loadyth - Comments

No problem! From the group stage onwards, it should come automatically in your manager's inbox. Is that not the case? If so, the only reasoning I can think is that you aren't 'subscribed' to it in the inbox settings - if that's still even a thing, it was a few editions back but I haven't looked for it in recent years.

I'm not 100% sure @loadyth, but I believe most of the Champions League/Europa League qualifying round draws are done (semi) automatically in real life? From what I can remember when I've followed them IRL in past years, they draw the 1QR, 2QR etc. all at once - so therefore you'd only get an email as it's a "PAOK/Ajax vs. Ludogorets/Zenit type of situation. So only the group stage onwards would have actual draws. Could be wrong though.

Are you loading the English league but not other major European ones? Playable leagues will have a slightly stronger predisposition, due to the fact they will have a larger player complement and therefore a larger possibility of having a stronger squad.

Moreover, going forward, it would stand to reason that with the larger amounts of TV money in the Premier League, English clubs should be much stronger in Europe. However, we all know that football doesn't quite work like that

I know what you mean re the part in italics, but you have to admit those instances were often somewhat unrealistic and the person's volte-face made no sense at all. In that regards, it's more realistic this way.

You also have to admit that trying to convince a player of a newly-promoted team that they'll qualify for Europe that same season is a hard sell at best, and that he is frankly justified to say it's not realistic. How many times has it happened irl, after all?

That being said, you can always pray for good draws in the FA Cup and the EFL Cup and hope you can somehow win either of them. It remains to be seen whether he'd be mollified by an EFL Cup win and a lowly league finish, but you can always give it your best shot.

I know it's a wrench to lose your best players but that is what happens to all the managers in the world (unless you're at Real Madrid or Barcelona); it's how you manage the situation which shows how good a manager you are. Do you play him despite being unhappy or do you just sell him now and extract maximum value out of him? Do you spend this season trying to identify his replacement and start to tap him up? Etc. etc...

Basically, winning games and trophies. If the option is possible, meet him and try and promise him that you'll qualify for Europe this season and that you'll let him go next summer if you don't. Unless he has Leeds as his favourite club, there's little chance of keeping him otherwise. You're lucky that you can keep him for a year and change his mind in the interim; if his contract expired next year, then you'd have to either sell him now or lose him for naught...

It doesn't really say that's the ONLY folder you should have, although I agree it could be worded better.

I run some 40 other files alongside it, for example, and they all work fine; you can keep your file alongside the one from this download and you should have no problems whatsoever...

Did you also install the editor data files? They are an integral part of this fix, as the vast majority of club name changes (including German ones) are changed within these files. These changes must be put into place BEFORE starting a new game, unless you want to use the process highlighted in the first post of this thread.

Hmm, in this case it's probably for the best if you remove the whole folder.

Just make sure that, once you do, the preferences in-game look like this:



Sorry I couldn't be of more help

You could follow the steps outlined in the second part of this thread, but tbh if you're not really sure what you're doing, I'm not sure I'd advise you to do so.

Are you able to locate the folder in which the "legend" images are found in? If you were able to rename each filename to the respective person's UID in your save game, and send it to me, I'd be more than happy to create the config file for you

Change the config file UIDs to the new ones, not sure if you know how to...

This isn't really related to the update itself but rather to the way the game deals with new editor data.

Basically, UIDs of newly created persons aren't fixed and if you combine different editor data files (such as this download and your file), then the UID which worked when running just one editor data file will most probably not be the same.

Editor data files work in parallel, so you can have different files changing different things. The only exception is if you have changes to the same field of the same database entry in multiple files.