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Season 20 - New features and updates

Going from Season 19 to Season 20
Season 19 is now more or less behind us, and we are looking ahead towards the next one.

First of all, there are many new players with us now, so here is a little explanation of the phase we are in right now, and what happens during a season-change:

The change of seasons
- On Thursday morning, the last training of the season begins at 09:00 in the morning.
- Once that training is complete, the game starts the season-change.
- At this point, the game is unavailable for the rest of that day.
- On friday, you can once again log in, and then you will find your team ready and waiting for you, and a brand new youth-player ready to prove his worth on your team.
- During the weekend, there are plenty of Custom Cups to join, if you want to, they are played from 12:00 with matches every 30 minutes, on both Saturday and Sunday.
- On Monday, Season 20 begins with training at 09:00 in the morning. The first league-match is played at 15:00. Then there is training again at 21:00 and a match at 03:00 Tuesday morning.

Season 19 Champions
Our new League Champion is Ca2, manager of Man United Senior. In an extremely close race against ddude, they ended up at an even number of points, but with Man United Senior having a much better goal difference.
So for the first time in the history of ManagerLeague, the League Chapmpion won on goals and not points.
Well done to both Ca2 and ddude, and congratulations on your first Championship, Ca2!

The League Cup final seems to be a true "battle of the giants" between Vartdal FK and Blackpool, both former League Champions and League Cup champions.
We eagerly await to see who will run off with the Trophy, and wish you both good luck!

Improvements and more
Once again, a lot of work has gone into improving ManagerLeague even more, and we are proud to present the following list of changes, news and improvements:

1: New youth-players
In previous seasons, new teamless youngsters have entered the transfer-market after training had completed. This gave a huge advantage to anyone online at that exact time. This has been changed to make it more fair to everyone.
New players are now added at completely random intervals, one by one.

2: Faster training
We are now running a brand new simulator for training to be able to "tick" much faster, using more parallell processing and a scalable solution. Nothing has been changed in the training logic, so the results should be just like before, just faster.

3: Mobile addition
The mobile interface (point your mobile phone towards mob.managerleague.com) has received a "Change Formation" function on the tactics page.

4: More speed
The training, salaries, stadium-upgrades tick is now much faster.

5: Sponsor income for the top 2 divisions
The amounts from the sponsors has been changed a bit for Div 1 (UPWARDS) and Div 2 (upwards).
The other divisions have not been changed.

6: New Rankings
We have 4 new ranking-pages under RANKINGS in the menu.
- Record Transfers
- League Champions
- League Cup Champions
- Custom Cup Champions
All of these ranking-lists include the history back from Season 1 and until now. They do NOT include teams that are no longer playing.

7: $ = For sale
Added $-sign in the player ranking-lists for those who are listed for sale to make it easier to see who is and who isn't.

8: Newspaper fix #1
Fixed the news-page to avoid showing Department Cups under Recent Cups.

9: Newspaper fix #2
Increased the max-length of newspaper articles. You can now post far more than the former limit of 1024 characters.

10: Cup Menu
The Menu has been restructured, giving CUPS its own menu.

11: Department Cup
Added a Department Cup section (under the new Cups-menu) so you can keep a better eye on your Department Cup.

12: Omen Gaming Marketplace
Added link to Omen Player MarketPlace (a third-party tool to assist with transfers made by our friends at Omen Gaming) in the Transfer-menu.

13: Log-system
Various modifications have been made to our logging-system, which is really of no interest what so ever to all of you, but will save us a lot of time in some of the boring paper-work we have to do.

14: Not for sale
All players are now marked NFS (Not For Sale) at the beginning of a new season. This is to prevent an overcrowded transfer-list.

15: Training Camps
During previous seasons, the Training Camps have been set to run just after the normal training-ticker was done. It has now been shifted to run on Sunday afternoon at 18:00 (the ones rounds 10, 20 and 30.) The one in round 35 will run at 18:00 the last Wednesday of the season unless otherwise specified.
Keep in mind, this will mean that you can chose to rest your players to regain some fitness after playing weekend-cups.

16: Forum-fix
Dangling threads and posts should now be correctly removed from the forums every tick.

17: Donating credits to other teams
A new method of donating credits to other teams has been implemented, both to make it easier to donate and to avoid cheating and abuse with fake signups and new accounts. The new interface for donating credits is now in the game itself. Just click on a team-name to open the Team Info popup, then click on the new COIN-icon, and a new donation-popup will appear.
- You can only donate if you have purchased credits at one time.
- You can only donate as long as you have 30 credits + the ones you wish to donate.
- You can donate from 1 to 100 credits in one go.

18: Team Selection
Bugfix on TEAM SELECTION page (some times, the background-colors were confused)

19: Rename players
You are no longer allowed to rename a player to a name you already have on your team. It was quite strange to have a whole team named John Smith!

