• Lostprophets [del]
• 2012-02-05

On cold and snowy days, at least in Europe, we've been introducing scripts with modifications and fixes completed in the past months.

Modifications on this version:

- The ability to set a second tactic on the lineup page and the possibility to change it using any condition in the match orders.
- Sticky topics on forum.
- A new "events" section on the league page which summarizes the events of teams in that division (e.g. transfers). There will also appear on every club page which show the events in that club.
- The amount of conditional orders have been increased.
- The charge for setting a minimum starting bid on listing a player to the Transfer List is now reduced from 4% to 2.5%, but the tax upon selling the player has been increased from 4% to 5%. We hope more users will use that option to set higher, and safer, minimum starting bids.
- Internal scripts have been rebuilt, little bugs fixed and tweaks (like in associations; possibility to moderate by editors, but also currency problems with minimum starting bid prices etc)
- Plus payments page rebuilt.
- Player and trainer transfer reminders. (currently on email and as notification)
- Possibility of translations added on various pages where there was previously the English language with a dot by it. (translation in progress)


With this new version, admins can now withdraw transfers. This option will be used only in reasonable situations, like during server breakdowns, where few transfers were executed without a bid war (but not during slow server work when most transfers were executed normally), so don't expect that your transfer will be canceled, just because you think the price is too low :)

To be sure of getting the right price, set your player with a reasonable minimum starting bid.

• Lostprophets [del]
• 2012-01-30

It is election time again! You will have the opportunity to stand for election as the national team coach (either Senior or U21) of any nation, and vote a senior and U21 manager for your own nation.

To access the election page, go to the respective country homepage, then click on National Team, and then Elections.

If you stand for election, it is recommended that you open ONE thread in the appropriate country forum after the elections start. Please prefix your thread with [NT] or [U21] , e.g. [NT] greg or [U21] damian. Please do NOT spam forums, SK-mail people directly for votes, or spam users Guest Books. Any of these spam activities will result in forum banning and/or a financial fine.

Please remember that a user who has been elected as an NT manager will not be able to resign from their job. Therefore when you stand for the NT job, it is not only for fun, it is also your responsibility to serve the full term which the people that voted you into the job thought you should serve.

Elections will start on the 30th of January and end on the 12th of February at 22:24, so start preparing your speeches, asking candidates tough questions & voting!

• Lostprophets [del]
• 2011-11-14

We encountered a problem with our database server on Sunday morning, which appeared right after the morning update, just after some matches had started, and was caused by a database system drive failure. We spent all day on reinstalling the database server and copying data. Due to only a few matches having been already played, and most of them when server was unavailable for users, we have decided to move the match day to Monday and have managed to restore Sunday's data. Matches that did start will be played again on Monday. All transfers ending after the morning update on Sunday have also been moved moved by 24h. Today is the server equivalent of yesterday, hopefully without yesterday's problems.

• Lostprophets [del]
• 2011-09-28

We have introduced a new method of plus payments, via platnosci.pl, better known worldwide as payU. It operates with credit and debit card payments from Visa and Mastercard (worldwide) and online bank transfers (polish bank accounts only).


It is listed as the first choice for payments as it is now our preferred method of plus payments, in regard to transaction fees and payment transfer time, so, if possible, please use that operator. Also, the occurence where the payment with your card was rejected is greatly reduced, unlike what Sokker users have experienced with DotPay.


Additionally, we have activated a uKash payment channel on DotPay. It is an alternative payment method when you have no credit or debit cards, but only works in countries where it is available.

• Lostprophets [del]
• 2011-06-20

It is election time again! You will have the opportunity to stand for election as the national team coach (either Senior or U21) of any nation, and vote a Senior and U21 manager for your own nation.

To access the election page, go to the respective country homepage, then click on National Team, and then Elections.

If you stand for election, it is recommended that you open ONE thread in the appropriate country forum after the elections start. Please prefix your thread with [NT] or [U21] , e.g. [NT] RedJim or [U21] guacamole. Please do NOT spam forums, SK-mail people directly for votes, or spam users Guest Books. Any of these spammy activities will result in forum banning and/or financial fine.

Please remember that a user who has been elected as an NT manager will not be able to resign from their job. Therefore when you stand for the NT job, it is not only for fun, it is also your responsibility to serve the full term which the people that voted you into the job thought you should serve.

Elections will start on the 20th of June and end on the 3rd of July at at 22:20, so start preparing your speeches, asking candidates tough questions & voting!

• Lostprophets [del]
• 2011-05-25

In 2008 we saw an update in plus prices, and since then, despite inflation, prices have remained at the low price for nearly 3 years. However, since that time, Sokker has improved further and the value of money has inflated.

