PowerPlay Magazine

Ciao amici

Durante gli ultimi 10 giorni abbiamo continuato ad ottimizzare il server, cosa che è avvenuta con più o meno successo e siamo riusciti ad alleggerire il carico di lavoro sul server e a rendere il calcolo dei risultati decisamente meno pesanti da elaborare. Tutto questo è stato necessario perchè il carico di lavoro che il processore e la RAM dovevano sopportare ogni volta era pari praticamente al 100% delle loro risorse per tutto il giorno. Gioel ha fatto un gran lavoro ed è persino riuscito a creare una base di lavoro che tornerà utile in futuro. In merito a ciò che ha dovuto sacrificare, voi vedrete solo pochissime cose :

1. I giocatori provenienti dall'accademia sportiva che voi accoglierete non si aggregheranno immediatamente al club, ma arriveranno entro una ora e voi verrete avvertiti da una news di squadra.
2. I giocatori che voi licenzierete lasceranno il vostro team entro una ora e voi verrete avvertiti da una news di squadra anche in questo caso.
3. Le news di squadra più vecchie di 112 giorni verranno cancellate.
4. I tabellini di gioco più vecchi di 112 giorni verranno cancellati - potrete vedere solo un breve riassunto della partita con il risultato nel vostro calendario. Una delle funzioni del PRO pack permetterà di archiviare i tabellini di gioco.

Per quanto riguarda i server, lo spostamento della piattaforma avverrà nei prossimi giorni. Questo causerà un down del sito ma non dovrebbe comunque durare più di poche ore. I nuovi server dovrebbere dare una grande mano al progetto per fare notevoli passi avanti.

We were forced to do some changes after analyzing the economy of the first season. We found out that player market and daytrading in particular has caused anomalies on the market, which we cannot have in the full version. We also found out that youngsters from the sports academy were coming in with the average quality between 50 and 70 and had a very high overall rating from the start. What this caused? Managers got richer by buying and selling immediately and there are teams that have the level of some facilities at 9 and others have more than 100 players. The reason for this was that juniors had a high overall rating and they were much better than the original players. This anomaly would disappear later on because the youngsters would not be as good as the trained players in the team but this would come back after the restart so we had to take action. The managers liked the high average quality of the juniors and were glad for it. But what could this cause in the long run? Players with the average quality between 60 and 80, which were regularly coming out of the sports academy, were really great because there are three attributes that are important for a player in each position plus possibly shooting. And when the average quality is 60%, it can mean that the important attributes have a quality greater than 90. These kinds of players were a plenty in the first season. That is with only 2-3 players from the sports academy in one batch and soon there will be groups of 8. What would be the result? Each team would have a wealth of good own players, the sports academy would be predictable and the market would become useless. That is what the game was heading for. What have we done to avoid this?

1. We implemented a fee to the hockey association of 5% from the total player salaries for every player over the number 40. You are informed about this in team news ever day. We cancelled the restriction regarding the maximum number of players. Having up to 60 players in the team should not be a problem but any more than that could be really taxing.
2. The service charge for a player transfer is set to at least 5%, but the minimum fee was raised to 10 000. The market was flooded with players of poor quality who were sent to the market for a small fee instead of being fired.
3. New players from the sports academy have about 20% lower overall rating than before. But the rating keeps on growing with the level of sports academy and other factors as was the case before.
4. New players from the sports academy have a maximum of average quality between 40 and 60 instead of 50 to 70. But there is still a chance to get great player and it increases with the number of incoming juniors.

We are planning the following precautions in the near future:
1. Service charge for a transfer will increase to 10% if the team has more than 10 outgoing transfers during the last 112 days and to 20% if it has more than 20 outgoing transfers.
2. If a team acquires a player it can only be sold for the same amount that it was bought for during the next 112 days. This does not apply to juniors and the original players.

Please modify your strategy according to these changes. We believe that they will increase the enjoyment of the game in the full version.

New features:

• You can click on a team profile of the manager in his/her profile
• The average practice improvement of the team is displayed in the Practice page
• If the manager has a blocked access to the game it is displayed in his/her profile
• We added a team news if the player is not sold on the market
• The accumulated sum of bids sent on the market cannot exceed the current balance of the managers account (if the manager had 1 million on the account it was possible to send a number of bids of up to 1 million simultaneously)
• You can see the education progress of the staff members in their profile
• In the education center you can see the average improvement of the staff members
• It is not possible to fire a player when the number of players is at the minimum -  17
• The current running version of the game is displayed above the logo in the top left corner of the screen in the hockey account so you can track the small changes in the game
• The chat link is on the right side of the screen in the hockey account

As you may have noticed we have made a simple forum for all hockey news.
Have a nice day.

Ivan alias tuttle