[[FM23.4] TMC Megapack (incl. Russian clubs in AFC Champions League)]

On 08/11/2023 at 12:40, kandersson said:

@mrsmiis is an assistant researcher for New Zealand and Oceania as well as a Wellington Phoenix fan 

Oh hey there 

On 08/11/2023 at 10:12, themodelcitizen said:

@Vakama2619 @alian62 is there a head researcher for Oceania? Oddly the OFC Nations Cup is set to "other international" while the U19s are "main continental international finals". You can see it when you check Oceania in-game and it shows up at the top instead. Wonder if this was by design so that qualifying or that weird cross-pollination with the Pacific Games/Olympic Qualifying works

Hm, strange that it shows as such - data shows as all correct in the database (OFC Nations Cup being "main continental international finals", U19s being "U19 international finals". Perhaps an update to FM has conflicted with this - I'll have to raise, thanks for letting me know

[[FM22] New Zealand League Pyramid]

Absolutely unbelievable work @limonezz, I'm blown away

[[FM22] New Zealand League Pyramid]

4 hours ago, timmarkcorcoran said:

cant wait for fm23 now as my beloved Queens Park are making the step up from Donald Gray to the ODT Southern Championship next winter

wow, where'd you find this out? Haven't been able to find any info on which teams will be in the Mainland Prem/Southern Championship for 2022

edit: it's on the FB page, of course! hope we find out the full league soon

[[FM22] New Zealand League Pyramid]

Hey lads! I curated the in-game New Zealand database for FM21 and FM22, happy to answer any questions r.e. the database, errors (was incredibly rushed this iteration + I was the only one responsible for creating leagues, teams, squads etc. on a large scale) or NZ rules. Thank goodness NZ isn't in the game just yet - would be an absolute nightmare for me to try and recreate the ever-changing league rules, promotion/relegation systems etc.

All New Zealand regional leagues with any significance are in the base database with correct teams - bar South Canterbury Div 1 and I believe Nelson Bays Div 1, which is missing one club that I couldn't manage to get over the line before release.

@EmperorRimbaudsome great info there, all looks good! only correction is that the Southern League qualification games only took place this season. The Mainland Premier and Southern Premier are effectively knocked down a tier from 2022 as the Southern League takes its place - promotion and relegation will work as normal between these leagues. Effectively, this format can be implemented in any created databases from day one.

Finances are extremely tricky to faithfully replicate given their dubious relevancy in NZ football - something I plan to focus on later down the line.

@kanderssonthanks for the interesting info! without any access to league files during testing, it was a nightmare trying to fix bugs with the ingame database, and it seems like the bugs with the Nix Reserves/Lower Hutt must have skipped past all of us. There's no way to accurately replicate the Nix/Lower Hutt relationship in the database, where Lower Hutt competes in regional competition and the Nix Reserves compete in the National League - perhaps if NZ is implemented as a playable league in the near future, this could be hard-coded by SI higher-ups. For the moment, I decided to designate Lower Hutt as the B-team. You definitely chose a great club in Western Suburbs too - look forward to the newgens  

 

Finally, unreal work @ratio1618- really look forward to playing!! Wouldn't be the same game at all without you database creators

[Best Oceania/Tiny Nations to manage?]

Anywhere but Tahiti and Tuvalu

All other nations have been incredibly updated over the past year, including fully accurate squads. Personally, I'd recommend New Caledonia, Vanuatu or Samoa once the update comes out.

[Main Menu & New Game Menu Gets Slower The More Editor Data Files You Have]

Very glad to see this is a known and common issue, glad a fix is being worked on

[New Zealand Database]

On 29/11/2020 at 18:36, ratio1618 said:

Big ups for all the extra data for NZ this year, helps HEAPS!

my pleasure mate! certainly a lot more to come

[New Zealand Database]

15 hours ago, DementedHammer said:

Hi all. Just a quick update to let you know that I have started on porting my NZ 11 tier league system to FM21. I'm currently down to the regional second divisions. There's a lot more updates than usual to get it up and running this year, so please bear with me. It could take a few weeks to get there this time around. 

It also doesn't help that some of the error messages don't actually tell me which competition is invalid, so I'm having to check all of the leagues one by one to make sure that they are good to go:

 

looking forward to this! shoot me a message if there's any intricacies you want to know about the database

[[Denmark] Data Issues]

Elijah Just (88023993) has 2 caps for New Zealand, making his debut on 14 November 2019 against Rep. Ireland

[[England EFL Championship] Data Issues]

Scott Wara (28110779) has 1 cap for Fiji, making his debut on 05/09/2018 vs. Solomon Islands. Would also be reasonable to declare him, as he's played consistently since then in official FIFA tournaments for the U23s and has verbally committed himself in the past.

[[Germany] Data Issues]

Sarpreet Singh (88023585) made 2 appearances for Bayern Munich last season, not 1

[[Australia] Data Issues]

Zac Jones (88024939) hasn't been retained by Wellington Phoenix as per NZ media, so club should be removed. He was only a youth player - not even on a scholarship deal - so can understand why the club didn't announce it