Your content in general is superb. One of the best FM youtubers. You actually answer questions that a lot of seasoned FMer didnt know. keep up the top work
@@Secondyellowcard Yeah, but the last four years do :X. Anyway, I love your content and am always happy to see when a new video drops as it's always interesting.
Ah, Matt. Honestly you are absolutely incredible. Your content is so helpful and easy to follow. I've been playing FM in it's various iterations for over 20 years and I still learn so much from you. I appreciate you enormously. Thank you.
A fast paced, straight to the point, detailed video. Thank you. This was so good I managed to get the right settings in 10 minutes after months away from FM
Man I just love your videos . I did similar in last years game . Top 7 leagues + Brasil and Argentina , got 198k players . My Honduren Wonderkid golden Boy would agree . Sold for 90 Million to Bayern
Are you sure that the view-only setup generates more player transfer activity? Also note that the biggest issue with view-only leagues are that managers are not being replaced after sacking/retiring. This results in on not making it viable for journeyman setups as a lot of leagues when being switched to playable down the line will have no active current managers on the playable teams.
I am also not sure, if this is the whole 'story'. Other 'sources' have opposite opinions in this regard. However, it's fine if it works for people. But regarding the missing managers at view-only-teams: why should I care? ;-) Seriously: will those team perform worse? I mean, their games are simulated anyway (except those against my own team)?
In every test i've done, it immediately increased transfer activity having them on view only. Now as i said, this is much more optimised for non journeyman saves, and since i haven't done one for a few years i can't really speak to the long term effects in those specifics saves. I mostly mentioned it as last time i had a lot of questions about journeyman setups.
Thanks Matt! Doing a journeyman from Australia, through the Jleague then to Europe. Kinda like Ange I was worried about having a fair few view only leagues but it seems it should run pretty smoothly!
My concern with a setup like this is that managers in leagues that aren't switched on often get fired and not replaced. This is also going to impact team's performance in continental comps, making the champions league a bit easier. It's hard to find that sweet spot and balance efficiency with a realistic world unfortunately. I think I'll add in your optimised db file and then add some of the bigger leagues in Europe as playable for my saves this year. I often end up having a large loan army like yourself and I don't want to be loaning to clubs without managers personally.
I played in FM23 all leagues playable and 250k players and after 20 years in a save the average season took me like 10 hrs to complete(taking into account the players transfers,staff transfers,player interaction etc.) And actually AI is very active in transfers also adapting to your tactic and very tough to beat.For me personally its ok if i play 1 season of fm in 1-2 days but the game is very hard and realistic.If i do one league playable i win everything in 5-10 years and it gets boring.
People can use any setup they want, i just get a lot of questions about the way i set the game up, so making a video about it was an easier way to handle those plus, it allowed me to run speed tests. Not everyone has access to high spec PCs that can run the game as fast so optimisation can be important
So do you start the game with every single league set as playable? I do 1 save always long term and don't miss a press conference and I'd never finish a season in 10 hours haha.
For me it's close to 10 hours of just match time per season. Lets say 10 mins per match if we count everything: setting up squad, team talks, substitutions and ofc the actual highlights. Times 50-60 games per season and we are already in that 10 hour range before even accounting for any inbetween time. Obviously if you quick pick the squad and/or quick sim the matches you can get through a lot quicker, or even vacation through large parts of the season.
This looks brilliant and very welcome. I don’t as a rule do journeyman saves. I tend to only manage in England. So I will be giving this a go. It’s an area that’s always confused me. Thanks very much.
I never like to play with a single league, even if I keep the number of players high. Because the closure of other leagues affects the dynamics of those leagues and teams very badly and the game becomes very easy. The fact that other leagues are also open makes it easier for teams to make more logical moves and receive transfer offers. I always open the 12-15 important leagues down to the lowest league and play with almost 175k players
the problem of adding view only for a journeyman save is that the "hey let me load now this league as playable bc I want to go there" breaks the immersion of the save a bit, you want to try multiple jobs from multiple leagues, not one you like more.
If you want the game on super-easy mode, that's the way to set up your database. You get your pick of thousands of players with next to no competition for their signature as you've only one country's league loaded. In a game that's already pretty easy anyway, this is basically guaranteeing you success. It's totally worth the extra processing time to add in a lot more leagues as you get a much more balanced gameworld. If you want a bit more challenge, that is.
