• rtg [del]
• 2009-08-24

As some leagues have many bot teams that produce walkovers in them, it makes for quite an uneventful week when human teams face them.

Starting this season bot teams will have their line-up and match orders set by using current order supplemented with new players if needed.
The default order is as follows:
- if there are players in the bot team, but previously not set in the match orders, they shall be moved into the orders.
- if a team doesnt have enough players to actually field a team then new players shall be generated for this team, to supplement squad, under the same rules as new teams being generated.

Additionally older players in bot teams will retire. How often will depend on age and value. In general if the player is 33 or older then it is possible they will be retired. A new player shall replace the retired player in each bot team as long as this player was actively playing in the team.

Both updates will be executed every Tuesday - until the season starts it will be executed every day for testing.

• rtg [del]
• 2009-08-17

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.

This season we would like to welcome the following new countries to both the NT and U21 competitions.

as-Saʻūdiyya (Saudi Arabia)
U.A.E. (United Arab Emirates)
Kazakhstán
al-Jazā’ir (Algeria)
Sakartvelo (Georgia)


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] forestman 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 August 17th and end 30th August at 22:08, so start preparing your speeches, asking candidates tough questions & voting!

• forestman [del]
• 2009-07-24

We are proud to introduce the official Sokker T-Shirt. It is available from our shop which is accessible from Plus -> Shop. It is also possible to buy Plus for your friends with a single payment.

This T-Shirt could be worn while your team is playing, or maybe for sokker gatherings. Perhaps it will even provide luck during transfers or for pulling great juniors! ;)

The T-Shirt has a laced sokker logo with coloured threads over your heart. You can personalize the back with a number and a name. Maybe you'll put the name of your team, your nickname, your real life last name, or ... leave it empty to be undercover!

The Sokker T-Shirt is manufactured by Kariban, and is made from high quality cotton with a rib-bound neckline and with cotton and spandex (elastane) cuffs.

• rtg [del]
• 2009-06-17

Teams that go beyond the limit stated for Bankruptcy (that is -£300 000) will have 72 hours from their last log in to take the necessary measures to get their team out of this situation. The change is to allow you to follow the whole process of selling a player, from the start to the end of the auction. If you go beyond the limit and you have to sell some players do not waste time and transfer list them as soon as you can. After 72 hours you will not have access to your team until your financial balance becomes below the stated limit.

Our advice, of course, is that you should take care of your teams finances and always avoid going over the bankruptcy limit. But, if you find yourself in this situation please take the measures needed to get your team below the limit as soon as possible.

• rtg [del]
• 2009-05-10

As of this season your supporters reaction to victories and defeats will change. Your supporters shall be less disappointed if they lose to a stronger team, especially if the score line was close. If you marginally lose against a much stronger team the chances are your supporters mood could rise as they will see this as good progress. As always there is a dark side. If you lose against a weaker team you can expect your supporters to be very upset at this loss and have a severe mood swing. Also when playing against weaker opposition it will be harder for you to please your supporters as they will now expect you to win comfortably.

These changes will affect league games, play-off games, friendlies and cup games.
Please be aware that the influence of supporters mood after a game was always calculated depending on the strength of the opposition and score, now it will be more visible.

• rtg [del]
• 2009-05-02

We are happy to welcome some new countries into sokker. Please welcome....

Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Algeria
Georgia

Any new team joining any of these new countries shall start in division 2.

• rtg [del]
• 2009-04-27

It is election time again! Starting this season we will have elections for both the the Senior NT and the new U21 National team. 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] forestman 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.

We would also like to introduce the following new countries.

Pilipinas
Prathet Thai
Nicaragua


Elections will start April 27th and end 10th May at 22:00, so start preparing your speeches, asking candidates tough questions & voting!

• Julius [del]
• 2009-03-02

We have updated the Sokker scripts; bringing new features including a world map of Sokker and graphs for each country. The world map displays country size (total users), growth rate (number of new users registering for that nation in the past month) and value of users currently online (% of that nation's users currently logged in). Those statistics can also be viewed by each continent.

Other new improvements:
- browsing sent sk-mails and searching by recipient
- forwarding sk-mails to other users
- searching for forum threads created by a specific user
- option to add videos to forum posts by creating a mark [video] / [video wid= hei=]
- several bug-fixes

• guacamole [del]
• 2009-01-04

It is election time again! Starting this season we will have elections for both the the Senior NT and the new U21 National team. 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] forestman 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 January 5th and end January 18th, so start preparing your speeches, asking candidates tough questions & voting!

• guacamole [del]
• 2009-01-02

Today we are introducing the previously announced new skin (based on the user designs in the contest some time ago). We have designed it for the most used resolutions, such as: 1024x768 and 1280x800 (which still are used by ~70% of internet users). The page has been rebuilt as well. The most important changes are a reduced top bar and the google ad has been moved to the right side. The google ad has also been removed from the forum page, as it was annoying to many users without plus.

We hope you will like the new skin. Unfortunately, it is impossible to please everyone. We feel that it looks better than the current skin and should work better for various web browsers. In the first week we will randomly use both the current and new skin on the opening page for new users to show us which skin gets more users signing up.

User created skins should work correctly, with the possible exception that the placement may need to be updated. This should be easily fixable by the skin author.


There are also a few small new features.
- If two users use google map settings, the distance between their stadiums will be displayed.
- From now on you will be able to see whether a player is maxed out in a certain skill. Maxed skills will be referred to as "superdivine" on the player page. This is not a new skill level, it is only an indication that the player will no longer benefit from training. It will not be numerically visible in assistant manager programs.