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An FAQ is long overdue, so it's about time we started one. I've put in 2 pieces on the 2 most asked topics, but feel free to make sensible additions to this list, or anything on these you'd like to add. Any discussion will be removed when it has served it's purpose.
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How to make your game faster if it starts getting too slow:
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Where to get skins, logos, kits, and other graphics for FM 2005:
The best place to look for these is SortItOutSI. If you know a site that is hosting FM graphics, and/or has an active graphics scene, please post it in here and we'll add it to the FAQ and the downloads thread.
list:
SortItOutSI
FM Underground
total-fm
fm.lemonish
CoreFM
Throw-in
FM FAQ
Goal Kick
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Starting online games in FM 2005:
- One person (the host) starts a new game like normal, having selected 'run as server' in the preferences. This person can go to the 'game status' to find out his IP address, which the others will need to join his game, if he doesn't know it already.
- The other players have to go to 'Network' at the start up screen, and select the IP. If it's not listed, try 'Refresh list', or 'Join other server' where you're asked for the IP to join with.
To resume a saved online game, the host needs to load the saved game, and wait for the other players to rejoin in the same way they did at the start of the game.
If you have problems connecting to each others games, the host might need to remove restrictions from the firewall he is using. The ports 10093 and 10094 need to be unrestricted:
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People looking for good training schedules should take a look at Daves v1.1 Training Schedule. It was created for CM 03/04, but is still really good for FM.
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Adding pictures, logos, and kits to FM:
Any graphical enhancements to FM need to be formatted in a layered png format. It needs to have a transparent background, and the image needs to be in a floating layer. The easiest way to achieve this is to open a new canvas of the desired size in Photoshop, while having 'Background contents' set to 'transparent', and paste the image in there. It will then put the image in a floating layer. After that 'save as' and select '*.png' from the dropdown menu.
Different images require different sizes too, here's a quick list:
- Player/staff pictures can be 95 pixels wide x 95 high, maximum.
- Logos for clubs, competitions, or nations have a height of 50 pixels, but also keep the width low, as the logos might overlap the club or competition names.
- Kit sizes would be 52x40.
To have these images appear in FM, you need to save them in a new subfolder of "\data\graphics\pictures", and in that subfolder create a file called 'config.xml'. That file is basically a standard text-file, made with for instance Notepad, which tells FM to link images to certain data. It tells FM to load a picture in the profile of a player, a logo in the title bar for a club/nation, competition, and kits for the club information screen and match overview screen. FM uses unique ID numbers to recognise people, clubs/nations, and competitions. You need to know these numbers for every person, club, nation, or competition you want to add an image to. Upon checking "Show Unique IDs" in the "Options" or "Game Preferences" screen, and confirming, FM will show the ID under the item's name in the title bar. For logos and kits you need the club/nation ID.
The contents of the 'config.xml' will need to include the following to be recognised by FM:
And you also need to put a list of strings, telling FM where the images need to be shown, between "<list id="maps">" and "</list>".
A person string would look like this:
Club and nation strings would respectively look like these:
A kit string would be any of these, for respectively home, away, and third kits:
Mixing these in one 'config.xml' file is no problem, so the file could have the following content:
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Here's a list of nations and the time in years it takes for a player to gain it's nationality when playing there.
Unmentioned countries have a default setting of 5 years.
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I've put together a list of all EU countries (which you can manage in) and their player restrictions. Feel free to post the rules for other leagues, and I'll add them to the first post.