Playing on only One active league is like playing on Very Easy. Teams in non playable leagues will make considerably less transfers (view-only will make sligtly more transfers but still a far less than playable) so their squads will be weaker, they won't hire new staff after sacking the starting one. Game is processing faster than predecesors so playing like that has less more sence than in previous years.
What Ive found really uncomfortble this edition is the fact that I cant load a new game, then save without picking any club and let that "blank" save game for another career game. Maybe Im doing something wrong now in FM24, but if I choose a nation, even without selecting a club and loading several nations as "playable", it locks me out of chosing any other nation.
I think my fm24 might be broken. I've downloaded your file, put it in the correct folder but can't find it when trying to load it in to the game. If I set up the database manually with only England playable with other leagues set to view only, the game launches with NO leagues playable and only international teams playable. I'm at a loss as to what's going wrong!
my database setup is like this: using your optimized database as a base, I add top 2 division of top 5 nations as view-only and go to database -> advanced -> division -> add top 5 nations and tick top 2 division of said nations.
Not only player transfers, I’ll be interested to see if there’s more manager movement in your save this year with leagues on view-only, rather than the same managers circulating in your league
Is there a way of doing this to saves your have already started? I’m using Cardiff and only have a small data base am I gunna have to restart it all and load a larger data?
I think there's an issue in the beta where if you add leagues & then go past the date when they start, it will corrupt your save. I had all 3 of my rolling saves unloadable after rebuilding for my second season. After reporting on the forum, it looks like 1 or 2 others have had the same issue. Hopefully SI resolve this for the launch update, but I'd recommend loading all the leagues you think you might need up front.
Working on it over the course of this week, it's taking quite a while as I want to put every scouting method I've used into one video. Hope to have it out by the end of the week :)
I loaded every single league in the game. I wanted to see how pc run. 307k players loaded and it wasn’t too bad. Probably won’t do that when I start my new save when game is officially released. I’ll be only managing one team but do want all the players though.
Doing the Lord’s work. Damn this makes me so tempted to start a new BAN rather than continue my FM23 one over as I’m really missing out on a the volume of players loaded.
I'm in the third season of my main save and I didn't know any of this and I kept the star rating to atleast three because I thought it effected the game but now I want to start again as I only load a large database of 45k so I'm actually missing so much. Problem is I'm really enjoying my main save with Werder Bremen.
@@christopherhaldane2020 I feel your pain. I’m 10 deep at Panithanikos but like you probably only have 40k players or so loaded and finding it hard to get anyone interesting besides the obvious places…..I’m regular UCL quarter finalist now but actually building the nation has proved harder than I thought. Suppose if you’re enjoying it, just keep cracking on!
@@alecdolman598I honestly thought the star rating loading the game effected the game playing because I don't miss a press conference haha. However does the star rating only effect how long it takes to load the game at the beginning and nothing else? I choose newly promoted Werder Bremen and got in Europe in my 2nd season with transfer window disabled at the beginning but the amount of players loaded was only 41k. I'm second by a point in my third season so less players the easier the game basically.
Hi thank you for helping me start this journey been playing cm since 2002 gonna go to Peru and manage Sport Boys. So i took the info from the video much appreciated thank you, should i add anything else to the game before i start the career?
I am not sure if this is the difference from FM23.4 to FM24. My save setup the same way as you was started in the beta of FM23 and I had over 58k teams now if I did a brand new in Fm23 final 23.4 update it was down to 42k teams same setup. So just the beta of fm23 to final version had 15k-16k less teams.
We were running comparison tests using the latest updates on FM23 and still finding an awful lot of missing teams, another reason we know that this is happening, but i found this out after the video was made, is that the game is actually assigning IDs to regen players that should be reserved for players that already exist. This is another indicator that it's not loading the teams in the same way. We were getting regens as an example in Greece i think it was that had real faces assigned to them from licensed league players who had faces in the game by default. Without a facepack. So something has definitely changed. I'm not overly concerned about it as it makes things faster but i felt it was important to discuss anyway :)
Might seem a stupid question but does anyone know whether stats will be able to be viewed (goals,assists,clean sheets), I presume not because the league's aren't loaded but idk
you talked about transfers offers still available, but dont view only impact loans too ? i usually dont load leagues with view only, so i would like to know if it true or not.
