FM26 – In the Year 2125

How far can we go?

In what has become somewhat of a tradition in the FM Jellico household, when the new version of the game goes out of Beta, I start a save, with a throw away manager and 6-8 Nations loaded. Usually the “Big 6”, one Asian and one South American country.
This year, the Nations are:

Brazil
England
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
Portugal
Spain

In each Nation, the top league is playable, the leagues below are view only, which gives us a 72K size player database. On a tangent, the game is still running very well, every once and awhile there’s a memory issue, and I have to restart it, but that’s not a huge deal. One thing I have noticed is that this year is that when I compare the size of the save files from the FM24 version of the save I did, the FM26 save is bigger. In the past, the game refused to go on after the save file size hit 5GB, right now it is 2540 in game and the save file is 3.3Gb, with each save adding about 30MB to the file size. That means if the save file size is consistent, we will get ~166 files at 5GB, which is 830 years. Which while not a bad result at all, is not that close to the 1120 years we got in the FM24 version of the save.

So, we are going to try an be a bit more…structured with this review this year. The plan is to go 100 years at a time, Review each country, then the Continental competitions, the then World, and along the way, point out a few of the good and bad things we come across.
So with out further ado, let us start where I always start: Where is Crystal Palace, and how are they doing?

Relegated to League Two…moving on…

The English Premier League

From the 2025/2026 season, it was a 1 team League: Man City. Of the last 100 years they have won it 51 times. Arsenal won it a few times, Man United finally won it all in the 39/40 season, Liverpool in 40/41, Tottenham in 41/42 and 43/44, then it was back to the Man City train until 2062/2063, when Brighton finished 1st 4 of the next 5 years. Villa had a good run from 71/72 to 75/75, winning it all at the beginning and the end, and finishing 2nd the other 3 years, then it was back to Man City, who won the league almost every year or placed top 3 until 2096/2097, when Wolves kicked them to the curb. From 2096 to 2125, Man City has only won twice, with Wolves, Man United (5 times in a row starting in 2102) and Liverpool dominating the top spot, with Brighton competing and winning a couple of times as well.

This was the table at the end of the 2124/2125 season:

What some of you will notice right away is that Wrexham has indeed made it to the Premier League. They were first promoted in 2081, came right back down, bounced back and forth every few years afterwards, finished 2nd in the FA cup in 2114, were promoted again in 2121, and have stayed around so far.

Records wise, nothing too shocking really:

In looking thru the results the 2111/2112 season Liverpool scored 103 points, 29 ahead of City, going 33-4-1, their only loss against United. The best season, competition wise? In my opinion, it’s a tie.

The finish of the 2035/2036 season:

And most recently, the 2123/2124season:

A Note before Continuing

The more leagues you have loaded, the more diverse results you will get, eventually, because
It’s takes a couple of hundred years of simming to see those teams that dominate now fall off
In many Continental and International competitions, the game is’weighted’ towards the countries you have loaded. Case in point, I did a version of this I called the “Small Country” save, where I loaded China, South Africa, Israel, Latvia, Scotland, Peru, and I want to say Slovakia, and about 300 years in all of those countries had teams winning international and continental competitions. It the smaller competitions you will start seeing some more diverse winners, the European Cup for example, before seeing things like Breiðablik winning the Champions League 3 times in a row as a Semi-Professional club…

So, the next few sections may be a bit…short.

Ligue 1, France

As expected, PSG has won the league, a lot. In fact, it would be easier to list when they didn’t win it after 2025/2026.

2076/2077, when Lyon won; and again in 79/80 and 80/81; Marseille winning it every other year starting in 81/82 until 88/89, and Troyes winning it in 2122/2123. I believe Marseilles has come in 2nd more than any other team in the League.

Weirdly enough, at least in my opinion, the most recent table wouldn’t look out of place today:

Beauvais being the one outlier really, they are a CN 2 Group B squad presently.

PSG ran the table in the 2028/2029 season, with no losses, but Pau had a woeful 2075/2075 campaign:

1 Win, 10 draws, 23 losses…PSG has won the league comfortable every year it won, and when it lost, it was close more often than not. The most exciting finish to the season? the 2123/2124 campaign:

Monaco drew 2 of it’s last three games, and PSG won on goal difference.

The Bundesliga, Germany

The most recent table:

If there’s one thing I have been surprised with so far, it’s the state of the Bundesliga. Usually it’s another version of what’s going on in France, 1 or 2 teams dominate, with the occasional outlier winning as well. Not this simulation, although there have been some teams on some nice runs.