20: Translations
About 250 new sentences / phrases has been added to the translation-system. So far these have only been translates to Norwegian.

21: Translations again
35 minor fixes have been made to various pages in regards to translations.

22: Privacy Policy
Our privacy policy has been updated with 1 change:
Old text:
"We also send out a newsletter now and then, but no more than 6 times per year."
New text:
"We also send out a newsletter now and then, but no more than 12 times per year."
This is due to having the ability to send out a monthly mail about "whats new in ManagerLeague etc".

Also, there is a special change here which is only relevant for players from Poland:
We are entering a partnership with a company in Poland who will help us market and distribute the game there. In return, they will have access to the user-details of Polish players. More details and specifics will be clear in the updated Privacy Policy, but this is only relevant if you are from Poland.

23: XHTML-fix
XHTML-standards fix for all portal smileys (they had a missing ALT-tag!)

24: Forum Moderators
Moderators can now edit any post in the forum. This will help us have cleaner and better forums!

25: Injury-icon
The Team-info popup now contains the INJURY icon with all players with fitness less than 80.

26: Player-links in Match Reports
The Match-Report popup now has links to all the players who are listed in the report.

27: Nasty language
A number of smaller fixes in our "nasty language" filter to make it easier for players from Romania.

28: Help! Support!
A link to SUPPORT has been added to the ingame menu as well now, for easier access.
It's under HELP in the menu, of course.

29: Popups and focus
Implemented a forced window-focus on popups so they are not hidden behind other windows by accident.

30: Various
Various other small unnoticable fixes, as always!

A version of this text will be emailed to you in a newsletter to make sure everyone has read it, specially because the of the change in the Privacy Policy.

We hope all these improvements will lead to an even better experience for all of you in ManagerLeague, and we wish you and your team all the best for Season 20.

On behalf of ManagerLeague Headquarters
- Spinner

Written by Spinner 04:48 20/02 2007

This article has been read 9901 times.

52 comment(s)

By : alexbeast11	yay	05:40 20/02 2007
	great job spinner! i doubt there will be too many suggestions now.

By : Aragorn		06:04 20/02 2007
	I look forward to the end of every season just so I can find out about all the changes in the coming season!

By : JAB	Your own heading...	06:41 20/02 2007
	and.. the matches translation in spanish

By : ganjaman	Your own heading...	08:42 20/02 2007
	nice spinner

By : Siiiiir	Your own heading...	09:38 20/02 2007
	Nice Spinner!

By : IsildurX	Your own heading...	10:13 20/02 2007
	Sounds great m8

By : webvictim	Nice!	10:25 20/02 2007
	Good job as always Spinner, it's good to see the fruits of the testing on the dev server coming into force on the real game Now, about that Q80 youth you promised me...

By : Spinner	Spanish	11:19 20/02 2007
	JAB:and.. the matches translation in spanish Would you like to help ?

By : E.T.?	Your own heading...	11:29 20/02 2007
	good job with the Training Champs on Sunday afternoon at 18:00

By : matsi116	Your own heading...	12:03 20/02 2007
	spinner have done it agian=D

By : Tyroka	Nice	12:47 20/02 2007
	Sounds very nice all of this. Although I think there still will be many suggestions Especially as some of them get noticed and implemented!

By : mattinn	good job	13:50 20/02 2007
	respects for you and ur crew _o_

By : Adib	Your own heading...	13:56 20/02 2007
	awesome Spinner...

By : Daniel	Daniel	14:03 20/02 2007
	I like that forum fix

By : Sab Sublime	My own heading	14:25 20/02 2007
	I'd love to see a record board, where it stands the biggest wins and biggest losses between teams, that would be fun, please add this for the next season, otherwise the game is GREAT entertainment!

By : Selleri	niCe	14:43 20/02 2007

By : jacob	awesome	14:51 20/02 2007
	Great job spinner!! All the new rankings are great, and i was really wanting to change my formation from my phone.

By : Woodii	Nationalities	15:32 20/02 2007
	I don't mean to nag, but you said you'd add Ivory Coast as a nationality and that it might take 1 season, but it was like 3 seasons ago. Except from that, i salute you for what you've done Spinner.

By : MordaciousK	Your own heading...	16:08 20/02 2007
	Nice job m8 thanks for the link

By : Spinner	Ivory Coast	16:16 20/02 2007
	Woodii wrote: picture I don't mean to nag, but you said you'd add Ivory Coast as a nationality and that it might take 1 season, but it was like 3 seasons ago. Except from that, i salute you for what you've done Spinner. Well, see, I would need a list of both first and last names for the country to add it as a nationality. I can't see any email that I have gotten with that info. Send me the names, and you got it!

