Thanks I appreciate that. Frosty tools are great, but a lot of people are having issues, and the tools even stopped working for a while after the last EA update. It took me three days to get the tools working on my PC. I'm back to this method, I don't like having to run mods through programs running in the background, just a preference I have.
No problem. FIFA 18 is great, but I may just play tournament mode. That way I don't have to worry about trades or injuries at all (well, there are no transfers in tournament mode and no injuries is achieved by the modification I discovered with Frosty that seems to work so far.)
It's lots of fun to me to have Champions League and FA Cup games during the year with Career Mode but to be completely honest, there's also SO much noise and distraction in all those other components of the career mode that I never look at like budgeting and finances and scouting and constantly clicking past and ignoring that stuff does get annoying in addition to dealing with players being angry about their playing time and all those 'fantasy' elements that I absolutely hate in sports games. I like my sports games being like those from 10 years ago. You have all the teams, you play a season, and the game keeps track of standings and stats. That's it. If I really want FA Cup and Champions League, I can do that separately especially in the FIFA16 MW mod. And why do I care if other tournaments happen during the career itself anyway? So I can hear the commentators say, "they just won their quarterfinal match in the Carabao Cup"? Because having done Manager Careers for several years now I can definitively say the other tournaments have very little effect on anything other than commentator remarks and ambiance and only in a minor minor way. I have to say I'm reevaluating how I play FIFA. It should be about
playing....
FIFA. How is it really any different to play just a one-off tournament and a separate Champions League and FA Cup if I'm never going to bother with growing a team over several career years.
Anyway, getting off the forum's topic, but it is relevant in one thing: as you rack your brain modifying things in this game to tweak it, remember to ask yourself what the point is. For me, it's playing the game. If a mod happens one day that lets me do what I want, I'll think about that then. In the meantime, I'm playing FIFA.