1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

The calculation of the new team strength during the season tick has been modified. The old formula included all the players a team owns (even if loaned out) plus any players currently in the team from loan. The new formula will exclude the loaned in players and only consider the players a team owns (even if loaned out, as before).

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Browser Issue

This depends on the window size/resolution. Even if you open a browser window with the usual layout, once you resize that window and make it smaller you will then get the mobile version.

If you are restricted to a certain window size or resolution in your laptop then there is not much you can do unfortunately as the transition to the mobile style interface is automatic and coded into the game.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

We have new rules in place for removing a player from the transfer list or changing the transfer parameters. Those two actions cannot be performed if there is a transfer proposal for the player from a human-managed team that satisfies the transfer price. However, if the player rejects the wage offer in that proposal then those restrictions do not apply and you are again free to cancel the transfer or change the parameters.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

The rules for applying to class A and B teams have been relaxed. Managers who have won the Club World Cup at least once in their careers can apply to any team and managers who have won a top tier international cup (CL, Libertadores or CCL) can apply to B teams or lower.

In summary:

• A team: you can apply if already managing an A team or if you have ever won the Club World Cup
• B team: you can apply if already managing an A or B team or if you have ever won a tier 1 international cup
• other teams: anyone can apply

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

TestTicker’s exclusive feature of restricting the teams you can apply for has been rolled out to FastTicker and MediumTicker. That means you will only be able to apply for teams of class C or lower while unemployed, you can only apply for higher class teams if you are already managing a higher class team (e.g. you took your initially D team to class B, so now you can apply to other teams up to B class).

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

In the players hall of fame you can now click on a player’s name to go to a new screen with additional details for the player. It includes some general information (name, nationality, position), career information (starting season, club, longest stint, etc), awards and statistics for club, national squad and combined.

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Player Loans

This is a hot topic I’d say. I’ve heard similar suggestions before, but essentially you are asking non-managed teams to prioritise developing players from human-managed teams instead of using what they have best or developing their own :-)

Class E and F teams are the ones which will look into loans first and pick the best players available for loan that they think would be part of their first 11. For example, they wouldn’t loan a GK from you if theirs was better in their view or they wouldn’t loan an attacker if they had 2-3 better than the ones you’re offering for loan.

Teams with class A to D will also loan players, but they tend to prioritise buying players. If they don’t find or can’t afford what they’re looking for then they will look into loans. We need to be careful in tweaking that so we don’t end up with a better loan market but worse transfer market, if that makes sense.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

There is a new section in our Hall of Fame for player records. The World Team of the Season history has been moved to a new tab called Awards and the Players tab now shows information of retired players. At the moment the following records are captured when a player retires and displayed here:

• matches played
• goals scored
• assists
• man of the match awards
• average rating
• top scorer awards
• team of the round awards
• team of the season awards
• world team of the season awards
• player of the season awards

For now only the top 10 players in each category are displayed, but soon you will be able to view additional players for each category as well click the player name to view more details about the player.

1. Topic: MediumTicker
2. Liverpool Wins

Congrats mate! I can see you have worthy opposition in the league ;-)

1. Topic: Bugs
2. NPC Formation: 4-6-0

Yeah, they have been experimenting with some weird formations lately. They are coded to try to adapt and vary their formations, but there are not many smarts about it so things like this can happen every now and then.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

Bug fixed: the “Welcome to our club” message will once again be sent to managers when their job applications to a team or national squad are accepted during the tick.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

Bug fixed: man of the match evolution step can no longer be completed in friendly matches.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

Bug fixed: when filtering by international matches in the team matches screen you can now see North American continental competitions. This filter was also simplified to not contain the specific competitions names such as Champions League, Libertadores, etc.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

Bug fixed: draws for North American international competitions now take into account the teams’ countries in order to avoid same country matches as far as possible.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

Bug fixed: when viewing international cup titles by country the totals now include all teams, including inactive ones.

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Notes

Thanks for the feedback Dimitri, always useful to know things like that! I still use my own google sheet to keep track of my players…lol

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

The existing points system for the country ranking does not work for TestTicker in its current format where the competitions are shorter, especially the North American ones. For now I’ve manually fixed the points from season 1 using a new formula that I am planning to automatically apply from season 2 onwards. It awards a team points based on the class of the opponents it defeated or tied with in international competitions, even including the Club World Cup which is ignored by the formula currently in place. If all goes well the new formula may prove to be useful even for FastTicker and MediumTicker in the future.

