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Season 9 Changes
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26-04-2010 5:28pm#1YOUTH ACADEMY CHANGES:The youth academy is another part of the manager experience which has been lacking since day one. A simple "all or nothing" investment level is not very much fun. More
First of all, the simple investment level ranging from $5,000 to $50,000 per week is being completely replaced. Here's the new implementation, in 4 areas: scouting, training, assessing, and competing:
Scouting
To be able to scout new players, you will be required to hire a youth scout. This is the minimum requirement to effectively run a youth academy.
The job of the youth scout is to find talent, and introduce them into your youth squad after you promote current youth players. Every week, the youth scout will earn up to 10 stars depending on their level:
Level 1 = 5 stars per week
Level 2 = 8 stars per week
Level 3 = 10 stars per week
These stars will accumulate over time, and will never expire.
Each time a player is promoted, and a new player is scouted, you will need to select a certain amount of stars to attribute to this new scouted player. The more stars you use, the better the chances of a higher quality player.
When scouting, you can use as many stars as you like, but every star above the 10th star will have significantly diminished returns.
As of season 9, all newly scouted players will come in at 16 years old.
Also new in season 9, is that scouted players will have a chance of being from a foreign nation. The more stars used, the higher the chance, up to about 10%.
Training
To allow your youth players to gain training on Tuesdays (they will always gain in-game training), you will need to hire a youth coach, and construct some youth training facilities. You will then be able to select a weekly youth team training regime the same as you do for your senior team.
There will be 3 levels of coaches, and 3 levels of facilities, with the same attributes as that of the senior facilities.
Youth training will function at a level which makes it worth while to develop a player in the youth academy, rather than promote the player into your senior squad without providing them with individual training.
Assessing
If you want to gain intelligence on your youth squad, you will need to hire a youth manager. Youth managers reveal skills in two separate steps. The first step reveals a vague skill level, e.g. low (levels 1-5), medium (levels 6-10), and high (levels 11+). The second step reveals the actual skill level.
Each week, a selection of random skills across players in your youth squad will be revealed:
Level 1 = 10 skill steps per week
Level 2 = 20 skill steps per week
Level 3 = 30 skill steps per week
Pops will be shown for fully revealed skills for premium members only.
Competing
The youth league will become meaningful by adding a prize pool of 10% of that of the senior league.
IGT AND WNWIMThe use of the WNWIM (With next week in mind) intensity has become a problem. As stated in the announcement below, our intention has always been for the "Normal" intensity to be used most of the time. So there are several changes coming in season 9 to fix the abuse of WNWIM, including changes to IGT (In-game training). UPDATED More
A) In-game training will no longer be affected by the level of intensity played. Presently, WNWIM provides extra IGT. As of season 9, the level of intensity is irrelevant and will have no bearing on IGT.
Updated docs:
Fixtures > Tactics > Intensity
In season 9, IGT will be based on the quality of your opponent. The better your opponent, the more training your players will receive. There will be a minimum of 50%, and a maximum of 150% IGT received based on your opponent. Friendlies are exempt to this rule, with 100% IGT going to both sides.
Brand new docs:
Training > In-game training > How does in-game training work?
C) In-game training will now be logarithmic, as opposed to linear, meaning: IGT will become slower as players get better. We realise this is a big change, but it is necessary, as players in Blackout Rugby are getting better too fast at present. This also eases the newbie gap.
D) The WNWIM player penalty will be increased. Meaning your team will play even worse than at present when playing with next week in mind.
E) The effect that the WNWIM intensity has on contentment will be increased, and the effect of contentment on attendance will also be increased. You will find more info on this in the contentment announcement a bit later.
LTNT EFFECTIVNESS:Our intention has always been for "Normal" intensity to be used most of the time, and LTNT and WNWIM (With next week in mind) to be used sparingly, for special occasions. More
As a consequence of the energy changes released at the beginning of season 8, we no longer see the need to reduce the effects of the LTNT (Like there's no tomorrow) intensity each time it is used. The severe energy loss provides a more natural limit to the use of LTNT.
TEAM TRAINING:In season 9, team training sessions will have an effect on player energy. More
A) Each session will have a larger effect on energy totalling 100% of the small energy hit to each player in your squad.
Session 1: 10%
Session 2: 20%
Session 3: 30%
Session 4: 40% You will be able to rest your squad for any or all sessions should you wish to, by selecting "Rest" in the session drop-down.
C) You will be able to train the same skill over multiple team-training sessions with diminishing results. Previously you were required to select unique skills for all available sessions.
Energy hits have been added to team training for two reasons.
1) Average energy levels are still slightly too high across the game. Resulting in very little injuries.
2) A further improvement to solving the newbie gap. New teams with only two team-training sessions, will only suffer 30% of the already small energy hit, and more established teams suffering bigger hits due to the extra sessions.
