Tennis Elbow Manager 2 - Early Version !

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Re: Tennis Elbow Manager 2 - Early Version !

Postby manutoo » 21 Sep 2018, 09:37

Tennis Elbow Manager 2 v0.75 is released (Build 15-2018.9.21) :

New Features :
- Player Styles : 3 new styles ! Counter Puncher (eg: Djokovic), All-rounder (eg: Federer) & Bulldog (eg: Nadal) ; the Varied style has been renamed to All-court Attacker for clarity
- Talents : 5 new talents ! Spinny Backhand, Flat Backhand, Forever Young, Rich Kid & Prodigy
- Training : last chosen training court in the Coach Center is restored when you come back from a tournament
- Doubles : you get a warning message when you register for a tournament on the following year if your current partner will be retired by then

Changes :
- Rally efficiency : now the volley skills of the player styles using volleys on a regular basis count for a bit less in the rally efficiency, but they get a training bonus so it's easier to have them high ; this should lead to a better consistency between the Score based Matches & the 3D real-time matches, and also to an improved realism : nowadays, it's nearly impossible to compete without solid FH & BH skills, even if our strategy goal is to play often at the net
- Rally efficiency : greatly lowered the weight of Cold Blood ; so now Cold Blood mainly only influences the Stress, which in turn lowers lower the global rally efficiency (like before)
- Rally efficiency : tuned a bit the importance of some skills
- Talents : Injury Resistance got a 3rd star, raising its protection to injuries from 22% to 33%
- Topspin : topspin skill has been remapped for all players in the base ; before the middle value was 35%, now it's 50% ; so you should aim for 50% if you want your player to be good on all surfaces
- Music : music volume scales down nicely, instead of staying too loud even at low levels

Bug Fixes :
- Head To Head : fixed intermittent incorrect counting
- Doubles : the information screen wasn't popping up when your doubles partner was retiring

Real Time 3D Matches : (you need to activate the DevMode to reach them through the Training Club)
- Added the new player styles, tuned a bit all the styles, and did some other little stuff
- It was not possible to do match after 7 days of trial if you hadn't bought the full version
- Mini-Blog Post coming soon (EDIT: done => viewtopic.php?p=255116#p255116 )
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Re: Tennis Elbow Manager 2 - Early Version !

Postby manutoo » 23 Oct 2018, 14:54

Tennis Elbow Manager 2 v0.90 is released (Build 16-2018.10.23) :

New Features :
- Match : now you can watch matches in real time 3D ! (1) (2) (3) (4)

Changes :
- Text-based Match : revamped how some skills work to make them match their 3D-match behavior ; eg: FH & BH Precision is now relative to their Power ; idem for Service Precision & Constancy against its Power
- Text-based Match : revamped some mechanisms to make them match their 3D-match behavior ; eg: tiredness is now point-based instead of game-based
- Match : the Form of the Day can now sometimes raise a bit the skills instead of lowering them, so having an inconstant player isn't only a downside ; although the raise is smaller than the lowering
- Women : women players don't have anymore potentials to match the men (eg: Strength isn't limited to ~80%) ; everything max is 100%, to match the use of the skills in the 3D matches

Bug Fixes :
- Player Style : the new player style icons were missing
- Text-based Match : the surface skills could be incorrectly applied when playing on certain surfaces
- Text-based Match : the volley stats were incorrectly calculated
- End of Game : the game could crash once your career was over after 25 years of play

Real Time 3D Matches : (you need to activate the DevMode to reach them through the Training Club)
- All this is now correctly handled : Concentration, Constancy, Cold Blood, Form of the Day, Surface Skills, Doubles Spirit (it lowers or raises all the skills during a doubles match), Injuries & Bearable Injuries
- For CPU vs CPU matches, it's now possible to quickly advance to the next point, next important point, next set or end of the match (I'll see if I can optimize a bit that to make it faster, as now it takes a couple of minutes to reach the end of a 2-set match ; EDIT: Done ! Now it's 8 times faster than before and takes less than 10 seconds for 2 sets on my I7@4ghz ! :dance: )
- Revamped tiredness : now it uses 3 bars instead of 2 ; the new one is the Short Form from the World Tour and can only goes down ; the 2 existing ones have been renamed Breath & Energy for clarity and work almost same than before ; Energy is limited by the Short Term form like in text-based matches

Notes :
(1)- Soon it'll be possible to coach your player during the 3D match, that's why the coaching options of the text-based matches aren't shown
(2)- Please report any balancing issue ; for example, I had noticed that having precision lower than power for the forehand & backhand was leading the player to make way too many faults and thus losing too easily
(3)- It's possible that doubles matches don't work very well ; I tested just a little bit :fear:
(4)- The 3D matches are more random than their text-based counterpart, especially when the difference of level between the 2 opponents is noticeable : in the text-based match, the victory of the best player is nearly 100% sure, but it's not with the 3D matches
- Mini-Blog Post coming soon (EDIT: done => viewtopic.php?p=255603#p255603 !)
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Re: Tennis Elbow Manager 2 - Early Version !

