CM4: EP3 Update

[Karim]

From Marc Duffy at SI (this is only a partial list as they're still working on it):

General
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- Fixed season ticket sales bug
- Tuned agility attribute setting for regenerated players
- Tuned agility attribute setting for players at the start of the game
- Fixed preferences screen history not working correctly (not keeping between back/next).
- Fixed rare crash when free transfer player was offered a trial at a club
- Fixed goalkeeper attributes not shown on team screen (physical shown instead).
- Fixed "team selection" name changing to "Default" and unpicking players.
- Fixed injuries showing on player profile before computer matches are over.
- Fixed incorrect board message being displayed at season end in some circumstances
- Fixed friendly invitation news bug where respond button sometimes is removed before it can be used.
- Fixed a bug with competition team form values.
- Fixed news item bug when a team qualifies through a league stage and the text says that they have not.
- Fixed some first option strings
- Fixed stadium move string.
- Fixed some yearly award past histories not showing names (only club).
- Fixed a bug on the team screens transfers where the totals some times didn't appear to add up correctly.
- Fixed bug when competitions from different nations get put into the same menu on the latest scores screen.
- Fixed text for cup qualification records in manager histories.
- Fixed news screen bug: items needing response are now always displayed, regardless of the filter settings
- Fixed incompatibility between mac & pc versions causing different match results
- Fixed the repeated negotiations when you accept demands from the selling team
- Fixed missing first option duration length
- Fixed manager being sacked string where the chairmans name was used instead of the manager's name
- Players in a side that are out on trial are displayed in a color similar to the out on loan color.
- Player profiles will now properly showing being on a trial/out on trial instead of saying they are on a loan.
- Added waiting dialog to match screen for when it is setting up the match.
- Added "Use attribute masking" to preferences screen.
- If "Use attribute masking" enabled, matches are no processed and masking updated if necessary.
- When you can't afford your transfer bid and ask for a delay which is rejected a stray bit of text appeared 'They .' this has now been removed.
- '<%team#3-short>' appeared in lack of funds for transfer news item
- The add manager screen now correctly saves changes to a manager's favorite club
- You can now click on a player history and see the detailed stats for that season.
- Goalkeeper playing history now shows goals conceded and clean sheets (and not assists and goals.)
- Loaning a player twice in a season would add the stats total tally to itself - now fixed.
- "Unknown club" not showing up for some players after free transferring them.
- Player history "loan" would sometimes be shown for wrong club.
- Penalties now shown on latest scores screen.
- Selling team now does not get chance to cancel minimum fee release clause transfers at confirmation stage.
- Reject all offers doesn't auto reject offers that meet the minimum fee release clause
- Removed duplicate UK Pounds Sterling entry in cash list
- U23 national teams are now picked correctly.
- Foreign player awards does not pick non-foreign players anymore.
- When a person whose contract is set to expire, signs a new contract with another club, a message is now displayed
on the person's screen saying the date he is set to join.
- Ensured club's follow up enquiries for players if fee is acceptable
- Ability to swap two team's divisions/nations via a config file when starting a new game
- Ability to boost a teams transfer funds/wage budget/ground capacity via a config file when starting a new game
- Fixed 'Barcelona' bug to do with the new game config file
- Fixed young players refusing contract offers due to it being part time
- Stopped youth players being listed for loan
- The MLS draft is now working.
- If you set up a tactic for your reserve/youth team and ask the manager of that team to use it he now will do so
- More news about progress of competitions eg "Arsenal win the Community Shield" goes to all English teams
- Toned down silly first option bids
- Players' values no longer change just because they have gone on loan
- Fixed bug that caused some "in the hole players" like Scholes to be left on the bench too often
- Allowed the use of -1 in the BOOST_TEAM instruction to keep attribute unadjusted
- Tuned Offer To Clubs and added more feedback for english version.
- If maximum database is used, more Oceania players are used in the game if Australia is selected.
- Fixed problem in the team screen where certain players would have garbage listed for their squad status in
the contract view.
- The transfer screen should know show all world wide transfers if the All Nations Filter is selected.
- When you decide not to appeal against a red card ban for one of your players, it now tells you that you have done that.
- Offer To Club's, allowed the assistant to suggest more clubs for big name players
- Fixed future transfer players being freed by their clubs causing the future transfer to fall through.
- Stopped assistant managers trying to free transfer youth players after you've given them a new contract


Scouts & Searches
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- Human shortlisting problems fixed
- Limited number of scout reports on person's information tab to 2 at a time.
- Scout would come back with reports on your own players on loan to other clubs.
- Recalling scouts now works.
- Clubs in inactive leagues removed from scout list.
- Scouting youth players now limiting age to 21 or under instead of 23.
- "Ask asst.mgr. to filter out unrealistic targets" adjusted.
- Scouting certain players would not always update the attribute masking.
- Random players would show up in search list as on loan even though they weren't.

