Subject: Welcome Mail

Welcome,

Sokker is one of the best browser-based sports management games around. It's one of a very few of its type that displays full matches in real time and has an extremely polished training system. As far as this kind of game is concerned you will not find more satisfying gameplay anywhere else, nothing beats training a player from youth to experience and watching them develop in real time in matches that matter for your team. But this game can be complicated, especially at first, so the US community is sending out some useful links to help out new users.

But first, we have set up a mentor program for new users who would like to have an established player give them more hands-on guidance. To ask for a mentor you can contact the tutor or post a request HERE.

At the moment the tutor has not been setup, contact Uriah directly with questions or a mentor request.

Links:

Sokker's Manual:

Rules

The main US forum used for general discussion, feel free to stop by and introduce yourself:

Sokker USA

The US forum newbies can use to ask questions:

Newbie USA

A great in-depth guide for new players, essential reading:

SLAMMMYS NEWBIE GUIDE

A forum post with a reproduction of a Sokker welcome mail featuring animated gifs, a link to a youtube tactics video, and a slightly dodgy translation:

Sokker auto-mail

A feature used to send questions directly to the tutor (not set up yet) if you would like something answered privately. You can also contact a moderator here:

USA Tutor

Here are some programs you can use to track the progress of your team:

Sokker Organizer

Sokker Viewer

This add-on for Firefox adds a lot of useful features like transfer compare, translate text, and currency conversion:

oSokker

This thread has a bunch of links, some may be outdated, but there is some useful stuff in there:

The useful stuff topic



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my one suggestion would be at the end, instead of "or post a request in one of the forums." it should be specific, like "or visit the Newbie USA forum and post a request in the 'New Manager Mentor Sign-Up' thread." of course you would then also need to make said 'New Manager Mentor Sign-Up' thread (or whatever you want to call it) in the newbie forum

right, that's a good idea.

i don't think that the first statement a new user should see should be a negative comment about the confusing interface. maybe something like "here's a quick and helpful guide to get your team started and answer any questions you may have" or something of that nature. you want to win them over...understate the flaws, and make them want to stay. think like we're selling the product of sokker to them.

think like we're selling the product of sokker to them.

We are selling the product


edit: Sokker manager is outdated, I don't recommend it.
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I agree with canyoudigit489. when I first read the 'poor documentation and confusing interface (while TOTALLY TRUE) I that is somewhat of a turnoff.
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Sokker is one of the best online games around, but like most games the rules are sometimes vague as they can not cover every fine point. To help with this, the USA community decided..........

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Uriah, thanks for taking the lead on this!

yeah that is a good point, I'll just cut out the whole negative comment, they'll find out about the interface on their own.

ok I changed that first paragraph totally, it's still completely true but a lot more positive.

edit: took off Sokker Manager link, can't even load it without my antivirus wanting to wet its pants, and I added a link to the Mentor Request thread I started in this forum.
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I'll start sending it out tomorrow, give you guys time to add or subtract some more.

thank you for the excellent suggestions btw
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There is an old useful thread in the sokker usa forum. I'll go find it and bump it, there may be something in there we can use.

I'm just going to link to that whole thing with the caveat that some of it may be out of date.

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Welcome to sokker.org. If you need to talk about the game count on us. :) Here are printscreens and comments about what you can do in Sokker Manager to start playing:

Setting squad

Available in Buttons -> Matches -> Match orders -> Squad

Select players and position orders, set tactic for the match and save. Set orders (conditionals, substitutions, set pieces) See The match. Related with training session: Max. number of players with same order: 5 for [DEF], 5 for [MID], 3 for [ATT] to get training session effect. Best result in training session for each skill/position order played: Keeper for GK [only GK], Playmaking and passing for [MID], Striker for [ATT]. Rest of skills may be trained with same result with [ATT],[MID],[DEF] position order. In substitutions: player-in gets position order from player-out.



Setting tactics

Available in Buttons -> Training -> Tactics.

Choose a default tactic to copy. Name tactic and "create". Move players, move ball, then "save" tactic. click on [?] to read how exacly works sokker tactics editor. Take your time. You can build thousands of tactics.



Setting training

Available in Buttons -> Training -> Training

Select 1 skill, select 1 position order for weekly individual training. and "Change". See Training. In coach recruitment you can search and hire a new coach to add your staff. Also you can go to Buttons -> Tranfers -> Trainers to bid for in auction. Training session is done every Thursday at 6:00 Sokker time. All wages are payed on Saturday at 6:00 Sokker time.



Setting junior school

Available in Buttons -> Office -> Junior Team

To open junior school: Type a number between 1 and 30 and change button. Juniors enter from 1 up to 6 the school every Saturday at 6:00 Sokker time. His overall skill is estimated every Thursday by youth trainer. One junior school place cost 1 000 $ per week. See prices and costs. Related with trainers hiring: Youth progres are better as far as overall junior coach`s skill is higher. You can make a coach research on training page or go to coach transfer page to bid for one.



Stadium

Available in Buttons -> Stadium

You can set ticket prices. You can build or destroy your stadium. Type the new number of places you want, ask an estimation and accept. See The Stadium.

Warning: Bankruptcy risk! Check your finances before constructing.



Newbie forum

Available in Buttons -> Forums - > Newbies Country

Feel free to read and write in every topic you need, or open a new one. Read forum Statute (respect topics and other opinions)



Contact tutors

Available in Buttons -> Country -> Staff

Write your message, select "·Tutor" and "Send". Tutors are to help all users to get usefull information about the game, don`t hesitate in asking us if you need some help.



Player page

Available in the link that every player has on his name

You can see, here, his description, see tranfer history, put the player in tranfer list (auction system) or fire him. See The Players.



The week in Sokker

Sokker season has 16 weeks (from 0 to 15). League starts on week #1 and finish on week #14. Sokker week starts on Saturday at 05:30 / 06:00 approximately.
* Saturday: - Payments: stadium expenses,junior school places, trainer and player wages (all wages are payed weekly). - Sponsor provides money, the amount varies. - Match of absolute national teams. You can watch these matches as if were yours own ones.
* Sunday: - Older player skills are updated. - League matches.
* Monday: - Schedules of friendly leagues are generated. - Entry of new members to the fan`s club. - Updates on the form of players. - Updates on the champions league standings.
* Tuesday: - Youth matches.
* Wednesday: - Cup matches and friendlies. - Updates on standings of the youth leagues and the next matches are generated.
* Thursday: - Cup draw. - Update the friendly leagues. - You can send / accept / publish (advertise) friendlies. - Update on progress of youth players (hidden skills are evaluated by assigned coach). - Junior ready for first team appear to be hired.- Good time to discard juniors you do not want (until Saturday did not cause spending). - Update on progress of the players. - Champions Cup.
* Friday: - Matches of the U-21 national teams. You can watch these matches as if they were yours own ones.
* Every day: - Medical checkup of the players. - Upgrades on works in the stadium. - Updates on the value of players. - The Weather. - Transfers of players. - Tranfers of trainers.

Tutors Link-------------------------------Rules link

Also you can get text help by clicking [?] button. We hope this informations are usefull for you to better move around this game. Good luck and enjoy sokker manager. :)
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that is more or less a reproduction of the auto-message sent by sokker (that may or may not be sent automatically, I don't remember getting one when I started but that was a while ago).

I didn't fix the hyperlinks, maybe later.

I'll make thread for this and link to it, as the gifs are useful, and maybe somebody someday can iron out the translation a bit.

ok, I sent it out to everybody that's signed up since xmas. now that all the heavy lifting is done this should be easy, just copy/paste.

anymore ideas for revisions or additions just let me know.