["Players signed on free transfers can be registered at any time" is not working(kind of)]

I have a advanced rule Hong Kong mod which rework the Hong Kong League structure to be as close as real life. However, after using my mod, you can no longer register free agent outside of normal transfer window, inside free agent transfer window, outside of registration window, but since "Players signed on free transfers can be registered at any time" option is selected should be able to register.

The tick is greyed out hence not able to select and register.

When I don't select my mod before I start a new save, it works miraculously.

So there must be something wrong with my mod, I first guessed that maybe this is hardcoded, so I test my theory by starting a Hong Kong advanced rule clean and change the setting of the league randomly and see if it still works, and to my own dismay, it still works.(By it works I mean I can register free agent)

This leads me to think that most likely(not 100% sure) that it is not hardcoded. Then, I guessed maybe is the fixture rules that is the root of the problem. I copied all my competitions (Competition type advanced rule) to the clean file and use some workaround to get a clean Hong Kong (Nation type advanced rule) and it fails to work.

So the competitions must be the culprit I thought, I looked at the competitions version of the league that I have problem with and saw that it is earlier version than the clean advanced rule file, so I thought it might be the version that is causing so much problem.

To test this out I redo the whole advanced rule part of my mod by Remove Rules and Add Nation Rules again and hand copy all the settings from my original rules to the new one. (Can't use copy and paste function in editor as it somehow removes the information about version, file path, I am afraid those have effect so I hand copied)

After all those trouble it still doesn't work.

But when I use copy function copy the league to the clean file I stated before it somehow works.(League Fixture not working after copying and also some detail lost, maybe important to note)

I even copied over my Hong Kong (Nation type advanced rules) it still works.

So I thought it might be league fixture's problem and I saved my redone mod (The one I hand copied, I use this as my main mod afterwards) to a new file and removed the League Fixture and add the league schedule back (Copied from clean file) and it still fails, so it mustn't be League Fixture's fault.

I even removed all other leagues that I made other than the one that I have problem with to see if it is other leagues causing problem and of course it is not and it still fails.

I have officially ran out of things to text and quite puzzled by the problem itself, can someone please enlighten me?

My guesses for the root of problem are: (Likeliness based on intuition)

- Is it because I have 3 of the same league to cater for 2 different years and 1 for the rest till forever (High likeliness)

  - Is it because I have 2 of the same league that have the same file path that is causing the problem (I kind of tested it to be not true, low likeliness)

- Is it there something wrong in the league the way I set it up (Very high likeliness)

- Is this a bug in the game (Low likeliness)

- Is this a problem related to league fixtures (Low likeliness)

I think the problem most likely lies in the way I set up the league and I usually don't resort to using forum but I had tried to fix this problem for days and well the result speaks for itself.

香港足球.fmf

[ERROR IN NATION RULES(extra team requested = 0)]

On 02/02/2023 at 15:14, rusty217 said:

Looks like you also have a ranking levels issue that needs to be fixed too.

The ranking level is my mistake, I didn't copy over all the settings that I did in my old file

[ERROR IN NATION RULES(extra team requested = 0)]

On 02/02/2023 at 15:14, rusty217 said:

The game doesn't like having 0 relegation places while teams are getting promoted into the league.

Try changing the 2022 and 2023 versions to have 1 relegation place and 2 promotion places in the 2nd tier. You'll still have 1 extra team being added to the top league each season, but the game won't throw up errors from it.

I tested and you are right, but I intended it to be 0 relegation places for first two seasons.

I figured out that if I set the relegation rules, number of relegation places as 0, it works out the way I intended it to be, weird.

Thanks for the help anyways!

[ERROR IN NATION RULES(extra team requested = 0)]

33 minutes ago, rusty217 said:

Try changing the 2022 and 2023 versions to have 1 relegation place and 2 promotion places in the 2nd tier. You'll still have 1 extra team being added to the top league each season, but the game won't throw up errors from it.

I will try this tomorrow and see if it works

33 minutes ago, rusty217 said:

Looks like you also have a ranking levels issue that needs to be fixed too.

I will look more into it thanks

[ERROR IN NATION RULES(extra team requested = 0)]

I created another file with the nations rule default, advanced rules and randomly edited something and the result is same as when I have no mod where I can register Free Agents. This makes me come to the conclusion that most likely free transfer can register at any time is not hard coded

I also tried to not change the fixture rules, but copy all my leagues to this file, if the fixture rule is hard coded, this should work, yet it failed like my backup file. I suspect the leagues being on old version is the problem, so I tried to remake the database in the newest version and not touch the fixture rule.

This is my newest understanding of the problem after working about 7 hours on this today

[ERROR IN NATION RULES(extra team requested = 0)]

This doesn't happen when I disable my mod

Both of those free agents are of same nationality, where both of them are domestic players, so there should be no restriction on registering them, I am also using the same club in both scenarios

[ERROR IN NATION RULES(extra team requested = 0)]

To give context to why I remade the nation rules, it is to try to change 香港超級聯賽(league) into free transfers can be regiestered at any time, because I didnt use the original fixture rules and I was trying to fix it

I open up a new save, go on holiday until transfer window is closed while the free agent transfer window is still open and signed a free agent

after I accepted and a day had passed I try to register, u know after u can see coach report on him

The tick is greyed out, which shouldn't happen given player signed on free transfer can be registered at any time

[ERROR IN NATION RULES(extra team requested = 0)]

I get this error when I test rules in 香港足球.fmf, which is a remake of 香港足球backup.fmf after the game updated. In 香港足球backup.fmf, there is no error when I test the rules and both database are very similar, but the fixture rules are different and 香港足球.fmf's leagues are using a updated version

I suspect that either I made a mistake when I remade the leagues that I didn't copy over everything important or this is a bug that is in the new version but not in the older

香港足球.fmf 香港足球backup.fmf