The new prices will be:

99 PLN for 1 year (old price 89 PLN)
55 PLN for 6 months (old price 49 PLN)
35 PLN for 3 months (old price 29 PLN)
27 PLN for 2 months (old price 22 PLN)

As a consolation, we are introducing a new feature. We are introducing player and transfer reminders, both as Sokker reminders for plus users and via e-mail, so it will be possible to configure on phones that can receive e-mails. It is planned to introduce SMS reminders too.

Also, a new plus subscription option will be available. For users who have never bought plus before, 1 month plus period will cost 10 PLN (15 PLN for users that have bought plus before). Finally, the fee that was added when using PayPal (2 PLN), has been abolished.

The price increase will come into effect on Friday, 1st July.
Before this date you can still buy Plus at the current price.

• Lostprophets [del]
• 2011-05-15

Yesterday, we suffered a server breakdown, as the database server stopped responding and had to be restarted. After the restart it appeared that some tables were broken and had to be repaired (eg. the match stats table). Also, all the transfer deadlines were set wrong, so we had to remove all players from the transfer list.

In the meantime, it was 2 minutes until we noticed the wrong deadlines, and some users had bought players at an extremely unfair price. As that is not fair behavior and is against Sokker rules, some of the players bought in that period - if the price was significantly under market price, may be sent back to their previous team. Funds spent on the unfair transfer won't be returned to users that took advantage of this server problem. Admins are currently debating on how to deal with these cases.

Now the server is working again, transfer setting fees have been returned to all that had put their players on the transfer list. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.

• Lostprophets [del]
• 2011-05-13

You may have recently experienced some problems buying plus as credit card payments, where the payments were processed by DotPay, failed from the 30th of April onwards. Your credit card will have not been debited, and also your plus will not have been accepted as the transaction failed.

DotPay - who processed card payments for plus and t-shirts - have officially confirmed that they are resigning from directly processing credit cards. However, DotPay still processes credit card payments via channels like Moneybookers or other types of payments, like polish bank transfers.

Currently you can buy plus with credit cards using these options:
- PayPal, that also processes credit cards payments without registration or with PayPal account, currently with no additional fees.
- DotPay, using MoneyBookers credit cards payments channel (last option on the list), enabling you to buy plus using 26 types of cards.

We have started working on more direct credit card payments and we are searching for other purchasing solutions. We will inform you when these will be implemented.

We apologize for any inconvenience that this unforeseen event has caused to anyone.

• don [del]
• 2011-03-19

We have implemented Facebook connection login with Sokker. Now, users registered on facebook, will be able to easily register to Sokker by a Facebook account. The reason for this is that some data will be retrieved from facebook, so there will be no need to fill up all fields - just type team name, and play. On your user page, you are now able to link your Sokker account with Facebook and thus automatically logging into Sokker if you are logged on Facebook, or use `I like it` features (currently on player, matches and club only). We hope that it would make Sokker more popular among Facebook users. Also, in the near future, Sokker will be added to facebook applications (we have prepared special skin for facebook applications window).

Players and trainers faces

You are able to see pictures of your players now, it is available for plus users and for newly registered users who will see it for a few days after registration. It is feature for fun, but they are not synchronised with the match engine. We first got questions about why the faces were so cartoon-like and not realistic pictures. The reason for this is that we tried realistic images but it looked dull and rather ugly on small pictures. So, we decided on cartoon images as we were able to create more creative images that vary more. The first elements for making the faces was done using a graphics editor but the final version which includes many more additional elements were drawn by our own Sokker admin, SİLENT CONTROL and his girlfriend who are graphical students. We hope many users like this new update but for those that do not like it, there is an added option in your user settings to configure faces or to turn it off.

Transfers list filtering

Plus users are now able to use Assistant percent or weighted values for GK, DEF, MID, ATT formations to filter transferlist search result. It will help users that check skill sums or has own skill weights when searching for bargains on the transfer market.

Miscellaneous

As usual with the updates, there has been various bug fixing (eg. related with friendlies ads viewing) and other minor fixes as well. Another update includes an important tool for admins to supervise national trainer polls when there are banned users.

• don [del]
• 2011-03-09

Although we've had more new users staying than before with the policy of accepting new users in the league above the bottom league. This has been problematic for older countries with a small number of users. Therefore the method has been improved. Now users will only be accepted in the league above the bottom one if the total number of users in the Country is lower than the amount of teams in all leagues except the bottom league. For example, for a country with three divisions this means that if the total number of users exceeds 40, new users will be accepted in the bottom league. For a country with four divisions, this number would be 168.

Please note the new user acceptance method will be implemented for all countries.