I need help with setup because I wonder how your PC can simulate 6 months in roughly 20 minutes. I have a Lenovo Legion 2023 and it takes me 20 minutes to simulate/holiday 1 week with your setup. I want to do a Lower League to Prem but I don't want to spent hours on a game setting it up wrongly.
So I started a JM with EVERYTHING, All Leagues and 500k players but I did the Real World option and everything was slow, I was expecting that but I started a new save, same thing but this time picked Original and the game ran smoother, I'm already in the 2026 season something that would have took me at least another few weeks judging from the time it took in FM23
I know this video is 3 months old, but I could really do with an answer on something I have discovered in the last week regarding databases that I could with an answer. I have a Predator Helios 300, which I am led to believe pretty powerful. However, when the English lower leagues down to level 13 were published last week my laptop became problematical. I chose a village side near me down in level 13. Treacle could get a bad rep for speeding compared to my speed with this database. It takes 5 to 10 mins to click and move to the next day. If someone is listening, PLEASE HELP
Quick question after watching the database set up video if you load leagues on view only and load the players from there see divisions in the database will the game keep generating players for those leagues
About a lot of regens being created when you have 1 nation and a lot of players loaded in the custom database: How far back is this principle the same? Is it the same in FM 22??
I heard that there is a fix to revenue coming from ads for lesser leagues to be based on team reputation. Can someone direct me to a video that goes about it?
im playing from xbox gamepass on pc. for some reason it wont add other english leagues for me. i want to play as saffron walden town fc. anyone know why?
I'm fortunate enough to be able to select most countries with about 165k players. Once it's fully released I'll try all leagues and see if it melts my PC.
Great video again! But I have one question: When I use the Database-selection-File you provided, I end up with 450,000 players in FM24. Can you tell me, if this is ok or if I did anything wrong? I was thinking the number of players should be in range of your number of players as the same continents and leagues were selected. Perhaps you have a hint for me?
That is very strange indeed, and certainly shouldn't show up like that. I'm sorry that that happened. The best thing to do would be to just copy the settings i used in the video and you'll get the same effect as if you'd used the file :)
Do you need to select the "add players to playable teams"? Isn't this just to add players right at the start? And wouldnt it only be the league u selected?
You don't have to, i just do that out of habit especially when managing in smaller leagues to make sure you get youth teams. Turning this on also seems to generate regens at the very start to populate national u19 squads etc so you can find some monsters in there even in season one :)
I believe we tried a setup that manually loaded every division's players and still were finding gaps. It feels like especially with teams from leagues not in the base game, without a custom database made to activate that league once the editor is out, some teams may not be accessible at all
always make leagues like brazil (even if u never will manage a team there) playable try it u will see make brazil playable or view only the difference is huge in u19 squads (i mean i tried all kinda league setups for so many years its just true)
Good video however loading just one league for any save longer than 3-5 years is a bad idea. Clubs become static and the continental comps are severely hampered.
With view only you can see that, but not if they aren't switched on at all. It comes down to priorities and what you want out of a save. Turning all the leagues on will allow you to see the tables, but it will come at the expense of speed. Like drastically slows it down. However if you enjoy being able to see all that information on the leagues then this may not be the setup for you :)
@@Secondyellowcard Thankyou! When you say slow down the speed? I’m okay with slower loading times (I tend to have like 10 8 leagues on viewable), but will it also harm the computer more in terms of slowing it down outside of football manager?
Weirdly, and i've no idea why this is the case, i believe last it was found that player's loaned to switched off leagues actually developed faster. I could be wrong about this, but i believe it was down to the game compensating for not having them switched on by overdeveloping them
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Your content in general is superb. One of the best FM youtubers. You actually answer questions that a lot of seasoned FMer didnt know. keep up the top work
This comes in clutch because...well I don't own FM 24, but I had a terrible day and the distraction is very welcome :).
