Wolf_pd

Move to main Editor forum. No rules can be changed mid game.

Free transferring with nationality adjustment could work. The hardest part is moving the players around. I could handle the compete 16 Soviet Republics in a weekend afterall. But I agree, having fake and real players next to each is a bit odd. It also could lead to inbalance.

What do you mean?

No, this is because you have done something wrong. Things can verify in basic rules while they don't verify in advanced rules without changing anything. Do you still have Wellington Phoenix in there (are they actually still playing in Australia?)

Using fake players will only replace the existing names with fake names, so you would get a very good Argentian player called Mancuso at PSG. But I am thinking about partial deleting.

After a long term test and check on the newgens that are created, I have stopped the test. The basic idea is good. No issue with that. However....., there is an issue with the Soviet Union because we have to use the Soviet Union instead of Russia. An added issue is that it generates people with extinct nationalities like for instance Estonia. So I have continued with the nationalities file (already started during the test) and am now busy finishing up the Soviet Union data. Yes, just like Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union data only cost me two days I had some time away from the computer planned in June for redecorating the house, but due to illness of the people working on it that work has been postponed. It also means I will have all time of the world to continue working.

This would be better suited in the game features request section.

Without a file this is pretty hard to pinpoint.

A test is running with the files. Seeing some improvements, also seeing some less positive things. The improvements, in general the game seems to follow the rules set in the foreign rules. So China will have no (in one case two foreign players) foreign players. The USSR the same, but English and German teams do have some foreigh players, between 2 and 6. That's a positive. Then the negative, the namebase for the Soviet names is a mess. It might be because I am using the Soviet Union and not Russia, but the names are based on Eastern European names and not Russian/Soviet Union names. This makes me think the game is looking for names based on the Region and not the language. I am now running a longer test, about 10-15 seasons to see what happens with the Soviet names and what happens with the general balance.

That one is the first time I see it.

I have finished deleting the players as a test, about 370,000 changes.... And yes, to get a good idea what the impact you need to do that much.

Moved to main Editors forum (no download)

Deleting players is a drag..... Hopefully I can do a good test tomorrow, but it takes a while!

How have you set the changes for the number of teams?

SI might be able to do so, but outside them I have no idea how to do that.

The option I see is to remove all players from the nations that I edit, so Europe, China, Hong Kong. These are the players based in these nations and not players from that nationality. And then repopulate via the create players for empty teams option in the menu. Test that for a few seasons and see what the balance is. The idea is interesting as it is a major shortcut and saves a lot of time possibly. If it doesn’t work it would only mean a few days that I lost but that’s ok.

Hmm, it would mean removing everyone as fake players only replace the existing ones with renamed ones (according to someone in General Discussion). Not sure if I want to remove al players although it would create a challenge in building teams.

Good question, not sure if it would populate the teams with the correct amount of foreign players for each team though.

Just a select all, and edit. The computer needs to have the fire power for it, but that’s just it. To explain a bit more about how I work with it. Let’s look at Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He is a Swede with Croatian and Bosnian second nationality. First I removed the Croatian nationality as only one of the two second nationalities needs to be changed to Serbian. Then the question is, where is he born? Malmö, Sweden, so his Swedish nationality is OK and we keep it that way. Rinse and repeat those checks for 7 nations

The players need to be edited as for Yugoslavia, only Serbian nationality needs to work, while Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosovo are removed. You could use the fake all players settings, but you would still need to edit the nationalities. Creating fake players? Well, how many do you want to have? Yugoslavia does have about 10-15000 players now (just a guess, computer is shut down for the evening).

Cleaning out all that have more than one ex Yugoslav was most work. For instance there were about 1000 Serbians with second nationality Bosnia. Then it is a matter of where is someone born. Born in former Yugoslavia and a resounding Yugoslav name, you remove the second nationality and change his main nationality to the nation of birth.

And the Yugoslavia re-nationailsation is done. Total amount of changes in the file is now: 31576 Next up I have a days with other work to do (physio, preparing the bedroom for painting and the actual painting) and then USSR is up in the coming weekend. I am not sure I will be able to finish it, but I am pretty sure I can get a lot done. Finishing USSR before the end of the month would be nice, so I have it finished before I return to working on the competitions.

No, it can't be done via the in game editor.

For Yugoslavia after two days (started early Saturday) Macedonia, 90 items today and then it's Kosovo and convert everybody to Serbian. Since I was outside for most of the day yesterday that whole Yugoslavia in just over two days which is surprising for myself. but very positive. Might help that I am recognizing names from the database now

I have put the competitions asode for a moment as I need a bit more time to work out issues and the evenings are just short for that. Next month I have three weeks off so much more time. I am seeing a massive difference in processing speed between FM22 and FM20 and I am not talking from my computer Working through Serbian data in a few days was a three week job last year.