new scouting system

Scouts being sent to scout a country only to come back the next day having finished.

Surely the scout would stay in the country as there are new players coming through once a year, or just stay in thge country for a while in case he's missed something (which he quite obviously has after one day).

Anybody else think this is awful?

It is awful, and has been raised as a bug in the bugs place.

Can't understand why this was introduced. Makes no sense. Nobody can have 100% knowledge of a nation's 1000's of footballers and just take the rest of the year off in reality.

It's a pretty huge AND old problem, and the worse part is that being such a fundamental area in the game it hasn't recibed as much hype as it should, im starting to lose my faith at this point.

I'm pretty sure that it's a bug and i hope it's fixed somewhat soon, scouting regions will have to be the way to go for now.

On the other hand scouting seems to have generally improved a lot in my experience, the number of players spotted from all competitions increased a lot, it's actually worth it now to scout players from other leagues.

If people bothered to do searches in the forum you will see that SI have addressed this point in previous threads.

yeah scouting in general is improved ten fold - after my first season, I think I recall most of my scouts having 600+ reports to traul though, which is great because I don't ever want to use editors and scouting tools to find players, i'd rather find them in-game myself... As a result i don't even use the player search function anymore because it's more fun to scout.

With regards the nation scout though, yes - it's a big issue and you have to resort to region scouting, which is a bit rubbish (although with england not a massive problem because tehy spend most of their time there when doing UK anyway)... Although if I remmber correctly it only happens with scouts that DON'T have full knowledge of the area, so I guess as a fix until they release a patch, would be to use a scout that doesn't have knowledge of england?

The other problem is that, when you've already scouted a country the season previous, and the reports are a bit old and give ratings that aren't reflective of your current squad any more) when you have brought in new players (after a promotion season for example), then you can't just re-scout that country, but the region!