Football Manager 2008

Just spent an hour correcting kit colours in the PL, he's rushed some of them. The yellows are all wrong, they're too bright, and Everton/Wigan away kits should be yellow-green, not yellow-yellow. Trim colours were wrong as well and one team had a third kit that shouldn't have been there.

Matt Hill should be at Wolves (not Preston), Pat Mountain should be at Wolves (not Cheltenham), Tranmere had Phil Palethorpe missing and the squad numbers weren't done.

I've noticed the league name LNCs etc. are from 2007 so I'm hoping changes since then have been made in the editor, otherwise that's worrying.

And shouldn't Man City have the "sugar daddy" box ticked?

It's great overall though.
 
It does seem pretty thorough for the most part.

Decided to ditch my mainly lower league only approach and go Spurs.. signed Arshavin, Gareth Barry and youngsters.. thoroughly enjoying it.
 
Chris Bauer said:
Just spent an hour correcting kit colours in the PL, he's rushed some of them. The yellows are all wrong, they're too bright, and Everton/Wigan away kits should be yellow-green, not yellow-yellow. Trim colours were wrong as well and one team had a third kit that shouldn't have been there.

Matt Hill should be at Wolves (not Preston), Pat Mountain should be at Wolves (not Cheltenham), Tranmere had Phil Palethorpe missing and the squad numbers weren't done.

I've noticed the league name LNCs etc. are from 2007 so I'm hoping changes since then have been made in the editor, otherwise that's worrying.

And shouldn't Man City have the "sugar daddy" box ticked?

It's great overall though.
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Fancy uploading your edited database when youve tinkled with it?
 
No problemo.

Before I do, should the sugar daddy box be ticked for Chelsea and Man City? I notice it's not even ticked for Chelsea so I'm wondering if ticking it will wreck the game, perhaps bring in a new board or something...?
 
CB for president! :DD

Do whatever you think it's best mate. I've been waiting to get a new game started for over a week, so some hours won't hurt me.
 
I think Man City definitely should have Sugar Daddy, maybe about £100m transfer budget and £200m balance with a future cash injection? I play with the first transfer window closed so the money should come into effect until January and I think that would be about right.

West Ham's third kit is missing too btw.

Jesus, he's used black instead of blue for loads of kits - this is doing my nut
 
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When do you think you will upload your corrected database for us CB? And what is this sugar daddy nonsense? Chelsea should have about £50M for transfers plus future cash injections, and Man City should have £100M for transfers plus future cash injections.
 
Around 10pm I'll start uploading it, should be finished around midnight.

I've added all the errors listed on SI across various threads as well, things like Figo being a "blank" player, added Recoba to Panionios's books etc...

Jumbo, would you delete Chelsea's 12m future cash injection and just tick the "sugar daddy" box, i.e. whenever Roman wants to pour money in he can? Same with Man City?

If anybody has spotted any errors in the Weegie update bar Premier League kit colours (which I have got spot on), TELL ME NOW!!
 
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Kevano has asked for me in the chatbox and then buggered off, I don't know if he's had any changes to add but I'm saving the database and uploading now. If anybody spots anything else that needs fixing in Weegie please let me know.
 
La Liga kit colours are all wrong.. Real Madrid home is white and blue instead of white and black and then most of the aways are wrong as well.

I'd just leave Chelsea as they are mate and sugar daddy optional, whatever you think.. Roman has been getting stingier.
 
Chris Bauer said:
Around 10pm I'll start uploading it, should be finished around midnight.
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Can you post the link only on here please via an attachment? I'll ensure the forums go down around midnight.

Just remember, someone spent money on this domain and you can't cancel it once you buy it.
 
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La Liga kit colours are all wrong.. Real Madrid home is white and blue instead of white and black and then most of the aways are wrong as well.
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You'll have to correct them, unless you want to post all the details of what needs changing here - which is a pain in the arse I know. Nothing to stop you downloading this and then re-uploading it with your La Liga kit fixes though, in-fact that would be great.

