Daniel Evensen

Yeah, I watched that the other day. We can hope. Seriously, if FM's new graphics engine is anything like this, I might never stop playing.

We've been telling SI that for years. Seriously - you can find posts on this very forum going back over 10 years that complain about international play. There have been dozens of suggestions over time. It is insane that SI doesn't create a special version for the game for each Euro or World Cup competition, given how popular those are. They are leaving a lot of money on the table by constantly choosing to do nothing with international play. I think this will eventually be fixed, but apparently it requires dragging Miles kicking and screaming into reality.

I solved my own problem. This problem happens when you load a save file when your manager is on vacation. There is a "return from vacation" button. Click on that, and the sidebar will reappear. I hope this is helpful to anybody else who runs into this bug. It would be nice if this were fixed in future versions of FM.

Agree with you on both points. Miles needs to hire somebody to write these updates for him. He can't stop himself from sticking his foot in his mouth. We've been clamoring for an update to international management for years now. It's ridiculous that they've done absolutely nothing, and now suddenly claim to not have enough time to fix it.

I'm going to give this one a try for my next project. Thank you for your hard work!

This looks great! I think I'll do a few projects with this before FM25 comes out...

This depends in part on your operating system. I've never gotten the Steam Workshop to work correctly on Mac computers, for example. You've got to know where the workshop saves the files and then copy them to the correct directory yourself. It's not just Football Manager that has this issue. Every game on Steam has similar problems. I'm on Arch Linux now, and I've learned to set shortcuts to find the correct Proton folder right away.

Thanks, @kevhamster! That looks great.

Sorry for the lack of context! Yes, it's about $2,000 USD. The plan is to purchase parts online, mostly through Amazon.

Right around $2,000.

Hi guys, Apologies if this has already been asked - this is a long thread. Any advice for a processor and graphics card that can handle very large databases (i.e. hexagon challenge sized, with every country in the world loaded)? Bonus points if they are AMD, as I'm using Linux. Looking for a new PC build, though right now I'm mostly concerned with figuring out the processor and GPU. Thanks in advance!

Here's an update as promised. I decided to take a little excursion over to Mars FC in Taoyuan, Taiwan. I did this chiefly because I wound up losing the dressing room at PanSa East FC. We'll be back to Oceania soon; don't worry. Here is the latest playlist, if you're curious.

The Big Change Things have changed a lot. It didn’t go well at PanSa, unfortunately. I started to lose the clubhouse quickly, and we went on a small losing streak. I looked around the world, and found myself with an interesting option to move forward. Naturally, I wanted to stay in Oceania to keep the Hexagon Challenge spirit alive. However, there was an intriguing challenge looming not too far away, one that I simply couldn’t turn down. Mars FC of Taoyuan, Taiwan, was in last place in the Taiwanese league when I arrived. They weren’t just in last place, actually. They were in last place with only 6 matches to go, in an absolutely desperate situation. My challenge was to prevent them from being relegated. I had a little bit of money — not enough money to get anybody really impressive (besides, it’s Taiwan: we’re not signing Messi, lol), but enough to do something respectable. Tactic in hand, I set out to do my best. Great Results The results were positive, to say the least. My first match was against Taichung Futuro, the best team in the league — and, as it turned out, the eventual winners of the league. We were in dead last and were favorites to sink like a rock. We won, 4-1. We followed that one up with a 6-3 shellacking of Tainan City. And then came our first close match - a 3-2 victory over Athletic Club Taiwan. We had arrived. Doing it the hard way Of course, that wasn’t quite enough to keep us afloat. After a few draws and some bad luck, we wound up finishing the season in 7th place. That meant we weren’t automatically relegated, thereby saving my new job. However, it also meant that we had to play a relegation playoff battle against Ming Chuang University. We won both legs, though it wasn’t easy. We had two 2-1 victories, two matches that really could have gone either way. And, well that’s how we did it. I came in as a total unknown, a random coach from American Samoa going out on a little vacation. And now I’ve got a reputation for saving clubs from disaster. I think we’ll stay in Taiwan for a few seasons before returning to Oceania. It provides a welcome distraction.

Apologies for the delay - being gone on vacation for a few days has thrown me way off schedule. Do You Believe In Magic? If you don’t believe in magic, you should check out our start to this season. We’ve been absolutely spectacular. We destroyed Ilaoa & To’omata by a 5-1 margin, exacted our revenge on Lion Heart by a 2-0 score, and have been spectacular since. Our only blemish was a 1-1 draw with Vaiala Tongan, and even then we looked like the better team. The plan is working. We’ve had 3 clean sheets, have won 5 of 6 games, and have yet to lose. Dark Clouds Ahead There are storm clouds on the horizon, however. Pago Youth are playing just as well as we are, and keep jumping ahead of us in the standings. We play against them next, and I’m not entirely sure how this is going to work out. The problem is that I released a bunch of the young players we signed from abroad when they started showing consistency and personality problems. Once they were dropped by us, they promptly signed with other clubs, leading to a real Pandora’s Box situation in American Samoa. We’re not the only club with foreign players now — and we’re in danger of slipping away. New Tactic Part of the success came from a new tactic that I designed. It’s a possession focused 3-4-2-1 system, designed to wear down the defense and play the ball up the middle. Ideally, we score goals after holding the ball for long periods of time and wearing out our opponents. It doesn’t always work, sadly. The American Samoan players seem especially prone to lumping the ball ahead and trying to outrun everybody when they are under pressure. Still, we’ve been able to maintain possession for large chunks of time each game. This could wind up being a great success for us in the long run.