OSM Events: How to improve? Discussion of current ones!

[WaterhoenNL]

@specialone said in Promotions/Campaigns:

If you guys have a good and Fair idea for an event, please share it with us. If not... well, if you don't like the ones we've, you're not forced to take part on the events. It's up to you to decide if you join it or not!

Why not give this type of prizes for example to the best builder in the last 64 stage of the WCC? If you want to make a event about 'teambuilding' ofcourse.

Otherwise a prize for the WCC winners (or another event were everyone can participate) wouldn't be bad if your goal is to reach "Only the best managers..." with your events. I think we can all agree this event has nothing to do with the 'best manager' as you mentioned in the first sentence for this event

[MenagerBL]

All these events are about how to spend coins. Ofc I understand...it's business. At the end of the day you have to pay your own bills, you can't work for free.
About the last event? If the guys wanna spend 100.000 coins to earn 13.000 it's ok. I don't care. Everyone can spend his own money wherever he wants, it's his legal right.

But there must be the other part of the medal. There must be some way to win coins.
At the moment there are no rewards in OSM. Even not in NewStyleBattles as ''official'', which is ridiculous...but NSB's are boring anyway...

Although I'm more on the side of regular managers, I can understand the guys representing GB's when they say they can't award 100 people because a lot of cheaters. Ok. Think some suggestions like ''winning most MP's'', ''scoring most goals'', ''league without losing a match'' are bad too. Even there mostly cheaters would win and it has nothing to do with ''skills''. They can put own multi-accounts in league's and that's it.

In my opinion (or better to say it's fact) the main problem of OSM is LACK OF serious COMPETITONS which could be awarded. Both, individual and crew competitions. Or better to say, there are few unofficial competitions but gents from GB's don't care about them.
Game without competition is boring.

Here is my suggestion: (I ask all of you admins to read it carefully and think about it in a serious manner.)

The best is to create a team of ''Event managers'' where would be regular managers just like me and all other, who could organize a good tournament.
Open a e-mail only for that purpose.
Each manager who has some experience and thinks he can organize a interesting tournament has to send his idea to you. To make it more serious he has to send his bio, not only from OSM but also from real life, to explain why he think GB's should allow him to runn this tournament etc. Also, ofc he has to send all possible details about the tournament, from the registration period till the very end (who can participate, will it be individual tournament, tournament with teams of 2 or 4 managers, classic battles 5v5, is it league system or knock-out system, amount of boss coins for rewards etc.)
After serious consideration, you choose 6-7 best projects and allow the managers to runn them moving these tournaments to another level. Ofc all these tournaments would be under your control. If you notice the smallest irregularity you will shut down the tournament. After each season of the tournament organizer sends you screenshots and detailed explanation of the current situation, which managers should be awarded etc. you send the coins, and everyone is happy. For you boss coins are just a virtual currency, but all this could make the game much more interesting. More competitive, but also fair. Also, in these tournaments managers would spend 1000's of coins, so it would be a win/win situation in my opinion.
Please think about that.
Regards.

[EdgarEAM]

I forgot say something else, so quick.

For avoid some cheaters , the event will be SURPRISE, the kind event and the date ofc

With that u avoid some manager preparing leagues or teams for cheat. And managers can report as always through e mail or in game, if they think that someone is cheating

[jeffro davies]

@menagerbl said in Promotions/Campaigns:

All these events are about how to spend coins. Ofc I understand...it's business. At the end of the day you have to pay your own bills, you can't work for free.
About the last event? If the guys wanna spend 100.000 coins to earn 13.000 it's ok. I don't care. Everyone can spend his own money wherever he wants, it's his legal right.

But there must be the other part of the medal. There must be some way to win coins.
At the moment there are no rewards in OSM. Even not in NewStyleBattles as ''official'', which is ridiculous...but NSB's are boring anyway...

Although I'm more on the side of regular managers, I can understand the guys representing GB's when they say they can't award 100 people because a lot of cheaters. Ok. Think some suggestions like ''winning most MP's'', ''scoring most goals'', ''league without losing a match'' are bad too. Even there mostly cheaters would win and it has nothing to do with ''skills''. They can put own multi-accounts in league's and that's it.

In my opinion (or better to say it's fact) the main problem of OSM is LACK OF serious COMPETITONS which could be awarded. Both, individual and crew competitions. Or better to say, there are few unofficial competitions but gents from GB's don't care about them.
Game without competition is boring.

Here is my suggestion: (I ask all of you admins to read it carefully and think about it in a serious manner.)

