Recent Posts by Gabriel Cesario
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On friendlies the money is 50%-50% jmoreira :)
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International Cups start in season 2.
Looks like a bug on friendly invitations :-(
Thanks for reporting.
I’m not sure if there is any player with such high rating on this start, but if not there are probably a few (not as much as we had in Beta 1 and Beta 2) that will evolve to these high ratings. All generated players have some potential to evolve (of course non youth players have less potential and will evolve slower).
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Nice suggestion Ricardo, we’ll discuss something like that :-)
Loans is probably the next big one to do :-)
Countries are not all the same but the difference between them and the top player’s quality has decreased. The order of quality is the same as the country ranking you can see in the game. Regarding different continents, well, the first south american equals the first european, the second south american equals the fourth european. The country base values for each skill will be dynamic and based on country performance on international competitions over time so you may end up with a country who generates good defenders and poor strikers, or fast players but poor midfielders, and so on (or a country that is great on everything or poor on everything), but the distance between the best and the worse country won’t be more than what we have in the startup (at least that’s the plan).
A little bit confusing but I hope to have clarified things :-)
That’s how Libertadores works right now:
-5 top teams from Brazil and Argentina (no spot for Cup winners)
-4th and 5th places for each country will be drawn into a preliminary phase and will be paired in a two-leg eliminatory
-the 2 winners of the eliminatory phase join the other 6 teams (1st to 3rd places) in the quarter finals
A similar formula is used in Sudamericana, Champions League and UEFA Cup.
When we have enough countries we’ll have the group phase in all competitions.
Cheers.
If we ever do that again we’ll consider the ideia of preserving managers in their clubs, even though the players and divisions won’t be preserved probably.
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I’m sure a few managers would like to be in your place LeeHamo :-)
Yes, if me or Danilo click on “Fire Manager”…mwahhahah!
Just kidding, we won’t do that without a good reason :-)
For now that is the only way to be automatically fired, but as soon as we implement the board you’ll have some goals in the season, if you don’t accomplish them, you may be fired.
For those who have taken a team in the first MediumTicker tick we’d like to announce that all players (except the 16 years old ones) have alredy advanced one level due to some wrong data we had. Because of that the next level up for those players will take a little longer. That won’t happen o FastTicker.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Alexandre: the european ranking was taken from here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_coefficients , from the “Ranking for 2008-09 UEFA competitions” table.
smithers: Holland will be added next time we add more countries :-)
We deleted Beta 1 and Beta 2 and created two new dimensions LeeHamo. Don’t be sad, it will be fun!
Cheers.
Sure, we’re waiting for our friend Fernando França (aham!) to provide us with an icon for countrry ranking.
Yeah, I noticed that yesterday, I was just too tired to look into it :-)
The missing screen won’t have much information until the next season anyway. Thanks for reporting!
Our first big update is now ready. We have 2 new dimensions: FastTicker (6 ticks per day) and MediumTicker (3 ticks per day), both with the same countries and competitions.
Technical changes:
-database migration from mysql 4 to mysql 5
Improvements:
-enhanced player generation
-4 new countries: Argentina, Portugal, Germany and France
New Features:
-manager history
-international cups: Champions League, UEFA Cup, Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana
Yeah, it is a pity! We won’t have enough countries to make a group phase. The good side is, without the group phase it took less time to develop the whole logic and you’ll be able to enjoy the international cups sooner :-D
Exactly Samir.
Reset scheduled for tonight (here in Brazil, GMT -03:00). First turn will last something between 12-24 hours so most of the users have the chance of applying for a team. Any comments on this subject should be posted in the “Improvements Discussion” topic.
Cheers.
The answer to Ricardo’s question “what criteria will be used to prefer a manager against other?” is luck. We find all teams with applications and radomly choose one of them to become the manager. There is no guarantee the first team you applied will be processed first for your applications. In the future we’ll have a more sofisticated way to make this decision, considering manager performance.
Moving the conversation from “Improvements” topic, which is supposed to contain only our announcements :-)
“Improvements replied by kardo @ Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:03:46 -0700
what criteria will be used to prefer a manager against other?
Improvements replied by gabriel @ Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:55:03 -0700
Danilo wants to add a few more things before creating the new dimensions. To be honest I’d prefer to do that today as we have a holiday here on thursday that would postpone the reset until next week when the competitions in the new season of Beta 1 and Beta 2 will already have started. We’ll discuss that and let you guys now, but remember we’ll have about 24 hours before the first tick so everybody have the chance to apply for a team.
Cheers.
Improvements replied by danilo @ Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:28:43 -0700
this week :). next week, tops. we will announce it 2 days before.
Improvements replied by kardo @ Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:23:03 -0700
Is there already a date defined for new dimensions?
When can we know? I want to stay tuned. :)"
The aging stuff is a different subject, we can change that even if we don’t change the game to use real dates :-)
Let’s put it in numbers. For the number of countries we have and taking as an example a country with 20 teams on each of its 2 divisions:
National Cup – starts on turn 7, ends on turn 52
League – starts on turn 18, ends on turn 132
International Cups – start on turn 107, ends on turn 143
With the configuration above I agree that we could move the International Cups so that they’d start a few turns earlier, but if you consider all european countries and one specific countries with 7 divisions we’d have:
National Cup – starts on turn 7, ends on turn 70
League – doesn’t change
International Cups – start on turn 65 (approximately), ends on turn 143
Theoretically the teams playing the national cup finals will start the international cups later, on a more advanced phase (except for weak countries), so you’ll never play 3 competitions simultaneously. If we group all competitions in order to have a proper “summer break” we may end up with some stamina issues for the teams playing in all competitions possible. Changing the stamina issues to make these teams life a little bit easier will make small teams’ life a lot more easier regarding stamina. Oh, one more reason I forgot to mention, but that’s a personal one: I don’t like season breaks and this design let us have at least one competition happening during the whole season.
I’m not saying that’s the way things will work and we won’t change it, I’m just making it clearer why we’ve designed things this way. If you and other users don’t like it please feel free to post your ideias here (like you’re doing) and we’ll take them into consideration. Let’s give it a try. :-)
Cheers.
The international cups will happen at the end of the season, when the national cups have already ended, so you’ll never have more than two competitions at the same time. About stamina improvements we are thinking about giving a stamina boost at the season end and in the middle of the season, as we don’t have proper breaks on these periods. That’s not an immediate change though and is not confirmed yet.
Cheers.
Hopefully we’ll have some time to modify the player generation a little bit before the reset.
Cheers.
You’ll probably have time to finish the championship Tiago. Good luck!
International Cups on final testing phase. New dimensions will be created to replace Beta 1 and Beta 2 until the end of the week.
I’m almost done with international cups, just need some testing and a couple new screens. So the answer is, in about 2-5 days.
Cheers.
The explanation is very simple, early in the season we had some problems with the national cup generation and I had to do it manually. Unfortunately I generated the matches in turns where league matches happen, so a few league matches have been rescheduled. The reason these teams have less games is that Nautico had friendlies scheduled for every free turn, making it impossible to reschedule the matches against Botafogo and America-RN. This situation won’t happen in a normal season because league matches will never be rescheduled.
Sorry for that Bretum, these 3 teams will have to end the season with less games than the others.
Cheers.