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Allthough a full week is left of season 13, it's time to let you have an idea of what to expect in the next season. Once again there have been a good deal of backoffice work gone in, to aid Chairman in his work, but there are a few niceities for us all in there..Here is a sneak peak..



Transfers:
- Some work have gone into a couple of anti-cheating mechanisms when it comes to artificial bids and people trying to cheat with multiple teams. This is now a bit more hard Winky
- I have also, by request, added a way for you to set a "minimum bid" value with each player, so any bids lower than that will simply not be allowed, and the bidder will receeve a message stating the minimum bid value you have set, if any.
- In addition, players can now actually refuse to join your club, if they are happy where they are. This is the beginning of a more sophisticated system for dealing with a players happiness and own morale, and the system will be expanded later. For now though, this is all you get to know

The Forum:
The ingame forum is continously growing and the ML-Team has convinced me we could do with some more features. Some of them are:
- A new forum frontpage which is slightly better than the last one
- A more intuitive order fo the forums
- Better admin-tools for dealing with the forums for us
- Forum avatars can now be used, you will be able to upload your in yoru ingame preferences page
- Forum-posters can now brag of their post-count / spam-count whatever you wish to call it
- You can decide wether you wish to see avatars of course, one click turns them on or off.

Custom Cups:
You can now create cups for a specific department if you like, you are no longer forced to include 2 divisions. For example, you can make a cup for just 2nd div, or for all divs, or for divs 4, 5 and 6.

I am also working on another improvement to the cup-system to make them better and more intresting to play, but I am not 100% sure this wil be finished in time.

Other things:
- Various smaller bug-fixes have gone in
- We wil once again try to improve the speed of the simulator by some OS-upgrades while the servers are down for the season-change, so a few extra hours of downtime can be expected while changing seasons.

Thats about all I planned to reveal to you now, but I hope you like what you see, as always. Good luck with the end of Season 13!

Added later :
As usual, here is what will happen the next days:
To MOST managers, the season is fairly over at this stage, as we have passed round 30. So why bother going through all these extra rounds??
Round 31: First playoff match-round + Training + Friendlies
Round 32: Second playoff match-round + Training + Friendlies
Round 33: Third playoff match-round + Training + Friendlies
Round 34: The League Cup finals (The league cup is for divisions 1-4 only) + Training + Friendlies
Round 35: The department cup finals + Training + Friendlies + Trainingcamp
Round 36: Nothing except transfers being completed, training and friendlies
Round 37: This is the end of the season. It ends with training Thursday morning at 09.00 and then it's shutdown-time:

At this point, the game goes off-line for the season-change, which is where you just wait and I work really hard to put in all the changes, updates, optimisations and database-modifications and prepare for next season. This time, we expect to be completely offline for all of thursday and most of friday. Updates as we progress are posted on www.managerleague.com though, and probably in the chat too.

If you are new to ManagerLeague, this end-of-season periode is a very good time to play a lot of friendlies to give your players extra experience, better stats and to ensure your clubs financial situation is ok. Feel free to challenge The Spinners, I will gladly challenge you back.

- Spinner

Written by Spinner 01:10 30/08 2006

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40 comment(s)
By : rAzoresYour own heading...   01:40 30/08 2006
pictureNice improvements! It's good to see how the game grows season by season. Go Spinner! Winky

By : MrBlackParty time ...   01:57 30/08 2006
pictureLooking good my old man Winky. Hehe, keep it up

By : Lances puppyYour own heading...   02:48 30/08 2006
picturewill trading in transfers finaly be implemented?

other than that I'm very exited bout the new transfer market ^^

By : Sir JohnnyCool!   07:30 30/08 2006
pictureIt is allways excititing with news Will the improvements save my place in div1 also??

By : pgleeYour own heading...   07:33 30/08 2006
picturevery nice improvements. I especially like the minimum bid part.!! keep up the good work

By : lardyNice   08:18 30/08 2006
pictureGood stuff Spinner.
Sir Johnny I think I can answer for Spinner..... NO Winky

By : TraderiousYeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   09:05 30/08 2006
pictureI love you man!

By : Sir_Ryan_AdamsYour own heading...   10:13 30/08 2006
picturehallaujeah!

By : Apuliagood work   10:30 30/08 2006
pictureI love update page...

By : Shy^Your own heading...   10:40 30/08 2006
picturegood work boss

By : miss_spoonsyeah   10:49 30/08 2006
picturesounds hot!!!

By : Mr_GlennGood Good   12:06 30/08 2006
pictureGlad to see you read your emails Winky

By : nellyfirecups   13:42 30/08 2006
picturewell i think this one will please a lot of people and have more people playing cups...and sorry div one teams your trophy cabinets will not be that full!!!
on the transfers and players refusing to join...please do not over complicate the system,remember the pc game championship manager..cool game but then they over complicated the game,,keep it simple and fun...

overall well done all of you at ML....

