Wolf_pd

Some more work on Belgium tonight and that brings us to 250K in changes for players alone I checked in game with a few tests and we are past 720K total at the moment for the files I have now.

The helpers are for national leagues mainly used to move dates around. Might be that it is the move from summer to late autumn (I refuse to say winter ). Still, interesting find, hadn't seen that one as I usually rebuild it on my own, but might find some tricks there.

Interesting link. That might help with some of the nations that go over two continents. Obviously teams like Saprissa have a role to play. I will use the existing teams, but depending on the nation and the background story some renaming may occur. If there are not enough teams for my competition ideas I will add new ones as well.

Yep, very likely true.

Nation: Honduras Offical long name: Republic of Honduras Language(s): Spanish and various indigenous languages Capital: Tegucigalpa National stadium: Estadio Nacional Borders: north Yucatán, east Caribbean Sea, west Pacific Ocean, south Colombia As you may notice we are slowly moving south even though there were already two nations to the north of Nahua mentioned. That's because I am still finishing up the north American history in my head. The creation of Honduras was the direct resolution of the civil war in the Federal Republic of Central America and the subsequent dissolution in two nations. After the civil war things returned to peace quickly, allowing for the reboot of the Honduran competition into a national competition. Together with the national competition a cup competition was started and Honduras would have the first super cup in football in 1847. Honduras would see expansion in 1914 when the Panama canal was finished. The United States could not agree when the Panama Canal Zone would be returned to Panama. The resulting revolt split Panama into with two areas on either side of the newly build Canal. The north would join Honduras, while the south would join back into Colombia. Honduras would be the third nation to join the international competition between Nahua and Yucatán in both in nation and club football. The Copa del Sol would be expanded and the Copa Centroamericana was born!

I am looking at the current day international competitions and club competitions and it is a bit of a puzzle. For the Iron Curtain I made a 4 year calender and used that as a base. I did the same for this project, but I am not yet done with deciding on the competitions. It also depends on the final list of nations and that's not yet finalized.

Depends on what you want to change. The general biography uses the data from editor like the competition performances and such.

Check your stages one by one (visually, not in test) and check if any stage is waiting for a missing stage or sends teams to a missing stage.

Tonight no data work on the Benelux. The Netherlands is already done btw, but surprisingly that was the smallest of the three. Belgium is a bit more work, but things are progressing nicely there. But tonight I have some work planned on the general data like cleaning up results and records. Too bad I can't edit national records, they are blocked. Which annoys me a lot as the record for Malaysia is one that I want to edit.

For a moment I thought I managed to create a bugged situation where England was Brexited while Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland decided to stay in the EU, but it turned out I made a data mistake. One thing I did notice however and which has been added to the list, is that all last signed contract dates for foreign players will have to be moved to 1-1-2021 so they will be counted as full foreigners. This wasn't an issue in FM20 (I think), but should give the English football system a bit more of a shock. I also need to check whether my match rules are correct as my registration should not enable ALL Under 21 to be registered automatically. That was a difference I noticed for England and Austria among others. You needed to specify there that only domestic Under 21 were registered automatically.

Nation: Yucatán Offical long name: Republic of Yucatán Language(s): Spanish and various indigenous languages Capital: Ichcaansihó National stadium: Estadio Kukulkan (also known by opponents as the serpent's nest) Borders: north Nahua, east Caribbean Sea, west Pacific Ocean, south Honduras As previously mentioned in the Nahua history the Federal Republic of Central America broke of from the Mexican Republic in 1823. In 1841 Yucatán would proclaim independence and join the Federal Republic of Central America. This lead to a Mayan majority in the Federal Republic and major instability. It took only two years for a civil war to erupt and two more years for the Republic to split up. The northern areas, mainly inhabited by Mayans, stayed together and formed the Republic of Yucatán. The southern areas, despite their differences joined up to form Honduras. On the football field, in 1842, Yucatán felt it was ready to challenge Nahua for the crown of best footballing nation in the world. The first international match was played in Tenochtitlan on Mrch 13th 1842 . Nahua beat Yucatán 4-3 that day. in 1845 the Copa de la Luna was created and the first international club game was played. The Copa de la Luna would be (one of the) predecessor(s) of the Copa Libertadores. Obviously, football wasn't limited to Central and North America. Texas, California and Honduras already knew the game as having been part of the former Mexican Empire. At the same time, sailors would introduce their favorite passtime to other Spanish speaking nations, moving the game north and south alongside the coasts of the Americas. Where there were peccaries to be found there was football played.

CM2 and I have managed to get it working on my new computer. Too bad I know all the secrets I didn't know at the time. Also wished I had saved the save games somewhere.

Moved to main Editors forum.

The trick is that the league selection screen works on alphabet. The issue actually already turned up in IC15 or 16 and by renaming the extinct nations so they end up in the last position (invisible, but they are there) the selection screen works again.

That's a good thought, I will take that into consideration.

The game is set in starting year 2022 as if the Berlin Wall never fell. So adding those players and coaches is not on the menu. The only exception would be to add them if they are now excluded from the game for some reason.

Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are done. Tomorrow time for some competition building and world building while I am doing the administration and the weekend cleaning. Next week work on the Benelux. 8348 foreigners to go, with the Benelux accounting for 1569 of those.

Scotland is now also done. Hopefully I can find some time to do Wales and the Irelands tonight.

England is done, so the second of the big 5 is cleaned up. English teams have never looked so different Tomorrow Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland (and those should be possible in 1 day.

Apart from competition reputation I don't think there are any ranking points to edit.

The survey is only sufficient if coverage of subject and coverage in terms of public reached is good. The first coverage is up for debate after reading through the questions and the reach is limited. If anyone would do a survey, it should be SI.

