FIFA 14 Better Career Patch

[fadz123]

found a little problem when i try to sign a new player i offer him a contract and he reject the contract saying that he es happy with his current team

 

[beta990]

I think the Y value represent an average for each area for example skills when u combine all stats (dribbling, control, curve , etc...) with the coefficient depending on player role (because a CB don't win as much "point" (for an OVR increase) as a ST for the Shot Power stat for example) you should obtain a kind of average for the Skill Area...
But It define a max that players should not overpass. Maybe with some exceptions for huge potential players ?
Because with the PHYS_P1_Y = 65 most of my P1 players that I think is around 65 of physical average maybe more (C.Grenier for example) don't increase at all on physical attributes.
Knowing that 98 (we'll admit 100) as the normal max...We can assume that putting 110 for example will push the area to a faster grow than normal like a grow of x1.1...
That means if Y lines aren't modified carefully, players development can be unbalanced...Like increase only in physical and no development in skills...Assuming the fact that annual growth and potential is limited for each player.

Pretty much what XKBlade said, lol. I agree with that, this is likely how things work. The hard thing is to find the correct balance in order to release a growth patch like this one here.
For each individual user, this is not as much of a problem as you can always change those things around during your season and, let's say, focus on growth for young players in the first half and then for older players during the second half of the season. But you need a little bit experience in that and have to know what you're doing; I think most people around here don't.

So it seems that we all think the _Y value controls the average max. growth. :P
Yes, I also do agree we need to find values that will be 'safe'. But what values should be safe? I was thinking about this one, but I please would like your opinion.

// Credits and (big) thanks to BlackEmperor and XKBlade for finding this out
// There is still more tweaking needed, but let's say it's a start. ;)
// The _X is the age of the player
// The _Y is 

// Phase 1 - Youngster
PHYS_P1_X = 16
PHYS_P1_Y = 75
SKILL_P1_X = 16
SKILL_P1_Y = 75
MENTAL_P1_X = 16
MENTAL_P1_Y = 80

// Phase 2 - Probably where players have to grow the most
PHYS_P2_X = 21
PHYS_P2_Y = 110
SKILL_P2_X = 21
SKILL_P2_Y = 100
MENTAL_P2_X = 24
MENTAL_P2_Y = 100

//  Phase 3 - No more growth, maybe some (little) decreases
PHYS_P3_X = 28
PHYS_P3_Y = 110
SKILL_P3_X = 29
SKILL_P3_Y = 100
MENTAL_P3_X = 34
MENTAL_P3_Y = 100

//  Phase 4 - Old players, decrease, decrease and...decreases
PHYS_P4_X = 39
PHYS_P4_Y = 80
SKILL_P4_X = 39
SKILL_P4_Y = 80
MENTAL_P4_X = 39
MENTAL_P4_Y = 90

On this way I hope to keep the level as much good as possible. I don't want to change to much.

Thanks guys, and waiting for your reply.

 

[rique]

FIFA 14 Better Career Patch
Now with an easy installer!
This mod tries to improve your career mode experience.
It can also be used with other mods, but please report if you encounter problems/issues.

Game
- Fast game boot! (No language select, etc.)
- Added some speedups to let the game run smoother on high hardware
- All (unlicensed) footballs available!
- All player celebrations available!
- Enabled & tweaked player moves and camera's!
- Less (unneeded) scenes to speedup the gameplay (substitutions, etc.)
- Harder and more realistic AI/CPU! (Less differences between low/high teams, more rewarding gameplay)
- More realistic fitness model (can be tweaked to your own needs)
- More clubs will be taken over by a company
- Reduced max. players in squad to prevent crashing career mode
- Less player retirement
.. and more changes/improvements.

Scouting
- Increased find player age range: 14-19
- Better scouting, why wouldn't a left back have any tricks/speed?
- Scouting reports longer expire time
- Improvements in (global) scouting (get more info from scouted players, better scout results, etc.)

Transfers
- Less top-player movement
- Higher player values (Suarez moved to Barca for 66 Million!)
- More club activities, almost every club will take a look at the transfer marked (loan/list players)
- More realistic league rankings
- More clubs will bid on your players
- Short loan increased to 5 months instead of 3
- Teams will take better look at players, before buying and visa versa
- A player will stay longer at a club and will try to move to a club if better than current
- Low teams will have to be smart, they can't longer sign high salary players
- More activities from foreign clubs

Player Growth
- More players will grown during season
- More focus on youth players grown
- Keepers will better grown
- Less negative grown (especially for older players)

And more unlisted tweaks! This mod aims to improve the overall and fun when playing FIFA 14. There is always space for improving this patch, so please tell me what you do or not like and what could be added.

