31st July:
This update sees the addition of a Wage Cap. The main reasons for this are:
- Increases the importance of skill in order to progress through the game
- Increase overall amount of transfer market activity
- Significantly increase the importance and significance of gaining promotion/avoiding relegation
- Stops clubs imploding financially (not necessarily though any fault of their own)
This is discussed in detail on a podcast that can be found here:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1035580/11055826
There’s also various other improvements. Full changelog as follows:
- Added Club History page (at present only shows seasons that fit within the current competition setup, i.e. June Season and July Season)
- Added Wage Cap. The Wage Cap for a club is equal to the Monthly Stadium Income
- Manager Skills can no longer be Finalised if a club is exceeding their Wage Cap
- Players (except those with zero wages) cannot be signed if doing so would cause a club to exceed their Wage Cap
- For the August 2022 season only, the Wage Cap will instead be equal to 125% of the Monthly Stadium Income and Manager Skills can still be Finalised even if a club is exceeding their Wage Cap (to assist with adjusting to the change)
- Financial Summary widget on finances and home layouts now contains Wage Bill and Wage Cap information
- Balancing changes to player wages (general reduction in wage demands across the board, updated and applied immediately for July season finishing)
- Players aged 16, 17 and 18 are no longer paid any wages
- If a club is relegated, they now receive ‘Parachute Payments’. For the season immediately following the relegation their monthly stadium income and Wage Cap will both be equal to the amount they were in the division they were just relegated from
- Loyalty Manager Skill reworked to no longer provide a wage discount to Academy Trial graduates and instead extend the contract length of the Academy Trial players who graduate at the end of the current season
- Revenue Manager skill renamed to ‘Injection’ and rather than increasing daily revenue now instead provides an immediate one off cash injection payment received upon finalising the Manager Skills
- Balancing changes to Manager Skill Prices to help with fairness and affordability of key popular skills. Level 1 skills are now generally cheaper. Level 3 skills are now generally more expensive
- Changes to how affordability of purchasing scouting pool players and making auction bids works. Now all that matters is if you can afford the purchase price plus signing fee with your current balance, and that the wages of the player fit within the wage cap. In order to make multiple bids you must be able to afford all of them (both in terms of having the bank balance to pay for them and space within the Wage Cap to afford their wages)
- Some Manager Skills are now recommended to new users and selected by default (they can change those recommended selections if they wish)
- New page tabs design
- Improved fidelity of logo on left menu
- Desktop application icon updated
- Updated Home Page (Various UI Tweaks/Improvements)
- Fixed bug that could cause Ceiling rating of keepers to be incorrectly calculated too high
- Fixed various localisation issues on homepage
- The following roles now move a little farther forward compared to what they previously did when attacking: Defensive Midfielder (DM), Deep Lying Playmaker (DM), Half Back (DM), Anchor Man (DM), Wing Back (D), Inverted Wing Back (D), Defensive Wing Back (DM), Attacking Wing Back (DM)
- The following roles now move farther forward compared to what they previously did when attacking: Central Winger (M), Wing Back (DM), Inverted Wing Back (DM)
- The following roles now move a little farther back compared to what they previously did when defending: Defensive Midfielder (M), Attacking Midfielder (AM), Deep Lying Forward (ST)
- The following roles now move farther back compared to what they previously did when defending: Pressing Forward (ST)
19th July:
The main focus of this update is bug fixes along with improving the matchmaking for league matches particularly focussing on improving Assistant Managers requesting matches on behalf of users.
- Improved logic for Assistant Managers requesting matches on behalf of offline users to better distribute them throughout the league/s duration and to better increase the chances they will end up pairing vs online users
- Scouting Pool page now shows the contract length a player will have if you were to sign them (note: this column does not sort correctly yet)
- Improved version of initial new user signup screens/process
- Improved version of login screen message notifications (for example to advise when the server is offline)
- Updated loading Splash Screen
- Updated logo on Left Menu
- Updated submit bug report/suggestion feedback popup
- Removed ‘i’ icon from several widgets
- Fix to Last Season Rank bar not being filled correctly
- Fix to Financial Transactions not loading under some circumstances
- Fix to manager skills finalisation process (now Academy Trials and Scouting Pools will refresh so that any skills in these areas will immediately take effect rather than needing to close and reopen client to see them take effect)
- Fix to Prestige Manager Skill if selected but Manager Skills not finalised yet
- Fix alignment of left panel on shop page
- Fix to close button issue on character buggle popup
- Fix to promotion target display on league table page for Training League users
9th July:
This update focuses on improving the new user tutorial, in particular, introducing the academy trials feature as part of the tutorial process/new user experience.
- New users now get access to an Academy Trial as part of the tutorial process
- Any new users who started playing this month and have completed the tutorial up to the point where Academy Trials are now created for new users, have had Academy Trials created for them
- Various visual and UI improvements to the tutorial
- Player Auctions now include at least 55 players each day (at least 5 of which will be Goalkeepers and 50 of which will be outfielders)
- Released trialists no longer show as part of the transfer history
- Help ‘?’ button moved from top right (headerbar) to bottom left (menu bar)
- New version of logo on loading splash screen