I would like to start this latest blog with a huge thank you to the community.
Firstly, thank you to all the community for their patience during this Major update and some of the teething issues we have had.
We have done a lot in the August update, some which is seen by the community but also a lot that the community wouldn’t have seen. We have made some fairly significant changes to the game and also some very big updates to the backend of the game around the code base and the infrastructure.
This work has been necessary to lay the foundations for future updates that we have planned, including more work on squashing bugs, improving the interface and importantly new features.
Secondly, we have been really pleased with the uptake of Gold Membership, way ahead of our expectations. So thank you to everyone who has directly contributed to supporting the game and putting the game on a firmer footing for years to come.
Due to your direct support and passion for the game, we can now announce, that due to this really good uptake, we can now continue at pace with the road map we have laid out.
Therefore, moving onto the plans for this month and based on the results of the ‘Next Feature’ poll, we will focus out efforts on fixing more bugs and looking to improve the Transfer System.
We will put a new poll out shortly for the Gold Members to decide on what order we work on the following:
Improving unmanaged Club AI
Bigger deals
Complex deals
Improving unmanaged Club AI
We would like to make the unmanaged clubs (AI) more intelligent and active in the transfer market by working on the following changes.
Allow the AI to seek out players that they need and/or would improve their teams
Allow the AI to spend more (based on their cash balance) to put competitive offers in for players
Allow the AI to repsond and negotiate deals with users
Improve the AI so they will only sell their better players or young players for very tempting offers
Improve the AI so they will take into account player potential and use that in their logic on player values and deals
Allow users to construct deals with AI clubs using players
AI clubs will only take players on loan if they are good enough to play
Bigger Deals
Allow users to put together bigger deals rather than just one player in and two out
Allow users to offer more than two players in a deal
Allow users to offer to buy more than one player in a deal
Allow users to offer a player to a club (not just clubs interested) and including players you would want in the deal
Complex Deals
Introduce a whole range of options into deals such as:
Introduce ‘Loan to Buy’ deals
Introduce multi year loan deals
Introduce ‘Sell on clauses’
Introduce paying in instalment deals
Introduce extra payments on a range of criteria such as appearances, goals etc
Negotiating which club pays the players wages (or %) for a loan deal
We will put this New Poll out shortly and leave it running for a number of weeks to get feedback. We will also join the debates in Discord to gleam feedback and to shape how these features will work.
Below is a broader list of improvements we want to work on over the coming months.
Finally, as we finish off ironing out the teething issues and continue to fix bugs, we will start promoting the game to past members and new members with the aim of bringing on lots of new users to add to this unique and exceptional community and game.
Chris Gore
CEO & Founder