Hi - I can see a few questions around this about specific scenarios but could find a more general answer when searching. Hoping to just clarify a few things and (if useful) keep my query open/generic enough that this becomes a useful go to answer in the future for others. I think if I've read right, at least some level of taking old editor game data files into new pre-game editor and game can work. But please correct me if I'm wrong!
In FM23 I have an edited DB which includes alot of elements, Clubs/Players/League Rules etc. (A create a nation set up that took weeks of my life...). In FM24 - If I want to open that DB file and look to either merge changes with the new FM24 DB, or with League Rules load up and re-verify. etc,
What are:
- Best steps to do this easily (eg. does it work best to limit DB changes being merged to clubs/stadiums and avoid players?)
- Any good things to watch out for/check that commonly fail if doing this?
- Anything that categorically will not work?
- If multiple changes/large DB edits, any good ways to break down the files for taking across? (Eg. one for player changes, one for club changes etc.)
With the Beta out, I'd like to use my time getting the old FM23 file in best place possible to be able to use in FM24 - benefitting from updated squads,kits, wonderkids etc. of the new database. But retaining the hours of work I did to convert Luxembourg into a created nation floating in the North Sea with rivalries, league and cup structures and full nation of clubs.
Appreciate any and all advice from those who have done this or similar in the past (noting that there could be new FM24 Editor changes that make all of this incorrect!)