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With facilities I suppose it won't be unreasonable to have them upgraded to match the situation irl during a major update or next version.

Reading and (kinda) dissecting the interview -- top line says is clearly: it's a whole new game for us, like how Civilisation has always been evolving, from a clean slate and then building further from there. This was for Shouts and International Management for instance. So the UI will definitely look more tablet like (we've seen a hint of it from the tiles they've posted). So it'll work out kinds similar gameplay wise, just slightly different way to access what we're used to. Hopefully each of us will be able to develop our own style with much more variety (I found out about modifying the default skin late on in FM24, and it's working well for me without needing other packs). Unfortunately that's the nature of the Unity beast, or moving to any other platform. So once again for those craving for International Management, there's still FM Mobile (I'll be playing Wales, maybe while waiting for my lagtop to process regular FM) So yes quite clearly, not for quite a while. This is probably the thing we're all waiting for. So it's a collaboration to seal the licensing deal, which probably explains why FM is catching up really well with EAFC/Fifa recently. Interesting history, the landscape is much changed now -- a lot more will be paying (or happily waiting for free and legal GamePass) That probably sums it up, so like many things irl, it's happening -- let's stand together and move forward bravely into the new era.

Wow, sounds like the interaction has increased your 'controversy' attribute :-p

I remember in earlier versions if we 'disagree' sufficiently with the board it leads to a (usually) quick dismissal.

I haven't been successful enough to challenge the culture in significant ways, so for those saves I find being unsackable helps lol. But it's also true that results do matter (as they do irl) As for players and tactics, I don't really go galacticos or 'meta -- but I do find Training quite useful if one makes a little extra effort to actually use the feature ;-)

It's not that, otherwise they would have done so. Taking the principles which Miles has always mentioned:- Would we do it in the same way if we had our time again? Would we have done this at all? Do we have the time required to do this to the highest possible standard, in our first cycle of a new era Weight probably doesn't meet any of the 3 criteria. Shouts and International Management aren't meeting the third criteria, so we'll have to wait unfortunately After the FifaE collaboration, it's good to review VS and Drafts from scratch With Unity as the context, leagues including Women's are on track, so it's a go for that.

It's a development (technical) thread, would have been great to have it remain so (what x means to the game of FM). If the consensus is that discussions about weight/height/etc are essentially political (what x means to humans), would it be better to have it discussed separately?

This describes weight as used in FM, *factually*. Transfer values are definitely relevant to the game of FM, though obviously not to the match engine.

Yes, officially mentioned on 27 June:- https://www.footballmanager.com/news/development-update-football-manager-25

Would be good to say it as such; it reads really different first time round imo

Suppose you can ask here:- and here for console:- https://community.sports-interactive.com/forums/forum/135-fm-console-and-fm-touch-general-discussion/

Yeah that and better graphics apparently, likely faster gameplay, easier navigation -- easier to maintain hopefully. I suspect the market would really explode positively if and when mobile does come on board (not yet in 2025 unfortunately, but international management will still be available on mobile).

Building Lego with my child has been an insightful experience for me. We build a bird that took over 100 steps and little over 2 days. The next moment he says, let's build a fish now -- and proceeds to tear down the bird while I was still marvelling at the work! The fish takes fewer steps, and *excludes several elements* from the bird that we had worked hard to assemble (those elements made the bird a bit awkward, but it is what it is, and I loved it anyways). And we took slightly longer to build the fish due to unexpected interruptions. Unity is the completely different universe, partly as it claims to combine the physics etc. to fit all football players realistically. International football is the block of Lego that's particularly challenging to disassemble (even with Lego brick remover), so it will just have to wait unfortunately. The previous model is good while it lasts (20 years is a long time) -- but we have to move on. My 5 yo moved on in a heartbeat; his old man also has done it, even though it took longer (I was going on about the bird even while we were more than halfway done with the fish). I hope that the good folk in this community (who are much younger than I am for sure) will do the same.

FM Mobile isn't running on Unity in 2025 -- good news is that International Management remains intact there ;-)

I'm so glad someone has finally use the Lego analogy: it's really an entirely new thing SI is doing with Unity. I've heard from friends who actually code with Unity on other games, that it really isn't the easiest thing to do -- so I feel we need to let SI take the time needed to sort out what needs to be done to come up with a Minimum Viable Product (not many would like me using this term, but if we're making a new thing from reconstituted Lego, that's exactly what's happening here). We would all love it to be seamless and 'like previous FMs' but it was never gonna happen exactly as we hope, was it? To rebuild everything, it is completely reasonable to have it with fewer features, particularly those that have been sticking out like sore thumbs. So let's trust that whatever features that remain would work decently with Unity, and let the other stuff (which I do like for immersion) find their way somewhere along the journey.

I just want to say thank you for all the hard work in doing FM Mobile. I'm just getting my feet wet in FM24 mobile, and I'll probably continue onto FM25 mobile as well (if things go well with Netflix). Hopefully if I get my international team ported over to FM25 with minimal hassle.