Sokker - Start

Bored with the football reality? Do you think you are capable of running a team better than the league managers. Join us, set up your own team, face other managers and prove you are the best!

We are pleased to announce the introduction of the brand new Sokker design to everyone. Tomorrow we will try to make the change, so be prepared! We hope you will like it as much as we do!

We hope the change will be fast and painless, but as always there is a risk of downtime. Should this occur, transfer deadlines will be extended.
The new design is a big and fundamental change with completely new interface files (with refreshed html and xhtml used). Unfortunately as a result of the new design, old skins will no longer be compatible with Sokker. However, when creating new skins it will be possible to do much more of them, and even have them setup for different screen resolutions.

With the new design we would also like to introduce a new feature: Google maps location. With this extension you will be able to enter your location and look for friends (or rivals) in your neigbourhood! You can find the feature by clicking on your username (on your team page) and then on "Location" in the upper right of the screen. This will be the only new feature for now, but when the new design is completely up and running we will work on further improvements and new features.

Even though we have extensively tested the new design, it is possible there may still be some bugs and issues with it. Please report any in the bug forum, with one topic per problem.

We want to inform that passwords you choose should be complex. Otherwise, there may be issues with account hacking. For a more secure password you should remember the following:

1. Never use your username as your password. It is the easiest way to be hacked.

2. Try to use both numbers and characters in your passwords. This will make it more complicated.

3. Never share your password with anyone.

We had a database failure yesterday around 10:45 a.m. and the database with match videos got corrupted. This means it is not possible to watch archived matches or matches that took place before 10:45. We are very sorry that some matches could not be viewed live. The aim is to fix this problem as soon as possible.

The election script had a bug (lack of suitable protection), that made it possible to make users resign from election without their knowledge. As someone has made use of this bug it has led to some distorted election results. As we are unable to tell which elections were affected, a decision to call new elections ending on next Monday 10 pm CET has been made.

We have already removed this bug, so the current elections should be safe. We apologise for this confusion.

Today (10th February) it is Sokker's 4th Birthday. We are very happy and proud about this and the way in which Sokker is growing and becoming better and better by the day. We would like to thank all of the Sokker community for being a part of this, as it would not be possible without you.
Cheers to all!

It is election time again! You have the opportunity to stand for election as the national team coach of any nation, and vote for your preferred manager of your own nation!

We also welcome 4 new nations into the voting!
El Salvador
Jamaica
Crna Gora
Ghana

To access the election page, go to the respective country homepage, then click on National Team, and then Elections.

If you stand for election, it is recommended that you open a maximum of one thread in the forums, prefixed with [NT] , e.g. [NT] forestman. Please do NOT spam forums, e SK-mail people directly for votes, or spam users Guest Books. Any of these activities will result in forum banning and/or financial fine.

Please remember that a user who has been elected as NT manager will not be able to resign from their job. Therefore when you stand for the NT job, it is not only for fun, it is also your responsibility to serve the full term which the people that voted you into the job thought you should serve.

The election starts on Monday 4th February and end on Sunday 17th February, so get preparing your speeches, asking candidates tough questions & voting!

During friendly games 30 January, some changes to the way the match engine is regulated have been made.
Whilst the changes are not big, they are intended to change the following:

• playmaker skill:
a) Changes on player pass decisions (players with low playmaking can now make unreasonable passes more often).
b) Running passes regulation.

• with striker skill it will be easier to score from long distances and harder to score one on ones (in addition to the changes made 2007-02-03).

• goalkeeper skill changes - better goalkeepers will save shots more often, and weaker GKs will save less.

Independently of player skills, it will become easier to score from penalties and long passes will become slightly more accurate. These changes are in addition to the previously mentioned changes from the news on 2008-01-08.

Any changes will be assessed during todays friendlies, with this version of the engine being official from next season. Play off games will still use the old version of the match engine.

Bugs reporting: please report all engine bugs in the Bugs / Ideas (en) forum. Please include one topic for each type of bug. Please always include the match and minute of the bug – otherwise we will not be able to find or fix that bug.

During the next NT friendly games on 2008-01-12, we are going to test some engine code changes. What could be new for you? If everything goes according to plan, no changes will be noticable. The changes made are going to be internal changes with the future in mind, which will allow more match engine improvements to be made in the future.

Currently the planned improvements to the match engine are:
- set 2 tactics in match orders and use conditional orders to switch it
- precise player positioning (ie not forced to go in one particular segment)
- keeper tactics (ie to decide whether a keeper should come out for passes from a corner)

It is possible that there will be some bugs within the new code. All bugs should be reported to the Bugs / Ideas (en) forum, with one topic per one bug.

The sokker staff wish you all the best for the holidays & upcoming new year!

There has been a bug with running passes - in the match engine, defenders (DEF) rather than midfielders (MID) were making most of the running passes when they had the similar levels of playmaking.

After the fix, most running passes will be made by midfielders, with less by defenders as it should have been before. It will be very rare for attackers to make these passes.

As this is an important bug fix, this fix will be applied from 12/12/07.