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April 02, 2008 20:40

Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)

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

Cheers!

March 29, 2008 09:13

Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)

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.

Cheers!

March 12, 2008 16:30

Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)

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.

Cheers!

February 24, 2008 11:41

Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)

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.

Cheers!

February 22, 2008 21:44

Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Wiki is back. Everybody is free to contribute there.

February 20, 2008 02:43

Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)

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.

February 17, 2008 18:58

Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)

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.

February 15, 2008 14:10

Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)

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.

February 06, 2008 16:19

Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

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

February 06, 2008 15:47

Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)

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

February 06, 2008 04:03

Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)

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.

January 31, 2008 22:16

Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)

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.

January 30, 2008 01:03

Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)

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).

cheers

January 29, 2008 21:59

Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)

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.

January 28, 2008 05:20

Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)

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.

cheers!

January 26, 2008 19:28

Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)

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!

January 26, 2008 13:00

Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)

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.

Cheers!

January 25, 2008 09:26

Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)

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.

Cheers!

January 24, 2008 22:38

Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)

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.

Cheers!

January 24, 2008 02:59

Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)

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.

January 23, 2008 02:20

Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)

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)

January 21, 2008 22:38

Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

The team setup screen will receive a new tab. In the process, I am implementing a new screen look/feel and some ideas. An example is that now you can know what is your selected formation only by looking at the “current” mark on “My Formations” box. I have made this available a little sooner so you guys can get used to the new design. Also, I have updated our javascript framework. Mostly to inherit misc bugfixes.

January 20, 2008 12:16

Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Added Donations and Expenses page, accessible from the login page, right below the PayPal donation buttons.

January 18, 2008 21:48

Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Following the league names improvement now we have national cup names. Please let us know if any of the cup names is wrong.

Cheers!

January 17, 2008 17:04

Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

We are on a new server. Please give us your feedback (about the browsing experience) on the forum.

January 16, 2008 21:43

Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

New manager applications and resignation rules:

-a manager hired by a team must stay at least 36 turns on that team
-a manager cannot apply for a team he has managed in the last 144 turns

January 13, 2008 07:32

Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Leagues have names now, so instead of simply calling them Division 1, Division 2, Division 3, we call them by their real life names like Premiership, Serie A, 1. Bundesliga, SuperLiga and so on. Let us know if there is anything wrong with the names added.

Cheers!

January 11, 2008 17:14

Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

In order to avoid last minute arranged transfers we’ve implemented a new rule to players on transfer list and free transfer. They will only reply the proposals after being free or transfer listed for at least 3 turns. If you make a proposal to a player that has just been transfer listed for instance, you’ll get a reply only after 3 turns, when the negotiations will carry on as usual. Things will remain the same if you make a proposal for a player which has been listed more than 3 turns ago. This 3 turns counter will be reset if the player’s price is changed during negotiations.

Hope these changes help keeping the market a fair place.

Cheers!

January 09, 2008 13:00

Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

The new server turned out to be horrible. The speed was awesome – when the server was not freezing because of the unstable network provided.

We decided to move back to the old one. Eventually we may try to migrate again, but for now sorry for the inconvenience.

cheers!

January 06, 2008 16:58

Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Added support for field positions without players. An example situation where the manager takes advantage on that is when the manager´s team change. In this case, the field positions are kept with gray icons – so the manager has the possibility to reassign new players to the formation without having to remember what was done for the previous team.

Also improved formation´s screen performance.

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April 02, 2008 20:40 Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)	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 Cheers!

March 29, 2008 09:13 Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)	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. Cheers!

March 12, 2008 16:30 Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)	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. Cheers!

February 24, 2008 11:41 Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)	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. Cheers!

February 22, 2008 21:44 Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)	Topic: [admin_only] Improvements Wiki is back. Everybody is free to contribute there.

February 20, 2008 02:43 Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)	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.

February 17, 2008 18:58 Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)	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.

February 15, 2008 14:10 Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)	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.

February 06, 2008 16:19 Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)	Topic: [admin_only] Improvements Translations are back. You can set your language on the user settings link.

February 06, 2008 15:47 Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)	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

February 06, 2008 04:03 Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)	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.

January 31, 2008 22:16 Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)	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.

January 30, 2008 01:03 Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)	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). cheers

January 29, 2008 21:59 Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)	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.

January 28, 2008 05:20 Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)	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. cheers!

January 26, 2008 19:28 Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)	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!

January 26, 2008 13:00 Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)	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. Cheers!

January 25, 2008 09:26 Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)	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. Cheers!

January 24, 2008 22:38 Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)	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. Cheers!

January 24, 2008 02:59 Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)	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.

January 23, 2008 02:20 Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)	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)

January 21, 2008 22:38 Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)	Topic: [admin_only] Improvements The team setup screen will receive a new tab. In the process, I am implementing a new screen look/feel and some ideas. An example is that now you can know what is your selected formation only by looking at the “current” mark on “My Formations” box. I have made this available a little sooner so you guys can get used to the new design. Also, I have updated our javascript framework. Mostly to inherit misc bugfixes.

January 20, 2008 12:16 Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)	Topic: [admin_only] Improvements Added Donations and Expenses page, accessible from the login page, right below the PayPal donation buttons.

January 18, 2008 21:48 Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)	Topic: [admin_only] Improvements Following the league names improvement now we have national cup names. Please let us know if any of the cup names is wrong. Cheers!

January 17, 2008 17:04 Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)	Topic: [admin_only] Improvements We are on a new server. Please give us your feedback (about the browsing experience) on the forum.

January 16, 2008 21:43 Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)	Topic: [admin_only] Improvements New manager applications and resignation rules: -a manager hired by a team must stay at least 36 turns on that team -a manager cannot apply for a team he has managed in the last 144 turns

January 13, 2008 07:32 Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)	Topic: [admin_only] Improvements Leagues have names now, so instead of simply calling them Division 1, Division 2, Division 3, we call them by their real life names like Premiership, Serie A, 1. Bundesliga, SuperLiga and so on. Let us know if there is anything wrong with the names added. Cheers!

January 11, 2008 17:14 Gabriel Cesario 4,300 posts(s)	Topic: [admin_only] Improvements In order to avoid last minute arranged transfers we’ve implemented a new rule to players on transfer list and free transfer. They will only reply the proposals after being free or transfer listed for at least 3 turns. If you make a proposal to a player that has just been transfer listed for instance, you’ll get a reply only after 3 turns, when the negotiations will carry on as usual. Things will remain the same if you make a proposal for a player which has been listed more than 3 turns ago. This 3 turns counter will be reset if the player’s price is changed during negotiations. Hope these changes help keeping the market a fair place. Cheers!

January 09, 2008 13:00 Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)	Topic: [admin_only] Improvements The new server turned out to be horrible. The speed was awesome – when the server was not freezing because of the unstable network provided. We decided to move back to the old one. Eventually we may try to migrate again, but for now sorry for the inconvenience. cheers!

January 06, 2008 16:58 Danilo Castilho 1,003 posts(s)	Topic: [admin_only] Improvements Added support for field positions without players. An example situation where the manager takes advantage on that is when the manager´s team change. In this case, the field positions are kept with gray icons – so the manager has the possibility to reassign new players to the formation without having to remember what was done for the previous team. Also improved formation´s screen performance.