Postby manutoo » 24 Oct 2018, 11:54

SubBuild 2018.10.24:

New Features :
- Talents : new Talent "Upsetter" => Each star raises by 10% the chance to have a good day instead of a bad day from Form of the Day, and raises by 100% the bonus of such good day

Changes :
- 3D Match : during a replay after have skipped the point, the players now look the ball normally (1)

Bug Fixes :
- Match : match simulation could hang forever
- Form of the Day : the lowering for the bad days wasn't strong enough, and the raise for the good days was too strong (ie: the factors were inverted :blackeye: )
- Potentials : the capped potentials (eg: FH power limited from Strength & Toniticy) weren't displayed correctly the 1st time a player was displayed

Notes :
(1)- more or less ; I had to do a trick coz in such case the 3D stuff isn't processed during the actual point, so the head direction calculations is instead done during the replay and thus might give slightly different results from usually
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Re: Tennis Elbow Manager 2 - Early Version !

Postby manutoo » 25 Oct 2018, 10:18

SubBuild 2018.10.25:

New Features :
- Text-based Match : shows the Form of the Day in the tooltip of the Energy bar (only once the match has started for your opponents)

Bug Fixes :
- Fixed a player data corruption occurring during the match presentation, especially when coaching 2 or more players
- Player data was cleared after a 3D match when advancing time from the Training screen instead of the World Tour menu
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Re: Tennis Elbow Manager 2 - Early Version !

Postby manutoo » 27 Oct 2018, 14:44

SubBuild 2018.10.26:

New Features :
- Optimization : added a little button next to "Next Week", only visible when you have activate the DevMode and there's no match on this week ; it allows to skip weeks very quickly : on my PC, it requires less than 15 seconds to do a full season (don't forget to turn off the weekly autosave in the Misc options, though) ; it can be useful if you want to test some new player and/or tournament bases

Changes :
- Players : raised a bit the Service Power and lowered the Server Consistency & Precision when the Power is way behind them, so the low ranked players' serve power will feel more realistic when they have such kind of sever setup

Notes :
- Mac version updated
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Re: Tennis Elbow Manager 2 - Early Version !

Postby manutoo » 30 Oct 2018, 12:49

SubBuild 2018.10.30:

Changes :
- View CPU Match : now, when relevant, the "Next Week" is changed to an "End of Week" button, and the current date is updated, so it's more clear why you have to click twice when the View CPU Match option is on
- View CPU Match : now the skip bar is shown when viewing a CPU vs CPU match

Bug Fixes :
- Text-based Match : each tie-break point was replayed many times when watching the match point by point
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Re: Tennis Elbow Manager 2 - Early Version !

Postby manutoo » 01 Nov 2018, 20:54

SubBuild 2018.11.01:

Changes :
- Match Simulation : lowered by ~10% the number of tiebreaks

Bug Fixes :
- For some strange & unknown reason, the previous SubBuild had a lot of weird glitches ; I just recompiled & rebuild the game and it seems ok now, or at least I hope so :fear:
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Re: Tennis Elbow Manager 2 - Early Version !

Postby manutoo » 02 Nov 2018, 20:08

SubBuild 2018.11.02:

Changes :
- 3D Match : removed the 1-set limit for World Tour matches when playing with the trial version

Bug Fixes :
- Rankings : all rankings were done using the Singles Pro entry points
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Re: Tennis Elbow Manager 2 - Early Version !

Postby manutoo » 04 Nov 2018, 11:28

Tennis Elbow Manager 2 v0.95 is released (Build 17-2018.11.4) :

New Features :
- 3D Match : you can now coach in real-time your player, using 9 different sliders to define his strategy (1)

Changes :
- 3D Match : CPU was aiming for his opponent weak side even when volleying

Bug Fixes :
- 3D Match : strike rules were always the ones for the baseline rallies, even when volleying and smashing, and thus it was making volleying way harder and less efficient than expected ; moreover, the forehand skills were used for all strikes except the serve ! :sweat:
- Recording : using the skip buttons while recording a .dmo could lead to desynch issue when replaying it

Notes :
(1)- There's currently no penalty, but I'll add some when moving a slider too much, to match the text-based match behavior (and make use of the Chameleon Talent to lower that penalty)
- Mini-Blog Post coming at some point, sooner or later :blackeye:
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Re: Tennis Elbow Manager 2 - Early Version !

Postby manutoo » 05 Nov 2018, 14:19

SubBuild 2018.11.05:

Bug Fixes :
- Match Simulation : players with their Service Consistency lower than their Serve Power were getting the maximal strength possible for their serve and thus were stronger than expected (which was also raising a lot the occurrence of tiebreaks)
- Match Simulation : only the 1st player could get Stressed when playing against a lower ranked opponent
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Re: Tennis Elbow Manager 2 - Early Version !

Postby manutoo » 06 Nov 2018, 17:52

Build 18 SubBuild 2018.11.6:

New Features :
- 3D Match : you can now boost your player performance using XP, in a way similar to the text-based match
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Re: Tennis Elbow Manager 2 - Early Version !

Postby manutoo » 07 Nov 2018, 20:28

Build 19 SubBuild 2018.11.7:

New Features :
- 3D Match : changing too much too many coaching values at the same time now gives your player a penalty, lowered by the Chameleon talent

Bug Fixes :
- 3D Match : positive forms of the day were lowering a lot the player skills instead of raising them a bit

Notes :
- Mac version updated
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