Luton Town won the Prem. Swindon, who have won 10 out of the last 12 years, has fallen to 10th, while Dani Salavert was fired after just 288 days in the job. The former Man United coach may regret leaving…
In the Bundesliga, TSG Hoffenheim continues it’s dominance. Since winning the league in 2982, Die Kraichgauer have won 127 times. There are several teams nipping at it’s heel though,
In Italy, Juventus is again top of the league, for the 15th consecutive year. This also makes the 13th year the scored 100+ points in winning the league. Indeed it has been the batle for 2nd and 3rd place that has been more exciting to watch recently.
In Ligue 1, it appears that PSG has indeed broken the QRM dominance of the 32nd century. Having won the Ligue from 3099 to 3137, has consecutive 3rd place finishes meant the beginning of the end for Les rouges et jaunes?
In La Liga, Barcelona won 35 games, drew 1 and lost 2, for 106 points. They came in 2nd, to a Real Madrid team that went Invincible, with just 2 draws and no losses in the 38 game season. To be honest, the big surprise is when Real doesn’t win La Liga, having won it 810 times since 2024. The still hold the record for most matches without losing, 249 (from 2263 to 2370), but Levante still holds the record for most wins in a row with 63.
In the J1 League, Veroskronos Tsuno is trying to defend it’s title, but long time rivals Shimizu and Urawa are currently ahead of them.
In Argentina, Arsenal (Sarandi) and River maintain their 110 year rivalry of winning the league.
World Cup fever is again gripping the world, as just over a year remains until it begins again. Will Italy be able to defend it’s title? Can Belarus step up to win again? Ireland again has a solid squad, as does Japan.
People are still talking about Knattspyrnufélag Akureyrar’s Champions League win in 3044. The Icelandic Semi-Pro’s team improbable run, including a penalty kick win against TSG Hoffenheim in the Quarters, are what legends are made of. That they lost to eventual winners Hoffenheim in this years Champions League, on penalty kicks even, was heartbreaking, and not just to the people of Iceland.
Manuel Esposito won his 2nd World Golden Ball, but Jonathan Webb was a close 2nd in voting. However, it seems that Gorka Prieto’s record of winning the award 9 times is not in Jeapordy.
And those are just the highlights. There’s plenty of lowlights as well, but the database is 1125 years in size, that’s to be expected.
Start a new game, load a few countries, top division playable, the rest view only, and go on vacation. Until the game crashes. When it does crash, load the last save and keep going.
Why?
Well, why not?
I’m not sure when 1000 year saves first started showing up on Youtube, I know Jack and Kev both did them, but those were 1 country saves, and the game always favors the countries you have loaded. A few years ago, I wanted to do something different, so I Fired up the laptop, added seven countries (The Big 6 and Brazil), simmed out 1000 years and put the results on Reddit. It was pretty popular, enough that Johnny did a video for it for FM Scout.
I kept doing it, for my own fun I guess, and the next time I did, Johnny reached out to Zealand, and we all participated in a video for it. Granted, we only got 847 years in, but there were some surprising results, and it was fun to do.
But, one of the takeaways from that video was that I did not have the ability to go back and look at some outstanding results and players. Mickey Higgenson fans will know what I am talking about.
So this year, I resolved to do things a bit differently. I loaded up the seven countries this time, and saved the game every year. Then every once and awhile, I’d go in and pull out all the 5 years saves, and move them to a different folder, and delete the saves in between. At one point in time, I planned on doing a video, but life and other reasons intervened, and the video never happened.
But it’s the doldrums of the FM cycle. FM25 was just announced, many players are a bit burned out on it, so why not give them the opportunity to poke around and possibly play in a time frame they find fun and interesting.
So, I give to you the following:
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ko491n2lg42gv/FM24_1000_Year_Save_on_Beta
To assuage any fears, the game is a small database, with at most ~60k players. Attribute masking is off.
The issue is going to be latter saves, as shown:
The file sizes increase because of data stored. And the game always crashes, at least for me, when it goes beyond 5GB in size. Larger saves will just take a few seconds to move, but nothing to egregious. However I say this as a gamer who started playing in the late 80’s, when a few minutes of waiting was fast…
So, poke around, have some fun, maybe see if you can score more points with Mansfield in the 2379/80 season than they did originally (which was 0 by the way), or go to 2500’s Italy and try to break Juve’s grip on winning.
Oh, and for those wondering:
Have fun poking around!
Jellico
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