Saturday, August 18, 2007

Players Unavailability

I guess that you guys, based on our history, were not expecting new features on the weekend. But hey, we wanted to surprise our readers! And also say: gee, we are really hard working on this game, you can count on us ;) !

RubySoccer is now able to show/deal-with the "suspensions status" of your team players. One can think: but how is that? Elementary, my dear Watson.

Here are the rules that we have decided to apply:

1. Cards have single competition effects. Which means that if your player receives a card in one competition, that will only affect that particular competition;
2. Two yellow cards received in the same or in different matches will suspend your player for that competition next fixture. The yellow card icon is just a warning: "hey, if this guy receives another card, he will be out of next game!";
3. A single red card will also have the above effect;
4. Injured players can´t play any matches at all (DUH!);
5. You can still drag and drop players in any status into any formation. A warning message will be displayed if any of your next fixture selected formation players are not going to make it for the game;
6. Formation field players that have no game conditions (suspensions/injuries) will be automatically replaced by the best fit (for his position) team mate, before a match starts.



ps: the screenshot shows another interesting aspect of rubysoccer. note one of the formation names.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi all,

You lads are fantastic, this is a good feature.

Best wishes,

Anonymous said...

Looking better everyday! Nice job, mates!

Anonymous said...

Can´t wait to try it out!

elciok said...

why dont you let those rules be dynamic so each competition can have different rules, like dropping the 2 yellow cards rules for example?

danilo said...

that was a possibility. but we want to keep it simple at least for this release. other than that, i think such a feature would not add more tilt to the gameplay, so we may never change that.

Anonymous said...

I never understood the 2 yellow/suspension rule in soccersim. It doesn't happen in any league in the whole world...

...what i've always defended was a 5 yellow/suspension -> 4 yellow -> 3 yellow and finally every 2 yellow.

danilo said...

at some brazilian competitions this is the rule that is applied. and aint like that on world cup also? I cant say for sure. anyway, i am sure we have a good number of real use cases on that. lets see what happens during our BETA. our improvements will be user-driven.