From the CM Board..
MORE leagues??? Nice to see MLS draft bug is officially on the fixed list
Championship Manager 4 Enhancement Pack 3
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Please note, this enhancement pack contains all the fixes contained in Enhancement Packs 1 and 2 and language packs for French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Swedish, Norweigan and Danish as well as the following:
General
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- Added Slovakian and Indonisian leagues to the game taking the total to 41 playable leagues
- Prevented virtual players from always having 100% condition
- Reduced ability level for virtual players in U19 teams
- Finances now stores sponsorship in records correctly
- Stopped some clubs from getting repeated identical attendances
- Fixed problem with loading save game in very very rare circumstances
- Stopped restructured (ie. loan) debt causing stadium decay
- Reduced demands of young players who are not needed at their current club
- Improved feedback upon reasons for managers being sacked from their club
- Fixed attendance change when moving stadium
- Fixed season ticket sales bug
- Tuned agility attribute setting for regenerated players
- Tuned agility attribute setting for players at the start of the game
- Fixed preferences screen history not working correctly (not keeping between back/next).
- Fixed rare crash when free transfer player was offered a trial at a club
- Fixed goalkeeper attributes not shown on team screen (physical shown instead).
- Fixed "team selection" name changing to "Default" and unpicking players.
- Fixed injuries showing on player profile before computer matches are over.
- Fixed incorrect board message being displayed at season end in some circumstances
- Fixed friendly invitation news bug where respond button sometimes is removed before it can be used.
- Fixed a bug with competition team form values.
- Fixed news item bug when a team qualifies through a league stage and the text says that they have not.
- Fixed some first option strings
- Fixed stadium move string.
- Fixed some yearly award past histories not showing names (only club).
- Fixed a bug on the team screens transfers where the totals some times didn't appear to add up correctly.
- Fixed bug when competitions from different nations get put into the same menu on the latest scores screen.
- Fixed text for cup qualification records in manager histories.
- Fixed news screen bug: items needing response are now always displayed, regardless of the filter settings
- Fixed incompatibility between mac & pc versions causing different match results
- Fixed the repeated negotiations when you accept demands from the selling team
- Fixed missing first option duration length
- Fixed manager being sacked string where the chairmans name was used instead of the manager's name
- Fixed problem with non players who always reject contract offers due to not being offered enough wages, when in fact they are just not interested.
- Fixed various sorting issues on the team screen, person search screen, and training screen.
- Fixed bug in Add Manager, Transfer Offer, Contract Offer screens where details were lost if you browsed off the screen
- Fixed first option fee differences between the response screen and the news item.
- Fixed missing player descriptions on player profile.
- Fixed a missing hyperlink on the transfer offer screen when negotiating a transfer bid.
- Fixed problem in the team screen where certain players would have garbage listed for their squad status in
the contract view.
- Fixed 'Barcelona' bug to do with the new game config file
- Fixed young players refusing contract offers due to it being part time
- Fixed bug that caused some "in the hole players" like Scholes to be left on the bench too often
- Fixed future transfer players being freed by their clubs causing the future transfer to fall through.
- Fixed problem with news items relating to note reminders
- Players in a side that are out on trial are displayed in a color similar to the out on loan color.
- Player profiles will now properly showing being on a trial/out on trial instead of saying they are on a loan.
- Added waiting dialog to match screen for when it is setting up the match.
- Added "Use attribute masking" to preferences screen.
- If "Use attribute masking" enabled, matches are no processed and masking updated if necessary.
- When you can't afford your transfer bid and ask for a delay which is rejected a stray bit of text appeared 'They .' this has now been removed.
- '<%team#3-short>' appeared in lack of funds for transfer news item
- The add manager screen now correctly saves changes to a manager's favorite club
- You can now click on a player history and see the detailed stats for that season.
- Goalkeeper playing history now shows goals conceded and clean sheets (and not assists and goals.)
- Loaning a player twice in a season would add the stats total tally to itself - now fixed.
- "Unknown club" not showing up for some players after free transferring them.
- Player history "loan" would sometimes be shown for wrong club.
- Penalties now shown on latest scores screen.
- Selling team now does not get chance to cancel minimum fee release clause transfers at confirmation stage.