By : chillbill	Transfer market & player values	17:00 20/02 2007
	Fantastic job, Spinner! ML has become a very good game with lots of cool features and the constant upgrades makes it even more interesting. However, one thing that I personally would like to see reworked, is the value system for players. Players in their prime age should be valued high, ok. But I think that the older players are WAY over priced! Also, I find the overall pricing market pretty unrealistic. As a result there aren't enough interest in the players for sale. I find it a lot easier to sack players instead of selling them, simply because low quality and/or older players are priced so high that nobody really want to buy them for the set amount. What about free transfers? Or at least setting the value on the un-attractive players equal to what you get when you sack them? In that way I think there would be a lot more activity on the transfer market.

By : Mr Shaman	well well......	17:02 20/02 2007
	this looks really promising in front of the next season......i'm really looking forward to it now...

By : scrooge	yay	17:45 20/02 2007
	great improvements spiner

By : Steven G Gerrard	Well done	19:38 20/02 2007
	Locking forward to next season spinner Good job

By : M.L.V	Your own heading...	19:50 20/02 2007
	this game is just coming better and better. Nice spinner

By : Bongo	great	20:00 20/02 2007
	great updates spinner

By : Ca2	Real Champion!	20:12 20/02 2007
	I might be the winenr of div 1 this season, but you're still the REAL Champion Spinner

By : Øyvind Barland	that's what i'm talking about..	21:01 20/02 2007
	this is NICE

By : GentleBoy	Thanks	21:49 20/02 2007
	27: Nasty language A number of smaller fixes in our "nasty language" filter to make it easier for players from Romania.

By : einstein	Yeah!!	00:23 21/02 2007
	Great job. This will be fun. Einstein/Gofoten

By : Valador	Players	01:03 21/02 2007
	I guess th player's improvements for players who are in lower divisions should be must faster than the players in higher ones. Higher division teams get more money wich seems fair, and therefore, buy better players and arrange more training camps..my suggestion could balance things more even.. Keep up the good work.. Help me improve my team... =)

By : kekuatan	Great!	03:32 21/02 2007
	as usual! keep it up bro!

By : elmauri23	nationalities	05:24 21/02 2007
	i qould like it very much if you add uruguay in the nationalities list. how would be that possible? thanks

By : kraMMer	Your own heading...	06:17 21/02 2007
	good job!

By : Dworschi	cool	10:36 21/02 2007
	nice keep up the good work !

By : marcrhudson	player name changing	12:29 21/02 2007
	Why didn't I know about the whole team of jon smiths? I laughed so hard at this lol.

By : burry	Your own heading...	15:10 21/02 2007
	this is great. i really loved the new camps good job!

By : Stubberud	Yay	16:25 21/02 2007
	Can't wait for season 20 spinner great!

By : Stubberud	Yay	16:25 21/02 2007
	Can't wait for season 20 spinner great!

By : konsen	good job	17:03 21/02 2007
	bra jobba spinner!!!good job spinner

By : errorcarl	Your own heading...	17:16 21/02 2007
	Your comment here please!

By : Frenchi	Awesome Job	18:29 21/02 2007
	Awesome game, can't wait for next season!!!!

By : Liverpool_fc_askøy	more money?	18:52 21/02 2007
	do we gett some more money when the new season starts?and what with credits....do we get some more of them for free 2? by the way.....wery good game....yuo can be proud.......

By : Pega5u5	Your own heading...	23:39 21/02 2007
	what worrys me is the part about that polish company gaining access to personal info from polish players.... it might not concern me now as i'm not polish, but this is a precedent, who knows what company in what country will be next to get your personal info..... so i'm eager to read the new privacy policy once it's mailed out. rest of the changes sound good. i agree on the value of players reply from chillbill though

By : Sir Bjekkefar	17: Donating credits to other teams	01:19 22/02 2007
	17: Donating credits to other teams ; Maybe we can have a "log" or something, who tells us who has sent credits to us? And maybe how much and when?

By : Metus	Your own heading...	10:07 22/02 2007
	I concur with Pega5u5's point about the polish company. I hope this will not become a trend. Other than that, the changes look great!

By : banin	Your own heading...	20:08 22/02 2007
	niiice. well done!

By : Amo_y_Señor	Cool!!	03:25 23/02 2007
	but i dont understand what do "New players are now added at completely random intervals, one by one. " means... the academy works no more?

By : Woodii	mail?	15:00 23/02 2007
	To wich mail can i send it Spinner?

By : Andy The Great	cool	20:44 23/02 2007
	great!!! this looks wery nice. well done Spinner

By : Siiiiir	Ukraina	19:40 01/03 2007
	Spinner! is it a Ukrain Translation or russish

By : tzacanitu	Your own heading...	12:29 08/03 2007
	when we gone have a national team?

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