Veranderingen in het spel!

[Lamme Lennie]

Next season changes: Personal Trainers / New language: Norwegian


Training is indeed the core of this game. It generates a lot of interest in the forums (trying to crack our formulas seems to be giving well-known users some good headaches) and obviously the main attraction of the game is indeed getting your player to advance in his career and the only good way to do that is to become a high-skilled player.

In the past couple months we have noticed a bad tendency in Footstar, contrary to our early plans and expectations: most users rely on the efficiency of their "personal trainers" to give them training boosts so they can indeed gain a small advantage over other users (that can be noticeable maybe not in short-term, but surely in the long-term).

Our early plans focused mainly on getting players to sign for teams with good training plans, not teams that would go as far as making unrealistic deals so their players could easily buy a high-level personal trainer. In order to revert to our early plans and make the game evolve around them, we're going to introduce a change concerning the "personal trainers" way of working that can hopefully take some load of the big interest generated around them:

- Personal trainers, from next season on, will only take effect when a player is not training the same as his team is.

That is, whenever a player is training the same as his team, he will always train at 100%, regardless of his personal trainer level. Whenever he's not training the same as his team, his personal trainer will have the same effect as today. Also, players on bot teams will see the effects of their personal trainers unchanged - it will remain as it is now.

A major change to some, since so many have gone into such depths to get their players a (what some considered unfair) advantage, it is nevertheless a necessary change. This, we believe, along with the recently announced and near coming contract changes (read the announcement below) will turn this game somewhat less prone to have users making obscure deals and/or cheating the system in order to gain long-term advantages over other users.
Also, it will lead hopefully to users being more interested in signing to highly-organized and training-efficient teams instead of going to deorganized and/or soon-to-be bankrupt teams just in order to gain advantages - that we agree, were indeed important if things remained unchanged.
To those thinking: "but I've gone so far to get my high-level PT, will it become useless now?"; well, heavens no. But it will serve the purpose we thought first of when implementing it: it will help you reduce the disadvantage you have if you're training in a training-deficient team. Also, you won't lose your PT, it will just give you less of an advantage. And also, try to think of others instead of only yourself: do you want to end up playing this game alone? Because if others think your advantage is very unfair, they will surely leave.
So in conclusion: we believe the PT is a useful and fun feature but it was going in all the wrong directions. This will hopefully set it in its correct tracks again.

We'd also love to let you all know that a new language pack was just added to the website. So, due to the hard work from the following team: Erik Hoff (Player), Stale Solberg (Player), Hans Bjornebye (Player), Nils Sandvik (Player), Are Horn (Player) and Christer Numme (Player) we can today add Norwegian as an official language in FootStar! Thanks for all your work guys, it was a really great effort!

To change to another language, go to User >> Preferences and change in the drop down menu for languages.

If you want to have your own language available in FootStar just contact us at <!-- e --><a href="mailto:languages@footstar.org">languages@footstar.org</a><!-- e -->