Anyway, I should begin by explaining what the concept of this DB is first. The idea is to have a world league with teams from all over the world. This may sound like something that you've seen before, however I wanted to implement a few new things to this DB. In this DB, teams are going to start from scratch, and I wanted them to start off fairly similar in a lot of ways, in order to keep the starting years relatively even and see how teams progress. Players for the most part will be generated. There may be a few caviats with this concept, one is that when you start a game from the first year (2012), the teams will be fairly weak, and management will be fairly poor for almost everyone. Which means that it may actually be quite easy to climb up the ladder when most teams are just struggling to fill up their squad with half decent players. The other option is to let the game simulate for a few years and pick up a team later on. That may be a lot more interesting to most people, but that way you are subjected to luck, as the team you want may not be available for a long time.
The other new thing I want to try, is to have teams follow a sort of template (especially teams not in the first division), where all teams start off in a similar financial situation, similar reputation and infrastructure. From this template however, each team will get "perks" if you will, where a team has 2 perks which are areas in which that particular team has an advantage over other teams that follow the same template. For instance, a team may have an improved training facility and a bigger stadium, while another team may have a wonderkid and more starting cash. I will post later how these will be assigned, most teams from redditors had their perks picked out.
This database replaces the Swiss league and accomodates the top 20 teams, I started off by having these teams be somewhat based on other real life teams in terms of their stats. Then in the lower division, I am trying to keep the numbers in a way that during a season there are a reasonable number of games, and yet still room for cups that will be added as well. The current beta version of my DB has 56 teams in the lower division, which is divided into 4 groups of 14 teams. I've made quite a few modifications from the version posted on reddit, and I'm hoping to still make a few more.
current beta (k) version of the DB
included in my proposed changes from the current version are:
- More teams in the lower division. Currently I have 56 which makes it so that there are 26 league games prior to the playoffs (up to 6 extra games). I feel that it would be easy to add at least 1 more team per group without filling up the schedule too too much. Potentially even adding 2 teams per group. If you have suggestions for more teams let me know.
- There are season awards currently, but it would probably be useful to also have a few monthly awards, such as MVP and things like that.
- Perhaps increase TV money in lower league, I personally like how much money the teams have during season 1, but in order to really step up the quality of the teams it would be nice to give them extra funds.
- Change some of the stadium names and things to make them more personalized.
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Soon I will post my first save with this DB, which I feel has already potential to be my first FM13 serious save. I will still modify the DB a bit more, even if I don't play it for a while.
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