FM21 Increase Realism Megapack by Daveincid October Update (01.10.21)

This megapack improves several values for over 220 Nations in-game to increase realism in FM 2021 to a whole new level!
It was fulltime-project over several months and it will remain an ongoing project.
All files are made with my own created db to ensure consistency in the changes.

Check out the latest YT-Video about the changes of October's update!

If you want to know how the game looks like 20 years later, watch the following video.

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Compatibility with other databases

In general it is compatible with all league-files, transfer-updates, all graphical mods etc.

I receive a lot of questions if my files work with X or Y. I really do not have the resources to answer these questions. Such questions won't be answered. If the general information above isn't enough for you, then I warmly welcome you to join my Patreon. There is a list of files I personally recommend and which are compatible.

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Cooperation

I work close together with DaveTheEditor with his "Around the Globe - Megapack". I highly recommend it, as both megapacks are coordinated with each other. Of course both Megapack also work independently too.

FM21 Increase Realism Megapack by Daveincid

This realism megapack contains following files:

- Daveincid's Alternative Youth Rating + Game Importance and others
- Daveincid's Salaries, MWvalues and Sponsors
- Daveincid's current currency exchange-values
- Daveincid's League reputation change
- Daveincid's financial behaviour improvement
- Daveincid's Transfer Preferences
- Daveincid's club transfer preferences
- Daveincid's citizenship fix
- Daveincid's Nations agreements by DaveTheEditor
- Daveincid's Ticket-price-adjustments
- Daveincid's award fixes
- Daveincid's Derby fixes
- Daveincid's Realistic Injuries + German Version
- Daveincid's Club Data Fixes
- Daveincid's Club Finances Fix
- Daveincid's Geographics and Languages + German Version
- Daveincid's Club Reputation

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What does each file do?

Daveincid's Alternative Youth Rating + Game Importance and others

• Newly set National Youth Ratings
  
• Game Importance adjustments
  
• State of development adjusted according to DAC-List
  

The ratings are based on a huge database of personal research about all Nations, which includes but not limited to:

• HDI (Human Development Index)
  
• Population of a Country
  
• How popular football is in the country
  
• Worldwide success national team
  
• Continental success national team
  
• Success U-national team
  
• Which Confederation they are in (ex. UEFA, CONCACAF)
  
• Value National Team
  
• Record attendance National Team
  
• Average league attendance from top league (as far as I could find them)
  

The combination of these changes will lead to:

• Less newgens with world-class talent as per default
  
• More worldwide diversification of talent
  
• Easier to improve smaller nations where football is popular in long-term saves
  
• Fight about the biggest talents, so the AI tries to keep their talents at the club, because there are less of them
  

Daveincid's Salaries, MWvalues and Sponsors v2.8

This file brings a lot of dynamic in a more static FM-World by default.

• Adjusted market-values worldwide to replicate transfer fees better There are Nations which are generally sell their players too cheap (for example Brazil) or too high, I have done several
  adjustments to replicate the current situation as well as implement a reasonable increase of values if a Club or the whole league gained a higher reputation.


• Increased salaries Default salaries are too low in some leagues. Less money on salary spent can have an inflating effect for bank balance overall.
  This money increases transfer fees in smaller leagues and causes problems there because these Clubs will get much higher transfer-fees as they usually get.


• Future Superstars will now earn close to 30m/y, sometimes even higher to lower the gap compared to CR7, Messi etc.


• Fixed too low salaries in unknown leagues which actually pay decent money.


• Decreased salaries for some Nations Some Nations are paying much more money in the future as they do at the start of the save, without understandable reasons (No new Sugar-Daddy or overall success).
  This was again a complicated balancing-act to find the "sweet-spot". It's based on actual data as far as I could find them.


• Improved Sponsors This file will give you a more natural progress of Sponsorship-behaviour in line with your success. Most Nations only see a marginal increase sponsorship, even with a strong increase of success. This file changes this behaviour for all Nations according to my calculated economic potential of the Nation. So poor Nations won't have a huge increase, even if you win the Champions League. Most Sponsors are local, or national connected, so the financial power is mostly down to the economics of a Nation. Sugar-Daddy clubs excluded.

Daveincid's current currency exchange-values

I have made adjustments to current values for 123 currencies. The biggest impact you will notice is in Venezuela.
This file will replicate the financial situation of all Nations more accurate to their current situation IRL.

v1.3 contains small fixes for North Korea and Syria.

Daveincid's League reputation change

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 increase the competition globally.

v2.1 contains changes for Nicaragua.

Daveincid's financial behaviour improvement

The problem I see in Football Manager is, that it's always clear that all money from a transfer goes to the Club, the Player and his Agent. By default, when a Club is getting 90m for a player, the Club will get 90m. I think it's fair to say that this is sometimes not in line with the situation in reality. In some Nations the problem is bigger as in others.

