themodelcitizen

Yeah, take a look at "qualified teams" and you can see I added them in there, and then just added spaces to the preliminary stage (was able to keep the same rounds, just had to change the numbers of teams in certain rounds, and numbers of teams being added to certain rounds). Also had to manually adjust the ranking levels, obviously, for the overall competition (you can see my changes there too) to account for the 3 extra teams

That's always a backup option but not recommended, usually means an issue with ranking levels. The game doesn't actually "know" who's winning the competition if you have to add history like that, so AFAIK no trophy presentation, no pre-match news items about the big final, etc

Interesting! Is Bermuda's "based nation" Quebec while all the other teams are Canada? And yes, I meant the real Chivas! Not sure why my mind went blank and reflexively typed USA, definitely familiar with the old MLS team and the classic Mexican team...

Then you might have to use the stage flag "use playoff rankings" in the league

Ranking levels should work, first place in the league gets 0 (league champion), second place gets highest = 1 and lowest = whatever the lowest ranking they can end up with after everything's done. I guess that might be 5th overall? So 4 would be the joint ranking for the quarterfinal losers (3 is semi losers, 2 is promotion playoff loser, 1 is promotion playoff winner)? Then in the promotion playoff the final would have winner = 1, loser = 2, etc. Semis would have winner highest = 1, winner lowest = 2, etc

Not sure yet, and I expect that any cross-compatibility (and this will extend to saved games too) will be at the expense of full functionality with all the new features

That's a tricky one, under "league fate actions" you can apply exceptions and tell it to skip to the next team or not, but I'm not sure how you'd tie that up with promotion. I'm not sure it would be able to handle the 0-promotion seasons in any event. Are the leagues flexible enough (IRL) to account for different numbers of teams each season?

Team Predator was (maybe still is?) used in the MLS Draft combine, where the draft picks play a bunch of games against each other. Load the US to check if it's still used that way, if so I wouldn't touch it. CanPL might be or was intended to be used for a similar purpose

I guess by rebuilding all of the competitions, although you might not be able to rescue the UEFA club coefficient (at least not easily)

And following that, I realized we can also just shunt some Russian clubs into the ACL early stages from 2024 and it doesn't seem to affect the co-efficients and everything working around it. The games don't show up in the Russian clubs' fixture lists and are a blank space for other clubs (haven't tried playing one as a Russian club yet), but the home games are played at a neutral venue: DOWNLOAD (backup) These last two likely need a bit more testing before we can consider them stable...

This one just adds Wellington Phoenix to the O-League every season and changes their continental cup nation to their native New Zealand. DOWNLOAD (backup) As a result, they should be ineligible for the Asian Champions League but will have a much easier path to the Club World Cup and all of its prize money. Not that it's a fait accompli: This might delay the end of the A-League a few days, especially if the Phoenix end up in the elimination final there (they dodged the May 12 clash this time in the first screenshot above).

Here's Al-Hilal transfer history for the first 6 years with their finances/objectives bumped up, and the Gulf Player Reputation Fix file: Not sure what happened in 2024, I guess they had to clear out what the AI considered a bloated squad. But it's great to see them spending so much money in the rest of the windows. Lol at Lukaku joining on a free in 2026. They could use one or two more signings of a Saudi player aged 25+ every couple of years, or less of a clear-out, so I'll bump up that Supporter Objective. Al-Ittihad transfer activity for the first few years after 2023: Saudi Pro League and ACL history:

Any changes to the overseas teams? I think they all come in sixth or seventh round anyway (?) so should be unaffected?

I was inspired by OllieDrew's great work in his thread, and went ahead with FIFA's plans after December 2023 for a June 2025 quadrennial edition with 32 teams and mega prize money. This is expanding on the default 24-team version, so the hosts are still semi-random: In real life, any extra slots after the Champions League winners will go by club ranking (max of 2 teams from each country). I'm trying to fill these with teams currently active in their CL, sorted by reputation - not perfect but should pass the smell test. Not sure I can limit that to two per country (after factoring in CL winners), will keep brainstorming. DOWNLOAD (backup) Compatible with: Russian teams in ACL | Wellington Phoenix in OCL CONCACAF teams in Copa Libertadores I've kept it going in December of every other year with my best guess at the format of this new tournament until we get more details: Sounds a lot like the old one. Disclaimer: the 2025 CWC will almost certainly result in fixture congestion those years for summer leagues like Brazil, Japan, and MLS (not to mention Leagues Cup). They should be fine, they can handle the 24-team version, I've just moved those dates a couple of weeks. EDIT: This seems to be working the way we want now, once I figured out that "get last winner" actually works with the "year offset" box...

