Setsuna Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 One of the things that bugs me is when I forget to load a league or country and it has inspired me to make this thread. What setup do you use for FM? What leagues do you load, and what additional countries? In my current game I forgot to load up Germany and I'm apparently missing out on a lot of regens. I plan to try get FC United to the Premier League. At the moment, I'm loading up the top leagues from England, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Scotland and Spain. I'm also loading all players from Argentina, Brazil and Japan. I heard Reunion was worth loading whilst playing in the lowest league? EDIT: Scrap my challenge idea. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevicus Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 I play with a small database and the English leagues as far as league two (for shame on my laptop) I sometimes gamble on a few country loads, either brazil or Ireland gets the nod from me, you can never have enough Brazilians, And if i have amazing training facilities, i buy loads of irish youngsters with potential and turn them into awesome players and watch the national team reap the benefits. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RENO24 Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 At the moment i thinking im running 30 nations, large database and all Swiss players loaded I got a new laptop just for FM09! But before that i was running i think 18 or 19 nations on a medium database Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack_man Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 If your doing dafuges challenge you will have to start again Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jirki88 Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Call me crazy if you wish, but I have exactly everything loaded... All leagues, all players from all nations and large database. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setsuna Posted April 15, 2009 Author Share Posted April 15, 2009 At the moment i thinking im running 30 nations, large database and all Swiss players loadedI got a new laptop just for FM09! But before that i was running i think 18 or 19 nations on a medium database Wow, my PC is pretty good and it takes a while to begin a game with 5 nations and 2 extra countries. If your doing dafuges challenge you will have to start again Haha, yeah, I re-read the challenge and noticed I wasn't allowed to do it the way I had planned, so now I just want to take FC United to the top. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makalele Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 I usually load: England - up to league 2 Italy - serie B Spain - 2nd league Germany - 2. Bundesliga France - Ligue 2 Portugal - Bwin liga (correct?) Brazil - top league Argentina - top league Belgium - top league Holland - top league And then additional nations with all players: Ghana. As i want to manage the national team Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RENO24 Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Wow, my PC is pretty good and it takes a while to begin a game with 5 nations and 2 extra countries. But to be fair, mine is new. I think the game recomended spec is 3.0 and my laptop is 4.6 so its got alot of performance :] But in a couple of years it will probably be old, so i have to enjoy being pretty cutting edge while i can =p Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remco Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Why did you load all players from Japan??? Only Japanese players who play outside Japan are in the game, so you only get some Japanese players in Singapore besides those playing in Europe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimWolf Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 They are the leagues I load up too! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazzydeepy Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 I usually load all the leagues in england to the BSN/BSS and the top 2 spanish leagues with a large database. Thats quite enougb for my very average laptop and enables me to have a good selection of players and teams. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amaroq Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 For regens: - Brazil (top league) - Argentina (top league) For competitive balance in Europe: - England (top league) - France (top league) - Germany (top league) - Italy (top league) - Spain (top league) Because I like to have the opportunity to manage in them: - Croatia - Holland For work permits: - Belgium - Poland Because I might want to manage the national team: - Ireland - Mexico - Portugal - Scotland - South Korea - U.S.A. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazzydeepy Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 My laptop would give up after a season at the very most, with your set-up Amaroq. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amaroq Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Mine handles it .. but I'm used to some decent wait time when I hit "Continue", and I absolutely hate getting ten or fifteen seasons in and having a team which is unquestionably better than any AI squad in my game-world. I need that many active leagues to ensure that that doesn't happen; even if I dominate my domestic league, there are still the Barcelonas of the world to keep me honest in Europe .. and there are enough quality regens that, once the initial wave of high-reputation real players retires, the AI have quality regens at their disposal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crouchaldinho Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 What kind of laptop do you have Amaroq and what kind of loading times do you normally put up with? Do you ever find problems with slowdown in the future due to the save game file getting big etc.? I've always been afraid of loading too many leagues & nations in case I end up having to abandon a save after, say, 10 or 20 years due to slowdown. C. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amaroq Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Dell Inspiron 1525, dual 2.4GHz cores, 3GB RAM. I'm pretty happy with it. Loading and saving a setup with, say, 25 leagues from 17 countries ( top leagues only, all English leagues) doesn't take more than about ten seconds; "Continue" can take five to sixty seconds, and doesn't Continue quite as far as I'd like . I haven't had to abandon a long-running save due to load-times even after 15 seasons or so .. .. but I have had to abandon a save where I only had one nation and a Small DB running because my club had just gotten outsized compared to my game world. The only challenge I'd have had left was to leave my club, take over a Man U or the like, and try to beat my former club. Oh! One thing I think helps (times) is that I am very careful with the "Detail Level" settings. For example, when I start out at the BSN level, I set the "Matches In Full Detail" preference for all other competitions to "None". That lets me turn them on (and correspondingly, slow my game down) when they are relevant to my squad(s). So, I'd only turn any Detail on for the South Korea league if I've been accepted as South Korean national manager. I only turn on Full Detail for international matches when I start to feel like I have a fair number of international players on my squad. (Usually, Championship or equivalent level.) I'm only going to turn Full Detail on for Belgium if I have a work permit feeder club. I only turn on Full Detail for Spain when I've reached some form of European competitions. I'm also careful to turn OFF Full Detail when it ceases to matter to me .. e.g., I want all of the UEFA Cup in Full Detail while I'm in it, but if I start qualifying for the ECL regularly, I can turn it back off (and turn it on again I get one of the parachute-exits). