Jorgen

thanks for all the hard work you're putting into this!

Strange thing is, when I used such things in NIgeria and The Philippines (both highest level) it worked. And when I used it at the 3rd level of Serbia and 2nd of Romania, it worked too. A lot of those players were afwful. But perhaps those players in the English lower leagues are so terrible that they don't know the difference between their left and right foot.

I got that 😉 I've loaded only the English level 10 database at the moment, but with 150k players. I could however load those leagues too, and even the Caribbean ones that are eligible for England

@dieu @HanziZoloman Though I didn't do loans in these saves, I did buy everyone on a free transfer. The best ones that wanted to come were taken away on the same free transfers at the end of each season. At the 10th level of the English pyramid, no players from the PL, or Championship wanted to play for me. In my previous saves in Serbia and the Philippines I could buy young players (18 and below) that made my team better in a few seasons. The other teams weren't buying them, as I could give them real contracts. So after a few years my first eleven became better and better. But on the 10th level in England I have no way to keep those players as they move on a free.

@V50 Thanks! I'll look into loans and trials. Normally I use a Knap tactic and it works on most levels, even if they are made for PSG and City. These last twoo saves were just crazy hard. I was very patient. After 6 or 7 seasons it was just not signifcantly better. I did it as a holiday save (so buying the players and setting the tactic) but that works on other levels too. (won the CONCACAF Champions Cup and CAF Champions League with that) I will probably start a new save again and try to implement your tips! and tricks.

I have been playing this fantastic game for over 25 years now. I used to make my own tactics, but the last time I did that was sometime in 2006-2008. Back then you could still place the players on the pitch in relation to where the ball was. With the tactics I had at that time I was able to win the Copa Libertadores with Once Caldas, Millonarios and America de Cali from Colombia. After this I actually couldn't do that anymore and I thought that was a shame, but fortunately there were Fuss's and Knap's (and others) tactics on these forums, so I could continue having fun with FM. In FM18 I had a long term save of 90+ seasons traveling along the Danube and Rhine from Eastern to Western Europe through Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Germany and the Netherlands. Several times I started here with clubs from the 2nd or 3rd level and after a few years we fought for Champions League glory. It was here that I became hooked on managing in obscure countries and since then I have enjoyed coaching clubs in Afghanistan, Costa Rica, The Solomon Islands, Nigeria, the Philippines and New Zealand. It also became increasingly difficult to find good players or good scouts to find these players. That's why I've been using a scouting tool for years. While everyone can play the game their own way (and I love all the options available, for example the instant result button), I would like to get back to achieving more on my own without the help of downloaded tactics and tools. This week I started lower league management in the England Level 10 database. I also started a savegame with this Caribbean database I found that managing clubs in the English lower levels (Ringwood FC in the Wessex League Divison 1) and in the Caribbean (Sandy Point FC in Saint Kitts and Nevis) is very, very hard. Most players have a CA and PA far below 20. It's almost impossible to find someone who makes your team better. If they want to come at all. Even with the downloaded tactics and the scouting tool, after 7 seasons I was actually no better than at the beginning. In fact, I was relegated again, got fired from another club and had no idea how I could go about becoming successful. Of course I understand that it is not easy in real life to win the continental champions league from the English 10th level, or from Saint Kitts and Nevis. But this remains a game in which this is possible, as evidenced by all the successes here on the forum. Ofcouse I can start in the English Championship of Italian Serie B to have a bit of a challenge to win the title, but I want to start with a very small club. Long story short; How do I approach team management / tactics / scouting / finances to turn a very small team into a very successful club?

I have no useful experience in the editor concerning creating cups and competitons. Three of the most heared solutions on these forums are (1) hidden stages; (2) competitions starting/ending dates; or (3) Some settings in the editor have check boxes or other items in multiple different places. Maybe there is a setting in your competition that is triggered on another page in the editor. Some in-game things I recall reading about are fixture conjunction, especially regarding the world cup. All these might have absolutely nothing to do with your cups, but I thought I should suggest it anyway. Edit: Perhals @themodelcitizen or @Wolf_pd know how to help you fix this

@V50 Have you got some clues on what in-game event is causing it?

