01 Jan 2018Developer postOriginal post (opens in a new tab)

Update 0.3.3

Multi-Stage Cup Competitions

Update v0.3.3 [2017-12-31]

Cup Competition Related Changes:

Multi-stage Cup Competitions functionality added
Group Stages can now be part of Cup Competitions
Community Trophy Competitions now all have a group stage followed by finals knock out stage
Sans Pareil Cup now has a qualifying round, followed by group stage, followed by finals knock out stage
Legends Cup now has a large group stage, followed by finals knock out stage
Sans Pareil Cup draw is now seeded
Cup Holders' Cup draw is now seeded
For more information on the new cup competition structures please refer to: https://isokron.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/90MF/pages/1377507/Competitions
Cup Page Layouts updated for new multi-stage cup competitions (WIP, improvements will be made throughout January)
Skeleton of new Group Phase league table widget for Cup Competition Group Phase Layouts (WIP, improvements will be made throughout January)
Please note: Legends Cup will be started on 2nd January

Minor improvements to match commentary
Minor balancing changes to the match rating /10 system

Question of the day added and is worth double points
Improved points forumula, answering questions properly is now far more rewarding

Other Changes and Fixes:

Bonus League Reputation now awarded for 1st (10%), 2nd (5%) and 3rd (2.5%) in each League
Players now learn new positions faster
On the last day of the season Youth Players now say on their profile page that they are unavailable
Players who are retiring now indicate this is the reason why they cannot be transferred and are unavailable
Users are now able to register accounts with characters in their steam names that are not in the UTF-8 character set or with steam names that are more than 30 characters long
Performance optimisations to recording match data to game server after matches are completed
Improvements to match rescheduling logic (less far in the future now)
Fixed issue with incorrect text appearing in pop-up windows for Release from Contract and Renegotiate Contract buttons when activated during the final 24 hours of the season

Update v0.3.3a [2018-01-02]

Legends Cup (with large group phases) started
Wage demand fix for players who didn't renew their contracts at their contract renewal wage amounts

Update v0.3.3b [2018-01-08]

Server side performance optimisations

Update v0.3.3c [2018-01-09]

Fixed cup History widget not working
Fixed chat counts not being correct in the chat channels
Server side performance optimisations

Update v0.3.3d [2018-01-11]

End of Day Processing performance update (should now run much faster and game be offline for much less time each day)
Balanced player progression to ensure more rounded development of "squad" players who occasionally play official matches
Fix for Sans Pareil Cup group stage not commencing

Update v0.3.3e [2018-01-23]

Early Bird FA added and available for selection to start next season
Legends Cup performance was not counting towars club reputation, this has been fixed alongside retroactively correcting historical reputation data

Update v0.3.3f [2018-01-31]

Competition Related Changes:

Promotion and Relegation places now highlighted on league tables
Sans Pareil Cup qualification places now highlighted on division 1 league tables
Dates of competitions and their stages reworked, find more information here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/468070/discussions/1/1692659769966025497/
Club name and position fields swapped in column order for group stages widget
For the Top Average Rating widget on League Competition Pages, only include players who have played a minimum number of matches

Player/Staff Contracts Related Changes:

Transfer Budget calculation changed to only require a user to have a positive bank balance in 28 days time
Players can now be instantly signed after being a free agent for 3 days (formerly was 7 days)
Staff can now be instantly signed after being a free agent for 3 days (formerly was 7 days)
Contract Renegotiations for players removed from game
Wage system balancing changes (slight increase for young and old players, slight decrease for players in their prime)
Signing Fees are now only payable for transfer negotiations (and not for the initial bidder), they no longer apply at all for contract release negotiations
Change auto-sign logic (when user doesn’t have enough players for a match) to not sign wiki players (mostly issue on beta)
Wage code revamped to hopefully not result in any differences in various situations/places due to minor effects like rounding differences

Performance Related Changes:

Another End of Day Processing performance update (should now be faster still and the game be offline for less time each day)
Some very minor client performance optimisations

Match Experience Changes:

Increased amount of knocks during matches
Minor balancing changes to the match rating /10 system

Profanity Filter Related Changes:

Minor profanity filter update (less strict overall)
Profanity Filter now works correctly when drafting mail messages

Update v0.3.3g [2018-02-02]

Staff now automatically released from clubs to become free agents at the end of a season in which the staff has spent at least 2 full seasons at a club
Staff now no longer increase wages at the end of season when renewing contract at a club
Reborn Legends Minigame required points threshold for Legends Cup Qualification increased from 50,000 to 100,000
Highlighting places in group tables for cup competitions to indicate who will qualify for the next round

Update v0.3.3h [2018-02-09]

Impose Transfer Block feature added (users can now choose to block transfer activity being allowed between themselves and specific clubs)
Further wage system balancing changes (another slight increase for young and old players, another slight decrease for players in their prime)
Wages now display correctly when making a transfer bid for players in the client (there were a couple of issues causing them to not display correctly)
Issue with 16 year old players not developing properly has been fixed, and any development they have missed was retroactively given to them

Update v0.3.3i [2018-02-20]

Competition Related Changes:

Inter-FA Cup fixtures are now scheduled in the home teams FA playtimes for group stage fixtures and the initial fixtures drawn in KO rounds
Cup Stage Navigation arrows
Added Cup Stage name to title bar
Club Logos now displayed on League Tables
Club Logos now displayed on Group Stage Tables for Cup Competitions
Legends Cup added to Senior Trophies widget (placeholder art currently being used)
Youth Trophies widget added to Club > Profile view (placeholder art currently being used)

