Fair enough, here is a little list of things you should know about:
1: A message is now being sent to you when your team enters the league cup unless it was there from the start, stating that you are in and which round your first game is played in. This just makes it a little easier to remember those "surprising" cup matches 
2: The game is now available in multiple languages, more or less anyways. More languages can be added seamlessly now. Currently, the only working languages are English and Norwegian, but that will change over the next few days.
3: TV-coverage of games to earn more money! Hint: Upgrade your lighting! Friendlies and custom cups are not TV-material though!
4: The public interest in custom cups have been reduced, the interest in official cups have been increased. This is a needed balance-tweak that was needed for the bigger financial picture.
5: The winners of department cups now get 2 credits, not 3.
A real bummer for some teams, I know, but the teams who win this are often the same teams that get promoted, and so it is fair to adjust this. Also, 3 credits for winning such a tiny cup is too much.
6: The credit-cost to join cups is now 2 credits(!) The current cost is too low when compared to a single friendly game, and gives far to much in return both in credits (for the winner) and cash (match income). I am aware this is not a popular modification, but one needed for balance.
7: Comments have been enabled on polls on the portal, so you can finally let us know WHY you vote the way you do. Improved communication I hope
8: Friendlies are now slightly more taxing on fitness, half of what a normal match is. This will limit the number of friendlies a team can play per round and season. It is still a lot less taxing than a regular match though. This could easily lead to us making less money as less credits are spent, so this is done purely for the intrest of game-balance.
9: Goalkeepers have been tweaked downwards a bit in certain situations. This might lead to slightly more goals allover, and the "superiority" of some high-quality keepers should hopefully be reduced a bit.
10: Performance-bonuses for sucessfull tackles in some situation have been increased. This might lead to a slightly higher performance for defenders in particular.
11: The format of the match-reports has changed a bit (a lot more than you can see actually, but that was MY headache) . I hope you'll like it.
12: Some extra "flavour" has been added to the match-reports, you'll hopefully notice it here and there
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13: Assists now affect player-performance
14: The events system finally got the requested "Regardless of the result" option, to be able to automate automatic substitutions after a set periode of time etc.
Please note: The update in the events system forces me to delete all created events, so they will have to be recreated on Monday.
15: Some pages with XHTML errors have been updated to 100% compatibility.
16: The match reports has been changed further, and I am trying to accomplish something funny. Thanks for the idea that I read in the comments below
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That should give you a fair idea of what has been going on in terms of development lately, and I hope these updates will yet again make ManagerLeague even better and more enjoyable!
Thank you all for your continued support, and as long as you are there, I shall strive to improve the game!
Let me know what you think, but please dont't turn it into a raw credit / greedyness debate here, I'd rather have your views on the updates |
Written by Spinner 03:06 03/12 2005
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| By : Spinner | Translations | 03:39 03/12 2005 |
 | By the way, if you are able to help us translate ML into a language, and have some hours to spend on doing a good job at it, drop me an email (spinner@managerleague.com) and mention which language you can do! |
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| By : Steve007 | Improv Season 4 | 13:13 03/12 2005 |
 | Well done for the improvements but one particular addition I would like to see in the future is the possibility to view the comments line by line without knowing the result. Knowing the result before reading the comments will simply spoil all the fun. I think this is a slight modification that would make the interest for this game really increase.
Thanks and keep improvments coming. |
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| By : bikegoesfast | Your own heading... | 14:37 03/12 2005 |
 | People expect to get everything for free on the internet, I love this game so of course I will pay som change to use credits. The changes seems fine on paper, let's see if it works out fine! |
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| By : wakey | The Custom Cup entry fee | 17:36 03/12 2005 |
| I dont like the changes to custom cups, especially the entry fee. I think that custom cups are a great feature for community building as it allows groups of 'friends' to pit their skills agaisnt each other, for example at the end of a season we run an F-Crew cup for the F-Crew community and it allows for some fun as it gives people whom dont normally get to play to gain bragging rights over each other. However currently its an expernsve risk to take, not only does it take a credit to enter, a credit which you might have to divert from elsewhere but also costs 500k which can be a difference between getting an improved player for the next season and not. THis 500k takes you to get to round 3 to fully cover currently and your probally going to be looking at needing to get to round 4 with the changes now.
The credit increase will also restict people taking part as they wont have the credits as some have to rely on the 3 credits they get for free. This could prevent people from taking part in custom cups which damages the community aspects of the game.
Perhaps if credits were cheaper and there was more package options to suit peoples budgets more that might help, and also a reduced entry fee for cups to account for fewer gate receipts is a must. |
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| By : Spinner | Wakey | 20:23 03/12 2005 |
| Keep in mind, the 500 K entry fee means less now with TV Coverage as extra income, and no new feature to increase expenses accordingly. |
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| By : Elem3n7 | Switching language | 15:12 04/12 2005 |
 | is it possible to get norwegian language here now? and how can i get it?
many thanks from Elem3n7 |
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| By : Spinner | Norwegian language... | 17:31 04/12 2005 |
| Monday morning when we are into season 4, you most certainly can.
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| By : Selleri | NiCe work spinner | 18:56 04/12 2005 |
 | Seems ok this one.... but can U just skip the tweeking op fpayerstats between seasons ? I HATE that one |
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| By : The crow | CRETIDS!! | 19:07 04/12 2005 |
 | I hate those credtits. the credits are baaad! buhu! :'(..
nah just kidding, I love them credits, butt anyway.
two great updates, the event and the tv rights and I hope that the "match report" update is that you can see the comment line by line with out seeing the result?
still.. great work Spinner, keep it going and dont forget to tweak selleris team down with 5+ Q`s... or else I want those 10k back  |
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| By : MrBlack | agreed | 20:18 04/12 2005 |
 | Love all the ugrades and with the crow, if the upgrade is the ability to view report before result then i'll be a happy man, great idea steve007 |
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| By : Gay Lord | Love it | 21:52 04/12 2005 |
| Love it.. This was a god game but now it's even better.................  |
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| By : SirLance | comment | 22:18 04/12 2005 |
 | Looks great spinner, dont think the custom cup changes was a good idea tho. But keep up the good work! |
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| By : Howie | Your own heading... | 22:56 04/12 2005 |
 | Your comment here please! |
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| By : DJeteh | TV | 10:10 05/12 2005 |
| Any hint as to how much you get etc.. per covered game, is it like shop/rest were you get a little every home game, or is it randomly picked what games will be televised and you get a biggest lump sum?
im sure the better players would be interested to know if its worth investing some eggs in lighting or to keep saving for next capcity upgrade.... |
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| By : Howie | Your own heading... | 16:19 05/12 2005 |
| I agree with increase to cost of credits to custom cups. Good move to many people expect things for free. |
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| By : Steve007 | Your own heading... | 22:42 05/12 2005 |
| Great work again on the match reports and I am glad you satisfied my wish re watching the comments before the score. Thanks |
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| By : Gustave | Great job | 03:43 06/12 2005 |
 | I like the cost for custom cups. Its definately more balanced compared to the cost of friendlies. I mean, you're playing a lot more games most of the time. Nice job Spinner. |
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| By : Spinner | DJeteh | 07:51 06/12 2005 |
| Details will come in the manual one of these days |
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