Chelsea makes 7, only a third of the league, that’s not too much, right? 
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How did I forget Chelsea 
yeah it’s quite crazy when you think like that 
7 is indeed a lot. From my vacations in Europe most of the big cities had two teams.
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When is the game set? Also, will there be homophobia? Not a lot of (openly) gay football stars. There’s something like three decades in between their coming out (UK).
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It’s set in today, all the teams are as the standings this season.
With regards to homophobia, it would be unfair to people to pretend it isn’t a thing, so it will be addressed for players that way, but balanced so it doesn’t take over. My thinking is an external negative Vs an internal positive. I.e external people will show negative views, but your teammates, manager, club fans will all show the better side to fans and openness and acceptance, which is how it should be imo.
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Will we be only getting offers from English teams only or will we also get some from other teams around Europe like example Real Madrid or Napoli? To specify, I meant for both when we get scouted and during Transfer window.
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Currently not planning that as an option, the game already has all 92 English league teams, their stadiums, nicknames coded in, and the same for the champions League and Europa teams. It would be super cool to add that but that would be tripling what is already a lot of code.
I will think on it though see if there is a solution where that could be managed!
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Just wanted to drop in and offer some encouragement.
This is a really solid start and I love the direct/vision you’ve got for this.
Sports is a seriously under-represented genre in IF, so really looking forward to seeing this progress.
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Thanks so much, I really appreciate it.
As it happens I have just about finished chapter 3, it’s fully written but untested, aiming to update next weekend. Game currently stands at over 40k words to end of chapter 3, which is crazy as I couldn’t have imagined writing that much in total! Chapter 3 is focused on the first day at the academy and is a character driven chapter that is ~22k words. I look forward to releasing it and hope everyone likes it (I think it’s the best chapter I’ve done).
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Great work! As a fan of football and RPGs, this scratches an itch that time and time again modern football games (FIFA, WE etc) never tackled in the scope that you are doing!
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Thanks! In glad you think so, I remember being excited years ago for “The Journey” in FIFA 17 and it wasn’t very good. Unrealistic and shallow and whatever else.
Want this to have all the character depth those lack and feel like a real world. Hopefully I can deliver that, look out for updated WIP coming soon to include chapter 3! Thanks again 
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Keep up the good work.
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Hi 
just dropping a note that chapter 3 is now available. If you have read chapter 1 or 2, you can skip ahead now as I’ve added a chapter sleection at the start so you dont have to slog through it all again
This chapter now really works into the core archetypes of players that is created by you and impacts on the pitch and off the pitch. Are you the fame-hungry young star, you want the fame and glory of being a football star? Or are you the consumate professional? The first on the training pitch and the last to leave? Or the pragmatist, student of the game, knows every trick in the book and intelligence and tactics are your forte?
C3 is your first day at the academy (which is somehow almost 24,000 words itself) and focuses on the characters there.
Please let me know any thoughts, your comments and feedback mean a lot to me THANKS SO MUCH!
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Thanks for spotting! Chapter 3 is ready that’s a leftover I’ll get that changed asap!