1. Topic: General
2. No Goals

Headers are on the way, gentleman ;)

1. Topic: General
2. Physio department

As soon as injuries become more frequent and/or happen outside matches (keepers never get injured for instance) we can certainly add this kind of protection. Makes sense.

Cheers!

1. Topic: General
2. Board opinion: could be better 35% ?

Yeah, I’ve just added a number so that you know exactly what those “Could be Better” or “Not Bad” sentences mean ;)

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Wicked Formations

Yeah…the changes I tested on my development environment didn’t work very well, I still got a high number of offsides. I’ll give it one more try, if it doesn’t work we’ll have to add the minimum number of defenders you suggested.

Cheers!

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Bigger Teams out of the game

A third division on Brazil wouldn’t be bad, but first we need to add more countries I guess, to make international competitions more interesting. Maybe we could replace some of the unmanaged second division brazilian teams by the ones you mentioned. Wouldn’t hurt :)

Cheers!

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

Country specific rules implemented for league tie break. Now all countries except for Brazil have the following rule:

1) Goals scored – Goals conceived
2) Goals scored
3) Number of victories

And in Brazil:

1) Number of victories
2) Goals scored – Goals conceived
3) Goals scored

I know there are other rules regarding direct match between the tied teams and disciplinary criteria, but I we’ll stick with these rules for now.

Cheers!

1. Topic: General
2. Individual Tactics Question

For now you are able to setup individual tactics but they won’t have any effect during the matches. We’ll announce in the forums and remove the message when they start affecting the matches.

Cheers!

1. Topic: Bugs
2. formation screen issues

Our original idea was to display such arrows but we decided to take a more simplistic approach for now. Maybe we add then later.

Cheers!

1. Topic: Bugs
2. formation screen issues

Just remember they still don’t work during the matches ;)

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Wicked Formations

I agree with you guys but I have another solution planned for that: give the attackers the chance to move back if they realize they’re offside, which is more realistic :)

Cheers!

1. Topic: Bugs
2. formation screen issues

Don’t worry Wakrat, these Individual Tactis are not being applied during the matches yet, we’ll make sure they’re working correctly by the time they start affecting the matches.

Abraço. :)

1. Topic: General
2. No Goals

This is a known problem Pedro, but it’s good that you mention it again to remind us the urgency of that. We have some plans to make it easier to score on some situations and also headers may affect that when we include them in the match.

Cheers!

1. Topic: General
2. Staff Departments - help

It is not predicted, but if a player has less skill points to improve it’s possible that he reaches his maximum before the 39 improvements. If a player has 100 skill points to improve and increase 3 points every time he will need only 34 improvements to reach his maximum.

1. Topic: General
2. Staff Departments - help

It is possible, but in the average they won’t. A player will have a total of 140 points to improve in the average, 20 per skill, so he needs to improve 3.6 points every time his skills increase to earn all 140 points after his possible 39 improvements. Of course some players will have less than 140 points to improve or you can be lucky to have a player always improving a high number of skills at once even without a level 10 department. In such cases you will be able to reach the player peak. Was that clear enough? :)

Cheers!

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Ranking crtiteria for teams with equal points

It’s still the brazilian system, Philipp. My intention is to use country specific rules on RubySoccer in the future…maybe we can use goal difference for now, I agree it’s more common that number of victories :)

1. Topic: Bugs
2. 1 turn = 2 matches

Hmmm, we have (or had) a bug entered for that…I thought it was a one time event but as we can see this is still happening in some very specific situation…

Thanks for reporting, Philipp.

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. "Cannot hire player whose previous club is yours"

The time limitation sounds reasonable. I’ll add that to our list of improvements.

Thanks!

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Position of young players

Just to clarify the odds involved in youth position when he is generated:

11,1% → goalkeeper
33,3% → defender
33,3% → midfielder
22,2% → attacker

1. Topic: General
2. Youth Germany

Sorry Philipp, I wasn’t clear enough. When the player is generated he already knows his maximum potential. An attakcer for instance may start with 68 in shooting and have 23 points to improve in shooting. That means that he will reach 91 in shooting in the best case. I say in the best case cause a player will improve at most 39 times during his career, so if you are unlucky or have a poor coaching department you may end up with a, let’s say, 80 attacker.

