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Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

A National Cup icon was added to the menu so you can go directly to the National Cup page without having to go through the league table page. It is a small enhancement but after a long time I am back to work!

Cheers.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

The RubySoccer team wishes everybody a Happy New Year! You guys in Australia are almost there but I got here just in time :D

Unfortunately we were not able to deliver all enhancements we promised due to some unexpected events. In January things should get back to normal. Happy 2010!

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

New option available on manager settings: “Schedule friendlies on season start?”.

Using this option friendlies will be scheduled automatically for your team on a new season start, the same way done for CPU teams. Your opponent will be randomly picked between CPU teams and other managers who also marked this new option and will be the same on all matches. There will be 48 matches scheduled, 1 every 3 turns.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Even though there is still a lot to do in the match engine I decide to release a package of changes:

- decision to shoot depends on how many players are between the attacker and the goal, since now the shot can be intercepted
- players are more aware when the path to the goal is free so they can decide to run instead of passing the ball
- defenders will try to stay close to attackers when opponent has the ball
- players can pass the ball to teammates behind when there are no suitable teammates ahead

These changes are already in place. Please give your feedback in the improvements discussion topic.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

RubySoccer is now available in Russian! The translation is not 100% done yet, but Russian speakers can enjoy most of the game translated to this language thanks to Andrew Andreev. Or should I say Андрей Андреев? :)

Cheers!

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Working on deeper enhancements for the match engine. It may take a while to complete them and test properly. They will be released as soon as they are ready, without waiting for a new season to start.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Enhancement: keep skills color (blue or red) for 3 turns when player improves or lose skills

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Enhancement: put your mouse cursor over a player skill in blue/red and a tooltip will appear informing how many points were earned/lost for that particular skill

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Bug fix: do not count match missed for loaned players who received a red card or were injured in the beginning of a match

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Match Report: players statistics.

Check out the match report page, players statistics are shown in the bottom. It will only have non-zero statistics for matches played from now on, since no information was stored before.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Match Engine: corner kicks accuracy decreased for next season

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Match Engine: enhanced players pace starting next season

Players used to always run when they moved, now their pace depends on the situation and mentality. If a player moves there are 3 paces (from faster to slower):
1) When with the ball or when moving towards to ball.
2) When mentality is 0
3) When moving forward and mentality is -1 or when moving back and mentality is 1

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Match Engine

Some offside situations were not being considered until now: when a player shoots and the ball hits the bar or is deflected a teammate could get the ball even if he was offside at the moment of the shot.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

We are improving our anti-cheat tools. Fair play is very important to us, and we are going to do our best to keep our controls enough to eliminate most of the cheaters.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

It has come to my attention that I might (ooops) have forgotten to announce that loans are not cancelled anymore when the player is sold. Sorry about that.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Loan Embargo

If you let loaned players return for having missed more matches than allowed by contract you will suffer from a temporary loan embargo. The duration of the embargo depends on how many times you let that happen. It will last 15 turns in the first time, 30 turns in the second and 45 turns from the third on. During the embargo you won’t be able to loan players from other teams. The goal of this enhancement is to prevent situations where the same team keeps loaning players without using them.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

It is now possible to request loan termination. If the other team agrees the player is returned in the following turn.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Beware of your players stamina! Next season the rules will be more strict affecting the overall skills of the players instead of only their recovery after running. Every 3 points below 100 stamina will reduce all skills by 1%.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

The away match penalty reduction is still on discussion, so for next season we won’t reduce it for 27-28 years old player yet, we may do that for 29 (-2) and 30 (-1) years old players only. Stay tuned!

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

An initial press releases box is out. Still have to do some work on it, but you guys can already enjoy.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

To reduce the impact on the current season we’ll wait until next season to activate an enhancement for the older players rules: -2 away penalty for 27-28 years old players and -1 away penalty for 29-30 years old players.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Can now select whatever color you want (red, green or blue) for the rubysoccer theme (manager settings screen). Press Releases will be available soon.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Players with 31 years old or more do not receive the -3 penalty on all skills when their team is playing as a visitor. This change was made to represent the experience acquired by older players.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Fixed newspaper template position.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Have just implemented a new server configuration. Please report if you notice anything odd. Or if you think you are experiencing a much better performance.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

No more manual updates for players estimated values. All players will have their values updated at least once every 36 turns.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Match Report and Negotiations pages adjusted to the new layout.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Bug fixed: when adding or creating formation strategies the condition type is correctly set to “Time” or “Event” as suitable.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Bug fixed: goalkeeper cannot receive tackles anymore.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Select All and Invert Selection are working again on mail page.
Player wage and value are right-aligned on team players page.