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I started unemployed and got a job with Hemel Hempstead in the National League South in October or November 2023. I started with the lowest reputation - Sunday League Footballer. All my press conferences say "Only 1 journalist in attendence. We have however got national attention" (or words to that effect). Eh? Whilst I was unemployed I was being asked about jobs that weren't really realistic. After steadying the ship we finished just outside of the playoffs. In season two we won the league. In season three in the National League we were favourites from the offset yet all the media coverage was about the prospect of us battling relegation and then being surprised to be doing well. "Nobody expected you to be doing so well" etc. I've moved to Wycombe now who are midtable in League 2. I've just played my first game which was in the FA Cup and we won, going through to the 2nd round. Media comment in match result "The League Two side are seen as having an outside chance of winning the competition" (the FA Cup...). Sorry, what? Manager movements seem a bit unusual to me, might just be me but find it hard to fit into my imaginary FM world: Michael Carrick has taken over Tranmere in League 2 - seemed odd given he had such a great season with Middlebrough season one, two was bad, but his stats are great. Reputation 2 star - makes sense but IRL I find that odd. Valerien Ismael is a very highly rated manager but after managing West Brom, Besiktas, Watford he has chosen to go to Bradford City in L2. Alex Neil has dropped down two leagues to manage Walsall. Paul Heckinbottom drops from Sheffield United to Dag & Red in the National League. Emma Hayes usually ventures into the mens game granted, but chose to take over at National League Newport County.

So am I really unlucky or has this not been fixed? Goalkeeper out for another 6 weeks. The day after my main goalkeeper is out for (thankfully) a few days with a broken finger nail.

Came here too. I want to see 24, haha.

There should be more context from the board. That isn’t built into the game though. Bottom line would be the same result - you’re in trouble - but it would be nice to read the nuance of the situation. But then this is football manager, you’ve always got to use your imagination to fill in the gaps and create your world.

Same for me, think all my new staff it said they were returning to the club. Never been at the club prior.

I’m in March 2025 and I’ve had my third GK arm break, roll on the release update lol.

Stupid question I reckon… sorry… When I first set up set pieces it asked me questions about my preferences etc. Now I’ve played a while I’d like to run through that again rather than pick apart my set pieces. Start again? Unsure why it is not obvious to me how to click and run through that again. I’m being dumb?

The game is much faster than FM23 if you cross check the same set up in FM24... I thought this was established fact, I'm amazed by it to be honest plus upgraded my laptop so I feel like I'm living in 2054... which I will be in a lot less time than FM23

Please can we have an option to switch between league only statistics so that I can view goals across all competitions (or various options as well) instead of having to click each line to view it myself. For example last season I got through to Haaland and Mbappe retirement dates and out of interest I wanted to see their career goals total but could only "easily" see their league records. This has bugged me for 25 years.

I recently played a 99/00 database and chose to let my AM do all of the media duties. It was nice not to be involved but at the sametime it feels like it removes a big element of the game in terms of immersion, but the immersion is limited all the same by the interactions - you're essentially playing a game most of the time to try and not fall into a trap. I've often felt times that my team fell apart in their next game just because I was cheeky enough to be complacent about the next opponents - how dare I - like the interactions are way over the top in terms of impact. I was hoping one day Chat GPA AI stuff will expand the interactions to feel more life-like, less repeatative, and not a box ticking exercise on repeat. Trying to avoid as I mentioned falling into a trap that will come back to bite you on the pitch.

The second time was actually a crash after saving the game on exit. It just happened again. Save file is secure, it saved, but crash message when back to desktop.

Meanwhile… I’m really enjoying my save.

Mine has crashed twice on MacBook M1 2020. I submitted crash reports. The first time I blamed it on the program “photoanalysisd” running in the background using 180% CPU (if you have your photos synced to your Mac it’s the process where it reviews and identifies faces/names in your photo albums). I don’t think the game was processing when it crashed I removed photos and contacts from my Mac iCloud sync. It crashed again though when I unplugged my Mac from my monitor (I hook this 13” MB to a 22” Lenovo monitor for comfort) so don’t know if that made it have a wobble with any display adjustments. Other than that I’m blown away with the M1 performance so not got too upset about it. And increased my save intervals obviously!

My new GK has now also broke his arm trying to catch the ball. Poor bloke. 6 months after the other GK lol.

(I resolved the U18 and U21 issue by employing a manager for each team. Was only a problem after the game updated for season two in summer 2024. First season no issues. My assistant was managing them in season one and in staff responsibilities was set to manage them but I was forced to until I resolved it.)

I wasn't aware of the GK thing, I just thought when mine broke his arm I was unlucky, and shafted as I don't name one on the bench and the other two were youth players (for a conference south team, despair...)

My issue with this is getting used to the top option being set a target. Set a target worked the first time I tried it then on the second player you'd have thought I'd killed his cat he was so mad.

I had this too but seemed to be because I had increased the quality with a handful of signings so my 3/4th choices were so crap the squad discounted them? Was my assumption.

I’ve started a save with 41 countries, 55 leagues and 180k players. I’ve increased the detail in major comps too. Ramped things up massively vs my FM23 save and it's running at the same speed. I'm blown away. Laptop ain't that great i7 6700Q 8GB ram. Acceptable speed is subjective but I would just say be ambitious.

This is exciting news. Especially as coincidentally I've managed to get an M1 8/8 MBP through work. Which in theory means I can run a save with Test 3 with 5/6 minutes speeds versus my current laptop which does Test 2 in 10 minutes. Can't wait to get hold of it!

Match engine feedback -- I can't find the right speed when viewing highlights. I've got the players looking realistic in terms of movement but the ball looks slower. If I make it one notch faster the ball speed seems realistic but the players seem sped up versus reality. Hope that makes sense.

Saw this on Twitter, not sure how accurate it is therefore.

I did not know this...