Austria:
Premier Division:
No more than 7 non-EU players in the total squad
No more than 7 non-EU players in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
First Division:
No more than 7 non-EU players in the total squad
No more than 3 non-EU players in the match squad
No more than 3 foreign players in the match squad
At least 3 under-21 players in the match squad
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
Belgium:
First Division:
At least 2 under-21 players in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Second Division+Third Division:
At least 2 under-21 players in the match squad
4 subs named, maximum 3 used
Czech Republic:
First Division+Second Division:
No more than 3 foreign players in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Denmark:
Premier Division-Second Division:
No more than 3 non-EU players in the match squad
4 subs named, maximum 3 used
England:
Premier League:
5 domestic based players allowed on loan per season in the total squad
2 domestic based players allowed on loan at one time in the total squad
No player restrictions, after being awarded a work permit
Work permit rules are as follows:
- has played in 75% of his country's international games over the past 2 years
- the country should hold a top 70 FIFA ranking (averaged over 2 years)
(75% of club matches played is no longer a necessity for extending a contract)
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
Championship-Conference North/South:
8 short term loans allowed per season in the total squad (3 months)
4 long term loans allowed per season in the total squad (6-12 months)
4 short term loans allowed at one time in the total squad
No player restrictions, after being awarded a work permit (see Premier League)
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
Finland:
Premier Division+First Division:
No more than 3 non-EU players in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
France:
First League:
No more than 4 non-EU players allowed in the total squad
7 loans allowed per season in the total squad
No more than 4 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
Second League+National:
No more than 4 non-EU players allowed in the total squad
7 loans allowed per season in the total squad
No more than 2 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
addendum:
In France, players from the European continent and players from former French colonies in Africa and America do not count as non-EU. They will therefor not count towards the limit of 4 or 2 non-EU players.
Germany:
First Division+Second Division:
No more than 5 non-EU players allowed in the total squad
4 loans allowed per season in the total squad
No more than 5 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Regional Division:
No more than 5 non-EU players allowed in the total squad
4 loans allowed per season in the total squad
At least 6 German under-24 players in the match squad
At least 2 German under-21 players in the match squad
No more than 3 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Greece:
National A Division:
No more than 5 non-EU players allowed in the total squad
No more than 5 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
National B Division:
No more than 3 non-EU players allowed in the total squad
No more than 3 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Holland:
Premier Division+First Division:
No player restrictions
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Iceland:
Premier Division+First Division:
4 loans allowed at one time in the total squad
No more than 3 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
Italy
Serie A-Serie C2:
Each team has its own limit on non-EU players. This number will increase if a club signs a domestic based non-EU player, and decrease if they sell a non-EU player to another team in Italy. This way the number of non-EU players in the total Italian league system is limited.
No player restrictions
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Northern Ireland:
Premier Division-Second Division:
No player restrictions
Work permit rules as in England (see English Premier League)
3 subs named, maximum 3 used
Norway:
Premier Division+First Division:
No more than 2 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Second Division:
No player restrictions
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Poland
First Division:
No more than 5 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Second Division:
No more than 5 non-EU players allowed in the total squad
No more than 3 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Portugal
Superleague:
No more than 6 non-EU players allowed in the total squad
No more than 4 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
Only players registered for this competition are eligible to play (maximum 26)
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Second League:
No more than 5 non-EU players allowed in the total squad
No more than 4 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
Only players registered for this competition are eligible to play (maximum 26)
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Second Division B:
No more than 2 non-EU players allowed in the total squad
No more than 1 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
Only players registered for this competition are eligible to play (maximum 30)
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Republic of Ireland:
Premier Division+First Division:
5 loans allowed per season in the total squad
No player restrictions
?Work permit rules as in England (see English Premier League)? <-Not sure. It's not GB afterall, there might be a difference
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
Russia
Scotland:
Premier League:
5 loans allowed per season in the total squad
4 loans allowed at one time in the total squad
At least 2 under-21 players in the match squad
Work permit rules as in England (see English Premier League)
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
First Division-Third Division:
5 loans allowed per season in the total squad
4 loans allowed at one time in the total squad
Work permit rules as in England (see English Premier Legue)
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
Slovakia:
First Division+Second Division:
No more than 4 foreign players allowed in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Slovenia:
First Division+Second Division:
6 loans allowed per season in the total squad
No more than 3 foreign players allowed in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Spain:
First Division:
No more than 3 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
Only players registered for this competition are eligible to play (maximum 25)
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Second Division:
No more than 2 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
Only players registered for this competition are eligible to play (maximum 25)
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
Second Division B:
No non-EU players allowed in the match squad
Only players registered for this competition are eligible to play (maximum 22)
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
Sweden:
Premier Division-Second Division:
No more than 3 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
Wales:
Premier League:
5 loans allowed per season in the total squad
Work permit rules as in England (see English Premier League)
3 subs named, maximum 3 used
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some useful in this thread.. its a bit old now but some very decent posts: http://www.soccergaming.tv/showthread.php?t=107348
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How to make your game faster if it starts getting too slow:
Originally posted on the sigames forum
Do a Start->Run and type %temp% and press enter. An explorer window should pop up. Find the Football Manager 2006 folder, and delete all the .pks files from this folder. Make sure you don't delete the other file types. It's probably a good idea to make a backup of your savegame before you do this, just in case.
