RubySoccer is now capable of automatic detecting donations. This means that, if your donation email is the same one you use for rubysoccer, everything regarding the donation will be done within seconds! Don’t worry, this is not the “nice improvement” I mentioned before – that one is still on the way. It is just something to make everybody’s life easier. I will soon do the same for the server expenses, now that I have the code structure to do so.

I hope you guys test the donations stuff… :)

National teams can now be experienced in all their glory! Apply right away for a job and don’t worry, if you are accepted you’ll be able to manage both your club and the national team. It takes 12 turns for a national team to decide who will be the manager. Here is the final design:

-national team matches do not give players experience (to prevent manager from selecting their clubs’ players)
-you cannot apply to a national team if you are already in a national team
-you cannot apply to a national team if you managed a national team in the last 144 turns (1 season)
-you can change the players from the team players page and pick from lists of best players for each position
-managers that do not reach their continental cup expectations are fired from the national team
-managers that do not exceed their world cup expectations are fired from the national team
-expectations are defined 3 turns before the competitions start and will be based on the players selected for the competition
-when selecting a manager for the national team it makes no difference wether or not you manage a club in the same country (that may change in the future)

Enjoy!

Now that the first managers have been hired by national teams it is important to explain how to switch between your club and national team. In the top menu where you see your name and the mail icon there will be an option saying Switch to national team. After switching the option becomes Switch to club. This way you can manage both teams separately. The switch option will soon become an icon.

Cheers!

Added club logo information to national team players page. You can show/hide the logos the same way you hide/show country flags for club players. Let us know if you guys think it is too cumbersome ;-)

Cheers!

Cheaters, beware!

Here are some changes that had to be made to prevent (or should I say reduce) cheating:

-Changed player estimated value calculation to consider player age: existing players will have their values updated slowly; the idea is that young players’ value will be a little higher as they usually have a lot to improve whereas older players’ values will be a little bit lower as they are likely to lose skill points.
-Maximum value for transfer price: you cannot transfer list a player asking more than 3 times his estimated value.
-Retiring players cannot be transfer listed (and are removed from transfer list when retirement is announced).
-Limited to 1 the number of players you can buy from the same manager per season.

Some of these changes may seem a little drastic, but it’s better to start with some excessive measures and adjust them later.

Cheers!

For now, stamina will have no effects on national team matches. It means your players won’t be tired or be more likely to get injured because of low stamina. Of course the rules for club matches remain the same ;-)

Cheers!

Teams from the same country will not face each other anymore in qualifying and final stages of international competitions, unless it is inevitable. We’re working on applying the same rule to the group stage in order to spread teams from the same country in different groups when possible.

Cheers!

New logic in place to prevent teams from the same country to face each other in the group stage of international competitions. When it is inevitable (for example when we have 5 teams from the same country to distribute in 4 groups) the new logic is not used at all. These inevitable situations will soon disappear when we introduce enough countries to have 8 groups.

Cheers!

Just upgraded the whole server to the latest versions of software – this is a preparation for a big package of new stuff that is coming soon. Your experience should improve at this point but, if not, please let us know.

We now have a page on Facebook. Check it out!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/RubySoccer/163511603696352

New things:

Please report to us if you are unable to reset your password (email admins at the domain you are in right now)!!

- Massive upgrade to the system infrastructure. There will be bugs, please report them to us. Please also report if you think the game is slow/faster than before now;
- New UI navigation;
- New achievements system;
- accept / reject all friendlies
- misc UI tweaks
- new login infra

Hotlists fixed, at last! You are now able to remove teams, managers and players from your hotlist.

Cheers.

Sometimes contract proposals were being rejected and the player asked for a lower wage, which doesn’t make sense. This has now been fixed. Thanks Filipe Silva for being the first one to report this some time ago.

Cheers.

Transfer restrictions in place for managers after joining a new team. As soon as you join a new team you won’t be able to buy players for more than the estimated value. The amount you can offer increases slowly every turn until you’re with the team for 72 turns or more. When that happens the restrictions are removed.

Cheers.