Other Changes:

Homepage Negotiations widget now shows a bespoke list of players tailored for each user rather than just those players whose negotiations are ending soonest
Server side performance optimisations

Bug Fixes:

Season Leaders widgets fixed on competition pages
Legends Cup hyperlink from World > Overview layout now working
Fixed rare bug with Current Negotiations widget on the Transfers > Negotiation View not working anymore if the GUI is customised
Fixed rare bug where it was possible for player attributes to go down to 0/20

Update v0.3.3j [2018-02-28]

Manager Briefing widget (informs of progress towards earning daily TV Rights, Various Squad Availability notifications, Various Staff notifications, Soft Squad Limit Exceeded notifications, Legends Cup Qualification Status, Overdue Fixture notifications, Transfer Bids Received, Negative Projected Bank Balance notification, Shareholder Dividend Payment Due at end of season notification)
TEMPORARY NOTE: part of manager briefing widget disabled until after season finishing (for TV Rights and Shareholder Dividends)
TV Rights now need to be earned by playing live matches against online opponents or requesting for matches during the playtimes of your FA
Drop list amounts when making transfer bids scaled down and more incremental at the higher end
No Trophies Won text on Trophies widgets updated to indicate whether it is for Youth or Senior trophies that have not been won
When a player becomes a Free Agent their Most Recent Transfer Fee becomes reset to £0
Fixed issue with Player/Staff names not appearing correctly in the client when certain 'special' characters were used (fix only applies to any new players/staff entering the game, at present the old effected ones are still effected)
Server side performance optimisations

Match Experience Changes:

Minor match rating /10 balancing changes (very slight buffs to defenders and GK's)
GK Injuries occur less frequently
Physio's have slightly more influence over preventing injuries from occurring
Injury Resistance attribute of players has slightly more influence over preventing injuries from occurring to them (note: Injury Proneness attribute is a text description composite of both Injury Resistance and Injury Recovery
Opponents aggression slider no longer has any bearing on the likelihood that your players could get injured
Your own aggression slider now has more bearing on the likelihood that your own players could get injured
Condition loss has slightly less overall negative impact on the performance level of players on the pitch (i.e. a slight nerf to backing off slider setting and high endurance players, and a slight buff to closing down slider setting and low endurance players)

Update v0.3.3k [2018-03-02]

Manager Briefing widget now shows any Shareholder Dividend payment amount falling due at the end of the season
Fixed TV Rights payments not being shown correctly in the Manager Briefing widget
Note: TV Rights are making standard payments whilst we fix the issue of them not being processed correctly (once we've confirmed it's been fixed, we will correct any previously recorded incorrect data)
Fixed cup competition logos and colour schemes not displaying
Server side performance optimisations

Update v0.3.3l [2018-03-08]

Shareholder Dividend Payments can now be seen in the projected transactions list on the finances page
Shareholder Dividend Payments now appear on the 28 Day Projection table widget
Shareholder Dividend Payments Threshold line now appears on the Finances Chart
Prize Money is now paid out at the beginning of the following season rather than the end of the current season (so it won't be included as part of the Shareholder Dividend Payment calculation at the end of the current season)
From midnight after release, TV Rights are now only projecting according to the percentages listed here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/468070/discussions/1/3377008022032648035/
Auto-GUI rescaling on first login for new users, to ensure everything will fit properly if they don't have a resolution that is 1920 x 1080 or higher
Various fixes to historical player stats records for clubs and competitions not showing correctly
Trophies widgets will now scroll if user has too many different trophies to fit in the available space
Manager Briefing messages related to U18 and U21 squads now reworded to make clearer
Date format of financial transactions now YYYY-MM-DD (rather than US Date format)
Server side performance optimisations

Update v0.3.3m [2018-03-13]

Server side performance optimisations

Update v0.3.3n [2018-03-15]

Fix for where match could start for a user who recently logged in without them pressing the Kick Off button
Fix for the Minigame not updating the Legends points required

Update v0.3.3o [2018-03-19]

Enforce cancellation of match request and user logout processes regardless of method used to close 90MF client
Minor updates to prematch tips library

Update v0.3.3p [2018-03-21]

Requesting match automatically cancelled for users if they lose connectivity to the server

Update v0.3.3q [2018-03-29]

Fix to Manager Briefing widget not correctly displaying notifications for staff contracts expiring at end of current season
Minor profanity filter update (less strict overall)
Server side performance optimisations

Update v0.3.3r [2018-03-30]

Fix to Manager Briefing widget incorrectly displaying the Senior Manager contract status incorrectly using the Physio contract status data

Update v0.3.3s [2018-04-04]

Allow users to quit client when disconnected from server
Update the Shareholders dividends threshold value in the finances chart widget
Disable the Reborn Legends minigame submit answer buttons until the previous answer provided has been successfully processed

Update v0.3.3t [2018-04-09]

Added message in the manager brieifing widget to inform users when matches are not starting
Server side performance optimisations
Fix for rare bug where cup competition stage data may not be recorded correctly (and historical data fix for incorrect records)

Update v0.3.3u [2018-04-10]

Improved performance of online user list data

Update v0.3.3v [2018-04-16]

Whether a match counts for TV rights or not as a live match is now entirely dependent on whether or not the user connects to the match at any point whilst it is being played
Fix to ensure that failed match fixtures are now correctly rescheduled
Server side performance optimisations

Update v0.3.3w [2018-04-18]

Configured match overlay positions and sizes to have default positions for new users
Changed chatban date format to no longer be in US date format
Server side performance optimisations