[Xulu]

The Aim:
To gain as many of the FM 2011 Personal Achievements (in Steam Library) in a single save as possible. Once people begin to post saves, I will decide which save is more impressive. Unlocking the achievements is good, but please post a full list of honors as well (Team, Manager, and Player).

The Manager:
Date of Birth: Age > 30
Nationality: Swiss
Secondary Nationality: Brazilian
Favored Teams: None
Past Experience: International Footballer

Game Setup:
Database – 11.3 Unedited , Large Size
Game Start Date (England 2010)
All Advanced Options Except “Add Players To Playable Teams”
Start Career Unemployed
No outside software (FMRTE, Genie, etc) is allowed

Brazil (Third Division) , England (Blue Square Bet N/S) , France (CFA) , Germany (First Division Only) , Italy (Serie C2) , Scotland (Third Division) , Spain (Second Division B] , USA (MLS) , Free Choice from Europe (Top Division Only) , Free Choice from Non-Europe (Top Division Only)



Methodology:
I was browsing through the achievements in the FM 2011 and wondered if anyone had come up with a challenge to unlock all of the achievements in the game in a single save, or as many as possible. I also wanted a very open-ended challenge to see what other users could come up with. If I gave a lot of freedom to the player to play the challenge, I could get a number of different results. What interpretations could people come up with?

The manager has to be young to complete such a challenge, so perhaps an injury ended their playing career. The pairing of Swiss/Brazilian is deliberate; having that set of nationalities allows for the manager to speak 6 languages fluently (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish). It also places you the manager without a major first nationality and nationality on two different continents. No favored teams means a blank slate in terms of opinions of you by others. Being an International Footballer allows for one to have a high reputation to start the game with, which will kickstart your career. Being unemployed allows for the database to be as unedited as possible, as well as force the user to start from scratch in building a career.

The game has 6 nations that have their own achievement (Brazil, England, France, Italy, Scotland, Spain), so those nations were added to the list. In addition, I thought it best to add a few other nations. Germany is the only member of the Big Five excluded, so it was added. A third continent was needed for one achievement, so it had to be added. The MLS is so radically different from any other league structure in the world, so I added the USA to the list. To give the game some individual flavor and choice, I decided to allow the user to choose two additional nations to load, one from Europe and one from outside Europe. To ease the strain on the computers only the first division from Germany, USA and the free choice nations were loaded. The other 6 nations require the lowest division for their achievements to unlock, so they will be needed.

Good luck. Post any updates here.