The Peeps

You do get it, it's automatic it's only once per month, if you keep an eye on your transactions you'll see it pop up. Not to be confused with the press bonus which is once a week if you do a PR over 300 characters. You in for the cup? Teams in for the cup: Lylat Wanderers Atlético Aqui1a Coloccini FC Hadens Legends Recall United Lords of Hydra Yellow Submarine The Familia FC Leeds M.O.T DuDs Baggies Intergalactico Stars @Lucas3693 glad to see you're sticking with us dude!

Trying to recruit through the xpert site is like messaging a brick wall Congratulations to everyone that was promoted and extra congrats to Zell for winning the league again Teams in for the cup: Lylat Wanderers Atlético Aqui1a Coloccini FC Hadens Legends Recall United Lords of Hydra Yellow Submarine The Familia FC Only 8 teams... can we get 8 more? The cup is starting on the 19th and I will draw the first round on the 16th.

One of my players that double jumped last season is on 17 dv so should hopefully raise again

Not ashamed to admit I've been looking through my past games. That pirate mafia was pretty fun. It was the first game I ran and it had 2 mafia factions and 19 players. I'm not even sure I could make up 19 roles these days!

You have a good developing side there, it just needs time : peace: N-Euro Championship Cup Season 32 Starting Friday 19th September Who is in? Teams: Lylat Wanderers Atlético Aqui1a @Animal this would be a good opportunity for you to get some experience playing games Xpert Quick Beginner's Guide I just wanted to make sure the new guys know about how important it is to keep good form for your players and get high development values. Without high development values, your players will not increase in skill. Player Development The first thing you should look at for your players is age against skill. The average is 18-4 (to become 19-5, 20-6 etc as a baseline). If you have players below this average, they are probably not worth keeping on to train (but arguably once they get to 9/10 skill they're decent enough to keep around if it keeps your team balanced). Focus should always be on youth. Players also have special qualities which are explained HERE - take note of Divas as simply giving them their favourite shirt number will remove any negative effects they would otherwise have. Development Values - Players increase their base skill at the end of each season in the change report. The size of the increase/decrease is determined by development values (DV) - which you can keep track of if you hover over the player name in your team list. A DV of 10 or higher will give your player an increase in skill but to get a visible raise (ie, to get one skill bar higher) you would be aiming for 14/15 at the very least. DVs are worked out by your player's average form and match experience over the season. If you play stronger teams and lose, you can still get good DV for your players if you can keep their form up as your player's match experience will be better when you play high skilled teams (DV is an accountable figure but match experience is hidden and probably not worth thinking too much about). Younger players will raise easier than older players who may not raise even on 16/17 DV. Form Your player's form has an influence on how well that player will play in a match. A player on 10 form will usually play TO his skill level during the game. A player on higher than 10 form will usually play above their own skill level during a game. You can see how well your players did during the game afterwards when you look at your 'last line-up'.

It was tough but I got three points today which means if Yellow Sub lose their last game and Eights either draw or lose AND I win mine, I will finish first... not gonna happen but the chance is there.

A running theme at the moment...

I remember another game that was ridiculed for its change in art style... pretty sure there's an HD remake of it now :p

Using a proxy works perfectly. This has been raised in their forum now and there are 50+ pages worth of people posting up their details so VM can fix it. It's been a week now though which is ridiculous!

Congratulations

Spotlight The spotlight this round was on the Lower League and the match of Recall United vs Lords of Hydra. Players were to predict the result and which team would score first. Russian Revolution were the only team to take part this time and while they got the score wrong by guessing a draw (it was 2-1 to Recall), they still managed to guess that Hydra would score first to get a point. Scores: Hadens Legends: 4 Russian Revolution: 3 Recall United: 2 The Familia FC: 1 The next spotlight will be a bonus round. On the last match of the season, any team to score 3 goals or more will get a point. Alliances Yellow Submarine, Madpool, Gibbs Probies - 20 Intergalactico Stars, AFC Dedede, Recall United - 20 Lylat Wanderers, The Roger Federer Crew, Fake Team 1 - 18 DuDs Baggies, Leeds M.O.T, Lords of Hydra - 18 Silverdale Salmon, Atlético Aqui1a, LiVeRpOoL - 17 Rossers Rovers, The Familia FC, The Great Mcoy - 16 Eights United, bob, Spurs - 16 Hadens Legends, Russian Revolution, Blue Rogues - 15 Coloccini FC, AC Elites, The Sixty-Fourthers - 15 Winston Garden Lions, Kippen FC, Fedex United - 12

No, that does make sense. I know I have heard of pinging now you've explained it :p [edit] seems it was only a temporary fix. VirginMedia are really fucking it up here. Apparently a lot of people are having this issue at the moment, I can only hope VM actually get on and fix it.

