Recent Posts by Gabriel Cesario
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Just changed the logic when setting the numbers, if there are any duplicates you still get the error message but everything is saved, except for the duplicate(s) which become blank.
Points give for team and manager rankings now take into account the opponent class. That means a victory against an ‘A’ team is worth more points than a victory against a ‘B’ team, for example.
Player limit information is being introduced in “The Board” screen. Nothing is being enforced yet, so have a look at the limits for your team and see if they make sense. These numbers are based on your team’s class and league class and are supposed to limit the number of players you can buy for a given class, but you can still grow players from lower to higher classes to go beyond the limits.
I’ve only spent the minimum amount of time required providing the squad numbers feature, that’s why it’s simplistic at the moment. Maybe a reasonably simple change to make when there are duplicate numbers is to set one of them but not the other, and then warn you that the duplicate one was not set.
Regarding colour my preference is to match it with the actual club colour, I’ve had this in my mind for a while even for match replay. I know, it is more work than allowing managers to simply select a colour, but it’s also in line with everything else in the game that tries to match real life.
The player traits related to playing better/worse against weaker/stronger teams are now based on team classes. The corresponding trait descriptions have been updated to better explain this change. For example, if you manage an A team and is playing against a B team, your players will have the traits “plays better/worse against teams with a class worse than yours” activated whereas your opponent’s players with the traits “player better/worse against teams with a class better than yours” will have it activated. When both teams have the same class these traits will not come into play.
I can definitely do it in the player information screen, just not sure how to accomodate in formations. That is a very particular screen and the colour coding used there helps identify player positions. I’ll see if I can do something without leaving it cluttered.
The number of votes for inactive teams is now being displayed in the “Inactive Teams” tab from the country screen. At the same time we’re putting in a fix to ensure those votes are really taken into account when promoting clubs into bottom divisions, it seems so far they were not!
You can now give numbers to your players using the “Numbers” tab in your team players screens. These number will then be displayed in match reports alongside the player names. This is an optional feature and you can leave players without numbers if you wish (or even remove numbers from currently numbered players).
At the moment the interface used to set the numbers is as simple as possible and there is a single validation that you’re not giving the same number to more than one player. If you do that an error message appears and you have to re-do any changes you had previously done.
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We have added league classes. It can be seen in the league table screen, on the left hand side of the title panel beside the league name, where the season number corresponding to the league stats being displayed used to be (now moved to the right hand side). The team class is now also displayed in the ranking pages.
Another small addition done at the same time is displaying multiple goal icons beside the player name in the match report, when they’ve scored multiple goals. If they’ve scored more than 3 goals during the match we should the goal icon followed by “x” and the number of goals.
Teams now also have a class attribute! This is based on their key players skills and is also relative to other teams in the dimension (except national squads). The team class can be seen in the team info screen, managers at risk and dimension’s free teams list from the Job Centre. We plan to add this into a couple more places such as ranking screens.
As with the player class, the team class is informational only at this point.
That screen is already too crowded, that’s why I decided to add to the traits list instead. Let’s see if we can accommodate in the future.
Players now have a “class” attribute that is a snapshot of his current skills and star status. This is not yet used to determine any in-game behaviour or logic, but it will be used soon. Please check our corresponding game manual page for more information.
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Hi Alexander,
We had a similar suggestion in our WhatsApp group, not sure if it was related to scouting or negotiations, but the essence is the same. It may make more sense with negotiations, to go along with the suggested wage, but at the same time I think scouting is the area where people invest less, so giving it another role could change this.
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I like your suggestion very much! This would also assist those who may have “missed” the chance to make a forced transfer after 6 turns, but I think the maximum of 10 is a bit high. I’ll add a task for us to implement this, maybe initially with a maximum of 3.
CPU teams will now start fielding players that need to “play official matches” to improve. They’re not yet handling other more complex requirements such as play abroad or play international competitions, but this change should help improve the overall player quality in the game.
Simple explanation: every time you make an offer to a player that is not transfer listed you need to wait 6 turns to make another one. This is to avoid people attempting to do that like crazy :-)
You can see how many turns you have to wait by accessing your Profile under the Manager menu.
To be more specific the “Make Offer” option will only be displayed for players that are NOT transfer listed if:
-his contract has been renewed more than 72 turns ago
-the team has a manager OR has been without a manger for at least 144 turns
CPU buying decision was improved slightly. The change aims to avoid the common scenario where a CPU team buys a player that has just slightly better potential than the one in their squads they consider the worst suitable for a given position, and then decide to sell the bought player not long after.
Morale has been disabled after the player negotiation priority and forced transfer changes. The logic was not working very well and the intent of losing a player due to bad morale would not immediately work well with the new features. Instead of reintroducing morale what we may do in the future is make player priorities more complex.
Forced Transfer have just become a bit easier. A player will no longer reject the offer if your team is worse than his current team with regards to his priority, he will only do it if you are below the rejection point (meaning he would reject even if he was transfer listed). That means in the majority of case what you really need to work out is how much to offer as transfer price, and of course continuing to offer an acceptable wage to the player that is higher than his current wage.
Despite what the game manual says, there was a bug where some players reached their full potential without developing any traits. This has now been fixed and all players generated from now should have developed one positive and one negative trait by the time they reach their full potential. Some of the current players will still have the issue and will reach their potential with 0 or 1 trait instead.
After recent changes to increase the number of players kept by CPU teams we’ve noticed the logic used to decide which players they loan needed to be changed to ensure such players got match time and were not loaned just to sit on the bench. This has now been done and their loaning behaviour should be back to normal once the league starts.
CPU teams will update their investments following a new logic and schedule. The aim here is to have investment levels more aligned to the team’s financial situation and avoid money waste with upgrades/downgrades.
All players that are not injured or suspended are available as subs during a match, if they’re not in the field already, of course. You can create specific substitution rules in the Formation Strategies page.
Remember we’re talking about forcing a team to sell a player it was not willing to sell in the first place. I’m sure for average players the required amount would be unreasonable, but for the top or very promising ones I believe it is not, given the amount of money some teams were able to accumulate in the game. The estimated value is not really a good measure of the player’s quality when he gets to that level, hopefully this is something we can address in a future update.
Regarding your 15M offer it is very unlikely to be accepted by any CPU team. The rule is that the offer needs to be between 1 and 3 times the team money balance, depending on which player you’re trying to buy, so assuming you were trying to buy the best player of the team your offer would only have been accepted if the team had 5M or less…again, very unlikely.
I’ve seen a few managers succeed in this new model already which tells me it is not too bad. The way it was before it was becoming to easy to “steal” players from CPU teams for an unfair price.
I understand you’re upset Houddog, but there is no simple way for us to re-simulate a match without major manual intervention. I could go there and simply change the result, adjust the league table, etc (all manual still) but your opponents could argue it is not fair either. Nobody wants these things to happen and we do our best in our spare time to fix bugs, add new features and keep things running smoothly, but unfortunately every now and then something really bad like this happens.
Who knows how many times this has happened before? Not everyone watches the replays and, even worse, matches between CPU teams don’t even have replays recorded so we wouldn’t know. We definitely want to track this down or at least have some way to identify when this happens again!
There is an issue with the formations screen, it is always displaying the mobile version, even when using a desktop/laptop. We’ll disable that version while we investigate the problem.
There were no changes, what happened is that the mobile version is being displayed even when you are not using your mobile to access the game! While we investigate we will temporarily disable the mobile version.
Every season their age increases by 1. Was that the question or have I misunderstood you?
Thanks for reporting Dirk! Danilo is aware of the issues in the formation screen after the latest update, he’ll try to look into it today.
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