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tomkmb · 01-07-2024, 02:18 PM

Yeah, scouting can appear a little abstract at first, I think in older versions of the game it was more of a micro management thing, then it was redesigned to be more macro management. I'll give take a stab at answering what I can based on what I understand.

So on this screen, you'll see the levels of your coverage for each country as you cycle through the list on the drop down:

You can see the difference in this screenshot from the above one that my Canadian scouting coverage is not as good as my scouting coverage of the USA - that can be for a few reasons, however, in this instance it is because I do not have as many Canadian scouts as I do for the USA, which you can see from the highlighted areas.

So to solve this, I would go onto the hire scouts tab, shown here, and then I would go to the drop down on the right hand side, highlighted, change it to Canada to show me all scouts based in Canada - I personally then like to sort the column for 'Potential' by clicking on it and that will rank them in order of highest to lowest. Then make a few signings from that list and watch the number underneath each province in Canada go up. (if you have the scouting boost of +5 active in the monthly spending then the number will show 20/20 at max, however if you do not have the monthly spending scouting boost active at +5 then it could be anywhere from 13/20 (for the -2 option) to 20/20)

Hopefully that helps on one of the questions.

01-07-2024, 02:18 PM	#3
tomkmb All Star Starter Join Date: Jan 2021 Posts: 1,756	Yeah, scouting can appear a little abstract at first, I think in older versions of the game it was more of a micro management thing, then it was redesigned to be more macro management. I'll give take a stab at answering what I can based on what I understand. So on this screen, you'll see the levels of your coverage for each country as you cycle through the list on the drop down: You can see the difference in this screenshot from the above one that my Canadian scouting coverage is not as good as my scouting coverage of the USA - that can be for a few reasons, however, in this instance it is because I do not have as many Canadian scouts as I do for the USA, which you can see from the highlighted areas. So to solve this, I would go onto the hire scouts tab, shown here, and then I would go to the drop down on the right hand side, highlighted, change it to Canada to show me all scouts based in Canada - I personally then like to sort the column for 'Potential' by clicking on it and that will rank them in order of highest to lowest. Then make a few signings from that list and watch the number underneath each province in Canada go up. (if you have the scouting boost of +5 active in the monthly spending then the number will show 20/20 at max, however if you do not have the monthly spending scouting boost active at +5 then it could be anywhere from 13/20 (for the -2 option) to 20/20) Hopefully that helps on one of the questions.