Installation
Download Latest FIFA_14_BCP_Installer and follow the installer steps.

Remember this mod is only compatible with the FIFA 14 Origin version and should be updated before installing these mods!

Can this work for FIFA 13?

 

[BlackEmperor]

@beta: No idea to be honest. That's why I'm not creating a patch.

You'd really have to do some testing with different values. That's the only way to determine the best stats that allow a better growth than vanilla Fifa, but also don't mess up anything like CPU player growth.

 

[beta990]

Can this work for FIFA 13?

You could try, don't know if it works.

@beta: No idea to be honest. That's why I'm not creating a patch.

You'd really have to do some testing with different values. That's the only way to determine the best stats that allow a better growth than vanilla Fifa, but also don't mess up anything like CPU player growth.

Yeah, it's a bit difficult, I'm going to try with these values and waiting for replies.

@all:
Released 3.5RC4: lot of fixes to files and the database.
Thanks to feedback from EasyMore these fixes are now included. I also found out that exiting the career mode on the first day and re-enter the game again, the pre-contract values are working correctly.
I tried to solved this, but no solution found yet. But for now this is a workaround. It is only needed for the first season thought. :P

Hope you guys like it and thanks for the feedback.

 

[drogba12]

Played the latest version (V 3.5RC3), and I must say that I am very pleased with the players degrowth, could be a bit faster but I can tweak that on my own.

Secondly players grow way to fast. I've had 3 friendly matches and Gabriel of Villarreal went up +2 in rating (grew +4 in tackling and marking). Alot of CPU players only in reactions, they go from 70+ reactions, positioning, interceptions, vision, aggresion (basically mental stats) to 80 or sometimes 90.

And thirdly ( this is an older issue, but I'm posting it now) -- Teams ask me way more money for their players. I had this GK from Aston Villa, who was in his last 11 months. I was suggested to bid 1.5 milions (his value was 2.8). They replied that they want 3.1 milions. They even refused a 3 milion offer, they want 3.1.

Another example. I wanted to buy Hazard (his market value was about 60 milion pounds), but Chelsea asked me 90 milion euros. I offered 75, they asked me 90 milions. I offered 85 milions, still asked 90 milions.

Basically CPU tend to overprice their players, in any circumstance, even if they run out of their contract or not. They do not accept bids that are a bit lower then what they ask, they specifically ask that sum and wont give up on it.

Excepting all that the game is way better, it's a clear thing that the mod evolved since a few patches ago, and I think it demonstrates your hard work on the mod. Keep the work, you're doing good.

 

[XKBlade]

found a little problem when i try to sign a new player i offer him a contract and he reject the contract saying that he es happy with his current team

It's not a bug or a problem...Maybe you're team is too low in reputation (low stars) so you can try to give him a better role in the team or better salary...Or just give up

So it seems that we all think the _Y value controls the average max. growth. :P
Yes, I also do agree we need to find values that will be 'safe'. But what values should be safe? I was thinking about this one, but I please would like your opinion.

On this way I hope to keep the level as much good as possible. I don't want to change to much.

Thanks guys, and waiting for your reply.

Well many tries are needed to find that.
But I think they should be near of what they are now, because the game is designed around them. So changing them too much can probably break the system. I don't know if it's really needed to change Y values...

What is really needed to have a better growth than vanilla ? Because for me the biggest problem was old players fast depreciation.
And actually maybe a smoother growth, because some players seems to win too much too fast. (I haven't yet tested 3.5RC4)

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Oh and you should add useful things to know on rna.ini tweaks like how to have substitution cams back, default camera ect... in a FAQ (or commented in rna.ini), because it's not easy to search into 50 pages to find it xD

 

[BlackEmperor]

Keep MAX_MONTHLY_ATTRIB_GROWTH at 1, this way players will only get +1 on their stats every month. Using a higher value makes them grow too fast.

 

[Axej]

Hello,
My feedback is a little bit like Drogba12 if you bid on a player of 2 mil and they ask 3.4 mil well i mostly bid on 3 mil or something but they wqnt the 3.4 mil so hope this can be tweaked.
Hope you can work on the playasplayer files because i want to leave the club but first i need to ask it 4 times if i can have a transfer but they reject after the 5 they accept so then there is almost 2 weeks gone before you get a transfer it's to long i think if you coul't do this to 3 asks and then they give a transfer would be more realistic

 

[Ivsa]

Does this patch affect free agents player's in some sort, because all players from free agents in DB does not show when i start a carerr mode?!

