DIY Leagues in SWOS 96/97

I ve recently purchased SWOS 96/97 from GOG. I grew up with the PC version of SWOS (95/96?) and played an awful lot with DIY leagues using edited custom teams, mostly imported teams from the English, German, Italian and Spanish leagues then changing all the kits, player names etc. This is something I d like to do again but with the ultimate version of the game.

Not that it makes a lot of difference to the gameplay, but from my experience so far, any matches played as a friendly or within a DIY league give all the players a star rating instead of a monetary value. When I played 95/96, the monetary value was used across the board (indeed I don t think there were any star ratings). The monetary value might have been different for the same player when playing for his international team, but a value was always used.

Was this taken out of the 96/97 edition, or have I missed something out? I ask because I know that there is a monetary value given for players in the international teams in 96/97, but I presume this is just for the section of career mode when you manage the national team?

This means none of the custom teams have a monetary value, when I remember Professionals having a £15m striker (Footballer). Would be a shame, I preferred the monetary value over a star rating.

Thanks, that s a pretty helpful chart. Any idea why they added in the star rating though (does this hark back to one of the earliest versions of Sesni, where each team had three star players?) And I take it there s no way to force the game to display the monetary value over the star rating?

[edit]Actually, DIY competitions don t seem to display the star rating of players either, even when going to the View Squads section of the Stats. Is this deliberate? Are the teams automatically equalised in a DIY competition?

Strange. This is a screen cap of what I see from within the View Squads screen - I did a two team league with Original Custom Teams just to try it out. The player ratings (star or otherwise) don t appear in the preset competitions either. Perhaps a glitch with the GOG purchase? (I haven t downloaded from any of the links on this forum as a comparison).

Ah, well, that makes much more sense! Thanks for clearing that up, I guess the Amiga version always was the greatest version