Great Britain

[Celtic501]

Can this nation be activated in the editor? The continent is greyed out. 

[alian62]

 

1. Download the FM21 Resource Archiver from Steam and launch it.
2. Click "Extract Archive" and find the file "comp editor.fmf" in your Steam folder "...\Steam\steamapps\common\Football Manager 2018\data"
3. Select a folder to extract the files to
4. In the new folder, find "nation.xml" an open it.
5. Note that there are 2 files called "nation.xml", but only 1 has the following text:

6. <!-- Continent -->

   <record>

   <flags id="field" value="Ncti" />

   <translation id="name" translation_id="229389" type="use" value="Continent" />

   <flags id="type" value="database_record_unique_id" />

   <flags id="database_table_type" value="continent" />

   <boolean id="is_client_field" value="true" />

   <boolean id="is_read_only" value="true" />

   <boolean id="is_optional" value="true" />

   </record>

7. Change row <boolean id="is_read_only" value="true" /> to <boolean id="is_read_only" value="false" />

8. Save the xml file

9. Before you go to the next step, make a backup of your "comp editor.fmf" file in case the process goes wrong for whatever reason
10. Go to the Resource Archiver and package the file back together: Click "Create Archive" and save the archive file in the "...\Steam\steamapps\common\Football Manager 2018\data" folder.
11. Only overwrite the existing file there if you had made a backup of it.
12. Launch the Editor and it should work.

[Celtic501]

4 hours ago, alian62 said:

 

1. Download the FM21 Resource Archiver from Steam and launch it.
2. Click "Extract Archive" and find the file "comp editor.fmf" in your Steam folder "...\Steam\steamapps\common\Football Manager 2018\data"
3. Select a folder to extract the files to
4. In the new folder, find "nation.xml" an open it.
5. Note that there are 2 files called "nation.xml", but only 1 has the following text:

6. <!-- Continent -->

   <record>

   <flags id="field" value="Ncti" />

   <translation id="name" translation_id="229389" type="use" value="Continent" />

   <flags id="type" value="database_record_unique_id" />

   <flags id="database_table_type" value="continent" />

   <boolean id="is_client_field" value="true" />

   <boolean id="is_read_only" value="true" />

   <boolean id="is_optional" value="true" />

   </record>

7. Change row <boolean id="is_read_only" value="true" /> to <boolean id="is_read_only" value="false" />

8. Save the xml file

9. Before you go to the next step, make a backup of your "comp editor.fmf" file in case the process goes wrong for whatever reason
10. Go to the Resource Archiver and package the file back together: Click "Create Archive" and save the archive file in the "...\Steam\steamapps\common\Football Manager 2018\data" folder.
11. Only overwrite the existing file there if you had made a backup of it.
12. Launch the Editor and it should work.

Thank you, I will give this a go. 

Can you remove nations out of the game this way also? 

Basically I want a Britain team to replace the home nations. 

Edited October 14, 2021 by Celtic501

[Celtic501]

Also are the national flags of these inactive nations on the game?

I'd like to bring back 

Czechoslovakia

Yugoslavia

Soviet Union

 

[Wolf_pd]

They are in the game

[Celtic501]

4 hours ago, Wolf_pd said:

They are in the game

Excellent, excited for this.

There are only 29 countries in Europe now. Qualifying will be more exciting.