Recent Posts by Gabriel Cesario
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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.
The safe list is a possibility but right now there is nothing we can do, at least not in a short amount of time. I’m sorry that you have to live with it for now. We’ll have a reset soon and each dimension will have around 300 teams, so you’ll have a lot more places to look for good players. Hope this can compensate somehow :-)
Cheers.
I’m not sure we can do that at the MAC address level, we’ll investigate. I agree with you that we have a lot of people playing under the same IP (we also have some co-workers with whom we cannot trade) but unfortunately this restriction is necessary to make cheaters life a little bit harder. And again, we’ll improve that if possible :-)
Just to give everybody an update on international cups status. I’ve already implemented a country ranking that will be used to determine how many spots a country will have for each international competition. That is not very realistic for South America because here we have a fixed number of spots per country, but as we plan to have dynamic country skills I decided to balance the number of spots and use a ranking as UEFA has. For those who are not familiar, these rankings will be updated based on the country performance on international competitions in the last 5 seasons.
We’ll have 4 international competitions to start: Champions League, UEFA Cup, Libertadores da America and Copa Sudamericana. As we have only a few countries, all the competitions start in the knockout round. In the league table screen for first divisions you’ll be able to see to which competition the first positions teams will qualify.
What is next? Create the matches for the competitions and update rankings at the end of the season.
Cheers.
Unfortunately, that’s the current behaviour, the game picks the “best” players available, no matter which position they play. In the future, we’ll consider the positions you’ve setup on your formation in order to complete the missing players with other from the same position.
Cheers.
Hmm, that’s possible…I’ll take a look.
That’s strange, even though Torino has 11 players, I’ve just seen a match report where there were only 10 lined up, that is not supposed to happen. I’ll fire the manager anyway, he’s been absent since mid october.
Danilo has just fixed it.
Oops! Looks like we have a bug. :-)
Thanks for reporting, we’ll look into it.
Are you sure there is no defender placed on M – 1 instead of D +1 for instance? That would make a 3-4-3 instead of a 4-3-3 :-)
I think we are used to see team names in the short form here in Brazil, that’s why we did it that way :-)
Here we call São Paulo Futebol Clube → São Paulo, Clube de Regatas do Flamengo → Flamengo and even Benfica that you gave as an example we call just Benfica.
But if it is a general opinion that we should change that we can certainly do it. Or maybe have someone from each country to tell us how team names are usually written in his/her country.
Cheers.
I agree with Danilo, the team info screen may display a full name in the future, but screens like league table, team matches should display the short version