Keep your head up king if your in the discord im sure some of can listen if you feel you need that
hope things improve for u gang
That sucks you had a crap day mate :( Echoing the other comments, which btw was very heartening to see, one day does not define you :)
@@Secondyellowcard Yeah, but the last four years do :X. Anyway, I love your content and am always happy to see when a new video drops as it's always interesting.
Hope this weeks been better for you bro
Ah, Matt. Honestly you are absolutely incredible. Your content is so helpful and easy to follow. I've been playing FM in it's various iterations for over 20 years and I still learn so much from you. I appreciate you enormously. Thank you.
A fast paced, straight to the point, detailed video. Thank you. This was so good I managed to get the right settings in 10 minutes after months away from FM
Dude all I wanted to do was power up and play but your videos are amazing and holding back but that's not a bad thing.... seriously thank you so much.
Thanks!
Man I just love your videos . I did similar in last years game . Top 7 leagues + Brasil and Argentina , got 198k players . My Honduren Wonderkid golden Boy would agree . Sold for 90 Million to Bayern
I play this game for 30 years and have actually learned something. Thank you very much for this.
Are you sure that the view-only setup generates more player transfer activity?
Also note that the biggest issue with view-only leagues are that managers are not being replaced after sacking/retiring. This results in on not making it viable for journeyman setups as a lot of leagues when being switched to playable down the line will have no active current managers on the playable teams.
Curious for the answer to this also
I am also not sure, if this is the whole 'story'. Other 'sources' have opposite opinions in this regard. However, it's fine if it works for people.
But regarding the missing managers at view-only-teams: why should I care? ;-)
Seriously: will those team perform worse? I mean, their games are simulated anyway (except those against my own team)?
In every test i've done, it immediately increased transfer activity having them on view only. Now as i said, this is much more optimised for non journeyman saves, and since i haven't done one for a few years i can't really speak to the long term effects in those specifics saves. I mostly mentioned it as last time i had a lot of questions about journeyman setups.
Thanks Matt! Doing a journeyman from Australia, through the Jleague then to Europe. Kinda like Ange I was worried about having a fair few view only leagues but it seems it should run pretty smoothly!
My concern with a setup like this is that managers in leagues that aren't switched on often get fired and not replaced. This is also going to impact team's performance in continental comps, making the champions league a bit easier. It's hard to find that sweet spot and balance efficiency with a realistic world unfortunately. I think I'll add in your optimised db file and then add some of the bigger leagues in Europe as playable for my saves this year. I often end up having a large loan army like yourself and I don't want to be loaning to clubs without managers personally.
Agreee, in a long term save this isn’t going to work
I played in FM23 all leagues playable and 250k players and after 20 years in a save the average season took me like 10 hrs to complete(taking into account the players transfers,staff transfers,player interaction etc.) And actually AI is very active in transfers also adapting to your tactic and very tough to beat.For me personally its ok if i play 1 season of fm in 1-2 days but the game is very hard and realistic.If i do one league playable i win everything in 5-10 years and it gets boring.
People can use any setup they want, i just get a lot of questions about the way i set the game up, so making a video about it was an easier way to handle those plus, it allowed me to run speed tests. Not everyone has access to high spec PCs that can run the game as fast so optimisation can be important
So do you start the game with every single league set as playable?
I do 1 save always long term and don't miss a press conference and I'd never finish a season in 10 hours haha.
@@christopherhaldane2020 yes every single league.
@@bravestory5000 my PC I don't think could cope with that. What star rating does it leave your PC at?
For me it's close to 10 hours of just match time per season. Lets say 10 mins per match if we count everything: setting up squad, team talks, substitutions and ofc the actual highlights. Times 50-60 games per season and we are already in that 10 hour range before even accounting for any inbetween time. Obviously if you quick pick the squad and/or quick sim the matches you can get through a lot quicker, or even vacation through large parts of the season.
This looks brilliant and very welcome. I don’t as a rule do journeyman saves. I tend to only manage in England. So I will be giving this a go. It’s an area that’s always confused me. Thanks very much.
You should mention what processor you have, thats very important for people to compare to their own pcs.
This is what I needed before start my long term save :D Thanks!