The best is to create a team of ''Event managers'' where would be regular managers just like me and all other, who could organize a good tournament.
Open a e-mail only for that purpose.
Each manager who has some experience and thinks he can organize a interesting tournament has to send his idea to you. To make it more serious he has to send his bio, not only from OSM but also from real life, to explain why he think GB's should allow him to runn this tournament etc. Also, ofc he has to send all possible details about the tournament, from the registration period till the very end (who can participate, will it be individual tournament, tournament with teams of 2 or 4 managers, classic battles 5v5, is it league system or knock-out system, amount of boss coins for rewards etc.)
After serious consideration, you choose 6-7 best projects and allow the managers to runn them moving these tournaments to another level. Ofc all these tournaments would be under your control. If you notice the smallest irregularity you will shut down the tournament. After each season of the tournament organizer sends you screenshots and detailed explanation of the current situation, which managers should be awarded etc. you send the coins, and everyone is happy. For you boss coins are just a virtual currency, but all this could make the game much more interesting. More competitive, but also fair. Also, in these tournaments managers would spend 1000's of coins, so it would be a win/win situation in my opinion.
Please think about that.
Regards.

Already plenty of well run competitions by normal managers that get no BCs whatsoever Nenad. WCC, WNT, Epic, Eagles, crew cup etc Not in GBs best interest to put BCs prizes in these competitions unfortunately. People play them anyway so can’t see them doing it. I’d like to see some good individual competitions, very rare or I don’t know where to look

[GalipCaliskan1907]

First of all thank you (and others) for coming up with these suggestions. It's constructive criticism like this that can help us constantly improve OSM.
Your messages are clear. We will take these with us, learn from them and improve in the future.

I want to continue this conversation, but to not further 'pollute' the Promotions topic we moved the conversation here where we can continue and help eachother find nice new ideas for events.

@menagerbl said in Promotions/Campaigns:

All these events are about how to spend coins. Ofc I understand...it's business. At the end of the day you have to pay your own bills, you can't work for free.
About the last event? If the guys wanna spend 100.000 coins to earn 13.000 it's ok. I don't care. Everyone can spend his own money wherever he wants, it's his legal right.

But there must be the other part of the medal. There must be some way to win coins.
At the moment there are no rewards in OSM. Even not in NewStyleBattles as ''official'', which is ridiculous...but NSB's are boring anyway...

Although I'm more on the side of regular managers, I can understand the guys representing GB's when they say they can't award 100 people because a lot of cheaters. Ok. Think some suggestions like ''winning most MP's'', ''scoring most goals'', ''league without losing a match'' are bad too. Even there mostly cheaters would win and it has nothing to do with ''skills''. They can put own multi-accounts in league's and that's it.

In my opinion (or better to say it's fact) the main problem of OSM is LACK OF serious COMPETITONS which could be awarded. Both, individual and crew competitions. Or better to say, there are few unofficial competitions but gents from GB's don't care about them.
Game without competition is boring.

Here is my suggestion: (I ask all of you admins to read it carefully and think about it in a serious manner.)

The best is to create a team of ''Event managers'' where would be regular managers just like me and all other, who could organize a good tournament.
Open a e-mail only for that purpose.
Each manager who has some experience and thinks he can organize a interesting tournament has to send his idea to you. To make it more serious he has to send his bio, not only from OSM but also from real life, to explain why he think GB's should allow him to runn this tournament etc. Also, ofc he has to send all possible details about the tournament, from the registration period till the very end (who can participate, will it be individual tournament, tournament with teams of 2 or 4 managers, classic battles 5v5, is it league system or knock-out system, amount of boss coins for rewards etc.)
After serious consideration, you choose 6-7 best projects and allow the managers to runn them moving these tournaments to another level. Ofc all these tournaments would be under your control. If you notice the smallest irregularity you will shut down the tournament. After each season of the tournament organizer sends you screenshots and detailed explanation of the current situation, which managers should be awarded etc. you send the coins, and everyone is happy. For you boss coins are just a virtual currency, but all this could make the game much more interesting. More competitive, but also fair. Also, in these tournaments managers would spend 1000's of coins, so it would be a win/win situation in my opinion.
Please think about that.
Regards.

