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May 09, 2012 14:05

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Dimitri, as I have been saying for years, player value is an evil thing to attach to a player. At least, it should be calculated in a different way.
When you base offers/transfer price on “player value” you make a way open for crazy things like you see happen in the game, crazy amounts of money paid by CPU teams, no “decent players” to buy unless offered crazy amounts of money. Cheaters will have easier to do “legit” transfers, pointing to the player value.

Some players have a value of 200-500 M, perfect for cheating and shuffling money around and very crazy at the same time.

All the logic that has been based on any calculation of the player value is very hard to do or dismiss. It’s not an easy task but if this is a real beta testing of the game then we should be open to changes really. I would have no problems dealing with players without any value attribute attached. I wouldn’t mind losing 90% of the money in the club, no use of having 300M anyway when no one is selling.

BK

 

May 09, 2012 10:01

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The player value is based on actual transfers, right? But the cpu teams are paying twice or more the player value. Which means player values go up. Which means cpu teams will pay even higher prices, etc.

I still don’t understand why it isn’t possible to have a middle way between cpu teams hardly buying players, and cpu teams spending too much money…

 

May 09, 2012 02:15

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The title says it all. I play in mediumticker and the last 4-5 season it’s almost impossible to buy star players on the market. The only ones there are overpriced 33-34 year olds.

Let’s say you put a players on transfer list. The cpu evaluates him at 18$ million, and you put a price at 15$ million. Automatically, you will have cpu teams making you an offer for him. I think this caused a big flow of cash to go to everybody controlling a team since selling players was never this easy. So with everybody having money, nobody wants to sell anymore, hence the money is losing it’s value.

 

May 08, 2012 19:51

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contract clauses is a really good idea but there will be some good players on the free market and managers will offer incredible wages to have these players…

one more idea: for now when you sign a player this is for ever. Imagine if you sign a player for x years and after these years, he has the choice to resign and get free to sign for a better team. If a player do not want a new contract the manager will have to sell him at a “good” price. The market will be more liquid. And some excelent players will not be playing in Columbian 2nd division…

 

May 08, 2012 19:17

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Some suggestions:
a)I agree with the idea of putting contract clauses (example: relegation release clause; minimun mumber of official games).
b)The estimated value of the players should not be so inflated. There was a recent inflation in the estimated value of the players in Medium Ticker. In my opinion, before this the estimated value was acceptable.
c)The board of the club that is buying should block transfers amounts above 2 or 3 times the estimated value.
d)CPU teams: should not spend more then half (or 1/3) of their bank balance in one single transfer.
e)I don’t agree with the “reset” in the finance of the clubs (remove the last 0)

DE

 

May 08, 2012 17:05

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Dimitri, in my opinion, No, the player value attribute kills the game, it would be interesting to see how people would rate/value players if it was to be removed. I agree there should be some kind of value to represent the “value” of the player but it could be one of two things:
a) the transfer price of the players last transfer OR when missing (as the player could be a “home grown” player)
b) a valuation of your board/club/assistant manager or something like that. Something like:
“Noé Delage is valued somewhere between 3-5M.” in stead of “$44,073,674”

It’s too late with just stopping the cpu teams from spending the money, as many clubs now have several hundreds of millions.
I think most fair thing would be to remove the last 0 from each value in the game.
Meaning if you had 300M in the club account it should now hold 30M and if a player was worth 150M, it will now be 15M. That would temporarily “help” but a more aggressive approach is needed. Logic has to prevent this from happening and a suggestion of players having attitude would help. Also in most management games you have a max skill for each skill. That has to be redone. And I would “lose” about 250M myself but it’s worth it, as this is beta-testing, no?!

In reality we have many great players but that is known from a SET of 265M people playing football/soccer. It’s not too difficult to find 100 great players for several countries, but percentage of great players in the game from the number of available players is WAY TOO BIG. Not good. It creates an unnatural balance of talent, and when the cpu teams can afford a promising player they will make a move to get him. That is a great feature.

Developers (and/or anyone interested in data statistics of football, read this:
http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/bcoffsurv/emaga_9384_10704.pdf

When you have a good talent model you will see how great and enjoyable the game is, and I can not stress this enough about how important this is. You REALLY have to be paranoid about your data when making such games. Period.

