Wolf_pd

Try adding the Essex Senior Cup as a secondary competition to all teams involved. That way you can pick the cup as competition and the teams are automatically added.

Most of it is not so much the developers and SI people, but rather head researchers. The issue with much of the data is that setting it is usually rather subjective. I am an assistent researcher for a Dutch football club and I prefer to do the objective data since I can say for sure what someone's birthdate, contract period and such is, while setting the stamina, technique or work rate is much more subjective. To confirm subjective data you need a massive test to check whether the data is right or wrong. Dave does exactly that which makes his work so good (and interesting to study as a world building editor). I don't know how much the researchers test and how they test, so can't say why they don't come to the same result as Dave.

We need to get and pay @Daveincidto create a new world order based on our requirements

I checked those names, but it seems they all played outside the Soviet Union after they turned 30, which is the age that was mentioned by Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko. Hatzipanagis is an exception obviously since he was Greek by birth. Funnily enough, if you look at Georgia, you would find players with Greek descent in that area as well, but Hatzipanagis is not related to those.

Correct, players are allowed to be transferred out of the country. I have a book about the European Championship 1988 where one of the Soviet players is quoted about the rules leaving the country.

This has nothing to do with the display list I think. Check the division level for the Premier League please.

No spoilers, but historically you will notice that Novgorod was a wee bit earlier than 1800. Siberia, who knows

You can’t change it in your save. It sounds like this has been build in the editor file. It depends on the file if it can be changed (probably can be done).

Yes. Right now I have three in my mind.

Some testing notes in the meantime, I am slowly building up the files by each testrun adding a nation. So starting with Albania, next is Albania-Andorra, next is Albania-Andorra-Austria and on and on. The advantage is that if you start seeing unexpected things, you can always check back the previously save file. I am also only testing for 15 years now, because it is strictly competition testing. When the various international competition come into play I will do longer (say 30-40 years) of runs and see how things fare.

I think the file contains entries for both long and short name, so yes, should work.

While writing the story of Europe, it is currently, Bonaparte, Napoleon Bonaparte, all around the clock. I am looking to do division of about 5-10 years (depending on precise historical happenings. So the first parts should be mostly about the Napoleonic Wars in Europe and the Congress of Vienna with a big role for Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein.

If you hear something whirring in the background, it is Czechoslovakia that's being tested. Or you are advised to have your ears checked. It took a little longer than hoped, because my concentration was pretty much running around the room, but I managed to pick out a few teams that I placed in the wrong area (apologies to Ruzomberok fans) and added an extra rule to make sure the lower levels wouldn't end up one big reserve team fest at one moment. The positive points is that it is done, but I am dreading Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. At least I managed to get a good way of working down to be able to go through it quicker and for Yugoslavia I am close to the point where things would go wrong, so it is a lot less rework. Next week will almost be a sort of restweek, with little editime on monday, tuesday I am first in the office (always physically tiring) and in the evening I am watching Dune 1 and 2 in succession (five hours of IMAX!), wednesday should see me resting as the movie takes until 2:30 and I won't be in bed until 3:00. On a office day that is a tough thing. After the planned rest day, which could see some data editing as a relaxation tool, Thursday is planned for eating out, so I won't have any real planned edit time until Friday again. The weekend isn't much better with the Sunday lost. But at least, first order is to get all Romania data back in shape which is easier to slip in for some free hours than redoing a competition, You just need to keep your wits when digging around in advanced rules.

When you create a player there is no need to verify rules. You have a data file, which can exist without any nation rules. Can you upload your file?

One thing of note is that in almost 100 years of Czechoslovak competition only 4 times there was NO team from Prague in the top 4.

I love working out the history for nations, I hate adding it to the editor file

If you use a setup date for the competition which is a few days later than the final qualification day, you should be able to use ignore teams qualified for competition. Haven't used it myself, but it sounds like the most logical option to use.

First tip I give to every editor, start small, make sure you understand the editor on a basic level and then make your project bigger. My projects are world wide, but I didn't start big in FM20. I started exploring the editor in FM10.

Only if they contain different teams.

Yep, good advice. Study other files if you need a place to start. Also, if you are completely new at it. Start with basic rules to see how things are set up. Advanced rules are much harder to navigate, so basic rules will teach you what to do and not do. Added remark, even experienced editors do use basic rules to set their starting competition, so there is absolutely no reason not to use it.

That is not possible.

How many matches in a season do you want a team to play?

No, the year calendar in the game is reallife. You can’t stretch februari to 31 days.

Odd issue turning up, several teams from Croatia and Slovenia have turned Yugoslavian, without me doing anything about it. Probably is because I changed their competitions to Yugoslavia, which was not my intention. Something to fix when I am working on Yugoslavia again. Work with moving players has finished. I have some final checks in that file for players in England with a contract data before 1/2/2021 (which would make them non-foreign under Brexitrules) and some transfer values I need to purge to avoid getting sudden influx of money. Then it is checking teams for too much players, but all those checks are done in between while I am competition editing. On that note, Czechoslovakia will be finished this weekend (pretty sure of that), next week is spend at work, in the dunes until late in the night and out for dinner, so I don't have much time to edit anyway and March is for Romania. I need to clean up the Romanian data so the competition works again and then it is checking the playoffs I have set before I convert it to advanced rules. Since Romania does not have any tricks up their sleeve like Czechoslovakia did, I expect to go through it quicker. It also means the midweeks are available for the Soviet Union and West Germany and (yes, I know this is blasphemous ) other games.

Remove the comp editor file, go to Steam and verify your installation. It will update the files and put the original one back.