[New Laptop/PC Advice -Please Read the Opening Post]

Update: got promoted to the Premier league, but U23's are still not playing in a league.  They are in the Checkatrade trophy though. 

[[SKIN] YACS]

Love the skin, but for some reason I'm not able to update from 1.3. to 1.4 via Steam Workshop? Tried unsubscribing and re-subscribing several times, still says 1.3 in FM preferences.

[New Laptop/PC Advice -Please Read the Opening Post]

The problem is my U23's don't play any competitive matches. Is there any way to ask the board for example to register the U23s in an U23 league? I'm managing Dulwich Hamlet, now in the Championship, and still haven't had a chance to register the U23s in any competition, only the U18s are playing.  I can understand this is the case in the Vanarama south, but I would think a club in the Championship gets to have a team in an U23 league. Or are the U23 leagues fixed in the game and it's just never going to happen? 

A related problem is that I can't even get my assistant manager to schedule friendlies for the U23s during the season (he does in pre-season), so the only way to get them playing is to manually arrange a friendly for the U23's every week, which is a bit annoying. I have selected the option "arrange friendly every week" (or something in that vein) in staff responsibilities, but it's not working.

[Ethnically specific newgen face replacement?]

Fully agree that FM19 newgens are an improvement over FM18's colour-shifting aliens, although by chance a minority of FM18 newgens actually looked quite ok IMO. Obviously, this is not the most important part of the game but it is a source of constant annoyance, especially considering the decrease in quality in comparison to earlier versions of the game.

 

20 hours ago, phnompenhandy said:

Should be possible. If you go into the pre-game editor to create a player, on the first screen you select their ethnicity and skin colour. This is to generate the 3D players for the ME, but surely the same data can be used to generate the newgen player pics so that they match their ME counterparts.

Thanks, I think I'll analyze some newgen IDs and see if I can spot a pattern related to ethnicity. That might take more time and effort than I can afford to spend though, so it would be great if anyone knew how the ID numbers are constructed and what information they contain.

 

19 hours ago, forameuss said:

 are you really saying that you're going through the game fine, but seeing a cobbled together regen face suddenly pushes you over the edge?

Yes.

 

[Ethnically specific newgen face replacement?]

As we know, the FM19 newgen faces are an abomination and quite severily break the immersion of the game. Something has to be done with them.  If we could just have the newgen faces from FM16 back I'd be happy, but since those were 2d while 3d faces have been used since (for some completely unfathomable reason, you can't see the faces in the ME anyway), that ship has probably sailed. Of course it is possible to manually replace an individual newgen's face, but that is not feasible to do in a large enough scale. One possibility is to use replacement face packs such as this one (works for FM19 as well): https://fmfan.ru/board/index.php?/topic/61531-agp-regens-megapack-fm18/

The only problem with this is that (well, aside from many of the pics being from ice hockey players; how many footballers would don a turtle neck and a mullet?) player's ethnicity is not taken into account, resulting in many black players having white profile pics and vice versa, east asians having caucasian faces etc. Again, highly immersion-breaking.

Therein lies my question:  would it be possible to specifically assign certain pictures to certain ethicities? I.e., is the information about a newgen's ethnicity carried for example in their ID number?

Alternatively, SI can just fix the facegen or re-instate the FM16 2D facegen in the 19.3. patch and we can all relax, forget about this issue and enjoy the game. B