You can now assign a formation to all your friendly invitations at once. Just use the select box right beside the accept all and reject all icons. This is pretty useful when you want to click the accept all button.

Cheers.

New manager setting: friendly formation. This setting is used to assign a formation to automatically scheduled friendlies at season start. If you do not use the auto-friendly option this new setting is useless for you :-)

Cheers.

The first achievements are finally here! If you ever got a competition title, check it out at your manager profile! Those are only the first achievements, there are many more to come. Also, I’ve applied a transparent black box to our navigation menu, let me know what you think about it!

Hotlists Notifications

This is the first of a series of hotlists notifications improvements. Now when a player on your hotlist is transfer listed you’ll receive a message about that with the price included. This will help managers in going after the players they’re interested in and also reduce the number of “undercover” deals. Enjoy!

You can now login to RubySoccer using your Facebook, Google or Twitter accounts! Don’t forget to click on the ‘Like’ button at our homepage ;). For Facebook and Gmail, if your email account here in rubysoccer is the same as your email account in those services, it should automatically detect your user and allow you to proceed to your normal account. For twitter, your screen name has to be the same as your rubysoccer login. By the way, you can now login rubysoccer using either your email or login name (to have a login is now optional). Also, some infrastructure updates were rolled out. It should be a little bit faster to browse rubysoccer.

For those of you who use the same email for rubysoccer AND facebook: can you please login with facebook here and authorize rubysoccer when facebook asks you to? We are trying to build a base of users there so we can publish RS as an app.

Managers now have a reputation to worry about. If you go to a manager’s information page you’ll see his/her reputation. Everybody starts with 100% and whenever something suspicious is identified this value may go down. Admins and GMs will be responsible for the decisions around the reputation value.

This information will also be available when you are making offers to buy players or when you are looking at offers being made for your players, just in case you wanna take that in consideration when doing business in the game. Remember, failing to let us know of suspicious activities is almost as bad as the suspicious activities themselves ;-)

More to be released on the same subject soon!

Did you have the feeling your low stamina players were not playing as bad as you’d expect? Because they weren’t! Some of the skills were not being correctly penalized due to low stamina as they should. It has now been fixed, players should suffer all effects of low stamina in the following matches. Thanks to Felix Cardoso for raising the flag on this one.

Cheers.

Fixed groups balance on international cups based on team quality. After Ricardo Ramos pointed out something was definitely wrong with the group drawing I’ve done some investigation and found the problem. Next time things should be back to normal ;-)

Cheers.

Holiday mode is not working correctly, at least for some managers. While we don’t fix the problem you shouldn’t rely on it for not losing the team after 7 days of inactivity. As soon as it’s resolved a new announcement will be made.

Cheers.

Just fixed holiday mode. You can now safely go on vacation without worrying (too much) about your team. Rules are still the same, as soon as you enter the dimension again holiday mode is turned off.

Cheers.

International competition spots were redistributed for South American countries based on real life distribution but adjusted to be dynamic rather than fixed. If you take Libertadores for example, Brazil and Argentina have 5 spots each and all other countries have 3. In RubySoccer the first two South American countries in the country ranking will have 5 spots and other countries will have 3. A similar logic was applied to Copa Sudamericana, first South American country will have 8 spots, second 6 spots and all others 3 spots.

We know that there are other rules like the previous champion is automatically qualified, but we are not implementing those…at least not just yet.

Cheers.

I’ve just made some changes to the youth player generation so that smaller countries have a higher chance of generating better players once in a while. As a result the average quality of players should raise (no changes for top 2 ranked countries). I don’t want to reveal too many details of the change, but you’ll notice it when a good amount of new youths appear or, even better, when new countries are added ;-)

Cheers.

It’s just common sense, but it’s good to have something we can refer to and update if necessary.
Forum Policy: http://www.rubysoccer.com/forums/5/topics/2037

Do you feel like shopping?

http://www.cafepress.com.au/rubysoccer

Yet another way to confirm you’re on holiday mode. After entering holiday mode exit the dimension. In the enter dimension screen you will see a red message saying “HOLIDAY MODE=ON” right below the description of the dimension(s) where you are on holiday.

Cheers.