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November 13, 2007 11:15

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Thank you. And… I will apply for several teams in case I don’t get my preferred. What happens if I apply to several and I am selected to more than one team? Can I choose ?

 

November 13, 2007 11:12

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Reset scheduled for tonight (here in Brazil, GMT -03:00). First turn will last something between 12-24 hours so most of the users have the chance of applying for a team. Any comments on this subject should be posted in the “Improvements Discussion” topic.

Cheers.

 

November 13, 2007 11:06

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The answer to Ricardo’s question “what criteria will be used to prefer a manager against other?” is luck. We find all teams with applications and radomly choose one of them to become the manager. There is no guarantee the first team you applied will be processed first for your applications. In the future we’ll have a more sofisticated way to make this decision, considering manager performance.

 

November 13, 2007 10:55

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Moving the conversation from “Improvements” topic, which is supposed to contain only our announcements :-)

“Improvements replied by kardo @ Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:03:46 -0700

what criteria will be used to prefer a manager against other?
Improvements replied by gabriel @ Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:55:03 -0700

Danilo wants to add a few more things before creating the new dimensions. To be honest I’d prefer to do that today as we have a holiday here on thursday that would postpone the reset until next week when the competitions in the new season of Beta 1 and Beta 2 will already have started. We’ll discuss that and let you guys now, but remember we’ll have about 24 hours before the first tick so everybody have the chance to apply for a team.

Cheers.

Improvements replied by danilo @ Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:28:43 -0700

this week :). next week, tops. we will announce it 2 days before.
Improvements replied by kardo @ Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:23:03 -0700

Is there already a date defined for new dimensions?
When can we know? I want to stay tuned. :)"

 

November 13, 2007 09:53

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Portugal only has 16 teams in each division. The majority of leagues has 20 to 22. What will we see in Portugal? 2 Divisions with 16, 22 or 3 Divisions. This game has many portuguese people, I think that 2 divisons of 16 teams will not be enought. :)

 

November 12, 2007 13:19

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The aging stuff is a different subject, we can change that even if we don’t change the game to use real dates :-)

 

November 12, 2007 12:08

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We’ll try your way gabriel, of course. But, as I mentioned previously, I rather prefer the game with real dates, real winter breaks, real summer breaks, and real dates of international competitions and cups. I would love to see players not aging all in the first turn!

I dont want you to interpretate this as many complains, I will play the game as it is, but this would be my choice.

cheers!

 

November 12, 2007 11:10

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I would say, to use the same tatic and make the right substitutions, if the team squad is not complete before the match. Sometimes this is annoying… :)

Others ideias…

- the contract clauses: relegation, big club or a clause fee to pay.
- as said befora: “save as”-button for tactics
- after proposing a new contract, we lose control of the negotiation, i.e., if the player accepts the contract, he his automatically in our team. For example: I want to buy a player, but probably I will make several offers to several players, because some of the negociations will fail… but if all that offers are accepted I will have a lot of players in my team.

 

November 12, 2007 11:06

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Let’s put it in numbers. For the number of countries we have and taking as an example a country with 20 teams on each of its 2 divisions:

National Cup – starts on turn 7, ends on turn 52
League – starts on turn 18, ends on turn 132
International Cups – start on turn 107, ends on turn 143

With the configuration above I agree that we could move the International Cups so that they’d start a few turns earlier, but if you consider all european countries and one specific countries with 7 divisions we’d have:

National Cup – starts on turn 7, ends on turn 70
League – doesn’t change
International Cups – start on turn 65 (approximately), ends on turn 143

Theoretically the teams playing the national cup finals will start the international cups later, on a more advanced phase (except for weak countries), so you’ll never play 3 competitions simultaneously. If we group all competitions in order to have a proper “summer break” we may end up with some stamina issues for the teams playing in all competitions possible. Changing the stamina issues to make these teams life a little bit easier will make small teams’ life a lot more easier regarding stamina. Oh, one more reason I forgot to mention, but that’s a personal one: I don’t like season breaks and this design let us have at least one competition happening during the whole season.

