Dallan - Comments

It's hard to tell how coefficients work because the game doesn't show them for custom competitions, and there's no way to test in the editor.

BUT my testing makes me pretty sure coefficients actually take effect quicker than the 5 years - I just can't answer how the game accounts for them in the first 5 years of the system. I THOUGHT that it just started everyone from zero and sorted them every year based on their results, so things would be a bit chaotic for 5 years but settle after that, but I can't cvnfirm.

I have to apologise for missing so many comments: I'm not on these forums a ton and I clearly need to fix my email notification settings. I am doing this edit for 23 as well - it's already up on the SI forums but I'm happy to post it here too, either in this thread or a new one (not sure what the etiquette is)

The main difficulty here would be scheduling both, since this competition uses all the CL matchdays (and the calendar is crowded enough!). Julian had the idea to turn the old CLs into regional qualifiers instead (essentially replacing the summer qualifiers), but you'd need to change the UEFA CL and the others so much to fit them into that that it would be unrecognisable.

I do all my games in MLS, which is another winter league, and qualifiers there are based on the results of the last season, even though the CL resets in June. I'll keep an eye on who's qualifying from Japan though - but at the end of the day, all I do in this version of the edit is tell the game “tell every country to send its cup winner and X number of teams from its top division”  - how it determines who those X teams are is in its nation rules, which I don't touch.

This used to happen on specific dates in July but I thought I had fixed this. If this is still happening to you, please let me know what date it happens on and I'll see if I can figure out what might be causing it.

This is a known bug affecting all custom continental cup systems as far as I can tell, including this one.

In other news, I've finished creating and testing the compatibility patches for the Canada bug reported upthread (Canadian MLS teams not qualifying for this tournament), with much thanks to yellowsweatygorilla on the SI forums for his advice and permission to use his excellent Canada megapatch as a base.

There are two versions of the compatibility patch attached in the OP, choose only one:

• the Mini version just includes the basic Canada nation rules as in vanilla: the Canadian Premier League, and the Canadian Championship rebuilt as a domestic cup.
• the Mega version is an edit of the Canadian Megapatch for compatibility with the Worldwide CL, for those of you (like me, though I use some additional personal edits) who want to use both: it includes all of that patch's additional Canadian division levels, rules and DB edits, and rebuilds all of that patch's additions to the Canadian Championship as a domestic cup. It does not include that patch's changes to the Leagues Cup format - however, if you want those, you should be able to use only the Continental file included with Yellow's download, and then (I think but have not confirmed) my changes to everything else should overwrite his.

In both versions, Canadian-based teams qualify for the WCL in this order:

1. The Canadian Championship winner
2. The CPL playoff final winner
3. The CPL regular season table winner
4. The Canadian Championship runner up
5. The CPL playoff final runner up

Any remaining spots are filled in order based on the CPL regular season table. In the Mega version, if a Canadian team wins the Leagues Cup, they qualify in Canada's top spot and remaining teams are pushed down one spot.

Please keep me posted of any issues and otherwise have fun!

I didn't do a custom one, no. I THINK those use the Trophy Type setting in the database editor, which is set to Continental Cup 1, same as the UEFA CL - and the underlying competition I edited was the existing Club World Cup. If there's a specific in-engine trophy presentation, it would likely look like one of those.

I've updated this file for 22.4, new file is in the OP. The editor still makes working in Canada annoying so my side patch for the Canadian MLS bug will be a while longer while I consult with some other editors, but if you don't care about that feel free to start!
 

Of note: my tests indicate that Russian teams are still included in these tournaments, despite the changes in 22.4. I am fine with this and will not be trying to change it.

I'm not sure what you mean by Podium version, but at the very least the 22.3 update is up!

It has been frustrating enough to deal with over the years that I have absolutely thought of just getting rid, but I do like the idea enough to keep it - particularly since I've gotten it to a point where either it works or it breaks in a way I can live with.