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For an experiment, I want to have a league with two rounds like normal, for example, lets say the Premier League, home and away, but I want one of those clubs to play all 38 games at home, and not play any games away, but for the other 19 teams to play home and away as normal (except when they have to play that one team, where they'll be away both times). Can this be done, and if so, how?

@Kyle Brown

That functionality isn't a bug, but the fact that "change taker if player has already taken a penalty" and "change taker if player has already missed a penalty" is being selected by default is a bug. It should be up to the player to enable those, right? Instead of those being selected by default. There's no real reason that you'd want, by default, your best penalty taker to only take the first penalty, you want them being first choice for every penalty, and with the one of them missing, what if there is no other good choice?

I'll try to find some examples to upload in the next few days. I understand that Swap Deals are rare, but if a deal is accepted by the club, they're still often collapsed, as if they're capped at the wage the club is coming my way. Say I had a top player on £250K p/w, and I went after a player from Liverpool on £125K p/w, and I agree a deal, the deal collapses, because they're unwilling to put the wage forwards on a player that they're clearly interested in (because they've accepted the deal). It should be based on how the club rates the player in the deal, not capped at the wage of the player they're losing.

Yeah, I agree. My opinion is that neither should be selected by default. Because sometimes you don't have an acceptable 2nd choice and have signed a player specifically for Pens / Set Pieces.

Make sure that this isn't selected in your Tactics >> Penalties Page. I'd argue that that and the third option on that list should be DISABLED by default, because people are going to think something is wrong if their designated and only penalty taker takes a penalty and then it gets given to a random player, or he doesn't step up again if he missed one and there's no other credible option.

I'm still confused why the San Marino league isn't included in the game, even unlicensed (although licensing it would probably be incredibly cheap), seeing as so many people regularly do a "San Marino Challenge" in FM. Having an official database would make that more viable.

@Jimmy Wong I have a question about the 'Smarter Transfers', hopefully you or another of the SI team can answer? Is the Smarter Transfers also going to fix the long-running issue with the AI in transfer negotiations, where say to reduce the wage bill or trim the squad, you offer the player as a player swap in a another deal. Say I'm PSG, and I want to offload an 'unsellable' or surplus to requirements player such as Colin Dagba (who's on around £20K p/w), the logical thing would be to add him into a cash transfer deal for another player, as a bonus of sorts for that club: They're getting an extra player who will be profitable for them, for free. The issue is that 8 out of 10 times, the deal collapses even if the players are on similar wages or the player arriving is on more wages. That's something I think needs fixing. If a club sees promise in a player they're being given, they're going to offer him a fair wage, and not field an unsuitable offer.

Some clubs like Athletic Bilbao, can only players from the Basque region of Spain, and C.D. Guadalajara, known more widely as Chivas, can only sign Mexican Players. I want the ability in the PGE to set that for any club. So say I make a new club in England, I want the option to go in and set it so they can only sign players from South West England, or if I make a new club in say Ireland, I want them to be able to only sign Irish Players. Something as basic as that should not be hidden functionality, as it currently is.

Luton Town - Source: https://www.lutontown.co.uk/news/2023/may/imagine-the-power/ For FM24, will the Power Court Stadium's capacity be increased from 17,500 to 23,500? Ideally, the Expansion Capacity should also be increased from 21,000, to 32,000, since Expansion Capacity is the ceiling of expansion, and not added to the current capacity. From the source link: "The images shown represent Power Court Stadium in its first phase of development at a capacity of 19,500, which will include around a third as safe-standing. A second phase will see another 4,000 seats or standing seats added, which can be developed as demand dictates without too much disruptive upheaval".

Something else that backs up the examples that the UK Ancestry Visa can be used for sports work is that on https://www.gov.uk/ancestry-visa, it simply lists 'Work' as something that they can do, but explicitly lists 'work, except as a sportsperson or coach' as something their partner or child cannot do on https://www.gov.uk/ancestry-visa/your-partner-and-children while registered under that visa.

Also, as a forethought: If this change is implemented, despite keeping UK & Ireland, as part of the 'Nations Treated as Non-Foreign' section of those aforementioned nations, it might be prudent to add England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland as nations to the suggested new Commonwealth agreement, simply so there is some future-proofing, on the off-chance that the agreement is ever needed to be used in another Commonwealth nation, such as Australia, India or South Africa, which are all playable nations, the UK nations are not unintentionally excluded from that agreement.

