FM Genie Scout has always been the world's favorite scout utility for Football Manager since its very first appearance to the scene.
We pride ourselves on exclusively releasing this legendary tool since 2009. We always try our best to deliver Genie Scout to the world every year because your support to this project is outstanding.
Genie Scout 16 introduced a key new feature (In-Game Scout) and a couple of significant improvements (Rating System, Progress Rate) in recent years.
For Genie Scout 17, Eugene won't have enough time to work on new features. However, the plan is to make GS17 work with the same features that GS16 had.
The 64-bit Problem
There is one problem this year. FM 2017 introduced a 64-bit version for the first time. If your operating system is x64, then you will automatically get the 64-bit version of FM17. Why is that a problem? Well, Genie Scout has always been 32-bit and with 64-bit a lot of things change.Update 22 Oct:
Eugene has found a way to work around this and prepare the first beta of GS17g.
FM Genie Scout 17 Release Date
Public edition
As usual we won't make any promises on the release date of the public version, but we should be able to release it during November.Update: After checking with Eugene, I can announce that the public version of Genie Scout 17 will be released by November 25th.
Update 25 Nov: As promised, Genie Scout 17 is now available for free download.
"g" edition
The "g" edition, which is the one for people who donate, is available since 22 October (beta 1). Current version (beta 7) is compatible with the latest 17.1.2 version.Reminder: The "g" edition is ad-free and has a few extra features compared to the public edition.
You can now donate for GS17 "g" edition.
Do not report bugs in the comments below!
How can I get Genie Scout 17 public edition asap?
The public edition of GS17 will be directly added to fmscout.com the moment it is ready.But we can notify you via email when this happens, so you won't miss time at all.
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It's expected for release sometime in November; no specific time has been set though.
Discussion: FM Genie Scout for FM17 is confirmed
136 comments have been posted so far.
I have version f904490
@kem896: Probably you changed computer or formatted/reinstalled/upgraded Windows. Send an email to Eugene and pass him your new unique ID and he'll provide you with a new key file.
@frill123: Please report it in the Genie Scout forum.
@claham @kem896: Nationalities are not wrong. Unless there's a problem with your key file.
@desperadu: Sale value hasn't been accurate in ages. Impossible to fix.
@ronibe: There's no link because public version is not available yet.
@Bobirakos: Up to 24 hours.
@Deege: Probably not.
@Vuurtjih: You need to email Eugene and ask him for a new key file for your desktop. You don't have to donate twice.
Eugene makes the 'g' version available roughly 1 month before releasing the public version. So considering 'g' came out on Oct 22nd, we can expect the public version to arrive in 2 weeks time.
Why it's so slow?
GS is still 32-bit and using a 3rd file to read & sync 64-bit data. If you loaded thousands of players in your save, it will take a lot of time. Eugene might still be able to cut this loading time to half in the next versions.
@misdava: You probably have older beta (either 1 or 2) and those had broken "check for new version". I've pm'ed you, please get back to me so I can help you get latest beta.
@pekkasteele: I believe we sorted this. You were using the key file on a different computer.
@zoppi_: That's true. Previously, regens could be identified based on their Unique ID being a number over 1 trillion. Currently it seems there are some real players with UIDs in that range...
@dekelz: It already works.
@glenbino: Beta 6 added support for FM Touch.
Initially, it worked fine but than, for some reason, it took forever to load up. We are talking about 10-15min here on average. In the end I went back to the basic version which generally took less than 30 seconds to load, using the same FM game save.
Any reason as to why the 'g' version takes forever to load?