Future leagues and technical restrictions

FM Handheld has 19 divisions in seven countries. Given that SI have stated that England will feature the Conference, it seems a given that the "foreign" leagues will have two divisions and Scotland will have its full complement of four.

I notice that, with the exception of the Netherlands (only two divisions anyway), Scotland (4) and France (National not included), every league is cut short just before they go regional. Serie C, Regionalliga, Segunda B, Conference Regional - all out.

I ask - where these leagues cut for simplicity, so that SI could leave out regional coding and focus on the key aspects of the game for a first version (numerous posts indicate that this is the case), or are there also technical difficulties to overcome? It would be good if in the future, these nations could be expanded to include a third level and make them more attractive to LLM players.

Similarly, with the core of the game undoubtedly in place I presume we're likely to see an increase in the number of supported leagues with time, if the game can support them. How difficult would SI find it to add a new league? If it's part of the code then there could be a serious memory issue with adding more and more leagues (even if only one is playable at any one time) but if the solution relies a lot on data rather than code, we might see expansions.

Nonetheless, I look forward to this, and taking East Stirling to European glory.

Well, perhaps not.

FM Handheld has 19 divisions in seven countries. Given that SI have stated that England will feature the Conference, it seems a given that the "foreign" leagues will have two divisions and Scotland will have its full complement of four.

I notice that, with the exception of the Netherlands (only two divisions anyway), Scotland (4) and France (National not included), every league is cut short just before they go regional. Serie C, Regionalliga, Segunda B, Conference Regional - all out.

I ask - where these leagues cut for simplicity, so that SI could leave out regional coding and focus on the key aspects of the game for a first version (numerous posts indicate that this is the case), or are there also technical difficulties to overcome? It would be good if in the future, these nations could be expanded to include a third level and make them more attractive to LLM players.

Similarly, with the core of the game undoubtedly in place I presume we're likely to see an increase in the number of supported leagues with time, if the game can support them. How difficult would SI find it to add a new league? If it's part of the code then there could be a serious memory issue with adding more and more leagues (even if only one is playable at any one time) but if the solution relies a lot on data rather than code, we might see expansions.

Nonetheless, I look forward to this, and taking East Stirling to European glory.

Well, perhaps not.

Good to hear about the prospect of more leagues. The UMD is quite hefty so if leagues such as Sweden, Ireland, Northern Ireland, etc. as well as non-European leagues like Brazil made it into the game, we could have quite a varied selection.

Still, time to focus my efforts on raising thirty quid.