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Did you go this far down the leagues in Austria as well? Since you mentioned it before. I'm already buzzing! It's definitely quite the hassle for Germany with the lack of information, but I can only agree with Jorgen - don't make it too much of a hassle for yourself unless it's necessary for you to tell the story the way you want to! (Also, dynamic relegation/dynamic division size really is a hassle, it has always been my personal nemesis and the reason why I never did Austria down to Level 6)

Liberia rather than the US. If you are talking about George that is.

Absolutely incredible work, amazing! I'd love to see some Austrian legends added because I'm austrian and we actually have a rich history and high cultural standing of football despite our small size, so I'll recommend some and perhaps they peak your interest as well! First up, we'd have Matthias Sindelar, captain of the Austrian wonder team in the 1930s which was the first team to beat Scotland on mainland Europe and scored high wins against European top teams. He's widely regarded as the best austrian player in the 20th century and called "The Mozart of Football". Next up, I'd love to see one of the most incredible goalscorers in history, Franz "Bimbo" Binder, who scored 1202 goals in 831 matches in total, which puts him amongst legendary strikers such as Pelé, Puskas or Josef Bican. Following this with two more Rapid Vienna legends, there are Gerhard Hanappi, a remarkably versatile midfielder, and Ernst Happel, a defender who helped Austria reach their best ever 3rd place in the 1954 World Cup and later went on to become one of the greatest managers in the game. These I think are some of the Austrian must-haves for a legends database. Some more modern legends would be Hans Krankl, Toni Polster, Herbert Prohaska, Michael Konsel or Didi Kühbauer.

I don't think there is a way to change the prize money in the midst of a savegame I'm afraid. Changes via PGE only apply to new savefiles where you select that database.

Get well soon, and take the time you need to recover!

Not the game, but the editor certainly feels like they care less and less about with each year. Which is a shame, because at least to me, FM has two MAJOR appeals. One is an ultrarealistic base for simulations and saves, and the other is the magnificent projects the userbase comes up with in the editor. The latter is to be even more appreciated when even very simple edited databases like mine come up with tedious issues after most updates. As for this error in particular, it seems inevitable that it would come up after major updates that do for example add clubs - but luckily it's an error we can also resolve decently well if it's just because of reserve teams in wrong nations/divisions like it's the case for me.

I love this! Did the recent editor update break any of your recent work in a major way?

Looking forward to you releasing this, thanks for doing this.

Not sure how I feel about revised potential abilities, but at the end of the day it's your version and I'm just grateful that you're sharing it! On the one hand I can understand not wanting to have 20, 30, 50 players with a PA of 195+, on the other hand players like Maradona, Pele, Garrincha, Zico, Yashin, Buffon, Best, Di Stefano, Ronaldo Fenomeno, Maldini as well as the likes of Messi and Cristiano from the newer generation are the legends they are and have the standing they have for a reason. Granted, those are probably players you'd have in the 190+ category as it is. And I understand dropping the potential ability of others and have someone like Van Basten or Cruyff quite as high. I just think in that case it's important to also lower the potential of currently existing players in the database, because having someone like Cruyff sit at a PA of 180-185 is fine if there's only a handful of players with 190+, but it's not fine when the likes of Haaland, Mbappe and Neymar far exceed it. Just my two cents here, but at the end of the day you do you! I'm just an excited bystander watching this project grow.

Perfect! Yeah, I can see where you're coming from. For the likes of SAF and Wenger, I think it's an easy choice to have them as managers without trying to take anything away from their careers as players. Their careers as managers just have been so legendary that not having them as managers wouldn't do them justice. Perhaps even moreso because they themselves managed some of the most legendary players/teams of their respective club. When in doubt, I would arguably tend to having people as players, but for the two of them I have no doubt.

Brilliant progress, great work! People are surely gonna be excited to see 16 year old Messi in the database alongside players like CR7 and Ibra. I also think the decision to not go double for people who were successful both as players and managers but rather steer their way towards becoming a manager is correct. Or just doing them straight up as a manager if they weren't AS legendary as a player. To bring up an Austrian example for a legendary manager, Ernst Happel has got to be there (I'm sure dutch people and HSV supporters are gonna agree), but he was also a legendary defender who featured in Austria's best ever result at a world cup (3rd in 1954), so that would be a prime candidate for a player (probably in his mid to late 20s I guess) with a strong inclination to become manager. How are you gonna go about legendary players who are managers right now in the game (Xavi, Zidane, Xabi Alonso,...)? I think taking their current manager versions out and having them as players is the way to go here.

Interesting, because there are pros and cons for every approach. In the end it's down to personal preference. It probably would feel most familiar to people if either the history of immigration - which at times has shaped the culture considerably - to be honored or if an in-between approach was picked. With that said, as this is about historical divergence, depending on what path you decide to go the best solution might be a different one. At the end of the day I will be fine with either, whether you keep New Zealand mostly "english" (with a bit of german, italian, polish,.. sprinkled over) or whether you go more polynesian and Maori and omit some of the second nations present due to immigration. But I'm intrigued to see which way you decide in the end.

Set their contract to run really long, like 2040+ via the editor, then both "Will leave at end of contract" and "Moves to X on Y" (choose one) should work like a charm, at least I've never had them leave. They'll stay at the club and they'll never ask for more money either.

Do I have to go into AR to change the youth rating of a nation? Trying to cause some stronger wonderkids from certain places and feel like I'm blind because I haven't found the option yet. Also, does someone know whether Nation or Based Nation matters more for the intake of a club? EDIT: NVM, I was just blind. It's under "Information" if you edit the nation. Second question still stands, so thank you in advance!

In this savefile, Konyaspor is not selectable to manage. Why is that? AR MRCX ESL Legends final.fmf