Behind the Scenes - current Roadmap (29.10.21)

I though it might be cool for you to know, what I am currently working on, what is planned in the future and what "should" I already have done but wasn't capable of yet (sorry!) and what's going on in my private situation.

Current Situation: (29.10.21)
Hello, everyone!

First of all, I would like to thank you all for your loyalty.

In the transition phase from FM21 to FM22, where almost no content is shared by me, I would not have thought that almost all of you would continue to support me! Thank you so much!<3

Even if you can't see my work, a lot has happened behind the scenes:

For the last 2 months I have worked very closely with various head researchers as well as with one or the other SI employee;)

Some important suggestions for improvement have already been integrated into the game. That makes me very proud!

From my point of view, the game is developing extremely well. According to my first assessment, some files will no longer be needed in their current form, but others will need more.
I will definitely not run out of work;)
At the moment I am mainly evaluating long-term scores in the BETA and reporting everything possible to SI and Research.

As soon as the editor is published on November 9th, I can get a concrete picture.
So far I have prepared everything in theory and I am assuming that I will be able to publish the first ALPHA version of my FM "Increase Realism Megapack" in November. :)

Private situation:

I could not take my first case against the disability insurance to the highest court because the expected costs of € 50,000 were simply not possible at this point in time.

I need about the same amount for the second process, luckily I still have time until May 2022.
I am aware that this is an extremely difficult endeavor.
So far I have saved around € 15,000. However, I am not giving up hope for this process.

I hope you are all doing well and you are looking forward to FM22 as much as I am :)

Cheers
David


Current Situation: (28.08.21)

This month has been just crazy! I realized that this whole project really gets bigger and bigger, in every way:
- The download-numbers from July-Version to August-Version have almost doubled from 4k to 8k
- Twitter is growing
- Youtube is growing
- Patreon is growing

It's incredible how much support I get from all of you! I really hope you guys are happy with my work and the way I set up Patreon.
But every medal has 2 sides. Especially the point I already wrote on 10.08.21:

"- More "professional" representation of "Daveincid" on Patreon, Youtube and Twitter:I know that my attitude sometimes is more "easy-going" and I don't take things so serious, even if it might be better in a Situatîon. I try to improve this. I also want to improve my youtube-videos with a continous "system" to ensure that they are clear and understandable."

I do release a video with every update, which explains the main changes. I also started a Experiment-Series which should show you how the files perform in Long-Term-Saves. The level of the representation isn't there yet where I want it to be. I try to massively improve this for FM22 but:

My main "business" is and I want that it remains: Editing
It's a tough time at the moment because growth brings much more work on other areas aswell, and I can't leave out the opportunity to also grow financially (Stupid juristic case is still ongoing so it's needed,...).
Recently there were some bigger "Content-Creator" (I hate that word xD), which resigned due mental stress. My goal is to optimize everything as good as possible and minimize the time-effort for things like twitter, youtube, answering questions etc.

This means I need help to improve for example my editing-skills. A professional Intro and Outro would already save me a lot of time.
Pre-posts on twitter, better written explanation of my files to avoid questions which actually answered there. If some of you have other ideas please write me a PM.
I also want to improve my speaking on youtube. It's very difficult to me to not speak free in english. I will never speak that "overconfidential-kind of advertising"-english. But I know I can improve a lot there.

Future Updates:
There is still soo much to edit in Football Manager :D
The focus in FM21 will now be on changes, that won't cost me too much time (no geographics, club data, awards).
The reason behind this is that I don't know how easy theese changes can be copied in FM22, The time-effort/benefit is really small in that area. So I will focus the last 2 months on smaller changes and research for FM22 that I can update everything as fast as possible (hopefully) for FM22.

As soon as FM22 is released, I will run a "all leagues playable"-simulation and evaluate if there are crucial changes which I need to take into account.


As you can see, there is a lot ongoing in my head and I'm really excited to look forward to it! I've learned to take care of my ressources, so I always go "step-by-step".

It really makes me happy what I already achieved and I'm proud that you guys are a part of that journey <3

Cheers

David

Current Situation: (10.08.21)

- My latest Update was released last week - so far there seems everything fine :)

- Working on a Update of Geographics and languages which includes all altitudes of Cities over 100k or top division and second division-teams. 

- There will be also values set for City-Attraction worldwide, this is another "soft-change" which can affect the decision of players where they wanna play. 

- There  also two Versions of German planned for Languages and Injuries.

- Injuries is getting a big Update with more realistic injury-times and a few new Injuries too. This is already in it's last stages so it will get to ALPHA-Stage soon.

- I discovered some reputation-issues with South-American Teams are getting too big in the future due too high Club Reputation, too high league reputation and too high Reputation of Copa Libertadores. I already have a ALPHA-Test running with fixes - looks good ;) Will be likely uploaded at the end of the week.

When I'm able to work constantly everything should be released at the end of the week:

Geographics and Languages Update - BETA
Geographics and Languages GERMAN Update - BETA
Realistic Injuries NEW - ALPHA
Realistic Injuries GERMAN NEW - ALPHA
League Reputation v2.2 Update - BETA
Club Reputation fix NEW - ALPHA




What I should have done already: (17.07.21)

- Weekly update of save's and scenarios:
I'have changed the descrition to "As often as possible". During "Creation-Stage it's tough to do it weekly. I still try to update it weekly but I have to take some pressure out on this goal at the moment. Sorry!

- Better visual presentation of my Megapack:
I wish it would be as easy as it sounds but I'm just not capable of doing it properly...I hope I have the ressources to improve this significant for FM22!

Ideas and plans for the future:
This whole project get's bigger and bigger! There is still a lot to do!

- More "professional" representation of "Daveincid" on Patreon, Youtube and Twitter:
I know that my attitude sometimes is more "easy-going" and I don't take things so serious, even if it might be better in a Situatîon. I try to improve this. I also want to improve my youtube-videos with a continous "system" to ensure that they are clear and understandable.

- More Survey's
Some of the "older" Patreons have already seen some survey's about different topics here on Patreon. I want to continue this way because it gives me an Idea of what you guys think, what you want to see and where you want to see improvements

- Private Situation
My private situation is still very stressfull, mentally and financially.

I'm able to focus on Football Manager most of the time and work on my projects. As soon as I need to interact with my lawyer, the court or getting the next bill of my lawyer this changes immediately. I sometimes need 1-3 days to recover to be able to be "productive" again. During this time I always simulate future updates 24/7, that this time isn't "lost".
 
The positive side is, that I can spend so much time for the project in general and as it seems, this won't change at all, and I accept this as part of a disabled person.

After a talk with my wife we both came to the conclusion that this "job" is the best and only opportunity for me to earn money because I can handle it completely on my own. To provide some money to the own family gave me a lot of self-confidence back compared to my darkest moments back in January 19.

It went from 1£ in December 20 to arround 100£ at the moment. This is just wow! Everyone of you is a crucial part of my way from being "100% unable of doing anything" to "doing 100% of what I'm able to do".
I'm 29, I accepted my conditions but I don't accept the judgement what I'm able to to with it!

Thank you!

Cheers
David