Too many good regens from 'average' footballing nations.

[x42bn6]

Good to know.

Overall though my feeling is the thread is too focused on PA given that a % of players will never reach their PA level. Looking at CA of fully developed newgens would give a better indication but at the end of the day its a very subjective matter. Major clubs have and will continue to expand their scouting networks in real life, this increases the chances of world class players being found in the most unlikeliest of countries (They no doubt existed in the past its just that it was rare for a major club to find and develop them).

Looking at two real life examples:

Spain - Despite their domination now with a generation of talented players this is a country that only qualified for 3/7 World Cups between 1954 & 1978 never making it beyond the group stage. Since then they've become regulars at major tournaments without really making a mark until they won the Euros in 2008. Looking to the future people seem to think they will continue to produce world class players but this is far from guaranteed and I suspect they will decline in the future until another "Golden Generation" arrives (If at all).

Egypt - Three times African Cup winners in 2006, 2008 & 2010 and yet only three of their regular players play outside Egypt. This is the polar opposite of other major African nations such as Ghana, Ivory Coast & Cameroon where most national team players play abroad. Does this mean Egyptian players are better? worse? than other African players. They are probably much the same but I'm sure many users would argue that Egyptian PAs should be lower.

At the end of the day its impossible to know what World Football will look like in 20 years time, the only prediction you can make is that it will be more competitive with good players coming from a much wider group of countries.

Two things - firstly, even though players will not always reach their PA/the AI trains the players badly, it still means that the user can sign these youngsters and train them properly, resulting in still-high proportions of "too good" regens. It also begs the question how youngsters with high PA can turn out so rubbish, even if it is just a weighting system - the number of players with high PA and poor attributes is relatively low, because few players are world-class physical monsters with the first-touch of Emile Heskey.

Secondly, although it is true we cannot predict what could happen in the future, I'd hope that the game universe will remain "constant" in the sense that the regens don't get better and better on average every year, to the extent that career games after many decades are imbalanced. If you like, the "PA-inflation" should remain constant in-game. The top 10% of players today may be the top 40% of players in the future due to the fact we are an evolving species, but the game should ideally ignore that so the 10% remains relatively constant on average over time.

[Neil Brock]

This issue has been addressed and is known by us. If there's anything you feel which is relevant which needs to be in this thread - http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/294171-Regens-too-good please post it there do the relevant people definitely see it.Cheers.