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kalel1
I play FM 2014 (my favourite version).
I noticed that in later versions, some skins seemed to show the number of games since your side lost a league game (the skin seemed to count more records).
Are there any backwards compatible skins that would show how long my team has gone since a league defeat in FM2014?
(by standard FM 2014 ONLY counts the number of games since ANY defeat regardless of competition).
PoorJack
First things first, you do need to find a backward compatible skin that works properly with FM14. Remind you that the UI has many changes throughout this 10 years. Anyway, I suppose this huge task is on you... just can't expect that any people here still have FM14 on the harddisk.
So, let's brainstorm the situation:
Sure that you need to have the value (i.e. number of games since your side lost a league game) available in the game, in order to display it on the screen.
Does FM2014 have the value available? If it doesn't show on any FM14 skins, then you may safely assume that it doesn't have this statistic in the game.
OK, say, the value isn't available in the game, then here are the questions:
- Can you calculate the value in any ways, e.g. using a formula?
- If you can, then what's the formula? (It sounds more complicated that calculating the goal difference.)
- Can you get the required values from the game to perform the calculation?
- Where can you do the calculation?
I don't know if XML can do maths... you may need to consult some skin developers or programmers for more information. Anyway, this is the logic or theory, not sure if it actually works this way.
Last but not least, even if you do find a skin which is compatible to FM14 and also have the value ready, you need to edit the skin in order to display the value... Remind you that adding a new value anywhere can easily make a mess on everything, e.g. pushing some columns wide and disrupting a table. In summary, it's going to take you some time here... editing and testing, possibly repeat many times.
All I can say is good luck.
Anyway, I'm no expert... just try to figure out a direction for a possible solution. I imagine these are the steps or preparation that may need to take. If anything above is wrong, please correct.