Network, Hotseat and Internet Play
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- Live league table now does not guess goals from other human matches on the same pc which have not been played yet.
- Other matches can now be viewed when on the day of the match.
- Added ability to respond to messages from other human players.
- Human players can now be disconnected from a network client without the client having to exit.
- News items from clubs offering players can now be ignored - a response is not necessary.
- Match screen now tells the human when it is waiting for another human in a network game.

Wages, Finances and Board Interaction
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- Fixed Wage requests for top players sometimes being limited to £100
- Fixed a player saying he can't accept a relegation wage cut
- Fixed ground maintainance issues for smaller teams
- Tuning of finance system. Most notably the Spanish, Scottish, French, Italian and German finances
- Wage budget tuning for Greece, Korea, France, Holland and Germany
- Wage allowed is more responsive to profitability of clubs
- Tuned manager board confidence
- Limited board expectations after a club is promoted

Player Happiness
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- Disabled player praise/criticism for player who are on loan or injured
- Player's being unhappy about their club's transfer policy unhappiness more prevalent now
- Unhappy about being subbed now a more apparent unhappiness
- Victimised by ref now a more apparent unhappiness
- Player in superb form news adjusted downwards
- Made it easier for players to recover from having personal problems
- Allowed the removal of 'no support from manager' unhappiness
- Re-tuned personal reasons removal
- Ammended the praise player/criticise players recent form

Training
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- The default training schedules now can not be edited, if you edit these, a copy will be made so you always
have something to fall back on.
- Added the ability to rename an existing training schedule.
- When adding a new training schedule it is no longer blank, but based off of the general schedule.
- Changing or removing coaches from a training schedule now works

Tactics:
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- Fixed incorrect morale on tactics screen
- Fixed could not drag sub onto sub on pitch during match.
- Added always show rating during match (in addition to other info).
- Added clearer separation between first 11 and subs during match
- Added showing opposition player positions in 'specific' man marking list during match.
- Added graphics to show icons for subbed on or off during match.

Competitions:
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- Fixed problem where Argentine league was not scheduling third and fourth promotion stages properly.
- Fixed bug where French leagues were scheduling games in Jan 2002.
- Tweaked some Christmas/New Year dates for English leagues.
- Added some more loan rules for English clubs.
- English Vans Trophy now enabled if 2nd division is enabled, not just Conference.
- Fixed Swedish Premier Division break period for World Cup/Euro Champ years.
- Korea subs rule changed to 3 from 6.
- AUstrian league now has 4 rounds ( 36 matches ).
- German regional League North now relegates 4 teams not 3.
- Belgian 2nd division match time changed to 8pm.
- Russian Premier and russian cup foreigner restriction removed.
- Greek league now counts eastern block players as EU.
- Greek disciplinary system now bans a player for 2 matches after 6th yellow.
- Scottish league and fa cups now have neutral semi final venues.
- English Community Shield now has 5 subs from 7 rule.
- Competitions using a period system (e.g. lower Belgian and Dutch leagues) now use the main league table for a team's current position and not the first period league table.
- English league playoff semi finals now get played at correct venues.
- No one off friendlies between Croat and Yougoslavian teams or Israeli and Arab nation teams
- Fixed a few problems with the Asian Champions Cup.
- Correct Brazilian teams now play in the Libertadores Cup.
- Finnish reserve leagues are now scheduled properly.
- Fixed a problem where Welsh Premier Cup sometimes stops after the group stage.

