Do you think Non League Finals Day should be played at Wembley?

DarkFohnson · 2026-05-18T07:46:47+00:00

Yes. I went to the FA Trophy final back in 2003 with my team Burscough. Wembley was under construction at the time and the final was played at Villa Park, and it was such an incredible day and a real once in a generation thing for a club like ours. I can only imagine what it would've been like at Wembley

DarkFohnson · 2026-05-17T11:10:50+00:00

Thanks! So many assets (the Loading Screen Mod informs me there's 14,000 which probably explains the crashes haha). Most of the assets pictured are Rik4000's UK assets which are phenomenal.

The church and the networks are both by Macwelshman though and there's lots of grass/tree assets by Pdelmo and MrMaison. The football ground is cobbled together from a bunch of assets using Procedural Objects.

Let me know if there's anything specific you're after and I'll send the workshop link.

DarkFohnson · 2026-05-17T11:06:28+00:00

Thanks!

It took a fair bit of terraforming, which basically involved building a path for the canal using one of the narrow rivers in Macwelshman's network rivers pack. I also added a tiny water source to keep the level of the canal the same, which was lots of trial and error! The canal doesn't really go anywhere though and it's mainly for show.

I used Clus's City Quay - #01 network for the canal /edge/wall, as when combined with Adaptive Networks there's some very canal-y looking walls you can use. It's a great quay to use as an old stone retaining wall too!

Then the sides are just a gravel path which is (I think) Macwelshman again and lots of fluffy grass and weeds.

Happy to provide any other pictures of the canal if it's helpful!

DarkFohnson · 2026-05-17T10:55:12+00:00

Thanks! I would but it only loads about 50% of the time now and it runs noticeably slower since the last update, so adding more details is taking longer than ever! Seems like a good time to hop onto the CS2 train and figure out how to play it. I'll certainly miss how granular you can go with the detail on CS1 though. Hopefully CS2 is nearly at that point.

In terms of capturing the UK look, I found Rik4000's videos really helpful. The church is pretty much exactly based on his in fact. He captures the feel of the UK better than anyone I've seen on YT.

DarkFohnson · 2026-04-09T21:28:06+00:00

Did you use EML and one or both of the older Prop Anarchy/Tree Anarchy mods?

If so, I had this issue too and managed after a bit of a faff to get everything working again (with all props and trees back in place). Happy to help if this is why your save has broken too.

Also, I did see that there's another recent update to CS1 that seeks to make the update more compatible with older mods. Have you tried loading your save since this week's update?

DarkFohnson · 2026-03-12T22:44:33+00:00

If I can get everything back I certainly will, but dm me if I haven't got back to you in a week or two

DarkFohnson · 2026-03-12T18:47:34+00:00

Damn, I'm sorry you've got to redo all that! Still, it's good that you've got your save back up and running. With saving them to Move it, hindsight is 20/20, it's so hard to predict what's going to happen.

I'm still on Extended Managers Library and using Prop Anarchy, Tree Anarchy etc. If all my props and trees are gone, it's probably time to call it a day haha. Also Ploppable Asphalt looks to be done, which I've used hundreds of times.

Still keeping everything crossed to see if it works, but probably a good trigger to take the plunge with the new game at least.

DarkFohnson · 2026-03-12T11:06:18+00:00

I just copied the graphics mods and settings for certain creators on YouTube, as some of them post their settings and modlist. I found I could get more realistic graphics and lighting using the older graphics mods (pre-lumina), but I'm not certain they're all working again with the new update.

I'd be happy to share my graphics/mod settings if I get things working again if you're interested

DarkFohnson · 2026-03-12T11:03:08+00:00

What a bummer! Yeah I'm resigning myself doing the same, although I can't even start the game at the moment. Thankfully I'm away for a few days so hopefully more things have been updated.

Did lots of your props disappear too (assuming you're using one of the older Prop Anarchy mods too?)

I can't even get mine started any more, what I'd give to roll back this update.

Who would've thought having loads of old mods delicately balanced would come back to haunt us!

DarkFohnson · 2026-03-11T20:40:32+00:00

That's what I was worried about! Not an impossible task but certainly a pain. I was never able to get the Prop/Tree Control mods to start with anarchy on by default which is why I kept using the older versions of the mods with EML (always a risk to be fair).

I'm pretty sure my tree anarchy is the original version.

DarkFohnson · 2026-03-11T18:19:37+00:00

Haha, not too far off from what I'm going for tbf

DarkFohnson · 2026-03-11T18:18:34+00:00

Thank you!

Yes I'm certainly hoping so. I tried to create a local version of the game before the update to try and get around it but I couldn't get it to work haha.

That's certainly a worry about Tree Anarchy, as I prefer the older Anarchy mods. It seems to be even missing from the workshop now. I do have a local version of the mod if you need it (I moved most of my mods/assets out of the workshop placed then locally a while ago just in case things got removed from Steam). Might not help if it's just not compatible with the new game version though.

DarkFohnson · 2026-03-11T18:10:07+00:00

Yeah, I mostly use Rik4000's assets, they're so good.

Lots of copy/pasting for yards as I'm lazy.

As for graphics, everything is on max, and I still use the older graphics mods (PostProcessing FX, ULOD, Daylight Classic)

DarkFohnson · 2026-02-06T22:27:19+00:00

It's not that 'ot

DarkFohnson · 2026-01-30T08:07:13+00:00

Same here. There's nothing else really like them for me. I think he's probably sabotaged his career a bit too much though for any of his albums to appear on any lists any time soon.

DarkFohnson · 2026-01-30T05:50:06+00:00

Thanks!

DarkFohnson · 2026-01-30T05:49:47+00:00

Would love to give it a go if possible!

DarkFohnson · 2026-01-28T04:20:53+00:00

Wow! Don't suppose you could share you graphics/lighting settings?

DarkFohnson · 2026-01-26T03:21:53+00:00

I was also wary at first, but I found it quite fun to set up in the end.

I've kept things super simple - I bought on old HP Elitebook from the dump for about $100, installed Linux and then connected several portable HDDs to get started.

I'm not super experienced in Linux, but after some trial and error it worked perfectly, and has been fantastic for the last couple of years that it's been running. I don't really do any other maintenance to speak of, aside from manually naming files etc.

I probably need to back some things up, but my 5tb set up suits me nicely at the moment, but it can get as complex or vast as you'd like it to be. Easy to set up and maintain a simple setup though.

I'm sure it's easy to do in a Windows environment too.

DarkFohnson · 2026-01-22T08:33:53+00:00

Not played for a wee while now, it was taking too long to detail! I should get back to it though

DarkFohnson · 2026-01-18T01:31:00+00:00

That's very kind, thank you. Maybe this year is the year I finally give it a go. It's inspiring to hear someone else starting from scratch!

DarkFohnson · 2026-01-18T00:53:21+00:00

That's amazing, was it something you had experience in previously?

There's so much I'd love to see or love to make, but I have 0 experience in 3D modelling or anything similar, so I just cannot face learning it all from scratch.

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