OT - Updated EP#4 change list

[Marc Vaughan]

While people are in the mood I thought I'd post an update to the EP#4 changelist I put up a while ago:

(EP#4 still doesn't have a release date as I'm hoping to find and fix an elusive bug in it (the very rare score changing one) - hence its not possible to tie it down exactly to a date at this point)

Championship Manager 4 Enhancement Pack 4 (4.0.7)
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Please note, this enhancement pack contains all the fixes contained in Enhancement Packs 1, 2 and 3 as well as the following:

General
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- Reduced number of retirements due to injury
- Made person team records self repair if corrupted by bad-sector
- Made team records self repair if corrupted by bad-sector
- Fixed weather distribution
- Fixed ability problems with regenerated players in inactive leagues
- Improve selection for "Manager of Month" awards
- Improved reputation changes due to promotion/relegation
- Fixed bug where Northwich move to a massive 200,000+ seater stadium
- Made players clubs look for take into account whether the club is active in Europe more
- Adjusted progression of agility and balance characteristics for players
- Fixed contract decision news for non playing staff when no news body text was getting generated.
- Coach and scout reports can now be done on players who are on trial.
- Tweaked player injury distribution
- Tweaked player long term tiredness/jadedness
- Tweaked manager job applications to make movements easier
- Team/squad screen now keeps the view type permanently.
- Fixed problem with network clients using other languages. Match reports/club names, etc were not being translated.
- Manager sackings are now listed on a teams 'Staff Out' page.
- A player can now accept a contract renewal and a loan contract at same time.
- On the match screen, clicking on the minute label of a sending off or injury now shows the highlight of that event.
- Loans are now permitted between English Premiership teams from 2003.
- Player's trial spell at a club in his playing history is now shown as "Trial" and not "Loan".
- A player signed from free transfer now has "-" shown in his history instead of "Unknown Club".
- Moving a player from one team to the other sometimes did not update the title text properly.
- Group draw news was sometimes not being sent to teams.
- Fixed a few interface problems when 2 or more humans are playing matches on the same machine on the same day.
- For nations where trialists are allowed to play competitive matches, the trial screen no longer states that trialists cannot play.
- Players withdrawn from national teams now get repicked properly in future matches.
- Fixed friendly screen bug where choosing a team would sometimes result in a different team being selected.
- Auto team selection for national teams no longer uses players from U21 team.
- Fixed spelling mistake in transfer embargo news item
- Stopped you're player's who are on loan from being offered to you
- Allowed offers in excess of 50m
- The competition button on a nation screen now takes you to the group that the nation is playing in for that competition instead of the first group.
- If a nation does not have any awards, the awards button is not displayed on the menu for it.
- Reduced the number of club's who show an interest in a player as soon as the human manager makes an approach for him
- Stopped computer teams from making bids of £0 over 6 months
- When signing a player/assistant the news item now says player/assistant rather than just assistant
- Stopped players asking for a min fee release clause when one has already been offered
- Fixed the return from holiday once appointed holiday option
- Fixed the apply for higher jobs holiday option
- Fixed <%person#1> appearing in international result news (English Only)
- Tweaked the good form limit for teams, should mainly affect the player praise/criticise news items
- Added new values to drop down box for contract clauses
- Fixed some missing responses in the manager promise screen
- Added a cancel button to the friendly proposal screen.
- Fixed problem with incrementing small values in foreign currencies
- Ensured asking price is not shown if same as value
- Live league table should always be updated properly now at all times in a match.
- Filter panel on Clubs & Nations screen now works every time when you use your screen history to go back to that screen.
- Stopped loan offers beinf recieved for players who only have short time left on their contracts
- Added acceptable default date of birth to add manager screen
- Nationality sorting on squad screen now works
- The "Change Player" button now works on the draft screen when 2 players are taking part in the draft on one machine.
- When a player hit the Finish button on the draft screen, the next pick was always passed even though it might not have belonged to that player.
- Added "RETAIN_PLAYERS" "club name" option for a new config file called ".ddt" this will retain all the players for the club/s specified.
- Some transfer offer screen fixes for MLS transfers.
- The person search filter dialog was not getting set up properly when viewed from an MLS draft list.
- Team of the week now shows player circles in correct team colours.
- Removed non promotion/relegation release clauses upon promotion
- Fixed national job crash when selecting australian league
- The transfer offer negotiation screen now has better checking for when an offer is changed by the selling club.
- Stopped first team poll news from saying that not one single fan wants the player in the first team, when 1% did.
- Stopped assistant manager from accepting exchange player offers when you'd asked him not to buy anyone.
- Fixed undo changes action on set transfer status screen.
- Fixed the "nearing end of contract" text on contract offer screen.
- Altered response to loan rejection from players (not as harsh every time now).
- Fixed the "on 1 minutes" text bug for goal descriptions within news items.
- When Draft Allocations option is selected on a team's transfers view, the tick is now shown in the correct place.
- Altered the settings required to determine whether an international team is bigger or a lot bigger than thier opponents in the news item.
- Stopped <%team#1-short> from being displayed when a player doesn't have a club (award screen).
- Stopped computer clubs from making offers for U17 players.
- Stopped <%position#1-lowercase> appearing in player conflict news items

Scouts & Searches
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- Improved scout report news text
- Prevented scouts recommending players they don't rate
- Scouts did not pick up promising youngsters on free transfer.