 

[Mistico]

3.5RC4 is very good, your mod is getting better with every update. Players grow better now, but they all grow differently. Some grow fast, while others barely grow at all, especially young players with small overalls.

Also older players don't loose their attributes quickly anymore, so that's good.

 

[shenjuku21]

beta i starting a player career not manager and i found out that whenever my manager told me that i'm up for the next match but still it only appeared 'sim match'..i can't play any match..currently using v3.4 and does this problem because of mixing moddingway with your patch?

Don't install the DB during installation.

actually i don't understand what this means

 

[beta990]

Thanks guys for the massive feedback!

Because there where a few issues, I decided to push V3.5 a bit earlier:
- Fixes to database (pre-contracts > more players added, removed empty id's, etc.) > Thanks to EasyMore for reporting bugs!
- Set fitness recovery higher
- Playergrowth changes for young and older players
- Transfer improvements
- Clean-ups & improvements to almost every file

There where a few things that I had to change to keep the game from messing things up:
- Changed back min. scouted player age to 16, as this is the minimum value that can be set in the database. I would like to set this back again to 15, but this (may) cause compatible issues with other databases

- Added a warning text to the first game start when starting a new career:
I've found out that for some reason the game starts at the wrong year (2008?) in the first season, but this should be 2013. When exiting the game at the first day (after you saved for the first time) and enter it back again, the game is in 2013.

If you don't perform the task above, this will lead in errors in (pre-)contracts! This workaround is only needed once (when creating a new career), so it's not a big issue. However I will try to find a (better) solution, but for the moment this workaround is the only way.

A big thanks and credits goes out to BlackEmperor & XKBlade that solved the playergrowth problems!
Let me know if the new growth-system is working or if it needs any more improvements in the next (beta) version.

Download link for V3.5 Final on the first post!

 

[runaway42]

actually i don't understand what this means

Make sure the highlighted part is uncheck during installation.

 

[cn13]

Don't install the DB during installation.



Don't know where in scout.ini it is but this is the breakdown for it. (this was also in FIFA13)

YOUTH_PLAYER_PLATINUM_0=15
YOUTH_PLAYER_PLATINUM_1=5
YOUTH_PLAYER_PLATINUM_2=2
YOUTH_PLAYER_PLATINUM_3=6
YOUTH_PLAYER_PLATINUM_4=14
YOUTH_PLAYER_PLATINUM_5=8
YOUTH_PLAYER_PLATINUM_6=13
YOUTH_PLAYER_PLATINUM_7=7
YOUTH_PLAYER_PLATINUM_8=3
YOUTH_PLAYER_PLATINUM_9=1
YOUTH_PLAYER_PLATINUM_10=1
YOUTH_PLAYER_PLATINUM_11=6

Where each number is:

// 0 = SUBREGION_ARGENTINA_BRAZIL,
// 1 = SUBREGION_REST_OF_SOUTH_AMERICA,
// 2 = SUBREGION_NORTH_AMERICA,
// 3 = SUBREGION_NORTHERN_EUROPE,
// 4 = SUBREGION_ITALY_SPAIN_PORTUGAL,
// 5 = SUBREGION_REST_OF_SOUTHERN_EUROPE,
// 6 = SUBREGION_CENTRAL_EUROPE,
// 7 = SUBREGION_REST_OF_EUROPE,
// 8 = SUBREGION_JAPAN_CHINA,
// 9 = SUBREGION_REST_OF_ASIA,
// 10 = SUBREGION_AUSTRALIA,
// 11 = SUBREGION_AFRICA,

unfortunately this settings dont exist anymore

 

[markov]

unfortunately this settings dont exist anymore

still exists and values are the same, I'm at work at the moment so can't check which file contains it.

 

[sam_red devil]

i tried ur patch but game crashes at the end of the season...any idea..and lemme know how to uninstall it too...

 

[beta990]

still exists and values are the same, I'm at work at the moment so can't check which file contains it.

I don't think they are defined anymore, I can't find them in the fifa14.exe. Are they in an older exe file?

i tried ur patch but game crashes at the end of the season...any idea..and lemme know how to uninstall it too...

No crashes here (season 3 >), what team are playing with? What season? What version are you using?
Anyway, there is an uninstaller, just go to your Control Panel, Add/Remove programs ..

 

[Ivsa]

Does this patch affect free agents player's in some sort, because all players from free agents in DB does not show when i start a carerr mode?!

Does anyone knows anything about this?!

 

[BlackEmperor]

Does anyone knows anything about this?!

I only know that players who are free agents at the start of the season automatically join a club right at the beginning. At least the good ones do so. No idea if you can turn it off.