I’m not saying that’s the way things will work and we won’t change it, I’m just making it clearer why we’ve designed things this way. If you and other users don’t like it please feel free to post your ideias here (like you’re doing) and we’ll take them into consideration. Let’s give it a try. :-)

Cheers.

 

November 12, 2007 09:32

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Gabriel, if i understand you right: the international cups will be played (like e.g. WC) in the summer break. That’s normally the time when players are sold/bought – it’s the planning & preparation phase for the upcoming season.

Why don’t you integrate the internationals in the regular season schedule ?

 

November 12, 2007 08:24

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The international cups will happen at the end of the season, when the national cups have already ended, so you’ll never have more than two competitions at the same time. About stamina improvements we are thinking about giving a stamina boost at the season end and in the middle of the season, as we don’t have proper breaks on these periods. That’s not an immediate change though and is not confirmed yet.

Cheers.

 

November 12, 2007 08:05

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Do you guys will make any improvement or change in the stamina mechanism? Today we have a great physical consuming with two championships running at the same time, and I wonder how is gonna work with the new international cups to come.

 

November 12, 2007 03:51

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Hopefully we’ll have some time to modify the player generation a little bit before the reset.

Cheers.

 

November 12, 2007 03:49

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You’ll probably have time to finish the championship Tiago. Good luck!

 

November 12, 2007 03:34

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International Cups on final testing phase. New dimensions will be created to replace Beta 1 and Beta 2 until the end of the week.

 

November 11, 2007 20:18

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i agree with alexander. i find there are way too many very high quality players being generated from my youth squad.

 

November 11, 2007 19:23

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this was probably happening due to some problem on our server… please inform if this continue to happen! thanks and cheers!

 

November 11, 2007 12:15

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the site is very very slow but i guess that’s you and danilo working things out!

have you changed the way players are generated? i think there are too many great players in the game!

cheers

 

November 11, 2007 09:10

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Hello,

I hope you let this season end for beta 2.. I am leading the england championship and wish to finish it.. in 3 days i should have done it.

if not.. too bad. i am looking forward to train a portuguese team and to beat all of you guys in the international competitions :P

Tiago

 

November 11, 2007 06:28

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I’m almost done with international cups, just need some testing and a couple new screens. So the answer is, in about 2-5 days.

Cheers.

 

November 11, 2007 06:24

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when wil this reset be? just to get an idea …

 

November 10, 2007 16:20

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Good excuse, hahahahahahahahaha.

I don´t believe a word you say!!! (just kidding man, hehehehe)

 

November 10, 2007 15:21

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sure thing. i think it is a good idea to postpone the first tick to the next day, so there will be time for everybody to apply.

 

November 10, 2007 08:40

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when you reset the betas, please warn everyone so we all can apply for the teams we want :) cheers

 

November 10, 2007 05:23

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The explanation is very simple, early in the season we had some problems with the national cup generation and I had to do it manually. Unfortunately I generated the matches in turns where league matches happen, so a few league matches have been rescheduled. The reason these teams have less games is that Nautico had friendlies scheduled for every free turn, making it impossible to reschedule the matches against Botafogo and America-RN. This situation won’t happen in a normal season because league matches will never be rescheduled.

Sorry for that Bretum, these 3 teams will have to end the season with less games than the others.

Cheers.

 

November 10, 2007 00:52

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me too !

in last two league matches it used 3-3-4 and 4-2-4, but my formation is 3-4-3. no injured players and no red card, so why it changed my default formation???

 

November 09, 2007 19:36

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hmm, thats very strange. we will investigate but, anyway, we will probably reset everything very soon.

 

November 09, 2007 16:45

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I´m manager of Botafogo in Beta 2.

I have 27 games played and the others have 28.
América-RN and Náutico have the same problem.

I checked the other teams fixtures (Corinthians and São Paulo) and they have the same number of games left (10 games).

 

November 09, 2007 10:30

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Ok, Obrigado ;)

 

November 09, 2007 06:50

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The safe list is a possibility but right now there is nothing we can do, at least not in a short amount of time. I’m sorry that you have to live with it for now. We’ll have a reset soon and each dimension will have around 300 teams, so you’ll have a lot more places to look for good players. Hope this can compensate somehow :-)

Cheers.