I had an idea for a save game, similar to what some guy on the sortitoutsi board did with Poland. Basically, using DLR, the idea would be to take a nation like Serbia, and make it's leagues the best in Europe. To do that you'd need have it's top sides consistently perform well in Europe, having them win the CL and Europa league and basically improve their coefficients enough to give them extra European spots and have the league rep increase to 5 stars, attracting worldclass players. For that, the teams in the league would have to improve enough for that to happen.
In the save I mentioned, the guy took over several sides in Poland one after another and kept improving them. It took him 50 years, if not more, game time, to achieve that. Why? Because once he left one team and moved to another, after a while, the first team became worse (I remember he even returned to some teams to get them back to the level they needed to be).
Now, I don't want to spend that much time on it. My idea is to edit the database, without altering the reputation or CA/PA of any player, gives the nation the best foundation it needs to succeed. So, the question is, what are some of the things you can do to improve that foundation?
I've done several things:
First, I chose a nation and downloaded editor data to make the league structure go deeper. Then I gave all the clubs in the top divisions (not sure if I'll do all the clubs, but it's the plan for now) the most amount of money I can give them, as well as sugar daddies and huge transfer kitties which get progressively smaller (but are still big, even for top club standards) as you go down the pyramid. Why? Because money will attract better players which will compensate for the initial low reputation, and that should get the playing level improving, and get the teams to perform better and increase reputation.
Also increased the prize money in all of the competitions, again, to very high levels, for the same reason.
Increased the attraction of several cities to 20. Not sure how much this affects anything, but I know I'd rather move to a team in London or Barcelona rather than Hull, even if both are equally good.
I'm going to improve training facilities and youth facilities and youth recruitment to ensure the clubs produce better players too. Also, it's because I want the nation to become a powerhouse as well, and have HG talent as well, and not just rely on bought players.
I decided against improving stadiums, because I'd rather the teams did that of their own accord. There's no point in improving a stadium so it fits 90k when right now only 12k go to a match. The logic is that once there's a need for a better stadium, the club will build it. Although I worry about that possibility. Moving stadiums is difficult, and maybe if the nation is small, the game won't allow for better stadiums because of a lack of building permits or something. Is there any way to edit a city or region so as to ensure it has the potential to allow for a bunch of amazing stadiums in the future.
I'm also considering improving all of the staff to 200 CA, but that's moreso to help with the development of the HG players, and I have the feeling that because the club rep will be so low, the staff members will just wind up leaving for better clubs at better leagues.
I've also improved the nation's spending power to the best it can be.
Anyone got any other ideas for things that could help?
Oh, and I read that Youth Recruitment represents the club's ability at attracitng local talent. So, I assume making all the nation's Youth Recruitment 20 would be useless because they're all in the same region. Or would they all get more and better players as a result?
In the save I mentioned, the guy took over several sides in Poland one after another and kept improving them. It took him 50 years, if not more, game time, to achieve that. Why? Because once he left one team and moved to another, after a while, the first team became worse (I remember he even returned to some teams to get them back to the level they needed to be).
Now, I don't want to spend that much time on it. My idea is to edit the database, without altering the reputation or CA/PA of any player, gives the nation the best foundation it needs to succeed. So, the question is, what are some of the things you can do to improve that foundation?
I've done several things:
First, I chose a nation and downloaded editor data to make the league structure go deeper. Then I gave all the clubs in the top divisions (not sure if I'll do all the clubs, but it's the plan for now) the most amount of money I can give them, as well as sugar daddies and huge transfer kitties which get progressively smaller (but are still big, even for top club standards) as you go down the pyramid. Why? Because money will attract better players which will compensate for the initial low reputation, and that should get the playing level improving, and get the teams to perform better and increase reputation.
Also increased the prize money in all of the competitions, again, to very high levels, for the same reason.
Increased the attraction of several cities to 20. Not sure how much this affects anything, but I know I'd rather move to a team in London or Barcelona rather than Hull, even if both are equally good.
I'm going to improve training facilities and youth facilities and youth recruitment to ensure the clubs produce better players too. Also, it's because I want the nation to become a powerhouse as well, and have HG talent as well, and not just rely on bought players.
I decided against improving stadiums, because I'd rather the teams did that of their own accord. There's no point in improving a stadium so it fits 90k when right now only 12k go to a match. The logic is that once there's a need for a better stadium, the club will build it. Although I worry about that possibility. Moving stadiums is difficult, and maybe if the nation is small, the game won't allow for better stadiums because of a lack of building permits or something. Is there any way to edit a city or region so as to ensure it has the potential to allow for a bunch of amazing stadiums in the future.
I'm also considering improving all of the staff to 200 CA, but that's moreso to help with the development of the HG players, and I have the feeling that because the club rep will be so low, the staff members will just wind up leaving for better clubs at better leagues.
I've also improved the nation's spending power to the best it can be.
Anyone got any other ideas for things that could help?
Oh, and I read that Youth Recruitment represents the club's ability at attracitng local talent. So, I assume making all the nation's Youth Recruitment 20 would be useless because they're all in the same region. Or would they all get more and better players as a result?
