thehadesfactor

The board of Liechtensteiner club FC Vaduz, playing in Swiss 2nd division and not even the best squad in the 2nd tier, expects me to make them the most reputed club in Switzerland in 5 years while we continue to challenge for the playoff spot in the 2nd div. How is this realistic? Is it possible that somewhere in the code, it is expected that FC Vaduz be the most reputed club of its country (i.e., Liechtenstein, which it actually is), but since the country in the league is different (Switzerland), the exception required wasn't added and now I am on an inevitable crash course to get sacked in 5 years?

I've got 17 scouts at the moment in my save (uploaded save file named Kaustav Saha - Real Madrid scout number bug.fm) - 1 Chief Scout, 16 regular scouts. The Scout Assignment section lists only 16 scouts. As a matter of fact, I am missing the last scout I signed (who happens to be the best one for Next Opposition assignment...unable to find him to assign him that responsibility)

The new feature in club profile called Social Media Followers seems to be a simple numeric representation of the reputation of the club. But it is not the case in real life. A club can be fairly unknown to most of the world, but in a very densely populated region with fairly high football following and end up with a lot of social media following from that region itself. In the game, at the start of my save, I can see that Pacos de Ferreira has around 420k SMF (Social Media Followers). While Johor Darul Ta'zim FC has only 22k SMF. Comparing that with real life: Pacos de Ferreira has merely 29.8k Twitter followers (https://twitter.com/fcpf?s=20&t=bzZ2ShWPbiXLiCPtPQ3muQ) while Johor Darul Ta'zim FC has 262.5k Twitter followers (https://twitter.com/OfficialJohor?s=20&t=IvC4vHKG70FLmTR_rR8k9Q) Even Indian clubs ATK Mohun Bagan (509.6k) and East Bengal (268.1k) have significantly higher Twitter following than Pacos de Ferreira. And its not like the Portuguese club is likely to fair any better in any other social media platforms. Obviously, when observing from a solely footballing point of view, and the reputation of European football, Pacos de Ferreira is no doubt more reputed than any Malaysian or Indian club. But that sense of reputation does not always translate to absolute numbers in social media following...quite like how Man City has fewer social media followers than Man Utd, but are in fact more reputed at the moment form a purely footballing point of view. So what is the point of the new metric SMF? It definitely does not show the real life scenario. Should a misleading metric remain in a game that is kinda known for its accuracy when it comes to tangible, numeric aspects of the footballing world? Any way to correct it before the release (maybe take into account the country/region population and club history, especially domestic)

So I chose the option to tour USA in the Arrange Friendlies screen. While trying to schedule a friendly on 16th July (screenshot attached), I found Napoli in the list of teams touring nearby. But, comment below tells me they are unavailable for friendly on that day. I checked Napoli's schedule. They play their first pre-season friendly on 30th July. And its not like I selected them from "Choose other" option. Napoli was an in game suggestion from teams touring nearby. Isn't it weird that the game is suggesting me a team that is unavailable? Or is it a bug where the game is unable to detect that I'm inviting them to play in USA and telling me they are unavailable coz they are in fact in USA (basically thinking that I want to play against them in Naples or Madrid)

I recently accepted the role of Austria NT manager and since then, there has been an issue with star rating in the position/role/duty selection panel of player profile. It seems all of my club players are rated 2 stars now in each and every position and role they can play in. But if I specifically go over and select a role from those dropdowns, it corrects itself for that particular role/duty only. Here's an example where I specifically went and selected BPD-Stopper from the dropdown and only that one corrected to 3.5 stars. The rest all stay fixed at 2 stars. On the top right, you can see his overall star rating as 4 stars for my squad. Incidentally, when I check Coach Report or in Tactics, its the correct star rating there. But only in the Positions panel of Profile Overview, this issue is occurring right now.