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Where to get skins, logos, kits, and other graphics for FM 2005:
The best place to look for these is SortItOutSI. If you know a site that is hosting FM graphics, and/or has an active graphics scene, please post it in here and we'll add it to the FAQ and the downloads thread.
list:
SortItOutSI
FM Underground
total-fm
fm.lemonish
CoreFM
Throw-in
FM FAQ
Goal Kick
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Starting online games in FM 2005:
- One person (the host) starts a new game like normal, having selected 'run as server' in the preferences. This person can go to the 'game status' to find out his IP address, which the others will need to join his game, if he doesn't know it already.
- The other players have to go to 'Network' at the start up screen, and select the IP. If it's not listed, try 'Refresh list', or 'Join other server' where you're asked for the IP to join with.
To resume a saved online game, the host needs to load the saved game, and wait for the other players to rejoin in the same way they did at the start of the game.
If you have problems connecting to each others games, the host might need to remove restrictions from the firewall he is using. The ports 10093 and 10094 need to be unrestricted:
Originally posted by anfield shadows
Opening ports on your Windows XP firewall:
1. Navigate to My network places
2. Right click your internet connection(for example, LAN- connection 1). Select Properties.
3. Click the 'advanced' tab, select settings.
4. Select the 'services' tab.
5. Click the 'add' button, in the lower left corner.
6. Enter a description of the program(CM), type your ip number, and enter 10093 in both the external and the internal port number boxes, make sure the TCP box is ticked.
7. Repeat 6, but now enter 10094 in the external and internal port number boxes, make sure the UDP box is ticked. Now click the 'ok' button.
8. Make sure both new created services(CM) are ticked in the 'services tab'. Now click ok.
To free the ports on a router firewall, browse to your router's IP, and free traffic on both ports from there.Originally posted by mixafendis
If u are using Xp Sp2 and the windows firewall all u have to do is add an "exception" so the windows firewall doesnt stop FM. Only can be done with Sp2 installed tho
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People looking for good training schedules should take a look at Daves v1.1 Training Schedule. It was created for CM 03/04, but is still really good for FM.
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Adding pictures, logos, and kits to FM:
Any graphical enhancements to FM need to be formatted in a layered png format. It needs to have a transparent background, and the image needs to be in a floating layer. The easiest way to achieve this is to open a new canvas of the desired size in Photoshop, while having 'Background contents' set to 'transparent', and paste the image in there. It will then put the image in a floating layer. After that 'save as' and select '*.png' from the dropdown menu.
Different images require different sizes too, here's a quick list:
- Player/staff pictures can be 95 pixels wide x 95 high, maximum.
- Logos for clubs, competitions, or nations have a height of 50 pixels, but also keep the width low, as the logos might overlap the club or competition names.
- Kit sizes would be 52x40.
To have these images appear in FM, you need to save them in a new subfolder of "\data\graphics\pictures", and in that subfolder create a file called 'config.xml'. That file is basically a standard text-file, made with for instance Notepad, which tells FM to link images to certain data. It tells FM to load a picture in the profile of a player, a logo in the title bar for a club/nation, competition, and kits for the club information screen and match overview screen. FM uses unique ID numbers to recognise people, clubs/nations, and competitions. You need to know these numbers for every person, club, nation, or competition you want to add an image to. Upon checking "Show Unique IDs" in the "Options" or "Game Preferences" screen, and confirming, FM will show the ID under the item's name in the title bar. For logos and kits you need the club/nation ID.
