24 November 2013, 14:55 | #1 |
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SWOS "ONLINE CAREER" by Sensibleita - Season 14 sign-ups open!
Sup English Amiga board! First time poster, long time lurker here, I'd like to invite all of the SWOS fans out there to the most incredible tournament ever held, the Sensible World of Soccer Multiplayer Online Career!
So, what's this "Online Career" I've been blabbing about... The "Online Career" (aka Carriera Online) is a special competition held by the italian site I help running, Sensibleita (http://www.clpweb.net/swos). The tournament started out as an "italian-only" thing during the development of the Online Career website (which took roughly 6 years since there were only like 3-4 people working on it at any given time), mainly due to the language barrier (the site was originally developed in italian for obvious reasons). Currently registration for foreigners (as in, non-italian players) is possible (since anybody is welcome to play with us, really) but not official because we aren't done translating the website yet. We're working on it though. Nonetheless we've had quite a few non-italian players over the past few years and they all did just fine (I personally gave them an overview on the site features translating the ruleset and the most relevant stuff and helped them here and there when they weren't sure about something, site is extremely user-friendly and there's very little text so anyone could get used to it in well under a day). Ever since the website was completed we've been debating about going international (although the "ping issue" is still strongly debated within the community because some participants aren't particularly fond of playing at pings higher than 80-90 ms, most people got good-to-awesome connections nowadays anyway so that's sort of a moot point) and since the feedback from the first few foreign players in S 10~13 turned out to be good we've finally decided to open up the gates to players from all over Europe (as a matter of fact, there's gonna be an english and a spanish player in season 14) so if you guys want to join us please contact me either here, on the chat or on the Sensibleita forums and I'll make sure to give you the warmest welcome!. ;) Here's the Online Career mode, in a nutshell: Who hasn't been wanting to play SWOS Career mode with their mates? Yeah, that's pretty much what prompted me and my friends to start on the development of a website that would allow us to enjoy SWOS Careers in a multiplayer online environment (paired up with an editor to modify the teams data). 6 years and an undefined number of lunch breaks and white nights devoted to designing, coding (on a very amateurish level, although our Career mode's leaps and bounds better than FIFA's ultimate team bullshit, FIFA own career mode and most fantasy football sites, real talk) and testing later here's what we got: (There's a promo video but I haven't had the time to dub it in english yet, so glance at it and then read the following translation) PROMO VIDEO: [ Show youtube player ] (rough) TRANSLATION (of what I'm saying in the aforementioned promo video): Have you ever dreamed of playing the legendary SWOS "Career" mode with your friends? Now you can! Thanks to the efforts of the sensibleita crew, those who used to love this timeless classic back in the days will now be able to experience again the awesome gameplay of the original Sensible World of Soccer "Careers", with a modern twist. - Meet up with tons of oldschool SWOS-fans from all over the peninsula europe; - Create your own team (pick name, crest color and style of the kits, coach, home stadium, formation, shirt numbers and much more...who are you going to hand the legendary shirt number 10 to!?); - Take part in a live, Fantasy Football-style transfer market featuring contracts, loans and real time auctions for the players, choosing from a database comprised of over 5000 authentic players from the most important leagues in the world, updated to the "12/"13 season; - Bring back to life your childhood heroes in digitalized, pixellated form thanks to a special editor; - Manage every aspect of your team from anywhere through the internet browser but be careful not to go overboard with finances (revenues, expenditures, wages, competitions prize money, it's all in there) or else your club will go belly up along with your ambitions of being a hero among goalscoring superstars! - Play your league and cup games online with either the "Sensibleita SWOS-pack" (which includes the game, the netplay and the Amiga emulator for PC - all the downloads are 100% legal and somehow allowed/endorsed by those who owns the rights to the franchise and, supposedly, by Jon Hare himself) or the "AMIGA SWOS Total Pack" by Starwindz; - Keep track of players' and teams stats (caps, bookings, injuries, fixtures, starting 11's and so forth), league/cup tables, top-goalscorers lists and matches reports on the site (all of which gets updated in real-time!) - It's 100% free! By SWOS fans to SWOS fans! - the SWOS Online Career database is included in the AMIGA SWOS Total Pack! - Season 13 is currently being played, preparations for the 14th Season however are underway (should start around the 25th of November)! Here's the thread to sign up (please do so before the 26th of November because we need some time to sort the divisions up), just post the name of your club (16 characters tops, spaces included) and you're good to go (later on you can also provide an image 100x100 pixel, .png format, to act as a crest): ★★★★☆http://www.clpweb.net/swos/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=0&func=view&catid=10&id=20215★★★★☆ See ya on the pixellated pitch! :) EDIT: so, is this 100% legit? Yes it is, the SWOS United community at large was allowed to provide downloads of the original Amiga version by those who own the rights to the franchise (Codemasters) and Jon Hare himself (whom we have interviewed on SWOS gameplay mechanics not too long ago, he also showed up in Germany last summer for an offline tournament) knows about all this and supports us. Last edited by Retrieving; 24 November 2013 at 14:58. Reason: clarity, links |
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Q&A: English
In depth Q&A for those who might be interested:
