ManagerLeague : Online football manager : Season 11

Season 11

Those new to the game might wonder why there are no league matches happening these days. That is because we have jsut moved from one season to another. We are now in the pre-season of Season 11.

Thursday
Season changing from 10 to 11.

Friday
Nothing much is happening except friendlies, possibly hiring staff, and enjoying your new youth-player

Saturday & Sunday
Cups will be played as usual during the weekend, and we hope you will all join one in the spirit of the ongoing World Cup.

Monday
09:00 The first training
15:00 The first league match

From that point on, its training (09:00 and 21:00) and matches(03:00 and 15:00) as usual.

Details of what is new or improved for season 11

Portal Improvements
- Article comments are now editable
- An article will now display all the comments in stead of just 25
- Portal message page now has links to the profile of the senders.
- Gui-fix on the My Account page.
- Various rendering upgrades for articles and text
- World Cup Competition added to portal Community-menu
- New public team-info and player-info pages have been prepared for the portal, so you can show off your team and players even to people not logged in or registered.
- New Gear-shop Get STUFF here!
- Article comments are now ordered first-to-last for easier reading
- "Proper" privacy policy written and published.

Game improvements
- New "Auto-rest" available in individual training.
- Simulator optimised, approx 17-18% faster than season 10
- FIX - A problem where the Man of the Match was not always the player with the best performance
- FIX - A problem where special foreign characters could break the messages-page in some browsers
- A lot of database optimisations throughout the system
- Trophies, Biggest Wins / Losses etc are now visible on the Team-Information page, so everyone can show off their merits to everyone.
- Friendly results now display the actual result without the report needing to be "watched"
- Promoting will now reward you with 7 credits, not 3.
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in div one will now reward you with 10, 20 and 5 credits, twice as many as before.
- FXT added as sponsor
- Max income from a friendly is now 300.000, not 400.000, helping to balance the economy a bit.
- Uploading a team-logo is now FREE. (Used to cost 2 credits)
- Changing your team-name now costs 5 credits, used to cost 2.
- New Formation implemented: 3-3-4
- Tiny rendering-fix on Team-Training
- Noticable changes to most Sponsors, so read and think carefully before deciding.

Other improvements
- New domain-wide cookie-handeling (Note: If you have problems with logging in, try to restart your browser, or manually delete your managerleague-cookies)

The reason we had to focus a bit on optimisation is of course the nice growth we are seeing these days, and the desire to provide a fast and stabile service. To lower the simulation-time with almost 20% is a nice step in the right direction, specially considering that we are adding more processing-power in about 1 month.

We also have our first non-bullshit sponsor, a Norwegian football-site will enter as a proper sponsor ingame.

Soon, we will also now start preparing our move, which is scheduled to happen between season 11 and 12, which will mean some downtime and some hassle for us. We will move into a proper office downtown, thanks to our investor who belives in ManagerLeague enough to invest some more money in us. Apart from a weekend with downtime here and there, it will result in
- A better internet connection (twice our current capacity)
- A better working environment for me
which again leads to
- A better game for you

I know people have asked about "What happens when I go on vacation this summer", and that our reply has been "Use the mobile interface". Also as announced, we are working on a big upgrade to this mobile interface, and I hope to have it ready soon, I just got a bit delayed due to the World Cup, some technical problems and whatnot.
Details on this will come a week or so into season 11.

This season, we will also try to bring more people to our online chat, through a couple of IRC-competitions. If you still have not visited us in our chat-channel, shame on you

After seeing the current poll, we have opened up our Gearshop again, hoping that some will pick up a t-shirt, mousepad or mug, to support us.

With that said, I would like to thank you all for Season 10, and wish you and your team all the best for Season 11. My own team, The Spinners, failed miserably with my goal of promoting to Div 2, but I will sure try again this season.
And if you ever want to play a friendly, just challenge The Spinners, and I will challenge you right back.

On behalf of the ML-Team
- Spinner

Written by Spinner 12:31 13/06 2006

This article has been read 6100 times.

43 comment(s)

By : Heroes	Man of the Match	15:07 13/06 2006
	In ManagerLeague, the Man of the Match award sometimes goes to a player on the losing team. Is this a bug? I've never heard of this happening in real life Man of the Match awards.

