FM22 "Increase-Realism"-Megapack JANUARY-Update BETA

Hello everyone. I'm pleased release the JANUARY-BETA-Version of my "Increase Realism"-Megapack.

There are many improvements made (especially Transfer Preferences and Sponsorship-Behaviour)  aswell as some minor bug-fixes.

Important:
It's still an BETA. So there may well be some smaller bugs. Those files are likely to be updated before public release.
Delete all old files first. Even if other files aren't mentioned in this post, they are included in the download-link.

I currently run the final BETA-Test-Save. As soon as that one is 3-4 years in, I'll upload it here.

Main changes/improvements:

Daveincid's NATIONS AGREEMENTS
This file by DaveThe Editor is now again included. It adds 24 agreements between Nations. You can find this information in the Nation-tab-overview!

Daveincid's LEAGUE REPUTATION CHANGE
As I said I was unsure if it is needed. Now after severallong-term-tests I do see a need for some changes.
This file lowers the gap slightly between the Top-Nations and all the others in Europe. It also boosts Top-Nations outside of Europe slightly and should improve the balance in longterm-saves.

Daveincid's CLUB TRANSFER PREFERENCES
This file has been massively expanded. Now it contains 58 Clubs from 38 Nations. The changes includes wheter specific Nations or age-preferences. (or both)

The following Clubs has been edited:

- BKMA Jerewan (Armenia)
- Wellington Phoenix (Australia)
- Neman Grodno (Belarus)
- Energetik-BGU Minsk (Belarus)
- Ludogorez Rasgrad (Bulgaria)
- Lewski Sofia (Bulgaria)
- CD Huachipato (Chile)
- FC Midtylland (Denmark)
- FC Nordsjaelland (Denmark)
- Wolverhampton Wanderers (England)
- Barnsley (England)
- JK Tulevik Vijandi (Estonia)
- Ilves (Finland)
- Toulouse FC (France)
- Saburtalo Tiflis (Georgia)
- Accra Lions FC (Ghana)
- Berekum Chelsea (Ghana)
- Dreams FC (Ghana)
- AGS Asteras Tripolis (Greece)
- NPS Volos (Greece)
- Bohemian FC (Ireland)
- KF Feronikeli (Kosovo)
- NK Istra 1961 (Croatia)
- FS Metta (Latvia)
- Union Titus Petange (Luxemburg)
- FK Zeta Golubovci (Montenegro)
- PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands)
- Portadown (Northern Ireland)
- Valerenga Oslo (Norway)
- Kristiansund BK ( Norway)
- RB Salzburg (Austria)
- Union Tecnica de Cajamarca (Peru)
- Deportivo Universidad San Martin de Porres S.A. (Peru)
- FC Porto (Portugal)
- SL Benfica (Portugal)
- Sporting Lissabon (Portugal)
- Sporting Braga (Portugal)
- FC Famalicao (Portugal)
- FC Zimbru Chisinau (Moldavia)
- FCV Farul Constanta (Romania)
- Servette FC (Switzerland)
- FC Sion (Switzerland)
- FC Lausanne-Sport (Switzerland)
- FK Spartak Zlatibor Voda Subotica (Serbia)
- Young Lions (Singapore)
- FC DAC 1904 Dunjaska Streda (Slovakia)
- AS Trencin (Slovakia)
- MFK Zemplin Michalovce (Slovakia)
- NK Celje (Slovenia)
- FK Hatlon Bokhtar (Tajikistan)
- Konyaspor (Turkey)
- Shakthar Donetsk (Ukraine)
- FK Mariupol (Ukraine)
- PFC Lwiw (Ukraine)
- Ujpest Budapest (Hungary)
- Kisvarda FC (Hungary)
- New York RB (USA)

Daveincid's CITIZENSHIP FIX
fixes for Japan, as this was wrong due license-issues by SI

Daveincid's CLUB DATA FIXES
This file has been further improved and adds a lot of missing data for over 1500 1st and 2nd-Division-Clubs in 150 Nations worldwide:

- Nicknames of Clubs
- City-Location
- Correct Stadium set
- 89 new Stadiums created
- Rivals
- Year founded
- Club Colours

Daveincid's CLUB FINANCES FIX
This file now plays a crucial part for the «Sponsorship» part of my «Salaries, Values and Sponsors»-File.
This is big, really big!
Explanation:
In the editor, Sponsorship-deals of most clubs have ticked the option «renew income». This can be compared to an arcade-racing-game in the past, when you should lead 2 rounds ahead but suddenly the 2nd placed driver appears in your back-mirrow.
In other words, no matter how bad a club performs, sponsorship deals will be always similar to the one set in the editor. This keeps big teams big for like forever.

