varofcunion - Comments

Message for Florin.Hangu who posted in this thread back in January. You have knowledge, I do believe, that can assist many here. Specifically with how to proceed using FM24 and wanting to ensure one's desired club has the right arena as the centrepiece of one's managerial (very promising!) career. At the SI Community website you were in the thread pointing forum viewers to a resource from a contributor named cleiria. His created resource is called  [FM24 EDITOR][MOD] Customize Editor by cleiria - November 6, 2023, to be found  in the Editors Hideaway Download Forum FM24. Yes?  You gave it your endorsement on 16 May of this year.

Please, if I may ask it here, share with us what you know and how it has worked for you. One issue of note is that the link to cleiria's FM24 Editor Mod, well, that link for the share download appears to not be now functioning.  If that's a very helpful and trustworthy resource, let's let folks know how to access it and shine some thanks on cleiria if he's made the how-to-fix-stadia even more user friendly. Thank you very much.  The big extra is that what cleiria created works for multiple FM year editions, true? Thanks.
 

This is good. I particularly wish to express appreciation for the initial post by chirucristan on 4 December 2022.  The 12.86 MiB comp editor.fmf offering he made for the FM23 game's Pre-Game Editor is of great help with setting up the game as one would wish.  Because I think it needs to be pointed out that a fair-sized stadium of about 12,800 for a third or perhaps fourth tier club is probably almost never? going to please a FM gameplayer. Why?  We all wish to take that fourth tier club up the ladder to the leading league and then on to something like European or South American continental club competitions, yes?  Then that nice (for the 4th Level) stadium looks out of place and cannot help financially support a club that is ready to fight with Chelsea, Real Madrid, Inter, Bayern, PSG or the likes of Boca Juniors, River Plate, Flumenese, Gremio, Santos, or SPFC.  12,800 is a minnow club's home park.

Why is it then important to thank chirucristian and (before him) rabcp for doing this from year 2021 until the FM23 edition?  Well, these cute little 9,000 or 12,800 capacity stadiums who do not have all of their 8 sides filled (no corners with any seating or even standing terraces) look simply out of place and, frankly, ridiculuous as we perhaps are able to expand from 12,800 to, say, 21,650 maximum capacity.  Perhaps one can actually have that - and, if really lucky, all 21,650 as seater.  But the problem is that same stadium looks goofy with completely empty corners.  Name the Champions League or UEFA Cup regular participant of the last 8-10 years that does not have its own home stadium that is fans-in-seats/stands fully surrounding the pitch. [Correct me if I am wrong, but if you have not corners at the game's very start, you will never have corners - and your newly built stadium for 785-900 million British Pounds to replace the 12,800 capacity old home will not have corners….true?]

The look of the game matters for sincere gameplay enjoyment.  So thank you to rabcp who got the ball rolling on this comp file and for those like chirucristan & mons, Bielsa, StuartNG, etc. who kept it rolling. The ability for each of us to try to improve upon stadium corners (and roofs) via this fmf file prior to gamestart is immense.

Now - the only question:  What to do for FM24?  Might this same fmf file - at the start of this thread - do the trick?  y06fitzy, we can use your help, your smarts to know how best to proceed. Thank you.  (your steps 1 - 16 was very decent of you to offer as detailed help over a ½ year ago on 9 April - above)

Note:  Priorty76 added some help with his various expanding edit stadium files (as he expanded, added more of his own work edits).  And this is clearly a good way for many gameplayers. So thank you for that, too.  However - the key is to keep it so that each game user can self determine stadium configurations at gamestart. The Pre-Game Editor and Resource Archiver (are free) come with the game.  Easy enough to use and that way one does not have the horror of having the Glasgow Rangers Board tell one the next year move from iconic, historic Ibrox is definitive - and it's a move to a cornerless box that looks like an oversized Serie C Stadio in Italia. It might be 53,000 capacity, but it looks like…..(well, you know what  - example FC Bordeaux's stade before rabcp showed us how to fix that mess).  The “new stadium build” in FM is a cannard.

If you wish to see a good, well created stadium in FM, the one to view is Boavista FC of Portugal's home estadio - well, that's so much better - and yet this football sim game we love is lacking in stadiums of this caliber in the world's top 300 clubs throughout the base FM database.  And it's fully wrong that normal gameplay does not allow the diligent gameplayer to achieve over gameplay years of success(es) something that looks like that kind of professional, top-flight arena.  The mechanics of the game never let you get there.  And, no, buying another software add-on from another 3rd party source is NOT the correct fix/answer. That's broke.  The In-Game Editor should have it. Full stop.

Thus - the importance of what rabcp started here in April of 2021 and chirucristian continued in December 2022, early year 2023.  Thank you both.