• 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.

• guacamole [del]
• 2008-12-24

As our holiday present to our users, we're pleased to announce that for the upcoming season Under-21 National Teams will be added to Sokker. This has been one of the most requested improvements and we hope it will be a great success.

The U-21 NT matches will be played on Fridays. In this first season only friendly matches will be played; U-21 World Cup Qualifications are planned for the following season.

Please note:
- Players aged 21 or less may be called up by either the U-21 NT or the Senior NT, but may only be in one team at a time. The coaches can of course exchange players between the two teams.
- Users can be manager of only one NT at a time so the Senior and U-21 teams will have different coaches.

Currently, Friday has no special events in Sokker. Next season will bring a new opportunity to see bright new talent from all around the world as the young stars of Sokker represent their countries!

Festive greetings and best wishes for a happy New Year to all our users!

• guacamole [del]
• 2008-12-08

The following rules have been updated for clarity and to ensure consistency in translations among all Sokker countries:


CHAPTER 1: Registration (slight change to discuss email address importance)
CHAPTER 2: Sokker Rules (clarity in sharing connection rule, addition of sharing teams rule)
CHAPTER 4: The Players (additional information on defending skill)
CHAPTER 7: Sub-Junior School (maximum users joining per week)
CHAPTER 8: Transfers (clarification of transfer listing fee)

More information on the changes being done can be found in this thread.

• guacamole [del]
• 2008-12-06

In NT friendly matches starting Saturday December 6, 2008 we will test the following engine modifications:
- Instead of trying to pass to the strikers right away, players will more often try to use combination passes to move the ball upfield.
- Players will now consider if pass recipient is offsides prior to making a pass (the correctness of this judgment will be based on playmaking).
- Players will less often tackle from behind. Instead, they will try to move in front of the player in possession and look for a more favorable angle.
- Experienced defenders near the goal may be able to clear the ball immediately after a missed reception.
- Players dribbling direction will be somewhat more varied, instead of proceeding directly towards the goal in most cases.
- It will be harder to pass an opponent in the way of an attacker. A good defender will be able to either block or at least slow the attacker somewhat.

Any changes to this new engine will be assessed during NT friendlies and club friendlies, with this version of the engine being official starting next season. Playoff games will still use the current version of the match engine.

Bugs reporting: please report all engine bugs in the Bugs / Ideas (en) forum. Please include one topic for each type of bug, always include match and minute. Notice that we have changed player position evaluation, which has not really been modified since Sokker started, so input is especially needed in this version (e.g. if a player always tries to pass to wrong positioned partner). Any testing done now improves the quality of the engine for next season!