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#493370 FAILED WONDERKIDS FC (Unfinished)
Tommy Hughes
#492990 FM20 Data Tweaks v6.1 [07/10/2020]
Tommy Hughes
Great to hear!
#491230 #FM20 | Announce Trailer | Football Manager 2020
Tommy Hughes
#491228 The Lower League Thread
Tommy Hughes
#489701 2019/20 Premier League
Tommy Hughes
It sure left me with an odd feeling of uncertainty and plenty of compassion for all parties involved - home team & fans, away team & fans and the referees as well. Perhaps the new strictness of the rule in question should apply to the scorer but not the one assisting/creating the goal... I honestly felt City were robbed at that situation, and I wasn't even rooting for them. Chalking off that goal was exactly right and completely wrong at the same time.
#489071 FM20 Data Tweaks v6.1 [07/10/2020]
Tommy Hughes
I appreciate your work for this great update.
Take care!
#487928 Question - FM19 Scouting Centre
Tommy Hughes
I've had a shortlisted name colored red in my save, and If my memory serves me right, the player in question was under a bid, if not even an agreed transfer, by another interested club.
I suppose the color signals a "code red" situation of sorts - sign him soon or lose the chance to acquire his services (for some time at least).
#487147 Kevin Kouassivi-Benissan
Tommy Hughes
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/kevin-kouassivi-benissan/profil/spieler/363715
#487146 Kevin Kouassivi-Benissan
Tommy Hughes
This is my first ever Live Database change. Hopefully I got everything right. There was no mention of the wage percentage to be contributed by RoPs, but I figured the player in question is 20 years old and promising, so (at least) 50% of his weekly wage should be about right.
#486692 The Lower League Thread
Tommy Hughes
Congrats on the new era! Let's hope it's a succesful one.
#486551 England - English Leagues Level 1-6 SS'2019-20 Relink! (23/04/20)
Tommy Hughes
For now, yes. Like last season, and like the file name suggests, more will be added gradually. If you need other English kits right now, you can find many of them in the SS (short sleeve) Kit thread.
#485714 The Lower League Thread
Tommy Hughes
Man, I hate to see this happen to a pair of traditional clubs and long time sympathetic underdogs. Poor fans, players, staff and everyone connected. And, quite literally, poor clubs.
#485646 Real Fixtures for 19/20 season
Tommy Hughes
I remember username frankthetank87 who had made the real fixtures/results for few different Football Managers of last few years, mention that he had an easy method for creating new fixture/result lists for FM each year. He has done them for many different leagues of many different nations, so apparently he's got some kind of quick way of compiling the new fixture lists and turning them into the form required by FM. I wonder if he could be of help on this matter?
#485337 FM19 Adboard Patch - EPL Update Part 2 Out Now!
Tommy Hughes
So sorry to hear about your computer, mate. Your adboards have been tremendous and have really made a difference towards a more realistic match atmosphere! I really appreciate your work on them, especially since I don't have the needed programs or know-how to do something like that myself.
Hopefully you'll be able to sort out the computer issue soon and dive back into the world of Football Manager. And hopefully, at some point in the future, you'll have the time and interest to create or help others create yet more awesome adboards.
All the best,
Tommy
#484782 Becoming A Good Football Manager
Tommy Hughes
I like starting saves almost as roleplay stories (local lad takes charge of his favorite team etc.) or enter an interesting short-term scenario to manage a team in (try and guide a team under relegation-threat into safety or win promotion back into the top flight etc.). Most often I pick an underdog team and try to rescue and stabilise them while developing the club's own youth prospects if the are any.
Football Manager games seem pretty straight forward as a concept, but there are so so many ways to play them, that it never gets old. And if it does, a little break will make me want to return to it once again. On top of it all, there are great community-made updates and databases, allowing lower league management and making previously closed national leagues available. The possibilities really are boundless.
As others have said, failure and misfortune are part of the journey. They make the game more real and exciting. And make the successes taste ever so better. I can't speak for other, better, FM players but knowing I cannot truly fully master FM, not without a team full of absolute world class superstars, makes the virtual footballing world feel very real. Looking back IRL many teams could've got relegated or missed their championships, had few crucial matches injuries etc. happened a bit differently along the way. That same small margins are often present in FM, and I love it.
I've often thought about doing the following little test: I backup a save at the start of the league season, keep playing the save until the end of the season, then return to my backup save and complete the same season once again. How different would it be the second time around, even if I tried to make the same transfer decisions, squad selections, use the same tactics and so on...? Depending on many variables, that FM so well simulates, the outcome could be quite different. And that goes to show how unique each of our saves and managerial stories really are.
#484508 2019/20 Transfer Rumours & Deals
Tommy Hughes
Seems very much like one of those unpredictable 50/50 situations, could be a hit or could be a miss. I hope for Newcastle's sake that he'll be a great success and hits the ground running, because they need a proper scoring threat straight off the start of the season.
I love how you (almost) never can tell who will do consistantly well in the Premier League. Remember when Norwich bought Ricky van Wolfswinkel as their number one striker. The lad grabbed lots of goals before and after his stint with the Canaries, but only one (1) in 25 appearances for them. And in the opposite end of the spectrum of surprises: Who would've thought Glenn Murray had all those crucial Premier League goals in him at such "senior" age?
