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Unrelated to user activity we have had some weird hickups performance-wise sometimes. Page being unreachable for a few minutes and then running smoothly again. We have located at least one issue who had an influence into this and it has been solved. Hopefully we will see this a lot less now.

The International Club Competitions (ICCs) have now been laid out, PMs sent, matches planned and bonuses paid. Also, the division 1 league tables are now updated with the no. of spots given out in next season\'s ICCs. A bug prevented me from running the update yesterday, but that is now found and killed - and it was related to the interesting fact that no club of division 3 or higher won a national cup anywhere in TM last season(!). Nor was any cup runner-ups of less than division 3 deleted. Seems the cup is now more \"realistic\" than ever before ;) [b]A Few Changes[/b] So, for the first time in noone knows how long I actually announce a little change in TM: - Bonuses for entering the ICCs have gone up to 60mTM$ for CL-style tourneys and 15mTM$ for the lesser tourneys. We plan on further increasing these bonuses in the years to come. Have a happy season 19, N

Hello all. After listening to feedback regarding quick matches these things will change. 1) Everyone on tm will get 1 quick match free per week. 2) New teams with trial will be limited to 2 quick matches per day. 3) A refund will be given to teams who get match cancelled because of too few players. This will be implemented this week.

Welcome to season 19 everyone. As usual, there\'s a few remaining issues. We\'ve solved several problems during the process that will help future SUs but, once again, we\'re opening with a few \'details\' remaining: - Player stats is generating as we speak. It will be available shortly making player profiles etc will look correct. - Historical matches will start generating after that, making the head-to-head feature and trophy cabinets work correctly again. - A few clubs, including some former b teams, that should have been deleted wasn\'t. This is a complex and boring story, but basically I\'ve opted for caution. Cheers, and a great season for all managers :) NB: We\'re low on manpower for the coming hours. So, post any season update related issues you might have here, and apply patience, please. NB: Before you post that the top menu says season 18, try ctrl+f5, please. NB: Everything related to international tournies + national squads is delayed. OT: Training will run as usual.

From the PM sent to all (but now able to be translated) Dear Manager A lot of big changes have been made in season 18: The new match engine has been implemented alongside custom formations and a brand new nifty line-up selector, loads of small bugs have been eliminated throughout the course of the season and today we are officially launching a brand new \'quick match\' feature, allowing instant friendlies for only a few Pro days! As if that wasn\'t enough we have also got an immensely improved AJAX transfer list coming up in season 19. However, while all this new stuff takes us a big step forward, we are by no means through with TM: The implementation of the new match engine took us down a long, bumpy road littered with small-to-medium bugs and amidst the season our performance issues reappeared as TM once again rocketed to new traffic heights. Now, finally, we have the match engine back in shape and a solid plan to avoid performance issues. Long story short we expect a much smoother season 19! We think a little compensation is in order due to the inconsistency this season, and we have decided to hand out 5 TM Pro days to all non-Pro members and 10 TM Pro days to all Pro-members. We sincerely hope everyone has a blast when we open the site for season 19 on Monday and that out troubles are now dead and gone. Enjoy! The TM Team

You can now play instant friendlies, costing you 2 TM PRO days. Compete in 3 formats. [b]Ranked matches[/b] Compete on the ranking lists for trophies given out each season! Each game increase or decrease your teams rating! [b]Unranked[/b] Choose a maximum/minimum division you want to play in an unranked match. [b]Showmatch[/b] Test your strength against the best! Have you ever dreamt about playing Crimson Kings? Or another top club. Now you can play these teams :)

For a meager 100,000,000 you can now become the owner of a top notch player! So go check the transfer list - it\'s now bursting with national team players at discount rates. Happy hunting :)

I have finished up the new user guide. A lot of new entries has been added and all the looooooong entries which were completely misplaces has been moved and edited so it all makes a bit more sense now. Hopefully it will be a lot easier to browse now! Final step is to divide them into categories, but this will not be done right now. LT\'s: Sry for all the work, but once done it is a big step forward. I promise no move moving around and big changes in the user guide! :o) Comments on changes/ideas are of course welcome as always...

