1. Topic: Bugs
2. scorer bug

that is a very good question :) it must be something with the team list peter gave us… we will take a look on this before we reset the dimension but, for now, lets keep this strange name.

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Number of Youth Players

recently we had a bug where the youths were going to free transfer… i had to give those back to their previous teams.

1. Topic: Bugs
2. 2 games in 1 tick

thanks for reporting, we will look into it! cheers

1. Topic: Announcements
2. Links

Just wanted to warn you guys that our non-game links changed. Our bugzilla and wiki are now served on port 3000. Please checkout their new links on our login page or, for mediawiki, we also have the button inside the dimension.

cheers!

1. Topic: General
2. Thank you Danilo

Hey, you are welcome. Just wanted to make sure we all have a great time :)

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Stadium Size of Promoted clubs

just to be clear, initial suggestion =

for now, while we dont have a way to improve the stadium, everybody will have a number of seats, like 48000. The difference between the divisions will be the ticket price, which will be 20% cheaper on the 2nd. what do you think?

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Big Exploit

now I also gave back everyone´s players :)

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Big Exploit

i gave your player back :)

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Unrealistically high scoring matches

nsg1974, i think your post summarizes well the problem here. in my opinion the player stats are good and realistic enough the way they are.

as for the match, we have to wait and see what happens with the new youths. also, there is a LOT to do on the engine. like add strategies, for example. i am reluctant to change anything before we add the missing stuff, because the effort to add those will, alone, force us to improve and add a lot on the existing code.

i am optimistic about the way things are going, lets see what this next month brings to us.
cheers!

1. Topic: Off Topic
2. Ex Managersim

i only hope that we have enough people, like you, willing to really improve the game by suggesting and reporting the problems (not using them for their own benefit).

that is the only way for us to come up with a great game. and maybe get Toni as addicted as he was :).

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Big Exploit

patched. glad to see guys really interested in having a good game! cheers!

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Beta2 Tick

yep. all those problems will be solved on the next time we work on match engine…. :( (next week, probably)

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Incomplete match report

thanks for reporting. this is a known encoding problem. we are not prioritizing this for 2 reasons:

1) our game, in general, is working very good on that perspective.
2) this has no big impact for now.

but we will sure look into this. cheers!

1. Topic: Off Topic
2. 280 users!

well, right now i think it is a matter of common sense. i would say that you can get one team on beta2, but if you see that we are running low on teams, please resign one of your teams so more people can play.

cheers!

1. Topic: General
2. Firing managers

yes, this is one of our top priorities. recently i had to raise the priority of anti-cheat code. maybe will have to do the same with a few things, like this one.

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Match Results

very soon we will go back to the match engine to put more improvements on it. I think next week. Lets see what happens from there.

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Stadium Size of Promoted clubs

Paulo and Alexandre, in fact we already solved that attendeance problem. Things like div, players quality, your position on the championship, etc. Those are the ones that affect attendeance. We ran a few stats and we became very satisfied with the results, so I think we have a good start there. In future we may add more things, but for beta this seems to be enough.

Considering this and other posts, for now I am almost deciding to go for my initial suggestion.

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Unrealistically high scoring matches

let me present you guys some stats. right now we have 9542 players (counting both dimensions). I will get the shooting attribute, for instance. From that total:

- 92 players have >= than 90 (0,96%)
- 15 players have >= than 95 (0,16%)
- 2 players have >= than 98 (0,02%)

I am sorry guys, but i dont see the problem that you are pointing. If we change that number, quality players will become UFO´s. If someone disagrees, fell free to comment. Maybe when we put all the countries we change that, but I dont know. I am pretty satisfied, statistically speaking. What about you guys, now that you know the numbers?

Ah, one thing that we may improve is the distribution of the good players (make more of them appear on 2nd division too). But first we have to see what happens with the new youths, bc those are pretty good.

1. Topic: Off Topic
2. Ex Managersim

i have already implemented a way to prevent that kind a deal. will add more things if we see that it is necessary (on demand).

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Friendly: we will never be able to play

oh-oh. thanks for reporting, I will enter it as a bug. can you please keep this jpg there for a while? if not, i will download it and store here at my machine.

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Stadium Size of Promoted clubs

let me know what you guys think of this idea (i will implement depending on the approval here on the forum):

for now, while we dont have a way to improve the stadium, everybody will have a number of seats, like 48000. The difference between the divisions will be the ticket price, which will be 20% cheaper on the 2nd. what do you think?

cheers

1. Topic: General
2. Bankrupt

dont worry :) you wont be able to buy new players, thats all. bankrupcy will take a while to be implemented, we need the board first (and that will also take a while).

1. Topic: Off Topic
2. 280 users!

rubysoccer is alive for 1 month! I think we managed to develop a lot for just 1 month, but there are still TONS of things to do.

I hope you guys stick having fun with us. Keep giving us your very good feedback! cheers!

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

- anti-cheat protection. wont say exactly how it works, but this first part is similar to managersim
- messages icons / effects
- blink mail icon

soon: the board.
when gabriel comes back: more sessions to improve match engine.

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Match Results

I have made this topic sticky, in order to discuss match results (high scores, for example). Before you post on this subject, please search for whatever we already have discussed about it on other topics (it would be good if someone summarize that here).

Also, when you report a problem, please give the richest description you can. We have been receiving complaints about scores (say 6×0, for example), and when we go check the situation the problem sometimes is simple (very bad/no goalkeeper, youths x regular players, etc).

This is one of the most important discussions in the game, lets make the best of it so everybody can enjoy/“contribute to” the evolution of our match engine!

1. Topic: Bugs
2. scorer bug

yep, those problems are challenges. we will fix asap, but please notice that our working hours are not cooperating lately.

Also, it is not enough to take a look only at the numbers in general. Each case is a different one. Take for example “Remo”, on beta1, brazil, second division. The manager in this case sold out all his goalkeepers (!!!!). I´ve already warned him that we currently have a situation where, if you dont have any goalkeerpers at all and no one is assigned to be a gk on the formation, the game will not complete that position for you. The result: Remo is playing without a goalkeeper. The consequence of that is obvious.

So the word is: we do need to improve those components. But we need to be careful to analyze each case, as sometimes big numbers do have very good reasons.

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Bug in "Top Scorer" table.

another thing that may be missleading is that on the team history table, you see the history for each one of the players. but the number that you see there is the individual statistic for each player. So if you see “7 games played” for example, it doesnt mean that those were all played for your team. Those are the season numbers for your player (summarize his numbers for all the official matches he played, for all teams).

That is another point where I am counting on your feedback. Is it better to show only the statistics of that player for your team, if you are on the team history screen? I dont think so. But that is only my opinion, I want to hear our community voice.

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Bug in "Top Scorer" table.

this player was bought from blackburn hovers, on turn 22. He scored those goals for his previous team. He can continue to be the top scorer of a competition, even if he is not playing on it anymore :)

It would be a mess to show the team for which the player scored each one of the goals because, potentially, a player can play for a lot of teams during the season. So I decided to show only the club that the player is playing for right now. That may be a little missleading. But i count on the feedback from you guys to suggest better approuches :)

cheers

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Stadium Size of Promoted clubs

well, on one side we have that gap. from the other side, teams that are in the first division and have less money will have problems to match the other teams. i will think about making all stadiums size equal for a given country. lets see. :|

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Stadium Size of Promoted clubs

sorry guys, did not have time to enlarge your stadiums so far :( . will try to do it tonight!