There is a Google Chrome safety filter that prevents the downloading of some files on these forums. If you disable that filter before downloading (re-apply that filter afterwards again) and let your virusscanner scan the files, it shows there are no problems with those files. I don't know why that happens

@jimdownunder Thanks! I'll redownload it.

Then I'll wait starting a career. I really like the logo of Sandy Point Football Club (Saint Kitts and Nevis) so I want to manage them.

Did you test it with only your files, or with the America and Canada files of TMC and SaintsCanada too?

No problem ofcourse. Thanks for your hard work! It is very much appreciated

Could you do Ecuador and Bolivia?

I do want to help, buy I won't be of much use. I can however let my pc run for the night and send you the savegame for example.

I turned off safe browsing; downloaded the files and scanned them with Norton: no problems at all. So perhaps the safe browsing filter in Google Chrome thinks your files (and some others here on the forums too) are dangerous, while in fact they aren't according to my virusscanner. About your verifying problem: I know far too little about the editor to be of any help, but I've read multiple times on these forums that hidden stages can help doing things that otherwise won't work. But, I have no idea if it is of any use with what you're doing.

All your other files download without a problem Then I'll wait for the new files!

Thanks Jim! Could you check why I get a warning message from Google Chrome with the new OFC CL and NZ files?

@jimdownunder Could you update the opening post with the latest files too, please? Edit: Google Chrome is blocking your latest OFC Champions League and NZ updates. Do you know why that happens?

You did an awesome job! Forgetting things or not getting everything right is only human and some are just editor limitations. So don't worry!

Playing the Champions League final between FC Svalbard and FC Northernmost Greenland (around Oodaaq) 😁

Here is a megapack of cups that also contains the Balkan Cup

What is the exact way it should work? Be champion in season 1 → play in the Shield in season 2 → advance to the Cup in the same season (also season 2) → advance to the CCC in season 3? → advance to the FIFA CWC when it plays the next time? At the moment the amount of teams that advance in my game is like this: only 1 from Shield to Cup and 3 from Cup to CL (nr 2 and 3 to first round; and nr 1 direct by to following round of 16) In my previouis post I checked the last years of the competiton (2060's/2070s) Now, I've checked the first years (2023 onwards and 2035 onwards and 2045 onwards) The nr 1 and nr 2 of the Caribbean Shield advance to the Caribbean Cup in the same year. This happens in each of the decades that I checked The nr 2 and 3 of the Caribbean Cup advance to the first round of the Concacaf CL 2 years later when looking at the 2020s and the first part 2030s. It changes in the 2nd half of this decade: In 2036 Waterhouse (nr 2) and Pantoja (nr 3) qualify for the 2038 CL, but in 2037 something strange happens. Tivoli (nr 2) and Defence Force (nr) don't qualify at all. Not for 2037/2038/2039. Instead the following year, which is 2038, TLH (nr 2) and W Connection (nr 3) qualify for the CL first round of 2039. Some years later the 2 year gap continues. I checked all number ones of the Caribbean Cup between 2023 and 2073. They all advance to the round of 16 of the CL. At the moment these are the editor files I used. These are all of your files, TMC's files, Saints Canada's Canada fix, 4 central american leagues and realism files by Daveincid, and Susie's Transferupdate (not included in the screenshot are some files for esthetic purposes only) If you want I can send you my save game

Thanks everyone! Gonna have to check which one is really the northermost AND is playable in vanilla FM and/or XaW's DB I think Tromso and Bodo are only the northermost first level clubs. Thank you! I asked Bard (AI like ChatGPT) too and it sais that Nordkapp FK on Magerøya is the northermost club in the world if you count Islands that belong to the continent. And Alta IF if you only count mainland teams. I found that Alta IF is in the vanilla DB, but couldn't find Nordkapp FK. But getting an AI to really understand my question and crossreference that with the FM DB is a bit tricky. My grandparernts travelled to both the Nordkapp and Kirkenes 😊 I was thinking about a new long journey save starting at the northernmost point of Europe (or as close I can get with a football club in that region) and travel to the southernmost point (Tarifa) in Spain. Found Alta IF too. I asked AI and it said that Alta is the northermost football club on mainland Europe.

@XaW What is the northermost football club that is playable in your database?