Subject: »[info]DevDiary 80: “Price is what you pay, value is what

Honesty has probably never been an issue in communication; I have always tried to respond transparently and explain our perspective. The problem was certainly the lack of communication, but it simply stemmed from a lack of time. As I mentioned, the investment pool (in other words, our private funds, which allowed us to join Greg and Damian and start developing Sokker again) simply ran out, which in turn affected priorities (at least my personal ones) in terms of time availability.

Besides Sokker, I run a company, which has faced many challenges in the past year, and I haven't been able to allocate time as I used to - from my perspective, a well-functioning company will eventually allow me to engage in game development, so I disappeared from here, focusing on my primary business. The situation looks much more stable now, and I hope to be able to appear here more often. It probably won't be as frequent as at the beginning of development, but I will try to have days from time to time where I will be available for at least a few hours to address key issues.
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In my opinion sokker doesn't need so many changes, I know that it is easier to edit with new code but if there Isn't a High budget .... why can't we somehow try to add 2 settings to the old youth academy structure?

For example
1)insert a Number maximum of young African or Asian people into the Italian youth academy.
2) change a young person's minimum speed or skill distribution. A gk with 1 in the skills keeper Is hideous

you've been playing sokker for a few years and you've seen how many strange settings there are in this game. the form is another sokker mystery.
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https://geston.smallhost.pl/sokker/nt/wc_global.php

https://geston.smallhost.pl/sokker/nt/coach.php?id=1432623
Can you add this in the overview of a club??

This Is great site Raul.
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The situation looks much more stable now, and I hope to be able to appear here more often. It probably won't be as frequent as at the beginning of development, but I will try to have days from time to time where I will be available for at least a few hours to address key issues.

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That is much more than I had actually expected.
Many thanks for your detailed explanation!!!

Please remain true to this line,
because a high level of communication is important
to continuously develop SOKKER!

Also in the real world of soccer,
lots of communication is always important,
if success is to come first!!!


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Pressroom has some bugs, for example what i received today is:



But, Orestis Bravakos has played no match for U21 yesterday...

@raul

here are very experienced users who can help you with the site.

What about an interactive tutorial for the first steps in the game?

It wouldn't need to be a lot of work. Just a few balloons to make the 1st line-up, and the 1st tactic (once the new editor is done :P)

interactive tutoriaql is impossible to make untill we have still lot of old pages.
We have no developers to work with old sokker design (and it is also like paying twice - add something to page in old design, that will finally be rewriten into new sokker look).

But what we can do is to use pressroom as I've mentioned, and also add more question marks on new pages to describe different elements of the game.
That is probably a element that users can help a lot. I will create dedicated thread for it.

Some questions and comments

When will the tax reform be implemented?

Have you thought about selling SK? It is difficult to attract new users and generate more income with today's SK (without tutorials and very slow for Millennials)

Have you thought about asking the community for help? ask about the SK of the future and make changes in that direction

If yours consider the ideas of the community, I am sure we can raise the plus and we will pay it.
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Have you thought about selling SK? It is difficult to attract new users and generate more income with today's SK (without tutorials and very slow for Millennials)

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Raul would have informed us about that,
if that were the case and what is this speculative question for?
It is not for you to ask Raul that.!!!

Raul has already written,
that he regularly takes the time in future,
to communicate with us!!!!
So your unjustified question is answered.

All your other questions are (in my opinion) okay :)

1. tax reform - we will set some precise date, for sure it will not be the start of season, rather in the middle of the new one.

2. i dont think anyone would buy it in current condition :) anyway - no, we still want to upgrade it, we just dont treat it like investment any longer - we can just use curretn small incomes to develop it slowly in time.

3. I think we have plenty of ideas agregated on this forum, community helped a lot till now. Current problems are not about ideas, but capabilities.
If you suggest to involve users in development - well, we have some programmers in sokker, so we few times explored that idea - but except huge help from Kryminator it never worked good enough.

4. i belive we considered it in most our changes. I think everyone used to new options, but you should remember that plenty things changed in sokker last years and most of that changed where inspired or at least consulted with community.

- for me injuries kill the game they still need adjustment to the new pace of the game
- I always pay plus but to force NT to buy one to see skills is pay for win for me is bad
- At the moment for me spoiler on team page is my biggest issue I need to close my eyes to navigate to start and watch the game
Then is youth academy not sure if new planned reform will help or will be batter but lifting the starting skill or limit of skills will be quick win solution

And last communication needs improvement you have many admis mods the can be used for it..
Also consider all devs here can volunteer use them...

Good luck and thanks for showing up

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I think the Developers don’t want much help

I can help with the tactics page. It doesn't requiere changes on PHP, the input (the tactic letters) are already there, the manipulation of the tactic is made via JavaScript (jQuery UI was my solution) and the output can be sent to the same place that is currently sent (I didn't investigate it cause I already was using the Flash URL to save it and it still works)

So the requiered changes are independent from the design, letting the devs concentrate in the rest of aspects of the game