FM22 Increase Realism Megapack by Daveincid

Make Football Manager 2022 more realistic with Daveincid’s fixes and adjustments!

Make the experience of managing in Football Manager 2022 far more realistic. Today we’re proud to present the brilliant Football Manager 2022 Increase Realism Megapack created by @daveincid that makes several adjustments and fixes to FM22.

Daveincid’s databases look to make Football Manager 2022 more realistic by increasing the realism of league reputations, improving sponsorship deals, salaries and finances, as well as adjusting transfer preferences and market values worldwide to the current situation, among other things.

It even comes with an alternative youth rating and game importance file that affects the number of quality new gens and helps smaller nations to keep their best talents.

By continuing reading, you’ll get the full picture of all the features within Daveincid’s Increase Realism Megapack for Football Manager 2022.

FM22 “INCREASE REALISM”- MEGAPACK DECEMBER UPDATE EXPLANATION VIDEO:

About the FM22 Increase Realism Megapack

While others are enjoying their first Football Manager 2022 saves, Daveincid has had a full-time project since the release of FM22 to create the ‘Increase Realism Megapack’.

The realism megapack features a huge range of files and alternative databases that fixes and adjust behind-the-scenes data and behavior. Every month, new updates and files are added to the vocabulary to extend on the megapack.

In fact, for the December Update of Increase Realism Megapack, it comes with 11 different editor files. Below is a quick list of the different databases contained within the megapack:

This megapack improves several values for over 220 Nations in-game to increase realism in Football Manager 2022 to a whole new level!

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JANUARY Update

ALTERNATIVE YOUTH RATING
SALARIES, VALUES & SPONSORS (UPDATED JAN. 2022)
TRANSFER PREFERENCES (UPDATED JAN.2022)
CLUB TRANSFER PREFERENCES (UPDATED JAN. 2022)
AUSTRIAN TAX FIX
CITIZENSHIP FIX (UPDATED JAN. 2022)
WORLDWIDE AWARD FIXES
WORLDWIDE DERBY FIXES
CLUB DATA FIXES (UPDATED JAN. 2022)
CLUB FINANCES FIXES (UPDATED JAN. 2022)
GEOGRAPHIC AND LANGUAGES (UPDATED JAN. 2022)
NATIONS AGREEMENT (NEW)
LEAGUE REPUTATION CHANGES (NEW)
TICKET PRICE ADJUSTMENTS (NEW)

All files are made with my own created database to ensure consistency in the changes.

You can learn more about what each of these files impacts in Football Manager below, or simply hit the download link immediately.

! PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE INSTALLING MY MEGAPACK!
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3. Delete all previous files of my megapack in the editor-data-folder
4. Ensure that you do not use other mods which may conflict with my megapack like:
  Youth Ratings, Market Values, Transfer Preferences, Sponsorship, Finances,
  Languages, League Reputations, Awards, Derbies or Club Data
5. The whole megapack is almost always compatible with all league files (especially DaveTheEditors Around the World Megapack, transfer updates, and all kinds of graphic mods.
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Overview of Files in the Increase Realism Megapack

Alternative Youth Rating

This file changes the National Youth Ratings, Game Importance and the State of Development of all Nations. The Development-System has changed completely in FM22 compared to FM21! So I had to re-calculate all values. In FM22, we finally get “Lost Wonderkids”! This is just awesome and adds a lot more realism by default already!

What YOU will receive?
– Better worldwide diversification of talent

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

• HDI (Human Development Index)
• Average Attendance
• Population in a Country
• How popular football is in the country
• Worldwide success of the national team
• Continental success of the national team
• Financial Resources
• + many more

Watch the video to get an explanation of how the alternative youth ratings work.

Salaries, Values & Sponsors

This file has massively improved compared to FM21!
Salaries:
Salaries are now more oriented towards real data in all Nations. A Player in Ghana no longer earns 500k a year, but maybe 30k. Worldclass Players will now earn more money. Default is too low in this area. Instead of around 20m€/y they now earn up to 40m€/y (Brutto of course).

Market-Values:
The market values have been adjusted in such a way that they result in more realistic transfer fees.

Sponsor Values:
The sponsor values were calculated according to various criteria in order to show the existing situation as well as future increases down to a Nations’s financial power. They are also calculated to balance the financial situation of club finances in the long term. Clubs usually struggle much more financially IRL as it is in FM. With these adjustments, this should be represented more accurately. Clubs can get rich and they can get into debt but they need constantly be careful how they spend their money.

With the latest update there is much more dynamic within the FM-World. Smaller Clubs can rise and bigger Clubs can fall.

A video explaining this file is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYXin5kiQHU

Transfer Preferences

The January update comes with major changes to the transfer preferences.

There are Leagues which are known as «Development»-Leagues. The whole league in general buys young players and sell them to bigger ones. With «Club Transfer Preferences» this can be partly added to a specific Club but the effect might disappear once a new Chairman takes over. Now I have researched all Nations on transfermarkt.com and analyzed the average age of signings of the last 5 years for all Top-Division Clubs. If the average age is below 24, its added as a national preference. It works like a charm! This will now not only represent the transfer flow in terms of nationality more accurate, its now also by age!

