• guacamole [del]
• 2007-03-26

For the last 3 weeks, we have been working on major changes to the Sokker server configuration. Until lately, this had been mostly transparent to users. This work with the configuration should be continuing for approximately 3 weeks, so please understand this and expect a few issues may arise.

The next configuration change is planned for March 27th in the morning (Sokker time), and we will delay any transfers during the affected time. Input on what has been changed will be provided after the changes are made.

Meanwhile, because Sokker has been growing rapidly, and the number of requests to the server on Match days is so high, we experienced some problems over the last two weeks. We tried to resolve this last Sunday, but because of an issue with the proxy module the change was not successful. We expect problem to be fixed before this Wednesday cup games. Please note that the expansion (new and expanded countries) were in no way responsible for the issue.

Also, during the period of slow responses, transfers were monitored and reviewed and were actually on the whole somewhat HIGHER than most days of the same weeks. Therefore, extending transfer deadlines would not have been appropriate as players fared on the whole better.

In the meantime, thank you for your patience and please know that the developers are doing their best to resolve the issue.

• guacamole [del]
• 2007-03-12

Sokker is pleased to announce that the following new countries have been added to our community, as well as expansion to several countries based on their growth.

New countries:
+----+-----------------------+
| 73 | Panamá
| 50 | Ghana
| 75 | Crna Gora
| 76 | Kenya
| 77 | Guatemala
| 78 | Daehan Minguk
| 80 | Cameroun
| 64 | Ukraina
| 45 | Latvija
| 81 | Sénégal
| 79 | Azərbaycan
| 82 | Zhōngguó

Extended countries:
+----+-----------------------+
| 31 | Sverige
| 25 | Suomi
| 20 | Portugal
| 41 | Türkiye
| 15 | Deutschland
| 29 | Danmark
| 54 | Bulgaria
| 13 | Česká republika
| 21 | Brasil
| 10 | Italia
| 59 | Malaysia


Many thanks to all of the translation participants for their help, and to JD for his great work on checking and inserting country data.

• guacamole [del]
• 2007-03-05

It is election time again! You have the opportunity to stand for election as the national team coach of any nation, and to give your vote to your preferred manager of 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 a maximum of one thread in the forums, prefixed with [NT] , e.g. [NT] forestman. 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. Also, if you are running for election do NOT post questions or arguments in other candidates' threads. Their threads are for them to present their candidacy (and for users from that nation to question them), not for you to debate them.

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 deadline is 18th March so get preparing your speeches, asking candidates tough questions & voting!

• mr_gibbage [del]
• 2007-02-03

During the NT games today and the next friendly NT and club games (once all of the cups are finished), we will be testing some modifications to the match engine. This is mostly due to the repetition in the current engine - many goals were as a result of long passes from the wings or running passes. The changes will be as follows:

- it will be easier to score from long distance, although harder to score a "one on one" with the goalkeeper
- passes will become more varied (before passes were either almost exact, or no where near exact - with very few passes in between the two)
- defenders and other players from team currently defending will be able to "predict" the area where the ball will drop after long passes (so not only attaker or player which the pass is addressed to will know where it is going as it has been before)

Along with these changes, it is intended that some minor bugs in the current match engine will be fixed, a full list of any fixed bugs will be available at the end of the current season..

Anything not listed above, will remain unchanged.

• mr_gibbage [del]
• 2007-01-27

The forum rules and guidelines (Forum Statute) has been updated in order to help ensure the enjoyment of all players who choose to participate in discussion forums.

To view these changes, click here to view your forum statute (you must be logged in), or alternatively check your forum statute by clicking forum and then statute on the menu to the left.

• mr_gibbage [del]
• 2007-01-12

We had some serious problems with the servers. Now we`re waiting for sokkerfiles.net (where we keep images) to be restored.
Transfer deadlines were moved 24 hours on 10th Jan after 4pm CET. If the situation continues, we will have to move the transfers further.

We apologise for any inconvienience.

• mr_gibbage [del]
• 2006-12-24

Starting this Wednesday (27th December 2006) some conditional order problems will be fixed, which will be:

- it will be possible to put an outfielder in goal (however, only if the GK position is currently empty or the goalkeeper is going off the field)
- for the conditional orders listed below, the minute will mean minute to start checking condition, not minute when condition is checked (if you set a condition in the first minute, it could happen in the 89th minute for instance as the event will be checked all game, rather than just in the 1st minute as it would have been before):
* player has yellow card
* red card or no player
* player is slightly injured

• guacamole [del]
• 2006-12-20

Sokker staff would like to wish all of you a happy and safe holiday season.

• forestman [del]
• 2006-12-12

We are pleased to announced that Qpegasus has been promoted to the role of English language moderator. Qpegasus is a well known and successful Scottish user who will now assist with keeping sokker running smoothly.

Other english language moderators include mr_gibbage, guacamole, cometer and of course, Qpegasus.

Many other moderators also attend to English language forums. You can see the full list of Sokker creators, admins and moderators, by clicking on the following link: here

• guacamole [del]
• 2006-12-01

We have made accessible a new method of fetching data from the Sokker server based on XML. This will mainly interest developers of Sokker-related software.

Here you will find more information: http://online.sokker.org/xmlinfo.php

In addition, as we have now provided enhanced data in XML, this is the approved method for obtaining information from Sokker. Therefore, scanning pages in fashion other than this XML is not allowed and may result in a ban. If you need information that is not present in the xml files contact the creators at sokker@sokker.org or by writing in this topic: forum_topic.php?ID_forum=1259&ID_topic=479307&pg=0#new