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Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

The last poll was close, here are the results.

What change would you like to see next in the game?

42% – Better youth players for smaller/weaker teams
36% – Super Continental Cup match (CL x EL champion and Libertadores x Sudamericana champion)
10% – Add other continents
6% – Add more European countries
6% – Players lose more or less stamina based on tackle intensity

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Small fix on the Formation Analysis tab: when your next match is on neutral ground, you will now correctly see the pressure handling penalty applied (it always applies to both teams on neutral ground).

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Super National Cup setup is ready. Once the leagues finish in FastTicker and MediumTicker, the league champion of each country will face the national cup champion in the Super National Cup match, happening on turn 136. If the same team wins both competitions, then it will face the league runner up.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

The latest poll results are in:

What change would you like to see next in the game?

36% – Super National Cup match (league champion x cup champion)
21% – Super Continental Cup match (CL x EL champion and Libertadores x Sudamericana champion)
18% – Add more European countries
18% – Add other continents
7% – Players lose more or less stamina based on tackle intensity

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

The star effect for Improved youth players has just been enhanced, meaning they will have a higher impact. For lower ranked countries, they are useful in helping new youth players have better initial stats, as if they’re coming from better ranked countries. As an additional effect, they can make youth players improve one or more times as soon as they appear. This can result in players reaching their full potential earlier than usual in their careers.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Everything is in place for the Super Club World Cup next season in FastTicker and MediumTicker. In order to accommodate this, continental competitions will start 30 turns earlier, with qualifying rounds kicking off on turn 20 and the group stage on turn 32. Grand finals will be held on turn 104, with the Super Club World Cup starting immediately after on turn 110 and finishing on turn 140.

A total of 16 teams will qualify every season, 6 from South America and 10 from Europe, as follows:
- Semi-finalists from Libertadores
- Semi-finalists from Champions League
- 2 top ranked teams from South America as of turn 105, that were not Libertadores semi-finalists
- 6 top ranked teams from Europe as of turn 105, that were not Champions League semi-finalists

Teams will be split in 4 groups of 4, playing each other once within their groups (3 rounds). Top 2 from each group will qualify to the quarter-finals. From there on, it’s a single match knockout phase. All matches will be played in neutral grounds (meaning pressure penalty applies to everyone) and the pot rules for group and knockout draws will be the same as continental cups (avoiding same country matches as much as possible).

I hope you are as excited as I am for the Super Club World Cup :-)

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

FastTicker had a double tick on the last one…it ran an extra tick when I was fixing a problem. Schedule back to normal, with an extended wait for the next tick.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

The latest poll results are in:

What change would you like to see next in the game?

40% – Club World Cup with more teams
16.6% – Add more European countries
16.6% – Add other continents
16.6% – Super Continental Cup match (CL x EL champion and Libertadores x Sudamericana champion)
10% – Super National Cup match (league champion x cup champion)

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

TestTicker will now have 8 ticks per day, which means an update every 3 hours, starting after the next one.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

There is a new Analysis tab in the formations screen. There you can see all the modifiers applied to the formation players for their next match based on their positions and individual tactics.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Players will no longer lose stamina when playing friendly matches.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Player statistics recording has improved, and newly recorded data will include the team and manager information. This will allow us to provide better visibility of team and manager specific player statistics going forward.

The only visible change for now will be in the player’s statistics page, where you will see the team’s name under the competition name. Unfortunately, previously recorded data will not have the team information and will still only display the competition name.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

The star players hall of fame page now includes in-page sorting and searching. This works only within the current page you’re viewing; it is not a global sorting and searching capability (maybe to come later). We have also included icons to indicate if a player is transfer/loan listed or retiring.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

CPU teams may now decide to sell some good/promising players every now and then. I don’t expect this to be anything major, but hopefully it adds some much-needed movement to the player market.

