Knighted_Manager - Comments

Just to follow up on this - using an amended latest data update with the custom start date file. I changed the 'Contract Start Date' and 'Date Last Contract Signed' to the correct dates pre-game.

Mark Hughes' Job Status is now 'Secure' instead of 'Precarious'. So adding the correct start dates does seem to fix this issue. I'm running the first month on holiday to see what happens at the end of the season.

I also tested giving Chris Coleman a 'Date Last Contract Signed' of 30 June 2018, as he was also always 'Precarious'. By new game loading he had been sacked on 03 April.

EDIT: Coleman has been sacked on that as Sunderland were recorded as being relegated on that date, which is obviosuly incorrect. There is an issue with the custom start date after 16 April. Promotions and relegations are out of whack. Haven't had the chance to test a future 'Date Last Contract Signed' with a previous custom start date yet.

So it will work with the custom start date, but not starting the game during the standard pre-season.

EDIT 2: I'm 99% certain that changing 'Date Contract Last Signed' to close to the game start date is the most important one for job security.

Cheers for the reply Rob.

Yes, I am combining the live update with 'live' start date and fixtures/resutls (also two excellent things you guys do - something I did every year after the xx.3 update from SI until you started doing it, so thank you!!).

Real life join date may work. However, to test I got FMRTE (however it may be frowned upon!! I like to update kits, alright people?) and changed the contract start dates as soon as I started a new game. So for examples, I edited Mark Hughes and Darren Moore. It didn't work, they were still sacked very quickly. Job position remained 'Precarious' in-game. Not sure if adding the join date in the .xml would help. Although as I'm completely anal about these things I would love for that to be added even it it was purely cosmetic ...

I have never bought the in-game editor so have no idea if the function is there but the only thing I could imagine working would be being able to somehow edit the 'Board Confirdence' figure seen in the pre-game editior. Even then I tired mass editing every employed manager in the game to have '200' and some were still listed as 'Precarious' or 'Very Insecure'.

I appreciate the testing would be hugely time consuming (having dabbled myself). Appreciate if you think of anything/give it a look in future updates.

Thanks!

First of all, the live update is spectacular and I love the concept. In practice however I run into difficulty in that updated AI managers get sacked virtually immediately as soon as I begin a new game, usually for poor league position.

e.g. Mark Hughes (IRL appointed 16/03) gets sacked in April or Darren Moore (appointed about 10 minutes ago) is sacked by West Bromwich.

Has anyone found a workaround for this please?