I never like to play with a single league, even if I keep the number of players high. Because the closure of other leagues affects the dynamics of those leagues and teams very badly and the game becomes very easy. The fact that other leagues are also open makes it easier for teams to make more logical moves and receive transfer offers. I always open the 12-15 important leagues down to the lowest league and play with almost 175k players
If the game becomes very easy it's probably why this guy as a streamer plays with it lol
Fantastic video, appreciate the time you've taken to research and share with us.
Thanks for this download, saved loads of time and it's exactly how I want the game to run
the problem of adding view only for a journeyman save is that the "hey let me load now this league as playable bc I want to go there" breaks the immersion of the save a bit, you want to try multiple jobs from multiple leagues, not one you like more.
Great video rolling with this database for my save. Cheers!
If you want the game on super-easy mode, that's the way to set up your database. You get your pick of thousands of players with next to no competition for their signature as you've only one country's league loaded. In a game that's already pretty easy anyway, this is basically guaranteeing you success. It's totally worth the extra processing time to add in a lot more leagues as you get a much more balanced gameworld. If you want a bit more challenge, that is.
I'm doing a one club save in Spanish lower divisions. Should i still add more leagues ?
you have released this at the perfect time as am about to start my main save!
Amazing video mate
Great video, im going to use this method when i start with Rushall Olympic tomorrow, cheers
Love this. Thanks Matt!!
Playing on only One active league is like playing on Very Easy. Teams in non playable leagues will make considerably less transfers (view-only will make sligtly more transfers but still a far less than playable) so their squads will be weaker, they won't hire new staff after sacking the starting one. Game is processing faster than predecesors so playing like that has less more sence than in previous years.
This file doesn't appear when i try and load it in game :(
Did you put it in the db setups folder?
I sorted it thanks, it was something silly like that I did wrong.@@u-bum
@@riccidolan it's not coming up for me, what did you fix?
What Ive found really uncomfortble this edition is the fact that I cant load a new game, then save without picking any club and let that "blank" save game for another career game. Maybe Im doing something wrong now in FM24, but if I choose a nation, even without selecting a club and loading several nations as "playable", it locks me out of chosing any other nation.
In the detail level section, don't you modify anything?
I think my fm24 might be broken. I've downloaded your file, put it in the correct folder but can't find it when trying to load it in to the game. If I set up the database manually with only England playable with other leagues set to view only, the game launches with NO leagues playable and only international teams playable. I'm at a loss as to what's going wrong!
Matt out here and doing God's work. Thanks a lot dude
In general this was a rly good vid on this matter. 👏💯
my database setup is like this: using your optimized database as a base, I add top 2 division of top 5 nations as view-only and go to database -> advanced -> division -> add top 5 nations and tick top 2 division of said nations.
Not only player transfers, I’ll be interested to see if there’s more manager movement in your save this year with leagues on view-only, rather than the same managers circulating in your league
Yay, you updated your Patrons list at the end!
Best FM content creator out there for sure.
Is there a way of doing this to saves your have already started? I’m using Cardiff and only have a small data base am I gunna have to restart it all and load a larger data?
I think there's an issue in the beta where if you add leagues & then go past the date when they start, it will corrupt your save. I had all 3 of my rolling saves unloadable after rebuilding for my second season. After reporting on the forum, it looks like 1 or 2 others have had the same issue. Hopefully SI resolve this for the launch update, but I'd recommend loading all the leagues you think you might need up front.
file isn't showing up in fm
When's your New scouting Video out? Keep up the great work
Working on it over the course of this week, it's taking quite a while as I want to put every scouting method I've used into one video. Hope to have it out by the end of the week :)
@@Secondyellowcard Many Thanks !!!
What a legend you are.
I loaded every single league in the game. I wanted to see how pc run. 307k players loaded and it wasn’t too bad. Probably won’t do that when I start my new save when game is officially released. I’ll be only managing one team but do want all the players though.
Hello Matt. I downloaded the DB but I can't view it once I enter the game. Why? I followed every step you suggested.
Doing the Lord’s work. Damn this makes me so tempted to start a new BAN rather than continue my FM23 one over as I’m really missing out on a the volume of players loaded.
I'm in the third season of my main save and I didn't know any of this and I kept the star rating to atleast three because I thought it effected the game but now I want to start again as I only load a large database of 45k so I'm actually missing so much. Problem is I'm really enjoying my main save with Werder Bremen.