Bayern won the league every year except 2033/2034, when RB Leipzig pipped them. the from 2037/2038 to 2047/2048, with the exception of 2 seasons where RB Leipzig and Bayern won, BVB ran the table. With the exception of a lone Hertha win in 2055/2056, the next years were Bayern, BVB and RB Leipzig going on runs. In 2069/2070, and then three times in a row starting in 2074/2075 Stuttgart won the league, another Hertha outlier in 2085/2086, the RB Leipzig winning it 11 times in 13 years, and then the 22nd Century started, and in 2101,2101, Freiburg has won the league every year 2104/2105. For me, what’s more exciting is you have teams like Hoffenheim, Kaiserslautern, and Koln in the mix as well, that’s usually not the case.

As a Kaiserslautern fan, I actually went to a couple of games there in the 80’s when my dad was stationed there, the less we say about the 2049/2050 season, the better.

With the exception of a couple of season where the top 2 teams were tied points wise and they went to the tiebreak, there haven’t been any real seasons of note in terms of close finishes. In terms of overall results though, I believe the 2080/2081 season was the roughest, most exciting one:

You have to go back to 2003 to see 65 points win the league, and the lowest ever was 43 winning it all in 97-98 (The Kaiserslautern miracle run). But the difference between Champions League Football and Conference League was 3 goals…

Serie A, Italy

Another league of the “Usual Suspects” early on, as Inter won every year from 2024/2025 to 2040/2041, except the one year Juve won it in 2032/2033. Napoli had a couple of wins, then it was Inter again, with a lone Juve win in 2047/2048, and then again in 2053/2054 and 20/56/2057. Lazio had a good run starting in 2060, winning it all six of the next 7 years, then Inter won it all again until 2081/2082, the loan break being a 3 year period starting in 2076/2077 when Milan won it.

Then it was Juve, Inter, Milan and Palermo making itself known, then another inter run until 2106, with lone Palermo and Juve wins scattered thruout. Since 2107/2108, Palermo and Inter have been duking it out, whoever isnt winning is finishing 2nd, the lone excpetion being Juve in 2122/2133.

Again, the most recent table wouldn’t look out of place today I think, just the top team really:

Palermo almost went ‘Invincible’ in 2112/2113, a loss to Como being the only thing that stopped them:

In 2075/2076 Milan was running away with the League until April and May, when it drew 6, won 1, and lost 1. The one loss to a midtable Bergamo team that that put them out of contention for good. Inter finished the season with 6 wins and 2 draws, Juve with 6 wins, a draw and a loss as well.

LaLiga, Spain

More Italy than Germany results wise, but not unexpected either: It’s been mostly Barcelona and Real Madrid. However, Athletico has won it a few times, as has Real Sociedad. Girona started popping up with the occasional win in in 2049/2050, and thereafter was a fxiture at 2nd or 3rd place more often than not, then they started winning more often, and starting in 2112/2113, they’ve won LaLiga 9 of the last 13 years.

Nothing out of the ordinary here table wise I believe:

Barcelona lost 1 game in 2093/2094, but to be honest I am more impressed with Sevilla 19 draws…

A 1-0 loss to Real Betis was Barcelona’s only blip in an otherwise very good 2093/2094 season.

Season wise, there have been more than a few times when the teams at the top have ended up on the same points,

The choice for the most exciting season so far in La Liga boils down to 3 seasons, but the participants and results are all the same: heading into the last week, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Girona are either tied on points, or one team is separated by one point from the others. All three teams draw, and the fans are probably disappointed as a result. I am choosing the 2017/73 season though, because all three teams had a chance of outright winning La Liga, instead they all drew, leaving Barcelona to win it all:

The Liga, Portugal

Speaking personally, I have not played a lot in Portugal. I had a banger of a Santa Clara save started when the country database I was using decided to bork everything, but of the “Big 5” European leagues, it’s the one I know the least about. Other than the fact it usually has three teams dominating it.

That’s has changed very little in this timeline.

Sporting, Porto and Benfica have pretty much dominated the last century, with Porto going on a run from 2044/2045 to 2078/2079 where they “lost” the league just four times. Gil Vicente and Boa Vista start winning titles every once and awhile, Gil Vicente had a run at the turn of the century where it won 5 out of 7 years, but both Porto and Sporting have started to fall off, as Braga. Gil Vicente and Boavista step up.
The current table:

Again, other than a few names at the bottom, nothing out of the ordinary here.
Records wise, no real Surprises here either, not a lot has changed since the simulation began:

Porto went 32-2-1 in it’s 95 point season, Sporting beating them 2-1 to ruin the ‘Invincible” season.

