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Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

In the player’s Hall of Fame you can now expand the record lists to display 50 or 100 records each, in addition to the standard 10.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

New players will not have to play for national squad or be man of the match to improve at any point in their careers. Existing players may still require one of those things towards the end of their improvement, as usual. Manager have little to no control of how to complete those two types of improvement, hence the decision to take them out of the game.

There were also some tweaks in the order some of the improvement requirements appear. We have brought forward the “play abroad” requirement, swapping with the play international cup ones. Similarly, this is valid only for new players.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

The calculation of the new team strength during the season tick has been modified. The old formula included all the players a team owns (even if loaned out) plus any players currently in the team from loan. The new formula will exclude the loaned in players and only consider the players a team owns (even if loaned out, as before).

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

We have new rules in place for removing a player from the transfer list or changing the transfer parameters. Those two actions cannot be performed if there is a transfer proposal for the player from a human-managed team that satisfies the transfer price. However, if the player rejects the wage offer in that proposal then those restrictions do not apply and you are again free to cancel the transfer or change the parameters.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

The rules for applying to class A and B teams have been relaxed. Managers who have won the Club World Cup at least once in their careers can apply to any team and managers who have won a top tier international cup (CL, Libertadores or CCL) can apply to B teams or lower.

In summary:

• A team: you can apply if already managing an A team or if you have ever won the Club World Cup
• B team: you can apply if already managing an A or B team or if you have ever won a tier 1 international cup
• other teams: anyone can apply

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

TestTicker’s exclusive feature of restricting the teams you can apply for has been rolled out to FastTicker and MediumTicker. That means you will only be able to apply for teams of class C or lower while unemployed, you can only apply for higher class teams if you are already managing a higher class team (e.g. you took your initially D team to class B, so now you can apply to other teams up to B class).

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

In the players hall of fame you can now click on a player’s name to go to a new screen with additional details for the player. It includes some general information (name, nationality, position), career information (starting season, club, longest stint, etc), awards and statistics for club, national squad and combined.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

There is a new section in our Hall of Fame for player records. The World Team of the Season history has been moved to a new tab called Awards and the Players tab now shows information of retired players. At the moment the following records are captured when a player retires and displayed here:

• matches played
• goals scored
• assists
• man of the match awards
• average rating
• top scorer awards
• team of the round awards
• team of the season awards
• world team of the season awards
• player of the season awards

For now only the top 10 players in each category are displayed, but soon you will be able to view additional players for each category as well click the player name to view more details about the player.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Bug fixed: the “Welcome to our club” message will once again be sent to managers when their job applications to a team or national squad are accepted during the tick.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Bug fixed: man of the match evolution step can no longer be completed in friendly matches.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Bug fixed: when filtering by international matches in the team matches screen you can now see North American continental competitions. This filter was also simplified to not contain the specific competitions names such as Champions League, Libertadores, etc.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Bug fixed: draws for North American international competitions now take into account the teams’ countries in order to avoid same country matches as far as possible.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Bug fixed: when viewing international cup titles by country the totals now include all teams, including inactive ones.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

The existing points system for the country ranking does not work for TestTicker in its current format where the competitions are shorter, especially the North American ones. For now I’ve manually fixed the points from season 1 using a new formula that I am planning to automatically apply from season 2 onwards. It awards a team points based on the class of the opponents it defeated or tied with in international competitions, even including the Club World Cup which is ignored by the formula currently in place. If all goes well the new formula may prove to be useful even for FastTicker and MediumTicker in the future.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

It is my pleasure to announce that TestTicker is finally up and running! This dimension is much smaller than the others, has only 8 countries with 1 division each, but includes the newcomers USA and Mexico. As an exclusive feature you will only be able to apply for teams of class C or lower while unemployed, you can only apply for higher class teams if you are already managing a higher class team (e.g. you took your initially D team to class B, so now you can apply to other teams up to B class).

As stated in the dimension description the main intention is to test new features and, when required, the dimension will be reset. There will be 6 ticks per day which will run 1 hour after FastTicker’s ticks, the first one is scheduled to run in 41 hours from now. This should give everyone plenty of time to apply for the teams they wish. Given everyone will have 0 points in the manager ranking the assignment when multiple people are applying for a team will be random.

Enjoy!

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Currently fixing an issue on FastTicker’s last tick. All matches were played successfully, the problem happened when creating the round of 16 for international competitions. We already know what the issue is, hang in there!

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

We have just completed a substantial technical upgrade of our entire stack. If you find any issues, please let us know.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Thank you so much for your additional rubies purchases in the month of January. We have now completed the donation of the full amount received (minus paypal transaction fees) to the following initiatives:

National Bushfire Disaster Appeal

Koala Crisis

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

We have made a change so that coach reports are never inconclusive. This means that when you go check a completed report it won’t say things like “I’m not sure how this player can improve”. We felt the way things were it was very frustrating sometimes, especially if your coach level was not that high and you had to wait a long time for a report result only to find out it was inconclusive.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

If you have been following the news you know about the huge bushfires burning across Australia. We have decided to donate all the net income from ruby sales in the month of January to support the firefighters and wildlife groups below:

https://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/about/supporting-cfa#donate-cfa

https://donate.wwf.org.au/donate/koala-crisis/koala-crisis?t=AP1119W03#gs.q9q1o5

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

The manager settings screen has a new layout and a new option where you can choose how many turns in advance you want to see the contract expiring icon beside the player’s name in the player list screen. The default value for everyone is 36 turns, but you can now change it to 0, 12, 24 or 72.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Your scouts can now be requested to only look for players of a given nationality. By default they will look for any nationality. Remember we are talking about the player’s country of birth, not the country he is currently playing in.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

The number of players you can buy from the same manager per season has been increased from 2 to 3.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

The player Aggressiveness attribute has been removed from the game. We realised the attribute was not relevant enough to influence managers buying/selling decisions or match results. This is a small but important first step in simplifying some aspects of the game and also making room in the user interface in preparation for our mobile app.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Players with performance bonus stars only provide their bonus while they’re on the field. If they are not playing or leave the field for any reason, their bonus stop being applied. Similarly, if they enter the field during the match then their bonus start being applied.

This should not only be more realistic in terms of players only being motivated if their star teammates are playing but also it will avoid situations where rich teams would retain such star players just for their bonuses, even if they were not intending to use them in the field.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

As discussed in our Facebook page, we have completed the change where CPU teams will always lose bids against managers, unless the wage offered by the managers are lower than the minimum the player would accept.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

There are 8 new inactive teams in Germany in both dimensions, which means the bottom 3 teams in 2. Bundesliga will be relegated by the end of the season. The teams added are currently in the top 2 German divisions in real life and therefore deserve a place in the game.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

National team managers are now able to select any class S or class A players to the squad instead of being strictly limited on what the game considers to be the best for a particular position. Where there are not enough players with those classes for a given position you will still see additional players listed as options.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

The error margin of suggested wages has been reduced by 25%. Hopefully your negotiations team will give you better wage suggestions from now on. Of course you can still get the odd suggestion (less frequently now), especially at lower investment levels, in which case you should probably follow your gut.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Our traditional massive tech upgrade has been applied to the server. While this ensures we always have a modern stack, it may also impact some of the screens. Please let us know if you see anything broken.