Editing Board Expectations/Season Objectives?

[CBWizard]

Well I was wondering if there is a way to edit board expectations/season objectives? In FIFA16 the stupidly ridiculous board expectations are still there, but the line-up trick to lower board expectations becomes impossible. EA really knows how to screw up gamers, its astonishing.

This means that you have to overachieve every season, or you get sacked. I know there are ways to get around by this, as you can turn off sacking or season objectives in cmsettings.ini file, but its still not the optimal solution. The idea is that I dont want to just plainly remove season objectives, but I want to make sure they are realistic so I achieve them properly.

So I wonder, is there a way to alter the variables that determine board expectations? I searched for all the .ini files and cant find it yet. Can someone please help? Or is it impossible?

 

[CBWizard]

Well I find these values in cmsettings.ini may affect how your team is ranked and therefore how season objectives are based. I will investigate into these values and try to see if board expectations can be lowered by manipulating them.

[SQUAD_RANKING]
FORM_BALANCED=6
FORM_ADJUSTMENT=20

[TIER_DEF]
NUM_TIERS=5
TIER_1_PERC=5 // % diff to team overall to place in Tier 1
TIER_2_PERC=-10 // % diff to team overall to place in Tier 2
TIER_3_PERC=-15 // % diff to team overall to place in Tier 3
TIER_4_PERC=-25 // % diff to team overall to place in Tier 4
TIER_5_PERC=-50 // % diff to team overall to place in Tier 5

 

[Grafsky]

These files are responsible for the what role at club players wants or have.
For lower objective you need lower your first 11. Exmpl - you can put all lower ratings players (reserves) to first 11 and you have the lowest objective as possible. Same thing for higher objectives.

 

[CBWizard]

These files are responsible for the what role at club players wants or have.
For lower objective you need lower your first 11. Exmpl - you can put all lower ratings players (reserves) to first 11 and you have the lowest objective as possible. Same thing for higher objectives.

I see, thanks for explanation, so these values in cmsettings.ini cannot be used to lower board expectations then.

And your proposed method doesnt work in FIFA16, it did work in FIFA14 and FIFA15(with a bit more tricks) before. Damn EA fixed what it aint supposed to fix, and yet failed to fix what it was supposed to fix(the stupid board expectations). EA surely knows how to screw us up, what a pathetic company.

 

[iard68]

Well I find these values in cmsettings.ini may affect how your team is ranked and therefore how season objectives are based. I will investigate into these values and try to see if board expectations can be lowered by manipulating them.

[SQUAD_RANKING]
FORM_BALANCED=6
FORM_ADJUSTMENT=20

[TIER_DEF]
NUM_TIERS=5
TIER_1_PERC=5 // % diff to team overall to place in Tier 1
TIER_2_PERC=-10 // % diff to team overall to place in Tier 2
TIER_3_PERC=-15 // % diff to team overall to place in Tier 3
TIER_4_PERC=-25 // % diff to team overall to place in Tier 4
TIER_5_PERC=-50 // % diff to team overall to place in Tier 5

No.

After many tries, I discovered
that tiers affect the expectations of the PLAYERS (not the teams)
about roles and contracts.

If the player is a forward you have to compare
the team attacking overall with the player overall.
When the player overall is greater and difference
is more than 5% (tier1), the player will always ask to be
a key player when renewing his contract!

All the players in tier2 will always ask to be
an important player and so on...



The season objectives could be downgraded in the 'leagueteamlinks' table
but, nevertheless, they appear to be directly related to the team overall,
taking into account the available budget.

You can edit the following values in board.ini to alter the reactions
of the management, following the results obtained.

//Point loss or gain for objectives
LEAGUE_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_0 = -70 //-90 Significantly fail
LEAGUE_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_1 = -20 //-25 Fail
LEAGUE_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_2 = 20 //25 Succeeded
LEAGUE_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_3 = 45 //50 Overachived
LEAGUE_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_4 = 70 //75 Significantly overachived

DOM_CUP_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_0 = -15 //Significantly fail
DOM_CUP_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_1 = -5 //Fail
DOM_CUP_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_2 = 10 //Succeeded
DOM_CUP_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_3 = 20 //Overachived
DOM_CUP_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_4 = 30 //Significantly overachived

EU_CUP_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_0 = -30 //Significantly fail
EU_CUP_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_1 = -10 //Fail
EU_CUP_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_2 = 20 //Succeeded
EU_CUP_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_3 = 40 //Overachived
EU_CUP_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_4 = 65 //Significantly overachived

 

[CBWizard]

No.

