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use %{match.man_of_the_match.name} for now
The idea here is to have a good library of templates to generate interesting and unique newspapers, each turn. This stage of maturity will take a while to be achieved, but I think the result will be nice! For now, as you already know, we only have articles talking about match results. But the plan is to have many types of articles, in future! We already have a doc describing a few more of them.
twitter.com/rubysoccer or rubysoccer.blogspot.com … Those are our best options.
I’ve coded a screen to make contributions easier. No “too hard” excuses now! I will only answer “when are we going to have the newspaper” questions from people who have contributed in that screen with at least one approved article, from now on :).
You can reach it on a tab inside the newspaper area.
- An initial screen so everybody can easily contribute with the newspaper (check it out on the newspaper menu)
- Internal mailing has a new editor. Please let us know if you prefer the previous one (very simple mailing), instead.
- Smaller improvements
yes, the problem is not from our side. we are waiting for linode to check it out. it seems that they are working on it, things are getting better.
The newspaper is (will be) one of the biggest functionalities on rubysoccer’s history. This first version will only contain match result articles, but we will add more types of articles on the fly. It will be very easy to contribute with the newspaper, so we hope to have lots of different questions.
Do you have the impression that you could write some good articles, for our incoming newspaper, regarding rubysoccer match results? If the answer to that question is YES, we need your help NOW ! The newspaper will only be available after we have enough articles to start with. Below are the instructions on how to proceed.
INSTRUCTIONS
- Please write the article in english. You can use other languages, but it might take a while for your suggestion to be inside the game
- Include your rubysoccer login somewhere in the email
- We need 3 different sizes of body text articles, measured in characters (including special types and spaces). The sizes are [minimum,maximum]: [560, 1120] , [440 , 880] and [100 , 200]. Please point out, in your suggestion, what size did you choose.
- Despite of the size of the body text, your article needs a title. Use common sense to write the title, in terms of size
- For each one of the possible article sizes, you can choose one of the following article classifications (please identify that classification in your email)
note: ANY is different than 0.
> [0,nil] Expected Result => example: expected ANYx0 result ANYx0
> [0,0] Expected Result x Expected scores => example: expected 1×0 result 1×0
> [0,1] Expected Result x Small positive difference from expected scores => example: expected 1×0 result 2×0
> [0,2] Expected Result x Medium positive difference from expected scores => example: expected 1×0 result 3×0
> [0,3] Expected Result x Large positive difference from expected scores => example: expected 1×0 result 4×0
> [0,4] Expected Result x Small negative difference from expected scores => example: expected 4×0 result 3×0
> [0,5] Expected Result x Medium negative difference from expected scores => example: expected 4×0 result 2×0
> [0,6] Expected Result x Large negative difference from expected scores => example: expected 4×0 result 1×0
> [1,nil] UNExpected Result => example: expected ANYx0 result 0xANY
> [1,1] UNExpected Result x Small difference from expected scores => example: expected 1×0 result 0×1
> [1,2] UNExpected Result x Medium difference from expected scores => example: expected 1×0 result 0×2
> [1,3] UNExpected Result x Large difference from expected scores => example: expected 1×0 result 0×3
> [2,nil] TIE => example: result 1×1
> [2,0] TIE x Expected scores => example: expected 1×1 result 1×1
> [2,1] TIE x Small difference from expected scores => example: expected 1×0 result 1×1
> [2,2] TIE x Medium difference from expected scores => example: expected 2×0 result 1×1
> [2,3] TIE x Large difference from expected scores => example: expected 3×0 result 1×1
- If, in the middle of the text (body or title), you want to input a variable, consider the following example expressions:
% {match.home_team.name} => Home Team Name
% {match.visitor_team.name} => Visitor Team Name
% {match.winner_team.name} => Winner Team Name
% {match.loser_team.name} => Loser Team Name
% {match.expected_winner.name} => Expected Winner Team Name
% {match.expected_loser.name} => Expected Loser Team Name
% {match.result} => Match Result (in the form HOMExVISITOR)
% {match.attendance} => Match Attendance
% {match.type} => Champions League, Serie A, FA Cup, etc
% {OR WRITE ANYTHING YOU WANT HERE, AND WE WILL PUT THE CORRECT EXPRESSION FOR YOU}
- After it is done, mail it to admins at rubysoccer.com . You can also post it here, but keep in mind that this might spoil the surprise :)
EXAMPLE ARTICLE SUGGESTION
mylogin: jonhdoe
*Article 1
#size=[100,200]
#classification=[0,1] Expected Result x Small positive difference from expected scores
#title=% {match.result} !!! nonono epsilum alpha!
#body=% {match.winner_team.name} played as expected against % {match.loser_team.name}. Nononono blablabla, etc. Nono, nnnononono!! Nononononono.
this is as chaotic as it can get. What do you guys think?
ps: this map, for both rubysoccer and this site, was retrieved from wiki.
i am going to try to take a closer look at the server and eliminate the places where this error can occur. But there are things that can make this kind of error happen more often, like multi-tab browsing (if you try to re-login rubysoccer in a different tab, for example).
Yep, I was multi-tasking the new countries screen with the newspaper development and other things. The first version of the newspaper should be out today or tomorrow. The server already contains almost 100% of its code, but the UI parts are commented out until I finish some details.
fixed! thanks for the warning!
Nicky Broos was helping us with a previous version of that page. But the current version was an old idea that we had, but never had the time to put in practice – until now.
Released a new world map screen!
Done. I think the lag is gone now.
I dont think so. I will restart the server, that should solve the problem.
The way I see it, the only way we can efficiently prevent this is to adjust the board – so they become very unhappy if you have a 10 x nil result, for example. But let’s see where the discussion goes.
Now I think Dot should not pay Meninao. muhahahah! :)
If you follow us on twitter you know that I´ve been working on the newspaper for a while. Hopefully I will release our first version next week!
If you have a website and would like to support rubysoccer, one of the ways is to publish our new pledgie button there! This is the link to our campaign.
cheers!
that, in fact, still remains to be discussed. but you guys can already give suggestions!
Parag, sorry for the missunderstanding, but I was talking about the friendly formation on official matches :).
cheers
Alban, I don’t think rubysoccer should interfere in this kind of choice made by the manager. People may really want this kind of situation. Maybe we could have some kind of warning, though.
You guys have to slow down your imagination a little bit :D.
I will be releasing new newspaper sections gradually, very soon. Hopefully sooner than you guys imagine :D.
from Vaughn:
w00t w00t nice news !!! (on twitter)
Please ask this angel to come visit me too for more ideas… :D
Vaughn , why unreliable?
I will see if I can get this “save” thing more intuitive by the next time I code some improvements on that screen…
cheers!
Alban,
What do you mean by “invent something for situatiosn with injured and suspended players” ? Do you suggest we should get the team management more and more automatic? We have to be careful about that or people will stop visiting our site, because everything will be automatic!
About the iphone access, it is something that is in our plans. But you have to understand that, considering the number of people that would get benefits from such a feature, this tends to not win in comparison to the number of people that would benefit from almost any other pending improvement we currently have.
And I personally disagree that it is difficult to not make mistakes on the formation screen. If you want to change things very easily, all you have to do is save your formation as. Then you will have a copy of it and you can make that copy the default after your changes. One thing that might be missing is a way to easily and quickly replace formations assigned to a group of matches. But that is on our list :).
Moreover, in RS you can do whatever you want in your field center… But that doesn’t mean you will win.
cheers