• AnimalA [del]
• 2005-09-02

We are observing some hardware problems at the moment. Unfortunately we lost some topics published during the day.

At the moment we are testing the performance and improve the stability of the system. You still might face some minor problems.

Please be patient, we will work on that problem as fast as we can.

• forestman [del]
• 2005-08-29

Tomorrow morning elections for national coaches will begin. They will last for two weeks.
On your country's page you'll find a link to national team and there info about current election.
Go to the election page, where you can apply, vote for candidate, check the current turnout and after the deadline - know detailed result.

Rules regarding election:

Appling candidature:
- you can apply for election in any country, regardless of your experience in the game.
- you can apply only to one active election,
- you have to apply by yourself,
- if you resign, you will be removed from the candidate list and also all obtained votes will be removed. If you apply again - previous votes are not restored.

Voting:
- you can vote for national coach for your country,
- you have only one vote.
- you can change or withdraw your vote until the election`s deadline.

In the first season of national teams, only friendly games are to be played. No official tournament is expected.
The other rules regarding national teams will be announced soon.

Tenure of elected coaches will expire after one season.

• forestman [del]
• 2005-08-01

A new feature is available for holders of Plus – Assistant. This allows you to manage and analyse your team quickly and easily.

Assistant can be found in the ‘training’ section at the top of the screen next to the link “tactics”.

Assistant allows you to sort your players according to their best positions, skills, and ability in each position. The ability of your players in various positions (GK, DEF, MID and ATT) is provided via percentage values. These are based on the configuration set by yourself. You must provide a skills ratio for each position (e.g. MID = 10% Pace, 20% Playmaking etc.)

There are two methods of calculation. The first uses the same method as found in many assistant manager programs. The second can be activated by selecting “correction”. This uses a slightly different calculation to ensure that the best position is chosen, avoiding potential incorrect assignment of multiple-skilled players.

• forestman [del]
• 2005-07-03

From now on, teams that are about to declare bankruptcy (account balance less than -€500k) will be able to log on for 24 hours from the last log in.

This is to allow them to correct their bank balance - sell players, sack coaches etc. After 24 hours they cannot log in again, until the account balance improves sufficiently (account balance more than -€500k).

There will also be information on teams that are about to declare bankruptcy visible for others players (currently only in English)

• forestman [del]
• 2005-06-29

Over the past few months Sokker has undergone rapid growth, with users more than doubling to over 8000. Sokker has also become much more international with 36 country leagues and 9 languages.

Therefore it has been decided to expand the number of moderators. Therefore we are pleased to announce the following new moderators:

Max (Estonia)
Scoop (Brazil)
Lestad (México)
Red (Česká republika)
AnimalA (Deutschland)
sverolone (Italia)

Please welcome these new moderators!

• Mikaell [del]
• 2005-06-18

Today we had further server trouble. The new database is out of order.

At present Sokker is running on the old server, therefore it may be more difficult to watch league games.

We are hoping to return to the faster server as soon as possible, but in the meantime please be patient.

• Jack Daniels [del]
• 2005-06-07

Today we have introduced skins to Sokker Manager.

Skins allow you to customise the graphics in Sokker Manager to make them look the way you like best. They do not change the functionality of the site, just how it looks.

To change skins, go to the bookmark "Media" and select a different css file. There are currently two skins: default and test.

It is also possible to create your own files. You will need to define suitable links to graphic elements, types, colours etc. We hope that you will host your own skins to allow users the possibility to use them.

Please note that in the future some improvements will be made to the css file and it will be necessary to fix your own skin.

Sample skins (it's better to open by WordPad):
styleclassic.css
test.css

• damian
• 2005-06-05

From now on, every single player could refuse the proposal of being auctioned.

It will depend on:
- the number of matches played for the club - the less he played, the more he would hesitate
- the number of players sold within 2 weeks (including players put up for sale)
- form of the player - the worse it gets, the chances of his rejection increase (lower affect)
- mood of the supporters - the worse, the better acceptance for rotations (lower affect)


Regulations mentioned above exclude the players from our initial game squad and from our youth school.

Temper of the players shouldn't affect normal users. If it happened so, the coefficients would be modified.

Day Trading Regulations II are to be introduced today.

• Jack Daniels [del]
• 2005-05-29

In an effort to limit daytrading (DT) some changes will be introduced to Sokker in the near future, probably next week.

Suggested changes include:

- Users will not be allowed to sell a player until he has made at least one appearance in a match (league, cup or friendly)

- Introduction of a special profit tax from sold players, who have not played at least 3 matches at the club (or other limitation). This tax would not occur for juniors from the school or players that have been with the club from the beginning.

These are only suggestions, so please contact us if you have any other ideas.

• Jack Daniels [del]
• 2005-05-28

We are glad to announce that Sokker is available in a number of new languages:

- Čeština
- Deutsch
- Eesti,
- Español
- Italiano,
- Portugues

They are not official versions, and still waiting for correct, especially Italian version. As it will be done, we will choose the spokesmen for each version to release the news.

We hope that our language family will continue to grow as fast as Sokker.