Youth Academies menu items, layout and widgets added (Feature becomes available early December, listen to latest podcast for more information)
Player Generation balanced (covered in latest podcast in detail, but in summary: less crazy good players, less useless players, more useful players, more good players)
15 Year Old Youth players are now drip fed into the game over the course of the month rather than all being added on the first day of each month (podcast has more details)
Update TIR plate (Tired: displaying when a player has <90% condition) on squad list to instead be REC plate (Recovering: displaying when a playerh as <100% condition)
Youth Fixtures now run until one day later in the season (they now finish up on the same day as senior fixtures do)
Legends Cup Fixtures now commence one day earlier in the season
Minor updates to profanity filter
Making actions on a player profile doesn't count as part of the browing history (so you only need to click the back arrow once to exit a player profile after taking an action on that player profile, such as adding the player to your shortlist)
Fixed an issue with current season player stats not counting towards club all time stats if the player was sold during the current season
Fixed National Team summary information not displaying correct when the minimum price has been reached
Update v0.7.0a [2018-12-01]
The Buy Price of Pool Players now falls at a faster rate
Update v0.7.1 [2018-12-05]
Youth Academies feature now live and available to use
Many widgets now have an 'i' icon in their headerbars hyperlinking to the relevant part of the Game Guide
Reputation Star ratings for players slightly inflated across the board, so more players with higher levels of Reputation Stars at all Reputation Star levels
Fixed bug with Preferred Foot value not appear in the search results column for Preferred Foot
Update v0.7.1a [2018-12-06]
Added button to export data for all current Trialists at the same time
Youth Academy Trial option to run trial in a single nation now appears for Pro users so they are aware that the option exists
Updated Pro Membership Features table to include Youth Academy Trials
Update v0.7.1b [2018-12-31]
Fixed issue with wages for signed Academy Players (from Pool) being too low in some instances
Fixed issue with Player Values 'dipping' too much on the first day of the season (before then recovering at midnight on the 1st day of the season)
Many thousands of extra first and last names added to names library across the following nations: Australia, Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Bonaire, Burkina Faso, Chad, Comoros, DR Congo, Faroe Islands, Gambia, Guadeloupe, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Kenya, Mali, New Zealand, North Korea, Pakistan, Qatar, Reunion, Saint Martin, Samoa, Singapore, Syria, Tahiti, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, US Virgin Islands, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zanzibar
Update v0.7.1c [2019-01-01]
Fixed issue with 35 year old retiring players having zero wages
Fixed issue with some 16 year old players who graduated from users academies not being assigned minimum wages
Fixed issue with some players historical average ratings for last season being incorrect
Replay - 90 Minute Fever Nov '18 World Cup coverage
This podcast explains all about the upcoming Youth Academies feature, due for release in early December. We will release a short demo video closer to the time to help users get to grips with how the feature will work in practice.
Update v0.6.2
Changes to menu system including splitting out Squads menu item separately
New International layout under World menu
Added new World Cup Champions - Nations widget to International layout
Added new World Cup Champions - Managers widget to International layout
Added new National Team Managers Leaderboard - All Time widget to International layout
Added new National Team Managers Leaderboard - Past 6 Months widget to International layout
Added new Legends Silver Cup widget to Senior layout
Added new Legends Bronze Cup widget to Senior layout
Added option to search by Player ID on the player search
If a user is managing a national team, now the group table their nation is in is placed as the top group on the layout
Added Senior Squad option when right clicking on a username
Added popup message notification confirming any Pro Level membership purchase
Fixed label for Master Volume controller in Settings
note: this update was released on 14th November
Update v0.6.2a [2018-11-15]
Fixed bug with background layout drop list in Backgrounds widget on the Settings layout not functioning correctly
Replay - 90 Minute Fever Oct '18 World Cup coverage
Replay of the live 90 Minute Fever October World Cup coverage with Steve and Kon as your hosts.
Update v0.6.1
Match Engine Changes:
Fixes and some additions to the Match Commentary
KO Round matches in Cups, now played at Neutral venues (i.e. no home team advantage for these fixtures anymore)
Slight increase in home team advantage in all other matches (i.e. league and group stages in cups)
Updates to match rating/10 system
Penalties now a bit harder for players to score
Other Changes and Fixes:
Youth Fixtures (U21 and U18) are now scheduled to start from the 2nd day of the season
Patreon Status now no longer qualifies users for Legends Cup Automatically (Pro Memberships replace this
Starting from November 2018 season, clubs are now removed from the game after 1 full seasons/calendar month of inactivity UNLESS they have a Pro Membership in which case their club will always remain so long as they have one. If a user fails to login at least once during the season their club will be removed from the game at the end of that season. In which case if they later return, they'll have a new club created to start a fresh new journey.
