JimmysTheBestCop

Out of the Park Baseball. Its the American sport FM. But even smaller dev team less then a dozen developers so really small indy team. Edit.. Just as some detail american baseball at least organizationally as an institution isnt that different then the English football pyramid. It is just the players promote/relegate instead of the teams. As each top tier MLB team have around 8-12 minor league teams under their affiliation. In about what we can describe as at least 5 tiers basically. And the players themselves move up and down pretty freely. Scouting in baseball isn't that different either as central/south american and the Caribbean are scouted hard for teenagers. However north american born players are scouted and acquired completely different as for north american players there is a amateur draft. And there are even independent leagues outside of the MLB in america/japan which are also scouted heavily and there has been a lot of movement in recent years between the indys and mlb.

Only thing the OOTP community does better then FM is the stadiums. They have less then a dozen employees if they can do it SI can do it. Should do their top 5 leagues with license then release a mod editing tool so the community can do the rest of them. I spend much more time in the stadiums in FM then in OOTP and it is kind of a killer disappointed. Not just the actual building but even the atmosphere is just completely off. While OOTP and baseball have a much easier time at doing baseball atmosphere cause 90% of the games/teams/stadiums there isnt much of one. But football and FM atmosphere is huge in that world. So the actual infrastructure and atmosphere of stadiums need huge work. Not squad planner

You will no doubt have countless unproductive agent negotiations. Pretty much once it turns orange you got 1 more shot. But sometimes demands are just out of sort. A lot has to do with player rep, agent attitude and who else is interested in the player. Big rep teams are interested then most likely will want a ton of money or sometimes they take less money to just be in the world beater squad. I would also say the MLS is pretty tough. Lots of crazy rules and I never liked it in game. My first save after OOTP was English 10th tier in an extended database. I learned so much about the game. I would suggest bottom tier England VNS/VNN or start with no badges and sunday league footballer and see where you can start probably some 3rd/4th tier Scandinavian league or something. The problem with the MLS is no other league plays like that. So if you learn the MLS you don really learn anything about the other 99% of leagues. And once you get good at game the MLS is super easy. Even the AI has problems with the MLS rules and handling transactions. I think you might like starting somewhere else in a lower league. Where ever you can find a job. Then work your way up. Maybe stop for a couple years in the MLS on your way to a top 3 worldwide league. MLS is ok but a long term I dont know. IF we are using long term as 1-2+ decades. I dont think there is enough meat there to keep you occupied.

yeah super annoying agreed

you can turn your desktop off remotely. just use your laptop as a terminal basically and the desktop will be running fm and you will be playing off your laptop through remote access to your desktop.

just remote into your desktop from your laptop man!

Go to staff responsibilities and make sure you are in charge of all of your youth training and not some other coach if thats not it then could be an mls thing. as i have never managed there

Every league to view only does nothing to processing time or player count. It does let you view the teams/leagues/nations though. That is it. It does nothing at all to sim time. So not sure why you wouldnt want every league to viewable even leagues you dont care about. Playable is really only for leagues you want to manage in. Or leagues you want to have a full staff. Example other leagues/nations you compete in continental conferences. Even custom db is only for players and not staff. So if you force load all english players but england isnt playable. Once staff quits, sacks, retire they wont be replaced. The most important thing is how you setup your database. 400k players is nuts. As like 300k+ of them will be awful and it will just clutter up the database. Think you can do national teams and top tier in every continent and that gets you around 70-140k players. But most importantly all of the national teams will be real players and not grey players. All the other players are insignificant and thats why you dont want to load them all especially in long term save. Your system will choke. To me you really want all of the national teams filled out with real players cause those are the players that matter. Full detail you use in your nation and maybe some custom detail on other continental competing nations. But if you are in America then you could still load up Europe players or the top 5 as playable to get the staff but set their detail to minimum. Cause it doesnt really matter cause you arent ever going to manage there. Full detail chokes the processor more then players. I always use a custom detail layout depending on each save i am doing

Ive also noticed none of my scouts ever gain scouting knowledge even about the nation i am playing in. So if you hire a foreign scout they never gain knowledge of your nation. It never worked like that in previous fm's sounds like a bug/glitch. Even if you set a focus on a nation that has its league loaded and full detail the scouts dont gain knowledge no matter how long they are there scouting even if they speak the language. Scouting seems really fouled up

The Colonel!!!! Go to training then units then click add youth/reserve player to first team training. It is in the upper right corner of training units