It's so exciting and refreshing how - both in real life and in FM - you can always be surprised one way or the other when a player's most visible attributes don't necessarily match their performances and actual capability. (Especially when you manage to find them the most suitable role in your system and they reward you by overperforming every time.) That unpredictibility is the spice of football. Well, one the many assorted spices, really.
#483680 The Lower League Thread
Tommy Hughes
The Burger Ki... I mean, Stevenage shirt on the right honestly looks like it's a Burger King employee's shirt/apron. You can hardly even notice the Stevenage logo with the stripes and the rather sizeable BURGER KING logo going on around it.
I mean, that's not really a sponsorship. That's a downright football kit takeover.
#482912 Saving Newcastle United (with no coaching license) - Failed
Tommy Hughes
#482752 Change my second team to another division
Tommy Hughes
When you start the editor it asks you which DB you want to use, 19.1 or 19.3. After choosing the database you'll have to use the filters to search for players, nations, leagues, clubs etc. and then you can edit their various details. I havent used the editor much myself, so I couldn't say how exactly to find the Bayern Munich second team and assign it to another league, but I do know teams can be moved between leagues and divisions.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help, but perhaps someone here with more experience in the actual editing process could point you the right way? I know the database can be a tough environment to navigate, even when you know exactly what you're looking for.
#482742 Change my second team to another division
Tommy Hughes
As far as I know, it cannot be edited in a game save that's already underway. If your second team performs well in its league, it could get promoted to a higher division, if a league structure like that exists in the nation your teams are based in. (I'm not sure of the current rules on that in Germany.) Most B-team leagues have a proper league table that can be studied to see if they're close to promotion (if that's an option at all) or not.
Another way would be to move your second team into the division you want in the editor BEFORE starting a new game save.
Unfortunately I'm not aware of any easier ways to make it happen.
#482477 FM 18 Squad Assignments
Tommy Hughes
You could use the Squad screen for that. Pick your starters and subs (12 max) and search for the Save Team Selection on the right side of the screen, between Quick Pick and Filtered. I always save my favorite first team selection as a template I can easily return to after changing my squad depending on form, fitness, injuries, bans etc.
Hope that helps.
#477224 The Lower League Thread
Tommy Hughes
Oh no. That's so awful. RIP.
#476520 La Liga Thread
Tommy Hughes
[center]Former Arsenal, Real Madrid and Spain forward Jose Antonio Reyes has died following a car accident.
RIP
I know this happens in all walks of life, but it still feels odd, sometimes downright unreal, when relatively young public figures you've known and followed through their career, especially fit athletes, pass away or suffer cardiac arrest etc. Human life really is a fragile thing, and bad luck is always one or two small, unfavourable events away. It's a damn shame.
#474823 2018/19 Barclays Premier League
Tommy Hughes
Absolutely true!
#474484 2018/19 Champions League
Tommy Hughes
#474396 2018/19 Champions League
Tommy Hughes
Oh what a night!!!!
#473781 The Last Real Fixtures and Results 27/05 for FM19
Tommy Hughes
Hi!
Unfortunately the cup results cannot be set the same way as league results. I wish there was a way, but so far no one has found it possible.
#472261 The Last Real Fixtures and Results 27/05 for FM19
Tommy Hughes
Place the .xml files that you need into the Football Manager 2019\editor data\ folder and choose them when starting a new career to enable them.
(The text files are for combining the real fixtures/results with other league settings/national rules via the FM Editor.)
#471993 FM2019 Real Names and German National Team Fix File for FM19 v3.0 [released 01/03/2019]
Tommy Hughes
There are at least some Brazilian club names included in the fix. Perhaps this year there aren't a whole lot of them to fix in the first place?
The German club names are indeed not fake, but many people prefer the more complete names in place of some of the default shorter ones that are displayed in the Bundesliga League Table, for example. Unfortunately I cannot find any examples of them. There could be few shortened names like FC Bayern --> Bayern Munchen and such?
#471985 FM2019 Real Names and German National Team Fix File for FM19 v3.0 [released 01/03/2019]
Tommy Hughes
Hi,
I believe I had a similar experience in FM 18. I had applied the fix, started a new save and things were fine. At some point a patch was put out. I didn't notice it and played my career, SAVED the game and later on realised that some of the team names were way out of whack again. Unfortunately I had already progressed and saved my game (instead of not saving, re-applying the patch and then loading up my last correct save), so the only way I could change Real Hispalis back to Betis etc. was through the .txt file edit. It's actually not that complex or time-consuming, but I just hate how it eats away the edited clubs' nicknames.
So if you haven't progressed too far or saved over the last version where the names were fine, you can re-apply the fix and re-load the latest save with the correct names.
If you're already beyond the point of no return, as I was back in FM 18, I can assure you that using the txt fix is not as bad an option as it may seem. No, it's not the best way around it but at least it's pretty fast and easy and get's rid of those awful fake names.
Good luck to you!