staff members. That means that those that met these parameters across the last 18 years have been retiring constantly because they didn't get hired anywhere nor their stats increased to do so. For whatever reason, Trent has not retired - although he couldn't get hired in the last 8 years due to his poor stats, despite his 177 PA. Let's also look at scouts. Keep in mind that I managed Santa Alzate, Marseille, and Inter so far - so those you see hired by those teams were specifically hired by me. I scrolled three pages until the age of 47 - which should cover a lot of retired players during my save game. Out of all of these scouts, there are 9 former players - and 8 were hired by me, the player. The rest have already been employed scouts at the start of the game. So that means that out of all of the players that retired as staff, only one of them managed to reach these numbers organically, without the player's input. I can go lower and keep counting but I can asure you, there are not many examples like him left. That was never my point. Of course they start with lower stats - as it should be. The problem is - as I repeatedly reported - is that they cannot find a job in time to increase those stats because the game auto-retires them if unemployed for 2-3 years. It doesn't matter if a very high reputation player (let's say a Modric or a Busquets) just retired with bad stats but 190+ PA - if nobody hires them because of terrible CA the game will auto retire them and there is nothing that can be done about it. I have provided many examples about this and I can spend days providing more. Feel free to test it yourselves - shortlist some 170+ PA retired players and see if they are still in the game 3-4 years after. Here is the thread for more details

Thanks for this, let me shake your hand. Looks like the data files aren't tested on the 24.3 so they don't work. I coult do that and test it out but don't have time today

Updated to work properly with 24.3. Graphics folder will need replacing with the updated version as the config has changed.

Is it just me that finds player contracts ridiculous in longer saves? I just got a decent youth intake with one or two 4-5 star potential players. Offering them their contracts, they instantly demand future playing time and a promise of a loan. 15 year olds coming through the ranks should never be asking for loans. Then onto the contract negotiations: 750k per year, 1.4 mil after 10 apps, 1.9 mil after 20 apps, with a 15% yearly wage increase to top it off. It's just ridiculous these last few years. And it doesn't just happen to the player. Every club with high income has the same issue. Just looking at Barcelona B, their keeper has a salary of 3.8mil per season and they signed a 50k backup B team keeper that they are paying 4.28 mil per season.

Is there a mod or a way that changes Spanish/German B teams and replaces them with normal reserves teams? I hate managing in those countries solely because of the B team system

Currently it's very hard to spot actual achievments from AI managers in their history tab. All the fluff like 'won in FA Cup Round 20' can get very busy so actual achievements like trophies / UCL finals get overshadowed. In a long term save it's very hard to find which managers have done well and which haven't. I'd say either remove all the unnecessary 'won in X round' or make a separate tab for trophies where you can only see trophies and finals.

Has player selections in awards (Goal50 especially, but also Ballon D'or, FIFA Player of the Year) been ever aknowledged as a bug by SI? I've seen it reported plenty of times recently, especially for GOAL50 picking the same players regardless of performance/league and not picking regens at all. My player scored 78 goals in a season (59 goals in 30 league games) and has carried that on next season with 30 in 19, yes he hasn't made the top 50 list and didn't show up in the top3 for Ballon D'or or FIFA POTY.

I've been experiencing this as well. It seems like it happens to the AI too. So a lof of the staff that is supposed to move just ends up fired. Any news on this ? @Michael Sant @Zachary Whyte

Is there a bug that prevents your backroom staff from moving to your new club? I reloaded a save to double check and it seems to be. I select all my changes and the day I move only a handful of my staff actually moved, the rest get fired from my ex-team. I think none of the first team coaches moved.

Just came back to this thread after a few months of enjoying the game so I can discuss the new update, only to find the biggest echo chamber of the month. The game and the ME is more than fine, the best its been in years. It's nowhere near as bad as these comments and I can't be the only one who actually enjoys the game. I've done my fair share of bug reporting, especially in this edition. I'm also frustrated that they haven't fixed most of them, but the game is more than enojayable this way too and this whining is a bit ridiculous

Is anyone else experiencing low ratings for centre backs? No matter if I'm winning a game 6-0, unless a CB scores a goal, they get low ratings every match. If I'm losing, they get low 6's or high 5's. I have world class CBs on 6.8 average ratings in treble winning seaons. I tried other tactics and roles, but my CBs always end up with low ratings.

I would really like it if I didn't have to redo this entire process every single time one of my coaches leave.