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Post by FTP-ashario » Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:36 am

Estimated Deployment Date: Monday 27th October

Included in this version

New Teams: Some changes
- There will be 16 senior players and 14 youth players in new squads (up from 14 seniors and 12 youths), which should help new teams to manage fatigue in the first few weeks.
- Youth and senior academy investment will be defaulted to 5K, instead of 0K. I suspect a number of new managers take a few weeks to realise that they need to invest in their academies, so this should at least minimise the chances of academies dropping a level or so in the meantime.

Default Lineups for bots and new teams
- All bots that dont have a default lineup from a previous human manager will have a 'sensible' default lineup selected for them. Instead of of an alphabetic batting lineup, players will be selected bases on skill levels. This should make bots somewhat less toothless.
- All new teams will also have a 'sensible' auto default lineup set for each league (ie senior OD, twenty20, youth).

Site Performance Improvements
The job that updates player milestones and applies after match fatigue hits runs hourly. This job now sometimes takes up to 20 minutes to run, which is causing some related performance problems.
I've spent a few (extremely tedious!) days this week working on optimising this job and have managed to make some fairly large improvements which should result in this job taking a maximum of 2 minutes to complete, which should result in a fairly decent performance improvement site wide.

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