note: this update was released before season finishing was run on the 31st October
Update v0.6.1a [2018-11-05]
Networking improvements
Update v0.6.1b [2018-11-08]
Fixed a bug that could cause the AI to not automatically sign a player for a user who needs one in order to play a match, and consequently the match would also fail
Fixed a season finishing bug where a newly added national team would not be assigned a default squad of players and not be assigned a reputation value (note: Iceland is impacted by this at present, but they can still be managed 'normally' if a user chooses to take them on for next season)
Update v0.6.0 - Pro Memberships
Pro Memberships Changes:
Pro Memberships feature added
Export Player Data to CSV feature added
Autobids feature added
Personal Player Notes feature added
Club Immortality feature added
Automatic Legends Cup entry tied to Pro Memberships
Player Search Max Results returned now supports increased limits
Player Shortlist Max Size now supports increased limits
Available Shortlisted Players widget now supports increased limits
Staff Search Max Results returned now supports increased limits
Staff Shortlist Max Size now supports increased limits
New 'Shop' menu added to menu system
National Teams menu item added to the new Shop menu
Buy Tokens menu item renamed to be Pro Memberships and added to the new Shop menu
Added Pro Membership widget to buy Pro Memberships layout
Added pro Membership Status widget to Pro Memberships layout
Added Autobid widget to Player Profile
Added Personal Player Notes widget to Player Profile
Added Player Shortlist Limits widget to Shortlisted Player Search layout
Added Staff Shortlist Limits widget to Shortlisted Staff Search layout
Added extra mail message notifications related to Autobids
Other Changes and Bug Fixes:
Buying tokens now up to a 33% discount, the more tokens purchased in a transaction the higher the discount
Clubs now are assigned a Progression Level (Gold, Silver or Bronze) based on their reputation
Legends Cup tier level entry is now decided based on the Progression Level of a club
Shareholder Dividend Payment Threshold now variable and based on the Progression Level of a club
Shareholder Dividend rate increased from 10% to 20%
Retiring players are no longer displayed on Shortlisted Available Players widget (as they are not available)
Retiring players are no longer returned on Available Players search results (as they are not available)
Changes to Menu System
Split information text on Ping Speed widget to be over two lines rather than a single line, so the widget doesn't use so much width
Updated default user layout
Announcing Pro Memberships (What?)
https://steamcommunity.com/app/468070/discussions/1/1732090362061514083/
Announcing Pro Memberships (Why?)
https://steamcommunity.com/app/468070/discussions/1/1732090362061523890/
Pro Memberships Q&A
https://steamcommunity.com/app/468070/discussions/1/1732090362061623343/
Update v0.6.0a [2018-10-25]
Add CSV Export Limits information to the Other Settings widget on the Settings layout
Added Export button to your own squad screen (top right)
Swap around No Thanks and Purchase buttons for when attempting to buy a national team
Added a dropdown list 'blocker' to prevent user from taking actions in client other than making a selection from the droplist
Update v0.6.0b [2018-10-27]
Fixed issue with formations not updating in live matches for users who are spectating (not managing teams in those matches)
Performance improvements for real time match formation data retreival and display in the game client
With Steve and Nick discussing the possibilities for the future implementation of a Manager Skills Feature. They also discuss the beginnings of a new club progression system involving changes to the Shareholder Dividend Payments and more!
Changes to the player rating /10 system (players will receive extremely high and extremely low ratings less frequently)
Fixes and some additions to the Match Commentary
Minor balancing changes including:
Less straight Red cards being issued; and
Less penalties awarded; and
Less goals disallowed
Other Changes and Bug Fixes:
TV Rights now earned after requesting matches for blocks of 5 minutes rather than blocks of 15 minutes
Players who are retiring at the end of the current season cannot be purchased from the pool
Ethnic group name subtype information now has an influence over the First and Last names given to newly created players (note: it only provides an increased chance that these will align, not guarantee it. Note: for many Nationalities we don't have or have very limited Ethnic group subtype information at present). If you would like to assist with contributing to improve the data we have please see the 'Want to Help?' Steam Discussions pinned post
Some updates to the player names database
PFA is now an active FA
Rather than the auto-sign player (when you don't have enough players to field a team for a match) signing the best free player available according to the number of total attribute points, it now signs a random free player instead
Fixed an extremely rare bug with the pre-match autoselect that could cause a match to fail if a user has a senior official match, and has enough players to field a team for that match, but if that user doesn't have enough players to field a team if you exclude goal keepers not currently included in the users senior squad
Minor Changes to TV Rights and addition of Perpetual FA
https://steamcommunity.com/app/468070/discussions/1/1739968490570642854/
Want to Help?
https://steamcommunity.com/app/468070/discussions/1/1290691937730912567/