By : Spinner	Nope, that is not a bug.	15:51 13/06 2006
	Even the losing team can have a player becoming man of the match, if he performs better than any other single player. Thats fair and how it should be

By : Nigey-Babey	Great stuff	16:25 13/06 2006
	Now all you need is free beer and cash prizes for all who play, and it will be the best game ever!

By : Spinner	Yay!	17:05 13/06 2006
	Couldn't agree more!!

By : Punjob	Sweet	17:10 13/06 2006
	Spinner, you guys are doing a great job! Never have I seen a game that was so great. Nor have I stayed with a game for so long. Keep up the incredible work. Now if only I can get my mom's credit card to buy a t-shirt or two...

By : Mactown	Stadium Up-grade!	17:43 13/06 2006
	You can only up-grade one part of the stadium at one time maybe allowing teams to use 2 up-grades at a time, maybe a good idea!

By : Valador	Club	17:48 13/06 2006
	The stadium upgrade may only be one at the time. Maybe simultaneous upgrades could be nice.. Some banking loans could be interesting. Exchange credits for money could be nice too, like 1 credit = $1.000.000

By : Nadar		18:56 13/06 2006
	It's nice to see you're continuously working on improving the game, even though there might come something in your way now and then, which can be expected anyway

By : Nadar	btw	18:58 13/06 2006
	How does the mousepad look like? I wanna buy one when they come out for sale

By : Spinner	Gear	03:26 14/06 2006
	By : Nadar btw Tue, 13 Jun 18:58 How does the mousepad look like? I wanna buy one when they come out for sale I've attached two pics in the article now as samples.

By : MordaciousK	Woot	06:15 14/06 2006
	Spinner-thanks from all at Omen-you know we support ure good work!We also wish u all the success in the world just as you wish us luck(hopefully!).Perhaps we cud take ure link for the gearshop to the ML forum on OmenGaming?

By : Spinner	The link to the gear-shop	13:44 14/06 2006
	It will be in the menu after the season-change, but ok, here it is: http://www.cafepress.com/managerleague

By : Apulia	World Cup	15:49 14/06 2006
	where is Norway?

By : Ayrton_Fangio	Your own heading...	17:28 14/06 2006
	Hey Spinner first of all I want to tell you that you have made a great game.But some questions came to my mind.What do you mean by improving the simulator by 17-18%?Also when playing a friendly match it takes a credit from us which sucks.Can you take that out?

By : Marco Van Misten	Yes	17:34 14/06 2006
	If u improved the managerleague this is an idea stadium upgrade not only one at the same time but can upgrade two or more at the same time another interesting thing are can make a banking loan and just 1 credit=$ 5000000 and board director can make the fund for the club also make the sponsor more rich and give more sponsorship and money to the club

By : Game	Comments	18:54 14/06 2006
	Could you change the sorting of these comments Spinner? As reading UP the page to get them in the correct order is pickling my brain

By : oleguer	SPANISH PLEASE!!!!	19:23 14/06 2006
	when wiil be the game translated to spanish?? please do it as fast as you can, it would be much better for a lot a people who is playing this game

By : dr.	Your own heading...	19:57 14/06 2006
	Please put Croatia in country selection!

By : Spinner	Spanish	20:42 14/06 2006
	I know! I would like to have it in Spanish too, but I need translators to do it. I had one player saying he would do it, then he got what he needed and nothing happened. Now I have another, but it doesn't seem like much is happening! Help needed!

By : Spinner	Countries	20:43 14/06 2006
	Please put Croatia in country selection! Sure..make a list of at least 100 first-names and 100 last-names for Croatia, and email them to spinner@managerleague.com, and you'll have it!

By : Spinner	hmmm	20:45 14/06 2006
	By : Ayrton_Fangio Your own heading... Wed, 14 Jun 17:28 Hey Spinner first of all I want to tell you that you have made a great game.But some questions came to my mind.What do you mean by improving the simulator by 17-18%?Also when playing a friendly match it takes a credit from us which ****s.Can you take that out? 1: Thanks. 2: I have improved the SPEED, which means the simulator can simulate more matches faster. 3: Haha, nice one

By : Ayrton_Fangio	Your own heading...	22:56 14/06 2006
	Hey I wasnt kidding about the friendlies

By : MrBlack	Go spinner!	23:30 14/06 2006
	Hmm, with this new working environment i hope to see much improvement after next season . Hehe, only joking, you already put in enough work, keep it up man. With regards to friendlies costing money aryton, it is necessary otherwise how would this game be expected to make a profit for the creators.

