Important Info - Please Read

SpecialOne

          Welcome to OSM: The game!

Hello everybody and welcome to OSM: The Game forum!

In this section you can find all sorts of topics that concern you, either as a free-agent manager or as a member of a crew. This is the place where you can exchange your experiences about your gaming time in general or talk about different tactics and formations, interact with other managers about any Crew Battle or other big Tournaments.
As you all know by now, this football manager game is continuously evolved and updated, therefore we welcome and encourage you to often post your thoughts in here so that your voices can be heard and this way you can all help to improve the game .
However, we kindly request from you to keep in mind that certain rules are applied on these forums that you need to get familiar with before you start with your posting.

Hespera

              HOW TO USE THIS FORUM

Make sure your posts are always and only in ENGLISH language.
Inappropriate language is not what we're looking for on these forums, under any circumstances.
Bullying or disrespect towards other managers will not be tolerated, including derogatory remarks about a person's gender, age, disability, sexuality, religious beliefs, ethnicity, nationality or race.
Flooding, spamming, phishing etc is not welcome either. Trolling, if controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant and/or off-topic messages with the intention of provoking other users into an emotional response or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion, is not allowed. The same goes for public criticism that's not constructive of the work or judgements of the OSM Moderators, Staff Support and Game Owners.
Please do not promote competitors' websites.
Try to limit the use of capital letters, excessive exclamation marks or too many smileys while posting.

ruby2003

-Forum Tips

Here are a few questions and answers that might help you as you navigate your way through these forums!

How do I open/create a topic?

Click the New topic button- http://prntscr.com/d3yyf
Enter the title and the description and press the submit button- http://prntscr.com/d3yyxd

How do I reply to a topic?

Go onto the topic you would like to reply to
Click the ‘Reply’ button at the below the last post - http://prntscr.com/d3yzs8

How do I reply to a certain post?

Like before, go onto the topic
This time, click the reply button inside the dark blue box - http://prntscr.com/d3z0d0
When you post this it will appear just like a normal post, but it will also appear underneath the post you have replied to - http://prntscr.com/d3z0ux
And of course, the manager you reply to will receive a notification

What are Reputations?
This is a way for managers to rate posts. If you like a post press the up arrow and if you disagree with a post you can click the down arrow. You can find the managers with the highest reputation when you go to Users and click ‘Most reputation’ - http://prntscr.com/d3z1mr

What are Tags?
Tags are things that can be added to a topic to show what category they are about. For example, one tag we have is ‘Crews’. When you click on the tag all of the other topics with that tag are shown - http://prntscr.com/d3z2d2

How do I add a tag?

A tag can only be added to a topic once it is being created.
When making the topic, enter the tags below the main text- http://prntscr.com/d3z2vw

How do I report a post?
If there is a post that you think breaks the OSM Forum Rules you can report it by:

Clicking the line with 3 dots at the bottom of the offensive post- http://prntscr.com/d3z43o
And click ‘Flag for Moderation’- http://prntscr.com/d3z3mi
You will then have to choose if the post is offensive or if the post is spam and also give a reason for flagging the post- http://prntscr.com/d3z4e9

What is each forum for?

Updates- This is where all information about updates will go. Events will also be advertised here.
Support - This is where all questions about OSM and all bugs found can go.
OSM: The game - Here we can discuss all about OSM.
OSM: The sports bar - Here we can talk about pretty much anything that isn’t OSM related!

What is a signature? How do I add a signature to my profile?
A signature is something that will be displayed beneath all of your posts- http://prntscr.com/d3zai8
To add one, following these steps:

Click on your avatar, which is located in the top right hand corner and then a drop down list will be displayed, click on ‘Edit Profile’- http://prntscr.com/d3zazn
Then you will see an option to add a signature- http://prntscr.com/d3zba1
Remember to save before you exit. If you don’t the signature will not appear at the bottom of your posts!

How to join a group/other community forum?

Click on the group of people- http://prntscr.com/d4e4wu
Then you will see different languages- http://prntscr.com/d4e5m4
Look for the country of your community and if you found it click on it-
Then as last click on join group- http://prntscr.com/d4e7mf
The community forums will be added just like this- http://prntscr.com/d4e983

Profile settings:

How to change your avatar?

Unfortunately it's not possible to change avatar on forums, we want users to have same avatar on both places - game and forums, for that reason you can only change avatars on OSM

Hopefully all of your questions have been answered, if not, please ask round.

SUPERNOVA 8

-Search Tool - how to use such a powerful feature?

As you can see the forum is full of different Categories and Topics with loads of posts. Therefore it is of a high importance for every manager to learn how to use this valuable tool that the forum menu has to offer. The so called Search Tool, it's that icon that looks like a magnifying glass.

