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    Spends time making databases for Lincolnshire and generally help people around the forum with PC and Editor issues. Running the Regional Databases thread and generally promoting Regional databases.

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    Lincs & Cambs Database

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    Golf, editing databases for FM

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    Grimsby Borough

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    Lincs & Cambs

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  1. Dynamic reputation. I have lost count of the number of times I have run a league for 10+ years to see how my tiny tweaks in rep and prize money affect club finances. Balancing it out takes a lot of effort and time, you will also likely need to make compromises. Starting the rep too high means a big drop and low income for a lot of seasons, starting it too low results in a huge increase later on that is too much. Also watch TV money and cup prize money to ensure they don't get too high.
  2. I used to use Football Pyramid but that site is long gone, I have a folder on my browser too of links that probably don't work anymore... Mostly old sites for leagues. I do like the FA sites for local leagues, they are great! https://fulltime.thefa.com/index.html?league=6657134
  3. I partly get information from my notes and spreadsheets that I have accumulated since around 2006...
  4. Need to do a complex but necessary edit to the files that tell the editor what you can and cannot change. Once you have done it it doesn't seem so scary or complex!
  5. I am pretty old school, hard to get out of my long set ways.
  6. Sums up the editor pretty well. I have had similar problems over the years, awards are my weakness and I never seem to learn! Deletions are always flaky and not perfect, this is why the community tends to prefer blank slates of the extinct nations. They do mean you need to move Kazakhstan back to Asia and Bhutan to be non-FIFA, this also means making "Continent" editable but that has many video guides on how to do it and is worth the extra effort with the Resource Archiver.
  7. The community has established best practice for creating a new country that uses CIS or Pre-1922 Ireland. It was initially done to avoid issues around names. I have been part of a group doing it since 2006 but I will say I am probably the least knowledgeable of that group. I put some of that best practice in the video but some of it was around making a nation out of another, rather than a totally new fantasy nation. There have been some really good examples of those over the years too. I would personally say it is worth the effort BUT I am of course biased towards the methods I have been using for more than a decade.
  8. I highly recommend replacing C.I.S or Pre-1922 Ireland. I made some videos about how to do this. They are a bit old but I have been doing just this for a while
  9. Being a transcontinental country, Kazakhstan joined UEFA in 2002. The usual approach is to undo this and move them back to the Asian Football Confederation. Then move out from the AFC one of the lowest ranked nations from that region, making that AFC nation a non-FIFA member.
  10. Seeing as I couldn't develop this further due to the new European format issue for advanced rules I have instead worked on an experimental format. I give you "The Draft" version of my database. My only hint is pay close attention to promises, they can make or break your season! I have also used this as a chance to change up the league structure. There are no advanced rules so its fairly simple and not a huge challenge finance wise. Lastly some players are pre-drafted, these are my choices for balance and challenge, they frequently would go undrafted so I had to do something to ensure they didn't just go back to England. Moved file to first post
  11. Final table of the first season... Yes I did mess up by playing a weakened team and losing to Histon... I was trying to build fitness as I was playing 2nd and 3rd. If I had just played a stronger team I may have won the league, as long as I still got the draw against Grimsby the following game. It was a lot of fun but I will probably bring this to a close now, I can't really sign anyone and all my good players are about to get poached as teams from outside the nation can buy them too. It was fun while it lasted, I think if I did it again I wouldn't do as well as I would tweak things to make it harder. Still this was an interesting experiment and I really enjoyed it.
  12. As the end of the transfer window rolls around we see the table looking not too far from where I predicted it at the halfway point. Boston and Scunthorpe are not too far off the pace with Lincoln doing even worse than expected. Grantham are showing that it takes more than one player to make a team and my team, Borough are slowly fading as the other teams gel and my overall bulky squad has less of an impact. St Ives are the obvious other over-performer as they battle with Cambridge City to be the "best of the rest". I may have got Boston's strength wrong and over-estimated Cambridge City, only time will tell if they swap places or not. One thing to note, I got Kaine Felix all wrong, this guy is a beast, Grimsby's top player ratings wise and a key part of their 2nd place title challenge. The AI did a superb job putting the team together. Can Lincoln recover from this? What will happen after youth intakes? Can I keep a Euro spot? Are Peterborough anything other than title contenders?
  13. After 3 Matches Well I think I made an OP team! I stormed through the first rounds of the cups I was in and went undefeated in my first three league games. - Cleethorpes with a much weaker squad fell to our attack from the wings with penalty going in our favour. - Boston played their 51 year old Assman as keeper ahead of their 17 year old prospect and 23 year old option. This is proving their undoing and we scored with ease, Fowler getting a hattrick after being subbed off the previous game for a poor performance. I felt vindicated as Fowler could have been benched but I gave him one more chance! - Cambridge City took a 2 goal lead into halftime but Knowles was sent off as we fought back to win 4-2. I don't think I have got that achievement for a long time! Big tests lie ahead, there are 5 teams I expect to beat us, as predicted St Ives look like our early rivals for that 6th spot I am aiming for. After 7 Matches The first upsets started to happen with Boston beating Lincoln before we start our own underdog run. - Scunthorpe took hard work but Essel eventually scored after replacing the injured Fowler, the next few matches are their time to shine! Which he immediately does. - Peterborough fall 2-1 to our pressing style, this was totally unexpected and highlights how weak the grey players are and how even 3-4 of them are handicapping the teams. We continue our win streak from then on with little spectacle bar Essel continuing to stake a claim as the starting forward, with the late rising Peterborough hot on our heels along with Cambridge who drop to 3rd after initially rising to 2nd. The sleeping giants have awakened, waiting for my team to falter. Some extra details Finances- We seem to be holding level, a little up from the start. I expect prize money to help grow our funds which I intend to sink into our facilities. My hope is other clubs do the same but only time will tell. When money transfers start it will get even more interesting! I expect the January transfer window to address the grey player issue to some degree. I am also left thinking how I can make a better draft, or at least handicap myself somewhat, if I choose to do this again. I have had to step down training intensity to keep players from wearing out from training, we are still part timers so until that changes I doubt much will change. The full timers also seem to have the issue as squad rotation is virtually impossible right now, even for me and my 21 players. Still with a scent of editing failure overshadowing on field success I press on. I will report back with less frequency now to see how things play out. I don't expect a big following to this, its just me writing for the enjoyment of it. I have always wanted to play the game like this and I felt recording it might add a little extra fun. Stats after 7 games National Team
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