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Hermed lige en update på den række forandringer, som der er kommet i
verdens største ( og gratis) online managerspil: www.hattrick.org




Fra udviklerne:

Yes, on August 30, it is exactly 5 years since Hattrick started. Five
years on the web! Can you believe it? In some sense it is an eternity.
Remember 1997? The dot-com boom was still in its infancy. Netscape was
the most common web browser. No one had yet heard of Napster. The
Spice Girls were climbing the charts. The wheel was hardly invented.
Human beings had just recently climbed down from the trees, stopped
walking on their knuckles and began to differentiate themselves from
the apes. Well, most of us had.

However, out of this dawn of cyber-mankind, Hattrick emerged to bring
its blessings to the human race (and also, admittedly, eventually,
things like ht-holics and the woe of a lost transfer duel). Starting
today, and fpor the duration of the upcoming season, we will celebrate
this five year anniversary in a couple of ways at the site. We hereby
proclaim the upcoming season, the ANNIVERSARY SEASON.

First off, the Anniversary Season will sport a couple of news,
compiled into a minor upgrade of Hattrick to version 6.2

* Expansion of the upper range of the denominations. "Divine" has
become devaluated over the years. People are beginning to speak of
"Divine + so-and-so". That isn't good and just as we have done before
when the players have become better and better, "divine" will be
shifted upwards and new denominations will be inserted above
supernatural, like this:

New (English)
divine
utopian
magical
mythical
extra-terrestrial
titanic
supernatural
world class
magnificient
brilliant
outstanding
formidable
excellent
solid
passable
inadequate
weak
poor
wretched
disastrous
/// - Med Hattrick Assistent manager, som kan hentet kvit og frit(og
er uundværlig :) ) fra
http://www.lokesoftware.dk/osr/hattrick/htposten.htm
-> links -> utilities -> HAM,
kan man dog få disse stats i talværdier som de fleste af os, jo er
vant til fra eks. Champ. Manager.
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* We've changed the rating values for the team sectors (e.g. left
attack) so that they more closely resembles the values in the match
simulation. How does this effect your ratings? Your attack rating will
appear lower. It has previously been presented too high, and of course
we want you coaches to have as exact help tools as possible. Also, the
new denominations will appear (if you're team's good enough :) ) in
the ratings, exactly as for player descriptions. Note that nothing has
changed in the game engine, it's only the presentation that's changed.

* Improved team psychology simulation. When a team buys and sells
players, IRL it affects the team spririt as players get worried about
their own places in the squad, especially if a club buys a lot in a
short time ("Aren't we good enough? Who the heck is this new bloke - I
definitely don't like him!") and when players are sold it is also a
disturbance in the team spririt.

This will be simulated by the new possibility that when a new player
is bought, chances are that it will have a negative impact on team
spirit. The less agreeable the player is the worse the chances and the
worse the effects. When a player is sold, agreeability works in the
opposite direction. If you sell a popular player, there is a risk that
it lowers your team spirit. The impact on team spirit is not huge (and
it only happens sometimes) - it will only be really significant if you
buy and sell an absurd number of players in a short time.

* Changes to training. Some types of training that are hardly being
trained at all will become more effective:
Set pieces - we are removing the negative effect on stamina that this
training type previously had (yep, ever since August 30, 1997).
Shooting - The effect on set pieces is double compared to before.
Passes - The effect on the passing skill is increased by 50% compared
to before.
We believe that these changes will encourage people to train these
neglected skills (set pieces and passing). That would be a good thing
because it gives more diversity to the game. For instance, it may be
useful to start training inner mids in passing and not ONLY
playmaking, which would open up more tactical possibilities.

* Team events log. The Club page will list all the major events of
your team recently. Finally, you will have a listing of the economic
transactions affecting your team, along with other major events for
the team. Previously, the column "Temporary Revenue" hasn't been very
informative. Now you will be able to follow the individual
transactions backwards.

* A minor improvement to the match reports. Immediately when the match
starts, it will be reported briefly what players are fielded for each
team. Not only that they played 3-5-2 (or whatever), but a listing of
the player's last names like: Smith - Jones, Abbot, Costello - Lennon,
McCartney, Starr, Harrison, Sutcliffe - Milli, Vanilli

So far the new features of HT 6.2.

Second part the Anniversary Season batch is not a big thing for 99% of
the Hattrick users. It is a fling of nostalgia for those who played
Hattrick before HT 5.0: All the matches from season 2 have been
converted to the current format. Because of the nature of these
reports, the reports can only be read in Swedish. Also, the first
version of the Hattrick site is now available at
www.hattrick.org/museum.

Corny? Unnecessary? Pathetic? Hey, it is an anniversary, and there
must be something for the nostalgic in an anniversary, right?

Ugly? Look, I told you the site was born during the hunter-gatherer
stone age, didn't I?

Third.

We are releasing a new version of Hattrick Supporter. The main theme
of this release is Statistics. Although the old player statistics are
not revived, 7 of the existing pages n the site have been equipped
with a link to "Supporter Stats". Under the hood of those Supporter
Stats, a hoard of yummy stats for the stats-geek can be found It is
more than can be described here, but take a look at the Supporter
Stats in the following pages:

* The match report
* The series page (III.35 and so on)
* Training
* Arena
* Bids
* The transfer search form page
* The cup page


In addition to the new stats pages, the new version of Supporter
contains: * The notebook - A handy page where you can make your own
private notes. It is easily accessible from an icon in the lower left
corner inside the My Team box. It is also accessible from under the
Supporter menu.
* Player notes - like the notebook, these can only be read by
yourself. You can write up to 500 character for each player.

Well, that is it. The new features will be activated during Wednesday
and Thursday.

Welcome to the Anniversary Season.

/The HT Team