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So I'm most likely getting fired this season as my team are and board are furious just 4 games into the third season.

They're all furious I failed to win my “required Domestic Cup” this year… But I wasn't even in it as I'm in the Champions Cup for winning the Supporters Shield last year. I wasn't even in the Lamar Cup the year before that. There seems no way to remove this requirement even with the in-game editor, so 3 years are potentially totally down the drain as the game doesn't recognise I'm not entered due to MLS's competitions shuffle system?

Me, my brother and mate are all in a 3 player MLS game and in season two, we've stumbled across a bizarre bug ONLY effecting LA Galaxy and in every single game we've played with them this season.

Their goalkeeper is WAY out position. He'll be standing backwards in DM, he'll be off the pitch behind the goal, sometimes you can't even find him.

The game will play out with insane scores as a result, but when you hit continue you get a COMPLETELY different score in the results. You win 8-0, no, it was actually 5-2 to Galaxy. You can't even view the real game or goals, if you click on them it loads a pitch and hangs until you leave.

What on earth is going on and any idea how to fix the bug so it stops happening? Do we need to temp create a 4th manager to take over and change the tactic, perhaps release a player etc? It's really screwing with things as you can't actually manage against them as the game you see isn't the actual game that seems to count.

Yeah that does seem to be the case with the back four in particular. I've seen maybe one 7+ that wasn't due to a goal or assist lol.

I noticed the media always ask why I play the way I do, despite it being the most successful the clubs have been over the last 8 or so tactics with or before me. My second club Basingstoke ended up demanding we change, which resulted in worse performances and getting fired. 

Will give your tactic a look, thanks!

(Lengthy post warning as I'm trying to provide enough info for advice)
 

History:
I'm absolutely lost on FM24. I'm a veteran player since the Championship Manager days (though skipped since FM21). I've produced many game breaking tactics for the community over the decades that work in any leagues, but in FM24 I'm baffled.

My first ever game/team, Season 1 in Tier 11 of the English league, I created a tactic (Damian Diamond V1 - uploaded), built my team around it and absolutely dominated. W21, D2, L5, GF84, GA45.

Second Season we move to Tier 10 and more of the same. I'm halfway through the season, clear top of the league and had only lost 1 game. So when a Tier 7 team came in for me I jumped at it. I ran my tactic again and got off to a start of 4 straight wins and then suddenly it collapsed. I began losing or drawing and narrowly survived relegation on the last day.

Third Season I replace my weakest players, I tweak a few roles, I'm predicted 8th and we start hot with wins again. Then suddenly we're giving away penalties every single game out of nowhere that bring draws and losses in games we've dominated in shots, possession and xG. From here morale and atmosphere drops and I go 12 games with a win and get fired. I tried a couple of other tactics in the final 8 but it made no difference.

I join my third club back down in Tier 9. My original tactic is back in play with a few role tweaks (Damian Diamond V1.2 - uploaded) and despite being 19th, we dominate and smash the team who're 3rd. We drop a narrow loss to 2nd, then we smash the next team who're 3rd, narrow loss due to a penalty to 7th. Things are good… then suddenly they're not. I keep drawing and losing and am on a 9 game streak of this, many games I've dominated in all areas, others were just ridiculous like one I gave away THREE penalties in the first 14 minutes, yet still fought back to draw 3-3.

Issue:

The most glaring problem is that I just can't find what the issue is. The Data Hub says we're very good defensively, even better offensively and should walk over people. Breakdowns of our areas are all above average or better, but the only note is we seem to regularly get dominated in the first half (my 2nd team it was always a late collapse in the last 15-5 mins with the same tactic), but zero information on why or what is happening there. This happens regardless what tactic I'm playing. I feel because nobody ever remotely gets motivated or responds to the first team talk.

If I ask any advice of my assistant, he'll suggest stuff and then 2 days later contradicts his own advice and reverts back to what I was originally doing anyway.

There seems to be no clear cause beyond a few players just grossly underperforming every game, but I'm either unable to attract better ones or I get better ones and someone else just plays bad and costs us. 

Both of the clubs with this issue seem to suffer the GK and Back 4 regularly having 6.5's or below, this happens regardless where the line is, the tempo, the approach, the roles or what player I sign. 1-2 DM's make no difference. I tried a defensive, direct, ultra basic 4-3-3 dm wide counter tactic I built at half time (drew 2-2 after being 2-0 down at half time), next game I started it and was 3-0 down in 11 minutes to a team beneath me.

Any ideas? Anyone experience similar? It surely can't just be “get even better players” when mine are no worse than the rest of the league who're beating me. Open to suggestions of those more familiar with this engine. Thanks in advance.

So he's only set to provide reports to me on scouting assignments I set. Nobody has control to set them up and nothing is actively set up. Yet he's providing me signing recommendation reports from something regularly and costing my club nearly 2k a month, putting me in the red. Is there anyway to stop this besides firing him?

Just checking is this the same FMF file as included with your SS Kits pack? Just making sure I don't need both

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Issue is the English 20 Tier System mod, if you go below Tier 12 it causes immense issues even with a small database.

Wondering if anyone else has experienced this? I bought the game yesterday but two separate games are being plagued by this, preventing me even getting through pre-season.

I get to July 16th or July 18th and the little loading circle is spinning but suddenly the hints/tips bit stops changing, browse doesn't work and the game hangs eternally. I near halved my database size from 230k to 130k on a new save and the same issue continues (despite my brother on a much slower CPU/GPU combo with half my ram having no issues?

I'm on a 5800x3D, 32gb Ram and 7800XT

Mods Active:
English 20 Tier System - Open to Tier 15
Japanese Tier System
Realism Mod

Though again, same ones my brother has and has no issue with

Oh wow that's fantastic, so I just load up the editor, load the latest patch database and edit kit colours and save it off? Then it won't clash with anything and only edits that aspect?

So I noticed several SS Kit packs come with a .fmf file to fix kit colours within the games 3d engine etc but not adjusting anything else so it remains compatible with other data updates. I've been making updated kits for a lot of the lower leagues and noticed they're incredibly inaccurate, but I'm not sure how to go about fixing them within the editor?

I loaded the editor and tweaked the kits, but surely saving is saving all the current state of clubs/transfers too? I'm essentially wondering how I can edit the kits and not effect any other update?

Cheers

Updated Logo: Northallerton Town - 5104134

 

Abingdon Town & United home & away kits - England Hellenic League D1 East

(Sadly in-game they have the colours wrong for both away kits, United's are backwards as white with red trim and Town's are strangely white and black. If anyone can tell me how I change that in a small update without effecting everything else, I'll make one to fix the whole division while I work on the rest of the clubs kits.)

Abingdon Town - 5100171

Abingdon United - 5103674

So I've made a few missing kits for lower league teams, but how do I create the fmf just to fix the incorrect colours in-game? I don't want anything else changed, just the colours fixed but don't want it messing with other .fmf's installed?

I'd love Abingdon Town's new 2020-2021 logo added (UID - 5100171)

Literally as I'm downloading kits for the first time, this pops up, great job!