Subject: »[info] Dev Diary 77: Tax reform (final)

Here we go again!




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It’s hard to compare tickets because the opponents are different… even last season there were 250k differences between opponents

Sponsors pay around 25k euro less weekly thank last season, maybe 35k, depends on week

my match same too.
today have not do maintanance?

"the new fan club satisfaction level is NOT a continuation of the old system. In other words, this season operates on an entirely new system, and you shouldn't refer to the mood level before this update"

With this in mind, what happens now to the fans mood when you change the club name? does it reset, fall to bottom, no change?

Why would changing the club name change anything in fandmood?
If you start with a new team, the fanmood seems to start at the bottom. But I was informed that they know about this problem and will address it in the future.

It's just a feature, that's always been there I guess: https://sokker.org/media/show/teamname

Does the increase in ticket prices affect the mood of the fans?

No

Still no admin reaction?

They are too busy 0_0

Because that was how it worked with the former system, if you changed the club name your fan mood fall to tragic. So it was inadvisable to change the name unless the mood was already very low. But i wish to know if that is still the case or also changed with this new system.

They are waiting for him to buy even more players he otherwise wouldn’t have the money for :)
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Yes, it's true that with this change, users who have a large budget but don't invest it will be "penalized" – but that's logical.

It would be logical if the budget was some part of the equation, and not by far the most important factor, as it clearly is.

Now fans will expect you to win every single league if you have a pile of money, but will somehow lower their expectations if you break the bank buying the best players in Sokker - it's completely illogical and counterintuitive.

Also, as some have noted, expectations will in no way bother farm teams or traders. Sticking in the bottom leagues, the last thing they rely on is money from sponsors and tickets. Instead, the new system will penalize teams that manage to play competitively while gradually accumulating money over the years. Now such teams will get a constant bad mood from the fans and negative balances so it is very likely that many of them will get frustrated and turn into farm teams. The other option is to pour their money into the market, creating further inflation.

And it will be even more frustrating for users who don't read the forum and have no idea what's going on and why their fans are expecting never won trophies.

Obviously.

This new system is good only for one group of users: those that are not active and spend all their money as soon as they get it. They will simply get more money to burn through.

You're ambitious? You plan to improve your team gradually, by saving up money earned on training? Bad luck, the game doesn't like people with any money :))

I'm sorry Raul.

I appreciate you working to try and improve the game.

But sometimes mistakes are made. After a few weeks I think we can say that nobody likes the change in the mood of the fans. I humbly ask, like me, I believe many, to go back...

So if you want to make progress you have to counter this change by even more farming for a longer period of time.
Great stuff :)