I have been considering if the same should apply to human managed teams, have some players request transfer and refuse renewal proposals in some very specific conditions. I know, losing players is never a popular idea, but that happens in real life. It definitely won’t be as drastic as we had in the past when we tried to have player morale in the game, I’ll do some thorough analysis before extending this concept to human-managed players.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

The messages table now has a search box at the top that allows filtering the messages displayed. At this stage it is very basic, so when you click a message to read it you will lose any text previously entered in the search.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

New option added to the manager settings, where one can choose whether to see classes in the list countries page. As countries themselves don’t have classes, what we display there are the classes of the corresponding top divisions.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

There is a new option in manager settings to receive messages when one of your player’s class changes. It is disabled by default, which is the current behaviour.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

When using rubies to shuffle player traits we now ensure you pass through all different traits before any of them repeats. For example, if your player “plays worse against same class teams” and you keep shuffling the trait, you will get all other traits before you see “plays worse against same class teams again”. Notice that does not apply to the actual trait value (+1, +2, +3, -1, -2, -3), that is still completely random as follows: 50% chance for +-1, 33% chance for +-2 and 17% chance for +-3.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

GK specific statistics for saves, deflections and clean sheets will start to be collected from now on. The display of them in the various game screens is still work in progress, but future matches will have these numbers in the player statistics tab. You will also see them in the GKs player info page and statistics page (not clean sheets yet). Soon the team players statistics page will also contain the GK specific numbers, just working out the best way to organise them there.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

From now on match reports should correctly show the player zone (D, M, A) when a player enters the field in a zone other than the zone of the player he is replacing.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

A few updates on player negotiations:
- player priorities of existing and new players have been revised and limited only to the following: low country ranking, low manager ranking, low team ranking, small squad
- about 7.5% of existing players have no priority at all, but new players will always have one of the above
- player priority influence on the odds of choosing a particular team has been doubled
- the influence on the number of seasons offered on the odds of choosing a particular team has been reduced by 40%

The intent as always is to try and help the underdogs grow faster, without necessarily being unfair to established teams.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

There is now a limit in place of 3 transfer offers you can have at any given time. The intention is to give more managers the chance of hiring good players, especially during the end of season period when soon to be inactive teams sell all their players. We may tweak that further if needed, but for now it is as simple as that.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

When transfer listing a player you can now add notes that will be visible to other managers. Maybe you want to tell them the player potential or the reason for selling…anything you can fit in 50 characters. These notes are visible for other managers in the player info page as well as in the transfer list page. In the case of the transfer list page, there will be an icon beside the transfer price indicating there are some notes for that player. You can read the notes by hovering over the icon or going into the player info page.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

We now allow 5 substitutions in official matches, in line with most real-life official competition rules.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Match commentary now includes entries for “header disputes”. Without this managers were completely unaware of how often the header attribute was used during a match, except when header goals were scored. Hopefully this gives you additional insight on what’s going on during the match.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

The Hall of Fame page has a new tab that shows all the Star Players of the world. At the moment it is a simple screen where players are sorted by number of stars and grouped in pages of 100 records.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

Austria has been added to TestTicker, which means 22 new inactive teams that can be voted to join the bottom leagues in future seasons. There is still work to be done in order to be able to include it in the other dimensions, I’ll work on that later.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

After the season tick in each dimension, the player value calculation formula for the respective dimension will be slightly adjusted. The basis of the formula is still the same, influenced by the amount of money available in the dimension, however the adjustment will bring down player values overall, especially for younger players still under development.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

In the Contracts tab of your team players screen you can now see how many teams are interested in each of your players. This information was previously only available in the player info screen, contract section.

Topic: [admin_only] Improvements

The team ranking screen now has two tabs at the top: points and strength. The points tab is the one that opens by default and the one everyone is already familiar with, it shows the teams ranked by their performance points. The new strength tab ranks teams by their calculated estimated strength, which at the moment happens at season start only, so this rank remains static throughout the season.