@@christopherhaldane2020 I feel your pain. I’m 10 deep at Panithanikos but like you probably only have 40k players or so loaded and finding it hard to get anyone interesting besides the obvious places…..I’m regular UCL quarter finalist now but actually building the nation has proved harder than I thought. Suppose if you’re enjoying it, just keep cracking on!
@@alecdolman598I honestly thought the star rating loading the game effected the game playing because I don't miss a press conference haha. However does the star rating only effect how long it takes to load the game at the beginning and nothing else?
I choose newly promoted Werder Bremen and got in Europe in my 2nd season with transfer window disabled at the beginning but the amount of players loaded was only 41k. I'm second by a point in my third season so less players the easier the game basically.
Hi thank you for helping me start this journey been playing cm since 2002 gonna go to Peru and manage Sport Boys. So i took the info from the video much appreciated thank you, should i add anything else to the game before i start the career?
great info matt
I am not sure if this is the difference from FM23.4 to FM24. My save setup the same way as you was started in the beta of FM23 and I had over 58k teams now if I did a brand new in Fm23 final 23.4 update it was down to 42k teams same setup. So just the beta of fm23 to final version had 15k-16k less teams.
We were running comparison tests using the latest updates on FM23 and still finding an awful lot of missing teams, another reason we know that this is happening, but i found this out after the video was made, is that the game is actually assigning IDs to regen players that should be reserved for players that already exist. This is another indicator that it's not loading the teams in the same way. We were getting regens as an example in Greece i think it was that had real faces assigned to them from licensed league players who had faces in the game by default. Without a facepack. So something has definitely changed. I'm not overly concerned about it as it makes things faster but i felt it was important to discuss anyway :)
@@Secondyellowcard great info as always 👍🏼
I'd be curious to see whether this affects player development ie do the players in countries not being directly simulated develop at the same pace?
Phenomenal video
Might seem a stupid question but does anyone know whether stats will be able to be viewed (goals,assists,clean sheets), I presume not because the league's aren't loaded but idk
All the stats will still be viewable, on the career stats page, the game still tracks this for players in leagues that aren't switched on
you talked about transfers offers still available, but dont view only impact loans too ?
i usually dont load leagues with view only, so i would like to know if it true or not.
Superb video
hi, copied the fmf file to the directory, but it didnt appear in game
I need help with setup because I wonder how your PC can simulate 6 months in roughly 20 minutes. I have a Lenovo Legion 2023 and it takes me 20 minutes to simulate/holiday 1 week with your setup.
I want to do a Lower League to Prem but I don't want to spent hours on a game setting it up wrongly.
Waiting for this specifically. xd
So I started a JM with EVERYTHING, All Leagues and 500k players but I did the Real World option and everything was slow, I was expecting that but I started a new save, same thing but this time picked Original and the game ran smoother, I'm already in the 2026 season something that would have took me at least another few weeks judging from the time it took in FM23
I do wonder if the Real World option adds to the processing time as it's having to work through a backlog of transfer deals over the first few seasons
@@Secondyellowcard It also says that if you use Real World it is going to add add more player right?
I know this video is 3 months old, but I could really do with an answer on something I have discovered in the last week regarding databases that I could with an answer. I have a Predator Helios 300, which I am led to believe pretty powerful. However, when the English lower leagues down to level 13 were published last week my laptop became problematical. I chose a village side near me down in level 13. Treacle could get a bad rep for speeding compared to my speed with this database. It takes 5 to 10 mins to click and move to the next day. If someone is listening, PLEASE HELP
Quick question after watching the database set up video if you load leagues on view only and load the players from there see divisions in the database will the game keep generating players for those leagues
The database doesn't show here when I try to load. You know what kind of problem might be?
do you know how to reset your hall of fame points cause its transferred over to fm24 also how do you know if your running fm23 database or fm24
About a lot of regens being created when you have 1 nation and a lot of players loaded in the custom database: How far back is this principle the same? Is it the same in FM 22??
How does this work with champions league, Europa league, or national teams and what not? Does it affect that?
I’m doing this however now I haven’t had a bid on my players from another league - is this a problem you have noticed?