This season we are experiencing the biggest drop of managers in the TM History. I just want to bring a little details to this to clarify a few things. 1) Last season we lost a bit of the clubs logs (log of clubs logging into the game used to decide which clubs are active), and could therefore only delete 90.000 teams, instead of an estimated amount of roughly 150.000. This season all the extra teams from last season are in the bunch. 2) Advertising. We have for the past 4 months only advertised for 25% of the amount we use to spend, this is mainly because of various server moves, and introduction of new engines etc. As a result we have only gotten 90.000 new users this season (which is roughly half of the usual), and last season we got roughly 120.000 (of an estimated amount of 180.000). 3) Despite of this the traffic on the TM site is still increasing (which you saw with all the performance problems this season). And a manager in tm is now roughly 20% more active than 9 months ago. ----------------------- When this is said, we are still sad to see so many teams drop out and its a problem in the newer divisions especially. So we done several things to get new players more into the game, like new squad page, new training page, (new transfer list on its way), improved manual functions. We still have features on its way with easier team creation and faster kicking of teams who only logged in once.

Another season update is getting ominously close. It will go ahead on Monday the 1st of March. The site will most likely go off line at around 9:00 am (tm time). Here\'s the schedule as things appear at this time. The week leading up to the update goes like this: - On Monday inactive teams are marked for all to see. - On Wednesday the last round of league games is played. - On Thursday the draw for the 1st division qualification matches is performed. Also, the NT Sale is started by national team players from banned and inactive teams being put on the transfer list with deadlines expiring all through the weekend; ** Youngsters (age less than 18) is included if and only if they\'ve had at least one official appearance on the national team. ** The maximum age for nt rescue is 30 (included.) ** Players from \'available\'/\'pending approval\' teams are not saved. - On Friday division qualification matches are played. - On Saturday the NT Sale starts. - On Sunday the NT Sale ends. The season update process will commence on Monday where the site will be closed (and transfer deadlines postponed accordingly.) During the season update the following things are done: - Player awards, top goal scorer, MVP and U21-MVP, are handed out. - Player stats are saved. - Players who have announced retirement retire and old players who will retire after next season announce retirement. Players start considering retirement at 32, while keepers consider it after they turn 33. - Player injuries are reduced by 2-4 matches depending on med center and luck. - Player bans are left as they are, but any surplus yellow cards, which do not amount to a full one-day ban, are deleted. - Club stats are saved. - League and national cup trophies are handed out. - League and national cup bonus is handed out. - Inactive and banned teams are deleted. - Promotion and relegation is handled. - League, international cup and NT matches are laid out. - PMs which are more than 3 seasons old are deleted. - Next season’s national stadias are decided. Capacity as well as facilities count. - Youths which have not been drafted from the academy and who have turned 18 are deleted. - NT coefficients are updated. - The draw for next season’s NT tournament(s) is performed. - International club coefficients are updated. - The draw for next season’s international club tournaments is performed. - Match reports are converted to a less space consuming historic format. - Clubs with too few players in their squad receive \"crappy\" players to meet the minimum required, which is 20. Good luck with the final match(es) of the season! Sincerely The TM HQ

At last the grand stats rebuild have finished. Please note, however, that 1: Stats for players transferred during this season are still incomplete. That will be solved shortly. And 2: Stats from Sunday are being added over the coming hours. So hold your fire if, say, a goal or something from the last match is missing. Now, with 10 mio+ records of stats, it\'s not easy to verify that everything is correct. So, post any issues (short of those mentioned above) you might know of here. Cheers.

It\'s sort of premature; But continuing from here: http://trophymanager.com/forum.php?topic=show&show=1395582 the grand rebuild process is now in motion. You wont, however, see anything change unless it\'s successful (check that link above for more info). I\'ll be monitoring this over the coming hours to get some idea if it\'ll be able to finish during the weekend :) More info to come...

Matches haven\'t been played in time in some leagues - They are being played as I\'m writing this announcement. We apologize for the inconvenience. Francesco

We have updated the Fita License so it now works properly again. We have also added a box for it at the clubhouse for all clubs who has not completed the license yet. Futhermore we have made updates to all help entries. The userguide will soon link to an index page of all the help entries and furthermore we intend to add a search function within it for easier navigation. The old user guide will soon be removed, however all content is is the new one so don\'t worry. NB! Please note that not all help entries might be updatet yet for every language. Uk should be though.

