1. Topic: General
2. Future plans for RubySoccer

Sincerely, i like the game as it is right now. For me, the only handicaps are the match’s algorithm and the youth upgrade calculation. The match algorithm tends to give a great emphases on goal keepers (even when they are not that great) making it hard to score goals even when we have 20/25 shots on target. The other remark is the youth players: it’s very rare to have 2 or 3 reasonsable good players that we can promote to the principal squad. Most of the time, the game gives you an average rated player player that will eventually end up in the free transfer. Once in a while a Ronaldo or a Messi could came along :)

Free game and with real club names, excellent!!!

1. Topic: General
2. Goodbye

just keep city names and make the logos generic

1. Topic: General
2. Future plans for RubySoccer

I think it is clear to everyone at the moment that something drastic must be done with the game to put it back on track. We’re missing two main things at the moment: time and motivation. There’s only so much we can do about lack of time, we won’t compromise work and family to work on the game, but when we do have free time we need motivation to spend a few hours on RubySoccer every now and then.

With that in mind, one of the possibilities is moving RubySoccer to a freemium model where the game would remain free-to-play but managers would be able to make in-game purchases to either unlock more features or gain some kind of benefit. By doing this we would have to get rid of real life club and competition names which in my opinion is a very nice feature. How would everyone feel about that?

Even without real life club names I’d like to keep the structure of countries, national leagues and cups and international competitions. The difference would be that each manager would them create his/her own club and join a particular country. Let’s not worry about the specific mechanics of that right now.

I have some more ideas to discuss but I think I’ve said enough to get this started.
Cheers

1. Topic: General
2. Goodbye

I have to say I feel a bit encouraged to do something about the game at the moment. I know the pay to play is probably the way to go, or maybe a freemium model. In order to move towards this we would have to change some basic stuff about the game, like real club and tournament names. Even if we do that I’d like to keep the same structure: countries with fixed divisions, a national cup, two international competitions and club world cup.

How would everyone feel about losing real-life clubs? Maybe I should start a topic about this…

1. Topic: General
2. Goodbye

i would donate if i saw progress. gabriel im not trying to talk shit but im giving tough love. i do love this game, it can be so MUCH more than it is now.

you want players ? make it a facebook app like top eleven maybe ?

give us some boost in team players attributes or something. give more incentive to buy or sell or even trade.
more options as a manager is very very important. have we advertised ? on forums or what have you ? i want this game (us) to become what it can be.
berhan said once he would buy the game of ya. he said he has the knowledge or what have you. surely you could appoint volunteer developers

im just trying to innovate ideas….someone has to :(

1. Topic: General
2. Goodbye

The game become static..
Transfer market is bad, there is nothing to upgrade, not much to do anymore, its just logging in an putting 11 players on the pitch.

The lack of competition amongst managers, bragging and ranting in the forums I miss the most :)
But still this game is better then any other football game.

We need to PAY to Play.
And for donations… you would need thousands people to play the game to keep the game running from dontions…
Donations is “extra” income but thats about it.
We need a fixed amount money investing in the game.
Im willing to pay 10 euro a month even at this state but expect improvements ofcoarse.

1. Topic: General
2. Goodbye

Sad to see you leave Smithers, but I understand your reasons. Davison is harsh as usual but of course he has a point. Shutting down the game has been considered a few months ago, but we decided to keep it alive for the sake of the players and, who knows, we could get excited to work on it again. It seems some people still enjoy playing RubySoccer, when that’s not true any more we might as well shut it down and save some money.

Cheers

1. Topic: General
2. Goodbye

yeh the game is shit, its completely fuckn random it attributes mean fuck all anymore its all luck now

ive had 50 shots in a game and still lost with 35 of them being on target and playing vs a shit team while i had all stud line up. the games dead
dont blame you, im close to leaving too if nothing is improved.. and i mean the next update better fucking have something other than some bullshit fake shit like scouting reports.

this game became the worst manager game due to neglect from its owners. people just see that and say why should i waste my time playing here and they go else where.

GJ GUYS!!! neglected game to death

1. Topic: General
2. Goodbye

was a pleasure, but taking to much time.
Especially the result made me decide….makes me a soar loser i guess.
Good luck all!

http://www.rubysoccer.com/game/match_report/4077480
http://www.rubysoccer.com/game/match_report/4077462
http://www.rubysoccer.com/game/match_report/4077612

1. Topic: FastTicker
2. Rui reis

O facto de querer jogar com varias equipas Rui compreendo no entanto nao é permitido e dai existir o medium.. mesmo que nao haja trocas entre equipas e nesse caso houve ou iria haver pode muito bem influenciar certos resultados…. como a maioria dos jogos funciona por ips ect e é claro que ainda por cima em Portugal facilmente tens outro ip basta teres net movel e uma fixa… e ha os amigos dos amigos ect e o mercado estava melhor antes agora pouco se pode comprar e o pouco é a preco exurbitante; no entanto se as regras dizem que cada usuario so pode ter uma equipa…

1. Topic: FastTicker
2. Rui reis

Olá Rui,

Entendo suas considerações e acredito que realmente não tenha criado outro usuário com más intenções. Certamente nosso método não detecta todos os casos e até detecta casos que não são batota. A decisão de não permitir mais de um usuário por pessoa foi pra tentar facilitar o gerenciamento e não ter que analisar caso a caso quais deveriam ser permitidos e quais não. Espero que compreenda.