Network, Hotseat and Internet Play
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None at present

Wages, Finances and Board Interaction
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- Tuned non-player wages
- Tuned wage caps for smaller nations slightly
- Tuned club reputation changes during promotion/relegation
- Made board request improvements from training always noticable (ie. text change should be visible)
- Made boards slightly less harsh for impatient chairman
- Tuned Korean player valuations
- Tuned South African player valuations
- Tuned Slovakian player valuations
- Graduated increase in ground maintainance at a slightly gentler rate as a club improves standards

Player Happiness
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None at present


Training
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None at present


Tactics:
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- Fixed Match engine picking its own human captain regardless in some circumstances.
- Fixed changing captain during a match did not update match screen/stats.


Competitions:
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- Added reserve leagues to Norway.
- KFC Dessel now play theie belgian 2nd division games at 7.30pm.
- Fiorentina won't play the Italian cup in the first year.
- Regional relegation now will occur in Serie C1 and C2.
- Belgian playoff matches played on neutral ground.
- Italian discipline rules now ensure ban recieved in a competition only applies to that competition.
- Added Danish reserve leagues.
- Greece now has U21s instead of U18s.
- 32 First phase Champions League teams now get share of total tv money at end of competition.
- Final MLS league standings are now added to a team's league history properly.
- Spanish league schedules are now better organised.
- Fixed a problem where teams from Yugoslavia and Croatia were not arranging friendlies with teams from the same nation.
- Spanish cup now finishes earlier on World Cup/Euro Champ years.
- Belgian friendly dates are now closer to the start of the season.
- Clubs in Israel now have reserve and U18 teams.
- If the UEFA Cup winner qualifies for the Champions League through their domestic league, they now go into the Champions League instead of the UEFA Cup.
- Fixed relegation from the Israeli League.
- Changed the French League Cup final date.
- Brazilian State Leagues now add records to their history when they finish.
- Clubs in Israel now have reserve and U18 teams.
- Copa America should only hosted by South American nations now.
- Fixed Irish Munster Senior Cup final date for 2003 season onwards.
- Mexican teams playing in South American continental competitions can no longer have a domestic game on the same day as a continental cup game.
- Fixed a problem with the Copa Libertadores final.
- Changed some World Cup CONCACAF qualifying dates and Panamerican Cup dates to avoid clashes.

Match
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- Fixed bug where a tactics change at a corner kick sometimes caused the game to not show what happened after the corner.
- Managers viewing matches controlled by other managers no longer have their speed/highlights settings used to determine the settings for the match.
- Tuned match conditions slightly (defenders conditions dropped a tad too much basically)
- Prevented players from moaning at the referee quite so much
- Prevented referee's from moving free-kicks forward 10 yards too often
- Stopped international teams selecting players from their u21 squad

Macintosh Specific
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None at present

[neofied]

Marc, I haven't even got the game from FedEx yet and I'm drooling already.

[henry296]

Marc,

I just finished the 2006 season and the Champions Cup Final and the First day of the World Cup were both May 31st. That doesn't seem right.

Todd

[QuikSand]

So, it appears that the ability to print from the game still doesn't make the list of things to do. I'm not trying to pull a Malleus Dei here, but removing functions from the previous version of the game just doesn't sit well with me.

*sigh*

I may never play this game, after all.

[BreizhManu]

wow Marc, the .ddt file option is just GREAT ! (btw a big thanks to Fabrice Leclercq who made a file with all the teams playing in a continental competition)

[Marc Vaughan]

Originally posted by QuikSand
So, it appears that the ability to print from the game still doesn't make the list of things to do. I'm not trying to pull a Malleus Dei here, but removing functions from the previous version of the game just doesn't sit well with me.
*sigh*
I may never play this game, after all.

Please bear in mind that this is a list of completed changes and not planned ones - I will try and endeavour to get text file creation functionality of some sort in there so you can print teams/players out if you want to.

Please bear in mind this is a low priority item in my 'to do' list as it isn't a bug as such and because of this it is possible that it won't make it into the game until the next version is released.

[Qwikshot]

Keep up the good work Marc, I've been to the SI boards and they're not as pleasant. Take your time, get it done.

[QuikSand]

Originally posted by Marc Vaughan
Please bear in mind that this is a list of completed changes and not planned ones - I will try and endeavour to get text file creation functionality of some sort in there so you can print teams/players out if you want to.

Please bear in mind this is a low priority item in my 'to do' list as it isn't a bug as such and because of this it is possible that it won't make it into the game until the next version is released.

Thanks for the response, Marc. I think it's very fair to have a queue for issues - and true "bugs" ought to be higher.

I just wish that this hadn't been left out of the original design. But there certainly isn't a widespread furior over this, as nearly as I can tell - so I guess I'm just an aberration. Right, then.

[Karim]

Maybe one of the saved-game editors has a print function?