2012-06-06 Site Update (Training Matches and Training Camp)

2012-06-06 Site Update (Training Matches and Training Camp)

Posted bt FIDAdmin1 : Wednesday, June 06, 2012 7:56:09 PM                

So, we've finally managed to get the new site version released! It's taken us quite a lot more time than we had expected to build the Training Matches feature but we hope it will be a very appreciated feature and we see big benefits with it being an isolated Match Engine instance since it gives us the ability to deploy new Match Engine functionality in the Training Matches before going live.

Here's the release notes of todays release:

1. Training Matches

Users currently employed by a team can now initiate training matches in which any team member can populate any of two teams (Team A and Team B). The user that initiates the match can select which characters should populate which team and position (4-4-2 formation as default which can of course be changed by managers once the match has started). Footballers can be added into footballer positions or manager positions but managers can only be added to manager positions (since managers does not carry any footballer attributes). Both manager positions in both teams have access to Control AI functionality (no matter if the user has supporter pass or not).

It is possible to initiate a training match in three ways:

- Free match once per week (only available to team manager)
- Purchase match for Team FID Credits (only available to team manager)
- Purchase match for user's own FID Credits (available to anyone that is part of a team)

Once a training match has been scheduled it is not possible to change the date and time of the match but it is still possible to move characters between teams etc. up until match is initiated 10 minutes before kickoff.

2. Training Camp

It will now be possible to send your footballer on "a training camp" once per pre-season. This is basically the same as purchasing an attribute adjustment between season end and new season start. It is very similar to what we did last pre-season when we allowed users to request an adjustment from us but there is the difference that each attribute can only be lowered with maximum 15% instead of 30% as previous adjustments have allowed. A user can send all of his footballers to training camp but only one time per character per pre-season.

This feature will only be visible when season is closed and pre-season has started. If a user purchase a training camp it is up to the user to perform adjustment before the end of the pre-season (before the start of the new season) because after this point the adjustment pages will be closed and it is no longer possible to perform adjustments purchased (and no refund will be made).

3. Team Forum bug fixes

4. User retention improvements

- Changed "Welcome to FID" message text (old text was too long and heavy and Barry and GM/KUG have remade the text)
- "Welcome to FID" message will now be sent to user inbox instead of only as e-mail
- Newly created managers now receive a short information message to their character inbox (similar to the message sent to footballers upon creation)
- Removed a lot of "Buy New Character" links on user space
- If user does not yet have a character then he will be navigated to Create Character page upon logging into FID (instead of to User Space as it has been up until now). Should make it easier for new users to find "next step" in the process.

5. A lot of other smaller bug-fixes