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We have slightly changed the generation of multi-position players (DM, MA, DA, etc) so that their two main skills have a higher chance of having a big gap between them, even though they will still be closer in most cases.
The points calculation for the team and manager rankings has just been improved. Now we store the history of matches instead of just a count and the number of points, that means we can discard the oldest entry and include the new one instead of just discarding an average based on the current points as we did before.
Another important change is that unemployed managers will have their match counter reduced as well as their points and instead of losing one point per turn they will lose one entry in their match history. The old system caused a disadvantage for someone that decide to return to the game because it took longer to earn points when compared to a fresh new manager. Not anymore!
The board always believes that the team can perform better than in the previous season. The only exception is a financial mismatch. That is real football.
Well, let me give you a practical example. Let’s say based solely on your squad quality evaluation (which is very poorly calculated sometimes) the board would tell you to finish middle in table, but in the prior season you happen to have qualified for Champions League by finishing in third place, so instead of telling you to finish middle in table this season the board may now maybe tell you to qualify for Europa League. They still want you to over perform (in terms of squad quality), but not necessarily as much as you previously did.
Once the board sees you’re capable of over performing they will expect that from you again.
But by it’s very nature the original over performance can’t realistically be repeated, otherwise it wouldn’t be over performance, it would have been performance:)
Hence my original question!
Question from Sniff:
“With regard to team quality calculations, what will happen if a team over performs the season before the calculations come into effect? Will this then make the board too harsh on a team that has over-performed, as in all likelihood they won’t be able to repeat their level of performance? I don’t have a solution, but possibly something to think about in the implementation.”
It will definitely have an impact, but if you think about it, it is not unrealistic. Once the board sees you’re capable of over performing they will expect that from you again. The other way around is also true, if you under performed they will ease their expectations in the following season. Also, if you over performed your performance will be high enough to survive the higher expectations in the following season.
CPU teams will stop loaning players too close to season end and will not start loaning again until after investments are updated for the new season. This will ensure they don’t loan players during a period where they will not use them and also ensure they don’t loan players just to have them returned because of reduced coaching level.
Team quality calculation will change next season. In the current system the team quality is solely based on the quality of the players in the team and that is then used to determine board expectations, manager performance increase/decrease and a few other things. If we look at the results versus expectations it is clear the existing method is not good enough in a lot of cases. That’s why starting next season the team quality will be competition based and include the previous season’s performance in each competition in addition to the quality of players. This should provide more realistic expectations and manager performance ratings.
@Charles: no, it doesn’t
Lee Coleman won’t renew contract, offers please
Fixed! Morale related screw up on my part, still needs permanent fixing, let’s hope it doesn’t happen again before I have time to investigate and fix it properly :-(
Fast ticker stuck at 90%
fast ticker is freezed!
does playing friendlies increase a players morale?
Or ignore it. Just make sure that they are not critical anymore when you have to renew the contract.
I’ve found that with my youngest non-youth players all they needed so far is to play 2-3 matches (out of 20+) so far to stay in Neutral. Of course that number can be different for each team and it should be easier to manage morale of players who have lower skills when compared to the calculated main squad skill.
this morale feature has some problems. I’ve under 20 players promoted from youth team with critical morale because they don’t play, or players with critical because they have too few matches (but with an avg rating of 4.7). bha…
We have a big change coming, but that will take a little longer to be ready. In the meantime we are improving the way the team quality is perceived to be competition specific. This will affect the board expectations, manager performance rating changes and team/manager ranking points. The goal is to have more realistic goals and match results effects. The new system will try to learn from the team’s previous participations in each competition and balance that with the current squad quality to provide a better result.
There was a postal soccer game – yes I am showing my age here – that for the life of me I can’t remember what it was called, but they used to allow amazing stadium upgrades. You could build executive boxes, seating or standing areas and then allocate which set of fans were in each section, you could also price each section differently. I always thought it added a nice element to the game. Executive boxes brought in silly money but were ridiculous in cost to build, maybe something along those lines. Just a thought though.
We are partially ready for allowing the ticket price change, the field exists in the database for all teams but it is currently set as 10 for everyone. What we need to do to enable this is implement some logic to reduce the attendance for higher ticket prices and vice-versa. The attendance then needs to have an effect on the team peformance to balance things out I believe.
I like your suggestion of allowing the manager to decide how many tickets should be available for the visitor team fans, but increasing the number of tickets available for visitores must also decrease the performance penalty received by the visitor team during the match.
I’ll add both these things to our task list.
thanks for the shout out and btw i agree with you sniff
Sunderland for Life me
Any thougths on allowing us to manage the ticket prices? Or even the idea of allowing us to allocate how many away fan tickets are allocated. So for example if you have the league leaders coming to visit and you usually get a 50,000 attendance, allowing the away team say up to 25,000 away fans? (Assuming all stadiums are 100k in size).
The main driver for attendance in the league is your current position, for the other competitions attendance gets higher the further you get. We can definitely improve (and we will) on attendance calculation and ticket pricing by introducing more variables such as club fan base, derby matches, etc. At the moment the variables are match importance (mainly), team quality, opponent quality.
I get 26k attendance against human manager, while I see CPU gets 70k attendance. ..
The income is low because there are no supporters in my stadium.
I don’t make money in medium ticker maybe we 20k a week.
2) That’s unfortunate, but fair. I guess I’ll change my requirements…
Agree. Just play it safe, check if you have any major contract renewals the following season, plan accordingly (i.e. set your Negotiations to 10) and offer 10-20% more than recommended to every player you really want. Every 10k in salary means ~500k per season – it should not make real difference in the budget and it is definitely not worth it to lose a player for such low amounts
The ticket price has not changed since the beginning of time, it has always been 10 per seat except on cup finals when it can go as high as 40 per seat in the Club World Cup.
Well Gabriel, here is my opinion.
I agree with Joseppi. I lost 1 player but that was my own fault and it wasn’t with the opening negotationbid. I took a risk to offer a lower bid in the second negotiation round and he refused and stopped negotiations. For a key players I won’t take the risk. Allthough I don’t directly give what my player asks for but I stay in what should be a safe margin to me.
The contract negotiations are fine the way the are now. Only extra contractclauses would be nice in the future.
Ok, my mistake. Seems logical to me.
What happend to the attendance and ticket prices?
I get very low attendance.
My money in bank didn`t increase for 3 seasons I think…
Tickets income both for League and Cup are the same?
Competition: Premiership
Attendance: 26401
Tickets: $264,010
10k per seat
Competition: FA Cup
Attendance: 16712
Tickets: 167,120
10k per seat