Samuel77

In what I'm trying to do, the further I go, the more I doubt that the format I've chosen is optimal... Here are some thoughts I have: 1) The fact of gathering in one nation several other nations (or in part) forces me to rebuild all the youth divisions and for that we are obliged to do it team by team which represents an enormous time. Especially as each country is different, some have U18s, others U20s and so on. 2) The file is likely to be very heavy, that would make a nation with 10 000 clubs at least, probably more. 3) There are some clubs that would end up in the third division even though they are recognised clubs in their own nation and their name evokes something from their history. 4) The risk of having only clubs from one country in the first division. The solution to this is simple in principle, simply regionalise the groups or assign certain countries to specific groups. 5) An overloaded calendar. For various reasons, including 1) and 2) I have established the first division with 2 groups quite similar to the MLS for a total of 26 games (not counting the playoffs) from January to June + about 15 games for the regional championships from August to December. That would be about 45 games and to that you have to add the national cups and the continental competitions. So for these reasons, A) I would rather keep each team in its own nation and therefore rebuild their championship so that it stops in December and takes the form of "state championships" but remains my basis on which teams qualify for the continental cups. B) So either build the "Super League" using the secondary divisions, or build the Super League in Continental Rules. Neither of these two solutions fully suits me, they both have their benefits and drawbacks (we talked about this somewhere on the forum) but would simplify the construction of the project in many ways. It's a bit painful after having already accomplished a lot but it's part of the process

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I tried to redo the whole structure with the reform up to N3 (the change from N2 to 3 groups and N3 to 8) and I had this problem. Instead of using Competition children for N2 and N3 I used groups which did not satisfy me. Anyway, I can send you a file where you just have to copy the L1 to the National. But it's an unfinished file. Including the youth competitions. (U17 and U19)

After various reflections, I found it easier to move all the teams to one country in order to make the most of the secondary divisions. Here is the distribution of the teams by "Regional Championships". The Italian side will have 4 separate championships. There is the North, the South and two straddling Italy and France, for this I have recreated a region called Taro which includes part of Emmilia-Romagna. Serie A (North Italia) Emilia-Romagna Friuli-Venezia Giulia Lombardia Marche Trentino-Alto Adige Veneto Lega Pro (South Italia) Molise Puglia Abruzzo Basilicata Calabria Campania Scicilia Sardegna Campionato Mediterraneo Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azure Liguria Toscana Umbria Lazio Corse District Avergne-Rhône-Pô Avergne-Rhône-Alpes Valle d'Aoste Piemonte Taro (Ancient Italian region) The Spanish part is for the moment divided into 4, one of which is Franco/Spanish. I am still hesitating to divide the Northern Spanish Championship in two. District Sud Ouest Cataluña Nouvelle-Aquitaine Occitanie Liga Española Norte (North Spain) Extremadura Baleares Canarias Castilla-La Mancha Ceuta Comunidad Valencina Melilla Murcia Aragon Asturias Cantabria Castilla y Leon Galicia La Rioja Madrid Primera División Andaluza Andalucia Occidental Andalucia Oriental Euskal Herriko Liga (Basque Country Pais Vasco Pays Basque Nord (France) Navarra For Switzerland there will be two districts, one Franco/Swiss and one completely Swiss. For the latter I would use the Swiss championship by relocating it to France. District N°4 Bourgogne Franche-Comté Neuchâtel Genève Valais Jura Here are two French/French Distict. With the Swiss ones, they will probably be among the weakest but they should be disputed because the level between the teams is relatively equal. Initially I had thought of including ckubs from the south of England to the Channel-Atlantic District but although fanciful I prefer to stick to a base and then I will see. District Loire Centre-Val de Loire Pays de la Loire District Manche-Atlantique Bretagne Normandie For this district I decided to gather 3 French departments as well as the French speaking Belgian provinces. I have also divided the Grand-Est region in two, one of the two parts becoming Alsace-Lorraine which will be included in another District. District Nord Grand-Est Haut-de-France Ile de France Bradant Wallon (FR) Brussels (FR) Hainaut (FR) Liège (FR) Luxembourg (FR) Namur (FR) Below is the District including Alsace-Lorraine and several local German regions. Some of them are divided in two, a French part and a German part which will compete in the German District. Liga Rheinbund (FR) Alsace-Lorraine Hamburg Bremen Niedersachsen Nordrhein Westfal RheinLand Pfalz SaarLand Schleswig-Holstein For the latter I wanted a single BeNeLiga, but it turned out that there were too many teams. So I split it in two. The East and the West part, which are essentially the regions by the sea. BeNeLiga Westelijk Flevoland Friesland Noord-Holland Vervoerregio Amsterdam Zeeland Zuid-Holland West-Vlaanderen West-Vlaanderen (Kust) BeNeLiga Oostelijk Drenthe Gelderland Groningen Limburg (NL) Noord-Brabant Overijssel Utrecht Antwerpen Oost-Vlaaderen Limburg (B) Vlaams-Bradant East Cantons Brussels (D) That leaves Luxembourg, which will also have its own championship. In addition to this, there will be main divisions with the best teams of these countries on different levels. 6 levels seem reasonable. If you have any concerns about the distribution of the Districts, please do not hesitate to give your subjections. For the moment these regional championships have 3 levels, it seems to me that this is enough, maybe even two would do. Looking at these championships, I have to say that I am eager to start building them to see how they work. What is also exciting is to see the variety of matches played in a season! There will also be the continental competitions to redo and I was thinking of using the Regional Districts to qualify teams from the "Empire" and also give them more weight.

