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^^ exactly. It is due to the fact that scouted players get added to your shortlist, which in turn means you are subscribed to them.

Why in the world would you want to do that?

And taking World Cup away from Qatar in every single save in every FM game so far? Can we discuss that?

Any input on this???

I am pretty sure it was political effort. It was as easy to schedule it in summer in-game, but no, they just took it away from them. As someone said, like it or not and make out of it what you want, it was decision made by world leading football governing body, and since this is football world simulation, no matter what your political views are, your job is to make the game as realistic as possible. The sole fact that they banned in-game names like Vladimir Putin, Muammar Gaddafi, Vladimir Lenin, or Fidel Castro, tells about SI political bias. All that while good samaritans like Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Winston Churchill or Bill Clinton are perfectly fine. Hell, even Hirohito who was responsible for death of near 300,000 people before and during WW2 is not on the list, all because after war Japan became USA puppet state and everything has been done to exempt from prosecution him and the rest of the royal family. I've gone too far and deep into history now but the argument remains, SI are politically biased and it is not the way it should be.

Well I mean of course I don't have the source, it is indeed my own supposition And in my opinion of course people from SI won't say AI can see everything. Because they don't want players to feel disadvantaged (tip: they already do feel that way), and also they don't want to explain it in detail everytime like I just did. But that's how computer programs work, and more specifically, how balancing, "randomness", and difficulty levels in video games works. You give your AI the whole info, but you also deliberately make your AI flawed so it sometimes makes mistakes, in this case, regarding judging players. So that to human player, it appears he doesn't know everything. That's how I would make the AI in this game, anyway. If someone from SI, when it comes to buying players, really scripted AI managers in a "human" way, that they take into account scout reports, number of stars in scout report, combined with that scout's JPA and JPP attributes, knowledge of that country, scout's opinion on player's personality, injury proneness, then player's attributes, player's attributes for that position, player's attributes for the role AI manager intends to play him in, and all the other stuff us human players pay attention to when it comes to buying players, then I will be the first one to say well done to whoever write AI managers in SI team

It does but it is scripted in a way that it appears that it doesn't, that is probably depending on AI manager JPA and JPP attributes and some other factors, it is balanced to make "deliberate" mistakes when buying and selling / releasing players, so that appears he doesn't really know.

I'm sorry, it is. As I said, it gives you advantage over AI. It's like saying cheat codes in strategy games that give you for eg extra resources are not cheating because game developer provided them in-game. They have to be included in the editors, they are editors ffs, how are you supposed to edit a player without it? CA/Pa are information not included in base vanilla game. And of course everyone is allowed to use and look up those numbers as they wish, and have a more fun in a save if that's what they like. But you have to understand what it is.

Also AI managers are scripted in a way that they appear they don't have insight into exact CA/PA value of any player, so it gives you advantage over them.

I know, I mean I ain't gonna shoot him but I'm saying what it is, it is not in-game given information and it is not supposed to be seen.

You don't want to know that, that's cheating. If you really must know, there are third party tools that allow you to see that, and also it is visible in editor. Btw 200 is max CA and PA a player can have.

Even if he gets assigned different surname, you for sure can check under your own profile -> favoured personnel if he has been generated by the game.

Well, this is just not an attitude of a good-natured person. I haven't read the original thread or generally threads in this sub, and I follow you on twitter where you post tons of useful stuff, but yeah, I disagree with what you just said.