United States - No Youth Intake

[Digijustin]

I've been working on a USA database that gets rid of the MLS and all its other leagues and replaces them with a model very similar to the English Football pyramid. It's working very well so far but it's been noticed that there isn't any youth intake. Kind of makes sense due to the MLS draft existing but I figured once I got rid of all the existing leagues and built my own, they would act appropriately.

I figured that because of the draft, maybe something was hard coded in the game to not have youth intakes for USA. So I took my DB I already created and basically moved everything in USA to Canada and low and behold, all the teams had proper youth intakes. So I know it's something with the USA in the game. I did some digging around and can't find anything online. If there is and I've missed it, I'm sorry. Looking at the files on my computer, I see the following 3 files:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Football Manager 2020\data\database\db\2000\dbc\usa.dbc
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Football Manager 2020\data\database\db\2001\dbc\usa.dbc
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Football Manager 2020\data\database\db\2010\dbc\usa.dbc

I am going through a year's holiday now to see if removing those files fixes the issue and will write back here once I find out but has anyone successfully gotten this to work? Seems like it should be something editable rather than hard coded. Thanks in advance.

[Digijustin]

 For the record, removing those files only gave a Youth Intake to all USA teams on July 1, 2019 and never again. 2020 and 2021 had none.

[Gambit]

Are you re-using the MLS competition in the database? If so that might be causing some issues as that league has some hard coded functionality in the game that you can't change in the editor

[Digijustin]

No. I marked it (and all other existing leagues) as extinct and created all new leagues from scratch. I think it's the country that has the hard coded stuff.

[Digijustin]

Should I maybe just delete it from the database?

[Wolf_pd]

Seems scratch build might eliminate some of your issues. Keep your old files though. just to be sure.

[Digijustin]

Well everything but nation is scratch build. I have considered "re-making" the United States but I feel like there's something I'm missing. Or hoping there's something I'm missing. 

[Gambit]

So what leads you to thing there isn't a youth intake? Are there just not players in the youth team or do no players show up on a team's Transfers->Transfer History->Youth screen?

[Digijustin]

There isn't a proper intake done. On the Dev center it says it happens in June but June comes and goes and no intake. Youths do show up but not in the intake fashion.

[Gambit]

The bigger issue is that we can't set when the youth intake happens with the editor. I'm seeing players show up in some U20 teams, but some teams are getting 2 or fewer players signed. Could be the youth intake was bad that year or it could be an issue with the system.

Edited December 14, 2019 by Gambit