Recent Posts by Gabriel Cesario
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Oh, and I’ve also used my friendly squad in the past in situations like the one Vaughn described in order to give my youths some experience. I didn’t care whether or not the opponent was fighting for the title or a international cup spot. I haven’t done that in a while though. Shame on me! :(
@Philipp: “It’s just “sportsmanship” that should lead everybodys actions, not just what’s written and what’s been monitored.” – very well said ;)
@amacb: I’m glad to know you feel this way
@Meninao: I think everybody understands your reasons but most users didn’t like it. I don’t think this is good for the game but as I said before I don’t feel like punishing anybody because it would be unfair not punishing other managers with the same behavior, which would require a precious amount of time to investigate
When people have friends playing the game it is inevitable they try to help each other somehow. I’ve had friends who lost games on purpose (when there was nothing else they wanted to fight for in the competition) to help me without me asking them to do so. Is this bad for fair play and competition? Yes, of course, and I discourage this behavior, even when this is done with good faith.
Hope you guys understand our situation and have the same spirit as Amac, who is now even more motivated to win the league next season ;)
Cheers!
@amacb: winning Copa do Brasil didn’t gives the team a spot in any competition. In real life it gives you a spot in Libertadores and I think in Europe winning the national cup gives you a spot in UEFA, but we didn’t want to implement that in the game to make things simpler instead of adding lots of specific rules.
@Sly: they probably made some over priced deals in the past.
Let’s put things straight, I think that using your reserves in a match is pretty common in this game in situations where you want to rest your best players for a more important match or to help a friend or whatever, but using money to do that is something I’ve never heard before in the game (I’m not saying it never happened).
I agree with those saying it’s not a good thing to do but there is no way to prevent / detect it (at least not a simple way). As soon as I read Amac’s first post I suspected that some kind of arrangement between the managers could have happened, as Meninao is a co-worker of mine and I am aware that he and Dot know each other. But what if I didn’t knew any of the involved managers and they denied it as Sly suggested? How could we prove they did something like that? A manager could simply say he was resting his players for the international match and didn’t want to qualify to Libertadores, but Sudamericana. Should we have punished them in this case as well? Should we punish all managers who use their reserves in an official match?
To be honest, I don’t know what (if something) should be done.
Alright, wrote a lot, now you guys can proceed with your comments ;)
Maybe he is happy with the Sudamericana spot. And it wasn’t worth anyway as he lost the international cup semi-finals.
Nice! Is the first one yours as well?
Parag, I’ve jsut created the embed code for RubySoccer, check it out on our login page.
Anyone else who wants to help advertising RubySoccer on your website please feel free to do so ;)
I’ve not seen penalty kicks on my matches for a while now. Will take a look anyway :)
Every time I think about prizes I get worried about ruining the game economy…I think we should have prizes (this is in our list) but maybe we should work on other economy improvements first.
Thanks Parag. You can leave the link there, you’re not advertising your blog, as you said :)
We don’t have any kind of embed code for RubySoccer, but we could work on something…sounds like a good idea.
You guys are right, the Board must have renewed his contract. I need to check about the wage though, it should have changed…
It could be related to the keeper or even the other players being tired and failing to reach the attackers on time.
Thanks, thorpedo! I’m glad it helped :D
No worries, I hope those who are able to donate feel we deserve it ;)
Also, you both have already helped in other ways.
And if you would like to support even more please donate and help us cover next month’s US$29.95 server expenses ;)
That’s true! Thanks again for the info, otherwise I wouldn’t be aware of this change yet ;)
By the way, the change is done on my home RubySoccer environment, but as I had to make changes in several places I’m waiting for Danilo to wrap up his stuff so we can put everything in the server.
I’m curious too, Parag :P
Maybe we could open a pop-up when you click to enter the chat room…I don’t know…
That is part of the newspaper improvements. We’ll start with match results and add other kinds of news like players transactions later on.
That’s another subject, Davison. And we’ll have that too :)
Would you like to have a World Cup with clubs similar to the FIFA World Cup for National squads? This way teams from South America and Europe could face each other more often and the country ranking would be more realistic.
184 (78%) Yes, but keep the current international competitions somehow.
25 (10%) No, keep it the way it is, this competition does not exist in real life.
24 (10%) Yes, and get rid of the current international competitions so this new one fits in the schedule.
4 (2%) No Answer
Total votes: 237
It will be too complex to do at from start. Let’s get everything working with the 1:1 ratio and implement the dynamic ratio later on. ;)
Nice suggestion, Davison. We have a general chat room planned, it will be really fun! :)
Ok, I accept you suggestion, amacb :)
My feeling so far:
>World Cup with 16 clubs (32 is too much right now) split in 4 groups
>The 6 best on Champions League, 6 best on Libertadores, 2 best on UEFA and 2 best on Sudamericana qualify for the World Cup
>5th and 6th best on CL and LA will be decided by team quality, so the 2 best teams knocked out in the quarter-finals
What happened is that when the managers were fired, the player contract was very close to its end so they were not renewed by the cpu. Maybe I’ll change the logic so that the cpu “take a look” at those players.
Not at all, sponsorship is directly related to your team’s score in the teams ranking.
@Alban: I agree, the number of shots is still too high
@Parag: it makes sense to reduce the board dramatically, currently we fix the maximum board loss in 10% per match (not considering penalties for not accomplishing goals)
Fixed scout search for free players. It was not working correctly.
Anybody against renaming UEFA Cup to Europa League? For those asking yourselves why, that’s what happened on real life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Europa_League_2009%E2%80%9310
I don’t think there is anything to do with setup, the keeper for instance is really weak compared to the opponent attackers. Maybe 100 points is too much for skills range, maybe the difference between professional players is not that big. Anyway, what we could do in case of such ridiculous results is fire the manager, so people will think twice before lining up such weak players in an official match.