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Tobcoach

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    Older (1968) FM enthusiast, bought the game FM24 after years of not looking into the game (about 7 years).

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    Zierikzee, Holland

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    So much interests, and so little time to do them all.

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    Feyenoord

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  1. Don't get your hopes up too high regarding teams being placed in the right divisions. When I tried to make the Dutch regional system, I thought I had a bulletproof system, with regional boundaries per division, with every team their preferred regional division on each tier was set. And in the game it still happened that teams from the north part of the country ended up in a division for the southern teams. I have to admit, the last time I tried something like that was back in 2017, so maybe things have improved the past years. But just saying: don't be too disappointed if - after hours and hours of editor work - the game still has a mind of its own.
  2. I understand. Will make a bug report, and copy/paste my opening post there, and will wait for further instructions as to the proof SI wants (savefile and/or screenshots).
  3. As much as I love fiddling with the pregame editor, doing some magic on especially the European Cups would mean a complete build-up from scratch with no guarantee that will work because of some hardcoded elements.
  4. Unfortunately, it isn't. I have a game in which I am in 2037 now, and every season I monitored how the qualifying process was handled by the game. And not one year was done correctly. In the current season, France obtained an extra CL-ticket because they ended 2nd in the year-list. France has 3 direct CL-places and one league-phase qualifying place. You would think that the team that ended 4th (thus playing in league-phase qualifying) would get that extra CL-spot and all teams below would be upgraded (5th place CL-qualifying instead of Europa League league phase etc.). The 4th placed team did get the direct CL-spot, but their place in qualifying was left empty, and as a result, France didn't get an extra team in Europe. Result of that open spot was that the Portugese team in the league phase qualifying was upgraded from Q3 to the play-offs. That never happens in real life. The extra team rule apparently only applies to the countries in the top 4, with 4 direct spots to the league phase of the CL. I could make a bug report, but if one of the moderators could move this topic to the appropiate section that would be greatly appreciated. As for the proof, I can download my savefile, of post some screenshots.
  5. I've noticed in all UEFA club competitions that FM does not follow the qualifying rules in real life, and it's quite annoying for me and even a bit of a gamebreaker. For instance: if the winner of the Champions League of last season qualifies for the league phase of the next CL via their domestic league, in real life the spot left open by the CLTH goes to the club which has the highest coefficient in the champions path. Ans if the winner of the Europa League qualifies via their domestic league, the spot left by the ELTH goes to the club with the highest coefficient overall in the qualifying stages. Instead: FM appoints the spot left by the CLTH to the champion of the country 11th on the coefficient list, and the ELTH spot to the champion of country 12. And with those spots taken, you'd expect the champions of the countries 15 and 16 would automatically move to the play-offs of the champions path (replacing the champions of 11 and 12), but FM skips the champion of country 15, and the champions of 16 and 17 move to the play-offs!! And that's just one example. In Europa League and Conference League similar things happen, especially with rebalancing the qualifying rounds. Adding insult to injury, the game also doesn't use the correct qualifying method regarding the UEFA qualifying section for the European and World championships. And as said, this ticks me of big time! Is it possible for SI to adjust this in one of the updates, or are we forced to wait until FM25 and hope for the best SI fixes this?
  6. Thanks for the reply @rusty217 . Method 1 didn't work for me, even after carefully going through all the remaining stages to look for wrong stage numbers. In the Continental Cup section, no stages were displayed, so maybe I did miss something, or my first guess (something hardcoded in the game) is right. So I tried method 2 (copying entire league structures), and that worked like a charm!! I've tested it a few times in game, and all looks fine. I even could add tier 3 very easily, to be playable and I'm now working on tier 4 (with 2 subdivisions). Based on my experience that shouldn't be that hard too. You've helped me a lot, thanks again!!
  7. Once upon a time ago..... Maybe some people will recognize me. Long ago, I've made a custom database for the Dutch league structure, all the way down to level 9. That was indeed a long time ago, the last database was for FM17. Due to personal circumstances and a busy professional life, I lost track of the FM-series after FM17. Until now. I've purchased the FM24-game, and because blood is thicker than water, I've started tinkering again with the editor. Not necessarily with the intention to make a Dutch football pyramid again, but just to slightly alter the Dutch leagues. I really dislike the structure with play-offs for the Conference League in the Eredivisie, and the period system in the Keuken Kampioen Divisie. Plus the fact that there's no relegation possible from the Keuken Kampioen Divisie, but those last two 'problems' can be easily solved. With the first problem however, I've hit a snag. Apparently. my advanced editor skills are 'a bit' rusty after 7 years not doing anything with it, and I can't get the Dutch leagues working like I want them to. Here's the problem: When opening the Dutch leagues, there are two Eredivisie-structures. One default, and one Euro teams. Because I want to get rid of the play-offs for the Conference League ticket, I removed the Euro teams one alltogether, and in the default structure, I deleted stages 1 (the Euro playoffs hidden stage) and 3 (an empty hidden stage). And in stage 0 (competition), I altered everything which has to do with the Euro play-offs. With stage 2 (the promotion/relegation play-offs) I didn't alter anything...yet. When I test the Eredivisie, the editor keeps saying that the competition is not finished on time to start the new season. And I can't for the life of me figure out why it's doing that. I've checked every date section of the competition, and checked it again, and again, but it keeps producing that error. Maybe there's something hardcoded in the game that prevents altering this? So, I came up with the idea to just copy a competition structure to the Dutch pyramid. Like the German Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga. I want to keep those competitions, but I want the formats of both competitons to be applied to the Eredivie and Keuken Kampioen Divisie. I just don't know how to copy one competition structure of a country to another competition structure of a different country. Is that even possible or do I need to start from scratch? Any help is greatly appreciated!!
  8. Wow, this looks really, really exciting for me!! A couple of years ago, I created a database for the Dutch league structure, down to Tier 11. I needed to add competitions (parent and child competitions), cities, clubs (approx. 2500, including home kits), stadiums, regional boundaries etc. I used a pretty big Excel (and horrible looking) spreadsheet to do a mass edit, with converting the data in the spreadsheet to an .xml file and loading it in the editor. The last time (FM17) it worked well, although it was very much work. Now, after a 7-years absence, I wanted to do the same, only to find out the FM24 editor can only produce .fmf files and does not allow .xml file to be saved anymore. That sort of files I used to identify what parameters I needed to mass edit with my spreadsheet. So I pretty much had given up my efforts to make a new database for the Dutch leagues. Until I found this, and it makes my life a lot easier. I still need to look into it, if it can do everything I need it to do. But the amount of workload it takes of my hands, is amazing.
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