Mystify Soccer - Financial details and TV matches

Financial details and TV matches

Over the last few days I have implemented changes with regard team finances and in the televised match system.

I know these changes may seem quite minor but making the changes now means that future game additions will work better.

If you haven't spotted the finance changes then take a look at your team finances page to see the system in action. Now, instead of just a very brief update as to what your finances have done this season you get the data broken down into categories (which could well be added to as the game progresses) and the precise detail broken down by week.

I'm hoping this will enable managers to get a better idea of what is happening with their team's cash. I have also displayed the bank balance at the top of the page throughout the site which should help managers with regards to transfers and other financial decisions.

There are more changes to come financially involving the actual amounts for current income and expenditure costs as well as additional ways to make and lose money. For now though, the values are the same, just the layout improved.

The next change I have made is regarding televised matches. Now, instead of being random every week there is a plan. Every 5 weeks the TV company will decide on the televised matches for the next 5 weeks. At the beginning of the season these will still be random but as the season progresses there is a system in place to make sure teams have at least 1 home game (2 in the top division) during the season and then towards the season end, big matches should be preferred. This should be more realistic. You may also notice that there are now more games televised each week.

My next job is to automate the cup televised matches (as I manually select them at the moment) so you won't actually see any changes here. Then I will be working on improving the player retirements system.