• Auldreekie1874 [del]
• 2008-08-13

For performance reasons the forum structure has been changed. The list of forums is now separated into two categories each holding a set of forums. The first category is the default one and works as usual, but the second one called other is new. In this second list you can find additional forums that might be of less interest for you. There is no new topic or new post information on these optional forums which saves resources for additional default forums.

We now have the possibility to add newly created forums to this list without much effect on the server's performance. If you want to subscribe to one of these, simply press the add button. The first new forum is called Friendlies "Sokker Country". You can use this forum to arrange friendlies and find friendly leagues. Every country has it's own Friendlies forum, which might come in handy when trying to find a foreign opponent from a specific country.

As usual, if you find any bugs or have further ideas to improve Sokker, please visit our Bugs/Ideas(en) forum.
Enjoy the new setup.

• Auldreekie1874 [del]
• 2008-07-31

Today we are happy to announce that we have introduced some new features for your enjoyment. These new features are free to all users.

Manager Pacts

You are now able to sign friendly pacts with other managers. The choices are vip, supporter or arch rival. To do so, just visit a managers' profile and click on the friends link. An ideal way to keep in touch with your friends...and your rivals!

Logged Users

You can now see a list of logged in users from each region. To access this list, go to any country and select a region. You can sort users by team rank, which will be handy for finding a weaker opponent who might give you a victory in next weeks' friendly.

But keep in mind, "There are no easy games"!

As usual, any bugs that are found or if you have any ideas to improve sokker, please visit our Bugs/Ideas(en) forum

• Auldreekie1874 [del]
• 2008-07-25

The Sokker development team is delighted to announce that the match engine has now been further improved. 16 new animations, including diving motions from the goalkeepers and goal celebrations, were added.

New flash files increase the viewer's size from 178 KB to 1.5 MB and two new sounds (~160 KB) were added, too. This will increase the download time a little when you use the new match viewer for the first time, because the new parts have to be cached by the browsers. For every further match the download should take place as fast as before as the data needed for each match remains unchanged.

The new match viewer is to be tested on the friendly NT matches on the 26th July. The changes are permanent and all subsequent matches will be generated by this new match engine. We do not expect important bugs as changes to the match engine itself are minimal. Please note that the gameplay was not changed, and that the behaviour of the players will stay the same (i.e. defenders will defend exactly like before, players will shoot or pass like before, keepers will save exactly like before).

In the unlikely event that you find any bugs, please report them as usual via the Bugs/Idea's forum.

You Can Watch Demo Here!

• guacamole [del]
• 2008-07-17

We have introduced a new version of the Assistant Tool that will enable view of players based on not only percentage values, but also weightings that YOU as the manager set as important for each position. The tool provides an option to display as the percentage or with the new weighted sum.

This weighted sum is specifically to help you brag about your players in those best of forums (eg. Best-of-Forum) and to compare your star players with other talented players. It is also helpful while searching players on the transferlist - just click the assistant link on transfer-listed player's menu, adding that player to show his weighted value with the rest of your team.

Plus users can check it out via the Training -> Assistant menu.

• guacamole [del]
• 2008-07-16

We have introduced a new option of contacting our staff - through a form that you can find on your country page `Staff` menu. Please use that form any time you want to contact admins or moderators on any cases not related with dubious players transfers (which can still be reported through the player's transfer page). Please also notice that on the contact staff form, the Staff List only contains the staff from your country. It is also possible that other staff are responsible for your country and will process your message.

By contacting staff through this new form, your message will always be read by the most appropriate staff member. It should speed up our ability to respond to your problems by helping route the issue to the most appropriate person. Please use this new form instead of sk-mailing staff members directly, and please do not send Constact Staff messages to multiple countries' staff on the same issue.

As before, you can also contact the admins by sending an email to admins@sokker.org, but please remember to sign with your Sokker login and team name.

• Auldreekie1874 [del]
• 2008-07-08

We are happy to announce the first set of enhancements to come from the new development team:

- Forum Topic Title Searches: From the forum page, you can now search for a related thread by any of the word(s) in the thread title.

- Enhanced League Statistics: The following statistics have been added, please note that these statistics are only available at league level and not at National level, Average individual marks this week, Most often shooters, Most fouls, Most active, Defensive, Offensive, Age, Value, Supporters, First squad average value, First squad average age.

- Staff List (also planned is a staff contact form)

- Support for BBCode using images.

- Trainers Bids are now logged and available for outbid notification on office page.

- Multiple design bugs have been fixed (No engine functionality has been changed)

• forestman [del]
• 2008-05-28

It is election time again! You have the opportunity to stand for election as the national team coach of any nation, and vote for your preferred manager of your own nation!

We also welcome 2 new nations into the voting!
Cameroun (Cameroon)
Tūnis (Tunisia)

This season, there are a record 84 NT teams playing in the World Cup Preliminaries. These teams will be drawn in 14 groups of 6 teams. Therefore your choice of manager is more important than ever!

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 a maximum of one thread in the forums, prefixed with [NT] , e.g. [NT] forestman. Please do NOT spam forums, e SK-mail people directly for votes, or spam users Guest Books. Any of these activities will result in forum banning and/or financial fine.

Please remember that a user who has been elected as 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.

The election starts on Monday 26th May and end on Sunday 8th June, so get preparing your speeches, asking candidates tough questions & voting!

• forestman [del]
• 2008-05-11

The new sokker design and new scripts are available for all at the following url - http://newscripts.sokker.org.

Whilst the login address is different, you are accessing the same Sokker game & database. Therefore any management actions carried out in either version will be implemented & view in both. eg. fired players will be fired :].

These new scripts will be run in parallel to the old version (online.sokker.org) for a period of time. We will observe to ensure that there are no serious bugs , before replacing the old scripts permanently.

Please note that you currently cannot watch matches using the new scripts at the new site - therefore to do this, you will need to access the older site at http://online.sokker.org

• mr_gibbage [del]
• 2008-05-08

We are pleased to announce the introduction of the brand new Sokker design to everyone. Tomorrow we will try to make the change, so be prepared! We hope you will like it as much as we do!

We hope the change will be fast and painless, but as always there is a risk of downtime. Should this occur, transfer deadlines will be extended.
The new design is a big and fundamental change with completely new interface files (with refreshed html and xhtml used). Unfortunately as a result of the new design, old skins will no longer be compatible with Sokker. However, when creating new skins it will be possible to do much more of them, and even have them setup for different screen resolutions.

With the new design we would also like to introduce a new feature: Google maps location. With this extension you will be able to enter your location and look for friends (or rivals) in your neigbourhood! You can find the feature by clicking on your username (on your team page) and then on "Location" in the upper right of the screen. This will be the only new feature for now, but when the new design is completely up and running we will work on further improvements and new features.

Even though we have extensively tested the new design, it is possible there may still be some bugs and issues with it. Please report any in the bug forum, with one topic per problem.

• mr_gibbage [del]
• 2008-05-01

We want to inform that passwords you choose should be complex. Otherwise, there may be issues with account hacking. For a more secure password you should remember the following:

1. Never use your username as your password. It is the easiest way to be hacked.

2. Try to use both numbers and characters in your passwords. This will make it more complicated.

3. Never share your password with anyone.