At the moment I am concentrating on the structure. I have my plan for the provincial divisions. I allow myself a few deviations from the initial plan, namely that the English teams of the South-East and South-West will integrate the provincial divisions as well as the main structure (without the PL clubs) Your idea was good wolf, I integrated Sicilia to the Napoli League (Parthenopean League) I also added Corsica and Sardegna, it seemed coherent. There is also a BeNe League. I'll give more details when I find the names of each league (now that's a real headache!) So here is a map where each colour corresponds to a provincial division :

Ok I understood that it was not necessary So this way I can have Sicilian and Sardinian Italians who won't risk being selected in Sicily or Sardinia? Can I use an extinct nation for this ?

What do you mean ?

Isn't it ? haha

Show the ID of your club in the game itself and check that it is the same as in the Editor. Sometimes the IDs change depending on whether you have other edits on other files. You can also rename your file starting with AAA to make sure it is read first if you have other files.

Thanks for sharing! I haven't really tried it long term but there are a few options that can have an influence. As you say the FFP is a conundrum for me too and the Salary Cap seems to work every other time. 1 - However, on the salary side there is an option that prevents signing a player above a certain salary, it is feasible to set a maximum salary for foreign players as well as national players. There is also the option to raise this amount for certain players. 2 - There are also bonuses that can be given to teams that play national players in the first team. I'm not sure how this works but it is conceivable that by granting this bonus only at the end of the championship with a high number of games played the less wealthy teams playing national players would be favoured at this level compared to the behemoths such as Real, Man City, Paris and others. But it's true that for several years I haven't found anything that satisfies me perfectly...

You're right, it makes more sense Indeed it would be more interesting and more balanced. Is it possible to create principality like Monaco without national team nor championship allowing to arrive simply a second nationality? I should take a look at the Netherlands* that without doubt. *EDIT: Basque Country (Spell Checker problem )

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Is this the rule that prevents Brazilian players under 18 from leaving Brazil? If so, would replacing Brazil with the name of another country work? Or would it be possible to apply it to several countries?

Normally Sicily and Sardinia would have their own championship but it would be very poor in terms of quality. Sardinia would have almost only one competitive team (at the beginning) and Sicily 2 or 3... I have a doubt. Maybe as England's allies with Portugal they could also have a league with these 3 countries?

Thanks for the advice @Wolf_pd Yes, that's what I'm trying to do. I have just finished moving the Italian teams and their youth teams and organised the 4 levels of their championship. I think I need to first prepare the "minor" leagues without even doing them in Basic Rules but to have all the structures ready (U17, U19, as well as the pyramids) once this is done I could start building them. Then I would look at the economic aspect and the transfer rules between the different countries) Am I correct? I have in mind the previous Iron Curtain as a construction model.

