Cthulhu Dreams

I've played a bit more, and have some..further thoughts 1) It's really fun! The small format competitions give you intense rivalries. 2) I wish the 'dead' periods between the competitions were eliminated. I don't love these slack weeks as scheduling friendlies isn't that fun and this isn't the championship or the Vanarama national league where you are playing 2 matches a week regularly. For example, there is a one week 'dead' period in the regional league competitions - in season 1 of the save that happens in the first week of feb. There is another 1 week off between the 12th and the 26th within the Allianz league which I assume is to deal with matches that get rescheduled due to fixture clashes... but the league is only played at once match a week so I'm not sure you need that. Similarly there is another 1 week off between the end of the regional leagues and the start of the all ireland cup in the last week of feb. It would be really great if these were compressed... and ideally you'd use them to have playoff(s) between the regional winners that would control European spots. For example, if you had a N/S playoff and an E/W playoff and each of these had a european spot that would be great. You could further compress by removing two weeks of slack and instead have a full playoff, though I think giving out more european slots is good (you could have a N/S playoff with a european slot, an E/W playoff with an european slot, and a cup winners cup with a european slot which means one of the 3 slots would always get returned to the league). 3) I think the league reps are too low and this kills player development. Allianaz division 4 is below Austrian 5th level in rep, but you have big attendances and actual money. This low rep absolutely murders play development, so I think you need to substantially boost the league reputation. These leagues are all much stronger leagues than the Welsh Premier league, so I think moving the reputations up to compress them closer together would be good. That means shooting for the 60th (Allianz Division 1) 70th, 80th and 90th leagues by reputation would be a good resolution. You could space them slightly further apart, or consider moving division 1 up further but I think this would give a good basis for a a build a nation save. I assume there is a similar issue with the regional competitions that you'd want to check 4) I see the Intermediary / B team competitions show up in the 'Ireland' country, but they don't appear to have loaded which might be an FM23 version bug?

Just finished my first season playing Laois. Got promoted on the final day of the Allianz season so that was nice. Couple of questions: What happened to the intermediate/B teams competition you had in FM22? I'm guessing you decided it wasn't worth it as the clubs don't need it at the start of the game, but it would be quite useful in a 'build a nation' style save to develop players. Any thoughts on doing a playoff / finals for the provincial championships - and most importantly, giving it a European place? I've noticed there are a couple of spaces in the schedule (e.g. the 2nd to last week of the Allianz season doesn't have a game) where you could squeeze it in, and it would add a lot of interest both to the provincial championships, but also while climbing the divisions as it would help give another route to qualify for europe other than the all ireland. This would also dilute the importance of the league a bit more which I think is really important given its short length and the relative competitive balance between the layers.