The numbers and automatic squad registration is perfect the way it is!
Squad numbers are not a big problem but I think it wouldn’t hurt anyone if there was a reminder before a match that one of your players doesn’t have a squad number assigned and you can assign it to him yourself or click the auto-assign option – it doesn’t take too much time.
However, the lack of squad registration and home grown quota is a bigger problem because it makes a game too much unrealistic in my opinion. It becomes a fantasy game with rules different than the rules in real football. I understand that there are some FMC players who like it the way it is so I think there could be two possible solutions to make everyone happy:
First solution could probably be the better one and it would be a tickbox before you start a new game, an option to choose if you want to have realistic rules in the game or not. If you choose to have realistic rules, you have all the rules exactly the same as in the full FM.
Second solution would be to solve it in similar way that the squad numbers are solved in current FMC. As far as I know, AI teams never change their assigned numbers during the season so they behave like in the real world. Human player can choose to behave in the same manner and keep the game realistic or change assigned squad numbers during the season and make the game unrealistic – it’s his choice. AI teams could also behave like there were squad registration and home grown rules even when these rules are not implemented in the game. For example all the AI teams would choose their first squads consisted of 25 players and then use only the players from this squad and don’t make any changes in this squad during the time when transfer window is closed. Human player could choose to behave in the same realistic manner or not. There should be an easy option to see the squad registration statuses of all the players in the squad: who is club-trained, who is association-trained, who counts as U-21 in the domestic league and who counts as U-21 in the Champions or Europa League. However, it would be probably too complicated so the first solution with the tickbox is probably better.
I see that some people would like to have control over tutoring also. If it will be implemented it also should be a player’s choice and a tickbox at the beginning of the new game.
Maybe it is controversial what I will say but what if tutoring would be deleted from FMC? It could be compensated by making younger players (for example under 24 years old) develop slightly faster (though this difference shouldn’t be big) and learn PPMs faster (this difference could be bigger to compensate the lack of possibility to learn PPMs through tutoring).
I still remember older CM series and my dream is that someday FMC will reach the same level of fun that those games provided
If we take CM 01/02 for example (probably the most popular football management game ever): it was simple, it was easy, it was very unrealistic in some aspects but it had the realistic rules (of course they are not up to date now but they were up to date in the year 2001, even the new transfer rules were implemented in the realistic manner) and the most unrealistic aspect of the game was invisible – I mean that the match engine was unrealistic but you couldn’t watch the game even in 2D so you didn’t see it’s unrealistic
I think that what was great in those games, was the fact that they tried to simulate in pretty realistic manner all the most important aspects while simplifying those aspects that are more “background”: training, non-player staff, interaction with media and players, reserve and youth squads etc.
However, it doesn’t mean that going back to older games is better than playing FM. I think that most of us prefer to play the game that is more up to date. That’s why my dream is that someday FMC will reach the balance between realism and simplicity that those games had while keeping the obvious improvements that have been made to FM series over the years.
FMT Wishlist Thread
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Squad numbers are not a big problem but I think it wouldn’t hurt anyone if there was a reminder before a match that one of your players doesn’t have a squad number assigned and you can assign it to him yourself or click the auto-assign option – it doesn’t take too much time.
However, the lack of squad registration and home grown quota is a bigger problem because it makes a game too much unrealistic in my opinion. It becomes a fantasy game with rules different than the rules in real football. I understand that there are some FMC players who like it the way it is so I think there could be two possible solutions to make everyone happy:
First solution could probably be the better one and it would be a tickbox before you start a new game, an option to choose if you want to have realistic rules in the game or not. If you choose to have realistic rules, you have all the rules exactly the same as in the full FM.
Second solution would be to solve it in similar way that the squad numbers are solved in current FMC. As far as I know, AI teams never change their assigned numbers during the season so they behave like in the real world. Human player can choose to behave in the same manner and keep the game realistic or change assigned squad numbers during the season and make the game unrealistic – it’s his choice. AI teams could also behave like there were squad registration and home grown rules even when these rules are not implemented in the game. For example all the AI teams would choose their first squads consisted of 25 players and then use only the players from this squad and don’t make any changes in this squad during the time when transfer window is closed. Human player could choose to behave in the same realistic manner or not. There should be an easy option to see the squad registration statuses of all the players in the squad: who is club-trained, who is association-trained, who counts as U-21 in the domestic league and who counts as U-21 in the Champions or Europa League. However, it would be probably too complicated so the first solution with the tickbox is probably better.
I see that some people would like to have control over tutoring also. If it will be implemented it also should be a player’s choice and a tickbox at the beginning of the new game.
Maybe it is controversial what I will say but what if tutoring would be deleted from FMC? It could be compensated by making younger players (for example under 24 years old) develop slightly faster (though this difference shouldn’t be big) and learn PPMs faster (this difference could be bigger to compensate the lack of possibility to learn PPMs through tutoring).
I still remember older CM series and my dream is that someday FMC will reach the same level of fun that those games provided
If we take CM 01/02 for example (probably the most popular football management game ever): it was simple, it was easy, it was very unrealistic in some aspects but it had the realistic rules (of course they are not up to date now but they were up to date in the year 2001, even the new transfer rules were implemented in the realistic manner) and the most unrealistic aspect of the game was invisible
– I mean that the match engine was unrealistic but you couldn’t watch the game even in 2D so you didn’t see it’s unrealistic 
I think that what was great in those games, was the fact that they tried to simulate in pretty realistic manner all the most important aspects while simplifying those aspects that are more “background”: training, non-player staff, interaction with media and players, reserve and youth squads etc.
However, it doesn’t mean that going back to older games is better than playing FM. I think that most of us prefer to play the game that is more up to date. That’s why my dream is that someday FMC will reach the balance between realism and simplicity that those games had while keeping the obvious improvements that have been made to FM series over the years.