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Missing Player in Report

Wow, very interesting indeed…never seen that happen either. I can see that instead of replacing him with a player in the same position the game added a midfielder somewhere else. I wonder if it just happens for national squad matches…will log it as a bug for us to investigate.

Thanks!

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. More Stats

I do miss that, especially differentiating national squad from club matches.

1. Topic: General
2. Tough next step requirements

Wow, that’s tough indeed. Now that I’ve been playing in Europe for a long time I realise how hard it is to fulfil the international cup steps, but you bring an interesting complication for second division teams. My view is that the whole step system needs to be revamped, I still think it’s better than what we had earlier but the time is coming for something to replace it. We definitely don’t want players to get stuck for too long in a given step, unless there is a very good reason for it.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

It is my pleasure to announce that TestTicker is finally up and running! This dimension is much smaller than the others, has only 8 countries with 1 division each, but includes the newcomers USA and Mexico. As an exclusive feature you will only be able to apply for teams of class C or lower while unemployed, you can only apply for higher class teams if you are already managing a higher class team (e.g. you took your initially D team to class B, so now you can apply to other teams up to B class).

As stated in the dimension description the main intention is to test new features and, when required, the dimension will be reset. There will be 6 ticks per day which will run 1 hour after FastTicker’s ticks, the first one is scheduled to run in 41 hours from now. This should give everyone plenty of time to apply for the teams they wish. Given everyone will have 0 points in the manager ranking the assignment when multiple people are applying for a team will be random.

Enjoy!

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Loan Problem

The loan option text is definitely not clear, but I can guarantee you that the game code will only allow the appropriate teams based on the player’s home country if you use that loan option ;-)

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Coaches vs Scouts

I like those suggestions and I agree that currently information is very limited. I have added an item to our backlog to work on that. It would be relatively simple to begin with a change in the format of the information given, something like:

• this player should improve on average 4-5 points in each skill
  or
• this player should improve between 25 and 35 points across all skills

I know it is still not a detailed breakdown like the scout report, but I can tell you that scout reports are also based on expected average improvement so you are still getting the same information.

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Scout and Notes

That represents the fact the report was created too long ago and is outdated. I believe the current expiry is 3 seasons.

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Loan Problem

The higher ranked country option takes care of that exact requirement, it will make sure only teams in countries that are top 3 ranked or at least 3 positions above the player’s home country can make loan offers.

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Coaching Report View

Hey Hounddog,
Surely you don’t have that many reports :-)
In any case, I acknowledge you should be able to sort by that column. There was a new release today but I haven’t touched that screen at all, but of course some underlying thing may have been messed up. Will have to look into it!

Cheers

1. Topic: MediumTicker
2. Prêmios Insuficientes

Concordo que o modelo econômico do jogo precisa ser revisado pra evitar que times percam dinheiro com facilidade e ao mesmo tempo evitar um acúmulo de grandes fortunas nas mãos de apenas alguns times. A maneira mais comum que as pessoas encontram de ganhar dinheiro é contratar jogadores ainda jovens e vendê-los depois que tiverem evoluído bastante, mas é claro que isso leva tempo.

1. Topic: MediumTicker
2. Dinheiro de Arrecadação

Oi Enrico,

Tem entrada de dinheiro sim, provavelmente você está olhando no período financeiro errado já que os jogos da liga são sempre no último turno do período. Por exemplo, se vc teve uma partida da liga em casa no turno 30 a arrecadação é registrada no período dos turnos 28 a 30, mas quando vc loga no jogo e acessa as finanças após partida da liga já é o turno 31, portanto aparecem as finanças do período 31-33. Se vc navegar pro período anterior na tela de finanças (28-30) vc vai ver a arrecadação dos ingressos registrada.

Abraço

1. Topic: General
2. Plays Worse in International Cups

No, it should only affect club international cups.

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Old players - Sell vs Fire Player

I don’t think that has ever been brought up the way you put it. Different from the player value, the wage requested is not influenced by age at all, just skills, stars and teammate wages. It does make sense to make them accept lower wages as they approach the end of their careers…will add that to our backlog.

Thanks!