Abraço

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English: Rui explains he was not cheating and not even hiding the fact the other account was his (given the same surname), simply had a separate user because he’s addicted to the game and wanted to have more play time. He also questions why it is considered cheating to have another user and questions our detection methods. I told him I believe him and explained the decision to not allow multiple users was simply to make it easier to manage these situations by simply forbidding it rather than having to analyse in a case by case basis.

1. Topic: FastTicker
2. Rui reis

Algumas considerações:
1 – Assumo o que fiz, mas em minha defesa digo que não foi com má conduta, até usei o nome do meu filhote e mantive o sobrenome, usei um mail ligado à minha conta do Sporting e tudo. Se fosse por maldade podia usar outras técnicas.
2 – Ainda não percebi bem porque é considerado batota ter outra equipa… falando por mim, é o vício de criar e jogar com mais equipas, uma coisa que deveria ser normal. Ok, colocava-se a questão da compra e venda. So what? Desde que com regras bem definidas, acima do preço de mercado etc, qual o mal? Sendo igual para todos… era justo. É afastado da realidade? Se calhar nem por isso… não digo que haja donos de várias equipas, mas no que toca ao mercado sabemos como funciona entre agentes, fundos etc.
3 – Por outro lado duvido muito que detectem todos os que possam fazer isto, o que torna a coisa injusta.
4 – Procuram casos destes por IP´s e MAC Address?… O facto de ser fácil de contornar deixa-me triste por me banirem a mim, que fiz às claras e sem intenções.
5 – Gosto do jogo, por isso vou começar do zero algures na América Latina.

1. Topic: FastTicker
2. Rui reis

Visto que não é a primeira vez acho justo. Vou despedi-lo do Sporting.

Obrigado

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English: Lince and Scatola argued something should be done with Rui’s user, not only the duplicate. Given it’s not the first time he creates secondary accounts I’ll fire him from Sporting as punishment.

1. Topic: FastTicker
2. Rui reis

concordo perfeitamente com o lince pois andamos a penar e a construir e assim nao é justo devia ser banido do sporting . abraco

1. Topic: FastTicker
2. Rui reis

A banir era a conta mais " forte " nesse caso despedir do sporting o treinador para aprender…

1. Topic: FastTicker
2. Rui reis

Obrigado Micoli, já confirmei o abuso e bani o usuário Tiago Reis que treinava o Dijon.

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English: Rui Reis had a second user, Tiago Reis, who I just banned.

1. Topic: FastTicker
2. Rui reis

Este jogador está a utilizar mais do que um nome no jogo atualmente treina o Sporting de Portugal e também treina o dijon em frança e está a fazer negócios de jogadores entre as duas equipas, obrigado

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Euro fixture

Thanks for your reply. Yes I would agree with all you say, would be nice not to play the same team that you just played in the group stage. Maybe this could be added to the code.

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Euro fixture

From Gabriel Cesario (admin)

I wouldn’t call it a bug but a non-desirable outcome of the algorithm used to generated the international cup finals matches. The only restrictions currently in place are:
- first placed teams must play against second placed teams in the round of 16
- teams are split in two pots, one with the “stronger” ones and another with the “weakers”…matches must consist of a team from each pot
- same country teams should not face each other unless inevitable

The rule you would like included (and one that makes a lot of sense by the way) is that teams from the same group should not face each other in the round of 16.

Cheers

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Java Problem

Igi…

Thanks! Replay is now working ok…except my side still loses :(

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Euro fixture

I came 2nd in my group in the fast ticker. I am now playing the team that won my group, surely this can’t be correct? I am Tottenham.

1. Topic: General
2. Very strange!!!!???

Martin’s answer:

Subject: Re: No kid to play as keeper?

Lol, I had accidentally set my friendly lineup when I lost 18-0…

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Player gone???

Correct, stamina doesn’t count for national squad matches. Not sure how he could have vanished from your team. As you mentioned once the competitions start the selection changes are locked :-/

1. Topic: General
2. Very strange!!!!???

Yes, it was a “fixed” match. Martin Robillard from Grenoble played with a non keeper youth player in goalie, hence the score. I lost at home to Grenoble in the next CL match but there he played with his first (and only keeper). I asked him (via mail) the reason why he played this time with a “real” keeper. Still waiting for the answer.

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Player gone???

I have no idea, selection changes where closed ofcourse so i can’t have removed one at all.
And Rijvers….yes that’s bad…but for international games stamina doesnt count right?

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Player gone???

Very strange indeed.
You still have 23 players so who is the player that wasn’t selected at all?

Btw. Friso Rijvers, can he still stand on his feet with stamina 18 :)

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Player gone???

check this out:
Mathijs Schrijvers is one of my internationals in te dutch team. Semi finals he played against Spain.
Now the final is coming up against England, and the guy is just out of my team?
Vanished! He still plays for his own team, but he is out of the squad?

1. Topic: General
2. Very strange!!!!???

This is pure competition fraud, it happens in league games aswell by some managers.
If this team wil continue to play with shit players then its more then fair to other managers.

We need a fix for this..
Maybe we need an option at season start where you select X-player that will compete in competitions.

1. Topic: General
2. Very strange!!!!???

http://www.rubysoccer.com/game/match_report/4030276

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Java Problem

Goto “Configure java” option
Lower your security settings in Java.