The contents of the 'config.xml' will need to include the following to be recognised by FM:
Code:
<record>
<boolean id="preload" value="false"/>
<boolean id="amap" value="false"/>
<list id="maps">
</list>
</record>
And you also need to put a list of strings, telling FM where the images need to be shown, between "<list id="maps">" and "</list>".
A person string would look like this:
Code:
<record from="(image name without .png)" to="graphics/pictures/person/(UNIQUE PERSON ID)/portrait"/>
Club and nation strings would respectively look like these:
Code:
<record from="(image name without .png)" to="graphics/pictures/club/(UNIQUE CLUB ID)/logo"/>
<record from="(image name without .png)" to="graphics/pictures/nation/(UNIQUE NATION ID)/logo"/>
A kit string would be any of these, for respectively home, away, and third kits:
Code:
<record from="(image name without .png)" to="graphics/pictures/team/(UNIQUE CLUB/NATION ID)/kits/home"/>
<record from="(image name without .png)" to="graphics/pictures/team/(UNIQUE CLUB/NATION ID)/kits/away"/>
<record from="(image name without .png)" to="graphics/pictures/team/(UNIQUE CLUB/NATION ID)/kits/third"/>
Mixing these in one 'config.xml' file is no problem, so the file could have the following content:
Code:
<record>
<boolean id="preload" value="false"/>
<boolean id="amap" value="false"/>
<list id="maps">
<record from="player1" to="graphics/pictures/person/00000001/portrait"/>
<record from="player2" to="graphics/pictures/person/00000002/portrait"/>
<record from="player3" to="graphics/pictures/person/00000003/portrait"/>
<record from="random club" to="graphics/pictures/club/001/logo"/>
<record from="random club_home" to="graphics/pictures/team/001/kits/home"/>
<record from="random club_away" to="graphics/pictures/team/001/kits/away"/>
<record from="random club_third" to="graphics/pictures/team/001/kits/third"/>
</list>
</record>
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Here's a list of nations and the time in years it takes for a player to gain it's nationality when playing there.
Unmentioned countries have a default setting of 5 years.
Code:
[b]Country Time[/b]
Australia 4
Belgium 7
Bosnia 2
Brazil 15
China 8
Chinese Taipei 7
Denmark 7
FYR Macedonia 2
Hong Kong 7
Lebanon 3
Macau 7
Mexico 4
Norway 7
Poland 3
Russia 12
Serbia & Montenegro 2
Singapore 4
South Korea 100
Spain 4
Sweden 3
Thailand 4
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I've put together a list of all EU countries (which you can manage in) and their player restrictions. Feel free to post the rules for other leagues, and I'll add them to the first post.
Austria:
Premier Division:
No more than 7 non-EU players in the total squad
No more than 7 non-EU players in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
First Division:
No more than 7 non-EU players in the total squad
No more than 3 non-EU players in the match squad
No more than 3 foreign players in the match squad
At least 3 under-21 players in the match squad
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
Belgium:
First Division:
At least 2 under-21 players in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Second Division+Third Division:
At least 2 under-21 players in the match squad
4 subs named, maximum 3 used
Czech Republic:
First Division+Second Division:
No more than 3 foreign players in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Denmark:
Premier Division-Second Division:
No more than 3 non-EU players in the match squad
4 subs named, maximum 3 used
England:
Premier League:
5 domestic based players allowed on loan per season in the total squad
2 domestic based players allowed on loan at one time in the total squad
No player restrictions, after being awarded a work permit
Work permit rules are as follows:
- has played in 75% of his country's international games over the past 2 years
- the country should hold a top 70 FIFA ranking (averaged over 2 years)
(75% of club matches played is no longer a necessity for extending a contract)
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
Championship-Conference North/South:
8 short term loans allowed per season in the total squad (3 months)
4 long term loans allowed per season in the total squad (6-12 months)
4 short term loans allowed at one time in the total squad
No player restrictions, after being awarded a work permit (see Premier League)
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
Finland:
Premier Division+First Division:
No more than 3 non-EU players in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
France:
First League:
No more than 4 non-EU players allowed in the total squad
7 loans allowed per season in the total squad
No more than 4 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
Second League+National:
No more than 4 non-EU players allowed in the total squad
7 loans allowed per season in the total squad
No more than 2 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
addendum:
In France, players from the European continent and players from former French colonies in Africa and America do not count as non-EU. They will therefor not count towards the limit of 4 or 2 non-EU players.
