1. Topic: Suggestions
2. experienced players

You swapped the values Nirabdha, it’s -1 for 30 yrs and -2 for 29 yrs :)

1. Topic: Announcements
2. Improvements Discussion

It doesn’t matter, it is the responsibility of the team who loaned in the player to make sure the clauses are not broken. The other team has the option to reject or even ignore your termination request :)

1. Topic: Announcements
2. Improvements Discussion

In your example manager B would be punished since he was the one in charge when the loaned player missed the last match. I know, it doesn’t sound fair, but manager A was in his right when he made the player miss 5 matches since he was allowed to miss even 6 ;)

1. Topic: Bugs
2. loaned a player to Myself????

I’ll fix that for you Simon. Recently we made a change were a player is still loaned when sold. I didn’t consider the case where he would be sold to the team loaning him :D

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Statistic

I think that was mentioned before. We’ll make sure this is included in the match engine enhancements, since we currently don’t store the number of assists.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. Improvements Discussion

No, your loan embargo history is not reset so after letting a player go for the third time your embargo duration will always be 45 turns whenever you let that happen again.

1. Topic: Bugs
2. Newspaper image

Of course ppl read the newspaper! I gues…anyway, ppl will read when we improve the news and add some interviews ;)

Thanks Chris, shouldn’t happen again!

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

Loan Embargo

If you let loaned players return for having missed more matches than allowed by contract you will suffer from a temporary loan embargo. The duration of the embargo depends on how many times you let that happen. It will last 15 turns in the first time, 30 turns in the second and 45 turns from the third on. During the embargo you won’t be able to loan players from other teams. The goal of this enhancement is to prevent situations where the same team keeps loaning players without using them.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. Improvements Discussion

Currently stamina affects the players ability to recover during the match. The more tired a player harder it will be to recover. In practice, it means those with low stamina tends to become slower earlier in the match.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

It is now possible to request loan termination. If the other team agrees the player is returned in the following turn.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. Improvements Discussion

The correct calculation is:

Stamina: penalty
100: 0%
99: 0%
98: 0%
97: -1%
96: -1%
95: -1%
94: -2%
…
4: -32%
3: -32%
2: -32%
1: -33%

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

Beware of your players stamina! Next season the rules will be more strict affecting the overall skills of the players instead of only their recovery after running. Every 3 points below 100 stamina will reduce all skills by 1%.

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

The away match penalty reduction is still on discussion, so for next season we won’t reduce it for 27-28 years old player yet, we may do that for 29 (-2) and 30 (-1) years old players only. Stay tuned!

1. Topic: Bugs
2. @ Within In-Game Message

This is a known issue, I couldn’t find out how to fix it the first time I saw it…we’ll need to check it again.

Thanks!

1. Topic: Off Topic
2. Peter Strand

Ladies and Gentleman, I give you Peter Strand:

http://www.rubysoccer.com/game/manager_info/2675 (MediumTicker)

http://www.rubysoccer.com/users/2430

For those who doesn’t know Peter he is the creator of ManagerSim, the football management game that made me and Danilo decide to create RubySoccer. Peter kindly joined RubySoccer to take a look on what we have so far. It’s an honor to have him around! This game would probably not exist if it wasn’t for our addiction to MS.

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. cpu lineups

We’ll that, I agree it’s completely ridiculous :)

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. We need loan contract fee

I was thinking about punishing managers who do that…if a manager let’s a loaned player exceed the number of matches without playing 3 times we forbid him to loan players for a given period…how does that sound?

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. experienced players

This 27-28 upgrade seems like a controversial subject…what about -1 for 30 y.o. and -2 for 29 y.o?

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

To reduce the impact on the current season we’ll wait until next season to activate an enhancement for the older players rules: -2 away penalty for 27-28 years old players and -1 away penalty for 29-30 years old players.

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. experienced players

I’ll implement Alexander’s suggestion next season, -2 penalty for 27-28 years old players and -1 penalty for 29-30.

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. experienced players

Waiting for the season start means we’ll have this kind of change every 48 days only :D

I understand your complaints, but old players will still have their skills decreased, it’s just a way to make them valuable for an extended period. And you have a great team, you’ll be able to face this challenge ;)

1. Topic: General
2. Going back to a team

You need to wait 1 complete season (144 turns) before being able to a recently managed team.

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. experienced players

I’m with Dirk on this one, we cannot lower too much the age since the idea is to make older players more interesting and strategic.

1. Topic: General
2. Increasing ticket prices?

It is possible that we return to the original idea of letting managers decide the ticket price, but first we need to develop a good and consistent relation between ticket price and match attendance (considering of course the factors that we already consider like match competition, team quality, league position or cup round, etc).

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. Interview

Press Releases are just informational texts a manager can write and post about their teams like saying his expectations for the next season, talking about his accomplishments, anything he wants. These will probably be available either from the newspaper and from the manager or team page. Interviews should be the next step when it comes to newspaper.

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. experienced players

That was an option I thought about when implementing this feature. I decided to use the age cause it would be much more complicated to use number of matches played, because of the way we store this information.

1. Topic: Suggestions
2. experienced players

Nice! Sounds right to me :)

1. Topic: Bugs
2. players in formation not selected

I see the formation set in your cup match is “Away” and this is not your default formation…maybe that was it? :)

1. Topic: Announcements
2. Improvements Discussion

Just made the announcement clearer…it’s for players with 31 years old or more ;)

1. Topic: Announcements
2. [admin_only] Improvements

Players with 31 years old or more do not receive the -3 penalty on all skills when their team is playing as a visitor. This change was made to represent the experience acquired by older players.