Open Forum (Ask GMs)

[FTP-ashario]

So the weather is windy and sticky.

Sticky heavily favours all bowlers
Windy slightly favours spinners

However in commentary is says ideal for both seamers and spinners. Is there a sub level higher for the spinners in this instance or is the adv bowlers can get capped? Or other than humid the weather doesn't matter on sticky as everyone gets Ideal anyway?

Sublevels

[FTP-ashario]

is it against the rules for me as a NAT assistant to message managers of players of my nation asking them to sell me their player eg. 16 year olds

no

[FTP-ashario]

Is it true that some bats like to bat in certain parts of the order

yes. openers, seam specialists, finishers

Do players have experience levels which relate to types of pitches

no

Do bowlers have hidden talents relating to when they like to bowl or certain types of pitches, ie a seamer who likes dry?

no

[FTP-ashario]

Hi ash, just a quick question on fielding - catches specifically.

Are catches split into different categories of difficulty? I.E:

One catch is more difficult than another, so is more likely to be [dropped]? Or are all catches and fielding checks done equally?

The game compares a dice roll against the fielder's percentage chance of taking a catch, so yes some catches are harder than others

[FTP-ashario]

RE PAvilion cup


when do you think you'll look at extending this an extra round ? will you wait till there 4096 active teams or go earlier and just live with a few bots ?

As underlined

[FTP-ashario]

What is your opinion on youth farms within FTP? Good, bad, don't care?

Their impact on the game is minor, regardless of whether I like them or not.

[FTP-ashario]

If a team is about to hit 4 negative financial updates, but already has their top waged player up for sale (with deadline post update) does that suffice, or will the financial update then generate the 2nd highest waged player to be listed?

2nd highest is listed

[FTP-ashario]

Are talents included in the player skills summary?

Yes, skilled talents only

[FTP-ashario]

Just checking...... I assume that with the new fatigue rules a clinically dead player who is training on "rest" will still get the maximum training rather than the 90% decrease ?

yes

[FTP-ashario]

With the country transfer where teams are changed with like for like basis on divisions.
What happens if there is no team that holds all the same divisions in the new country?

They are not exchanged like for like. A div 6 team can potentially change places with a div 5 team, for example

[FTP-ashario]

If a team has hit 4 negative financial updates, nd their top waged player is up for sale but remains unsold then what is done after that?? is he again put on sale or something else is done??

Put up for sale again

I'll probably change it soon so that the unsold player is instead fired.

[FTP-ashario]

What happens to a player's training update if he plays in a country like Zimbabwe and is transferred to a team in Australia in between the countries training updates?

Eg. A senior player gets transferred at 9:00 on the Thursday which is 9 hours after Australia's update but 4 hours before Zimbabwe's update

Misses training for that week

[FTP-ashario]

if a player from Zim is transferred to australia after the aussie finance updates nd before the zim updates which team pays his wages??

Wages are calculated based on players in the squad at the time of the financial update

[FTP-ashario]

From the manual players get more experience from higher divisional games - what about the Pavilion Cup? Does that count, experience-wise, as a SOD game at your level or does it award the same amount of experience to all players involved (and if so what division does it compare to)?

PC experience is roughly equivalent to an upper division senior OD game

[FTP-ashario]

Does age affect how much benefit you get from the REST training?

A bit to my surprise, yes.

It doesn't now