If you click on it a new page opens and in there you can type a key word , relevant to what you need to find fast. For example you can type Nationality Bonus and click on the blue Search button. In a second you will see in front of you every single post in where your key word had been used.
In one word... Priceless !!! :

SUPERNOVA 8

Greetings to all OSM users and forumers.

Please take my advice and make sure you read carefully all the Terms & Conditions of Use before you start with your gaming time on OSM - https://en.onlinesoccermanager.com/Terms -

so you won't have to weep later.

-OSM TERMS & CONDITIONS

Terms

Please carefully read these Terms and Conditions before using OSM. Your access to and use of this game is subject to these Terms (including the Privacy Policy of the game) and all applicable laws. By accessing and using this game, you signify that you agree to these Terms.

These conditions represent an agreement between you and Gamebasics. By accepting the agreement you agree to follow the rules of OSM, as well as any other ruleset by Gamebasics. This agreement also applies when you purchase our products. If you have a question about the cancellations or refunds of your purchase, you can send a mail to en.support@onlinesoccermanager.com. If you do not agree to the terms, you should not register as a member at OSM.
By agreeing to register with the game, you agree to receive occasional promotional emails from Gamebasics. You will be able to unsubscribe from these emails at any time.
You may not create and/or manage more than one account at OSM. This includes accounts in different leagues.
You may not babysit accounts of friends or relatives. This includes taking over the account of someone who is quitting the game. Both are unacceptable.
You are to report all bugs you discover to the administrator, and never to abuse any bugs.
You may not use inappropriate language on OSM's Forums, Profiles, Chats and emails.
You may not buy and/or sell players for the purposes of artificially giving another manager in your league money, because that makes for unfair competition.
Collaboration between managers in all leagues is prohibited at OSM. This includes the fixing of matches and the use of the transfers system to give one club an unfair advantage over another. Factors which will be considered such include, but are not be limited to: deliberately poor team line-ups; players deliberately lined up in the wrong positions; managers joining a league and then resigning after a few days with the deliberate intention of colluding with another manager; the specific use of Training Camps to affect or alter Results in order to gain an unfair advantage or to protect another manager
You may not use any external software/script with the purposes of artificially giving you or someone else an advantage over other managers which makes for unfair competition.
We hold the right to delete or disable your account in case of periods of inactivity.
We hold the right to keep manager names and email addresses of deleted/disabled/locked accounts on our databases as a protection against cheating.

If any of these rules are broken (or bent) by you, drastic measures may be taken by the administrator to correct your wrongdoings. This may include the deletion or disabling of your account.

SpecialOne

-Forum signature settings

You can set a signature that fits on one of the following options.

Option A
Signature with a 1 text line and an image with max 100 pixels height (no limit to width, since if it't too big, forum will reduce it automatically)

Albino Costa - Game Manager

Option B
Signature with a 2 text lines and an image with max 50 pixels height (no limit to width, since if it't too big, forum will reduce it automatically)

Albino Costa - Game Manager
Crew The Force

Option C
Signature with a 3 text lines

Albino Costa - Game Manager
Crew The Force
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." --- Winston Churchill

Note: These are maximum limits, you can set a signature that has less lines and smaller images!

SpecialOne

-I suspect someone is cheating, how can I be sure?

We often get questions about what's considered cheating and what's not. Managers reporting users just because they managed to build a really good squad, because they beat them while their squad is better or even report managers because they don't lose a match.

As you can imagine this creates an huge delay and unnecessary workload having to check all those reports.

So... Let's try to reduce this, by explaining when managers are breaking OSM Terms and when they should be reported.

There are mainly 3 situations where it's easy for users to spot when a manager is breaking OSM Terms:

Illegal transfers

Doing transfers between 2 or more teams (managed by humans) where one of them is clearly the benefited with those transfers
- Buying weak players that don't improve your squad by huge amounts without a clear reason for it (don't have enough players to line due to injuries or suspension)
- Buying strong players that will improve your squad by really low values without having a clear benefit to seller

Collusion

A single user controlling several teams or a group of users playing as a group to 'assure' that a specific team will win the league by setting losing tactics, weak line ups, players on wrong positions and/or play with strongest line up and camping their rivals

Now, if the situation you're facing matches one of the above, please report it here

Offensive language

Offensive names, league names, profiles, insults via PMs, Crew Names.....etc
Since this is a special 'cheating' situation, please report it here

Important NOTE: All reports should include a clear description of what you're reporting and evidences added (if necessary, upload screenshots to an image hosting site and add the links on report)