[Players complaining about not playing enough]

I'm not sure I still have a save from beforehand but continuing my save into the latest patch I had 2 or 3 players saying that before the season started as well. And a lot more of the squad players are expecting to be regular starters when you check their happiness, leading to complaints from them about game time.

[Making pop-ups doing match OPTIONAL!]

To follow up I've selected ignore these advice type settings and you can do that once in a game and when it pops up again 5secs later all you can do is press ignore again. It will still prompt during the match for the same type of issues.

I'd like to be able to turn all the ones about the opposition off - and ones about players of mine on a yellow card - if they aren't in a on a yellow in the game and going to get sent off now why is it telling me?!?

[Drop-down menus don't work]

On 27/02/2022 at 20:26, antonselect said:

Hello. Is the problem fixed in patch 22.3? 

When I did a quick test on my Surface Book 2 and the pen it seemed that I could hover over the options again, so looks like it was fixed in 22.3

[Team meeting only one option that makes whole squad furious]

I had this too at the end of the international break after winning both games - 1 option and everyone furious. I now don't use the team talks other than during an international break and ignore the final one.

[2 out of 3 CDs are demanding to leave for more time]

The file I attached was created on the most recent patch.

Yes I understand that Rondon would probably be upset about that but I guess it's the frequency that all player's combined complain, and the nature of the players forcing you to upgrade their playing time when demanding new contracts.

I generally have a squad of 25 players, 2 for each position, so unless I have a bunch of breakthrough prospects squad building is way, way, way less fun than 2021 where I had a huge squad of players 30+ who were all getting game time. I might have had the odd player complain but none of the Start/Important players were as well. And you can't reason with them and say oh this guys playing better as they don't really accept that response in this version, it generally aggravates them more, in previous versions you could get away with that. So it's not possible to have 2 quality full backs without having one or the other whinge about it unless they are set to squad rotation.

Anyway it seems like some of the changes were an intentional change from your feedback from QA. I think part of the cause is also an increase in the effect on stamina/condition while playing a match. Regularly my team ends the match with red everywhere compared to last year, forcing more rotations on you and exacerbating the issue with playing time. I guess their "Actual playing time" might be over a short period, say the last 5 games not the whole season?

Anyway I hope the file helps somehow. I can't recall having to come on the forums to post regarding a topic so much in previous years! 

[2 out of 3 CDs are demanding to leave for more time]

I've now uploaded a file called

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CB unhappy with playing time

I thought I'd post send you this and update this thread before I take a break until this is resolved. I don't need my star players (Nikola Milenkovic) has just started complaining in my new save in the 2nd season when there are matches every 3 days and the squad starts getting annoyed with it. Doesn't seem to happen in the 1st season ever.

As you can see up until we started getting games every 3 days he was playing every single match. Once the games start coming very fast his fitness will be only good (tired) for the next match at which point I will rotate him.

I can't do much more than that or I'd be pulling him off before half time in most of those games with my assistant recommending he'd given his all and needed to be hooked.

The last game he was rested I let him know he'd have the week off. If you leave him out of the next game he will come and argue about his playing time, other than make a promise that is very, very, very hard to meet as players fitness doesn't last a season using a gen-pressing approach. The game thinks he's just a regular starter, it's just way too sensitive to this kind of interaction. I might have a go at changing all my Start/Important players to Regular Starters and see how that goes and put up with the revolt about playing time.

If that doesn't work I guess I'll see what happens in the next patch - the rest of the game is quite enjoyable but this is just breaking the immersion for me.

[2 out of 3 CDs are demanding to leave for more time]

It's pretty simple - anyone on Regular Starter/Important Player/Star want to play every single match. It doesn't matter the players fitness level or the competition/opposition. Talking to them and letting them know they are going to be rested doesn't really help as they will still complain. I understand the 2nd string squad players complaining if they aren't getting time, but players who are regularly in the first team are overreacting too much and making the game un-enjoyable. My last long save (5 seasons) had Kane saying that the players always felt like i broke my promises regarding game time. Who cares we won the league and FA cup and Kane scored 34 goals in 28 games?? And it's mean to be a game so having a largish squad as the previous versions was ok, I still had players complaining but i could loan them out and make it work. But starters complaining is really frustrating.

I have Rondon (regular starter) who's played 10(2) out of 24 games overall - his appearances were all Euro and Cup mainly with only 3 league appearances, he's come to me after the last couple of league games to complain about game time. My star CB is only getting regular football according to the game 14/14 EPL but no cup games - as I am playing my 2nd string in the EURO II competition and he is also concerned as he "missed the last game he was available for selection" away against KF Tueta in the Euro II?? If he'd played that how would he have been fit for Man U 2 days later? If I play them i have to pull them off just after half-time with the ass-man saying they are tired and need to be pulled. We are top of the table in the league too which doesn't seem to matter.

There is also basically nothing you can do to appease a player in the conversation other than promise more game time - which if you don't start them every game means broken promises, or dismissing their objections and having them request a transfer.

SI just need to reduce the affect of missing the odd match to squad rotation to be similar to last year's version. There are multiple post on this tracker regarding this issue so it seems surprising that you guys can't reproduce the bug by doing a bit of squad rotation thru nov-dec in the UK busy period.

[Unhappy about not playing enough... despite playing 5 out of 6 games]

It's way worse in this year's game, I only leave Kane out when he is unfit and just told him i'd rest him for a game and then he complained after that game about not starting enough matches. It's clearly set too high this year making it a consistent battle with the squad promising they will get more playing time.

I think it's got worse since the last patch.

[Screen Scaling Issues]

I also found if i changed my Windows display scaling while FM was running that it seemed to fix my issues (i have 3 monitors all set to 125%) and now it seems to have remembered the change?

[Forgetting Preferences]

I had the exact same issue, tried deleting preferences etc from AppData and none of that worked. My font was also massive and setting the zoom to 85% did nothing much to it.

What did seem to fix it was when I went into Windows display settings and adjusted the Display Scaling from whatever is the default (mine is 125%) to say 100% and then back to whatever it was originally set to (ie for me 125%) while I had FM open in windowed mode. Now FM remembers the windowed mode again (and the text and font sizes have returned to normal.

[Drop-down menus don't work]

I also have the same issue - the player information drop-down doesn't open when I use my pen on the Surface Book2. If I use the mousepad it works fine. When I click on it with the pen and expect the drop-down to expand it instead selects the category for the player instead.

This happened last year in the beta and was resolved in the full release, I was hoping the same this year.