I heard that there is a fix to revenue coming from ads for lesser leagues to be based on team reputation. Can someone direct me to a video that goes about it?
Which computer do you use?
Thanks for the video. Do you know if adding mods like Logo packs and face packs has an impact on the loadings speed?
im playing from xbox gamepass on pc. for some reason it wont add other english leagues for me. i want to play as saffron walden town fc. anyone know why?
What amount of detail level do you tend to run?
Is this all similar on console?
can you switch the view only to playable later on?
I'm fortunate enough to be able to select most countries with about 165k players. Once it's fully released I'll try all leagues and see if it melts my PC.
Great video again! But I have one question: When I use the Database-selection-File you provided, I end up with 450,000 players in FM24. Can you tell me, if this is ok or if I did anything wrong? I was thinking the number of players should be in range of your number of players as the same continents and leagues were selected. Perhaps you have a hint for me?
That is very strange indeed, and certainly shouldn't show up like that. I'm sorry that that happened. The best thing to do would be to just copy the settings i used in the video and you'll get the same effect as if you'd used the file :)
very helpful!
Do you need to select the "add players to playable teams"? Isn't this just to add players right at the start? And wouldnt it only be the league u selected?
You don't have to, i just do that out of habit especially when managing in smaller leagues to make sure you get youth teams. Turning this on also seems to generate regens at the very start to populate national u19 squads etc so you can find some monsters in there even in season one :)
i would love if u could make a Journeyman version of the setup
Could you confirm if using your file with other DB updates will cause conflicts/crash?
I just load up all players and 1 country then toggle as i go. 300k+ is worth the patience for
What about if we put all nations on view only do we get back that clubs that we lost?
I believe we tried a setup that manually loaded every division's players and still were finding gaps. It feels like especially with teams from leagues not in the base game, without a custom database made to activate that league once the editor is out, some teams may not be accessible at all
Will this setup make a network file take forever to process?
Tbh I've always done this expecting how it worked, at least now it does lmao
Can we do this in the middle of the game?
yes but if you don activate any nations and leagues, your players ends of having 0 transfer offers.
The add leagues also add players. Did that too . And got regens of 25/ 30 Years old from those countries .
always make leagues like brazil (even if u never will manage a team there) playable try it u will see make brazil playable or view only the difference is huge in u19 squads (i mean i tried all kinda league setups for so many years its just true)
Good video however loading just one league for any save longer than 3-5 years is a bad idea. Clubs become static and the continental comps are severely hampered.
Im on console and cant figure out how to be an international manager
It seems regardless of how I set up leagues the regens that generate are all rubbish. Means any long terms saves are impossible. Any advice?
Get better scouts
What cpu are you guys using?
is it fast load on a super pc say rtx 4090 set up
Genius!
Thanks for this guide! When will your Malta save start? Will be exciting to watch since I'm Maltese and should be in your save 🤣
Does this mean we can’t see how each league is going? I’m always curious to see what the table looks like in other leagues :/
With view only you can see that, but not if they aren't switched on at all. It comes down to priorities and what you want out of a save. Turning all the leagues on will allow you to see the tables, but it will come at the expense of speed. Like drastically slows it down. However if you enjoy being able to see all that information on the leagues then this may not be the setup for you :)
@@Secondyellowcard Thankyou! When you say slow down the speed? I’m okay with slower loading times (I tend to have like 10 8 leagues on viewable), but will it also harm the computer more in terms of slowing it down outside of football manager?
A MacBook pro should be capable of using this right?
It's quite confusing... I see people saying the view-only doesn't improve the quantity of transfers/offers.
Legend
Is there a way to stop FM from generating new players ?
why would you ever want to do that? unless you want to play only for 1 season?
@@Trauma_Clown I dislike regens and want to use up every player on the database I loaded
Where did you get that skin from.......
problem is my processing breaks will be ridiculously slow
Why is my clubs on fm not the actual badges
Many RUclipsrs use Pc mod packs to add badges and real kits
how loans to view-only leagues work with custom database work? Wont my young guy stop developing?
Weirdly, and i've no idea why this is the case, i believe last it was found that player's loaned to switched off leagues actually developed faster. I could be wrong about this, but i believe it was down to the game compensating for not having them switched on by overdeveloping them