Germany:
First Division+Second Division:
No more than 5 non-EU players allowed in the total squad
4 loans allowed per season in the total squad
No more than 5 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Regional Division:
No more than 5 non-EU players allowed in the total squad
4 loans allowed per season in the total squad
At least 6 German under-24 players in the match squad
At least 2 German under-21 players in the match squad
No more than 3 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Greece:
National A Division:
No more than 5 non-EU players allowed in the total squad
No more than 5 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
National B Division:
No more than 3 non-EU players allowed in the total squad
No more than 3 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Holland:
Premier Division+First Division:
No player restrictions
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Iceland:
Premier Division+First Division:
4 loans allowed at one time in the total squad
No more than 3 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
Italy
Serie A-Serie C2:
Each team has its own limit on non-EU players. This number will increase if a club signs a domestic based non-EU player, and decrease if they sell a non-EU player to another team in Italy. This way the number of non-EU players in the total Italian league system is limited.
No player restrictions
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Northern Ireland:
Premier Division-Second Division:
No player restrictions
Work permit rules as in England (see English Premier League)
3 subs named, maximum 3 used
Norway:
Premier Division+First Division:
No more than 2 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Second Division:
No player restrictions
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Poland
First Division:
No more than 5 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Second Division:
No more than 5 non-EU players allowed in the total squad
No more than 3 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Portugal
Superleague:
No more than 6 non-EU players allowed in the total squad
No more than 4 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
Only players registered for this competition are eligible to play (maximum 26)
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Second League:
No more than 5 non-EU players allowed in the total squad
No more than 4 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
Only players registered for this competition are eligible to play (maximum 26)
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Second Division B:
No more than 2 non-EU players allowed in the total squad
No more than 1 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
Only players registered for this competition are eligible to play (maximum 30)
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Republic of Ireland:
Premier Division+First Division:
5 loans allowed per season in the total squad
No player restrictions
?Work permit rules as in England (see English Premier League)? <-Not sure. It's not GB afterall, there might be a difference
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
Russia
any other info welcomeShiftyPowers said:The Russian league is really lax too. Maximum of 8 foreign players in the match squad (and I don't think former Soviet Socialist Republics count as foreign)
Scotland:
Premier League:
5 loans allowed per season in the total squad
4 loans allowed at one time in the total squad
At least 2 under-21 players in the match squad
Work permit rules as in England (see English Premier League)
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
First Division-Third Division:
5 loans allowed per season in the total squad
4 loans allowed at one time in the total squad
Work permit rules as in England (see English Premier Legue)
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
Slovakia:
First Division+Second Division:
No more than 4 foreign players allowed in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Slovenia:
First Division+Second Division:
6 loans allowed per season in the total squad
No more than 3 foreign players allowed in the match squad
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Spain:
First Division:
No more than 3 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
Only players registered for this competition are eligible to play (maximum 25)
7 subs named, maximum 3 used
Second Division:
No more than 2 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
Only players registered for this competition are eligible to play (maximum 25)
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
Second Division B:
No non-EU players allowed in the match squad
Only players registered for this competition are eligible to play (maximum 22)
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
Sweden:
Premier Division-Second Division:
No more than 3 non-EU players allowed in the match squad
5 subs named, maximum 3 used
Wales:
Premier League:
5 loans allowed per season in the total squad
Work permit rules as in England (see English Premier League)
3 subs named, maximum 3 used
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some useful in this thread.. its a bit old now but some very decent posts: http://www.soccergaming.tv/showthread.php?t=107348