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Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

You can access the last match replay from your team info screen using the new replay button to the right of the match. This way you can wath the replay without previsously knowing the result (if you have the show recent result option turned off in your settings).

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Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Players, managers and teams can now be added to your hotlists. This works like bookmarks and help you keeping an eye on players and teams of interest, managers who are your friends or rivals in the game and so on. To add a player, manager or team in your hotlists just go to the correspondent info page and use the new “Add to hotlist” icon beside the player/manager/team name. The icon will then be changed to the “Remove from hotlist” icon. To view your hotlist use the new “Hotlists” option in the menu, right below “The Board” option.

Have fun!

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

The full match replay is now available at the match report. Java-enabled browsers are required.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Enabled teams in bad shape to always be able to hire players in free transfer, within a reasonable wage (and following other game rules).

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Managers can make transfer offers with a transfer price different than the specified. The selling manager will then be notified that a lower proposal exists. The proposals value will be public and displayed for everybody in the player info page or in the negotiation details. Lower proposals won’t be accepted unless the selling manager reduces the transfer price accordingly. All proposals whose value is greater or equal the transfer price will negotiate with the player, there will be no privileges for higher proposals. When the transfer price is changed (raised or reduced) all managers with offers are notified.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

It is now possible to filter the manager ranking screen by country and/or (partial) manager name.

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Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

More news for next season: tired players as well as older ones will be a little more likely to be injured during a match.

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Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Players now can have two sides (LC, RC or LR), meaning they can play without penalties in any position a player from each side would play. For example, a LC player can play in the left, center-left, center and center-right without penalties, but would receive the maximum penalty if playing in the right side.

No changes were made to existing players. New players have a 30% chance of having 2 sides.

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Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Added multi-position players (DM, DA, MD, MA, AD, AM). When position penalty starts at the end of next season, this kind of player will receive no penalties if playing in any of his 2 positions. Some of the existing players have received an extra position based on their attributes. Newly generated players have a 25% chance of being able to play in two positions instead of one.

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Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Players playing in the wrong position now receive a -3 penalty in all attributes. This value can change depending on users feedback in this topic

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Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

New source of income: sponsorship. The amount of money received from sponsors every 3 turns is defined based on the team’s recent performance. As the performance history started being recorded when the manager ranking was added it is not complete yet, which means that the sponsor value will be lower than it should for now, specially on MediumTicker. The stadium size will limit the amount of money received from sponsors, but it will probably only affect teams with a great performance.

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Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Added the board screen. It will be empty until next season’s start, afterwards it will contain the board expectations for each competition your team will be playing during the season. These expectations may be a little unrealistic in some cases, for better or worse, but we will try to improve that later on. This screen will contain more information and features in the future.

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Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Two announcements:

1) Stadium construction can now be cancelled. The amount of money you’ll receive back is proportional to how long the construction would take to be finished.

2) We’ve decided that wage caps should be per team, not per player. It makes more sense when you think of it, as each team has its particular financial situation. Everybody should be aware that this value can be way too high, so be very careful when giving high wages.

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Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Wiki is back. Everybody is free to contribute there.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Implemented an initial screen for managers ranking. Will still add some info / improve that screen. Please note that this rank is not meaningful before the league starts (friendlies do not count for ranking). The icon is temporary.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Team managers are displayed on match report screen. It’s important to notice the managers displayed are not necessarily the current managers, but those who managed the team at the time the match happened. All past matches will display “No Manager” as we had no logic to store the managers in the matches so far.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Player sides have been rebalanced per zone for all teams and will start affecting the match performance on next season start.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Translations are back. You can set your language on the user settings link.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Player sides are back to the UI, but won’t affect the player performance until next season on both dimensions. Players will receive penalty if they play in the wrong side. A player with side L can play ok in positions L and LC, but will receive penalties if playing on positions C, RC or R, being R the worst penalty. Same happens to R players, they play ok in R and RC positions only. For C players, they can play ok on positions LC, C and RC, but will receive a considerable penalty if playing on L or R positions. Be prepared!

p.s.: home team advantage is also ready to be launched, but we’ll wait until next season so those who have most of their home matches yet to be played won’t have an advantage in the current season

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Empowered managers with the new strategies tab (on formation screen). This feature adds A LOT of flexibility to your tactics, with conditioned (time-&-OR-result/event) dynamic changes. These include position and player substitutions. Please note that this is the initial design for that screen, a kick off for your evaluation and feedback. In other words, I am planning to add improvements and other formation stuff very soon.
It is never too much to repeat that your feedback is very important at this point.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Small changes to match logic:

-max keeper rating is based on the number of goals conceived, 10.0 for 0 goals, 9.5 for 1 goal, 9.0 for 2 goals and so on
-low stamina values affect the keeper performance (he wasn’t affected until now)
-keepers loose 1 stamina per match instead of 3

Due to these changes all keepers had their stamina reset to 100.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

We now have google adsense. Lets see if that will help us pay our server. We will study the best position for the ads, but for now they are on the bottom of the screen ( which I think it is the less painful place to start).

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Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Inactive managers are now fired in 15 days (next week this period will be reduced to 7 days), unless they’re using the holiday mode (go on vacation option), in this case the inactive period allowed is 30 days.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Still implementing the strategies screen. But another gift in the meanwhile: new checkbox L&F and much faster invert selection mail action.

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Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Holiday mode implemented. Now you have the option Go on vacation on your team’s screen. There are only two things that will be automatically managed for you while you’re on vacation: contract renewals and youth hiring (if your team has not reached the player limit). Besides that, the inactivity period allowed before being fired will be greater for managers on vacation.

When you enter a dimension you automatically return from vacation.

Cheers!

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Brazilian Portuguese translation is partially done. I’m still reviewing all screens and have already spotted some mispelled words and untranslated text. Hope to finish that until the beginning of next week.

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Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Added ground maintenance to team expenses. It’s the first step towards all stadiums reduction and the possibility to increase the number of seats.

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Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Team logos added to the team info screen. Their size is something around 25×25 to fit in our design, more than that would be too large. We hope everybody like this new addition, I’ve had a hard time finding, resizing and adding transparency to all logos. :-)

Please let us know if you see a logo that doesn’t correspond to the team.

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Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

I am still preparing our formations screen to receive the new “advanced” stuff. But, in the meanwhile, I have a few bonuses for you guys:

- Rotated the field: left/right player positions are now easily identified (this will be useful in a near future ;) )
- A little more speed to drag and drop.
- Reviewed the IE/Firefox alignment, mainly around the field area. Everybody should have a better experience now.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

We need volunteers to translate RS to the languages in the bottom of this post. It would be nice if we could get patient partners, as rubysoccer is BETA and will need continued work. Those languages were statistically chosen, considering the countries with more hits on rubysoccer.

I will get in touch with those who are willing to help with some instructions by email, soon.

1. Brazilian Portuguese (maybe admins – me and Gabriel – will do this one)
2. Portuguese from Portugal
3. Spanish

ps: we will have more languages in future.
ps1: by the way, you guys can already select you language preference in the “User Settings” link (accessible from Dimensions page)