I've checked in the Pre-Game Editor, and such a change (making a Commonwealth agreement, and adding it to 'Nations Treated as Non-Foreign') would only apply to England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Republic of Ireland only has a Non-Foreign agreement with UK & Ireland nations. Attached is a example image of how such a change could work with the database, made with the Pre-Game Editor.

https://www.brabners.com/blogs/football-and-immigration-considering-various-routes-entry-part-2 from January 2022: "For those players and club personnel who do not meet the GBE criteria for an International Sportsperson Visa, and where there are no family-based routes available that would give individuals the ability to live and work in the UK (such as an Ancestry Visa or Spouse Visa), Clubs may be inclined to consider using the Visitor Visa route where short-term, limited entry is required." https://newfieldslaw.com/news/the-new-immigration-rules-for-uk-sport/ from August 2020: "An individual with a sportsperson visa is restricted in their entitlement to take up additional work for another employer. Supplementary employment is restricted to 20 hours and should generally be confined to work as a sportsperson. A sportsperson in the UK on a different type of visa (such as the family or ancestry route) will not be restricted." https://www.restlessworld.com.au/blogs/news/what-you-can-and-can-not-do-on-an-ancestry-visa from March 2021: Paraphrased - "When we think about all the UK working visas, the Ancestry Visa is one of the most expensive BUT also one of the best visas to obtain. Yep, that's right, you want to play and get paid for professional sport or be a professional coach, this working visa allows that. You need to have a Grandparent who was born in the UK and you are a commonwealth citizen. If you do not have either of these you are not eligible for this visa. If you have lived and worked in the UK for your 5 years, your aged between 18 and 64, you've spent no more than 180 days outside the UK in any 12 months of the last 5 years you can apply for settlement (ILR - 'Indefinite leave to remain') and eventually end up with your very own British Passport!" https://www.gov.uk/ancestry-visa: Paraphrased - "You can stay in the UK for 5 years on this visa. If you’ve lived in the UK for 5 years on this visa, you may be able to either: Apply to extend your visa for a further 5 years, or apply to settle permanently in the UK (apply for ‘indefinite leave to remain’). With a UK Ancestry visa you can: Work; Study; Bring your partner or child. Your work can be: Paid or voluntary; Full-time or part time; In self-employment or in a job where you’re employed by someone else. You must prove that you: Are 17 or over; Have enough money without help from public funds to support and house yourself and any dependants; Can and plan to work in the UK. You must show that you have a grandparent born in one of the following circumstances: In the UK, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man; Before 31 March 1922 in what is now Ireland; On a ship or aircraft that was either registered in the UK or belonged to the UK government. You cannot claim UK ancestry through step-parents, but can claim ancestry if: You or your parent were adopted; Your parents or grandparents were not married." The last quote from the UK Government is probably the clearest, the impression I get from is that the person can work in any industry as long as they can prove that they are able to. Because of how specific the ruling is, the best way to apply it in FM, would probably be disregard the 17 Year Old portion of the ruling, and to just assume that any player you sign from a Commonwealth Nation has UK Grandparents, and give them the same Work Permit circumvention that are currently given to players from Overseas Territory Act nations, by making them also Non-Foreign.

IMO, in Fixture Clashes, later rounds of any cup regardless of their comparative reputation or assigned priority should take priority over the other (with the only exception probably being those with Friendly Priority), in an effort to end competitions as soon as possible to their intended schedule. I don't know the inner workings of FM, but it might be prudent to change how the game looks at clashes, where it not only weights the fixture priority, but how far along a competition is, so for example: Imagine there's a match listed as Domestic Cup Low, and another match listed as Domestic Cup High, but the Domestic Cup Low priority match is the Semi Final of a competition, but the Domestic Cup High priority match is the Second Round, FM should see the collision, prioritize sticking as closely as possible to the intended schedule of a Cup Competition, and move the Domestic Cup High match instead. In the above issue with the FA Cup Fifth Round and the Carabao Cup Final, the Fixture Priority of the Fifth Round and Final are both Domestic Cup High, so I'm assuming that there's a secondary, behind the scenes check that compares the competition reputation of the two competitions in Priority Clashes and the Carabao Cup Final gets rescheduled due to that.