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Well, for one it was a game originating form a german manager game that never had a good foothold abroad and the sales diminished bcs it became more and more crap bcs the devs and the dev lead did know **** about the game and their customers. The responsible lead guy imho was overchallenged and expressed his wish to make the game more like the old low complexity manager games where you can play 10 season a day and merge it with a sort of trading card game **** in multiplayer. There are more ambitious games out made by solo devs! They simply worked toward their own downfall and deserved it eventually!

That was the downfall of EAs FIFA Manager - the Devs with the knowledge went away and the new ones did not know a thing.

I use them since 2 years - there are limitations to what can be done but as he also adds locations, leagues etc. it is far beyond and above a placebo! Patreon starts at 2 Euros which should be ok to test it out - you can cancel monthly when you have a monthly sub (there are also yearly subs).

Some things are hardcoded, some have probability values or thresholds than can be dabbled with that affect AI behavior. The best one to answer your question is the modder "Daveincid" himself and he has also a patreon where he often posts. One of his aims is more realistic player development and every month he updates his mod - although the update takes only effect for a new save and wont affect already existing saves. Together with some house rules you are able to create the challenge you want for yourself. There is another thing - youth rotation may also be affected by the "Detail Setting" of the game - if you do not simulate the youth games to a certain degree the ai may not make a good or any rotation but the more detail you add the slower the game becomes. Up to you!

Just a single save! The game takes that long that multiple saves are not a possibility nor do i have the motivation to play another team than my CaC Team.

I used ot use my real name but that is already enough to make id abuse possible so i use a made up name since many years. (Yeah, i had my bank account fraudulent misused by someone else without even having online banking enabled at all only by knowing my name) The name i use now is made from 2 names i used in MMOs for the reason of being uniqe and not needing me to put numerals on it like in "Legolas1929" (made up name) whch i deeply dislike (unless the game is set in an universe where all names are made from numbers or you play a nameless prisoner i.e.). If that inculdes creative spelling i am ok with it as long i do not have to use numbers. Thats all - i guard my privacy.

Very happy that there is now a Light Skin available - much thx to the creator: After the latest patch i made in my new save some adjustments to my tactic and simply by changing the role of a single player i made a reasonably working well tactic into a completely unstoppable winning monster that hugely overperforms. No change to anything else than 1 single role of 1 single player...now i scored 2 to 3 times the goals from b4 with no better team - alle the same players. Tell me the ME is not most sensible to changes! Happy holidays!

Looks good - my heartfelt gratitude, you Sir are my FM lifesaver and probably that of any Light Skin user! I am very happy the FM24 suffering now can change into enjoying the game. You made this possible! Happy holidays and a great new year!

Hi Olas Nick, if you make that thing work you are really a life saver! I found 3 issues: Training/Coach Assignement Screen does not display Set Pieces value as it misses on the personal screen the value and on the Coach Screen its mssing from the personal pop up values at all. Staff Screen has "New Search" not working - screen gets a little darker but the menu does not appear Scouting has "New Search" not working - same as above Best regards

Real Managers have meticulously aquired player data like never b4 - its not a lack of data but star cult, club politics, network preferences, nepotism, corruption and moneymaking that clouds the decisions accompanied by incompetence and cargo cultism. There is probably no other industrie where incompetent people amass more influence than in football bcs star cult, money and/or networks pave their way!

Do we speak of FM23 or FM24? In the Tactics Menu you can load tactics and manage tactics: Load tactics simply loads a tactic but does not add it to you ingame tactic drop down menu. Manage tactics does add a tactic to your ingame menu and you need to click manage tactic > load tactic to make them appear for adding. If they dont appear i can only imagine they are for the wrong FM version or in the wrong folder...