BK

 

May 08, 2012 16:23

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If CPU teams don’t pay more than the estimated value for players, would that make the market better?

 

May 08, 2012 16:21

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Yes. You can check it for yourself: each 15 friendly matches there should be skill improvements for your players (with coaching level 10).

 

May 08, 2012 14:01

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Sorry to bother you guys with another question.

I understand that a player should play at least 35min to be able to improve his skills on a given match. What I was wondering now is whether the chance of improvement is exactly the same for a player who played the whole 90min to the one who played 35min of the match?

Thanks

 

May 08, 2012 13:37

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Another question about correlations ;)

Is there any relationship between the wage paid to a player and his performance during matches?

Thanks

 

May 08, 2012 10:36

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May 08, 2012 07:40

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There’s no correlation between stamina and improvement. It is quite common to have young players at 3 stamina (by letting them play all friendlies).

However, if you want to loan a player out, it is better to have them at high stamina (assuming that cpu teams take this factor in account for player selection)

 

May 08, 2012 07:26

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Hi

Most of the people use their young players on friendly to make them improve their skills. I was just wondering if a player that starts the game with 100 stamina points has the same chance of improving than if the player was starting the game with 50 stamina points.

Thanks for the help.

 

May 08, 2012 04:53

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Well, I too have no problems making money in the club and last season I had something around there, and spent some of it, probably around 200M but it’s a bit silly. It is not about being able to make money, as all the seasoned managers know how to do that, but a new manager would have some problems entering the game and having a nice game experience. Now if you want to make a great team, your only chance is having 20 000 M or build your own team from free transferred youths, it would take 10 seasons but it can be done. The problem is you do not have that kind of money and while building your own team you have to take risks of getting bad results and getting fired on the process, and there you hand over a few seasons labor to someone else, and that for me is a game killer.

I think all the money would be just fine if every price/amount lost one 0. Mind that it costs still same amount of money to build stadiums, hire coaches, scouting etc. Is that right?

I don’t know about you guys but for me it has become a new type of game, just bank as much as possible while avoiding getting fired over the bad results. A new type of simulation, I stopped looking at the match results, or caring should I say.

BK

 

May 07, 2012 23:05

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May 07, 2012 18:12

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I agree with Charles. There are only a few 90+ avr players left. In the old days you had 95 primary skill players with 95+ secondary skills. Now you it’s very tough to find such a player. The 100 primary skill players are also more scarce then before. It makes the game more realistic.

I think the stale marked is a result of this new skill balance. People don’t want to sell there good players because they can’t find a replacement. When you are able to convince them, you have to play way too much money. A problem created by the cpu transfers i think. They give unrealistic high amount of money for average players.

I think the admins must find a way to create a flow in players moving from one team to another. Contract clauses could be a start. Players who want to play games in stead of sitting on the bench; Players who want to play in another competition;… Managers would be forced to sell and buy players.

 

May 07, 2012 15:23

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I have to agree with BK. It’s been nice that the CPU team starting buying players again but all it really did was drive up the market for players that aren’t all that great.
It’s still pretty tough to find that 90average player BK and consider this; prior to the changes made by the admins, there were a lot of 91+ average players. Now it seems to be less and less and generally speaking, players won’t develop past an average rating of perhaps 91 or 92? Back in teh day it was silly to see guys with 100average or 96 or 97 averages. So in that aspect, i think the admins have done a good job of trying to balance out top end talent. I also like the fact that there seems to be more of a random factor when it comes to player progression. Previously, the best players always came from the top 2-3 countries in the world based on their UEFA rankings. But as the admins have pointed out, there is a chance that a great player can be developed from one of the lower countries.

Personally, i think that the transfer market is back to becoming what it was… stale. And although i still appreciate being able to sell some young guys for a few million, it is becoming increasingly difficult to buy a good player at a good price. As of now, i think spending 100mil on an 87 average player is too much, but unfortunately that is the state the game is in right now. smaller teams don’t really have a chance to compete with that. I’m lucky enough that i’ve always been able to find a way of making money but only because i’ve stayed in higher ranked countries. If i were to take over a country with low ranking and low stadium, it would become a much tougher task to accomplish.