- Reject all offers doesn't auto reject offers that meet the minimum fee release clause
- Removed duplicate UK Pounds Sterling entry in cash list
- U23 national teams are now picked correctly.
- Foreign player awards does not pick non-foreign players anymore.
- When a person whose contract is set to expire, signs a new contract with another club, a message is now displayed
on the person's screen saying the date he is set to join.
- Ensured club's follow up enquiries for players if fee is acceptable
- Ability to swap two team's divisions/nations via a config file when starting a new game
- Ability to boost a teams transfer funds/wage budget/ground capacity via a config file when starting a new game
- Stopped youth players being listed for loan
- The MLS draft is now working.
- If you set up a tactic for your reserve/youth team and ask the manager of that team to use it he now will do so
- More news about progress of competitions eg "Arsenal win the Community Shield" goes to all English teams
- Toned down silly first option bids
- Players' values no longer change just because they have gone on loan
- Allowed the use of -1 in the BOOST_TEAM instruction to keep attribute unadjusted
- Tuned Offer To Clubs and added more feedback for english version.
- If maximum database is used, more Oceania players are used in the game if Australia is selected.
- The transfer screen should know show all world wide transfers if the All Nations Filter is selected.
- When you decide not to appeal against a red card ban for one of your players, it now tells you that you have done that.
- Offer To Club's, allowed the assistant to suggest more clubs for big name players
- Stopped assistant managers trying to free transfer youth players after you've given them a new contract.
- Stopped players thinking they have only been at the club a short time after they return from being on loan.
- Praise/Criticise recent player's form news items no longer report that the team is in a poor league position when in fact they are not.
- Disabled human managers being able to list for loan youth players.
- Made boxes on player information tab collapsable in case information overran screen.
- Low-level change to string code which should save about 1Mb of memory
- Added tick to 'change player' menu to show which player is currently being viewed
- If club logos are installed, game now shows the club logo for club players, and the news, training & history screens
- Added tick to competition screen to show the currently selected stage.
- If you're making an offer for a player that has a minimum fee release clause, that value is now always shown.
- Increased maximum length of human managers names
- Team Screen sort by Club/Nationality know have links to the club/nationality
- Increased width of file dialogs to fix problem with translated buttons not fitting in...
- Changed date when competition odds news is created to five days earlier to stop news being created after league has started.
- Stopped youth players from starting at age 15.
- Ensured players who are unhappy and then listed from saying that they don't want to leave the club.
- Transfer clauses now use games played for first team only and not reserve teams.
- Brazilian players in Portugal no longer treated as non-EU.
- Latest scores page now sorts matches by home team.
- Fixed crash when shortlisting a player halfway through the process of adding a new manager.
- Fixed crash when user reclicks on Start New Game after clicking on Join Network Game.
- Players with light injuries do not get removed from a national squad.
- On competition screen, the fixtures sections now show the team type (e.g. Barcelona B).
- Fixed bug where number of games won in a row sometimes was used to fill the number of games lost in a row space.
Scouts & Searches
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- Human shortlisting problems fixed
- Limited number of scout reports on person's information tab to 2 at a time.
- Scout would come back with reports on your own players on loan to other clubs.
- Recalling scouts now works.
- Clubs in inactive leagues removed from scout list.
- Scouting youth players now limiting age to 21 or under instead of 23.
- "Ask asst.mgr. to filter out unrealistic targets" adjusted.
- Scouting certain players would not always update the attribute masking.
- Random players would show up in search list as on loan even though they weren't.
- You can now add players on loan to you to your shortlist.
- When buying players they were only hidden on your shortlist.
- People being both player and non-player and a board member listed in player search list.
- Filtering by Portuguese nationality would show up some weird results.
- Player & Non-players not having a non-playing job at club would come up in as unemployed.
Network, Hotseat and Internet Play
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- Live league table now does not guess goals from other human matches on the same pc which have not been played yet.
- Other matches can now be viewed when on the day of the match.
- Added ability to respond to messages from other human players.
- Human players can now be disconnected from a network client without the client having to exit.
- News items from clubs offering players can now be ignored - a response is not necessary.