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Each season is split in 4 sessions: - 1st = 1 week of transfer market, so everyone gets plenty of time to strnghten/build up his own team (teams carry over to the following seasons as long as you can keep paying wages and stuff, I've had my team for 12 seasons straight now and it's progressively gotten better overtime); - 2nd = 15~20 days (depends on how large divisions turn out to be) to play all of your opponents once in whatever order you prefer (usually it's like, 9 to 14 matches, depending on how many players we stuff in each division, cups fixtures, etc.), just get on the chat or leave your availability on the forums and arrange the details with them if needed be (same things as ss.de leagues); - 3rd = 15~20 days (depends on how large divisions turn out to be) to play all of your opponents for the second time in whatever order you prefer (usually it's like, 9 to 14 matches, depending on how many players we stuff in each division, cups fixtures, etc.) - 4th 1 week for Federation Cup QF/SF/F (it's just 1 leg each with extra time and penalties), Elite Cup SF/F (likewise) and promotion/relegation playoffs. Then there's like 1 week break and the new season starts (unless it's summertime/xmas, then we take longer breaks and play the Summer/Winter series meanwhile - there won't be any Winter Series this December though, we'll just play a longer season). In between sessions the hdf is updated, this way if you bought/sold some players or made some changes to your team tactic/kits/custom players/etc. you'll get those in the game in the next session. Quote:
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Wages depend on the players skills, the higher the skill points total, the bigger the price, the costier the yearly wage. Money are gained by winning or drawing matches and prizes are also distributed at the end of the season depending on the club performances (like, you get 13 millions for winning the title, 20 for being promoted to 1st division, 8 for avoiding relegation, etc.). Being in the red at the end of the current season means getting penalized the following one (usually minus x points in the league table, where x depends on the extent of your debt). Quote:
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That being said, there's certainly ways around that...like, we got Lavezzi, Hamsik and Cavani in the database from Synchro's update however that didn't stop one of the participants from naming his 3 custom players Pocho, Marekiaro and Matador, know what I'm sayin? You can make offers to other clubs for any player (custom or not, full-purchase or loan for x number of sessions) then it's up to the owner, they could either accept or flat out refuse or ask for more (either money, another player, etc.) Quote:
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Nowadays Sensionline is mainly used for tournaments with 96/97 stock teams, such as this one; we organize them too (although not as frequently as we used to, traditionally there's always been like 3-4 main "events" per year then some extemporaneous stuff here and there) but they have nothing to do with the Online Career. Online Career matches do not count towards the Sensibleita ranking either. Quote:
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When you make an offer for a player who's already under contract at another club the club owner will be notified and then given the choice to either accept or refuse (they might also contact you via chat or forums to ask for more money or other players in exchange). Quote:
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Here's another video walkthrough of the Online Career website main features, it's in italian though: [ Show youtube player ] Quote:
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Won't get to see the statistics until you have your own club though. Quote:
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Cups are spread across the whole season, the faster we play them, the earliest the admins will open up the other rounds. Quote:
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Also, with 5000+ players and only 25-30 teams there's plenty of choice for everyone really, just find another player with similar skills and you're set (lots of players have clones and only a handful are truly unique). Clubs quit/go bankrupt and get disbanded/can't afford players and discharge them all the time too so it's very unlikely for a player to spend more than 2-3 seasons in a club. Quote:
Here's the full database ( download on top): http://www.clpweb.net/swos/index.php...id=10&id=17891 Quote:
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Developing an effective custom tactic is an extremely time-consuming, trial-and-error process and people just didn't want to put up with such a hassle so they vetoed the feature (not to mention, some people just wouldn't have enough time to devote to such a task, which would make them unfair to some extent). Also, custom tactics IMHO detract from the experience by temporarily throwing off a perfectly balanced gameplay through gimmicky positioning. Sure, I could put 100 hours into developing the end-be-all perfect tactic, would it be fun for anyone involved though? Think not, so screw those Quote:
Cup matches = single fixture DIY cups with extra time and penalties Also, home team gets to pick the pitch surface. Quote:
League games and Elite Cup group stage games: if you happen to remember the minute the match stopped being coherent you can boot up another game and play the remaining minutes, starting from the last known legit score. If none of the players caught a glimpse of the clock right upon the desynch you've got to play 2 halves if the match desynched during the 1st half and 1 half if the match stopped during the 2nd half (in both cases the last known legit score carries over to the new games). Play-off/KO-rounds games: start over (same guidelines as League matches) and reinstate the goals difference between the teams (like, if you were 5-3 just score 2 own goals) before starting to play again. Also, if a player got sent off during the desynched game they won't be allowed to play in the rebooted match, just remember to substitute them before entering the pitch. Hope it helps! |
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24 November 2013, 15:04 | #3 |
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Also, the video of the final of the Federation Cup (think of the FA Cup) from Season 13:
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