The point is, that some Nations are well represented financially, so they are stable by default. Due to legal issues I won't say what the main problem is, but I am sure you guys know what I mean

I tweaked v1.1 to be able to remove the finances file from my previous version completely.
v1.3 contains smaller tweaks.

So how do I stopped the constantly gain of money?
As already Benjamin Franklin said: «nothing is certain, except death and taxes«.
With this file all Nations are getting taxed by a certain percentage on their transfer-income immediately.

How should you interpret this tax in the game?
If a player from Club A moves to Club B for 50m, and Nation A has a transfer-tax-rate of 30%, they will immediately pay 15m of taxes as soon the player moved to Club B.
So the transfer-fee is 50m, but the selling Club only gets 35. This way I was able to avoid that Nations who buy cheap and sell high will be represented badly in the future, because these teams are going to pay extremely high transfer-fees and salaries which they would never do in reality, not even close.

To get a better idea about what the taxes stand for:

• general bad financial behaviour by default
  
• overall transfer-costs
  
• unknown receivers of money (please don't feel offended, I am just objective)
  
• other advantages in transfer negotiations (Houses, cars, Jobs for family-members etc.)
  

I know it's kind of a controversial interpretation, but this way I was able to balance so many things in FM much better, and it will be as effective in short as in long-term-games.

Daveincid's Transfer Preferences

This file gives you a more accurate behaviour of transfers. Most Nations are linked together in some way.

This system is done for all 227 Nations!

v2.3 Smaller tweaks for Japan and Malaysia to force them buying more Brazilians/South-Americans

Daveincid's club transfer preferences

I researched Clubs which have a strong affinity for a specific nationality of players in the past and present. This is now a criteria in Visions of the Club.
So these Clubs should buy more players from these Nations. It will be in most cases a criteria of your board to follow these transfer preferences. It's part of the clubs philosophy.

v1.3 also has some edits of Director of Football to further improve the behaviour in transfers of these Teams. I removed RB-Salzburg, because it causes problems in combination with DaveTheEditor's megapack.

Following teams have been edited:

FC Nordsjælland – Ghana (is ongoing Club Vision)

Wellington Phoenix FC – New Zealand (is ongoing Club Vision)

Ludogorez Razgrad – Brazil (is ongoing Club Vision)

Wolves – Portugal (is ongoing Club Vision)

NPS Volos – Argentina (is ongoing Club Vision)

AGS Asteras Tripolis – Argentina and Spain (is ongoing Club Vision)

PSV Eindhoven – Germany (no permanent Club Vision)

Kristiansund BK – Senegal (no permanent Club Vision)

Union Técnica de Cajamarca – Argentina (is ongoing Club Vision)

FC Porto – Brazil (is ongoing Club Vision)

Benfica Lissabon – Brazil (is ongoing Club Vision)

Sporting Lissabon – Brazil (is ongoing Club Vision)

Sporting Braga – Brazil (is ongoing Club Vision)

Sevette FC – France (is ongoing Club Vision)

FC Sion – France and Brazil (is ongoing Club Vision)

FC Lausanne-Sport – France (is ongoing Club Vision)

AS Trencin – Nigeria and Netherlands (is ongoing Club Vision)

MFK Zemplin Michalovce – Greece (is ongoing Club Vision)

Dunjaska Streda – new affiliation (CD Universitario Panama)

Konyaspor – Bosnia and Herzegowina ( no permanent Club Vision)

Schachtar Donezk – Brazil (is ongoing Club Vision)

FK Lwiw – Brazil (is ongoing Club Vision)

Ujpest Budapest – Serbia (no permanent Club Vision)

Kisvarda FC – Ukraine (is ongoing Club Vision)

Daveincid's Ticket-price-adjustments

Worldwide ticket-adjustments to avoid weak teams in financial poor Nations are paying too high ticket-prices.


In some cases a second division team has the highest ticket prices after promotion. This is also the case in default version. It happens less with my files but it still occurs.

v1.1 contains further improvements.

Daveincid's citizenship-fix

I made corrections for 95 Nations for "years to gain nationality". It was quite difficult to get it right because sources sometimes vary. There are some interesting years included. Might be worth scrolling through the Nations to find out

Daveincid's Nations agreements by DaveTheEditor

This file was made by DaveTheEditor! Thank you for your help:)
It adds 24 agreements between Nations. You can find this information in the Nation-tab-overview!

Daveincid's Derby fixes

This file adds 300+ missing Derbies from Clubs and Nations in over 50 Nations.

There are Derbies included like:

• Teheran-Derby in Iran between Estheghlal and Persepolis
  
• The "oldest Russian Derby" between Spartak Moskau and Dynamo Moskau
  
• "La guerra del futbol" between El Salvador and Honduras
  
• "Derby of Ghana" between Asante Kotoko and Accra Hears of Oak SC
  
• and soo many more!
  

