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I don't think that's actually an option (lots of under-21 type rules though), but I imagine they would just get confused. I swore I read on here once that AI looked to "match rules" to affect their transfer strategy (but not overall season rules) hence all my redundant entries, although I haven't really seen that established in practice

This is the type of seed I plant in my head, then go for a walk or something and come back ready to stop butting my head against the wall with a new editing plan If you go that route, maybe copy and/or remove the coefficient win/draw settings (points for win and draw etc) and place them in the new comps instead (save a backup first obviously)

"Other international" might help, I think Nations League uses that? (instead of "international finals"). But I'm not sure there's a U21 option actually...

Does that number represent a unique ID that corresponds to a stadium you were using or anything?

That makes sense. I wonder if you could keep them around just to hold, like, a hidden stage that would sort teams (and maybe distribute them to other competitions). Maybe just an early qualifying stage. In FM23 I edited the ACL by wiping the groups and knockouts, so you can make wholesale changes like that as long as it's still there. But it wouldn't surprise me if it crashed anyway with the degree of changes we're talking

I considered that but it seems like way too much work, i think you'd have to rebuild the entire coefficient system? Looks daunting

Haven't touched MLS to that extent, gonna keep all the hard-coded stuff like drafts, international spots, etc. At least until the final patch.

Whatever's in there by default for 2023, so yeah they're in there (for now). Will consider what to do with them (and other clubs that go bust) in future versions but it makes sense to keep them. SI tend to do North America by the season so everything for FM24 is licensed based off 2023, including rosters (for now at least)

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That's bizarre, is this only for inactive divisions? I wonder if you could give them a secondary division or something and have it active but without any rules

Try adding each of those Saturdays into "dates" so that it will schedule games there as a matter of priority. Also under "fixture rules" I'm guessing both the Central American Cup and your default league have the box unchecked for "number of days between games" or whatever it is, the default is 3 though so that shouldn't matter here (should still be able to do Saturday or Sunday then Wednesday)

Even with the Gulf Player Fix file I haven't been able to counter it that much. Funnily enough by programming in Al-Ittihad and Al-Hilal's transfer ban last year (only lasted until winter 2022) I delayed it by a few months, lol, but the exodus is real and starts as soon as they can. It seems to be a fundamental issue with how the AI handles its squad given how quickly they turn them into "surplus to requirements". So even controlling their transfer behaviour would be a band-aid I think, we need to somehow convince them that keeping a solid stable of domestics is crucial in its own right.

I think you need to use "process into stage" under the league settings of the hidden stage this year as well Or wait it's a cup stage? Try that "take stage results into other stage" setting under "stage actions" or wherever it is too

Haven't seen much in the way of improved scheduling tbf, game still wants to bunch up weekend/midweek fixtures in the first part of the season as much as possible

Stage 2 is the hidden stage? It can have everyone, doesn't matter as it doesn't actually show up. Then in the hidden stage, everyone plays everyone else using fixture plan rules under group settings. Then in the visible stage, under league settings use "get matches from other stage" and make sure "count fixtures" is checked (because you're getting all the results from only a partial amount of the teams)

There's a "stage flag" that says "store stage name with history", do you have that enabled? Also have you found any way to get rid of that annoying "Loudoun United cannot be promoted" line, other than changing them from a 'B' team to a different type of affiliation with DCU?

What's the main issue with the editor? Something with youth players?

Doubt they care enough for custom leagues. Anything they adjust might have knock-on effects in leagues that are actually licensed, so as long as transfer AI is (barely) passable there, the status quo reigns. I *think* the problem is simply that the big clubs decide these players aren't good enough and sell them/don't sign them, with the sort of game logic that they'll find suitable domestic players as a replacement (and in England, or Brazil, they would). Here, though, there are very few (Al-Dawsari et al), so they just leave those roster spots blank. I'm working on a realistic US pyramid for now, might come back to this at some point

No, that takes a bit more work rebuilding all the Asian international comps, might have a go at that at some point (possibly after the last official patch as their fixes can tend to nuke anything like this)

You can't use "start of season" anymore, you have to specify the comp and a start date too I think

You can't just use the default "start of season" in "start date" anymore, for some reason you have to specify the division (and maybe a specific date) now. So weird

Your "ranking levels" are blank, there might be some default hard-coded ranking levels that take over unless you specify here. Just take a look at a default comp somewhere to see how they need to look to account for everyone being knocked out along the way

Yeah they won't change anything to support created leagues. And agreed, I use to love starting unemployed in D4 USA or Canada (closest thing a real manager's path for someone in my position IRL) but MLS is such a mess by the third or fourth season it's really only suitable as a start to your career. Play a couple of seasons, then move to Mexico/Europe/S. America. Sadly the Gulf leagues don't even last that long before the big teams' rosters implode

Absent any work-around, the way the AI handles squad-building is fundamentally incompatible with the setup in the Gulf leagues where it's high-rep foreigners along with best-available domestics. Usually AI squad-building is a mess by the second or third season in leagues like MLS and Australia but it's in overdrive here