As BK said, the game does have its flaws, but it also has its strong points. I still enjoy finding players and developing them (even better if they come from my youth squad) but generally speaking, the game is still definitely linear.

Whats so tough to accomplish for the admins is finding a balance between maknig the transfer market enticing and fun, balanced with having a non linear player progression while making sure that small teams don’t get lost in the shuffle.

Definitely a tough task at and.

charles

 

May 06, 2012 15:02

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Portuguese?

=P

 

May 06, 2012 13:14

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Hi
This is not a bug but a setup. Go to settings and choose Show recent results on home screen?

 

May 06, 2012 12:17

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the game is in a limbo state, and people would rather care making 500M on faulty logic in the game rather than play the game as it was supposed to be played?

Do you even remember what it was like playing such games?

Sure some of it was winning titles and competing with friends and some rivalry was interesting aspect of playing together. I would like to also think that some of the playing itself was being a good guy/friend/player/manager that would help a newbie and the community around the game play was as fun as playing the game itself. It used to be fun to talk about the game, no matter what the game was.

When I see all the fantasy transactions, people refusing to sell a player because they believe they can never find an equal replacement, I think this thing is doomed.

There are several major flaws in the game, other than that the game is amazing.
My suggestions would be:
- fix the economics or die, as simple as that, the game will lose it’s users if economics is not fixed. Period.

- get rid of all the thousands of the superstars, it’s not realistic/good for anything

- get rid of all the cheaters, allow logging in with facebook only or a validation routine validating that the player is a real one. If need be – get a payment for the validation routine.

You guys are thinking that all the fake and fictive millions in your club will make you great or give you some kind of edge in whatever you are pursuing but it will result in only one thing – killing the game.

Just my 2 cents..

Berhan

 

May 06, 2012 10:23

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Hi

Fisrt, I have to say that I’m new to RubySoccer. I’ve just been hired in a team in the Fast Tick Dimension.

It seems that there is a bug in my team→info page. More specifically in the table outlining my team’s last matches. My team is Valencia. The results show like this: Levante ?x? Valencia; Valencia ?x? Cordoba; etc.

I’ve tried to login with a couple of different browsers (chrome and IE) and the problem remains. It doesn’t bother me, as I can still see all the match results if I specifically click on ‘Matches’. The bug is just in this outline of the last matches’ results. I just thought I should let you guys know.

Cheers.

 

May 05, 2012 08:47

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Weird…have you tried cleaning the browser cache? You can send a screenshot to admins@rubysoccer.com so we can investigate

 

May 05, 2012 08:41

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I thought about that when I designed the national team matches…can’t remember why I decided not to prevent injuries on those matches. Maybe we should change that, if there are no positive effects there shouldn’t be any negative effects either.

 

May 04, 2012 01:06

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ill sell you bolt but you have to pay a shit load were taling 200m

 

May 03, 2012 21:56

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Found out why… international friendly :(

http://www.rubysoccer.com/game/match_report/2152576

One of my best players :( Out for 5 games when i need him the most. Besides prevent stamina dropping, shouldn’t the algorithm also prevent this from happening?

 

May 03, 2012 21:52

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How come this guy got injured???

http://www.rubysoccer.com/game/player_info/205516

He didn’t played any matches and I’m certain that in the previous tick everything was OK with him.

 

May 03, 2012 12:45

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May 02, 2012 18:41

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A need a good goal keeper, send me players a have some money

 

May 01, 2012 16:35

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i see them beside “team info, matches, players and titles” on my main team page.
but even when i’m checking emails, instead of the layout being the emails ont he left and the actually body of the email on teh right, for some reason the body is now underneath… really odd, i’m on version 12 as well

 

May 01, 2012 08:17

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Proportional performance bonus / penalty for cup elimination rounds are now in place as well. This is only applicable if you joined a team after the first leg of an elimination cup round has been played and gets a penalty (for being eliminated sooner than expected) or bonus (for qualifying further than expected) after the second leg.

Cheers