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For those who never followed my previous thread I was attempting the Metropolitan Man challenge and was six seasons into my game with Greek side Panionios. I had transformed the club from a mid table side to a side which won three consecutive titles. Success also came of the filed with improved facilities a bank balance of £30M and a new stadium under construction. With a squad average age of 21 I was on the verge of big things.

Then my game encountered Microsoft Visual C Runtime errors making progress impossible. It seems that FM12's excessive memory demands was too much for my PC (with 4GB RAM) to handle, SI have my save so all might not be lost, but I’m not waiting around on them trying to come up with a fix and have decided to attempt this challenge again with a new save; if the unlikely happens and my old save is fixed I will probably switch back depending on how this save progresses.

Challenge:
Start at any club that is based in Istanbul, Paris, London, Moscow, St Petersburg, Berlin or Athens and win the Champion’s League. Rinse and repeat until you have seven Champion’s Leagues on your managerial CV

Leagues
In order to save memory I have cut seven leagues away from my previous set up;

• England - Premiership & Championship
  
• France - Ligue 1 & Ligue 2
  
• Germany - Bundesliga & 2. Bundesliga
  
• Greece - Superleague
  
• Premier League & Pervyj Division
  
• Turkey - Super Lig.

Honours
Greece

I gave this challenge a bash last year and stupidly saved over my game so thought I'd give it ago again for FM12.

Challenge:
Start at any club that is based in Istanbul, Paris, London, Moscow, St Petersburg, Berlin or Athens and win the Champion’s League. Rinse and repeat until you have seven Champion’s Leagues on your managerial CV

Leagues

• England - League 2 and Above
  
• France - Championnat National and Above
  
• Germany - Regionalliga and Above
  
• Greece - Football League and Above
  
• Russia - Pervyj Division and Above
  
• Turkey - 1. Lig and Above

Manager History
Panionios FC 2011

Trophy Cabinet

• Greek Football Cup OPAP x 2 (2013/14 & 2014/15)
  
• Greek Superleague x 2 (2013/14 & 2014/15)

Awards

• Manager of the Year (2014)

The FM12 Adboard Patch

With over 50,000 downloads last year the FM11 Adboard Patch was one off the most popular graphical patches FM11 and it's now back for FM12

What does the patch typically contain?
Last year this was the only patch to have adboards for ever licensed Premier League along with several cup competitons and club specific adoards.

What will the FM12 patch contain?
The first patch will contain all the previous leagues (76), 26 cup competitions, 15 continental cup competitions and club specific adboards for 87 clubs

Will the FM11 patch contain any new adboards?
Yes the first patch will contain updated adboards for the Chinese, Dutch, Isreal, Portuguese, Russian and Scottish leagues along with adboards 7 new clubs and updated adboards for Isreali, Scottish and European cup competitions.

Previews

Q. How do I install the Adboard Patch?

PC
1. Extract the contents of the rar folder to your desktop.

2. Move the ads folder to the following directory: My Documents /Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2012/graphics/pictures. This will now give you the following directory: My Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2012/graphics/pictures/ads

3. Open up the My Documents /Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2012 folder and create a new folder called 'ads' giving you the following directory My Documents /Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2012/ads

4. Move the 'Club adboards' and 'no club adboards' folder from your desktop to the new directory you made My Documents /Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2012/ads

5. Decide if you want to use the 'Club adboards' or 'no club adboards' once you have decided copy and paste the fm.xml file from 'club adboards' or 'no club adboards' folder to the ads folder.

You should now have the following folder structure.


6. Open up FM12 and access the in game preferences menu.

7. Go to the display tab and untick 'use skin cache' and tick 'reload skin on confirm'. Confirm these changes

8. Reload FM12 and enjoy

Apple Mac
1. Extract the contents of the rar folder to your desktop.

2. Move the ads folder to the following directory: My Documents /Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2012/graphics/pictures. This will now give you the following directory: My Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2012/graphics/pictures/ads

3. Open up the My Documents /Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2012 folder and create a new folder called 'ads' giving you the following directory My Documents /Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2012/ads

4. Move the 'Club adboards' and 'no club adboards' folder from your desktop to the new directory you made My Documents /Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2012/ads

5. Decide if you want to use the 'Club adboards' or 'no club adboards' once you have decided copy and paste the fm.xml file from 'club adboards' or 'no club adboards' folder to the ads folder.

Make sure both 'ads' folders are in lower case

6. Open up FM12 and access the in game preferences menu.

7. Go to the display tab and untick 'use skin cache' and tick 'reload skin on confirm'. Confirm these changes

8. Reload FM12 and enjoy

Q. Why are there two different xml files?

A. As the folder names suggest one xml file contains club specific adboards and one doesn’t. This has been done as in previous patches people have complained that they see clubs specific adboards in cup competitions. Due the way the xml file there is no way around this using code. The only solution would be the use of two files.

For example say you are Arsenal and want Arsenal specific adboards in the Premiership and the Champions league adboards in the Champions League you would follow these steps;

1. Load up FM with the Club Specific config file in use
2. Play your league game (Arsenal ads will show)
3. Before your Champions League game Save and quit FM12
4. Replace the club specific config file with the non club config file.
5. Re boot FM12
6. Play your Champions League match (Champions League ads will show)

I'm a bit bored with FM11 right now so I'm attempting to something a bit different with a custom database I've been developing over the past few days.

Stay tuned!

Game Progress

Scottish National Team
FIFA World Rankings
August 2010 - 47th

Scottish Premier League
Co-efficient Points
August 2010 - 25.150 (15th)

League Rating
August 2010 - 3 Stars (17th)

After completing the pentagon challenge I'm in need of a new FM game and a new challenge so I reckon it's time for me to take a crack at the Metropolitan Man challenge.

Challenge:
Start at any club that is based in Istanbul, Paris, London, Moscow, St Petersburg, Berlin or Athens and win the Champion’s League. Rinse and repeat until you have seven Champion’s Leagues on your managerial CV



Manager History
Panionios FC 2010 -20XX

Trophy Cabinet
Empty

Awards
None