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Ok, there are a couple of guides how to create a custom nation in FM, so this topic is not about it. Let's say, we already created a custom nation by editing a famous "Pre-1922 Ireland". We will call our nation "X-Nation" from now on. Now we decide that our X-Nation will be fantasy one, which resides on a newly created piece of land. A big archipelago in the Asia, just maybe a little bit east of Japan and Sakhalin Island. So far so good, now we going to set "Continent" of "X-Nation" to East Asia, choose currency (whatever you like, no matter). Creating backstory: X-Nation was formed by people of Russia East and Japan North. Secretly they developed a way to rise a land from ocean depths (whatever) to create a new nation where they can escape hostility and politics of the other world and offer a true safe spot on the Earth for everyone. Lore-wise, this young nation should use a mixture of RU and JP languages throughout all archipelago with a dominant EN as a common language for everyone. Logically, we are setting "Languages" tab in editor to: English - 100 Japanese - 50 Russian - 50 This will represent a portion of people knowing their first language (RU or JP) and everyone speaking EN as official one. Geography: In the center of archipelago the Center City is located. It is the true definition of globalization idea. Mixture of styles, culteres, languages, people, fashion and ideas. This is the capital of the whole X-Nation, the biggest megapolis holding it's ideas. Creating a new city. Center City will be the name, choose appropriate lat and long, 10mln - 20mln population, choose weather (any). Attraction - 11. Language - English. But, we miss a region! Let's create a Center Region for our capital. Setting it to X-Nation, population 18mln. Languages: English - 100 Japanese - 50 Russian - 50 Now we set our Center City to Center Region and it's done. Not enough cities and regions! We decide that our X-Nation likes the idea of globalization the most, but is also understands that they need to preserve their original culture! So, we are creating a region for each native language we have. JP Region and RU Region, each has aboth 5mln people residing, and the only language spoken there is native language. So we are setting Russian - 100 for RU Region Japanese - 100 for JP Region Lore-wise, we can explain those regions also used as adaptation zones for immigrants, so each region has only it's native language. Now, for each of 2 regions we create some cities, let's say... 3 for each. RU City 1, 2, 3. JP City 1, 2, 3. All of them have identical stats in Editor: 1mln - 2.5mln population, 10 attraction, region language, but different coordinates. "Hey, and what about football?" - someone is asking. Ok, we are getting there! This beatiful game is used by X-Nation to sing all over the world about their safe spot! How? The X-Nation has NO LEAGUES, that's how! The capital city (Centre City) has its own club. We will call it FC X-City. This club has a stadium in the Centre City, but participates in no active leagues. We will leave it as a placeholder for now. Each region has it's own club too, and a stadium in one of the regional cities respectively. Aaaaaand! Those clubs participate on the low leagues of original nations! FC RU City plays somewhere in Russian Third League, FC JP City plays somewhere in Japanese Third League, but both clubs still reside and train on the X-Nation grounds. We are getting closer to the point where the game slaps me in a face and spits all over my crying body. As I see it - FC RU City plays through Russian divisions, maybe getting promotions. Same for FC JP City. ALL of the regens and youth intake for FC RU City should have X-Nation nationality. Working as intended, no questions. They play in their home nation, and local kids born here go through local academies. MOST (if not ALL) of the regens and youth intake for FC RU City should have one of the RU Cities (1,2,3) as their place of birth and have Russan names/surnames. Same for JP counterparts. HELL NO THEY ARE NOT!!! The game decides to use FIRST LANGUAGE used for the WHOLE NATION as the base for names. For example, setting Russian - 50 English - 100 Japanese - 50 Gets me all of Victor, Ivan, Oleg, etc names for BOTH Russian and Japanese region clubs! Setting English - 100 Russian - 50 Japanese - 50 Gets me Billy, John, Kevin, etc named for BOTH Russian and Japanese region clubs! In both cases, I have NO control over surnames. Most of them use EAST ASIA database, so I am getting Kim, Lee, Shimada, Kyota, etc - a mixture of Korean, Chinese, Japanese names, maybe with like 5-10% of them are Russian surnames and another 5-10% English (or Ireland from pre-1922 database) This system SHOULD work - USA nation has English and Spain as languages and about 80% to 20% names and surnames English and Spain. But not for my nation!! And futhermore - each of the regens, all thousand of them simulated in a game, have ONLY ONE birth place. Centre City, the capital. Setting capital to "none" in editor still gives the same birth place for EVERYONE. This is SO INFURIATING, I can't even... AAARGHHH

How do you make institute/academy clubs produce regens in the game? What should I edit in the Pre-Game Editor? I have never seen these clubs produce players.

How do you find wonderkids ive tried searching and they just say like young striker

York City, Premier league, in Europe, Extensive Youth Recruitment, Exceptional Junior Coaching, Excellent Youth Facilities, Huw Jennings Resolute HOYD, Under 18 Manager, Assistant, 2 coaches, 2 Lower League Youth Intake Affiliates Currently Spawning 1/2 to 1 1/2⭐️ ability max And Spawning 1/2 to 4 ⭐️ potential Reloading on intake day to test it. Should I not be yielding any ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ current ability? Like surely the boxes I’ve ticked I should have a desirable intake after 15-20 reloads?

