Here we are again then, with another new season ahead of us. A huge CONGRATZ to The Penguin Conspiracy for taking the DOUBLE last season, well done! That puts him in the very exclusive club along with SirLance and his Blackpool, as they are the only ones who have actually managed to steal both trophies in the same season. Very well done indeed! As always, there are a number of improvements to go with a new season. The focus has been split a little between Design, Fixes and Optimizations, with the addition of some new things. We have also spent a lot of time looking at "user-behavior" and reached some conclusions about how we can be better for new players (specially in the area of information-flow). This is why EVERYONE will get an email today or tomorrow with information about the season-change. You should also expect some more emails from us when the new season begins, as we are putting everyone through the Official ML Training Program (TM). More details on this later. New stuff Added DIFF-display on playerinfo popup for each stat Cups: Join-costs have been altered for custom cups, to make it cheaper for low-div teams and a bit more expensive for Div 1 teams. Open friendlies: You can now accept them until you have played 100 friendlies, not just 75. Puma added as sponsor. On the forums-page, you can now chose which forumthreads can be displayed on General. (If you don't know what this means, don't worry about it!) Added profile-picture display with all comments on articles, blogs and polls New "Learning to play ML" emails will help new players along (partly implemented, expect more to come on this) Fixes Fixed the missing Quality-update for teamless players between seasons Fixed row-rendering on the Stadium page New teams now get a logical language based on their portal-accounts COUNTRY Closed acounts now get the email containing the new link to the RULES-document (www.managerleague.com/rules.html) XHTML 1.0 Standard fixes on Forum-Threads, General, Stadium, Cups, Finances and Individual training XHTML 1.0 Standard fixes on Icons (for forums, messages etc) CSS:Fix: Team-page: Correct border-color between players CSS-Fixes for #narrow, changed to normal class narrow. Fixed forum-icon so it works now Support-system overhaul Fixed printing of the wrong stadium-details in cup-matchesnow it prints the right data from Cup Stadium Lots of portal CSS-fixes Lots and lots more of GUI-fixes Cleanup of portal-menu Lengthened cookie lifespan from 3 to 6 hours. Optimizations Optimized the season-change script Added new purchase of 1600 credits for the ML-Phone with no referral-credits (!) Optimized script in AJAX-calls Optimizations on the following in-game pages: - Rankings (top scorers etc), Preferences, Player-info popup, Season Summary, Show-thread (forum), Friendlies, Stadium, Training, Team Selection, Cups, Cup-info, Finances, News In addition there have been a number of issues resolved in regards to our admin-tools, maintenance-tools etc. Oh, and if you don't have a profile-picture here on the Portal, you can upload one here. Also, we are getting very tired of people trying to cheat with multiple teams / signups both to tro to get ingame advantages or to get a bunch of referral credits. Last night alone, I closed around 300 teams, and it's getting a bit tedious and boring. Now, I'm happily awaiting all the "Nono, I have 34 brothers and they all signed up with me as referrer and just happened to stop playing just after signup"-messages, it is such a splendid use of my time Oh well. I think that was just about it, really. Have a good one! |
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