Little Miss Lump Kicker

Similar happens to me. Although I think I can limit to when the match is on a non-standard day (not Saturday?) Although I'm not certain about that. I've been "roleplaying" it as my board my cheapskates and renting out my training pitch to the local school for a summer camp for the extra cash, but it's obviously not ideal.

No. The player is simply happy there. Doesn't want to leave. And the club wants to hold onto him. Especially if they have three or four years on their contract. The human player will say, "Yeah, but if I offer €130m the team will never turn that down." And no, they won't. But for all intents and purposes the team won't sell the player for a bid that values the player properly based on how the game values them. So they say, "This player is worth €130m," when his actual realistic value is about €45m. No in-game club would bid €130m, but a human player might. It's a fudge for the game. What is Martinez' worth? Kudus? Antonio? They're happy where they are until they're not. And sometimes it takes big money being talked about in the media to make it happen. That's all the transfer values mean.

I think what a lot of people, especially in here, fail to realise is they're good at the game. They've been playing for years, across multiple versions, and sometimes even decades. If not that could have thousands of hours in one or two versions. You are bordering on experts in the game. Of course people like this will find things easier, that's why—like with other sandbox games I play—you have to set yourself challlenges and limitations. Only signing players of a certain nation, only using your youth intakes, only taking people from your scouting reports and not using real world knowledge, or knowledge from wonderkid lists. A few years ago my uncle, in his fifties, asked me about playing FM. He'd never played it before. Now the man is an expert at football, extremely knowledgeable, and will watch literally every match he can. He's not the type to only watch the games of the team he supports. I think his real world football knowledge would translate well to the fundamentals of FM. But a few years ago the game was terrible at introducing entirely new players to the intricacies of how to actually play the game. I think Sports Interactive knew this as well, and for those past few years there's been a focus on helping people learn the game within the game. Those years ago I could only recommend FM to students, the unemployed and the retired. You needed so much time to simply learn how to play the game. Now it's a lot more streamlined and if my uncle mentioned it again I'd tell him to pick up this year's version. But the game does have to cater to those people. The people new to the game, who won't use downloaded tactics and don't know there's wonderkid lists out there. If you find the game too easy think about how knowledgeable you are of football or how long you've played the game, even what team you chose to manage and what restrictions you set yourself (and, of course, if you're looking at other people's success they might not be telling the whole truth.)

I'm setting up some media sources, to flesh out and add some character to my database (although I'm still not certain how the edits will actually behave.) I've added media sources using various criteria such as nation and competition focus, etc. However if I don't write down what I've already created there's no way of using the options available in the search/exclusion dialogue to find what I've already done and take stock. Criteria like "Scope" are limited to whether a source is national, regional or continental, etc. when really I'd like to be able to search based on what competitions I've set them to report on. Or even what country. It'd allow me to better take stock of what I've already done, especially when I know I have a unique filtering term or criteria. And it'd let me take stock of what gaps there are in my coverage. Even if I could exclude or include based on a nation, which is something I will have set on each source so far, it'll allow me to see what media sources actually apply to a country. Another one to include would be what type of medium it is. I'd like to quickly be able to find out how many podcasts I have reporting on a region in an analytic style (style is available as a criteria) compared to radio shows in a popular style. I'm not sure how fleshed out the end result will be in the game, I've never done any media sources editing before, but it must have some effect. At the moment I have no way (that I know of) of properly or easily examining the database to see what I have put in there and compare balance.

I'm using the basic rules to implement transfer windows for a league. No matter what I do the transfer windows are all set in the same year, so the transfer window will run from Jan 1st 2001 to Jan 31st 2001, and July 1st 2001 to August 31st, even though the season updates on June 20th. I've tried it two ways, with all the transfer dates set in the same base 2000 year, and one where the first half of the season is set in 2000 and the second half of the season is set in 2001. It still sets it up so the transfer window is running all in the same year and not across the season dates. Edit: Might have fixed this myself. I set the years to 2023 and 2024, the actual dates of the league. For some reason in this instance using the FM Editor default of 2000/2001 doesn't work and update properly. I'm running quickly through a season now to see if it updates. Second Edit: Yep. Advanced through to a new season and it seems to have update. Although this issue is a little strange. Usually using the default 2000 year for FM's editor options works fine.

Thank you so much. That seems to be exactly it. I'm making a big Celtic Leagues database with all the main teams from Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and the original Irish Premiership was one of the first deletes I made. I'd have no idea how I'd have found that if you didn't say. You're a godsend. Now, I just need to see if it holds up to some stability tests (it was all working fine in the editor with that fix.) And see if my Basic Rules of adding reserves teams will let teams without reserve teams add themselves to the league if they want, which is something I can't find anything on. But for now, it seems to work.

I've done some editing with Scotland. Swapping teams around various leagues in Scotland and other countries. The problem I'm facing is when I go to load it in FM it says "Require Minimum of 10 Teams for Premier Division, found only 0." Except I've been through every competition in Scotland and there's not called "Premier Division." I've checked leagues, cups, youth leagues, youth cups. There's nothing with that name for any of its options. And it's not the Cinch Premiership, because that's working fine and should have 12 teams anyway (which it does.)

What's the effect of "Continental Cup Nation?" I swapped a team from Ireland to England and another from England to Ireland. I'm unsure what I should set this to? If the Irish team is set to Ireland under Contintental Cup Nation while in England does it mean they can't qualify for European tournaments? Or is it just about using home grown players from a particular nation?

This is getting a bit silly now. Why should anyone get the game on Game Pass on launch day if they want to use the pre-game editor? It won't even be launch day for much longer.

Thanks for the updates. Hopefully it's sorted sooner rather than later.

Is there a list somewhere, preferably in game, of when all the international windows are. Like "3rd Wednesday of May to 4th Sunday of May?" I know you can check something to avoid clashes with international windows but if I'm setting dates manually for cup competitions I'd prefer not schedule them for those dates.

I made a custom Celtic Nations database for FM23. Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland teams all playing in one league system. It's under the auspices of the FAI because the international/European editing is so far beyond me (so I made placeholder leagues for the other nations.) I've tested it by actually playing it now, and it's 90% there, but FM is coming up to a new release soonish, and I don't know if it's possible to carry over the base editor files to the new FM editor version? Has it been possible to load a previous FM's editor files in the new game's editor files? And is there much work in it? With FM24 being the sign off to the old FM I'd really like to get this working on the new game.