With regards to the most exciting season so far, it has to be the 2109/2110 campaign. Heading into the last week, Rio Ave was top of the League with 63 points. Gol Vicente and Boavista were also on 63 points, Benfica was on 61, so all four teams had the ability to win the league. In the end:

Rio Ave was the only team to lose, as a result going from 1st to 4th, while Gil Vicente ended up winning. Although in looking at the tables and fixtures, I am not sure why, as Boavista won and drew, and now the data is jacked up when I go back and look because of course it is…the results in the table don’t match up with Gil Vicenctes fixture schedule…sigh…

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

I will be the first to admit I do not know a lot about Brazilian football, and what I do know has been thru Football Manager more often than not. But I always try and include them or another South American Country because it leads to more diverse results down the road. I could have also sworn that I used the real name fix, but either SI is doing FM26 SI things, or I used the wrong name fix, because I am still getting 3 letter abbreviations for the team names…but onwards we go!

There has been a decent amount of diversity in the winners of the league the past 100 years. Flamingo dominated early on, but then fell off, with Botafogo , Santos, São Paulo, Vasco de Gama, Fluminense all winning titles, then in 2081 Cortiba (currently a Serie B team) won it all. Bahia has won the league, Cruziero has a title as well, so for the time being Brazil isthe place to be if you are a good team, because there are other good teams but no one team is dominating.

Even a bit more on the ‘odd’ side of things:

Not a lot of new records in the last 100 years, except for Figueirense (Currently a Serie C team in 2025), losing 32 of 38 games…

Season wise, the 2105 season was probably the closest so far:

Atlético Mineiro, if the fixture data can be trusted, went L-W-D-D-W it’s last 5 games. The Fixture schedule for Cruziero has the same result, just in a different order (W-W-L-L-D), and the Fluminese results don’t match up at all.

I suspect this part of the review may not be present in future posts…

The J1 League, Japan

Until recently I never added an Asian team to the countries, the primary reason being League depth. South Korea, Indonesia and China only go 2 leagues down, so as a result, you tend to get the teams winning it all in the 21st Century winning it all in the 27th Century. Japan though, with it’s 3 Leagues and Regional Leagues, is a very good country to add, not the least of which is the knock on effect of very good Japanese players going to European teams and being world Superstars.

That said, my knowledge of the J1 League is less than that of Brazil’s Serie A…

I can’t say anything looks out of the ordinary here, I don’t know what “ordinary” in Japan is. Hiroshima winning the league though, I know they are a good team, they have won the J-League more than any other team. They pretty much dominated until the 2050’s, Kawasaki-F managed to pip a few years from them, then came Urawa, Shimizu, and others. Tokyo-V dominated the 2070’s, a lone Sapporo win in 2073 the only blip there, then it was teams like Niigata, Yokohama F-M, Shonan and Sagamihara winning titles, which I think is a good thing. The last thing a person wants to see, having encountered it before, is one team dominating for the entirety of the save. Which happens more than you think.

CONTINENTAL COMPETITIONS

EUROPE

The Conference League

This is probably, for me anyways, the most enjoyable competition to look at early on, because most of the participants are clubs from smaller nations that we do not have loaded, so the variety of clubs is quite good.

Obligatory Breiðablik appearence made…

What I like about this competition is yes, some of the bigger clubs (Tottenham, Chelsea, Arsenal, Parma, Bayer) do show up and win, it’s clubs like FC Blau-Weiß Linz in 38/39, OH Leuven in 57/58, LASK in 76/77, Goztepe in 92/93, Puskas Akademia in 98/99, or Hapoel Be’er Sheva in 2116/2117 winng. And as the Sim goes on, yes you will still see big teams win it, but a lot of smaller teams as well. Look at some of the teams coming, those could be the potential powerhouses next centruy.

Your Young Player of the Conference, 2125. Georgian Striker Zurab Telia, on loan from Porto to Torpedo Kutaisi:

The Europa League

As expected this early in the save, a lot of the “Usual Suspects” here, with a couple of outliers every now and again. Ajax in 34/35, Mallorca in 49/50, Derby in 68/69, Servette in 2105/2105, SK Sturmgratz in 2110/2111. This is where up and coming teams in the loaded leagues will start making their appearances on a regular basis. Oddly enough, and since I am wearing the bifocals it’s not impossible, there hasn’t been a repeat Europa League Winner since I started the save:

Your Europa League Young Player of the Season: Luke Anderson-Peters, from Chelsea:

European Football Championship

I’m not going to post the winners, because for the most part it’s the “Usual Suspects”, the Big Leagues I have loaded. The outliers though, will raise a couple of eyebrows.