[Qwikshot]

E.T.A. MAY 1 thru 31st

[Neuqua]

Originally posted by Karim
From Marc Duffy at SI (this is only a partial list as they're still working on it):

General
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- The MLS draft is now working.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Good = one of the longest fix lists I can remember seeing
Bad = one of the longest fix lists I can remember seeing

[bbor]

Originally posted by JonInMiddleGA
Good = one of the longest fix lists I can remember seeing
Bad = one of the longest fix lists I can remember seeing

Did you ever see the fix list for TDCB?

[3ric]

I recognize some of them from EP2... maybe that's the two of them combined?

[Marc Vaughan]

Originally posted by JonInMiddleGA
Good = one of the longest fix lists I can remember seeing
Bad = one of the longest fix lists I can remember seeing

It is a long list - definitely longer than I would have preferred to be the case.

However please bear in mind that 99% of the items included are simply tweaks to gameplay and there are very few show-stopper fixes in the list.

[Ragone]

Its really late and i can barely read.. I am having problems getting really young players on loan(read: contracts unprotected.. Eg: Kasper Schemical) just can't get them on loan.. yet man city is offering him for loan..

[Bee]

The two biggest problems I have with CM4 are the scoring balance issues and no way to print. It doesn't look like either of these are listed unless I missed them.

[GrantDawg]

Originally posted by Bee
The two biggest problems I have with CM4 are the scoring balance issues and no way to print. It doesn't look like either of these are listed unless I missed them.

Your right. I didn't see anything on the scoring balance problem, and that really is a biggie.

[Marc Vaughan]

General game tuning (such as match engine tweaks) don't tend to get listed in our patch lists - but have deifnitely been done.

With regards to the printing I'm hoping to implement at least a 'print to file' option once I have the chance (basically when I've finished with tweaks to the game engine itself).

[GrantDawg]

Originally posted by Marc Vaughan
General game tuning (such as match engine tweaks) don't tend to get listed in our patch lists - but have deifnitely been done.

With regards to the printing I'm hoping to implement at least a 'print to file' option once I have the chance (basically when I've finished with tweaks to the game engine itself).

Good to hear. Waiting with baited breath.

[Bee]

Thanks for the info Marc. If the scoring balance is improved, I'll be a happy Bee.

[moriarty]

Waiting patiently and crossing fingers.

[Calis]

Excellent to see this.

As long as the scoring gets tweaked, I'll be diving back into CM addiction.

[path12]

Ditto -- I've gone back to CM00-01 for now. Derby at the top of the Premiership -- who'da thunk it?

[andy m]

i was in a pub one time about 5 years ago and there was an drunken old man there who was about 80. he said (to no-one in general)

"i won't live t' see derby win t' league"

and i said to my friend

"he won't even live to see man utd win the league"

[Alf]

What's the tentative release date ?

[BreizhManu]

in may, no release date yet

[Marc Vaughan]

It'll be out around the end of this month .... (so early May basically) ... as most people know I'm notoriously reluctant to put out an exact release date for things for two reasons.

* Doing so dissappoints people if there's a problem and the release slips.
* If we do so then people tend to queue up on our servers waiting for the release which tends to ensure that our servers survive for the minimum possible time upon release before falling over ...
Not giving an exact release date prevents this situation from occuring.

[Kosta]

Hey Marc, has the score-change bug been dealt with in EP3? Thanks.

[GrantDawg]

Originally posted by Kosta
Hey Marc, has the score-change bug been dealt with in EP3? Thanks.

He answered yes in another thread.

[GrantDawg]

Originally posted by Marc Vaughan
General game tuning (such as match engine tweaks) don't tend to get listed in our patch lists - but have deifnitely been done.

With regards to the printing I'm hoping to implement at least a 'print to file' option once I have the chance (basically when I've finished with tweaks to the game engine itself).

Oh, actually in this thread.

[Marc Vaughan]

Score change bug is in the process of being fixed but is likely to be unfixed until EP#4 I'm afraid ... sorry.

[Kosta]

Thanks for the info Marc.

Grantdawg, their are two totally separate scoring issues. a) The propensity for strikers to score almost exclusively (which it seems has been dealt with in EP3) and b) the now notorious score change bug where scores randomly change after people make tactical changes in the game (hopefully to be fixed in EP4).

Marc had answered regarding the first bug but I was asking about the second. It's happened to me and as you could imagine it was very, very frustrating.

[GrantDawg]

I noticed that later. Sorry.