Subject: »[info]Dev Diary #82: Automatic release of NT-players from

I think many people quit the game cause they receive their team and have to wait some days to be able to play a match, also seeing their starter squad, full of useless players and i guess, mainly, because they see it's not a quick visit and play game but a live game, set on partially daily, partially weekly things. Most younger people are used to smartphone games... Open, play, quit, whenever they want...
Sokker is a slow pace game, A-typical to the time in which we live...

Since yesterday, training report link and main team progress link are broken. They are pointing wrong page.

Instead of sokker.org/es/app/XXXXX
These links don't go to app. Directly sokker.org/<Lang>/<page> you have to write manually the page adding the forgotten "app"

Example: training report points to https://sokker.org/es/training/reports/ instead of https://sokker.org/es/app/training/reports/
(edited)

Raul, since a new league format will be implemented, please consider this suggestion to use that time to make a change to the national cups home/visitor match, as we know, cup matches are played in the lowest ranking team stadium, that i assume is to give some help to new or small teams against a "big" team. But, in Sokker, playing away or home doesn't affect the match outcome as it could in real life. and the current format instead is hurting new players(and you are expecting to attract a lot of them right?), consider this:

- New teams most likely will lose in the first or second match in the cup. so every match count a lot in profits by attendance.
- New teams will probably have a small or default stadium, that limit a lot they profit(and rival) even if they change ticket prices.
- They probably have a low quality pitch, what if if i recall correctly give more chance of injury...and lets not start on that topic.
- Some times first match is against a low division bot team, no one benefits of playing in the bot stadium.

So, for that and probably other reasons playing into the better stadium will help any team, old or new, even if that means play away. For a team like mine, not a powerhouse but not an starting team either, the difference of getting 150k or 20k for a cup match will not destroy my economy, nor will make me rich. But for a new player, with only days or weeks with his team, that difference in a single cup match, can make a whole difference in his/her economy for weeks. All it take is to change the current policy of local/away matches in cup to the highest ranking team as home team(or team with biggest stadium) instead the lowest ranking team.

+1

yes, we will fix it today.

i think its a good idea - we will discuss it with devs.

I don't know if this is possible but I think a better solution would be for playing at home to have a higher chance of winning (very small, yes, but it would be more exciting and realistic). In sokker there is no difference between playing at home or away.
And maybe in the cup a slightly higher percentage could be given. In Spain big teams sometimes have problems in the cup.
It would be difficult to adjust it so as not to be very unfair, perhaps also to add some randomness to these percentages, which is not always the case, as in real life. It's difficult to adjust but it would be nice if sometimes playing at home give you an extra (very very small).

it would be required to improve match engine, so for now its to complicated:(

Maybe lowering skill points to visiting players could be a solution. One or two levels in some skill, not all.

In the future :(

Playing at home has already a little advantage: the local team is used to the pitch dimensions, so his tactic is better adapted. I was eliminated from the cup last season for that reason

I'm talking more about the fans and morale. The fans with your colors, almost always contribute in reality. It would be nice with the new 3d interface.
(edited)

Maybe that depends on the solution.

If you just add +1 to form of all home players before the ME loads the data then it might not be complicated at all. Of course, player with 18 form would get no bonus, and players with 17 form would get <1 bonus.

This would also please the "RL people." Players are more motivated when they play in front of their supporters.

But I also want to point out that this would be unfair. I would be an idiot to enter CC with a high rank, I would surely lose some games on purpose before the competition starts.

+1 clever one.

There is a lot of things to improve in ME, such as:

-Penalty kicks;
-Free kicks;
-Face to face situations, where strikers sucks a Lot of times;
-Better long passings and worse low passings.