Hi guys, I'm after some thoughts on how to best set up my individual scouts before and after the newgen dates. I understand that I can find a list of all Youth Intakes through the World - Transfers tab, and then I can scout every single player at each intake date. However this is time consuming and also difficult with a small team of scouts as there can be hundreds of players coming through at each date. Obviously the AI will be able to identify the best newgens earlier than me, so I'm looking for some advice on how to stop missing out on the best young talent that comes through each season. A few years ago on FM, I found it easier to bring in quality 16/17 years old and build a strong unit from U18 age group up to the seniors. Though I do think it is better now that maybe less are coming through and/or they are more difficult to identify, i'm currently playing a save where I am aiming to bring through a new 'Class of 92' 'Pep's Barca' etc.... Thanks for the help in advance. I know many of us love the scouting part of the game and i'm sure plenty have some useful tips to pass on...

Is there a way of applying Bilbao-type signing/transfer rules to other clubs? For example could Aston Villa be made to only sign players from the West Midlands, or for Chelsea it would be players from London... however the game breaks down club location? Would this have to be done individually for every club or would a database be achievable where a rule like this was global? I tend to do youth development saves, so I can keep my own policy in check, but it would be cool to widen it out to see how other clubs get on in the game. I also like the idea of a no-transfers-allowed database, but I've heard that clubs being taken over by new owners can upset this and wipe out any embargoes - Similar idea to the region specific rules, but a bit more of a challenge.

Ok so way back in fm 14 or 15 I had this free agent wonderkid offered to me by his agent. It was just after the English youth intake and he had been at some English non league team and for some reason they had not agreed a contract. Since then nothing remotely similar has occurred which makes me wonder whether this was a freak occurrence, whether this was taken out of the game or whether this still happens. I did think it made a sense since youth players move around so much nowadays.

Hi, I have been playing a save of a lower league club. After a number of years (and a few promotions) I have climbed the leagues. However, my youth teams (Under 23 and U18) all still have grey players. I do see a youth intake however they are all grey players. I have good facilities and good backroom staff. Does anyone have an idea what I am doing wrong?

Hi All, Strange one but i want to start a lower league English game as my last FM17 game but, as many other clubs are doing now, scrap the youth players and just run 1st team and reserves ... i'll sign free's for the both teams but don't want youth intakes ..... anyway they can be switched off so i can get rid of any u18 players/staff and not have youth intakes going forward? Thanks

Whenever I go to Transfers->Youth Intake and I try to select all the players from, let's say Germany, and scout them(shows me that there are ~300 players), the next day when the scouts come I receive only 40 scouts. The same happens for many other countries and it drives me insane cause i have to manually scout every single club in order to see reports for the new gens..what am i supposed to do in order to get this to work as it's supposed to?

i've noticed that when scouting world youth intake, sometimes it's like a player goes into a different team's youth intake without compensation (and the teams aren't affiliate clubs) . I'm attaching a couple pictures. I was wondering how/why this has been happening and if there's any way I could do it too.

Does anyone have a short guide or any tips on how to get better regens in the youth intakes? 3 intakes and I've had absolute appalling. I'm currently Everton and here are the facilities etc: Training: State of the Art Youth Training: Top Junior Coaching: Exceptional Youth Recruitment: Well Established I also have Thomas Albeck as a HoYD who looks pretty good. So yeah any ideas or is it just bad luck

Hey guys, so I am managing Sampdoria for 5 seasons (currently I am in the 6th season) and I am really frustrated with Youth Intakes. So, the situation is as it follows: 1. I am the biggest club in Italy right now (and been so for 3 straight years). Won 3xSerie A, 2xUCL and many other cups. The club's reputation is Worldwide. 2. I have State of the Art Training Facilities and Superb Youth Facilities. 3. I have the best coaching setup in Italy at any levels: First Team, Under 20, Under 18. At least 4 star coaching at any given department. 4. I have a monster of a Head of Youth Development: Roberto Samaden which is responsable with the intake of new players. 5. Genoa, who is the other team in town was relegated for 2 seasons, so there is no way they could attract better players than I can. So, the thing is that since I am managing Sampdoria there hasn't been a single season where I had a good (not great) Youth Intake. The best I did was average, so not a single wonderkid or anything close to a wonderkid. I spent over 30M $ to improve the youth facilities, I am paying huge wages to the youth coaches and yet I haven't got a single top youngster. I play the game for years and years and never had this issue, but now I am getting really frustrated with this. The only thing that comes to mind is the fact that the club has Adequate Corporate Facilities (that's literally the only weakness this club has). How are you guys manage to get succesful youngsters during the Intakes ? Share some advise if you please.

... i.e. Youth intakes with a massive database? I receive about 50 scout reports every 2-3 days. I've currently got over 18'000 youth intake players in my queue. At that rate, my queue will grow exponentially. Any suggestions for shifting lots of scout reports quickly? Many thanks for your suggestions.