I have now deleted those «renew income» worldwide for all 1st and 2nd-Division-Teams. A first test was successful but needed further tweakings. This is now part of the current Save-Game which I will upload as soon as possible. Holding the balance is very very tricky as it needs a lot of adjustments within the «Salaries, Values and Sponsors»-File:

Daveincid's SALARIES, VALUES AND SPONSORS
This file has massively improved compared to FM21!

Salaries:
Salaries are now more oriented towards real data in all Nations. A Player in Ghana no longer earns 500k a year, but maybe 30k. World-class Players will now earn more money. Default is too low in this area. Instead of around 20m€/y they now earn up to 40m€/y (Brutto of course).

Market Values:
The market-values have been adjusted in such a way that they result in more realistic transfer fees.

Sponsor Values:
The sponsor-values where calculated according to various criteria in order to show the existing situation as well as future increases down to a Nations financial power. They are also calculated to balance the financial situation of club finances in the long-term.
Clubs  usually struggle much more financially IRL as it is in FM. With these adjustments, this should be represented more accurate. Clubs can get rich and they can get into debt. but they need constantly be careful how they spend their money. Withthe latest update there is much more dynamic within the FM-World. Smaller Clubs can rise and bigger Clubs can fall.

Daveincid's TRANSFER PREFERENCES
Those changes are big...I am really excited about this one! There are Leagues which are known as «Development»-Leagues. The whole league in general buys young players and sell them to bigger ones. With «Club Transfer Preferences» this can be partly added to a specific Club but the effect might disappear once a new Chairman takes over. Now...I researched all Nations on transfermarkt.com and analyzed the average age of signings of the last 5 years for all Top-League Clubs. If the average age is below 24, its added as a national preference. It works like a charm! This will now not only represent the transfer-flow in terms of nationality more accurate, its now also by age!

The following Nations are affected:
- Denmark
- Slovakia
- Latvia
- Austria
- Ireland
- Estonia
- Albania
- Belgium
- Switzerland
- Croatia
- Slovenia
- Kirgystan
- Ghana
- Venezuela
- Canada

Daveincid's GEOGRAPHICS AND LANGUAGES
There are some smaller fixes for the distribution in certain Nations such as Albania, Belgium and South Africa.
A massive update is scheduled for February, as it is a extremely time-consuming work!

Daveincid's TICKET PRICE ADJUSTMENTS
I've made Ticket-Price-Adjustments in Nations, where they are getting calculated wrongly, which often leads to way too rich teams in certain Nations. This mainly affects South America (Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela etc) but also other Nations like Iran, Iraq. It's still not possible to add the correct prices but at least it's much more realistic right-now and prevents Clubs or whole Nations to be a financial powerhouse for no reason

This is roughly what to expect for the January-Update.

Changelog Update 14.12.21:

- Daveincid's Salaries, Market Values and Sponsors has been improved (mostly for South America to fit with DaveTheEditor's files aswell as the Japan League File) aswell as all other Nations which are defined as "Most Important" or "Very important" in my guide
- Ticket Price Adjustments added (Mainly South America, currently tested in a new save
- sporadicsmiles extended african leagues included (not public yet)
About the test-save:
1.Overall I'm really pleased about the behaviour in general. Smaller adjustments were needed to integrate DaveTheEditor's League files aswell as Riddler's League-Files
2. I worked close with azaminene who does the Japanese League File. We've runned several tests to replicate finances, transfers etc. in his League-File.
3. I was privileged to integrate sporadicsmiles ALPHA-Files for Africa already. According to him, there are still bugs, but it's great to already get an idea how they perform with my files! He's planning to setup a discord where you guys can give him feedback about bugs within all african leagues in this save-game. I'll post a discord-link as soon as he's made it.

4. Please let me know about any bugs (preferably before Early-Access on 21.12.21 ;)

HOW TO INSTALL "Increase-Realism Megapack" in FM22

Place the files in: Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2022/editor data

NEW SAVEGAME IS REQUIRED


Any feedback, critics, ideas are always appreciated. :)

Stay healthy and wish you all a quite xmas-time with your family and the people you love :)

Cheers
David

https://www.mediafire.com/file/9544ihxf194aic1/Daveincid%2527s_Increase_Realism_Megapack_January_BETA_%252814.12.21%2529.zip/file