The end of this season was kind of hectic for the HA team, because we had to work on a lot of technical problems with server overload during the fourth season. That's one reason we were not able to release all planned features in version 1.5. Besides that, next season 12 new countries will be opened, so we have also had a lot of preparations. I want to thank all members of HA team for their effort and work in this season and I am looking forward to further cooperation!
I think the 4th season was a success thanks to all managers, and the game made a big step forward.
Congratulations to all league champions, National Cup winners and especially to the World League winner team HC Vinari Strasnice and its manager Galanin.
Finally, the list of changes in new game version:
New countries : Ukraine, Lithuania, Romania, Hungary, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Portugal, Ireland, New Zealand, Spain, Norway.
League expansions in: Slovakia, Czech, Finland, Russia, Germany, Austria, Great Britain, Netherlands, Poland, Latvia, France, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Slovenia, Estonia, Croatia.
All new countries and leagues will be available after tonights game update!
Under 20 years national teams (U20) - players up to 20 years old can join them.
U20 world championship is held in each even-numbered season and the election for U20 national team managers is held in the first week of each odd-numbered season.
In the event that a national player's home team is restarted, the player is not deleted from the game, but is automatically sent to the market.
Its not possible to release a player, that is in the national team for less than 2 weeks.
Team spirit of a national team will get worse, if you release a player, that was in national team longer than 10 weeks.
New attribute on player's detail page, training progress (Training).
New player's attributes:
Satisfaction - it's affected by how much the player gets a chance to play in league matches
Number of weeks - the time of player's activity in the team.
The main changes in unprotected player's market:
- the last 3 days of unprotected players's contract, they are
automatically moved to the market
- the salary is offered to the unprotected players (not the bonus as it
had been previously)
- each team is allowed to send just one offer for chosen player (it's
impossible to cancel it) and the ammount of another's team bid is not
visible
- the deadline for unprotected players is the same for all - 23:59CET
- and it's not extended
- the home team's advantage can be from 70-130% of the highest offer.
Accordig to the player's satisfaction.
- the unprotected player can be sold, at soonest, after 10 weeks in the team.
- the unprotected player's automatic contract renewal will not work.
- unprotected players on the market will also consider the level of the league when he chooses the best offer, but only if the bid is from a lower league than the player's current league
Changed the way firing or selling a player affects the team spirit:
firing or selling a player, who has been on the team for less than 2 weeks - major deterioration (not if the player is a fresh junior)
firing or selling a player, who has been on the team for 20 weeks or more - minor deterioration (in this case the team spirit drops only occasionally)
Changed youth school pull numbers:
level 1-19% : 1-2 players, 17-19 years
level 20-39% : 2 players, 17-19 years
level 40-59% : 2-3 players, 17-19 years
level 60-79% : 3-4 players, 17-19 years
level 80-99% : 4 players, 17-19 years
level 100% : 4-5 players, 17-19 years
