retired_onicke23

Having as keen as a geographical mind as I do, the whole city database and population thing I believe should be sorted out ASAP.

Cities in the database have a population field and I have just been entering the populations for all the places in Scotland (plus some other places I created), to see what impact if any that would have. The answer, as yet, being absolutely none.

But as of now, I think the game assumes all cities are the same size. One implication is that a regenerated player is just as likely to be born in Glencaple (the smallest place in Scotland in the database with under 300 inhabitants), as to be born in Glasgow. Very lopsided.

I replaced 6 of the teams in the Scottish League with new clubs. Now, many of these clubs have few or no players in the database, being non-league in real life, so teams of youth regens are generated to start off with.

To pick out one of the clubs I entered, Tayport, all of the regen players were born in Tayport. In real life such a team should mainly be Dundonians, and I created nearby places such as Newport-on-Tay hoping some players would come from there. I was hoping the population entries would bring that about, but such a restricted geographical range of place of birth is simply unrealistic.

retired_kmwilliams05

I've said the same thing in a bug report, it's insane that teams in the English conf south would have an entire local born youth team.

It's like saying out of fourty people doing sports at the local college fifteen will get contracts at the local football team.

While in reality every conf south team has players from seven or so local towns.

Even places like Brighton and Pompey have players from all over the south, but in the game have 9/10 of the youth players from Brighton or such.

retired_sdshannon

I agree. Loads born in Burscough on my game and there's not even a hospital here. Cue; Messy living room carpets.

retired_kmwilliams05

I don't really understand where it went wrong either. It was fine in FM07. I'm sure it's something that can be fixed with the patch.

retired_sandra

Surely semi pro teams would have a youth team made up almost entirely of locally born players.