well, this is a technical announcement. we are using rails 1.2.4 now. this should improve a few things.

cheers!

whats rails?

and what kind of improvements are you talking about?

sorry i’m not a programmer :P

mostly security problems and misc bug fixes (around rails). but i´ve also noticed a small performance improvement. maybe i am wrong on the last one :).

cheers

i´ve improved internet explorer experience, though the only explorer version I will attend to is 7 (IE 6 is too buggy for a developer working on free software to worry about). For IE 7, there are only a couple more things that I need to review, like formation screen alignment. But the changes I´ve made so far should already make a good difference.

cheers!

will there be new announcements of improvements in this next season? :P

Not in the beginning, but I’ll start working on something bigger.

i am also hoping to start working in a couple important things very soon.

When you have pending negotiations the menu icon blinks (and the title changes). We dont have a good different icon to use there, so for now the icon will be the same.

a draft of team event history is implemented. I am not satisfied, but it is better than nothing.

“team event history”: the league should be an additional info there. league 1, league 2, etc. … and promotion, relegation. just a thought

I agree, we’ll have something like

“Ends Division 2 in position 1. Promoted to Division 1”
“Ends Division 1 in position 16.”
“Ends Division 1 in position 18. Relegated to Division 2”

National Cup final played on one match, 100.000 seats stadium, neutral ground. If the match ends in a tie penalty shootout decides the champion.

Yes, that is one of the improvements I am planning to do. But there will be more :).

Gabriel, its fantastic we have team history now, but would it be possible to have something like this:

“Ends second in division one – season xxxxx"
“Wins the cup – season xxxx”
“Wins division one – season xxxx”
“Wins division two, promoted to division one – season xxxx”
“Ends third in division two, promoted to division one – season xxxx”

dont know, just a thought to make it more “professional”

other thing, would it be possible to have instead of division one the names of the leagues? Like serie A, serie B, premier league, brasileirão, etc? It would be nice :D

cheers guys, thanks for the hard work!

Team history is being improved as I type. Me and Danilo have just discussed league names and we’ve decided to keep it as it is for now. Not because it is difficult to implement, but because we have other priorities. I’ll open an enhancement request on our system so we don’t forget to do that in the future.

I’ve just added the things we discussed here on team history. I am planning more stuff, but at least what was there is already a step further. lemme know what you guys think.

Customizations on error screens; New server software (bugfixes+performance); Latest news on login page.
If you want to discuss improvements, please use another forum topic, since this one is for our announcements only. thanks and cheers!

Our server is now clustered/balanced. In other words, the performance should be dramatically better on our top hours. However, bugs can happen. I count on you guys to report them, using the improvements discussion topic. cheers!

Dimensions table shows how many teams are free and how many managers are online. Inside the dimension, it is possible to see who are the online users.

International Cups on final testing phase. New dimensions will be created to replace Beta 1 and Beta 2 until the end of the week.

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.

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

Accepted friendly matches can now be cancelled.

Please answer this topic about stamina.

Formation “Save as” button implemented.

ps: the validations are not performed correctly (yet). so if you try something odd you will have a system error.

The Board now doesn’t allow unrealistically high wages to be offered. The limit depends on the player quality.

Unfortunately I was forced to implement the code to ban users. We already banned one user that have created more logins after one of our warnings.

Edited by Gabriel: users in the same network as the banned user will also be punished as a collateral effect. Please, tell your friends not to cheat :-)

After hiring a new player you must keep him half season (72 turns) before being able to transfer list him.

The maximum number of non-youth players a team can have is now 30. Teams with 30 or more players won’t be able to hire another one, even their own youths.

It is now possible to filter the matches displayed in the Team Matches screen by the match type (League, Friendly, Non-friendly,Champions League and so on).