1. Topic: Bugs
2. Where is the medium tick?

We were doing some performance tests, MediumTicker is back, FastTicker is 1 hour late but will be back to normal after next tick.

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1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Same IP restriction

Answering your question Polat, trades are not possible at the moment. We could add this option and require some kind of approval before the trade is completed, either by me and Danilo or by users with Dimension administrator rights (we’ll probably have something like that in the future).

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1. Topic: Bugs
2. Wrong winner table

I think I know the reason…fixing that right away! Thanks for reporting.

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1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Same IP restriction

Interesting suggestion, could work :-)

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Same IP restriction

Well, players under their real value are not a problem, you’re right Hugo, we can let everybody bid for underpriced players, but when we talk about overpriced players the thing is a little bit different. We’ll find out a way to watch overpriced transfers between same ip managers and let the ones with a fair price or underpriced without any restrictions. Makes sense to me.

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1. Topic: Bugs
2. M with -14 goals

He was used as a goalie, at least on this match:

http://www.rubysoccer.com/game/match_report/36310

1. Topic: Bugs
2. History - No manager

Should be fixed JD, thanks for reporting.

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1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Player searching

I’ll talk to Danilo and we’ll consider the different opinions here. Whether the solution will be a downloadable spreadsheet, scouts or a better search engine I don’t know yet, but we’re lacking something on this area.

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1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Player searching

You have a good point Dave, we’ll do something about it, for sure.

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1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Same IP restriction

Maybe we should allow that if the value is fair, now that we have more restrictive rules around transfers it’s a possibility. By fair I mean something around the estimated value, like from half to twice the estimated value.

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. goalkeeper 98

Wait a second, the youth quality has nothing to do with the team quality, it only takes in consideration the country and division of the team he belongs to, not if the team already has good players in the main squad. Just wanted to make that clear :-)

About the 98 keeper, it is a huge exception, as thorpedo said there are not much 90+ players right now. The manager was just very lucky to get this one.

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1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Donations

Sounds interesting, we’ll discuss that and see what we can do.

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1. Topic: Bugs
2. a.i. changes formation (if players suspended)

Damn! I thought I’ve solved this one…sorry for that guys, apparently I was wrong :-P

1. Topic: General
2. Donations

Sounds good Toni, it would be good to add the country information to the user, we currently don’t have it. :-)

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1. Topic: General
2. Champions league

Supercup sounds like an interesting ideia. Let’s see how can we handle that. About the international cup between the two continental champions, it’s definitely on our plans!

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1. Topic: Bugs
2. a.i. changes formation (if players suspended)

We’ll have to investigate thorpedo. Thanks for reporting.

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1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Player searching

We have plans on that, they’re called scouts! Did you think you’d get that for free? ;-)

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1. Topic: General
2. Champions league

No, only the best qualified teams in the leagues. We know that there are some rules like this and others like cup winners in some countries should go to UEFA but we’ve decided to simplify things a little bit. I hope this doesn’t take fun out of the game ;-)

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1. Topic: General
2. positions when two or more teams have the same points

Currently we’re using brazilian rules for all leagues: number of victories → goals for – goals against → goals for.

We have plans to use specific rules for each country…in fact I was supposed to do that a couple season ago :-( … but don’t worry, it will be done, for sure :-)

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1. Topic: Bugs
2. a.i. changes formation (if players suspended)

Yes, Ricardo. If you’re talking about replacements due to injured or suspended players it has been implemented last week (or the week before, not sure). If you’re talking about replacements due to injuries during the matches we’ve always been replacing the injured player by someone in the same position.

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1. Topic: General
2. Wiki ???

We used to have some content on this wiki before migrating to our current host. To be honest I don’t think it was very useful. It is good that you mentioned that cause I’m willing to create some sort of game help but we’ve not decided what format to use. Do you guys think a wiki format is a good ideia or do you prefer some sort of screen by screen help with an explanation about what is the purpose and what can you do on each screen?

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1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Strategy Rules

Maybe an active/inactive status for each rule would do it, right? Sounds simple to do. :-)

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1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Internationals

We’re still not sure about international teams…it could be a good thing in the future, we’ll definitely go back to this discussion at some point. Thanks for your suggestion Polat, it’s always a pleasure to have new users posting in the forums :-)

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1. Topic: General
2. New league

It is something we could do, but I have some reasons for not doing that:

-we’d have to rearrange national and international cup matches to conform with this new structure
-it would be harder to schedule friendlies with teams using different “calendars”
-if you changed to a team with a “calendar” different than the team you previously managed you have to get used to this new calendar

As a positive thing I’m happy to tell you and everybody else that our tick time has improved after a few changes. The last league tick on FastTicker took around 3000 seconds, much less than the 3800 seconds it was taking lately. If you consider that we still have room for improvement and that Danilo was working in the database structure at the same time the tick was running we can expect it to be a little bit faster. Let’s wait for the next league tick to see the results.

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1. Topic: General
2. New league

I’ll be honest with you Polat, I really want to add more countries to the game as soon as possible, I haven’t done that for 2 reasons:

1) We don’t have that many users yet so most teams would be CPU controlled
2) The tick time could increase too much, specially when league matches are played

We need to address problem number 2 first and lower the tick time to a reasonable value (we’re working on it). Afterwards we can try to advertise RubySoccer to attract more users. Believe me, I’m looking forward to it, having smaller countries like Venezuela and Cyprus will really add a new challenge to the game :-)

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1. Topic: Announcements
2. Improvements Discussion

From JD in the admins topic:

“Hi,

Now I’m not able to see completly the “player attribute box” at the end of the screen, only half of it."

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

From now on matches played will have a man of the match whose name will be in bold in the match report. The man of the match is selected based on the player rating. If more than one player have the highest rating we have some extra points given in the match logic that can be used to decide the one with the best performance. This information is also available in the player history.

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. International Competitions

Don’t worry JD, we have a bug about that. I’m working on something else right now, maybe I can do this one right after.

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1. Topic: Bugs
2. loaned players cards

You’re right, the card is being considered for the country of his team, not for the team he was loaned to. Thanks for reporting!

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1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Market - Contract Rules

So it was you, Leonardo! Just kidding, I used to raise the wages to avoid big club clause as much as I could :-)

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