 Things to look forward to next season! Or not?
Next season? When?
As usual, the game will be taken offline Thursday morning after training, I will be working like mad, and the game will come up around 16:00 in the afternoon.
Then there will be custom cups and a training-camp during the weekend, before Season 40 begins on Monday...
The new match-simulator
This was supposed to be an article, explaining a lot about the brand new match-simulator we have in testing at the moment. This would be the BIG news, and it would probably steal all the attention of the entire article. Now I know that will not be a concern 
The fact of the matter is that I am not reckless enough to release the new simulator yet, as it may have a number of problems we have not yet uncovered. For a number of reasons, we are behind schedule in testing, and we started at least one week to late with the actual testing. Furthermore, there are still one or two things not yet implemented that I really wanted to do. So, the brand new simulator, will have to be pushed another season into the future, and will not join us in Season 40. If it is any comfort, I am 99,998% sure it will join us in Season 41 though...
So then what?
However, this does not mean there is nothing to look forward to next season.
I have had 2 major areas of focus for the development the past month or so, and that has been The Simulator and System Performance. With the Simulator not making it, this season will be one dedicated to a much better system performance.
"So whats up with the system performance, and why do you bother spending time on something as boring as that?", I hear some asking.
Anyone who has tried to log in at 09:00 in the morning, or at 15:30 in the afternoon would understand why this is an issue. Now, it's bad enough that the performance mean you guys get slow server-response from time to time. But it is much worse when the system performance creates bugs and problems. For instance, the duplicate bids we have seen, and even rare cases of bugged accounts and login-problems.
There are in fact a number of problems related to the performance of the system, and it is time to see if we can get rid of them, and actually lift the entire system up to a level where it can handle 200.000 teams, so I don't have to worry about it for a while
So what does it all mean?
And we have certainly made several great steps when it comes to improvements in this area, you just wait and see. If the test-results from the development-server have anything to do with the real world and the real game, we can expect the following:
- Smooth server-response 24/7
- Training being completed faster (Not too important though, just a consequence)
- Matches being simulated faster (Not too important though, just a consequence)
- Some "bugs" magically vanishing or being reduced to a fraction of what they were (in frequency, not severity of course)
I am confident that the sad loss of the new simulator will be somewhat eased by a better system-performance, and I hope you will all notice things being a lot smoother.
That said, there is a TINY risk that I am wrong....
Things certainly behave a little different in the real game than on a test-system, although every precaution has been taken to emulate the real game and load from many users at once. So I am 90% sure the system will perform 90% better, but I could be wrong.
Being a tech-nerd (well, that too) I find this to be jolly exciting..Oh well, that's probably just me..
Looking east...
On a completely different note, our partners in South East Asia are now ready to begin the planned promotion of ManagerLeague in Malaysia. This is part of a bigger plan to help ManagerLeague into the South East Asian region, and it will be very exciting to see how it goes. Wish us luck, as we wish for a lot more opponents for you all!
ESS EMM ESS
Also on a different note, there have been a number of problematic SMS-payments in some countries, where the SMS's never go through, noone is charged, but noone gets credits. Also, one of our SMS-partners is apparently going belly-up, so we will not be getting our money from them. Because of this, some countries may seem a new SMS payment platform, and everyone should drop by the Purchase Credits page before just sending off an SMS to "the number they have always used", in case it is disconnected or no longer working. And specially if you live in UK or The Netherlands!
I know we have a lot of Polish people who are eager to get a working SMS-method up and running, and we are quite close now.
There are, of course, a number of tiny updates to the rest of the system as well, and I have been forced to improve the tools of our anti-cheat-workers and to our support-system, again to raise the quality of your experience with ManagerLeague.
And if you still have not heard, we have just grown from 2 to 3 people here at ManagerLeague HQ, and you will be able to see what this means soon enough.
All the best for the end of this season, and all the best for the coming one.
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Written by Spinner 10:19 02/09 2008
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| By : Simen Watson | Good | 15:16 02/09 2008 |
 | I think this look good |
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| By : ivan the terrible | awesomely fantalabastic | 17:42 02/09 2008 |
 | nice job there..this is the best manager game i have played..maybe after the fifa..but online definately the best |
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| By : Nigel Wright | new staff | 23:29 02/09 2008 |
 | ooh, somebody else to blame when things go wrong! |
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| By : Mr Kaizer | Nice | 07:34 03/09 2008 |
 | Good work as usual!  |
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| By : Kaiser Soze | very nice | 10:31 03/09 2008 |
 | Keep up the good work!! |
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| By : Soccerbroker | Well done Spinner | 14:02 03/09 2008 |
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Looking forward to the new season! |
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| By : bart1978 | very nice game | 14:57 03/09 2008 |
| Since season 37 I play this game and I really don't want to stop. This season I won my first championship and also the department cup. I hop for new success in next season. |
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| By : labbo | Well done Spinner | 15:51 03/09 2008 |
| I'm looking forward to the new season, like usual |
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| By : villa_fan | good jobb | 16:08 03/09 2008 |
| i think it will be good;; |
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| By : hassan_chelsea | hassan | 16:23 03/09 2008 |
| jeg gleder meg veldig pesssssss |
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| By : jtheo007 | good jobb | 20:26 03/09 2008 |
| good luck and tanks for your time
making Manager league the best . |
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| By : Dave Bassett | Faster simulating... | 21:40 03/09 2008 |
 | ... and now I finally made it to the 3rd division and could gloat at those of my friends who were still in the kids divisions below and would have had to wait longer for their match reports
Good news alltogether Spinner, top job! |
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| By : tonchi | Serbian division | 01:49 04/09 2008 |
 | It's great, but when will be created serbian division, many people in serbia play managerleague, and they will be very happy to play in their own division.