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crouchaldinho Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Interesting post Amaroq. Something that a lot of people probably take for granted when setting up a game. C. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runstop Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Dell Inspiron 1525, dual 2.4GHz cores, 3GB RAM. I'm pretty happy with it. Just bought the same laptop, 18 leagues in 10 countries running quite smoothly so far. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amaroq Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Thanks, crouchaldinho, Detail Level is one of the features I think of as "big" but probably qualifies as "hidden" to most users. Runstop - the only problem I have with it is I got the lowest-end video card (I kid you not, about three weeks before SI announced 3-D for FM'09), which means most of the video processing is done in-processor rather than on my piddling graphics card. Consequently, the machine can overheat (and crash) if I'm watching a match in 3-D whilst holding the laptop on heat-retaining fabric such as a blanket or a mattress. You've been warned! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
small Mac Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Amaroq, you're input is top quality as usual. But out of interest, how many seasons per save do you play on average? I mean, i would love to have many leagues on the go but i also like to play long-term which obviously means i have to think about long term processing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arijit Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 I have used this setup (since FM05) for my career game : England, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Scotland -> Top Leagues + Medium Database. I have also played different custom setup games like various challenge settings found in different FM sites. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaman Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 i load absolutely everything with a huge database because if i dont it will bother me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phnompenhandy Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 I usually load:England - up to league 2 Italy - serie B Spain - 2nd league Germany - 2. Bundesliga France - Ligue 2 Portugal - Bwin liga (correct?) Brazil - top league Argentina - top league Belgium - top league Holland - top league That's my set-up too except I add all English leagues and all Scottish too. I include Belgium because I get a feeder club for work permit purposes and the players need to play games! I include the Belgian second division because I try to choose a lowly club where my kids will get games, and it's important that relegation doesn't mess up their development. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhroX Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 I usually load about a dozen leagues and maybe 20-25 nations worth of players. The exact ones depend on where I feel like managing, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wegason Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 When I am playing my career/story games I usually find myself competing in a European league and thus once I reach Europe, I want European competitions to be competitive and tough. I load the following (top divisions only unless stated): Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark England (League Two and above) France (Ligue 2 Orange and above) Germany (Second Division and above) Greece Holland Italy (Serie B and above) Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Scotland Spain (Second division and above) Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine 24 countries, 32 leagues, all in Europe. If I am starting in England, I'll generally load all leagues, if i'm in Germany, i'll load down to 3. Liga (or Regionalliga on FM08). Occasionally I'll also add in USA, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and South Korea if I want a more world based game. As detail level has been discussed, I generally run the league, or perhaps the country on full detail but I always run all European competition fixtures and all international qualifying and tournaments on full detail. I must confess that I haven't tried running all the leagues I run on full detail, not sure how long it would take but I don't notice slowdown with my current setup with my new-ish PC so I'm fairly happy with it. The main reason I run all the leagues above is a) it makes Europe more interesting if your in a smaller country b) I like watching season by season how the different leagues move up and down in the co-efficients and how this affects how many places they get in the UCL and UEFA Cup. c) It means I know how teams I like are doing in many different countries and leagues. Now if SI were to make FM capable of utilising CUDA, then I could run everything in full detail. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhroX Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 I include Belgium because I get a feeder club for work permit purposes and the players need to play games! I include the Belgian second division because I try to choose a lowly club where my kids will get games, and it's important that relegation doesn't mess up their development. I'm not quite sure what you're saying here. Players still get games and develop in non-active leagues.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phnompenhandy Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 I mean if the Belgian club's players have CAs higher than my new signings (typically youngsters with low CA but high PA), they won't be in the first team squad and will just rot in amongst the non-playing squad members. I've had players spend 3 years at work-permit feeders before and play 2 games in that time. I can monitor this in an active league, but not an inactive one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
civilservant Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 I plan to try get FC United to the Premier League. That's exactly what I'm doing in Dafuges challenge. After 4 years im in League 2, and am facing a massive scrap to stay in the league. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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