Competitions
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+ Scottish league cup ties are now seeded properly.
+ Fixed some issues with the CONCACAF Champions League when MLS is not a selected league.
+ Mexican teams now do not register too many foreign players.
+ Implemented English Conference changes for 2006/07 season.
+ Mexican First Division groups are now correct for 2005.
+ Prize money removed from Serbia and Montenegro Cup.
+ Manager snapshot panel now shows full stage name in the competitions panel. E.g. North Semi Final instead of Semi Final
+ All-Ireland Cup now stores past years correctly.
+ Teams from 2006 African World Cup qualifiers do not qualify to the 2008 African Nations Cup any more.
+ Some English FA Cup prize money amounts fixed.
+ Hong Kong AFC Playoff now gets scheduled once all of the domestic competitions have finished.
+ Ramat-Hasharon now deducted 2 points in 2005 Israeli National League.
+ Spanish teams now start playing friendlies earlier.
+ All Ireland cup now uses refs from Ireland or N. Ireland.
+ European player awards tunning
+ Greek player of the year problem fixed.
+ Greek foreign player of the year problem fixed
+ Player winning more than one seasonal award fix
+ Attacking bias added to seasonal player awards.
+ Some fixes for managers withdrawing players from international friendlies
+ Australian players no longer win Asian awards.
+ Award winner news item appears after player thanks manager news item.
+ Fixed string error (australian pre match odds news) declaring league as being finished when it hasn't.
+ Fixed some fixture dates in England for non World Cup/Euro Championship years.
Match
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+ When 2 human managers are playing each other in a match, the game now shows both team talk screens at the end of the match instead of just the one.
+ When a human changed the order of his penalty takers just before a shootout, the score would sometimes not be stored properly when the result gets processed.
+ Fixed a match screen crash which would sometimes happen after making quick tactic changes.
+ If a human manager leaves a match (goes on holiday, disconnects from network game, etc), the assistant manager will now make tactical changes in his place.
+ Fixed bug where the view menu on the tactics screen might be disabled for a second human manager on the same machine.
Transfers
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+ Starting foreign loans are now not treated as domestic loans for English teams when counting the number of loans done so far.
+ Fixed bug where occassionally the game might forget to process a future transfer.
+ Fixed a bug where national teams would sometimes appoint a director as their new manager.
+ Players signed after a club has finished its season, now get put on holiday.
Mac Specific
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+ Fixed some keyboard shortcuts in the help dialog.
+ Fixed possible problem with cpu idle when re-activating the application during a match.
+ Fixed Mac keyboard shortcut for Preferences to conform to standard Mac shortcut.
Assets
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- ADDED Livingston player pictures
- Fixed Scott Thomson (Dunfermline) picture mapping to the wrong Scott Thomson
- ADDED Nottingham Forest player pictures
- Fixed Cardiff pictures (Darren Purse, Jeff Whitley, Joe Ledley and Neal Ardley)
- Fixed Stafford Rangers player pictures (Peter Thomson)
- Fixed Blackpool badge
- Fixed Rotherham kits not displaying
- Fixed Daejeon kits not displaying in first season
- Fixed Joao Goncalves FaceInTheGame picture
Data Editor
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- Fixed potential crash on the squad screen
- Fixed manager preferred formations sometimes defaulting to 442
Tutorial Note
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The tutorial will only display properly in the languages installed with the Retail CD.
* Added by PaulC - Match version history since Gold code:
Match v444
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- Fixed exagerrated nervousness in matches of "grey players"
- Stopped "grey managers" having negative attributes
- "Turned up" dribbling a little
- Made control of ball coming from unsighted position harder
- Made one touch football harder to achieve at lower levels
- Improved "purchase" on tackles made close to own goal
- Improved direction of headed clearances and flick ons
- Made less speculative balls down the wings go out for throws
- Tweaked letting ball run out AI
- Reduced in match condition drop for all but increased it for jumping to account for DC's
- Removed pointless shots and lobs from silly distance that distorted shot count by about 3-4 per match.
Match v445
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- Fixed over-reaction to "warn against complacency" team talk after good performance
- Fixed graphical glitch that can occur when disallowed goal crosses the line
- Stopped very occasional dangerous short free kicks across own back line
- Improved clearance AI
- Improved AI manager mentality settings
- Fixed 45 minute rule bug that prevented sensible substitutions by AI international managers
- Slightly lessened amount of runs into channels by strikers
- Slightly adjusted condition effect of attacking mentality
- Fixed keeper average ratings anomaly that could result in high rating when little to do in easy win
- Fixed defensive midfielder and wing back match ratings
- Tweaked dribbling AI just a little more
- Tweaked method of counting successful dribbles
- Fixed player "warping" over pitch bug
- Tweaked team shape very slightly vs mentality and narrowed defence a tiny bit in own third of pitch
- Stopped players set to "mark tall player" from closing down corner taker
- Cut down on long range headed goal attempts
Match v446
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- Fixed dodgy clearances behind caused by v445
Match v447
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- Fixed condition drop for wingers and other players doing a lot of running with ball |