English Level 10 Pyramid for FM12
(a rebuild of the Golden Eagles database)
Research & data entry by Golden Eagles.
League rebuild, full club names, and editing by Erimus.
This is born out of the ambitious level 14 database started by Golden Eagles in November 2011. Unfortunately the original level 14 database never worked well for many people due to the massive amount of processing time it took to run so many leagues & cups, as well as other crucial errors and issues that went unfixed.
So I've rebuilt the leagues, revamped the youth & reserve league structures, added missing data, fixed the issues that needed looking into, and made it playable for those of us who found level 14 too slow and unstable to enjoy. I've also entered the full club names to make it look more realistic by getting rid of the abbreviated team names. All in all I've made approx. 81,000 additional database changes to the initial GE db.
GE English Pyramid 2.00: database changes 113768
With revamped English Level 10 & merged full names DB: database changes 194763
Major changes & fixes made:
Minor changes & fixes made:
There are a few remaining issues I can't resolve...
Setting up a game:
Its takes me 10 minutes to set up a game, so be patient, even if it says 'Not Responding'.
Important: When setting up a new game, do not have any other files ticked on your Editor Data Files screen except this one.
The database is tested with patch 12.2. If you get the "not enough teams in league x" error when trying to set up a game, unfortunately there is nothing I can do. It seems to be an issue for some people but not for others and its been impossible to track down try.
Average time to holiday 1 season takes 4 hours (tested with an AMD Turon Dual Core 2.2GHz processor).
League rebuild, full club names, and editing by Erimus.
This is born out of the ambitious level 14 database started by Golden Eagles in November 2011. Unfortunately the original level 14 database never worked well for many people due to the massive amount of processing time it took to run so many leagues & cups, as well as other crucial errors and issues that went unfixed.
So I've rebuilt the leagues, revamped the youth & reserve league structures, added missing data, fixed the issues that needed looking into, and made it playable for those of us who found level 14 too slow and unstable to enjoy. I've also entered the full club names to make it look more realistic by getting rid of the abbreviated team names. All in all I've made approx. 81,000 additional database changes to the initial GE db.
GE English Pyramid 2.00: database changes 113768
With revamped English Level 10 & merged full names DB: database changes 194763
Major changes & fixes made:
- Fixed the league fixtures issue. They are now back to how they should be, with the majority being played at weekends and on the whole unaffected by custom leagues & cups.
- Restored the original FA Cup (GE's version had some issues that I couldn't fix, so I've put the default SI one back in). FA Cup starts at the 2nd Qualifying round, which includes level 6, 7, 8, and some level 9 clubs.
- Added promotion play-offs to most level 7, 8, 9, and 10 leagues.
- To further decrease processing time; removed 40+ county cups and replaced them with the FA Vase (for level 9 & 10 clubs) and the Regional Challenge Trophy (for level 7 & 8 clubs).
- Added regionalised Reserve leagues - complete with promotions & relegation's.
- Added correct reserve fixture venues for most of the bigger clubs.
- Added 7-tier Youth league structure - complete with promotions & relegation's. All 116 Premiership, Football League, and Conference Premier clubs' youth teams take part. The School of Excellence includes the best 14 youth academies in England. This league and the NextGen Tournament are a great place to scout talented youth players.
- Added correct or more realistic U18 fixture venues for most of the bigger clubs (so they're not playing in empty 60,000 seater stadiums!).
- Fixed "B" team and Reserve team attendances.
- Added stadiums for all the teams that didn't previously have them (now all 3,330 English league clubs have them).
- Set amateur status for all level 10 and below clubs.
- Corrected approx. 100 spelling & grammatical errors in team names, competition names, and city names.
- Added kits to some clubs that were left with default colours.
- Added synthetic pitches for around 200 of the lower level clubs (to add some variety) and reduced the quality of the majority of the remaining low-level grass pitches (to add some reality).
- Added more variety to pitch dimensions; they are not all set at the default 71 yards x 111 yards as before, but now vary in size.
- Increased the probability of snowy and icy pitches during UK winter.
- Added winter orange ball to league and cup campaign (it'll be used from Dec 21st - Jan 21st) as well as for any snow-covered pitch outside those dates. I recommend downloading the brighter ball mod.
- Facilities for lower level clubs have been significantly lowered to more realistic levels.
- Lower level attendances reduced to more realistic levels.
- Tweaked the regen quality of some nations (the default settings were set too high for some minor nations).
- Successfully merged the Full Club Names database with Golden Eagles' db (see screenshots below), so all 3,330 English clubs, plus all the European teams from their respective top two divisions, now have full names entered into all three naming fields in the editor. Credit goes to Golden Eagles who put a lot of time and effort in with research & data entry. All the information for the added 2,200+ teams, county cups, and cities he entered remain in this database, so if you want to add your own leagues and cups to this L10 db, the data is already there for you.
Minor changes & fixes made:
- Far too many to list...
There are a few remaining issues I can't resolve...
- I haven't added an extended FA Cup or FA Trophy. They caused me too much trouble in the past so I'm sticking with the default SI cup competitions since they work well and already have some of the early qualifying rounds in them.
- The Championship, League 1 and League 2 promotion play off finals are no longer a single match at Wembley, they are instead all 2-leg home & away ties (like they were back in the early 1990's).
- Occasionally some clubs will migrate from one league to another (example: Runcorn Linnets from the Northwest League joined the Northern League Div 1 in season 2012/13 on my game). This is a bug in FM, not the database.
Setting up a game:
Its takes me 10 minutes to set up a game, so be patient, even if it says 'Not Responding'.
Important: When setting up a new game, do not have any other files ticked on your Editor Data Files screen except this one.
The database is tested with patch 12.2. If you get the "not enough teams in league x" error when trying to set up a game, unfortunately there is nothing I can do. It seems to be an issue for some people but not for others and its been impossible to track down try.
Average time to holiday 1 season takes 4 hours (tested with an AMD Turon Dual Core 2.2GHz processor).
Original SI forum thread: http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/301780-English-Level-10-Pyramid-rebuild-of-the-Golden-Eagles-database?p=7663587&viewfull=1#post7663587
Tested with FM12 only.
This replaces all the abbreviated club names with their full proper names.
Original SI forum thread: http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/280031-FM12-Full-Club-Names?p=7194155&viewfull=1#post7194155
This replaces all the abbreviated club names with their full proper names.
Original SI forum thread: http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/280031-FM12-Full-Club-Names?p=7194155&viewfull=1#post7194155
Tested with FM11 only.
This is just a cosmetic change to the default FM11 database.
If you like seeing the full names for each team instead of the shortened or abbreviated versions, this DB is for you. Full club names have been entered for all English, Scottish, Northern Irish, Welsh, and Rep. of Ireland clubs, plus all clubs from every European Premier and First Division.
Examples:
This is just a cosmetic change to the default FM11 database.
If you like seeing the full names for each team instead of the shortened or abbreviated versions, this DB is for you. Full club names have been entered for all English, Scottish, Northern Irish, Welsh, and Rep. of Ireland clubs, plus all clubs from every European Premier and First Division.
Examples:
Original SI Forum thread: http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/265471-11.3-Database-Full-Club-Names?p=6804832&viewfull=1#post6804832