And this is only the history, not football yet

That won't prevent the teams from loading up in the winter though. I have done a lot of testing for IC20 and you would see English teams rob the place in the first winter transfer period.

They will probably buy the other teams empty. That's at least what I saw happen in Iron Curtain 20. I wish there was an option for a maximum transferbudget nation or competiton wide.

Nation: Nahua Offical long name: United Nahuan States Language(s): Spanish and many indigenous languages Capital: Tenochtitlan National stadium: Estadio Azteca Bordering nation: in the north California and Texas, in the south Yucatán. Nahua is bordered by the Pacific Ocean in the west and the Caribbean Sea in the east. Warning: As you might notice there are severals setups to other countries that will appear. Napoleon and his meddling in Europe will turn up a few times more. Warning2: Long read Although our FM history starts in 1800, we will have to go back for the roots of football, or the grass ball game as it is also know in Nahua. The meso-american ball game, the well documented predecessor of football, was invented by the Olmec people who lived in what is now the border area between Nahua and Yucatán. From there it spread north and south to the point ancient ball courts can found from the southern Mosquite Coast up to Arizona. When the conquistadores reached the Aztec and Mayan empires, they quickly recognized the religious and ritualistic significance of the game. They failed to recognize the pacific nature of the game however. Prior to the Spanish conquests many conflicts were fought out on the ball courts instead of on the battle field. As the Catholic church urged the new lands to be converted to the Catholic faith, the ball game was forbidden. Little did the Spanish realise the ball game was still very much alive, just in a different form. The ball courts would be used for many occassions such as markets, gatherings, feasts and could not be used for practices or games whenever the ball game players wanted. That is why the grass ball game existed. It was the practice form of the ball game. When the Spaniards forbade the ball game, the grass ball game gained traction. The Spanish oppressors saw it as an innocent way to exercise for the natives. The grass ball game would be played on the grass and dirt between the houses of cities and villages. All they needed was a house with a cover over the porch and two posts to hold up the cover and another house nearby with the same setup. Historians have found the general width of a house was about 7 to 7.5 meter while the roof would be about 2.4 meter in height. As goal sizes could differ slightly between both sides, sides would change goals at intervals. A blown up peccary blader would be covered with the sap of the hevea tree to use as a ball. This bladder ball was much lighter than the solid rubber ball used in the ball game. It also made it much easier to control and kick. An added bonus was that damage to houses was avoided. Nothing worse than to accidentally kick in the door of your neighbour afterall! In the colonization years the area was known as Viceroyalty of New Spain. Slowly but surely a Casta system arose where the Spaniards born in Spain (also known as Peninsulares) would hold all high positions while Spaniards born in the Viceroyalty (known as New Spaniards) would receive the lesser positions. The Aztec and Mayan organisation were kept in place, but only as it suited the Spanish. The New Spaniards took an interest in the grass ball game or fútbol as it was now known, setting up small citywide competitions in the bigger cities. The first fútbol competition match took place in Ciudad de México** on Thursday June 17th 1779. There was no competition yet between cities and obviously there was no Viceroyalty wide competition. The Nahuan teams at that time also did citywide, but were not allowed to play against the New Spaniard teams. In the Nahuan competition discussions were underway to bring back the original ball game gatherings as they were before the Spaniards arrived, but the Nahuans were at that time forbidden to leave their designated territories. It took several years to get this overturned. In the meantime ideas were exchanged, schedules were set up, so when the Nahuans would regain their freedom of movement the sporting festivals would be return as soon as possible. In the meantime tensions in the Viceroyalty were growing. The New Spaniards resented the Peninsulares for their power, and the Nahuans resented the Spaniards for being their oppressor. In 1802, in an attempt to ease tensions with the Nahuans, the Nahuans were allowed their freedom of movement. To avoid suspicion, only in the areas farthest away from prying Spanish eyes the first Nahuan competition games were played. The Nahuan Football Competition was born! The Peninsular War in Spain when Napoleon invaded Spain created a power vacuum which led the New Spaniards to attempt to wrestle control from the Peninsulares. Seeing the opportunity, the Nahuan people joined in and the Mexican War of Independence started. The Nahuan competition was cancelled during the first year of the war. However, while the conflict would last 11 years, in many regions the Nahuan people would take over control in the area and the Peninsulares, seeing they wouldn't receive support from mainland Spain, would leave them. The result was that the conflict became mainly a war between the New Spaniards and Peninsulares while the Nahuans and former slaves would look on and clean up the mess after the fighting parties had left the area. This relative peace meant the Nahuan already in 1812 would restart the ball game competitions. In 1821 the war would end with the creation of the First Mexican Empire. This empire did not last long as already in 1823 it was replaced by the First Mexican Republic. The same year the first split in the grass ball game would take place as the Federal Republic of Central America broke off from the Mexican Republic. In 1841 Yucatán would proclaim independence and join the Federal Republic of Central America. The Yucatán indepence declaration was a result of a previous succesfull secession when Texas left the Mexican republic after a short revolution. Rumours are that the United States had a hand in this, but these have not been proven. Texas was annexed by the United States in 1845 which introduced football into the United States. The United States eyed more Mexican real estate resulting in the Mexican-American war. The American gain of the California area strengthened the foothold of the grass ball game in the United States and ensured a stronger push of the game to east and north. But Nahua*** would not lose anymore area. ** Tenochtitlan was renamed to Ciudad de México because the Spaniards found it easier to pronounce. *** After the Mexican-American war Mexico was renamed to Nahua to remove the humiliating connotation of the war, Tenochtitlan and other cities were renamed to their pre-colonization names.