Pre game editor - retaining released players

[Domoboy23]

Hi all,

 

I'm currently editing a db in which the retained and released list for clubs in the UK is in place. 

 

All the way down to L2 this works fine by going into playing staff and "removing" them. However for the conference when doing this and starting up the game around only 10% of players are retained. I'm guessing this is due to rep and CA. However a lot of players released such as Darren McQueen, Kenny Clark, James Conley etc who are established and valuable pro's at that level are not then loading up into the game.

 

To circumvent this I attempted to set these players for their contracts to expire at their current club the day the game loads. No joy - their contracts all change back to the end of the season. 

I then attempted to change the expiry date to one day into the game (06/07/21) - again no joy and the contract seems to change back to the end of the season.

 

Any ideas on how I can release these players using the pre game editor and then still appear as free transfers in game or either set them up successfully so they get released upon the save starting?

[rusty217]

So, the issue is you're setting them as free agents and they're not showing up in game?

Sounds like a game setup issue, rather than an editor one. The game loads up players in the leagues you've selected + an appropriate amount of additional players depending on the database size you've selected. There's not much you can do in the editor to affect that, other than putting them in a league or increasing CA/rep to get the game to pick them up regardless. You can start your game with a custom database setup however though. eg. when creating your save click on the drop down below "Approximate Player Count", choose "Advanced" and add either UK & Ireland under Regions, or England under Countries and tick either "Players based in nation" (they should still be recognised as being based in the country even without a club), or "Players of nationality". It should then load all applicable players, rather than just those in the selected leagues.

[Domoboy23]

4 hours ago, rusty217 said:

So, the issue is you're setting them as free agents and they're not showing up in game?

Sounds like a game setup issue, rather than an editor one. The game loads up players in the leagues you've selected + an appropriate amount of additional players depending on the database size you've selected. There's not much you can do in the editor to affect that, other than putting them in a league or increasing CA/rep to get the game to pick them up regardless. You can start your game with a custom database setup however though. eg. when creating your save click on the drop down below "Approximate Player Count", choose "Advanced" and add either UK & Ireland under Regions, or England under Countries and tick either "Players based in nation" (they should still be recognised as being based in the country even without a club), or "Players of nationality". It should then load all applicable players, rather than just those in the selected leagues.

Just a quick one on this - when selecting this in the game setup screen does this mean that even in 10 years time it will load all players in the nation (for example if at the start of the game it loads players from level 9, will it then replace them throughout the years with newgens) or will they tail off?