1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

From next season in each dimension, the Strength and Class columns in the league ranking screen will have a comparison with the previous season. A positive/negative number beside the strength value will tell you how much each league’s strength has increased/decreased from last season. If the league’s class has changed, you will see an arrow beside the current class value.

1. Topic: FastTicker
2. Critério de Classificação

Olá Enrico,

Na verdade no Brasil é por número de vitórias, depois saldo de gols e por último gols marcados.

1. Topic: FastTicker
2. Critério de Classificação

Muito absurdo o critério de classificação não ser por saldo de gols e sim pelo time que marcou mais gols. Nunca vi isto em campeonato nenhum.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

In the formations screen you are now unable to put a non-GK player as the goalkeeper. In the unlikely event where you don’t have a goalkeeper available to select (e.g. due to injury) the game will pick a non-GK player to be the goalkeeper during the match.

1. Topic: General
2. Buying and Selling

That probably has to do with CPU teams not spending more than 1.1x the player base value, meaning human teams get less money by overselling old players (that’s how I saw it). Anyway, clearly things can improve, but my experience managing a top team in a top league is that you make enough money from other income sources to cover your expenses and have a little surplus (few millions). Of course that is a very slow way to grow your balance, especially with the current player prices, so we’ll definitely do something about it.

1. Topic: General
2. Buying and Selling

Hi,
yes for forced transfers. Just trying to work out how to buy a player without losing all of my cash – because I am not sure I can ever sell enough players to make back the cash used on 1 purchase.

1. Topic: General
2. Buying and Selling

I assume you are talking about forced transfers. In that case the amount is higher because the team you are buying from is not interested in selling. It is as if you were paying a release fee clause.

I intend to make cpu teams sometimes transfer list good players for higher amounts, but not as high as the forced transfer price. Similarly they could potentially make higher offers for non listed players.

1. Topic: General
2. Buying and Selling

Hi,
I found a good player, even had a couple skills above 90. I saw the suggested offer of 75mil

I’ve got a good player, has a few skills above 90. Why can’t I sell him for 75mil? Or even half that amount?

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. National Team

It should be relatively simple to allow that earlier for knocked out teams…I will have a look once I am back from my holidays.

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. National Team

Hi,
once a National Team is out of a Cup series, I’d love to be able to have the option to look at alternate players.

As the team is out, then it does not matter if players are changed around during the Cup games you’re not a part of.

Regards,

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Inactive Team

Happy to add this one :-)

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Inactive Team

Hi,
England has many inactive teams. Would it be possible to add:

Peterborough United F.C.
Football club

Peterborough United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. The team compete in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Wikipedia

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

TestTicker now uses the concept of manager contracts, where teams offer contracts to managers instead of managers freely applying for jobs. All managers employed in the dimension were automatically given a contract that expires at the end of next season. If you are currently employed there, you can see your current contract in the Board screen.

When the contract is nearing its end, your team will offer a renewal if they’re interested or let you know otherwise. In the Job Center screen you can search for offers from smaller teams (classes C to F), in order to receive offers from A or B teams you need to be performing well in the current team.

At the moment this feature is very simple. If it is well received it can be improved to include specific goals to be met by the manager during his contract.

1. Topic: General
2. Anyone Else Lose?

Yes Dimitri, I understand.

My desperation is from my season. Until turn 92, my team lost only 3 matches.

I lost 7 of 9 games without any reduction in player skills. SMH

1. Topic: General
2. Anyone Else Lose?

In season 214, I won only 3 of the first 11 matches. Suddenly I had to fight against relegation. The next 8 matches were a little better (4 wins, 3 losses, 1 tie) and then suddenly things started to get going. In the end I won the world cup! I still have no clue why the start was bad (and the finish good).

1. Topic: General
2. Anyone Else Lose?

I can relate to professional football managers now.

1. Topic: General
2. Anyone Else Lose?

Hi! Took a quick look at your squad and your tactics and saw nothing wrong. Feels like an unlucky streak..

1. Topic: General
2. Anyone Else Lose?

Anyone else lose 7 of 9 matches?

Let through 25 goals in those 7 losses. I am still 2nd in the Premier League despite this! So my team was great most of the season.