I've corrected Real Madrid so that doesn't leave too many. ;)

Jumbo™ said:
I'd just leave Chelsea as they are mate and sugar daddy optional, whatever you think.. Roman has been getting stingier.
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Done, sugar daddy disabled but future cash injections enabled up to 2014.

Mart said:
Can you post the link only on here please via an attachment? I'll ensure the forums go down around midnight.

Just remember, someone spent money on this domain and you can't cancel it once you buy it.
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FM Weegie Update edited by Chris Bauer: DOWNLOAD HERE
(download is around 71mb, server speed is around 400kb/s-500kb/s)

Includes a couple of hours worth of updates, such as Premier League 08/09 kit fixes (designed to work beautifully with the SS08-09 EPL kits which you can get HERE - requires registration), Manchester City's reputation being raised (but not too highly) enabling full access to the finances and a few more big-name transfers, and tons of player fixes mentioned on here and on the SI forums (and spotted by myself). I've also made Mike Ashley and Kevin Keegan dislike eachother so that King Kev doesn't instantly become the new Newcastle manager each time you start the game.

Also includes more correct competition names, correct competition colours, award names, media sources etc...

This pack includes LNC fixes by Susie (www.sortitoutsi.net).

La Liga kits still need updating to the 08/09 season but I'm not downloading the latest La Liga kits so I'm not too bothered, to be honest! If anyone wants to fix these and then re-upload that's fine by me, as long as you include my username in the file details along with the link to forums.evo-web.co.uk.

There was a Tranmere error made by SI last year - the away kit and third kit were the wrong way around. In the Weegie update they were changed to 08-09's kits but, seeing as there are no graphic packs available with English lower-league 08-09 kits available yet (and it would be weird having the text in blue with the kit in gold), I've reverted these to what they should be. Away is gold, third is black - but in the 07/08 graphics pack you have, they will likely be the wrong way around, as nobody gives a toss about Tranmere *sniff*. To fix this, simply swap the filenames of your Tranmere away and third kits, and along with this update the game will then present them as they are in real life.

This has not yet been fully tested but I started a brief game as Newcastle to check everything was correct, and it seems fine. Any problems, let me know.
 
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JayD said:
How do you change the resolution of this game?
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Chris Bauer said:
[You can only specify the resolution that your desktop is set to or under] I want "full-screen" to be the same size as my normal resolution [1280x1024], not 800x600 or whatever the default is (which looks awful on a decent LCD monitor). So if you right-click on the shortcut to FM and look for the "target" field, you can change it to this:

"C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2008\fm.exe" -fullscreen_width=1280 -fullscreen_height=1024

[Presuming that's where you have the game installed of course, if not just change the path to suit]
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:)
 
D'oh, where were you an hour ago The_Special_One?! ;)

Easy enough to fix; go into the directory you extracted the database to, then LNC, open fake.lnc in Notepad and scroll down until you see #Portugal. Make sure you maximise the Notepad window, then click "Format" in the toolbar and switch Word Wrap OFF, otherwise when you save the file it might go wonky. Then edit the lines that say:

"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 60 "Bwin Liga" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 60 "Bwin Liga" ""

So that they say:

"COMP_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 60 "Liga Sagres" ""
"COMP_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 60 "Liga Sagres" ""

These changes will take effect even if you've already started a new game; that's the beauty of LNC files.
 
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Just tried managing Man City and despite the rise in reputation it still says they only have £8m in the bank. In the editor they've been given £200m.

No idea why the money's not showing up, we're going to have to play around in the editor and see if we can fix it somehow...
 
Not sure why but Jurgen Klinsmann is not appearing when I start a new game - he's in the database and set as Bayern Munich manager but in the game he is nowhere to be found... God it's frustrating.
 
I've added a ton of Dutch transfers that were missing according to guys over at the SI forums, I can't believe how much is missing - no offence to the guys who put it together.

I will upload it along with any other changes, as soon as I find out how to get Man City rich in the game and how to get Jurgen Klinsmann to appear again...
 
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