When you look at the tactics used and the intensity difference - it is not that much! I doubt Gegenpress is as exhausting by increasing the intensity of a tactic than it my be the common belief. Also my experience is that exhaustion sets in over a larger series of games and not in a single game - means only starting with already exhausted players (usualy marked as players in need of a rest) will hurt you! Maybe if there was a tactic that filled the intensitiy bar to the max instead of 75% to 80% it may be different but then in the end it will only make a difference in a single match if your opponents somewho are not equally exhausted and i dont see how that could happen as being pressed exhausts you as much as do the pressing. So its natural that it will not make a difference in a single match or when your players are able to recover between the matches and is more a longer term thing when you have one of these weird SI match every 2 or 3 days fixtures with no rest for a week or two that it will even matter.

I dont know if it exists in FM24, it certainly is an experience i myself had that troubles most of the FM saves at least until recent year FM games. You need to be extremely careful to have your Team have a good start into the second leg of the season which means producing good atmosphere, good cohesion, good morale, play at least 3 friendlies to win the fist games of the second leg and do not allow yourself to underestimate even the loserteams of the first leg - play your best team and grab the wins and do not botch it by subbing in weak players - the morale manager kicks in for the second leg as well! So, there is in practice a "mid season slump" by the way the game works if not very carefully countered by the manager unless you manage a carefree-team that wins anyway while you autoinflate your trophy stats!

Thx to SI to make CaC compatible with the league mods that add the german lower leagues again! It was not possible for quite a while so i checked it less and less but it seems that it already is possible in the latest FM23 version and right now in FM24. This is great bcs it offers a little more functionality than the ingame editor and does not count as having used the ingame editor while playing! PS: Oh well, to spoil my pleasure having find out i can use CaC again i also found that the ingame editor is more expensive than last year and still not offers the functionality the CaC Editor offers. Changing he Club Logo is not available and naming the Stadium seems also not possible...therefore i feel the ingame editor is to expensively priced!

Ok, for the moment it seem the FM23 Light Skin from Olas Nick will do, as it has a fmf and a live version and i can edit the live versions fm detection to FM24 without installing the ressource achiever - it looks better anyway!

Well, one Person has stated so and i was unable to repeat that. Mustermann is released "soon" means it is not available yet and it was crashing my PC in FM23 and has a data format for displaying the player attributes in a spaced put manner that increases my workload - it is not my choice to go with. There are no Dark Skins that offer dark text on light background which is what i need! So, there is none!

And which if the none would that be?

Extremely dissapointing - no Light UI available!

The button that usually will start the game changes to "Update".

It may be they spend more as clubs in that specific league although i feel the networkspending is also important and i have no clue suggesting that Man Utd or Chelsea spend as much combined as the City Network does. City already preoccupies players via the Feeder-Clubs in their Network that Utd or Chelsea will only have a chance to get if they somehow do not make it in the City network... It is no longer 1 Club vs 1 Club - it is a conglomerate of multiple Clubs vs the rest! To make matters worse Pep does indeed know what he does and is the master and as well profiteer of "Big Net Moneyball"!

I honestly do exactly that as part of my tactic bcs it influcences that passplay in an imo positive manner. I use shorter passing plus playing short out of the defense combined bcs without it they simply hoof the ball to safety long and as my team is close to, around and in the box to defend i never pick up these balls and let the pressure on my box continue. Shorter passing alone does not solve it but with playing out of the defense they suddenly start to pass short to a free player and either there is a situation to counter then they will counter vertically or there is none then they build up the play using short passing (in combination with less dribbling as they dribble way to much and that slows down the game and gives players a to long holding time of the ball as i want a rather short holding time and a healthy ball circulation) and i also enable wing play even i have only one WB (no inverted stuff) dedicated to the wings to make them play more diagonal as diagonals are the best way to open a coordinated defense as it stresses the players on two axes instead of only one thus increasing the chance for defensive error and misposition. I also work the ball into the box bcs i found without it they take to many low chance shots and i start to score signifcantly less while conceding significantly more bcs a defended ball from a bad low chance shot allways offers the oportunity for the oposition to counterattack me successful as my team is obviously way high up the field in an attackung shape and it also offers them more chances to build up their play resulting in more scoring opportunities for the oppostition and you do not want that. So it makes total sense to do ecactly that as part of your tactic! PS: Funny thing is i am a Manager i do totally not care about possession and my teams usually often win easier with having less possession but with each FM my same tactic creates more possession and it started with pretty much 50/50 in FM16 and now in FM24 am at 60/40 to 65/35 but i have no means to change that bcs it would make the players do things i do not want them to do...well, not that of a hassle as long i stopped playing FM24 for the lack of a FM24 Light Skin!

