themodelcitizen

I think you can select host with "get from participating teams" but they have to be selected using "qualified teams" maybe? And they have to be qualified when it's set up. Or else it won't know who to use World Nations League sounds amazing, you using something like the UEFA NL structure?

No, but what do you have in mind?

Nicely done. I was trying to get the bottom 32 teams in the world rankings in it at one point but couldn't get it to pull the right teams

If you don't need any other seeding rules, then you could just "sort" the teams by longitude either in the teams list or the stage itself (I think). With no other instructions it will just pull the groups straight from the list of teams, in order, so they'll already be sorted from east to west

In fixture rules, make sure days between games is 2 (or even 1), just in case something gets rearranged. It sounds like there's stadium clashes, likely from fixtures in the same group or different groups trying to use the same stadium at the same time. Sometimes it delays games a week automatically if that happens. If you specify each game date using "offset dates" with specific stadiums mentioned, you can keep track and make sure there aren't any conflicts. For each specific stage or round you can set fixture priority as well. Despite that there's still a possibility of clashes with league games at that ground, not sure you can do much about that short of setting an alternate stadium for the home club team during that time period.

Was thinking about trying to shoehorn San Diego in somewhere (in lieu of placing them in MLS), but the competitions are all fairly well-balanced now and they only have four players signed at the moment. Would be cool to do a kind of dispersal draft, maybe modelled on previous versions of the game where that happened. Not sure I have the time to test it for a while though

They come from the USL2, so you could just dump new clubs (modelled after colleges) into the existing USL2 conferences, I think that's what most people do. If you didn't wanna build the rules then at least it would look the way you want in their history, news items about the draft, etc. Yeah they're really not good at it, I tried different options in the editor to make them take advantage of the loan system more, but they're not great at this kind of squad management

Done. Do people mind the multi-stage set up? Does the game sort of "know" what's going on when you win before the next stage is drawn? It's a bit convoluted but seems to reflect the way they're actually going to organize it

Could take a look at how I merged them into the Copa Libertadores. If you know how to get at the default rules you can see how they're set up before I changed them around here

Are they created comps? "Get last winner" might not be an option in that case, but I think you could give them all fate actions for the winner like "qualify team for comp", and then use "get qualified teams" in the joint competition file

Love the injury changes. What else can they get? Polio? I made an NASL database for FM19 that took place in 1978 but was a sort of "best of" the league in terms of format, players, etc. Been thinking of ways to revive it, might be nice to change all the dates for 1966 and have Eusebio and Cruyff with future moves to a fully developed NASL already set

Fixing the teams in USLC and USL1, thankfully it's an easy adjustment with as many teams leaving as came in, so we can keep the 2023 format but with the correct 2024 lineup. It doesn't look like SI touched any of the rosters in USL2 or NISA? Can leave that for now... still working on that money bug affecting USLC teams (and USLC teams only) though, this is probably best as a background mod until we get that fixed

Is it the min/max team rule for the competition found under the nation rules themselves?

I can't recall trying that specific one, and MLS hasn't been using it for years (if ever), but it might throw up some weird group names. Probably worth a shot. There's also MLS "3-group style" which must be from when they had a Central Conference c. 2001-ish.

Not even "MLS 2 Groups Style"?

I'll do a version like that this weekend, you guys are right and it is better treated as a new tournament with a new history. Same reputation should work mind you

I believe "best teams" automatically sorts by last season's standings. Not sure about "all teams"

I don't think I did anything that should affect it, I guess there might be some default issues with it. I'd rather the old Confederations Cup back to be honest, just no room on the calendar for it

Some appear to be hard-coded. You could flood the nation and its regions with created people (like 100+ year old refs who won't interact with the game in any way) to try and crowd the name pool with different names, but even that's not reliably consistent. Some extinct nations like Ireland pre-1922 appear to be more malleable than others in that regard.

I'd guess the player you're duplicating has to exist in FM24 as well? Either way I'd go through and re-enter some of the attributes, like literally re-type what it says. Sometimes they show up as active in the editor but are still blank until a change is registered there

No, I feel like that would break coefficients and all the default qualifying stuff, or at least too big of a project to take on with spring/summer in full flow

Along with "fixed draw" try "seeded draw" and "higher seed plays at home" or whatever it is? I think you can override the cup tie mapping order with that. Or maybe it's just "higher seeded team plays at home" instead of "lower"?

That's hilarious. Yeah maybe make it a separate stage, I think Belgium does that? Everyone can start again at 0 (or at least the top group). Hopefully wouldn't mess things up in Scotland too much

Might be worth raising it in the bugs forum for next year. As for the extra 6 players, I think you'd have to just copy the league rules and then add 6 to each one? not very clean but there may be a way

It may be, but last year there was some weird hard-coding with the CL group stages where you could only mess with it to a certain degree and I think that's still the case. I don't think just changing the "start year" would work either as you'd also have to account for 32 teams instead of 36 and re-adjust how teams drop down to the Europa. I gave up last time I tried