The following Nations are affected:
– Denmark
– Slovakia
– Latvia
– Austria
– Ireland
– Estonia
– Albania
– Belgium
– Switzerland
– Croatia
– Slovenia
– Kirgystan
– Ghana
– Venezuela
– Canada

Club Transfer Preferences

There are some Clubs, which have a specific preference for the nationality of players which doesn’t affect all Clubs in its Nation. I’ve researched over as they are only a preference and not a general club philosophy. This file is for Clubs where this preference has been held at a high level for years.

With the January update, this affects 58 Clubs from 38 Nations. For example Shakthar Donetsk (Brazil), FC Nordsjælland (Ghana) or AGS Asteras Tripolis (Argentina and Spain)

The changes includes either specific Nations or age-preferences, or both.

Watch an explanation of the changes to the club preferences in this video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbFNQ56FSgE

Austrian Tax Fix

There are some missing taxes in Austria which are leading to a too good financial development of the Clubs. This should be fixed with the Winter-Update. Until then, this file fixes it

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 and you can’t add “received citizenship through good relations with local politicians”. There are some interesting years included. Might be worth scrolling through the Nations to find out.

Worldwide Award Fix

This file fixes literally all missing and unlogical 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 player’s 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!

Please Note:
The league needs to be set as playable to see the awards!

Worldwide Derby Fixes

This file adds 300+ missing Derbys from Clubs and Nations in over 50 Nations as well as over 1000 reputation adjustments to ensure a logical worldwide behavior.

The Derbies included are, but are not limited to:
– “The Volga Derby” between Rubin Kazan and Krylia Sowjetow
– “La guerra del futbol” between El Salvador and Honduras
– “Derby of Ghana” between Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak SC and soo many more!

Club Data Fixes

This file has been further improved and adds a lot of missing data for over 1500 1st and 2nd-Division-Clubs in 150 Nations worldwide:

• – Nicknames of Clubs
• – City-Location
• – Correct Stadium set
• – 89 new Stadiums created
• – Rivals
• – Year founded
• – Club Colours

Club Finances Fixes

This file now plays a crucial part for the «Sponsorship» part of my «Salaries, Values and Sponsors»-File.

In the editor, Sponsorship deals of most clubs have ticked the option «renew income». This can be compared to an arcade-racing-game in the past, when you should lead 2 rounds ahead but suddenly the 2nd placed driver appears in your back-mirror. In other words, no matter how bad a club performs, sponsorship deals will be always similar to the one set in the editor. This keeps big teams big for like forever.

I have now deleted those «renew income» worldwide for all 1st and 2nd-Division-Teams. The result is a higher level of dynamic in long-term-saves.

Geographic & Languages

There are some smaller fixes for the distribution in certain Nations such as Albania, Belgium and South Africa.

Geographic:

• Added missing Inhabitation ranges for over 5500+ Cities
• Added correct Number of Population for 1250+ Local Regions
• Added 500+ Cities to their Local Region
• Added missing Coordinates of over 1800 Cities
• Added missing Altitude-Values for 4200+ Cities
• Added City-Attraction-Values for all Cities worldwide

These changes affect:

• The distribution of place of birth’s for Newgens
• More realistic travel costs

• The distribution of place of birth’s for Newgens
• More realistic travel costs
• Sponsorship deals
• Contract Negotiations
• Injuries
• … and definitely other stuff too which I haven’t found out yet

NATIONS AGREEMENTS (NEW)

This file by DaveTheEditor adds 24 agreements between Nations. You can find this information in the Nation tab overview!

LEAGUE REPUTATION CHANGES (NEW)

This file slightly lowers the gap between the top Nations and all the rest in Europe. It also boosts top Nations outside of Europe slightly and should improve the balance in long-term saves.

TICKET PRICE ADJUSTMENTS (NEW)
Since there were issues with the calculation of ticket prices in FM – often leading to certain clubs in specific Nations becoming way too rich, I have adjusted the ticket prices for the nations. This mainly affects South America (Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela etc) but also other Nations like Iran, Iraq. It’s still not possible to add the correct prices but at least it’s much more realistic right now and prevents Clubs or whole Nations to be a financial powerhouse for no reason.

Download Instructions

• Download the megapack above
• Place the file in: Your Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2022/editor data
• Start a NEW SAVE (MUST-DO!)

Please note:
For enhanced realism, I recommend disabling the first transfer window. IRL the transfers already happened, so should it be in the game setup too for an optimal balance.

P.S. The database also works with the first transfer window enabled!

Compatibility with other Databases & Files

It is compatible with all league files, transfer updates, all graphical mods etc.

There is also cooperation ongoing with @davie77 on SI-Forum with his “Around the Globe Megapack“. I highly recommend it as it fixes youth contract and sponsorship problems in several custom Nations which I can’t fix with my files!

IMPORTANT NOTICE!

Do not use other mods which may conflict with my megapack at the same time. This includes files that modify or affect:

• Youth Ratings
• Market Values
• Transfer Preferences
• Sponsorship
• Finances
• League Reputations
• Awards
• Derbies
• Club Data

Credit & Social Medias

Passion4FM is hugely grateful to be given permission to re-distribute the FM22 increase realism megapack to our community. We like to give huge thanks to Daveincid for putting thousands of hours into making this amazing database!

Further updates to this file will be available first on Daveincid’s Patreon. Make sure to subscribe to be first in line for new updates or changes.

If you have found any errors or got any questions, please contact Daveincid at Sigames or Twitter PM.

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