retired_marion ramirez

I've already read a lot of the topic on this subject and can't find help to my problem so sorry to keep posting about this but I'm really stuck.

I have made an EDT file and saved it in the same place as the rest of the EDT files. MY EDT looks like this.

"RETAIN_PLAYERS" "Celtic"
"RETAIN_PLAYERS" "Rangers"
"RETAIN_NATION_PLAYERS" "China PR"
"RETAIN_PLAYERS" "Cinderford"
"RETAIN_NATION_PLAYERS" "Brazil"
"RETAIN_NATION_PLAYERS" "Argentina"

I checked my preferences and made sure that the EDT file which I saved as 'extraplayers.edt' was ticked but then when I start a new game a lot of the Brazil and Argentina players are still not there such as Evandro Roncatto and Sebastien Saja. Cinderford (My local non league side) have no players in their squad at all, although I know they exist in the database.

I've started a new game if anyone was thinking I was really stupid.

Can anyone spot a problem with what I've done here?

If I have perhaps spelt a team wrong, perhaps for example 'Cinderford' should be 'Cinderford Town' would this then make the EDT file not work at all?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

retired_Pinkie83

Haved you saved it correctly?
Is it in the correct folder?
Try saving it as a .ddt file.

retired_madhuajay

sean_oc16 is correct it should be a ddt and also i think u should be using team id numbers instead of team names

retired_Pinkie83

thankyou, thought it was supposed to be .ddt, but you are supposed to use team name like Reider already has done.

retired_marion ramirez

Okay I'll try and save it as a DDT file but I did try this already and it did not seem to make a difference, that was my first attempt though so maybe I did something else wrong.

I'm not sure if you do need to use the club ID's though, in the example of the official help with EDT and DDT files the example they give uses team names like I have done. I'll try both methods.

Thanks.

retired_Pinkie83

Try taking the space out between the "retain" command and "team "

retired_marion ramirez

Are you sure or is that just an idea to try?

retired_Pinkie83

Are you sure or is that just an idea to try? </BLOCKQUOTE>

just an idea.

Pretty sure you need the team/country name and not the ID though.

alohanema

I am no expert at this but this is what I have done, I have used the ddt generator I downloaded for fm2006 and made a ddt file with all the teams I wanted included in my fm2007 game so all the players were in the game and put it in the db file. This worked really well and I have all the players I wanted.

The only thing I did come across was that if I used the editor and created a new database the ddt files didn't appear in the new game, they only appear if I used the default database in the new game. Though maybe me doing something wrong.

retired_marion ramirez

I am still using the original database so this should not be an issue, do you know where the DDT file generator can be downloaded?