Many issues:

I think the field should be upside down, be it the defenders at the bottom midfields as they are but orientated to the goalie at the top and attackers at the top. This because it makes sense that your left defender plays in YOUR LEFT side so that it is less confusing.

When we have the cursor in some player, we should be able to see al the attributes instead of 4 as it is now, as i said in other thread before.

I also think that when we grab a player and put him in the field we should hav e other cursor or none cursor at all. We would only see the player name instead of the cursor that appears now (equal to text boxes).

When we want a 4 line defense it feels strange the hole that stays between the 2 central backs and it feels even stranger the nearness of the lateral defenders and the central ones to. Will it stay like this?

I did not understood the mentality thing yet but i think it is very wrong that some one that uses the diamond tactic cannot have that design well. Only 3 players in the central space are allowed right now.

Other important thing is the side of the player that should appear beside the attributes of that player when we put the cursor above the name of the player. Its important to know the side without having to check the player page always.

Other important matter is: how do we choose our bench? How can we decide the substitutions that will be made?

I know it is a long post but I wanna help the game improving fast.

Cheers,

Alexandre

One more thing, in managersim we had orders to give to the players when attacking and when defending with the arrows or the free role option or play position etc… We had mark men to men etc defending.

I think it would be nice to have that…

cheers

It makes sense to have the field upside down as you mentioned, we may take care of that as soon as the player’s side is taken into consideration during the match, I mean, a player with L side playing in the right does not receive any penalty at the moment.

About the attributes displayed we’ll add more for sure.

We haven’t thought of changing the cursor or having no cursor during the drag, we’ll se what can be done.

The line of 4 hole will probably stay like this, at least for a while. Changing it would take some time, so we’ll take care of high priority bugs and improvements first.

The mentality thing defines if your player will play defensively, offensively or none. In the first option, your player is not likely to attack, in the second option he will attack more frequently, in the third option, it’s lke play position. I understand that a diamond tactic cannot be used on this scenario (at least a classic diamond strategy), but we have to experiment this whole mentality ideias we’ve had to decide whether they’re worth or not.

Side is not displayed because it is useless, as I mentioned above.

All players not in the formation are automatically in the bench, but for now they’re used only to replace injured players. Allowing the managers to plan substitutions is a high priority task.

A long post deserved a long answer :-)

Keep the ideias coming. Cheers.

Yes, players individual orders are also being planned.

On the individual orders i’d like to suggest, besides what we had in Soccersim, that we could determine for each player what we can choose for the team as a whole. Tackling mentality, shooting range, passing style, and maybe if he’s allowed to cross. Would be nice to tell a player that received a yellow card in the last match (or a highly aggresive one, for that matter) that he should tackle easy, or tell your keeper to pass long, or tell a specific midfielder that he should shoot from distance, without having to tell that to the whole team. ;)

yes I agree with you ricardo :)

Yes, that’s one of the ideias, let the players use the team strategies or give them individual orders like easy tackles, long shots, and so on.

just to tell that apparently all bugs in this screen are taken care of but one: my first player, a midfielder does not show his attributes, all the other players do. can you check it out please?

would it be possible to have the age present in the attributes aswell? just in case we want to bet on youth players!

cheers

hmm, did you find this bug just after entering the screen? or after doing some dragging/dropping?

about youth players: we will probably have different icons for them.

no, i just go to the formation screen and the first defender does not show his attributes all the remaining players do.

i said midfielder but it is defender, im sorry

its still like this!

hmm, very strange. it seems to be a very particular situation, since it doesnt happen for any of my players. is there anybody else having the same problem?

it is happening to me now with one of my midfielders.

it happens to me still with the first defender but now aswell with the last midfielder (closer to the bottom).

cheers

alexandre, can you please reset your password and send me your login / new password in my email? danilo@rubysoccer.com . Please make sure you build up that “bug situation” in your default formation screen. i will see if i can reproduce it there and as soon as I am done i will let you know so you can change your password again.

thanks

i’ll do that now!