Junkhead

Another day, another absolutely insane concept that I probably won't finish. After being at the stage where my laptop nearly visited the garden via the window following a third consecutive 11th placed finish in the National League South with St Albans, I decided that it was time to begin anew. For inspiration, I spent a bit of time in the Careers & Challenges forum when @Rick87's post about a European "Jacob's Ladder" caught my eye. This was one hell of a challenge, encompassing an entire continent with a very clear path to the top of the football world - this was the challenge for me! However, being an absolute masochist - and no doubt a little bit insane - I decided to expand this challenge further: Not only would I conquer Europe - no - I would set out to conquer the entire world! Global domination through football, working my way up from ridiculously humble beginnings. The Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A - a mere pipe dream - I mean, the rules of this challenge mean I've got to have won 10 different national leagues before I'm even allowed to apply for jobs in Kazakhstan! What could possibly go wrong? Except, probably, everything. Now I feel it's important from the get-go to make clear that I have insane ideas like this very often, start a game, and don't follow said ideas through. It's also important to make clear that every single time I start an insane challenge, I am absolutely determined to see it through. Well, this is an insane challenge which I am absolutely determined to see through. Again. The Concept I have loaded leagues, at various levels, from a nice, round 100 countries. The additional nations I am using have been created by various different users who I thank for their hard work (I can't remember all of them - for which I apologise - but I downloaded some of these leagues months ago). I am also using @Daveincid's Realism Pack - which frankly I cannot live without and which is an absolute game changer. I am also using a file which allows Russia back into international & continental competition from the 24/25 season. I have divided these countries up into 20 groups of 5 based on the reputation of their top division within the game (bearing in mind that the Realism Pack slightly alters some reputations). The groups - or tiers of the ladder - are listed below. The idea is that I start at the bottom of that ladder, gradually working my way up the leagues towards indisputable glory and an untouchable status as the greatest manager the world has ever seen. The steps are as follows; - Start Unemployed with no badges (but semi-pro footballer reputation - I needed to get my adaptability up) - Apply for jobs ONLY in the 5 worst nations playable in the save - or tier 1 of the ladder. - Win the league in one of these nations - I can move jobs within the tier, but cannot move up a tier until I've won the league in one of those 5 nations - Move up to tier 2 - Repeat until I complete the challenge by winning the league in one of the top 5 nations in the world - tier 20. I'm not setting myself any rules about having to resign straight after completing a tier (although sometimes I might) as I quite fancy having a bash at the continental cups too. It's not part of the challenge, but I am known to get distracted with side quests and lose focus on the main mission. The tiers - or rungs of my ladder to the top - are below (note - where reputations between countries are equal, I have decided on which tier those countries go into by looking at continental coefficients or, if the nations are on different continents, by using the FIFA World Rankings as the decider); My Manager is a gentleman by the name of Otto Kenteris, a 19 year old Greek born on the isle of Lesbos. I've gone with this after reading a number of fascinating articles recently about Greece's 2004 European Championship victory which I am unfortunately old enough to remember as if it were yesterday. Otto is of course named after the victorious German coach Otto Rehhagel, and he was born the day after the night before. Kenteris is the surname of a former Olympic Athlete from Lesbos, so maybe this guy is his son. Or maybe not. I don't think that matters. Anyway, lucky old Otto has packed his bags, knowing that it will be at absolute best 14 years until he returns to his homeland (the Greek League is a tier 15 league), although I think we all know it will be far more. He's off to seek his "fortune", and will be applying for jobs in Ghana, Angola, Singapore, Indonesia & Senegal. Lucky him. And lucky them.

Like this idea - currently looking for a new save after coming 11th for 3 seasons running with St Albans and coming close to chucking my laptop out of the window. I usually run 100 leagues from all over the world so may have a go covering all continents and with 20 steps (that I will clearly fail at and never finish) Handy little list on Reddit too with all leagues sorted by reputation; https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1979PIHwpxFj6IMvu4hpDIGjWghoVMisIfvI_fWMbnQ4/htmlview

With a playmaker role, he will draw the ball more. If you tend to play a possession based style, with those ppms he will likely be taking more passing risks that the rest of your team, so law of averages says he will give the ball away more often than anyone else. I'd be comparing his passes completed % to your other players - is it that he gives the ball away more than them, or that he just does so in riskier situations due to his role and ppms? Also, think about the roles of the rest of your midfield. If your rpm is on defend and everyone else is more advanced or on attack, he will be hitting even more risky passes, this increasing the likelihood he will give the ball away.

Had this problem when using a GTX GPU some years ago. A driver update caused this to keep happening all of a sudden so I had to roll back.

There are a few other jobs which are exempt, for example bra-fitters

Which setting is it exactly that you want to view?

@oche balboa So after deciding to start a little higher up, I've ditched three of the leagues (but none of the countries);

In the pub (obviously), but will share later

Nah, just lots of patience - worth it for the active world and possibilities

Unfortunately for level 9 club Hucknall Town, I pressed Start Game.

After missing FM23, a weird 6 months, with a day off and finally getting my hands on the additional leagues/mods I was after for FM24, it's time....

That worked - thank you

Trying to create the Sudani Cup, really basic 32 team affair. 18 clubs in the top division, I can get the editor to verify those & pick all 18. When I then attempt to add any clubs from the 2nd division (Sudani Lower Leagues, 28 teams) it only ever picks 3. If I add the two rules at the same time, it picks 21 - so 18 from the top division, plus 3. If I remove the top division rules, it still will only pick 3 from the second division. Any ideas?

Really looking forward to this release. Years since I last used it, but have recently moved to a place whose team is in level 9 (I think?) and itching to see how far I can take them. Itching to start a save now, so this might be my new year's save, but looking forward to it all the same!

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