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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.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

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

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!

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

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

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

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!

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!

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!

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.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Better late than never! My new year’s gift is now ready to be used: LOANS!

Managers can now loan list their players or make loan proposals to loan listed players. Loan negotiations may take 3 turns (transfers will behave in a similar way in the future), so even after you’ve made a reasonable proposal it may not be processed next turn. You’ll know the number of turns left in the negotiations screen.

When more than one loan proposal exist for the same player, the following criterias will be used: highest loan wage percentage, longest loan period, “weakest” team (in terms of players average).

You will be able to call a loaned player back or break a loan contract, but in order to do that you must pay the other involved team a certain amount depending on how many turns are left in the loan contract.

The transfers and loans screen can now be filtered to display transfers (default), free transfers, loans or all.

I expect to have left only minor bugs in all these new features, but we never now, there is a lot of code there! Let us know if you see anything strange or have any questions or comments. I hope you enjoy :-)

Cheers.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

System generated in-game messages now contain links to teams, managers, players and match results they refer to.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

The Goals and AVG Goals statistics for goalkeepers on player history screen will now tell us the number of goals conceived by the keeper. It will be represented by a negative number (or 0 if the keeper hasn’t conceived any goals in the games he played). The count starts now, so all matches so far won’t be considered.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

CPU teams won’t accept friendlies anymore. We may turn that back on or make them propose friendlies as soon as we change the logic that currently selects their best players to play such matches.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

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).

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

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.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

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

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

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 :-)

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

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

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

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.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Please answer this topic about stamina.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Accepted friendly matches can now be cancelled.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

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

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

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.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

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

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

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.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

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!

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

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!

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

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.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

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.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

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!