After many tries, I discovered
that tiers affect the expectations of the PLAYERS (not the teams)
about roles and contracts.

If the player is a forward you have to compare
the team attacking overall with the player overall.
When the player overall is greater and difference
is more than 5% (tier1), the player will always ask to be
a key player when renewing his contract!

All the players in tier2 will always ask to be
an important player and so on...

I understand, I figured as much too. But anyway its an interesting discovery, and can be used to tweak player demands.

The season objectives could be downgraded in the 'leagueteamlinks' table
but, nevertheless, they appear to be directly related to the team overall,
taking into account the available budget.

Can you tell me what and where is this 'leagueteamlinks' table? I know they are related to team overall, just this year you cant trick the board by placing the worst 11 players to starting lineups anymore. Which is why I hate EA for this year's career mode changes, they fixed what they aint supposed to fix, and didnt fix what they are supposed to fix(stupid board expectations...).

You can edit the following values in board.ini to alter the reactions
of the management, following the results obtained.

//Point loss or gain for objectives
LEAGUE_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_0 = -70 //-90 Significantly fail
LEAGUE_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_1 = -20 //-25 Fail
LEAGUE_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_2 = 20 //25 Succeeded
LEAGUE_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_3 = 45 //50 Overachived
LEAGUE_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_4 = 70 //75 Significantly overachived

DOM_CUP_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_0 = -15 //Significantly fail
DOM_CUP_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_1 = -5 //Fail
DOM_CUP_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_2 = 10 //Succeeded
DOM_CUP_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_3 = 20 //Overachived
DOM_CUP_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_4 = 30 //Significantly overachived

EU_CUP_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_0 = -30 //Significantly fail
EU_CUP_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_1 = -10 //Fail
EU_CUP_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_2 = 20 //Succeeded
EU_CUP_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_3 = 40 //Overachived
EU_CUP_OBJECTIVE_RESULT_POINTS_4 = 65 //Significantly overachived

Well this is totally meaningless to me, I dont like it at all. I already knew how to do this a long time ago anyway, and I wouldnt start the thread if I wanted to go this approach. I dont want that when I view 'my career', there are lots of failed season objectives. Right now I am just turning off season objectives from cmsettings.ini, although its still a suboptimal solution...

 

[iard68]

I understand, I figured as much too. But anyway its an interesting discovery, and can be used to tweak player demands.

Can you tell me what and where is this 'leagueteamlinks' table? I know they are related to team overall, just this year you cant trick the board by placing the worst 11 players to starting lineups anymore. Which is why I hate EA for this year's career mode changes, they fixed what they aint supposed to fix, and didnt fix what they are supposed to fix(stupid board expectations...).

the leagueteamlinks is a db table:

hasachievedobjective highestpossible highestprobable gapresult objective and actualvsexpectations

are the fields related to the team objectives

Well this is totally meaningless to me, I dont like it at all. I already knew how to do this a long time ago anyway, and I wouldnt start the thread if I wanted to go this approach. I dont want that when I view 'my career', there are lots of failed season objectives. Right now I am just turning off season objectives from cmsettings.ini, although its still a suboptimal solution...

Ok! But tweaking those values a little,
you get a more generous assessment of the results obtained
and therefore less failed season objectives.

Good luck!

 

[CBWizard]

the leagueteamlinks is a db table:

hasachievedobjective highestpossible highestprobable gapresult objective and actualvsexpectations

are the fields related to the team objectives

I see, so I will need a tool to open the database file. Is CM16 good enough for this purpose? If my guess is correct, that I change the team's highest possible objective to Qualify for Champions League, then the board will never ask me to win the league no matter the overall ratings of my team, is this correct?

Also there's no way to change existing save files? Does this mean I will need to start a new career file, and old save files will not work if I edit the db table?

 

[iard68]

I see, so I will need a tool to open the database file. Is CM16 good enough for this purpose? If my guess is correct, that I change the team's highest possible objective to Qualify for Champions League, then the board will never ask me to win the league no matter the overall ratings of my team, is this correct?

Also there's no way to change existing save files? Does this mean I will need to start a new career file, and old save files will not work if I edit the db table?

Use DBMaster15 or CGExplorer16.

No, unfortunately I can't get it to work as your hopes...
Let me know if you get more luck!

Saved files cannot be changed from several years.
The career won't work if you ADD records to the tables.
No problems (normally) when you only change values,
but the new ones will be used just starting a new career.