By : Vaughan	GOOD IDEA	04:02 15/06 2006
	You should consider making "made to order" football shirts....so that players can create their own team shirt, that'll sell well.

By : Spinner	I can't possibly...	07:41 15/06 2006
	Another time-consumer for me? I don't think so, it'd steal time away from development, which is little enough as it is.

By : Qiel	Awww... No Turks	18:15 15/06 2006
	Gee, I was hoping the Turks would make their appearance. I guess I didn't get them to you in time. Maybe next season.

By : MrBenitez	GREATOOOO	19:32 15/06 2006
	Great game guys, gotta love it ;D Just like Punjob I've never played a game for this long either, it's just great. And it doesn't take that much of you're time Continue the nice work <3

By : Spinner	Qiel	14:30 16/06 2006
	I am so sorry, the Turkish names should have been in! My bad alltogether!

By : Spinner	Problems commenting, denis.m ?	17:15 16/06 2006
	Anything you need help with?

By : Qiel	Go Turks	21:55 16/06 2006
	Thanks Spinner. I'll have to check if any Turks are being generated by names. Of course, I am not about to trash TIU just to get a Turkey-based team (especially since Tashkent is in Uzbekistan). But as the Transfer pool gets players generated for them, I'll see if any of them are from Turkey. I'll be working on the Persian names (Iran & Afghanistan) in the next week or two so we can have more teams for Central Asia. So season 12 might be able to get teams from there. And maybe for season 13 we can get Arabic teams. After that ... I don't know, maybe Africa.

By : Ryos_Ziegler	question...	05:30 17/06 2006
	Can Malaysian be in the team selection..

By : Havors	Your own heading...	12:30 17/06 2006
	Sorry to be so blunt but, man the prices for ML-Gear are a rip off. I can buy designer stuff like ralph lauren, tommy hilfiger t-shirts for cheaper!!

By : Spinner	Your own heading...	13:02 17/06 2006
	LO Havors, yes I know, its a bit expensive. Its a setup by CafePress.com with a little markup on top that goes to us, so there isn't a lot I can do about it.

By : Ayrton_Fangio	Your own heading...	14:24 17/06 2006
	Yeah the credits are needed for a friendly like Mr.Black said,but now i see there is an easy way to earn them

By : Qiel	Turks	19:49 17/06 2006
	Well, I just checked and their are no options for Turkish teams, so I don't think there will be any Turkish players.

By : Spinner	Like I said...	02:50 18/06 2006
	I have the Turkish names, but forgot to add them to the game..hence no Turky-option. Whats that about easy credits? Referring?

By : o^	Balance economy?	11:29 18/06 2006
	- Max income from a friendly is now 300.000, not 400.000, helping to balance the economy a bit. In my humble opinion this actually does the opposite. It keeps the economy unbalanced. I fail to see on how the smaller and less wealthy teams can manage to make more income with less earnings per friendly. Those teams who already are rich and have good players have already earned a lot by playing lots of friendlies, and by decreasing the income per friendly, you keep the wealthy teams on top with ease and you keep the poor teams on the bottom with virtually no chance of going anywhere.

By : Spinner	Not exactly	16:52 18/06 2006
	The thing is, those teams who have played the most friendlies, still do....

By : Ayrton_Fangio	Your own heading...	18:09 19/06 2006
	A stadium upgrade takes a lot.Wouldn't it be better if instead of taking rounds to complete an upgrade,taking time like, for a club shop to take 6 hours?

By : Spinner	Time	18:30 19/06 2006
	Most things in the game are tied to the time of rounds. It is only transfers that do not. For now at least, I see no real advatage to changing the time on upgrades.

By : KKC	Too Easy	04:13 20/06 2006
	I know that you are trying to make the game easier to manage but at the same time you are taking out the involvement in the game. I know that you want to upgrade slowly but some things are killing the game. I remember when ML first started you had to accually go to substitutions to switch players. I just think i spend less time on ML every season because alls i have to do is click two buttons now and my team is ready for the next game. Just my input. I still love ML even though

By : Ayrton_Fangio	Your own heading...	11:39 20/06 2006
	When did ML first started?

By : torbinlagos	serhyui	15:37 20/06 2006
	how you doing peoples????

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