Yeah I'm with VM. I don't know what cmd tracerts or pathpings are :p Thank you so much for that reddit thread. I tried one of the solutions and it worked instantly :heart: Apparently Virgin Media caches youtube and sends you to their proxy so they can throttle the downloads but their own servers can't handle it for all areas. So I guess I'm in a viewership-heavy area for youtube on VM. Still not really sure why it only affected certain videos :p but at least it's fixed now.

I'd need Yellow Sub and Eights to both lose at least one of the two remaining matches. I think Yellow Sub will take it this season :p but it's nice (and crazy) to be in the running!

Ok here's one for you... for the last couple of days I have been unable to play certain videos on youtube. It seems to be completely random which videos don't work and it's only maybe 1 out of 10 that won't load. Some completely fail to load/buffer from the start but I can still see the preview frames if I hover along the track bar. Some load a little bit and play for a few seconds before the same issue occurs but most videos work absolutely fine. It's not limited to just one browser or even one device. I've tried the same videos from my mobile and they won't work either which leads me to believe it's some kind of network issue but I cannot for the life of me figure out what it is. Other people can load the videos fine so it must be on my end, right? I've reset my router/modem and cleared my browser of everything etc. Any ideas of what to do? The only thing I've found online that's similar to what's happening to me is this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/983930 but no solution was found, the guy just said it randomly started working again a day after posting. Nothing has changed in my home network to cause this so I am completely stuck. Please help!

A few days ago the 'reply to thread' page was stretched for me. Well... everything looked normal but you could scroll about 80 miles to the right. It hasn't happened since though :p maybe yours will sort out with a refresh/cache clear?

I've accepted you so I'm guessing you've worked it out now. I will post up a quick guide for you tomorrow

it still took me longer than I'm proud of

@Charlie, I've just noticed you haven't logged in to xpert since the first of August, hopefully you'll still be with us next season?

Spotlight The spotlight this round was on the Middle League and the match of AC Elites vs The Roger Federer Crew. Players were to predict the result and the time for any goal to be scored. The result was 1-0 to Federer with a goal scored in the 29th minute. No one predicted a Federer win so it comes down to the times and Haden was closest with his guess of a goal in the 33rd minute. Scores: Hadens Legends: 4 Recall United: 2 Russian Revolution: 2 The Familia FC: 1 The next spotlight is on next Tuesday's matches and we're focussing on the lower league match of Recall United vs Lords of Hydra. Please predict the result and which team will be first to score. Alliances Intergalactico Stars, AFC Dedede, Recall United - 20 DuDs Baggies, Leeds M.O.T, Lords of Hydra - 19 Yellow Submarine, Madpool, Gibbs Probies - 18 Lylat Wanderers, The Roger Federer Crew, Fake Team 1 - 18 Silverdale Salmon, Atlético Aqui1a, LiVeRpOoL - 17 Rossers Rovers, The Familia FC, The Great Mcoy - 17 Eights United, bob, Spurs - 16 Hadens Legends, Russian Revolution, Blue Rogues - 15 Coloccini FC, AC Elites, The Sixty-Fourthers - 13 Winston Garden Lions, Kippen FC, Fedex United - 12 Announcement Next season I will be introducing a new side game, BetPeeps! Each of you will get PeepsPoints to place on certain bets (for example: bet a team will concede less than 10 goals in the season). There will be odds for each team for each bet (where applicable) and the person with the most points at the end of the season will win VIP (this is a separate prize from the lottery VIP).

The current season ends on the 14th of September. We'll be doing a cup again if people are up for it so we'll have 2-3 weeks before the new season starts. Hopefully we'll be able to recruit some more managers in that time or we'll be shrinking again.

I burst out laughing so hard at that edit at 11:37... "yeah they were" *cut to ReZ looking stunned* That was well done :p Great vid, more footage next time pls.

I'd say if promotion is secured, development is more important. You still don't want to be losing games that you should win because that will drop your form and affect development but you do want to be pushing youths or whoever is low on DV. It also depends on whether you care about coming first rather than second or third :p Winning the league will only really give you a bit of extra cash and a trophy which is nice for you but doesn't really help the team all that much.

Didn't read about that at the time (if you posted), hope it didn't hurt too bad!