Answering your question directly, no, a player starting with 73 have more chances to reach higher shooting than the one which started with 59.

1. Topic: Bugs
2. formation screen issues

I think I fixed that. Let us know if you can find any other problem.

Cheers!

1. Topic: General
2. Staff Departments - help

In English: Staff Departments
Em Português: Comissão Técnica

Let us know if you feel the information there is incomplete so we can improve it.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. International points

Find out where the points come from on each season for each team in order to adjust them wouldn’t have been easy Philipp…but you’re right, it would have been more fair :/

1. Topic: Bugs
2. formation screen issues

Yeah, I’ve just realized that :(

At least the change takes place, even though it’s really painful to reload the page everytime. Let’s see what we can do, finding time to work on weekends is a difficult task…

Thanks for reporting Dave!

1. Topic: General
2. Youth Germany

The maximum limit is the amount needed to reach 100 in each skill…of course this is very rare :)

I’ll double check the youth generation process to make sure everything is fine guys.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. 1 Year!

Sorry about that, I know you have a few interesting announcements to make soon so I decided to write something cool about the game anniversary ;)

1. Topic: Announcements
2. 1 Year!

Today is a great day for RubySoccer. It all started 1 year ago, a single dimension with 4 countries was all that we had. Every other tick would get stuck due to bugs in our match engine, players processing and many other places. We didn’t have many users, but your suggestions and alerts about bugs helped us improve the game and get to where we stand today.

Now we have 184 users spread in our 2 dimensions with 8 countries each, international competitions, player, team and manager history, match strategies, manager and team rankings, coaching and physio departments, bankruptcy, manager performance evaluation, player loans and lots of other enhancements. And there is much more to come!

Nothing would have been possible without the support from our users. I just wanna say thank you to all of you guys, specially the ones that are here since day 1. Let’s grow this game together and have a lot of fun!

Cheers!

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Last Champions?

Fair enough, I’ve fixed that :)

Leagues are the only competitions where we save the champion at the end of the season instead of doing that right after the last round. We’ll change that.

Cheers!

1. Topic: Announcements
2. International points

The coefficient idea is interesting and is a possible solution for the current unbalance. Adding more south american countries, well probably you’re right, it would make the competition more interesting in South America. The thing is, our system should work when we have ALL european and south american countries, then it will be like 10 SA x 50 EU but the competition should be pretty good. The number of clubs participating is dynamic in South America, but starting in the third place, which we don’t have yet ;)

I’m still confident we’ll be able to add more countries soon. Let’s see.

Thanks for your suggestions Alban, we’ll discuss that and maybe implement a temporary workaround to make this more balanced.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. International points

But the country score is the average score of its teams, not the sum, so it doesn’t matter how many international places a country have. In some cases it may even be worse to have too many teams if some of them are not strong enough to score points on international competitions. What really makes the ranking unbalanced for Brazil right now is the lack of managers on Argentina :D

Cheers!

1. Topic: Announcements
2. International points

Another thing to add in our game help :)

We’ve changed the point calculation system when we decided to unify the country ranking. As Champions League and UEFA Cup have one round more than Libertadores and Sudamericana the european teams would have the chance to earn more points than south american teams, unbalancing our ranking.

In the old system, a victory was worth 2 points while a draw was worth 1 point and there were some 1 point awards for advancing to another round on some competitions, so a team that qualified for the first round and won all matches in the competition would get:

22 points on Champions League
21 points on UEFA Cup
17 points on LA
17 points on CS

The idea in the new system is that the maximum points you can get in each competition is the same, 100, so we mapped the 1 point in the old system to a different value depending on the competition in this new system.

old system → new system
1 point → 100 / maximum_points_in the competition

For Champions League: 1 point → 100 / 22 = 4.545
For UEFA Cup: 1 point → 100 / 21 = 4.762
For Libertadores: 1 point → 100 / 17 = 5.882
For Sudamericana: 1 point → 100 / 17 = 5.882

Hope this helps.