Friday, September 28, 2007

To ... τέλος του κόσμου!

Το τέλος του κόσμου (Gameworld) , δεν ήρθε ξαφνικά και απροσδόκητα, αλλά προαναγγέλθηκε με μια λιτή ανακοίνωση της SI! Κρίμα, πάνω που άρχιζε να ανεβαίνει η ομάς και είχαμε μαζέψει αρκετά νέα ταλεντα! Τέλος πάντων, για το καλό του beta testing θα το ανεχθούμε και αυτό! Φήμες ότι το τέλος του κόσμου ήρθε γιατί ο Τάσος (δες προηγούμενο ποστ) έχασε στον τελικό του Champions League, ελέγχονται ως ανακριβείς!




IMPORTANT! Your gameworld is being reset

On Monday 1st October the current beta gameworld is going to be reset and it will then be split into two gameworlds of 500.

There are a number of reasons behind this decision

Bug and exploitation fixes
Since the start of the beta we've fixed many bugs and closed a number of loopholes and exploits. These have obviously had a major effect on the GW.

Financial changes
We've made so many important financial changes recently and we need to focus on how successful they would be in the finished game. The only way we can safely do this is to reset.

Splitting into two worlds of 500
Our recent survey told us that many of you do not have a chance to buy players that you recognise. The reset to smaller worlds is going to test if you're able to buy more recognisable players.

We know some of you will be sad to see the end of the current world, but we've also had many requests to reset from the forums. Think of this as a new challenge to your obviously immense managerial skills!

Look out for an email on Monday with further details and thanks for helping us make the best online football game..ever.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Tελικός Champions League


Κάποιος γνωστός συμμετέχει μου φαίνεται! Δεν πειράζει Τάσο, του χρόνου :P

Aλλαγές με το αναννεωμένο release...




Latest news - 24th September 2007
Some important financial changes
We've spent some time recently analysing the financial aspects of the beta world and we're in the process of implementing the following changes. We'd love to hear your thoughts....

League acquisition fees*
When signing a player on a provisional contract or in a wage auction you will now have to pay a fee. These fees are payable to the 'game world' to 'unlock' the player and are arranged so that nobody will be able to afford the top players to begin with, with the aim of partially addressing concerns of late-arriving users to the GW of "not being able to compete"

Rankings income*
This is to be slashed to between 75k and 125k daily but using a linear equation (instead of weighting it towards the top ranked teams.)

Media money
Reduced by 50%

100% excess wage tax
Any wage bills over and above 250k (500k for any new worlds we create) will be subject to this tax

No more federation fees
We're dropping federation membership fees and implementing per-player injury insurance, costing 10% of a players daily wage and providing 100% cover.

* denotes only available in new gameworlds

What's new and improved this week
User feedback
You now have the chance to leave positive or negative feedback about each other so you can, over time, obtain a profile of how other people see their behaviour in the game world.

Enhanced autopatcher
Added a new 'Add-Ons' tab in the preferences popup. This enables us to roll out addition content such as sounds and skins.

New match engine
Lots and lots of new things in this engine including, improving referee and linesman positioning and keeping up with play, improving defender positioning in relation to the player they are "marking" and stopping dissent in penalty shootouts.

Monday, September 17, 2007

To update της εβδομάδας!

Aποφάσισα από σήμερα να σας δίνω και τα ενημερωτικά updates Που λαμβάνω από την SI, αφού κάτι τέτοιο δεν απαγορεύεται! Έτσι θα μπορεί ο κάθε επισκέπτης του blog, να έχει μια σαφέστερη άποψη για την εξέλιξη της ανάπτυξης του παιχνιδιού!





Latest news - 17th September 2007

What's new and improved this week
Improvements to player progression
We've made some improvements to the player progression code which should see the return of the coaching staff update news items (indicating whether a young player was developing well, or an old player was ready to be sent out to the pasture)

Injury enhancements
A hot topic but we've now changed the way injuries are dished out so instead of all injuries experienced in a match becoming fully fledged game world injuries, instead some injuries will be 'skipped.' The number of injuries skipped will depend on the users' playing patterns meaning that hardcore users should no longer experience significantly more injuries than more casual users despite playing many more matches.

Tactics page
Highly annoying but when swapping players around on the tactics page (on the pitch) player instructions are now kept with the position, rather than stay with the player.

Player preferred moves
Straight from FM, we've now put in player preferred moves (PPM) into FML. You should see the likes of Henry drifting out to the left, Ronaldo trying a few cheeky step overs and in the case of poor old Krzysiek Scibiorek he's had to watch his goalkeeper Bruno continually argue with the ref at the expense of standing in his goal and saving some shots.

Monday, September 10, 2007

I hate it when it happens...

:(


Ένα νέο ταλέντο στην ομάδα μας!

Επειδή ο προηγούμενος που είχε αναρτηθεί στο blog, για να παρακολουθήσουμε την ανάπτυξή του, δεν μας φτούρησε και έμεινε ελεύθερος, είναι αναγκαίο να ανεβάζουμε ένα νέο αστέρι της U17 ομάδας μας, που έχει όλο το μέλλον μπροστά του και παίζει βασικός ήδη και στις 3 μικρές ομάδες μας (U17,U19,U21).

Στην σημερινή δημοσίευση, θα δούμε ένα άλλο πρόβλημα που παρουσιάζεται στο FML και είναι πολύ δύσκολο να αντιμετωπιστεί. Όχι, δεν έχει σχέση με κώδικα, Match engine κλπ κλπ. Έχει να κάνει με τα 15χρονα που συμμετέχουν στο παιχνίδι και πολλές φορές καταστρέφουν την αγορά και τις ισσοροπίες του. Δείτε τον μισθό που δόθηκε για τον παρακάτω 14χρονο νεαρό:
Δεν διαφωνώ, μεγάλο ταλέντο για την ηλικία του, αλλά ταλέντο. Εγώ στο Postiga που είναι 28 χρονών και ο πιο ακριβοπληρωμένος της ομάδας μου, δίνω 39κ... Όπως θα δείτε, ο παραπάνω νεαρός δεν είναι ικανός να κάνει από μόνος του την διαφορά ούτε καν σε U17 επίπεδο. Αντιμετώπισα πρόσφατα την ομάδα του και της έριξα ... 3. Να θυμηθούμε και την πρόσφατη περίπτωση που κάποιος άλλος χρήστης έδωσε 40κ μισθό στον ... Νίνη και τον πήρε από την ομάδα μου. Το αποτέλεσμα βέβαια, θα είναι οι ομάδες αυτές να πάνε για οικονομικό φούντο αφού ούτε αποτελέσματα φέρνουν, αλλά καταστρέφουν τους παίχτες αυτούς, αφού πλέον έχουν υπερβολικά υψηλό wage demand και κανείς (λογικός χρήστης) δεν θέλει να τους αποκτήσει.