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I went to check on the content creators I view, Spiffing Brit and Josh Strife Hayes. Neither of them have an FM video up. I don't suppose there's much chance of Forged in Fire knocking out a video on it.

Maybe the button is so polished no one can get any traction on it to actually press it.

It's a relatively cold night in Stoke. I'm just fighting to prove I can cut it. By the way, we can see edit histories on posts. But don't worry...

You have no idea how excitable some mods get about the thought of closing this thread.

You're thinking of the OTF mods. They're the ones who have the power to make people disappear. Like the CIA of the mod team.

You also could've gone to see Madonna if you wanted!

You may, or may not, need to play through all previous instalments of the game first in order to catch up on the story.

Always read the small print:

The trailer posted above clearly states that if you pre-purchase through the medium its mentioning you secure early access. Don't worry about advanced access. If you had it, you'd know.

That's advanced access though, which is not to be confused with early access.

We're already months past the November 6th release date if you can convince yourself its currently February 2024.

I think often times it depends on the game genre. Some do need to move on to keep interest, or to avoid the game becoming a solved equation. Putting features in only when they're 100% ready will never work for a game that is developed in an iterative manner like SI does. Some future systems, maybe those not even on the 5-10 year down the road stage, need some things to be in place through other systems before they can come to fruition. Some are new things to the game but turn out to be a little underwhelming. Look at Starfield, as far as I'm aware Bethesda never had a procedural generation module/aspect to any of their games before. It's hardly revolutionary to games, but they've got that working in their engine now and I feel its fairly likely it will somehow come to use in the next Elder Scroll/Fallout games (probably to adjust caves & dungeons to have a bit more variation than the 10 or so tilesets they had before in different arrangements).

Might as well get in on this page with my favourite FM wonderkid of the past, alongside some other great wonderkids of FM past:

For the majority of players on FM each year you're accruing more and more experience with the games mechanics. Fortunately, SI aren't a developer who reinvent the wheel for the sake of it to have change when a particular element hasn't changed. This means that for each subsequent FM that releases you come with your cumulative knowledge of FM + 1 more year. In many cases like my own, its football management games in general. Those core ideas still build up and the reality is that typically by being on these forums there's a chance you're at the top end of FM players by virtue of being here. You're invested enough to have taken the time to create an account to join, post in threads and consume the content available. Whether that's good player guides and how to identify them, tactics information from some of the fantastic minds, the training guides that get the most out of player development etc. It's easy to forget that aspect a lot of the times. It does mean the game will inherently come easier.

If you can get the number FM23 matches played to that 2 and a half billion figure Miles will be forced to release the beta. Because of the data limit if it gets any higher than that the number will flip and become negative 2 billion matches played.

Hidden a few posts, ultimately, the opinion of one poster finding a few things outdated doesn't really need to then go down a path of promoting external websites for FM resources. Not what this thread was for. If there are certain posts people are feeling should be stickied as guides then reach out to some of the T&T Mods, however, as mentioned by Rashidi there is currently a review ongoing as to what threads are still appropriate or may need adjusting moving forward.

With the amount of posts that have had to be hidden today, it's going to have added at least 1 day onto the release date of the beta. Although in all seriousness people do need to be a bit more mindful of some posts.

It's always a shame that the beta release cannot occur until SI have the set-up in place so that all match feeds are run past Miles directly and he can decide who out there will have a match where they get lots of shots but still lose. It's well worth mentioning the only way to avoid such a fate is to subsidise SI with bon bons.

There's no reason for a statement from SI on this. It's a business decision they will take just like the many other business decisions they take year in, year out without putting statement's on.

There are three possibilities with a system which functions in a game. Not necessarily FM, but just any game. With a suggestion like this you have to factor in that it will be functioning in a game environment and so there are certain inescapable realities. - It's entirely random, you have no part in it and therefore its entirely down to luck. - It's criteria driven and within a few days players figure out the trends and within a couple of weeks an extensive guide to 200 PA players becomes available. The whole system is annihilated. - To prevent the second scenario it's so incredibly sticky a system that the criteria need to be sustained for such long periods its effect is negligible. The suggestion only ever truly works if you change what PA is currently a reflection of. There is no situation under which PA could be dynamic when PA represents the best this person can ever be under the best possible situation.

The, free, pre-game editor. You can create a custom database with him added in.

Discussion on this topic is fairly redundant given no matter what insights or inputs anyone has on it, it won't be relevant to the decision SI make. If players are actively included in squad registrations then irrespective of what is happening in their life outside of football they tend to be included in the game. Players who are suspended by their clubs and not registered to play with any team have been left out in the past.

Hi folks, just a quick courtesy message. As moderators we've removed the thread titled [FM23] Transfers & Data by the Wizard. We understand some people may search for that thread or come back looking for future updates and have some confusion where it cannot be found. This thread is to provide clarity on that front. We have the overall aim of maximising the benefits to the community by having as much of the created content available as we can, in line with all the other rules (licensing etc). While there are no hard rules on the creation of content, if you do use others work there should be an appropriate crediting of/agreement with that creator. This thread will be locked at the time of posting as ultimately discussing the moderating decision is something done privately between moderators. Hopefully this just explains to those searching that the thread has been removed & to other content creators that we will look into issues raised with moderators.

Yes, the changes take a long time to really make a tangible difference. Things like changing your Head of Youth Development alone can take years to have an impact. I'm not talking 2-3 years either.

I haven't reached it for an awfully long time now, but I believe the game stops counting beyond 100.