In theory you could invent your own sort of invisible coefficient based on division reputation (that's dynamic, isn't it?) using team pools and sorting by division repetition. Would just be an insane amount of work

What sorts of issues were you getting with the original ID? I was able to alter the format and such but not the hosts, it would pick a semi-random host for every edition (even if you set "specific stadium" or "host nation" elsewhere). I think I had to keep it on flexible format rules. I used "clear current list of qualified teams" to get rid of whatever hardcoded qualifying was going on in the background (i.e. in the various Champions Leagues) but I think you could use that to your advantage for the quadrennial version (just like the 24-team 2025 version in-game)

Nicely done. Is that a cut-out folder? Can I share a download link to it (with credit to you) in the Island Games thread?

Wow those are brilliant. Have you taken a bit of creative license or are they pretty close to what teams wore in Guernsey last month?

What if you changed the FA Cup to just be a "domestic cup" instead of "domestic main cup"? Or failing that, set an end year of 2021 for the normal one, and duplicate it into a "domestic cup"... maybe the game will look for a cup winner wherever it can find it, though

Can I ask what the big changes were (if any)? Fantastic work as usual

Sounds great. I know the level 10 file available here works well, and covers teams in Wight, Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man etc so I don't need much lower. Those kits sound cool. Feel free to post any Qs here or in the editing questions thread. Keep up the good work

Season update day is a bit late, with the season starting Jan 2 that could actually fall before December 30 some years (I believe that start date will fluctuate based on the days of the week, but the season update day is a fixed date). That will throw up issues for sure. Otherwise just add a fixture date for each date you want (sounds like each Saturday during a specific period), and then under "dates" use those fixture dates. For each, go into "offset dates" and set 1 game per timeslot. Copy and paste those offset dates into each entry If you're specifying each game that way, I think it will ignore your overall "offset dates", but it might be causing issues that you're offsetting each gameday 7 days. I'd put that at 0. Trying to schedule everything a week ahead is just gonna cause clashes with itself that cascade on each other and then it will default to the saturday 3 pm weeknight 8 pm scheduling or whatever you have as default

All Star teams? Have you got those working in any way? Glad to hear you took some guidance from the international files. And if you don't mind sharing those kits they might be a hit in the Island Games thread, haha I've got a save going with Guernsey using that file and the amazing England level 10 file from the user Lionel Messi here

Just started unemployed with my Sammarinese DB and the Fusion file down to Eccellenza loaded, at the start of Italian clubs' participation in the Champions League. This should mean that my selecting the "no transfer activity in first window" option leads to a realistic situation at the beginning of September. Just before taking the Pennarossa job - the only one available in all of San Marino, which I applied to and successfully interviewed for - I was offered the chance to make any changes to the month-to-month backroom staff. Naturally, I set about sacking a useless fitness coach, although it occurred to me I may have been keeping his brother on: However, the game doesn't seem to recognize them as brothers, so no inherent advantage - and off to the Sammarinese unemployment office he goes. I upgraded the existing coach's deal (no one's brother, as far as I know) to assistant manager, knowing how difficult it would be to start at a new club without one. Watch this space, will try to bring Pennarossa to glory and spread any newfound wealth into the league below. By the time I started at Pennarossa, they were 3 games into the season. Thankfully, they took 4 points out of it with positive goal differential, and the goal of a top 7 spot with the playoffs attached seems in reach:

I've got a working Island Games file if you want to poke around that, and separately a Catalan file (incompatible as it uses one of the same extinct nations) where it just functions as an unclickable second nationality (like Basque). In the Island Games file I repurposed the extinct nations too, I'm not entirely sure how it would handle newgens if you activated a league in one of those countries but testing looked promising