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Realistic USA file down to USL2. Includes USLC, USL1, NISA, and MLS Next Pro. Working on more details like graphics, rivalries, histories, etc (help is welcome).
Also see the Canadian Championship fix.
Graphics here. More discussion here. Get CONCACAF teams in the Copa Libertadores here. TMC Megapack here. Thanks to Gum at the SI Games forum for work on stadiums and affiliations. Also see the transfer file and details.
If anyone has insight into unpublished stuff like USL roster rules and info, PLEASE let me know here or at the SI Games forums and we can make it even more realistic.
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blackwell100
That's super fair. The Rhode Island one looks to be almost completed in reality
Azrael
Have you ever planned to go down to NISA and even deeper into the soccer structure in the USA (I mean, USA Club Soccer, for example)?
The Modelcitizen
NISA is in there. You might mean NPSL. Honestly, at such a low level the stats are so low and the AI coaches act weird so it's almost meaningless to play, other than to get to play with your local team. Plus, enabling all those extra teams means they drop and sign players way too frequently, including raiding USL2 teams for talent and messing up the quality the game has sort of intended to go through the USL2 to MLS draft pipeline (bad enough seeing NISA, USL1, and USLC teams raid the USL2 rosters). They also produce useless youth intakes themselves and slow your game down.
Same with the amateur leagues. For now I just have a couple of the amateur cups with NPSL teams so they get some occasional morale boosts when not getting hammered in the US Open Cup every year, and for amateur teams so they get cup games in their stats and you can scout them if they have any actual players. They keep getting imaginary league games in their stats as a result of the division being inactive. Same applies to MLS NEXT players, they seem to develop fine with the league season remaining inactive (can't replicate the fall to spring season here anyway) but having a bunch of cups to play in and for you to scout (MLS NEXT Flex, Fest, Cup)
Azrael
Hi! May I ask what was changed in this new update? :-)
blackwell100
Players keep asking for non promotion release clauses in contracts. I don't know if this will trigger in a league without promotions. Maybe you have more experience with it and understand better. I've been removing them using the in-game editor but maybe you'd have some insight TMC. Do you need help with anything with the database?
The Modelcitizen
Is there an option in the editor to preclude that? I thought I tried all the different ways to tell the game that there's no promotion, but it's like the game's contract negotiation AI just can't grasp that there are lower divisions that don't involve that possibility. I don't believe it will ever be activated in-game, but yeah it's not ideal and I'd like to remove it entirely. In the meantime, just think of it as a way to get a leg up in negotiations
The Modelcitizen
Cleaned up some NISA scheduling, added some attendance figures for some NPSL teams (for their cup games at home), made it so NYC play a few home games at Citi Field in 2023 like IRL. Really minor stuff like that. Trying to do one now where one of the LA derbies last year is played at the Rose Bowl but counts as a home game for one of them
The Modelcitizen
Check out the optional transfer file in the OP, this is not entirely realistic but sets a transfer embargo for the D2 and D3 teams until after the first MLS draft - this means they won't poach the best USL2 and MLS NEXT talent, at least until after the first season, meaning the first draft class isn't as useless as it is when they get a hold of it. The vast majority of the affected teams have a deep enough roster to handle it, and by the second season, they should have a slightly more settled roster including with free agents from January 2024 so they don't poach young talent as hard (not sure there's a way to just block them from signing D4 or lower players)