No discernible difference in my team that has done great. Other than, I spent $80mil on a new striker with great skills, who has scored 4 goals in 5 games. So this positive influence in attack has not helped.

smh, any advice on how to fix my team?

1. Topic: General
2. Coach Reports Q & A

No, not irrelevant…in this case it just means the player did not become good enough to be eligible to fulfil his last(s) step(s) of playing for national squad. This is a known issue that will disappear once all old players that had this step retire.

1. Topic: General
2. Coach Reports Q & A

Ok, cool.

So the coaching report is irrelevant? My Next Step is to play for the National Squad, but he is not even good enough to appear in the list of selectable players.

I did loan him out, he has 4 Man of the Match awards this season. Is still only a Class B player.

1. Topic: MediumTicker
2. The wheels have come off

I saw you posting the same question in our Facebook page where the screenshots were showing, but now I can’t see it anymore to make it visible to everyone…can you post there again? If we post there and link here and no one provides assistance I can have a look myself and give it a go :-)

1. Topic: General
2. Coach Reports Q & A

Not sure if this is any comfort, but usually the most a player will improve with national squad or man of the match steps is 3 points…it can be just 1 as well, so not a big loss.

1. Topic: MediumTicker
2. The wheels have come off

Evening

So I’ve played this game from SoccerSim to Ruby Soccer and now Goal FC
Love playing it and use to win a few trophies here and there
However for a few years now I’ve been pretty crap and can’t work out what im doing wrong tactically
So I’ll put up a couple of screenshots and want your comments on what I should be playing and any other tips to get back on track

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1. Topic: General
2. Coach Reports Q & A

Thanks Gabriel.

The National Squad manager has just messaged me and advised that: my player does not appear as a possible replacement option. Thus he will not ever be selected, and thus will not ever improve.

He messaged me a list of the players he sees in alphabetical order – my guy was not there.

As for my suggestions, yes my main focus was to try and find something that a manager can influence.

1. Topic: General
2. Coach Reports Q & A

The “play for national squad” step was also dropped along with the “man of the match” step, however that is only true for players that were created after the change was put in place.
I like your suggestions regarding next steps, however I may look at them in a different angle either as part of something contractual with the player or maybe a goal for managers to achieve.

1. Topic: General
2. Coach Reports Q & A

And no, I literally have no idea how to help an individual player achieve most of these things. Any advice is appreciated.

1. Topic: General
2. Coach Reports Q & A

Hi,

Question:
Coach Reports Next Step did get a change in the past year. “Must win a Man of the Match Award” was dropped due to the inability of managers to make this happen.

I just received this Next Step report:

“This player needs to play for his national squad. Recommended coach level: 1”

How can I have the ability to make this happen? Just like getting a MotM award, how do I get my Class B player into a National Squad?

National team managers are under immense pressure to perform well, and win, from the entire population of the country they represent. How can they be reasonably expected to put in a sub-par player?

I know I do, I try to find a couple younger players and give them some International Friendlies. But I also lose a lot.

Solutions:
Some possible Next Step Coach Report options to consider:

These assume managers have a way to set up a formation and tactics to give an individual player more chance to achieve:
- Must score 5 goals in next 15 games
- Must score 30 goals in the season
- Must score 5 Penalty Kick Goals
- Must provide 10 Assists
- Must average 5 tackles over the season
- Keeper to maintain Avg Rating above 7.5 for the season in their division
- Player must play in 5 FA Cup games
- Player must play in 45 games in the new season
- Player must not receive a red card in the next 30 games
- Player must receive 5 Team of the Round in the next 38 games

1. Topic: General
2. Premiação por título

Todos os times recebem premiação ao final da liga (após a última rodada) baseado na posição final. Quanto melhor sua posição, maior o prêmio, mas a diferença de valor entre uma posição e a seguinte não é significativa.

1. Topic: General
2. Premiação por título

Olá, não existe premiação por vencer o título da série B?
Obrigado.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

A lot of work has been going on behind the scenes to improve admin tools. Our efforts with regards to multi-account detection and penalties had good results, with managers deciding to abandon additional accounts in favour of playing without any penalties. We are now working on better ways for us to analyse the economy health of each dimension, so that we can more quickly act to balance it.