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

It's a very bad idea to prioritize the new league system. Managers have built their teams for the new training system, and it has already been postponed twice. Surely this should be much more important.

All of those changes are already far behind schedule. The devs should admit that their projects were too ambitious and reevaluate them. Ditch the new league and youth system (which doesn't sound like much of an improvement and will again require a lot of work), finish the website and training system asap and then work on real improvements to the game (e.g. the engine). Sokker has basically been a Beta version for a year, and there's no end in sight. If it stays like this for another year I'll quit for sure, and so will probably many other managers.

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Oh you really wait for the next training system ? I wonder if users have really read and understood the headache it will cause :-)

I wrote a comment here last season, I would like the game developers to consider the comments.

The education system has important problems such as football player injury

The very worst thing about this game is ranking points, noway on planet earth should you get any ranking points for ARCADE MATCHES, please stop this facade , it really bugs hell out of me, the ranking system is all wrong, nonsense having to play aracde matches left right a center because we are in a country with hardly any ranking points!!! this area needs alot of work !

I do not know the solution but there's got to be a better way than this, i mean non plus users are at huge dis advantage not being able to p;lay arcaxde matches, why do we have this dodgy system in place?

As per main webpage "No Pay 2 Win"

Cancel the new training system!!!

The current one is fantastic. Very challenging.

With the old education system, there are no quality players left in the market

The current one is limited. Very boring.

The next one will be a little more flexible, but also limited (max 10 players full-training, nb of position orders limited : 2 gk, 6 strikers …). Basically a more complicated system (managing « slots ») build upon the same current system.

I like challenges.
Training in the current system is AMAZING. It's like flying a plane with only one wing and no fuel, you can never be perfect, there's always room for improvement. This fascinates me.
The new training system will be like walking on the beach promenade, no worries, no challenge, it will soon be a drag.
Look how many people today just love to train, there's a reason for that, and it's not because it's easy. The challenge is what moves the passions.

you will be able to train more players from your own school. But for everything else you are right - there won't be decisions which player will get the perfect skill balance, as everyone will. The old system wasn't realistic, but it was really interesting gameplay.

So the next system will deserve you. No problem :-)

In general I don't need the new training system, I think it's no big improvement and wasn't worth all the work. Problem is, I built my team for the new system and will have to sell some players if it's postponed yet again. And I'm probably not the only one. Since they already invested a lot of work they might as well finish it. They said in September they'll use 80% of their time in the new training system to implement it this season and then postponed it again...I wouldn't be too sad if it's cancelled though.

Btw I do think that Sokker could really use a better youth system, but the proposed one is useless. It's basically just renaming things instead of making real improvements like less random skill distribution and influence of the manager on training and scouting. In this form it's not worth spending time and effort on it that could be used for more significant changes.
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As you said it’s not a big improvement. The new thing is the ability to train all the positions you want at specific skills but with strong limits (limit to 10 slot, limit to number of positions orders) It’s looks like more flexible but in fact as limited as now, so… :-) I wonder what’s your super plan for the next system that could not perfectly fit in the current system ?

Also, it’s your own choice to anticipate a new system.

About the Next YS system, I’m agree, it s also the same deal : basically it’s build upon the current system, a little less random, but randoms will be the main factor again. And a good reason to spend money for something we will never change after (like the fantastic stadium grass feature)
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