Denmark beat France in 2044. Belgium Beat Germany in 2088. Romania beat Italy in 2112. Netherlands beat Spain in 2120. Every other competition was England, Spain, Germany, with the lone French win coming in 2052. England did “Three-peat” from 2028 to 2036.

The Champions League

Again, this early in the save, there aren’t going to be very many surprises. The newer winner reflect their own climb to the top of their respective Leagues (Girona and Freiburg), and while some winners may look like an outlier, Wolves in 2094/2095, they were the class of the English Prem then.
No, the outliers are going to be those clubs you wouldn’t be expecting to win it, SK Strum in 2116/2117, and Lille in 2109/2110, whose best finish in the save so far has been a series of 2nd place finishes early in the save, and a few second places since. They lost to Chelsea the previous year in the Europa League final, finished 3rd in France that same year to grab the last Champions league spot, and won it all the next season.

Your Champions League Player of the Season: Bruno Reisinho, Man United Striker:

The World Cup

To be honest, the result from this are a bit more diverse than I expected, with a couple of surprises as well:

The Ballon d’Or Winner

One hand, the screen for this is nice. On the other hand, it’s to small to be useful. You get, at best, 13 years of players in, that’s a lot of screenshots. So what I will do is this:

This is the current Ballon d’Or winner, Javier Mesias from Wolves:

Still going strong at 34.

However, from 2070 to 2079, Alejandro won the Ballon 7 times, including 6 in a row while playing at Athletico Madrid:

And because I am saving every 5 years, here is Alejandro from the 2069/2070 season:

The idea is to do updates every hundred years, hopefully we do get 1000 years out of the save. As I type this it’s currently, 2663 and the file size is just over 4GB, so we will see what happens.

For those of you who want to poke around, just be aware the data doesn;t always match up, but here is the save file for 2125:
https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/80eysorkrz0hkm2/1000_yr_2125.06.20.fm/file

When the save concludes, that’s when I’ll upload all the 5 years files to my Mediafire. If there are other competitions you want me to look at, or other player categories, let me know.

Thanks for Reading!
FM_Jellico

In the year 3145…

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

1000 Years in the Future Experiment, this time with more Countries: Part 3, Success, Sort Of

The first attempt I was way to optimistic, I loaded 24 nations, created a coach, and went on the eternal vacation.

The game started to crash in the 2220’s, which I expected, just not that early.

Then it crashed hard in the 2300’s. And by crashing hard I mean when trying to load the save the game crashed back to the desktop. So, back the drawing board. This time 12 countries. The game started to crash in the late 2300’s, no problem. Mid 2400’s, hard crash. So I looked at the countries I had loaded, to see who the culprit might be.

England? No.

France? Non.

Germany? Unsere Fußball-Liga-Struktur ist der Inbegriff deutscher Präzision und Perfektion, schau woanders hin, du Idiot!

America? Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner, because I am pretty sure not even the MLS knows the ins and outs of its own rules are, and 400 plus years into a save I think the game broke itself trying to figure it out as well…

So I started again with 8 countries. England, France, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Chile, Portugal and Belgium.

Yes, I forgot Spain. Sorry.

In the 2500’s the game started crashing again. This was not unexpected, because at some point the video card starts throwing an error that causes the game to crash every 8-12 years, 10 being average. So I loaded the last save, renamed it, and started simming again. In the mid 2600’s, it crashed. This time with a ‘The computer is out of memory’ error, which I thought odd, because my laptop has 32GB of Ram.

So I moved the game to my PC, and simmed it when I wasn’t playing it. I wasn’t to sure about the whole RAM issue so I looked at my task manager one day, and it said FM was using 16% of my memory, and I thought “Jellico, that’s not too bad…”

The I realized in my PC i have 128GB of Ram, and 16% of that is 20GB. And that’s not including what the computer uses for its own background processes…

Anyhow, the game ran well until the 2800’s. Then it started crashing again. And the later it got, the shorter time frame between crashes. And in 2854, You can load the game, but it crashes the day after you try simming it. At least it did for me.

So, 2852 being a nice number, I asked JD, who did such a great job with last years video, if he wanted to do it again this year, he said “Yes, me and my mates at the Managers Seat would be willing to help out!” and I sent them the save file, and a week later he tell me they were chatting with Zealand about something unrelated and mentioned the save and Zealand said something to the effect of (and I am paraphrasing here, apologies if this is wrong Z) “I’d love to help with a video on that.” And a couple of discord chats and a recording session later, we were done, and Z’s editors did their usual bang up job in editing.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EyxZYQ_W0Y

Download the save file here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/1bdg6q1r1y693jy/Lazarus_Long_-_2852.fm/file

A Big Thanks, to Zealand, his editors, JD, Stinger, Leyo and Llama for helping get this out to the masses.