Current things have been changed: 16% more goals getting the average goals in the most equal first divisions up to 2,5 roughly (like real life). Fixed the injury bug, now giving all players the correct chance of getting injured.

First, don\'t be alarmed by the new column showing only zeros on GKs profile page. That\'ll fix along with the process below. Second, I\'ve been struggling a bit with rebuilding player stats. Short version: It will be solved. Perhaps (worst case) not until after the last matches of the season. Longer version: The process to rebuild stats works by traversing every single match of the season (almost 6 million, atm) and making resulting inserts and updates to a table that reaches 10 million at the end of the process. With such a heavy workload the process takes more than 24 hours, thus colliding with the backup (not good, as you may know) and more matches starting to generate. The latter is solved. It\'s the former that I\'m mulling over now :) As mentioned above, there\'s a chance that this wont be completed until after the last matches of the season. But I haven\'t given up on a solution yet. So stay tuned.

Continuing from here http://trophymanager.com/forum.php?topic=show&show=1389010 we\'ve made improvements to how the daily backup is taken. However, approximately 04:30 TM Time --> 06:00 TM Time (i.e. when the backup runs), now officially has \'reduced service\'; This means, you might be able to browse the site, but you shouldn\'t count on it. Further, I\'ve taken steps to make sure transfers don\'t expire in that time frame. Finally, thanks to extensive logging, the doubled cash updates mentioned in the link above has been fixed. Cheers

There are quite a few misunderstandings floating around regarding suspensions. You can see a few typical examples here: http://trophymanager.com/forum.php?topic=show&show=1392597 However, thanks to the initiatives mentioned here: http://trophymanager.com/forum.php?topic=show&show=1378652 You can now investigate suspensions (and implicitly) reductions yourself. Have fun and report any weirdness to me. Cheers!

We have finally updated the guides for mentality and attacking style on the tactics page. Furthermore we have added a help entry for set pieces and captaincy. This should answer a lot of the daily questions we receive on these things. A few new things has also been added which were not in the old manual. Happy reading...

Here is an updated worklist. Thomas will soon start on the season update, and I will soon start on a very big exciting project (it will only take a weeks roughly, but will be one of the most kick ass features in TM to date :O), expected release in 2 weeks)). [soren] show text in lmv if match is cancelled, also text for lmv [soren] - fix reversed players in texts with almost second yellow card. [woody] - fix bug causing dr and mr (and maybe mc,omc,fc) to have a higher chance of getting injured than players on other positions. [woody+soren]- nt matches started [armann]- livescores in livematch to ajax and a demo for nonpro [thomas]- bteam from season update fix/compensation [soren] - chat ban function fix [thomas]- clubs from banners change [soren]- share players and matches on facebook, maybe trophies. [soren+armann]- transferlist improments (bid lag, weird size bids), and make it ajax. [soren]- pro compensation (scheduled for the day after the last match of the season + 10 days will be given out to everyone(yeppee)) [soren] - federation \'repair\' [thomas] - transferagent stuff [thomas] - acs improvements [thomas] - language versioning stuff Done: (v) - moved matchengine and secondary database to another database server. (faster match generation and more money for us cause we can ditch the old server) (v) - extended tm pro trial (now 31 days for new teams) (v) - chat back online (v) - double minute display bug in live match viewer. (v) - https on shop page (only cosmetical cause the transaction was encrypted). (v)- donationpage (v) - fix missing assist on doe35 chances (corners). (v) - investigate mentality weirdness, injury weirdness and red card weirdness (v) - fix yearly food and merchandise income display (cash are added) (v) - nicknames deleted when player changes club. (v) - changed economy status for clubs to better reflect current game economy (v)- stop selling tm pro diamond and replace with other product (long term pro but not infinite). (v)- compensation for food and merchandise income. (v) - 4% transfer tax imposed. (v) - fix bteamwage in economy update so theres no delay between mother & satelity club (v) - bonus giveout for international matches (and compensation) (v) - yellow card too much ban bug (v) - it is now impossible to deduct results before time based on assistant manager default analysis. (v) - fixed a small difference in the player asi (compared to what he really had) inserted into the transferhistory. (v) - optimizing of a few pages in regards to bottleneck (v)- cup matches -> fans & economy(?); (v)- international matches -> attendance income (v)- correct not enough players text in the match (v) - move stuff to memcache (v) - player awards (v) - missing assists from corners and indirect freekicks. (v) - fix of rare tactics bug in the squad element (v) - facebook share button (with some kind of bonus implemented) (v) - international matches & cup fans (v) - all matches food and merchandise income (v) - fanbug south america timezone (v) - friendly league bugs (v) - open transfer auto accept when player is in a reserve squad (v) - improved meta data for player profiles

