yellowsweatygorilla

I added them last year. Just named their exhibition tournament L1 Alberta.

Well, since this is technically 'reserves' and having the stats show up in the player history is less important. One way would be to make MLSNP a continental competition that draws the teams from a US dummy division and Canadian dummy division.

But with US lower leagues active are other MLSNP teams also not signing players?

No it doesn't work. That's my go to rule .. but what happens as I said is that teams still sign like 20 americans but fail to register them, so then the squad sizes are like 18. If it prevented signing Americans, I can at least live with AI filling out the roster with their own newgens, but that doesn't work either because the youth pathway for MLS is completely broken in FM.

If you just mean regional/national transfer preferences and not a ban, no it doesn't work unfortunately. I've tried it ... at least in previous iterations of the game. Maybe I'll try it again. Also, I don't think those transfer preferences affect clubs that are only based in a nation but registered elsewhere. Update: Yea still doesn't work putting US player transfers at limited

I think I've reported this every year for the last 5-6.

You know, we actually have those settings in the backend of the vanilla game, except provincially. So, we have Manitoba matching the real proportions.

oh man, if there was a way to institute a transfer and signing ban for American players, it'd be a revelation for my fantasy dbs

There is no IRL limit. When you say restrict, you mean through league rules? I almost always change my MLS rules to require at least 22 Canadians in the roster. Unfortunately, AI is terrible at following that, so what happens is they sign many many Americans that just get left unregistered and they make do with a tiny 18 man squad.

The issue isn't newgens, the issue is the players that the AI manager signs. Newgens will still reflect the country the club is based in. And it really destroys the immersion since the game doesn't really consider based nation as domestic (outside of the rules). What I mean is I've managed Cardiff before and signed predominantly Welsh players, but then I keep getting news entries saying I favour international players. The better example might be atletic bilbao only signing Basque players.. but ya that's hard coded. So many have tried to replicate it unsuccessfully. I've tried everything, from transfer preferences to club objectives. The only thing that works is moving a club back to a Canadian division. I mean there's also the very imperfect solution of making MLS, MLSNP a 'continental competition' with the clubs registered to a dummy division of their respective nations, but that messes with other things.

now that's thinking outside of the box. I wonder if it's possible to put TFC II and WFC II into this mixed region, but set it as no youth intake so avoiding the dual nats .... but ah I guess it also means any player signed will eventually gain American citizenship and also doesn't guarantee that AI signs predominantly Canadians

I don't see why it'd break the hardcoded academy pipeline seeing as it's broken to start off with. At best, players going directly from academy to first team... so even if MLSNP gets messed up, either way those players don't go through there, and retain their HG status. But yes, I put them in a phantom division and when that happens they sign 90% Canadians like IRL. Problem still there using Saint's file. This is in 2026:

So in the vanilla version, TFC II operates on American AI logic so replaces all its players with Americans, and because the youth development model for MLS in FM is broken, no youth go from academy to MLSNP teams. My stopgap measure is to put the two Canadian MLSNP team in a Canadian division, that solves the AI problem but obviously breaks things if combined with an American file.

Was there any issue with how my file handle CanChamp, I haven't double checked the format. Re: TFC II, how'd @SaintsCanada manage to keep it in the American pyramid without TFC II adopting American AI and signing only Americans?

That's amazing. I think for the good of the community we should figure out a way to coordinate merging our files together, since I am sure there's a lot of stuff your file does better than mine.

In terms of where it's at right now. It seems like I've got all the rules working. I have also updated journalists and fixed their facepack. So, it's just a few final touches .. should be ready by the end of the week? The only thing is I don't have much time for testing, so will have to rely on folks here to let me know about bugs and format issues.

Also, nice to know people still look forward/use my file. Some extra motivation for me to work on this, given I was losing a bit of interest as I am juggle a lot more work with my day job at the moment!

Yep, I am working on it for the new one! I did have a stop gap approach where in 2024 the L1O splits based on IRL table, but if @SaintsCanada managed to do the split based on in game results, it'd be far superior to what I had on offer

Hey Donald, please repost this here -> https://community.sigames.com/bugtracker/football-manager-2024-early-access-bugs-tracker/competition-rules-and-schedule/canada-competition-specific-issues/

Same with my CONCACAF file...

Well, that was a mistake. There should've been only the 2.0 one so just use that. Unfortunately, I've been too busy to do the rest of the CONCACAF competitions

Winter 2.0 Update:-New CanPL playoff format, game now starts in 2023 with FCE removed-Real fixtures for 2023 (though some may be moved due to V-Cup)-L1AB added, and changes to other L1C clubs http://yellowsweatygorilla.com/2022/11/11/canadian-megapatch-2023/

So good news, not sure if it was changes on my end or a patch for FM, but the game no longer crashes. I've put in L1 Alberta, updated the Canadian Championship and CPL .. I intend to put in the real CPL schedule for 2023 and will hopefully release the file at the end of the week.

the winter update broke a lot of custom files

It's unverifiable unless FCE (and ofcourse my now duplicate van fc) is removed - because of some hardcoding they did with the Canadian Championship. It's really annoying that the continental competitions (which Can Champ counts as because of the 3 MLS clubs) have to be in a separate file so I can't fix it by changing that competition. I haven't yet released a fix, because unfortunately since the winter update, my file even if I fix the verification issue has been crashing consistently in 2029. I am still troubleshooting, but the good thing is that now L1Alberta has been announced I can fit that in too before re-releasing. Will keep people posted.