Neil Brock

Most of those tactical instructions would suggest you'll be crossing quite rarely - what are the player roles for your wide players?

From an article published two days ago - https://theathletic.com/4038309/2022/12/27/dean-smith-norwich-sacking/ Roles have become a much larger part of modern football. Would also wonder why you're making a promise to a player you have no intention of keeping? Appreciate that asking to leave is an extreme reaction, but isn't the reaction more related to the fact you've broken a promise with the player?

Part of the problem here is the fact across so many different setups and systems people are seeing completely different things. We've got a player in this thread saying FM22 was fine, but now FM23 has issues, whilst another saying they've had issues across versions for years. Then you have players who haven't had any issues across versions at all. Every element of what is displayed in match adds extra resource requirements. You can say 'well it's digital ad boards', but much like if you take away crowds/stadiums/players, of course that's going to lower the demands on performance. Saying that, it is something we are of course investigating. We've profiled our internal systems directly between FM22 and FM23 and results are extremely similar, so would be very interested to see DxDiag's from anyone who is having issues on FM23 where FM22 still runs fine on the same system. We are very much aware something we added to make rendering be more efficient in the last update and help performance across the board has had an adverse knock-on for some setups, hence why we have this in our FAQ as a way to reverse what was added - https://support.sega.com/hc/en-gb/articles/11164849702417 So if FM22 runs fine and FM23 runs with issues, we'd suggest doing that as a first step. Thanks.

Anyone else who has this same issue, please upload your save game and let us know the file name so we can investigate further. Details on how to upload a file here - https://community.sigames.com/bugtracker/instructions-and-notes/how-to-upload-files-to-us-r98/ Thanks.

What's the file name of the save you uploaded? Let us know, thanks.

Most likely is something related to the editor data, so worth uploading a save game file and your editor data and letting us know the file names. Details on how to do so here - https://community.sigames.com/bugtracker/instructions-and-notes/how-to-upload-files-to-us-r98/ As it is custom data it will have a relatively low priority compared to other issues, so can't guarantee we'll be able to provide you specific info on this one. May be worth having a closer look at the editor file in the meantime.

What's the name of the file you've uploaded? Thanks.

Do you have a save game at the point the inbox item (happy to stay) is generated so we can investigate? If so, please upload and let us know the file name. Details on how to upload here - https://community.sigames.com/bugtracker/instructions-and-notes/how-to-upload-files-to-us-r98/ Thanks.

Agree it's a little bit strange, but perhaps the first team manager felt the players should be rested at that point and that would serve them better for their long-term development? Regardless, if you have a save game just before the point they're moved to the first team and miss the play-offs, please upload and let us know the file name. Details on how to upload here - https://community.sigames.com/bugtracker/instructions-and-notes/how-to-upload-files-to-us-r98/ Thanks.

Had they retired from international football in-game? We'd really need to see the save game from a point where they can't be selected. If you still have a relevant save, please upload it and let us know the file name. Details on how to upload a file here - https://community.sigames.com/bugtracker/instructions-and-notes/how-to-upload-files-to-us-r98/ Thanks.

Will be a problem specific to the edited database so would be one you'd need to take up directly with the creator we're afraid.

Sorry in the delay in getting back to you on this one - do you happen to have a save game that shows this? When a youth team is entirely made up of grey players the game is designed that it won't display match reports etc, as there's no player who can develop from it. However it should be giving you the opportunity to get players in more senior squads involved via an inbox item the day before the match takes place. As said, if you have a save game where this isn't happening, please upload and let us know the file name. Details on how to upload here - https://community.sigames.com/bugtracker/instructions-and-notes/how-to-upload-files-to-us-r98/ Thanks.

This is an issue we're aware of and currently investigating. Thanks for taking the time to raise it here.

If you've got a save game that shows this, please upload and let us know the file name so the team can investigate further. Details on how to provide a save game here - https://community.sigames.com/bugtracker/instructions-and-notes/how-to-upload-files-to-us-r98/ Thanks.

If leagues are set to 'View Only' they will not have the same number of players introduced as active leagues. This is by design so not a bug.

If you have a save game that shows this please provide it and let us know the file name so we can investigate further. Details on how to do so here - https://community.sigames.com/bugtracker/instructions-and-notes/how-to-upload-files-to-us-r98/ Thanks.

Thanks for taking the time to raise this and provide the save. It is something we're aware of and currently investigating.

If there are any specific competitions where you feel the rules are incorrect and have evidence to back that up, feel free to flag them in the relevant category of our League Specific Issues section here - https://community.sigames.com/bugtracker/football-manager-2023-bugs-tracker/league-specific-issues/ Please bear in mind rules will have been taken from the information we had available to us during the development period of the game. If some have changed since then, that would not yet have been reflected in game. Thanks.

The overall number of cards in game show figures in line with real life, so there aren't too may. If you feel players are getting booked inappropriately for specific things, please provide pkm examples showing so our team can take a look. Details on how to provide these here - https://community.sigames.com/bugtracker/instructions-and-notes/how-to-add-pkms-rec-files-and-crash-dumps-files-to-posts-r579/ Thanks.

Do you have the editor file you used to create this as well? If so, please upload and let us know the file name - details on how to upload here - https://community.sigames.com/bugtracker/instructions-and-notes/how-to-upload-files-to-us-r98/ We'd rather you upload any files there than using other file hosting sites. Thanks.

Yeah shouldn't be the case - is this also happening when you're not running a custom skin? Feel like this could be a bug with the skin itself. If it still happens even on a default skin, upload your save game and let us know the file name so we can take a look. Details on how to upload here - https://community.sigames.com/bugtracker/instructions-and-notes/how-to-upload-files-to-us-r98/ Thanks.

Has always been the case - the feeling is player traits are something that only a parent club would look to instil on a player

Yeah we've been discussing this internally about the balance between players moving out on loan and clubs trying to get value for doing so - so wage and fee contributions. Obviously the club should be thinking about longer term, that if a player develops out on loan they've got more chance of being a better long-term investment and a chance of breaking into the first team. Is being investigated as said and appreciate you providing these examples.

Thanks for taking the time to raise this, it's something that's being investigated by our team.

Definitely worth raising here with examples of when a ball playing CB gets a low rating when their stats suggest they shouldn't - https://community.sigames.com/bugtracker/football-manager-2023-bugs-tracker/753_match-engine-ai-and-tactics/ Bear in mind different roles are judged differently under player ratings, so possession/passing stats will be judged heavier than a standard CB role. So if a ball playing CB has very little of the ball or inaccurate passes that will hurt their rating.