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A new game mode is live on TestTicker! The dimension has been reset and it contains 3 leagues of 24 teams each, distributed in a pyramid (one top division and two lower divisions). Managers are only allowed to apply for teams in one of the two lower divisions.
In this new game mode teams from all over the world compete together in this single league structure, as well as in a global cup (knockout format). There are no international competitions (in the traditional sense, as all competitions are international) and not national squads (for simplicity). You have approximately a day and a half to explore and apply to the teams you like before the first tick, after that TestTicker will be back to its usual schedule.
My Negotiations level is 10. Hmmm, most frustrating.
That can still happen but should not be common (unless your Negotiatons investment level is low, the suggested wage accuracy is based on that).
I got a player who cancelled negotiations with me, for being too far apart from expected wages. But I offered more than his existing, and suggested, wages.
Wth man?
The work on the new “Pyramid” game mode continues! We are currently in the process of testing out a full season in the new game mode as well as making sure all screens work. No need to rush to check it out just yet, the change is not live.
Some of the cool features in the new game mode:
- all teams from different countries to be part of the same league structure and join the same cup competition
- managers can only join teams in the second division leagues
- planning a way to make sure managers don’t stay at the top for too long and are eventually sacked to start over…not sure yet on the best way to do this
We have just introduced some adjustments to try and manage CPU team money balance. The intention is to avoid teams that are too rich or too poor for their respective classes. We’ll continue to keep an eye on it and how it affects overall economy health and player value, especially on FastTicker.
We wish everyone happy holidays, no matter what you celebrate, what you believe in and where you are! That in 2023 we can continue to have fun and improve the game together.
I didn’t have time to finish the new pyramid league structure to be used in TestTicker but it is well underway and should be ready some time in January. More details in the new year.
Thanks for playing
When you leave a team you won’t lose your existing scout reports anymore, they will be carried across and accessible from your new team. They still expire after a few seasons as usual, nothing changed about that.
When you duplicate a formation, all formation strategies are duplicated as well into the new formation.
The newspaper now has a section called “Managers” where you can see the manager movements in the last 144 turns.
All forced transfer attempts (failed or successful) will now be stored for future referece. You can see a history of your forced transfer attempts in your manager profile page. For a specific player you attempt to force the transfer from now on, you can also see the history in the bottom right of the player info page.
The player average skill is now displayed in the national player replacement screen, for those who choose to have this column displayed. As a reminder, this column has no direct impact in player value or match performance, it is just a straight calculation of the corresponding skills average.
You can now pay 5 rubies to re-draw a positive or negative player trait or 15 rubies to remove a negative trait altogether.
That would have to be improved beyond a drop down, but it is a nice idea! I will add to our list once I am back from holidays.
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It requires manua intervention to check it is fair. I have been on holidays and forgot to check ;-)
Hi,
the statistics page has a drop down list for all, club and National Squad. Can this be expanded to include each of the match types:
- 1st Division
- 2nd Division
- Friendlies
- National Cup
- Top Tier Internationals
- Lower Tier Internationals
- International Friendlies
- Top Tier National
- Lower Tier National
- World Cup
Hi,
I won a forced transfer a few days ago, all approved. Just wondering if the player transfer is broken? Negotiations page still doesn’t advise how many turns till he will arrive.
Ta.
Hi,
I won a forced transfer a few days ago, all approved. Just wondering if the player transfer is broken? Negotiations page still doesn’t advise how many turns till he will arrive.
Ta.
Merchandise and sponsorship income formulas have been updated. This should help lower class teams having more money available to improve their squads. Next step is look into how CPU teams manage investments and review adequacy of competition prizes (which were designed to directly support paying for club investments).
https://goalfc.net/game/team_info/97
When a manager leaves a club, any pending loan termination requests are now automatically accepted (as they would have been if the team had no manager when the request was initiated).
New mechanisms are being put in place to adjust the economy balance in the game, our usual challenge. It is clear that smaller teams are barely able to pay their player wages, let alone buy players. As a result, lots of decent players are transfer listed and don’t receive a single offer, even when smaller teams could definitely use them in their first squad.
Our intent is to increase the merchandise and sponsorship values, especially for smaller teams, in order to provide a bottom-up boost in the player market. Analysis is still under way and even when the new code is in place it will take some time for the effects to be felt, but it feels like a step in the right direction.
Awesome.
I only have 1 star class player, and being not able to use him due to stamina makes him useless.
We have this in our backlog already, shouldn’t be hard to do. Maybe we could have both options…re-draw the trait or remove altogether, with the later being more expensive.
My only Star Class player gained a negative trait that has destroyed his usefulness.
Be handy to pay 10 Rubies to remove the trait.
I’d even take this feature if it meant that another random trait from the negative trait pool developed later on.
The pressure handling trait now affects neutral ground matches (e.g. cup finals). Previously the match engine treated neutral ground as home ground for both teams, but that is not accurate and has now been changed to be considered away ground for both, thus the pressure handling effect coming into picture.
New option available in the messages screen to mark selected messages as read.
When clubs go down a division and sell players, they certainly have a more realistic sell price.
I don’t think people are spending that kind of money anymore…definitely something rare these days. Now I’m managing a second division D club in Portugal, feeling how hard it is to make money so that I can make things better.