I agree with you regarding the lack of serious competitions. We don't have seasonal competition like FIFA's Weekend League/FUT, Brawl Stars'/Clash Royale's seasons or Rocket League's seasons. I think these short-term, resetting, global competitions would add a whole new layer to the meta of OSM. But that's a whole different discussion for another time

I think your idea is a great start. It's basically what we are doing now already with the OSM WC and several other 'local' events organized by different support teams (ID, RU, TR, ES, etc.) but with more 'regulation' and extra challenges.
The problems I think we'll have is keeping it managable, organisation-wise and preventing-cheaters-wise. This requires a lot of man/woman-power, which we don't have a lot of. Remember that if we offer these kind of events it's not at the scale of the OSM WC, but much, much larger.

Events with crews are a much more complex situation because we can't support something that goes against our own OSM Terms. We 'allow' them to run, but if one of the managers involved decides to report, pretty much everyone will be locked for collusion. So until we find a good solution for crew events, we won't have any official Crew events. Feel free to post ideas if you think you have a solution. That's the whole point of this topic. Find a solution together that we can all enjoy.

Tip: As you know we're focussing hard on bringing Champions Cup to OSM atm. Maybe we can have events related to that feature?

[Sabit Mamedov]

@galipcaliskan1907 As manager above mentioned about lack of competitions for crews, I'd like to continue this subject. As we know all crew tournaments are organized by common managers and have a status of non official. To be honest, it's some strange situation for this game. As crews are the important part of OSM, so lack of competitions in this area is a big insufficiency in my opinion.

I understand, that organizing such tournaments demand more human resources and time. But there is also a solution for this. As the MenagerBL said above, you can hire among those managers, who is already involved in competitions and has experience in this field. The main difference will be in status of such competitions. If Gamebasic will support these events, they will be official tournaments.

And also thank you for listening and discussing with us these suggestions.

[MenagerBL]

@GalipCaliskan1907
''Events with crews are a much more complex situation because we can't support something that goes against our own OSM Terms. We 'allow' them to run, but if one of the managers involved decides to report, pretty much everyone will be locked for collusion.''

In NewStyleBattles we go against the OSM Terms too. Irregular transfers everywhere. With this logic everyone who plays new battles should be locked. Don't see a problem there.

[Majstor Matt]

Back from holiday, weather was bit off, but Bahamas are quite nice to be honest all in all.

Anyway, who won? Who is the BEST MANAGER EVER? To whom should I go to learn tactical strategies from, specially in budget managing and investment/potential income managment?

[NeverBackDown 2oo9]

@majstor-matt The winner of this event is: @Jassim-Stankovic It's not the best in tactics but in team building...even if he puts a ton of boss coins in that team he owns this trophy. I know it's frustrating and also almost impossible for a manager who plays this game winning Boss Coins out of commercials to compete with someone like him but even without this event I'm sure the value of his team it would be the same. In any game are players who allow themselves and like to invest a lot of money in beating some records and it is everyone's problem how they manage their money.

Matt I have the impression or are you always against the system? it's funny to see you always commenting on this game and filling the forum with unnecessary discussions that do nothing good

[Majstor Matt]

@neverbackdown-2oo9 System must always be questioned and put pressured on. Otherwise we end up in dictatorial system where minority opresses the majority due to the fact that majority does not want to speak out.

I just cant stand injustice and false marketing and I always like to express my opinnion. Sometimes with better arguments, sometimes with worse, Im no saint as well. But after all, this game grew too much to my heart to abandon it for good, so I will always speak out and say if something bother me, no matter what anybody thinks of that, because silence and pure following without questioning leads to no good, just as in society as well.

[SUPERNOVA 8]

@majstor-matt said in OSM Events: How to improve? Discussion of current ones!:

@neverbackdown-2oo9 System must always be questioned and put pressured on. Otherwise we end up in dictatorial system where minority opresses the majority due to the fact that majority does not want to speak out.

I just cant stand injustice and false marketing and I always like to express my opinnion. Sometimes with better arguments, sometimes with worse, Im no saint as well. But after all, this game grew too much to my heart to abandon it for good, so I will always speak out and say if something bother me, no matter what anybody thinks of that, because silence and pure following without questioning leads to no good, just as in society as well.

Talking about injustice...Can I please get a forum ban too? I could definitely use a trip to Bahamas !! You are killing me Doc !

