Recent Posts by Gabriel Cesario
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Newly generated goalkeepers will not have evolution steps that require being man of the match or playing for the national squad. Both of these step types are too hard to be accomplished by most GKs, hence the decision to keep them only for field players.
GKs are a special case, I agree. I’ve already removed “man of the match” steps for newly generated GKs as this is also very rare, maybe it’s the case of removing “national squad” steps as well. For other positions I think we can still leave it as is, the minority of the players will have such requirements and, when they do, it is usually a single step that will require playing a single national squad match (unless the team’s coaching level is lower than required).
I knew you didn’t like to see classes on the screens but I didn’t know you disliked the feature altogether! There are lots of cool stuff we can do with player classes, you could argue we could still do those cool things if they classes were hidden…that’s true, but I think it would be weird to hide such information.
I’m not sure how easier it has become to spot top players, I feel most managers would be able to separate them just by looking at skills, regardless of classes. Also, if you take two players close to the border between classes you may still find some B players for example that in practice are better than A players. The games DOES not guarantee all A players play better than B players, the way the game evaluate players does not necessarily translate to real performance, our logic nowadays try to base that evaluation on the player skills real managers value, but it will never be perfect.
No friendlies, official matches only.
Yep, that would be great!
I know, I was joking about exaggerating because of calling it loan simulator 2018 :-D
In any case I agree with you on using classes (both team and league) rather than country ranking, we just need to be careful when designing it. I’ll try to come up with something decent and share the thinking in this topic when it’s ready, I really enjoy this type of conversation.
Exaggerations apart, I do believe you have a valid point here. I’ll make sure we have an item in our backlog to review this sooner rather than later, as it will take some time for any changes incorporated to newly generated players (such as this one would be) to become the new normal. I think some time ago we’ve introduced different little things to make it more challenging to manage “smaller” clubs, but this would actually affect big clubs in lower ranked countries, which shouldn’t be the case necessarily (or at least should be less common).
Being in Sweden at the moment I can definitely understand where you’re coming from, but I’m quite used to loaning out my players to better countries to get them fully developed. We could spend some time coming up with more realistic steps or as an alternative allow players to improve playing matches where they are, though at a slower pace. What do you think?
And once again our managers proved to have very different opinions amongst themselves:
30% – Keep forced transfers as they are
43% – Do not allow for players in human managed teams
26% – Allow it but change the rules
01% – No Answer
If we look only at the winning option, we could go ahead and implement it, but when you think about the big picture you can say 56% is actually in favour of having forced transfers for players in human managed teams, so it doesn’t really make sense to remove it.
We were only going to take immediate action if there was a strong preference for a change, but given we have higher priorities at the moment we’ll leave it unchanged. Thanks for voting!
That’s something we already plan to do, it would help both club and national squad managers to identify the top performing players for their purposes.
That’s an interesting idea…currently the player performance is not broken down to that level of detail, I’ll add an item in our backlog to do it!
You can already create substitution rules for when a player from a particular position (G, D, M or A) is injured, but of course that gives you only one option for that position, not three as you suggested.
You’re absolutely right Dirk, I’ll make sure we add this trait in future players.
- rate over 8.5 in games to build points towards the next class
not towards next class, this is to build points towards earning stars
- have hidden attributes
yes, only influencing the minimum rating required for each star level
- be the best at their position for your end of season calculations
stars are not influenced by the position (except goalkeepers who are slightly less likely to get them)
- not have many other stars in your nation
a specific number of stars is distributed per country, so your players are only compared to those playing in the same country in order to get stars
Stars are mostly based on player ratings, but it is not as simple as taking the average rating. Each star type (gold, silver and bronze) has a minimum rating associated with it, every time the player achieves that minimum during a match he earns some points towards that star level. In addition to that, each player has a natural tendency towards or against stars (some are neutral) that is hidden, which will make it easier or harder for them to get stars. In summary, stars are associated by top ratings in matches (think 8.5+ in most cases) affected by the player’s natural star tendency.
For each country there is a maximum number of stars to be distributed for each level. Higher ranked countries will have more star players. That means that star distribution is a relative comparison on players performance in a country for the previous season. A star player will lose no more than one star level per season, even if he doesn’t player any matches.
Now, class S players. Every season we automatically re-calibrate the way the game evaluates how good a player is, and then for each dimension we’ll find out what is the highest skilled player for the current parameters, that is our top number for class A players. When a player has stars, those stars will artificially increase the player skills for class purposes, which means they can make a B player become an A player or an A player become an S player. Another way to have an S player is if you had an A player whose skills were very close to the pre-determined maximum on season start that then surpasses it by improving during the season, then he can become an S player even without any stars.
Sorry for the long post, I thought these things deserved a proper explanation!
Countries which have inactive teams end up having extra players in comparison to the other countries, as a new batch of players joins the game every time teams become active again. In order to balance that roughly 50% of the players generated for re-activated teams will be from countries other than the team’s country.
I like the board % idea, not hard to put in practice.
I’ve been burned with “more likely to get injured” before…had a great player that was always getting injured, either during training or matches.
That trait is really annoying :-)
I’ve been thinking if some players should randomly not have a negative trait and some others no trait at all.
It works the same way as non-human managed teams, except that the amount required to successfully force the transfer is doubled. The manager has no say in it, which may indeed make some people angry. We only had two instances (I think) of forced transfers involving a human managed team as the target.
What is the general opinion, should we block this option altogether so that you can’t target a player from a human managed team? Should we allow it but change the rules for it? Or leave it as is?
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Your coach reports for potential and next step will now be more specific when your player has already reached his potential. There is no pointing in hiding this information or making it subjective.
After the last league match, the following will happen to a team which has been relegated from the bottom league of a country:
- Any friendlies scheduled for the remainder of the season will get cancelled
- The manager will be fired
- The team will not accept any job applications
- All players will be transfer listed with a waiting period of 6 turns for the transfer to be concluded
The last item is the real change here. Currently the players from inactive teams are released for free throughout the season, which became an easy source of money for the already richer teams. By selling the players instead of making them available for free we reduce this advantage. Any players not sold before the season tick will still be released for free at some point in the following season.
Interesting, so it’s something specific to your Firefox…have you noticed whether or not you have https in the address? Like this: https://goalfc.net
That’s really bad! What still puzzles me is that nobody else has reported this, and we have other users in the region. I’m in Australia and constantly in touch with people from Brazil who play the game and I’m sure we’ve accessed the game at the corresponding time in our time zones without any issues.
We’ll see if there is anything more we can find out about this, please keep us posted if anything changes for you, good or bad.
Wow, surprised to hear that too! You’re the first one reporting such instability, the game has been up as usual since the change, the only instability reported was on the first day of the migration.
I second Joseppi’s question, which browser are you using? Which OS? What time of day you’re having issues? Do you get any errors or just can’t access the page?
Since mid-May no new players will have that profile, it is indeed a bit frustrating. On a positive note usually the last few improvements will give less points than the initial ones, so you should have your player in a reasonably good shape before his 30s.
Fixed!
Sure thing, thanks for letting us know. Hopefully it is similar to the issue we had on the squad positioning screen.
The fix for this is going live in 5 minutes.