With a Team like City in the league it is a wonder any other club is able to win any title even once bcs you do not compete with a single club - you compete with a worldwide network of clubs and their combined worldwide transfer spending ment to feed the best players into City outclassing any other club in quantity of quality while ensuring these very good player in this Network will not play against City the same time making it much harder to compete at all with the goal to create a PSG or Bayern Munich situation in the Premier League as well. Honestly Liverpool is a Poodle compared to what the Mastiff that is named Manchester City is able to do - they have not the brunt nor the means to compete with City aside of what Klopp wrings out of this one squad he has the duty to manage. Denial of this situation will only harm the competition and play into the hands of Manchester City.

That makes me remember my one Season in the one EA FIFA Manager, when i won the DFB Cup as Tier 5 Club (german Oberliga). When i got promoted into Oberliga (i allways started in Kreisliga A which is the lowest possible league and make the promotion journey with a club i created) and searched for players it came to be that one club had gone belly up for debt and bancrupt. That club got a points penalty of afair minus 9 points, stopped to participate on the matches and had to sell of all players or let go free for unable to fulfill contract. Five of them still had no contract at the end of the transfer period and finally gave in to play for my club and i got players good enough for 2.Bundesliga and honestly i did bet my Clubs future on the success bcs it was financially way over my head! My club would go bancrupt after 2 seasons not getting promoted or selling of one of these players with a huge transfer income (which in that game was possible unlike SI FM where you get peanuts to nothing as lower tier club). But i got an axis of well overpowered players for the league i played in from GK, Defender, 2 Midfielders to a Striker (and as allways having a very good GK and a very good Striker does wonders if the Team between them is willing to put up the effort to not lose games as they then do the saves and score the scores that make all the difference!). Then i came to the DFB Cup and i dont remember the results but ended up with a stroke of luck in the Olympiastadion where the Cup Final is played and won that thing against a 2.Bundesliga Cliub who also managed to sneak into the Final. That was worth several million Euros and my finances were very healthy after that. In SI FM we will never have that kind of Drama where ones downfall is the other ones ladder to a title - not in that constellation at least with a club of such a low tier.

Stil not having played a match since i ended my first season as the game to date is exclusively dark skin and i can not handle a Heavy Workload Dark Skin UI as it tired out and hurts m eyes after only a short time. Playing Motorsport Manager and right now Death Stranding DC (got it for 12 Euros on sale - really good game of a different kind) instead - which both have sort of a Dark Skin and a Dark Skin but their savior is that they are Light Workload UIs! Oposite to FM where i look at the certain pages of the UI intensively between the matches and the balance is probably 80/20 weighted in UI vs 3D Match watchtime the other two games have a 20/80 UI/Match watchtime and the huge amount i spend looking a game graphics instead a dark UI gives my eyes a rest to my endurance so in this other games i am less stressed and i can play for much much longer. I really wish that a successful business like SI spends the miniscule amount of UI dev time to offer their paying customers an UI in a design they can work with! So pls SI - do it! PS: I do not even use black keyboards bcs i can read them so bad - i need dark letters on a light background to read well!

I never use inmatch team talks - i very rarely use shouts and that usualy when my team sucks agsint weak oponents or when they are in danger of losing a game we had a 4:0 lead in. The only thing i do teamtalks is when they pop up b4 urgent matches about winning titles and usualy i simply try to "NOT MAKE IT WORSE" bcs i am already at a form and moral high and i have nothing to win but everything to lose from that teamtalk! I give anything possible about talks to my assistant coaches...to me i feel it is a boring part of the game anyway i do not want to hassle around with... So unless i am forced no team talk for me!