I hope that you will read this
Mwah |
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| By : yukasta | d nEw PioNeeR | 03:21 04/09 2008 |
 | I think it's look GooD and BraVo FoR ThE DeveloPmEnt tEaM. . . |
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| By : Diegoal | international div | 17:02 04/09 2008 |
 | nice game...and good work spinner, but when is the time for a german div. ??? |
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| By : Daemon | daemon | 18:23 04/09 2008 |
| it`s a problem whit the server? i kant connect and i don`t know why |
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| By : henrik27 | | 19:30 04/09 2008 |
 | I wish we would already be on season 41 |
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| By : LFC United | | 21:13 04/09 2008 |
 | I`m looking forward to this season, and good work.... |
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| By : Alastair | Good stuff | 22:14 04/09 2008 |
 | once again im very pleased with the direction this game is going in the systemupdate is good and icant wait till season 41 for the new simulator thing good work managerleague!! |
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| By : Ayrton_Fangio | New Staff Member | 00:47 05/09 2008 |
 | I am curious who is the new staff member and what is his role in MLHQ? |
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| By : stomis | VERY GOOD.. | 10:06 05/09 2008 |
 | DEAR SPINNER... TAKE A LOOK IN GREECE TOO... WE ARE A LOT OF PLAYERS EXPECTING THE GREEK CHAMPIONSHIP IN ML... KEEP GOING... |
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| By : Doddi | 200.000 | 14:05 05/09 2008 |
 | 200.000 teams O_o
Hehe, when that happens I'll be dead na buerried so it doesn't matter  but great updates Spinner
But 200.000 teams :'D, you're funny (yes, I'm joking and have full believe in that the game can have 200.000 teams) |
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| By : Evil Phantom | good man!!! | 18:10 05/09 2008 |
 | wow!! must the best in all soccer manager games!!!!! |
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| By : TGYKY | This must good!! | 18:22 05/09 2008 |
 | Keep on like this!!! |
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| By : E.T.? | "SMS payment" | 08:46 06/09 2008 |
 | Please make it work for romanian managers too |
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| By : Jonlil | Yeeeah | 19:57 06/09 2008 |
 | This is very good.
Best online game ever |
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| By : Anipzz | HEHEHE | 05:41 07/09 2008 |
 | hope next season, ADIDAS will be one of the sponsors |
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| By : karimsen | GOOD WORK | 10:14 07/09 2008 |
 | Keep up the good work spinner, you and the 2 other doing a good job.
This is a great game |
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| By : bats | coooooool | 06:23 09/09 2008 |
 | damn cool |
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| By : TurniT | It all sounds good! | 12:54 09/09 2008 |
 | As always! |
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| By : kai_tis_bales | .... | 16:53 10/09 2008 |
 | i read that u have added macedonia as country ! u are playing their game man ! that is a mistake ! rename them as FYROM or skopia ! do you know why ? it's simple ! north department of greece is called MACEDONIA ! capital of north greece is THESSALONIKI ! i live in that town ! i was born in giannitsa a city near PELLA a little village with great history (alexander the great capital) ! MACEDONIA is Greek territory man ! they were part of yugoslavia ! we have nothing in common with them ! look at the balkan map and u 'll see ! how would u feel if tomorrow the finnish claimed that north norway including oslo is their's ? wouldn't that be frustrating ? think of it ! don't fall into their dirty plans ! |
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| By : stomis | tha mas parete kai tis gynaikes? | 22:05 10/09 2008 |
| i also read that macedonia is fyrom... this is not true.. you have to change this name because the united nations call this country F.Y.R.O.M and not MACEDONIA!!!!!!! MACEDONIA is GREEK... search the law... dont let it pass because they dont have nothing simular with the greeks... they dont have even a proof that they are macedonians..i am from thessaloniki.. the capital of macedonia is thessaloniki.. everything macedonians ancient things found in our country.. they dont have anything of macedonian history.. with this kind of your unknowledge you make all greeks embarassed for your position.. you made this game with a lot of work... how would you feel if i say that this game is japanese?you will say to me that you have privacy policy... we also have privacy policy in our name MACEDONIA and is protected by the united nations... i hope you understand how it hears to all Greeks.... PLEASE CHANGE IT AS FAST AS YOU CAN... |
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| By : stomis | steilte parapona gia thn makedonia mas | 22:06 10/09 2008 |
| i also read that macedonia is fyrom... this is not true.. you have to change this name because the united nations call this country F.Y.R.O.M and not MACEDONIA!!!!!!! MACEDONIA is GREEK... search the law... dont let it pass because they dont have nothing simular with the greeks... they dont have even a proof that they are macedonians..i am from thessaloniki.. the capital of macedonia is thessaloniki.. everything macedonians ancient things found in our country.. they dont have anything of macedonian history.. with this kind of your unknowledge you make all greeks embarassed for your position.. you made this game with a lot of work... how would you feel if i say that this game is japanese?you will say to me that you have privacy policy... we also have privacy policy in our name MACEDONIA and is protected by the united nations... i hope you understand how it hears to all Greeks.... PLEASE CHANGE IT AS FAST AS YOU CAN... |
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