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danilo when will you guys implement a map for all the countrys ss style? i no its not important but would give a more professional look to the game :P
cheers
as you may already know, today we had our first reset. I wanted to thank you guys for your support during the “first round” on rubysoccer.
Also, you all are welcome and invited to join our new round! Moreover, we have a larger number of teams, which means that everybody is encouraged to bring friends over (well, we have limits… but for now we are ok :) ).
We hope you guys enjoy RS new features, though there is a lot of stuff to add.
cheers and have fun!
Our first big update is now ready. We have 2 new dimensions: FastTicker (6 ticks per day) and MediumTicker (3 ticks per day), both with the same countries and competitions.
Technical changes:
-database migration from mysql 4 to mysql 5
Improvements:
-enhanced player generation
-4 new countries: Argentina, Portugal, Germany and France
New Features:
-manager history
-international cups: Champions League, UEFA Cup, Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana
Yeah, it is a pity! We won’t have enough countries to make a group phase. The good side is, without the group phase it took less time to develop the whole logic and you’ll be able to enjoy the international cups sooner :-D
oh! im already missing the group phase in champions league :(
Exactly Samir.
The order the teams are processed is random. Lets say you apply for Barcelona, Porto and Real Madrid in that order. If Real Madrid is processed first and you get it, you are out for the rest of the teams. The first you “win” on the ramdom dispute is the one you will get. Right Danilo/Gabriel?
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 ?
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.
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.
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. :)"
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. :)
The aging stuff is a different subject, we can change that even if we don’t change the game to use real dates :-)
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!
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.
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.
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 ?
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.
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.
Hopefully we’ll have some time to modify the player generation a little bit before the reset.
Cheers.
You’ll probably have time to finish the championship Tiago. Good luck!
International Cups on final testing phase. New dimensions will be created to replace Beta 1 and Beta 2 until the end of the week.
i agree with alexander. i find there are way too many very high quality players being generated from my youth squad.
this was probably happening due to some problem on our server… please inform if this continue to happen! thanks and cheers!
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
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
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.
when wil this reset be? just to get an idea …
Good excuse, hahahahahahahahaha.
I don´t believe a word you say!!! (just kidding man, hehehehe)
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.