- Match screen now tells the human when it is waiting for another human in a network game.
Wages, Finances and Board Interaction
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- Made players less agreeable to wage reductions while their contracts have a reasonable amount of time until expiry
- Fixed Wage requests for top players sometimes being limited to £100
- Fixed a player saying he can't accept a relegation wage cut
- Fixed ground maintainance issues for smaller teams
- Tuning of finance system. Most notably the Spanish, Scottish, French, Mexico, Italian and German finances
- Wage budget tuning for Greece, Mexico, Korea, France, Holland and Germany
- Wage allowed is more responsive to profitability of clubs
- Tuned manager board confidence
- Limited board expectations after a club is promoted
Player Happiness
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- Disabled player praise/criticism for player who are on loan or injured
- Player's being unhappy about their club's transfer policy unhappiness more prevalent now
- Unhappy about being subbed now a more apparent unhappiness
- Victimised by ref now a more apparent unhappiness
- Player in superb form news adjusted downwards
- Made it easier for players to recover from having personal problems
- Allowed the removal of 'no support from manager' unhappiness
- Re-tuned personal reasons removal
- Ammended the praise player/criticise players recent form
Training
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- Fixed array access out of bounds errors
- The default training schedules now can not be edited, if you edit these, a copy will be made so you always
have something to fall back on.
- Added the ability to rename an existing training schedule.
- When adding a new training schedule it is no longer blank, but based off of the general schedule.
- Changing or removing coaches from a training schedule now works
Tactics:
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- Fixed incorrect morale on tactics screen
- Fixed could not drag sub onto sub on pitch during match.
- Added always show rating during match (in addition to other info).
- Added clearer separation between first 11 and subs during match
- Added showing opposition player positions in 'specific' man marking list during match.
- Added graphics to show icons for subbed on or off during match.
Competitions:
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- Made teams promoted from English Conference turn professional
- Fixed problem where Argentine league was not scheduling third and fourth promotion stages properly.
- Fixed bug where French leagues were scheduling games in Jan 2002.
- Tweaked some Christmas/New Year dates for English leagues.
- Added some more loan rules for English clubs.
- English Vans Trophy now enabled if 2nd division is enabled, not just Conference.
- Fixed Swedish Premier Division break period for World Cup/Euro Champ years.
- Korea subs rule changed to 3 from 6.
- AUstrian league now has 4 rounds ( 36 matches ).
- German regional League North now relegates 4 teams not 3.
- Belgian 2nd division match time changed to 8pm.
- Russian Premier and russian cup foreigner restriction removed.
- Greek league now counts eastern block players as EU.
- Greek disciplinary system now bans a player for 2 matches after 6th yellow.
- Scottish league and fa cups now have neutral semi final venues.
- English Community Shield now has 5 subs from 7 rule.
- Competitions using a period system (e.g. lower Belgian and Dutch leagues) now use the main league table for a team's current position and not the first period league table.
- English league playoff semi finals now get played at correct venues.
- No one off friendlies between Croat and Yougoslavian teams or Israeli and Arab nation teams
- Fixed a few problems with the Asian Champions Cup.
- Correct Brazilian teams now play in the Libertadores Cup.
- Finnish reserve leagues are now scheduled properly.
- Fixed a problem where Welsh Premier Cup sometimes stops after the group stage.
- Portugese league scheduling now does not skip all dates used by the Portugese Cup.
- Promotion to the Swiss 2nd now comes from the First League Group 1.
- Swiss cup now has 3 from 7 subsitutes rule.
- FC Vaduz now play in the Swiss league.
- Fixed some dates for the European Championship finals.
- No loans are permitted between Scottish Premier League teams.
- Oslo Ost in Norwegian First Division docked 3 points in 2003 season.
Match
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- Tuned defensive play a bit to try and counter super attacking tactics
Macintosh Specific
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- Full screen mode now uses the monitor that the window was positioned on in windowed mode; so if you switch into windowed mode, drag the window to your second monitor, and switch back to fullscreen mode, you should find that your second monitor is used
- Added command line support. If you create a file called "command line.txt" and place it in the CM4 folder, the game will treat it's contents as command line arguments.
- Fixed problem with the recommended leagues when starting a new game.