Tommy Hughes - Comments

It's the logo for Inter Milan baseball team. 😉

Actually, I've tested extracting the simatchviewer-pc.fmf into \simatchviewer-pc\ folder, adding new sounds into the \sounds\ sub-folder, writing them into the match_sounds.cfg and leaving the extracted \simatchviewer-pc\ folder like that. It works. As long as the folder is in Football Manager 2021\data\ where the original simatchviewer-pc.fmf is, the game reads the extracted folder first and the .fmf package only if there is no \simatchviewer-pc\ folder to read. So, I keep the folder extracted so I can easily add new sounds etc. there without the need to extract/archive again and again.

Nice!

I'd like to find the timeline as well, and also the written match report when studying a previous match. Have they got rid of them both?!

That sounds almost like… sleeper agent spammers? :o

Great spot!

The way it works is you make the adjustments in the pre game editor, save them into a data file and choose it (tick/untick the data files you want to use) when starting a new career.

No problem, mate. 🙂

You can find the editor under Tools in you Steam library.

I imagine the easiest way to change the kickoff times for the division you play in would be to use the real fixtures .txt file, mass-edit the starting times in notepad or other such program and then import the fixtures in the pregame editor. That covers the first season's fixtures and kickoff times. There should also be a section where you can define the timing of matches in general (for the following seasons as well). I cannot remember where you can find that setting in the editor off the top of my head, but it must be somewhere under the Competition-related setting section.

You can find where the kickoff times can be changed among  these instructions:

https://sortitoutsi.net/content/50989/how-to-create-real-fixture-files-into-text-and-then-use-in-game

Check the 4th picture from the top, you can see the fixtures list with the starting times there.

I imagine the easiest way to change the kickoff times for the division you play in would be to use the real fixtures .txt file, mass-edit the starting times in notepad or other such program and then import the fixtures in the pregame editor. That covers the first season's fixtures and kickoff times. There should also be a section where you can define the timing of matches in general (for the following seasons as well). I cannot remember where you can find that setting in the editor off the top of my head, but it must be somewhere under the Competition-related setting section.

Editing the kickoff times can certainly be done in the PRE-game editor, but probably not in the IN-game editor. I'm not sure, because I haven't used the latter one. Obviously the unfortunate issue with changing the kickoff times with the pregame editor is that you'd have to start a whole new game with that editor file with the modified kickoff times.

Holy moly, 289 k p/w!? Just imagine the press conference where IFK Goteborg announce their great new signing, and their subsequent bankruptcy at the same time. 🙂

https://sortitoutsi.net/content/57978/press-conference-wallpaper#comment_625187

Mons will publish a new patch version tomorrow:

“I'm afraid I'm in bed for the night, so the new release will have to wait till tomorrow morning. For those who can't wait, make sure the dbc/permanent and edt/permanent folders in your 2140 folder look like the ones in the screenshot, and that your lnc folder does too.”

Yeah, true. Doesn't make much sense. I just thought that maybe there's some comment in release notes or comments related to the pack that mentions Ryan Renolds by name and some automatic search system has deemed that a trademark violation is possible. How else would their representatives/broken search-bot algorithms even come across a thing like the Facepack in the internet. No living soul has browsed through the 300k + files, that are named by the FM ID numbers, just in case there's a registered face included, that's for sure. 😀

But it wouldn't be the first time that a major company DMCAs some content baselessly and "just in case" (often it's in You Tube environment, though).

Holy crap. Could it somehow have to do with the people who've taken over the ownership of Wrexham, perhaps? It feels far-fertched, sure, but that's the first thing I thought of if WB is involved…

Yeah, I'm not really feeling the faces in the squad selection screen. Sorry. I feel they're great in tactics and other places, but just not in squad selection, where there's all that other info and, IMHO, no need for very small mugshots.

But I do feel the version with faces with transparent background are better than the team color ones.

EDIT 2021_03_15:

Now that I finally decided to replace my Flutskin 8.0 with the 9.0 version, it didn't take long to get used to the small face “thumbnails” in the Squad Selection page. I quite like them, actually, regardless of what I had assumed before. 🙂

Now that's what I call a challenge! 🙂

I've done okay in the past in small (mainly) English clubs and other underdog teams, but I don't think I'm ready for this one yet. Thanks for sharing this amazing story and experience, though. Would be interesting to see/read about someone taking this challenge on.

Hi!

Just a small suggestion for adjustment of the stadium name of Birmingham City FC: “Trillion Trophy Stadium” → “St Andrew's Trillion Trophy Stadium”.

So, the traditional St Andrew's part is still used in the name IRL, but in the Real Name Fix File it's currently named only by the sponsor's name as "Trillion Trophy Stadium".

(Proof: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/44481033)

Thanks!

Thanks for your hard work rabcp!

When I noticed the adboards in question were English national team boards, I searched their folder, backed them up and placed few general English adboards named 1, 2 and 3, so the game now reads them for such friendlies instead. 🙂

Oh, that sounds odd. I haven't started a new save for a long time myself, but I'll test it later today and see if the same happens to me.

Yes, the Juventus name and its stadium & youth stadium are still correct in my save, after re-applying the Real Names fix after the 21.3 update. I did start my current save after beta stage, though. That might be a factor in it, who knows?

Or do you mean that even when starting a whole new career right now, you won't get the Juventus fix to work?

Excuse me, but what is the point of having two different versions (LITE and PREMIUM) of the data tweaks? Any person who's interested in your tweaks/updates is surely interested in being able to use all of them in their FM 21, not just the random light version, right? So, why would you want people to take up your time and bombard you with private meassages asking for the PREMIUM file, when you could simply make it available for download the way you've done before?

I mean no offense, by the way. I appreciate the work you and many other community creators have done and I would be interested in the PREMIUM file, but don't understand why it would be beneficial to anyone to have an extra asking process for the file… so I'm just curious about that.

During my 20-21 pre-season, when managing Sheffield Wednesday, I played small local clubs (Sheffield FC, Handsworth, Stocksbridge) away at their stadiums. Their adboards consisted of the English national team ones and nothing else.

I'm pretty sure Dosukoi has released a new version for FM 21. Not sure where to find it though.

Also, Flutskin skin for FM 21 has the panel in question included, so I suggest using that:

https://sortitoutsi.net/content/57136/fm-2021-flut-skin-dark-version-10

I don't think using custom files should usually affect the age when players tend to retire, but maybe there's something there.

I myself use quite many custom files, databases etc. but tend to play my saves so slowly that I don't get to see many familiar players retire during my saves. :)

That's odd. Have you used any specific extra files (player ability tweaks or something like that for example) for the save?

Also, have the players you mentioned had many injuries in the latter years of their career?