There have been over 1,000 reputation-adjustments as well to ensure a logical worldwide distribution.

Daveincid's mods awards fixes

This file fixes literally all missing and illogical award-reputations in all Nations and in all international competitions as well according to my own research-database.

This is very important when it comes to a players transfer-behaviour, his loyalty, his career-path, his market value, the reputation of a Club and much more!

The best player in a weak League will now be much quicker unhappy if he wins awards and he thinks he is too good for the Club. Convincing these players to stay is much more difficult! On the other side it's a chance for a Club to grow their reputation if they are able to keep these players. It's very tricky but it adds so much more dynamic!

Most important awards created for over 200 Nations worldwide, like:

• Best Player of the Season
  
• Best Youngster of the Season
  
• Best XI of the Season
  
• Best Manager of the Season
  
• Best Topscorer of the Season
  

All these awards are of course in line with all existing reputation-values to fit perfectly into the whole system!

Fixes continuous Reputation:

Increase of RB Salzburg
RB Salzburg is getting year to year a small reputation-boost when they get awarded as the best team in Austria. 10 years later they are close to be the biggest Club in the world without much success. This is now fixed with this file.

Balanced Increase of Manager Reputation:

This change should balance the increase of a Manager's (AI und User) reputation worldwide. So you shouldn't be poached by a very big Club too soon (in some cases).

Daveincid's realistic injuries

This file was re-done from scratch. The goal was to get a better representation of short-/mid-/long-term-injuries as well as some new injuries to bring a bit more of "social interaction" into Football Manager
You will get more injuries, more variety and more frustration
The injuries-stats were compared with real-data with several simulation-tests in FM over 5 years.

German Version: Die deutsche Version befindet sich in einem Extraordner. Wenn du mit dieser spielen möchtest, dann lösche die englische Version und ersetze sie mit dieser.

Daveincid's club data fixes

This file adds a lot of missing data for almost 700 1st and 2nd-Division-Clubs in 150 Nations worldwide:

• Nicknames of Clubs
  
• City-Location
  
• Rivals
  
• Year founded
  
• Club Colours
  

Daveincid's club-finances fix

This file includes the sugar-daddy-fix file but it has a lot of more features:

• Finances of Top-Clubs adjusted
  
• Slightly lowered the financial power of Lars Windhorst at Hertha BSC to avoid 100m €+ Transfers in the near future
  
• Added Debts to some Clubs according to the newest sources
  
• Added Barcelona's transfer debts and adjusted their overall financial Situation
  

Daveincid's geographics and languages + German Version

This file took me roughly 2 months to complete. It's just insane^^

Geographics:

• Added missing Inhabitation Ranges for over 5,500+ Cities
  
• Added correct number of population for 1,250+ local regions
  
• Added 500+ Cities to the correct local regions
  
• Added missing coordinates of over 1,800 Cities
  
• Added missing altitude-values for 4,200+ Cities
  
• Added City-Attraction-values for all Cities worldwide
  

What's the effect of the changes?

• Better distribution of place of birth's for newgens
  
• More realistic travel cost's for Clubs in Nations/Cities with missing coordinates
  
• Influences sponsorship-deals
  
• Influences Fitness of players
  
• It allows me to replicate the changes with the languages more adequate
  
• It's the fundament for a future project:)
  

Languages:

• Added over 100+ new official languages worldwide
  
• Increased language-difficulty by 30%
  
• 181 Nations edited
  
• 1,800+ local regions edited
  
• So many single cities edited
  

What's the effect of the changes?

• It represents the diversity of Nations much better. So many people do speak a 2nd or even a 3rd language, even without having it's Nationality. This isn't reflected in the game, until now;)
  
• It can change the way how you are scouting for players. The wonderkid from South Africa you signed for Manchester United is homesick, because he speaks only Xitsonga (4%) instead of English (100%).
  
• Players which are located in a City which have a majority of a language, which isn't similar to a Nations language will now learn this language.
  

I for myself speak some Spanish, but I have no relation to any Spanish speaking Nation. All Data is from official sources like wikipedia etc.

German Version: Die deutsche Version befindet sich in einem Extraordner. Wenn du mit dieser spielen möchtest, dann lösche die englische Version und ersetze sie mit dieser.

Daveincid's Club Reputation

This file contains small Reputation-Adjustments for some Brazilian, Argentinian and Mexican Teams to improve balancing in Long-Term-Saves.

HOW TO INSTALL "Increase-Realism Megapack" in FM21

Place the files in: Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2021/editor data

NEW SAVEGAME IS REQUIRED

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask me! If you find any mistakes, please send me a PM!

If you really read the whole text until this point, you have my deepest respect

Cheers
Daveincid