Mystify Soccer - Further game updates

Further game updates

I have just uploaded a few more game changes which I have listed below. I'm working my way through the ideas on the blog as well as adding minor features and functionality that I have had in mind for a while. I'll continue to do this for a bit and upload the changes in batches before I continue the more major development.

The first minor change is to show each team's recent form on the league table page. Just an at a glance view of their resent results.

The second change is for players to now be removed from the transfer list after they have been on there for 4 weeks and remove a teams' players from it when their manager leaves from the game. This should keep the list fresh and more up-to-date. If one of your players is removed you can always add him again.

I have also come up with a system to improve the transfer pool. Any low rated players who had been given free transfers previously just stayed there forever as they were undesirable but I will now make these players more likely to be bid for by increasing their ratings. I did this last week which confused a few managers because they were taking player values and the new ratings into consideration. That is something I stated shouldn't be done but to make things easier this process will now be done before the player valuation and the new skills are set to match the rating.

On the messageboard you can now hover over a message line to get a glance at the first 200 characters of what the message is about.

Finally, I have set an option on the manager details page for a manager to tick if they want to receive a message informing you of new news articles or inbox messages. This will run every 24 hours and if there is nothing then no email will be sent. However, any new unread message or article will trigger an email to your primary address to inform you that they exist.

Although the actual mail functionality is not in place yet as I am still building that. Hopefully it will be in place over the next week or so but feel free to tick it and you will receive mails once it is running.