Ohoi hoi As you have no doubt noticed we\'re struggling a bit during our daily backup from approximately 4:30-6:30 TM Time. We\'ve made an improvement to this set up, and i\'m not sure I\'ll be able to monitor it on Saturday morning. So, if you\'re on tm during that time frame, please let me know hhow the site performs. On a related note, a few transfers has gone through twice as a result of the above. This should now be fixed. You can check that by looking at your transfer finances for the season. NOT - I repeat: NOT in your \'this week/last week\' figures. Cheers and a lovely weekend to all TM\'rs.

After several requests to have such a feature, from both Thomas, Daniel and me. We decided to make it. As you can read on the page, basically there is a lot of stuff we would really like to have on TM to make the game even better, but which we cannot afford. So for all those rich kids, there is now a chance to help us get it by donating for specific purposes. The projects will be started when the fees are met and will get very high priority. Please know that just by having TM PRO you are already helping very much, so this is by no means a consequence of us not being happy with your support. I hope you will browse the page and read more, personally I\'m very excited for the stuff in there. If you have any ideas to changes for the page, please let me know.

Here is an updated worklist. We hope to have most of this completed by the end of the season. [soren] show text in lmv if match is cancelled, also text for lmv [soren]- mailserver greylisting problem. [soren] - fix reversed players in texts with almost second yellow card. [woody+soren]- nt matches started [armann]- livescores in livematch to ajax and a demo for nonpro [thomas]- bteam from season update fix/compensation [soren] - chat ban function fix [thomas]- clubs from banners change [soren]- share players and matches on facebook, maybe trophies. [soren]- donationpage [soren+armann]- transferlist improments (bid lag, weird size bids), and make it ajax. [soren]- pro compensation (when bottleneck issues are fixed, we have a meeting with our host next week) [soren]- extended tm pro trial Done: (v) - fix missing assist on doe35 chances (corners). (v) - investigate mentality weirdness, injury weirdness and red card weirdness (v) - fix yearly food and merchandise income display (cash are added) (v) - nicknames deleted when player changes club. (v) - changed economy status for clubs to better reflect current game economy (v)- stop selling tm pro diamond and replace with other product (long term pro but not infinite). (v)- compensation for food and merchandise income. (v) - 4% transfer tax imposed. (v) - fix bteamwage in economy update so theres no delay between mother & satelity club (v) - bonus giveout for international matches (and compensation) (v) - yellow card too much ban bug (v) - it is now impossible to deduct results before time based on assistant manager default analysis. (v) - fixed a small difference in the player asi (compared to what he really had) inserted into the transferhistory. (v) - optimizing of a few pages in regards to bottleneck (v)- cup matches -> fans & economy(?); (v)- international matches -> attendance income (v)- correct not enough players text in the match (v) - move stuff to memcache (v) - player awards (v) - missing assists from corners and indirect freekicks. (v) - fix of rare tactics bug in the squad element (v) - facebook share button (with some kind of bonus implemented) (v) - international matches & cup fans (v) - all matches food and merchandise income (v) - fanbug south america timezone (v) - friendly league bugs

After handling ban appeals from several of the clubs implicated in the case mentioned yesterday. Tla3kom has been reinstated in the game teamster team (if he still wants). It appears he DID report the diamond gift and that the TM Team Screened the card for fraud before telling him it was okay. At the time of the diamond gift he had currently 600 TM PRO days, bought with his OWN money. Tla3kom has been a HUGE asset for the game teamster team and we are happy he did what people recieving huge gifts should do, report it and hear if its normal. The error was completely on the MT team in this case (combined with unfortunate events), and I am VERY sorry that he had to go through this step. I hope you will all welcome him back and rest assured he is completely cleared of suspicion.

Since I never get to post an announcement, I thought I should do it now... We\'ve added a few new pictures on the league table and squad, as well as fixed a bug that caused red cards not to be displayed on subs and stars not to be displayed on players in the tactics element. That is all.