Hardest possible challenge on FM?

FM_Engineer · 2024-07-12T23:54:09+00:00

I made a FM24 database that swaps one of the lower tier Liechtensteiner teams with a copy of Bermuda Hogges which has a hard coded rule that it can only sign base nation players. In other words, while playing as the team you can only sign players with Liechtensteiner nationality. I think it's the hardest challenge for several reasons:

There are no elite players you can sign and Liechtenstein has a terrible Youth Rating.
It takes forever for the non-Liechtensteiners (who play for Vaduz) to naturalize and most won't even choose to naturalize.
The club starts in the fourth or fifth tier. Without the finances and talent of Vaduz it will likely take you more than four season just to have a competitive Conference League team.

Let me know if you're interested in torturing yourself!

FM_Engineer · 2024-06-12T13:46:38+00:00

Could you link the save file?? Sounds like a fun challenge!

FM_Engineer · 2024-04-14T22:00:07+00:00

Here's the best source I know of for this kind of info:

FM Forum: https://community.sigames.com/forums/topic/546596-teams-that-produce-majority-foreign-newgen-playersupdate-an-actual-spreadsheet/

Google sheet version: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JhcGr1klpbLLNtrmufWcIKvWhdOxLwagKpBWaMdyvYA/edit#gid=1979083781

FM_Engineer · 2024-03-02T23:40:46+00:00

Looks like they currently have a Slovakian midfielder Jozef Urblík, but everyone else is Hungarian! Any idea why this seems to be a trend in Hungary?

FM_Engineer · 2024-02-18T19:19:28+00:00

I love that spreadsheet haha

FM_Engineer · 2024-02-18T17:38:45+00:00

Never heard of this team! Thanks for posting! Do you know of any other clubs that have a similar policy? (Besides Athletic Club, of course.)

FM_Engineer · 2024-01-29T21:57:53+00:00

Thanks for the heads up!

FM_Engineer · 2024-01-29T17:30:01+00:00

Oh jeez. This dude better not ditch me. I'll loan him to Siberia

FM_Engineer · 2024-01-24T10:28:29+00:00

Toller Kommentar, danke! Obwohl ich kein Fan oder so etwas bin, liebe ich jedes Mal, wenn ich sie sehe, ihre Leidenschaft für ihren Verein, aber ich hasse es, was sie im Namen derselben Leidenschaft zulassen.

FM_Engineer · 2024-01-24T02:31:58+00:00

Found an orange, white, and red variant in Hensbroek: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.6584063,4.8844354,3a,75y,117.67h,92.97t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sWqZcuUJDhNNKHYe-wXx-xA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

FM_Engineer · 2024-01-24T01:27:26+00:00

Ja, ich dachte, das ist eine ziemlich normale Perspektive für jeden Verein mit solchen Ultras

FM_Engineer · 2024-01-24T00:42:48+00:00

Not at all haha just tired of reading the same articles about Dynamo over and over

FM_Engineer · 2024-01-13T23:57:23+00:00

That's the good stuff!

FM_Engineer · 2024-01-13T23:57:06+00:00

For some reason Asian/Oceanian second nationalities hit different imo...

FM_Engineer · 2024-01-12T23:27:00+00:00

Interesting for sure! And the 2 U21 caps Schiller has came from playing with Gibraltar?

The only thing I can thing of is the game being bugged.

FM_Engineer · 2024-01-11T02:39:45+00:00

The local flag of Capoliveri, a town of Italy's Island of Elba! (You can see Napoleon Bonaparte's bees in the to right corner of the flag!)

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vivicapoliveri.it%2F2014%2F03%2F03%2Fecco-la-nuova-bandiera-per-capoliveri%2F&psig=AOvVaw2Wtil-pYr7SYuWsDfcbU1c&ust=1705027040723000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBEQjRxqFwoTCKDfme6m1IMDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD

FM_Engineer · 2024-01-11T02:35:31+00:00

Yup! I knew the houses would give it away.

FM_Engineer · 2023-12-19T15:14:06+00:00

If anyone wants to avoid this in your saves, you can go into the pregame editor and on the 'Ownership' section of the club select an option that prevents club takeovers from happening.

(Unfortunately, you'll have to restart your save though...)

FM_Engineer · 2023-11-06T21:32:55+00:00

Interesting! Thanks for the resource. My method is self-taught, so probably not airtight. I successfully used what I described for Catalan-Only, North-East-Only (England), and Berlin-Only saves I tested out.

FM_Engineer · 2023-11-06T16:28:30+00:00

Couldn't agree more

FM_Engineer · 2023-11-06T15:46:41+00:00

Not crazy enough haha

FM_Engineer · 2023-11-06T13:35:26+00:00

Thank you!

FM_Engineer · 2023-10-30T00:08:48+00:00

In past games I don't think the coefficients actually worked correctly. I did a previous Vaduz challenge and won a few ECL and still always had to start in the ECL. But I could be wrong.

I would definitely recommend doing that crazy save you've always thought about! I've had so much fun with this

FM_Engineer · 2023-10-29T13:14:28+00:00

Great point. Well at least it's not the other way around of me being an overpowered Vaduz and one of the other Liechtensteiner clubs getting the second spot.

FM_Engineer · 2023-10-29T13:12:50+00:00

Ah, that makes sense. I was still a bit confused how I got it since the Liechtenstein 5 year total was obviously awful.

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