u/Jaded_Doughnut_132

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I feel like the first 2 dynasty legacies in the glory line is absolutely broken. As you can see the first legacy, "Desirable Match" gives you +30 marriage acceptance and this is just so powerful. You wait 7-8 years max even if you are a base origins dynasty you'll eventually have enough renown very quickly and once you get this 30+ buff you can ally the strongest countries very easily and after taking that you can take renowned name legacy.... Even if you start as a base origins dynasty within 10 years you can unlock both of these... Do I have to talk about the massive +100 buff to court grandeur, %10 cheaper mercenaries, +1 knight and +10 monthly prestige and the strongest out of them all +1 accloades available... Especially with the new accloade update where you dont have to constantly micro manage your accloades as the game assigns successor automatically this becomes more vital than ever.

Back in fm24 signing regens were much more easier but now on fm26 its basically impossible to sign high potential regens before they turn 20 years old because they will keep rejecting your transfer offer because they dont feel like its the right decision for their development because of this for the first 5 years of the game you are basically forced to use the same players that you already know of, it makes scouting talents completely useless, you have to go for players like bergvall, paz, wharton, khusanov, tonali, etc... top level players who are affordable i could be starting as burnley and in my 3rd year my squad already looks like this i find myself signing the same players in almost every same because of how they dont have any alternatives until regens start popping up after the first 5 years of the game

The reason your wonderkids sometimes fail to develop despite having high potential comes down to how you're structuring your squad. Most people already know you shouldn't carry more than one substitute per position, but the part that actually makes the biggest difference is who you sign as those substitutes. Instead of bringing in players with high development probability, you want the opposite, players who are essentially done growing. Preferably little to no gap between their current and potential ability.

It gets slightly nuanced here because FM26 does allow players over 28, even over 30, to gain a handful of attribute points based on form and performance. But that's negligible. What I settled on was targeting players 26 and older with a minimal CA to PA gap, and the effect on squad development was significant.

The way the game works, development potential gets distributed across your entire squad, substitutes included. So when you're carrying players with high probability of development on the bench, that pool gets spread thin and your starters lose out. Switching to finished players concentrates all of that development onto your starting eleven.

I tested this pretty rigorously, including checking hidden attributes. When I used high-PoD substitutes, at least one starter would stall completely every single time, and I mean players with 16 professionalism, 20 work rate, 16 determination, playing 90 minutes every game for a full season with injuries disabled. Nothing. Not a single attribute point gained. Get the squad structure right and that stops happening entirely.