This project consists in making a league modelled on the First Empire (Conquests under Napoleon) stopping at the year 1812-1813. In this topic I will post my questions in order to avoid polluting others (I will try to at least) as well as my progress. Not everything will be accurate to the millimetre. And there are no geopolitical ideas behind it, I just find it an interesting challenge. The Empire spread over several countries: France Belgium Holland Luxembourg Italy: Valle d'Aosta, Piemonte, Liguria, Toscana, Umbria, Lazio. Spain: Cataluña. Germany: Hamburg, Bremen, Niederscachsen, Nordrhein Westfal, Saarland, Schleswig Holstein. Switzerland: Neuchâtel, Geneva, Valais. There were also autonomous provinces: The Kingdom of Italy (Northern Italy) The Kingdom of Naples (Southern Italy) The Confederation of the Rhine (Germany) The Helvetic Confederation The Kingdom of Spain Illyrian Provinces (Croatia, Slovenia, etc.) The Duchy of Warsaw I reserve these last two for a Balkan League and a Central European League. Here is a map for more readability. For the moment the most complicated part was to distribute the German cities in different regions because by the Niederscachsen and the Nordrhein Westfal these regions straddle Germany and France. I therefore created two additional regions which are Niedersachsen (FR) and Nordrhein-Westfalen (FR) and then placed the "French" cities in them in order to be able to distribute them in the right divisions. I would like to use the Brazilian system, i.e. a big league with the teams of the Empire and a state championship by which one will qualify for the big league of the Empire. There would be a first part of the season dedicated to the state championships which would be : The French championship grouping all the regions (Cataluña, Lazio, etc.) The Northern Italian championship (excluding the French regions) The Southern Italian championship (excluding the French regions) The Swiss league (excluding French regions) The German championship (excluding French regions) The Spanish league (excluding Cataluña) And then a kind of Super League with all these teams in the second half of the season. I am still hesitating whether to build this Super League using Continental Rules or to include it in Secondary Divisions. At the moment I have not started building the leagues, I am already preparing the ground by placing the teams in the right divisions.

Yep The idea (among others) was to be a counterweight to the English. We could imagine that federations unite in order to weigh heavier against the power of the Premier League

This is what I am trying to do In dark green it would be a single entity, in light green different entities (North Italia, South Italia, Spain, part of Germany, etc.). So a Championship for each and then a kind of Super League regrouping all these countries on several levels. I need to find out which are the local regions in dark green FM on the Balkan side and the light green ones on the German and Polish side. EDIT: As far as the Balkan part is concerned, perhaps it would be better to create a Balkan League in order to avoid seeing teams such as Dinamo or Partizan languishing in the second division. The same goes for the Polish part. So why not also create a Super League (Visegrad) as well as for the Baltic countries and the Levan countries.

Yes, that's why I hesitate. As you say, just for the flags, aesthetically it's great. I can start with the first part of the season by building the state championships and then see what's best.

You will use it ! For several years I have had an idea in mind but I am never satisfied... There is a piece missing from my puzzle. My base will probably be the First Empire, modelled on the Brazilian model with provincial championships. But I would like each province to keep its identity. For example, the Italian clubs should be mainly composed of Italians, the Dutch of Dutch and so on. This must be done through the Squad Registration options and probably through the kind of trick I was asking about. The easiest way to do this would be to build this league using Continental Rules with a promotion/relegation system and make the state championships in each country concerned to regulate the transfer market more easily, but what bothers me about this is that the matches played would appear in the players' history as a continental competition... I don't like it and if I use the secondary divisions I come back to the problem of the composition of the squads I will follow your last project carefully, I find it really innovative!

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I was sure you would have an answer Ok so it's impossible to create or rename them and it has a wider impact than the transfer preference... It means that you can just move countries around inside. It's interesting to "create" a new world ! Will you use it in your new project ?

Yes, thank you! In my idea I would have to reconstruct the continental cups so I would probably use "Homegrown Players From Club or Nation". However it seems that by going through the standard continental qualification system only clubs based in the nation qualify...

@themodelcitizen I'm Sorry, I did not see your answer Do you mean that there could be a risk that, for example, Italian players playing in the French league would not be recognised as "homegrown player for Nation" in the UCL because their club is based in Italy although playing in France?

Hello to all, Does anyone know if it is possible to create this kind of region? I see that you can change the countries inside (while keeping them in their continent) or even "open" one. What impact does this have on the transfer preferences ? Has anyone ever played with this to make a project ? I'm just curious, nothing specific .