CONTENTMENTThe personalities of club fans in Blackout Rugby have never had much depth. We are completely replacing all of your fans with new improved fans in season 9, and providing more transparency to their contentment too. More
Presently, fans do not know the difference between a final and a normal league match. They do not realise that a round 5 cup win is more important than a round 4 cup win. They think that when their club loses by playing with next week in mind, it is better than losing while playing like there's no tomorrow. They think that when their club wins as the underdog, that it is just another win. In some cases, fans will even become less content after a loss. All of these quirks will be gone in season 9.
Here are the details:
A) The quality of the opposition in a match will now be used to decide if a win was massive, or a loss was shocking. Wins or losses by more than 15 points, or more than 30 points will also have different effects. Home ground advantage is not a factor to your fans, as they're just as happy for you to win at home, as they are for you to win away. Intensity will now have a much more realistic effect. Winning by playing with next week in mind will have little positive effect on contentment, as your fans want to see their team playing real rugby, and not slacking off. Losing when playing with next week in mind will have significant negative effect on contentment, as your fans will be very upset with the impression that their team has given up. Winning while playing like there's no tomorrow will have a largely positive effect on contentment, as their team played their hearts out to win. Losing while playing with next week in mind will have little negative effect on contentment, as fans will be happy that their team gave it their all.
C) Contentment will become a compounding value, constantly and slowly returning towards a neutral level each night. This is in contrast to the current "on-the-fly" recalculations. This will mean fans will always be happier after a win, no matter what the circumstances.
D) Play-off matches will be more important to fans, as well as each consecutive win in the cup season. A loss in the cup will be treated as a normal loss. A loss for a club qualifying to promote will have little negative effect on contentment, as fans will be understanding. A loss for a club defending relegation will have a huge negative effect on contentment, as this is just about the worst thing that can happen to a rugby club in the eyes of the fans. A win for a club defending relegation will have little effect on contentment, as the fans will be more relieved than happy. A win for a club qualifying to promote will have a huge positive effect on contentment, as this is one of the best things that can happen to a club.
E) Finally, contentment will now be shown as a graphical bar, ranging from 0% to 110% accurate to the nearest 1%. This will be displayed in the club's lobby, as well as on the sponsors/members section. Here, premium members will also be able to see a line-graph showing member contentment over the last 10 weeks.
Note: staff effects on contentment will remain unchanged, and friendlies will still be less important than competitive matches.
Also a couple of tweaks to match engine and interest.0
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I like the look of the YA changes also, looks like might save a bit of cash till next season to see what sort of level the facilities cost etc.
Looking good, and also comes at the perfect time. I have a fairly settled first team and the only changes are when I promote a YA player and play him as good prospects for a bit.
So this will be something else to get stuck into now!
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daveharnett wrote: »I have no doubt that academy investment will carry over. It was flagged as a must for any academy changes from day one.
But how? will we have a certain level of coaches and facilities already or how?
Edit: from reading the lounge seems like there is a chart that has current investment and the corresponding level in new system. still very interested to see how it goes (and how much money I could have wasted!)
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If I remember the DOCS correctly, the number of stars is calculated by:
(Average investment over last 8 weeks)/5000
so If you average is 50000 you get the 10 star.
I think (correct me if I'm wrong) you might be able to swing off of 50k a couple of times and keep your 9/10 star. Whether that would be cheaper than just dropping to 5k in the last week of the season isn't clear. (but solvable if you just bash about on excel)
On instincts, I would say a final week drop would be better. thats a 45k saving. See-sawing for 4 or 5 weeks would do well to save that much I suspect.
Sounds like something to fiddle with when home from work! I agree that the best option is dropping in last week. for the reason that if I forget to increase when alternating I could screw myself royally!!:p this shall be investigated later with the help docs and excel.
Edit: looks like the best option is to drop it to 10k in last week. by my calculations 5k drops your average investment to the 8 star level just. so 40k saving i reckon. anyone else done a calculation so they can confirm if I am on track?!
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Sounds like something to fiddle with when home from work! I agree that the best option is dropping in last week. for the reason that if I forget to increase when alternating I could screw myself royally!!:p this shall be investigated later with the help docs and excel.
Edit: looks like the best option is to drop it to 10k in last week. by my calculations 5k drops your average investment to the 8 star level just. so 40k saving i reckon. anyone else done a calculation so they can confirm if I am on track?!
Dropping to 5k on the final week would make your average $44,375. Thats closer to 45k (9 stars) that it is to 40k (8 stars). I don't know if thats how it works or if going even slightly below the 45k threshold automatically gives you an 8 star academy but i'm nearly sure at the start season i increased from 5k to 50k and i didn't jump from 8 stars to 10 stars in the final week.
Just realised i'm a miserable bastard! Its only 5 grand in the difference:)0 -
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Wow JP, you are almost convincing me to start investing now but then I will not have the cash to buy and train up an U20 player! I am also wondering if with the new changes more people will start investing meaning the wise person would decide to keep his money and buy cheap on a flooded transfer market
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