1. Topic: FastTicker
2. New countries for next season?

This is for anybody who wants to help. Besides the list of first and second division teams we’d need images for the team logos (any size and format will do it, we can adjust it…unless you want to do that for us which would be appreciated), name of divisions and national cup. Remember we’d like to have 20 teams per division in all countries in the future, so we’d need 40 teams to make 2 divisions. If the suggested country has less than 20 teams per division it would be necessary to pick some from the third division so we could make it.

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Match Results

We could move back to the old engine while things don’t get fixed, if that’s for the best.

1. Topic: Bugs
2. loans

Exactly Nirabdha, CPU teams don’t deal with loans yet so Davison, unfortunately they will ignore your requests instead of evaluating whether or not to accept it :(

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

The RubySoccer team wishes everybody a Happy New Year! You guys in Australia are almost there but I got here just in time :D

Unfortunately we were not able to deliver all enhancements we promised due to some unexpected events. In January things should get back to normal. Happy 2010!

1. Topic: MediumTicker
2. Tactics help!

Hi Joseppi,

I’ve looked at your tactics and it is almost right, except that instead of selecting a player in side ‘C’ you should pick ‘LC’ or ‘RC’, since you don’t have an attacker on A C 0. There are 5 columns representing the sides, from left to right they are L, LC, C, RC and R. If you have any more doubts you can check our Team Setup help, Formation Strategies section:

http://www.rubysoccer.com/mediawiki/index.php/Team_Setup

1. Topic: MediumTicker
2. Buying from CPU teams

If you mean buying players the answer is yes, as long as they’re transfer listed :)

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Match Results

Shit will be fixed ;)

Things are pretty quiet around here cause I’ve been through surgery to remove my gallbladder 11 days ago and Danilo is busy getting things ready to move to Australia.

1. Topic: MediumTicker
2. Turkey- still not added to MT

Hum, I guess you’re right, we can add it next season.

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Agent fees on free transfers

I am in favor. Will get back to it when reviewing the economy.

1. Topic: FastTicker
2. Spanish Cup Champions...

Sorry guys, had to delete all posts not related to the topic subject. ;)

I understand there are some divergences between some of our users and that we are not as effective as we could when it comes to investigate cheaters. Sometimes we may leave people unpunished, sometimes we may punish the wrong person…we do what we can with the time and help we have. One thing I’m sure, things can only get better.

Now let’s have some fun! Congrats Nirabdha!

1. Topic: Announcements
2. Improvements Discussion

It is happening cause players tend to run towards the goal more often if their path is free of opponents. I believe having more goals by defenders and midfielders is a good thing, but it may be exaggerated right now. The statistics for season 32 are not that bad, look:

Attackers: 35916 goals
Midfielders: 10204 goals
Defenders: 2726 goals

Isn’t it reasonable? :)

1. Topic: Bugs
2. 4 x 0

Don’t say that, of course player skills play an important role ;)

There will be more fixing, the match engine changes were not completely done, I just decided to release what I already had. Financial will have to wait until the extended club world cup is done, since I promised this before :D

1. Topic: Announcements
2. Improvements Discussion

It is the unfair way…even though I don’t see why it is unfair since ticket income is split on friendlies :)

1. Topic: General
2. Loan criteria

If wage and period are the same, the next criteria is worst club in terms of player quality, since it means a higher chance of being in the first team.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. Improvements Discussion

For now it won’t set any specific formations, so if you don’t set it up it will use the default. We need to add a way to mark a formation as default for friendlies :P
In fact it will not send invitations, but create 48 friendly matches for you on season start, on turns 1, 4, 8 (7 is cup), 10, 14 (13 is cup), 16, 19 and so on.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

New option available on manager settings: “Schedule friendlies on season start?”.

Using this option friendlies will be scheduled automatically for your team on a new season start, the same way done for CPU teams. Your opponent will be randomly picked between CPU teams and other managers who also marked this new option and will be the same on all matches. There will be 48 matches scheduled, 1 every 3 turns.

1. Topic: General
2. Player Substitution

I wouldn’t worry about losing points, looks like a match report position display issue rather than a match positioning problem.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. Improvements Discussion

@Nirabdha: sometimes strikers run backwards to try and find a better position for a shot.

@Dhimitri: I agree with you, just a correction, it’s FastTicker and MediumTicker, I know you’re using ManagerSim names :D

1. Topic: Announcements
2. Improvements Discussion

Midfielders are shooting more because they tend to run towards the goal and try a shot when there is nobody marking them.

You should blame the freaking cheaters for the addition of the 1 player fired per tick rule :)
Unfortunately more restrictive rules shall come.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. Improvements Discussion

@Ulisses: glad to hear that, this way we’ll be able to reduce keepers effectiveness ;)

@Patrick: some changes were drastic so I kinda expected something like that…sorry :P

1. Topic: General
2. NewsPaper, Pick Of the Day

The problem with the league table would be the size of the space…not sure if it would fit in any of the sizes we have.

1. Topic: General
2. NewsPaper, Pick Of the Day

Nice, I’ll check with Danilo if that’s possible.

1. Topic: Off Topic
2. World Cup Draw

Thanks DaMaGo! I’m indeed very happy! Looking forward for Brazil x Spain as well.

@Filipe: That’s what I expect as well, even though a good number of people believe Cote d’Ivoire can give us a hard time.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. Improvements Discussion

@Nirabdha: the goalkeeper won’t be confused yet :)
regarding the other problem I’ll have to look into it carefully

@Filipe: yes, there are plans, with the options currently available it is really hard to do that

1. Topic: Off Topic
2. Flamengo Brazilian Champion!!!

I can’t help it, my beloved Flamengo just won the Brazilian league for the sixth time in its history, after 17 years from the last title! Now Flamengo and São Paulo are the greatest Brazilian league title holders with 6 titles each.

MEEEEEEENNGGGOOOOOOO!!!

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Lack Of messages for CPU teams negotiation

Thanks for letting us know, you’re absolutely right!

1. Topic: General
2. How is possible? - Loans

Interesting, sounds reasonable.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. Improvements Discussion

We already had shots deflected by the goalkeeper, now the ball can hit or be intercepted by a defender on a shot. That’s the difference.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

Even though there is still a lot to do in the match engine I decide to release a package of changes:

- decision to shoot depends on how many players are between the attacker and the goal, since now the shot can be intercepted
- players are more aware when the path to the goal is free so they can decide to run instead of passing the ball
- defenders will try to stay close to attackers when opponent has the ball
- players can pass the ball to teammates behind when there are no suitable teammates ahead

These changes are already in place. Please give your feedback in the improvements discussion topic.

1. Topic: General
2. NewsPaper, Pick Of the Day

The empty spaces are there cause nobody is writing article templates anymore. If anybody is interested I can post the ones we’re still missing.