Now, for some answers to questions I know will be asked:

No, I do not have Mickey Higgenson’s attributes, the game was actually running really well then and I do not have a save from when he was playing, and that’s my fault.

For those of you wondering, the is his profile page:

https://gyazo.com/fb4ccac6823e677bbcefb08ee9ce8a5c

And this is his 2814 World Cup performance.

https://gyazo.com/058a31971708306ad89e46123859d328

If you want me to look up a country or results. ask on the video or on the Reddit post I’ve made about this as well please:

https://www.reddit.com/r/footballmanagergames/comments/x6pi0q/1000_years_into_the_future_well_830_because_the/

Some notes, last years save was 6 countries at 1000 years. That Dbase was smaller than this years version of 8 countries at 830 years. It will load, you can search, but some things like transfer windows and the like will take awhile to load.

Bigger Countries that are playable will have a lost more diversity in results. Thats why Spain has been dominated by two teams, it was not playable. Smaller countries seem to have a diversity of results despite not being playable and I am not sure why…

And yes, I will do this again next year.

Thanks for Reading!

Jellico73

1000 Years in the Future Experiment, this time with more Countries: Part 2 Failure and Success

Well, when I started the second attempt at this save, I wanted to go bigger, and I did, and I think that’s what’s causing the issues the save is having now. While simming on the laptop, there were always a few crashes related to the video card, it’s a NVIDIA thing that can’t be fixed really, but I noticed it was crashing more often, then a day or two ago would crash after just a days worth of simming. So I moved the save over to the Maingear, and it ran great for about a week, processing each day didn’t take too long, and then it crashed, more than once. Which leads me to believe it’s something in the database causing the issue.

And from my point of view, that makes sense. We’re trying to make the program do something it’s not really designed to do, and I think it reached a point here that it can’t reconcile something in the background and as a result, here we are in February of 2361. In looking at my original setup, I think I was way too ambitious and the database was to big. I am going to take a look at things this weekend, but I think I can keep the same countries, but if I put the leagues on Playable/View Only below, and reduce the size of the database as a result, we should get a better long term save, so I am going to look at that this weekend, and probably restart this again here in a week or so.

That said, adding the additional countries was a good thing, it definitely increased the diversity of results, and while in some of the bigger leagues the power teams are still winning, they aren’t nearly as dominating as they were the first time around. Where the additional countries really come into play are competition like the World Cup, the Champions League, and the Euro Cup, the results in those competitions are quite fun to look thru.

The save has been uploaded to Mediafire here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/1t7e80vdmok0wqo/Lazarus_Long_-_1000_Year_Save_Start.fm/file Have a look around, let us find out what you find. The file is 2.8Gb in size, and considering the last 1000 year save I did was 3.72Gb, well, that’s telling in and of itself. I do have attribute masking turned off, so you should be able to look at players.

Now, some screenshot’s to pique some interest:

Just and idea of some of the teams winning in the future.

Thanks for reading, and stay tuned for another update on the next attempt!

FM_Jellico

1000 Years in the Future Experiment, this time with more Countries

So, last year I had a spare laptop lying around, and thought it would be cool to try and sim out 1000 years with more than just one country enabled. That laptop, and aging Dell Alienware that was about 6 years old, died. So I replaced it with a new laptop, loaded the save, and kept simming, and it took awhile, but we got it complete, and you can read about it here:https://www.reddit.com/r/footballmanagergames/comments/mffdhb/six_countries_1000_years_in_the_future/

This year, with the new laptop, I’m going to try and do the experiment again, this time a little, ok a lot, bigger.Here’s what I am using computer wise: A MainGear laptop with an i7-10870h with 2.2Ghz (16 CPUS) and, 32GB of RAM, and an RTX 2060 with 6GB of RAM.Seeing as how the Alienware was only an i7-6700(ish) and had a 970M as a graphics card, this is a step up.

Countrywise, we’re going with 24:

Countries enabledAnd this is the League setup. Maybe 100K player DB is too big, time will tell:

In all, 54 leagues from 24 nations in play.

I’ve got the game being saved every three months, and I’ll keep it running as long as I can. I know in the last experiment around year 700 things got realllly slow, and I fully expect the same thing to happen this time. I’ll post updates about milestones reached, 100 years, 250 years and the like, but I do not plan at looking at the final result until 1000 years have passed, or the game has just gotten to big to process.Last time I did this it took six months, so using that as a baseline, End of May?Fingers crossed, and sayig a prayer to the FM Gods for a full 1000 years…Thanks for reading!