Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Seasons and Turns

The game doesn't follow the calendar, in other words, there are no dates, even though the game time can be mapped to dates as you'll see. Seasons are numbered starting from 1 and each season has 144 turns. Why 144? Well, it works as if the season happened during an year with 12 months of 12 turns each. These months can also be divided into 4 weeks with 3 turns each. But this date comparison won't be used in the game, you'll only see things such as "Season 2, Turn 103".

As we don't have dates, players get older at the end of a season. Player wages are 3-turn based and so are the financial periods, meaning you can see your earnings and expenses consolidated in 3 turns periods. We'll probably add other ways to look at your financial progress, like consolidated for the whole season or in a 12 turn base.

Divisional matches are played from around the beginning of the second quarter of the season until around the end of the third quarter. This can change according to the number of teams in the division, more teams mean more games and consequently an early start and late end, while few teams mean the opposite. National cup and continental matches will probably be played in the end and in the beginning of the season respectively in order to minimize the competitions intersection and have non-friendly matches happening during the whole season , but that is yet to be defined.

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