Now on a serious note:
Welcome back to action Matty ! It's always a pleasure to have you around .
I read your posts and this time I won't remain silent. Because I know you too well, I love your spirit, your sense of humor, your skills, your passion and I know that you are a pretty smart, educated and obviously an opinionated man and OSM manager.
I respect you for all that but I'm afraid you are giving the wrong impression about yourself here mate.
Nobody ever said that you or any manager must remain silent. On the contrary , we all want the same thing : an active forum full of opinionated managers but we can never allow any kind of posts that are insulting or provoking in any way from one group of managers towards another. Does it make any sense to argue or accuse and judge other managers about the amount of money that they are willing to spend on a game that they like ? No, it does not dear. I am in the same boat with you Matty , I cannot afford to spend big amounts of real money or boss coins for my gaming time but just like you I do find my way to enjoy my time on OSM even without spending coins like crazy. Do I expect to get rewarded for that ? No, of course not ! Come on now.
You mentioned false marketing and I ask you and every manager that might read my words : Have you ever stopped for a minute to think what a big change was the new crew battle system ( which btw another manager said that he finds it boring ) ?
Let me remind you that there was an open poll in our community about Crew Battles, managers voted , they spoke out ,they decided and now: Timers are off , TCs and STs are off and so many managers and crew members ( wealthy or not ) are able to enjoy the fun part of a crew battle without spending loads of boss coins and they get equal and fair chances for a place on the top ranking.
Another old and experienced manager mentioned that no big event gets rewarded by GBs . Then how can you explain the OSM WC 2018 prizes ? >> https://forum.onlinesoccermanager.com/topic/25583/osm-wc-2018-edition/123?page=7 ,
https://forum.onlinesoccermanager.com/topic/25583/osm-wc-2018-edition/259?page=13
Or what about the increase of free boss coins while watching videos? Some time ago we were able to watch only 3 commercial videos every 2 hours more or less, while now there are 3 ways to watch a video via our apps and we get like 9 or more coins every 2 hours.
All I'm trying to say is that good changes happen for all users and for all pockets . And I agree with you noone is a saint, nobody is perfect and we all make mistakes cause we are only human. What matters is that we all ( managers , Mods , Staff , Admins ) try our best to keep each other happy and pleased . Now, is it possible to keep everybody satisfied 100% at any time ? No, I'm afraid it is not . Not for OSM or for any other online gamesite. Two Admins tried to explain to us all that new events are on trial and that they do want to read honest opinions and suggestions from every manager on this forum if possible but we must always express ourselves with self-respect and respect to each other. Furthermore, it is not enough to share what we do not like about any new feature or event that appears on the game, we have to try and find a solution together. A plain complaint leads nowhere. Can't you see that guys? So please speak up , bring new ideas , share your thoughts but try to keep the negativity out of the way my mates . After all , we all love OSM so let's try to have more fun !

[Murid Nakal]

Since best trainner temporary event available for spesial reward, Have we're make new feature game spesial auto reward boss coins for every manager have reach 1 Billion value team? I know it already available at Archievment feature but just once for claimed the reward if possible make it back to back claimed no matter how much boss coin reward (eg.15BC,20BC,25BC... Etc) Just game sugestion. Thank you

[GuidoJ]

How would you feel about this kind of event:
Everyone is free to create a guide for OSM, like how to do transfers or how to get top position with a objective 16 team with tactics and all that. The top 5 English guides (best or funniest or most effective) will get some ammount of Boss Coins (1k-5k?). Everyone has a month to write it and maybe play a season to show screenshots over days to show how it all progresses in OSM.

It helps everyone by making good guides for people that don't know everything about OSM and helps the people who already know everything get a bit of extra BC, whether they pay or free to play.

[sergiu il]

@guidoj I've discussed this matter with @SUPERNOVA-8, I'm already writing a complete in-depth guide about OSM (transfers, squad building, training, scouting, tactic preparation, etc..)

Does this mean that anyone will be able to submit it, if so then we'll have many opinions with some more correct than others, will these guides be reviewed by the people behind the game, in order to verify if the guide is written correctly? (ex false informations or opinions about stuff in the game)

Or should this effort be concentrated by the community in one place like a general OSM guide (I am building this idea), where we gather and give our ideas, experiences, perspectives in order to create the most faithful guide possible?

Also in my opinion the help of admins or people that know how the game engine works is crucial here in order not to only provide faithful information but to also not spread lies about the game

Cheers

[GuidoJ]

@sergiu-il Sorry for the late response! I think you're right about the part that we need good judges for this to be succesful. I think our supportstaff would be very capable to do this nicely. Maybe some people will want to sign up as a Judge for the event. It's just an idea now, so feel free to think and talk about it more!

[akinguler]

( better staff!!!! ) Event of this weekend is like a punishment. % 50 less training and friendlies improvement.