By : tzibri   16:06 30/08 2006
picturewhat about loans on the transfer market? this would be an interesting feature....just a proposal....

By : luka1good work   17:01 30/08 2006
picturethis game is by far the best as it is,but with these improvments there,ll be no catching it.keep the improvments coming,great game

By : Øyvind Barland   18:03 30/08 2006
picture nice

By : the-bossLets play "THE GAME"   20:03 30/08 2006
pictureNice work old boy!!!!! In 5 years it will be live

By : Isaksn^Now i know   21:19 30/08 2006
pictureI was sad couse i thougth i had cheat'ed (Something i don't do)
And now im happy becouse of this

By : Antjiewatch list   21:30 30/08 2006
pictureI will even be more excited when the watch list get changed to watch 30 players

By : JWICKPlayers Refusal   00:11 31/08 2006
pictureWill we know that the players don't want to join us as soon as we place a bid or will they refuse once the person tries to accept the bid?

By : SpinnerPlayers Refusal   04:15 31/08 2006
pictureYou will be told when trying to make the bid, so no time wasted.

By : lucikapa suggestion, if I am allowed..   11:15 31/08 2006
pictureI havent searched the achives to see if the subject has already been discussed. but... regarding the transfers.. could it be possible, at some point in the fututr , to.. trade players for one another?? something like.. I offer you my attaker for your deffender. or.. I dunno..i give you a player plus a sum of money.. for another player?
ahm... I was just.. thinking out loud..
Anyway, the game is great. you're all doing a grat job here! keep it up!!
Go Steaua Bucharest!!

By : SpinnerTrading player for player / loans   13:20 31/08 2006
pictureThese features have been discussed countless times, but have been avoided on purpose due to the potential abuse and cheating it opens up for.

By : Antjiewatch list   13:40 31/08 2006
picturecan there be cheating changing the watch list from 22 - 30? or is there somew other reason?

By : Sir_Ryan_Adamshelp   14:43 31/08 2006
pictureim sure you could find a way to let players trade without cheating

By : Blokkiesuperrrrrrrrrr   16:08 31/08 2006
picturethis is the best internet game on the world. All that new stuff with transfers is SUPER

By : Ayrton_FangioYour own heading...   16:38 31/08 2006
pictureGreat job Spinner.Keep up the good work.I have an idea though.My idea is that we can sell our credits to get game money.For example if we sell 1 credit we get 200,000.This i think would be nice.Make a survey where every manager should vote.

By : tzibri   20:24 31/08 2006
pictureif we could see the matches live (2D animation) like in other online soccer manager would be great...this way we could actually see how the players react to our tactics on the field.....have you consider involving in a project like that?? if i could get an answer would be great...thx for your time....

By : Spinner2D   01:31 01/09 2006
pictureThis would require a massive job, which is too big for us to handle at the moment. I'd love to see it myself though, but it will have to wait for quite a while.

By : Sir JohnnyYES!!!   08:09 01/09 2006
pictureIt looks like the new featuers actually will secure my place in div1 for next season - thanks Spinner

By : sir_TorYour own heading...   19:28 02/09 2006
picturekøss me i rævaWinky

By : NadarHooray   23:39 02/09 2006
pictureHooray for the Spinner \o/

By : ANAKONDAYour own heading...   07:46 04/09 2006
pictureThis game is great. I am looking forward to next season,all the best to all teams esspecaliy mine.lol

By : SvenmaniaYour own heading...   09:54 04/09 2006
pictureAgain a great job. SUPERRRRRRRRRR

By : DiddydaveExcellent   19:29 04/09 2006
pictureSounds Great.... The Transfer system about players being happy at clubs and not wanting to leave sounds fantastic and the Custom Cup changes are great too

Fantastic Work .. ManagerLeague is by far the best online management simulator ever. now in my 10th season and enjoying it more and more each season

By : Allan_StreakYour own heading...   22:50 04/09 2006
picturelooking nice!
now the next season will be perfecto ;-) ;-)

By : SpinnerSimulator upgrade   22:21 05/09 2006
pictureI hope and think that the simulator wil be twice as fast, maybe even a bit faster than that, next season
Which isn't bad at all Winky I am hoping that simulating a full league round will go down from 60 to 20 minutes....So we shall see just what I have accomplished!

By : Mr._KarlsenYou ROCK!   13:02 06/09 2006
pictureGreat work chief!
I´m looking forward to the next season already

By : daniskYour own heading...   21:17 06/09 2006
pictureere you team?


By : Metusgain in cups   13:24 09/09 2006
pictureI really hope that the lack of gain in cups is a bug and not a feature

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