HTs on Global/Hattrick Rules

Keywords: (Friendly Games), (Rules), (Multiple Friendly Games)

From:	HT-Klas		(7831771.38) as reply to (7831771.1)
To: Everyone			18.01.2007 at 21:23
In reply to (7831762.952) Dear HTs, I have heard that it is forbidden to play multiple friendlies against one team. Is this true? (I can't find it in the rules, so if it's indeed true, you might want to add it.) No, that is not forbidden.

Keywords: (Rules), (No Politics Allowed)

From:	HT-Tjecken		(7831771.59) as reply to (7831771.1)
To: Everyone			05.02.2007 at 17:57
Reply to (7831762.118) Without wanting to question your neutrality, which nevertheless my subconscience does, it always brought my attention how "politics is not allowed" and yet everyday I see many politically left-wing team names / arena names being allowed or not being removed/changed, even of dictatorships such as communism, where as the other "wing" of politics is permanently forbidden to the smallest appearance/sign. Political names are ok, but political discussions on the conferences are not - so I think you (and maybe others too) have misunderstood things. In fact, we would love to allow political discussions on the general forums too. Unfortunately it looks like subjects like that can't be discussed in a sensible and respectable way on general forums, so we had to put an end to it (hence the conference rule). Political discussions are however allowed within federations. There are however some rules about names which could be considered to border to politics. But, quite naturally imho, we don't allow names which could be linked to nazism, fascism or rascism for example. One can say that we allow political names as long as they can be considered human. For example FC Communism is ok, but FC Stalin is not. If you spot a name which you don't find appropriate, please report it to the GMs (Help --> Contact us).

Keywords: (Economy)

From:	HT-Tjecken		(7831771.96) as reply to (7831771.1)
To: Everyone			03.07.2007, at 16:26
Reply to (8995830.238) Do you think God exists? I'm not allowed to discuss religous matters on the conferences. :) Is it possible for you to talk openly about how you perceive the transfer market "problem" and possible solutions? Sure it is, I've done so a little bit in this thread. That said, I think this whole particular matter (the state of the economy) will fit better on editorial space.

Keywords: (Transfer)

From:	HT-Tjecken		(7831771.99) as reply to (7831771.1)
To: Everyone			22.08.2007 at 17:03
Back again after summer holidays, which unfortunately wasn't announced as it should've been. Sorry about that. Reply to (8995830.344) What about the bidprices for such a special player ? Is it allowed to buy such special players for more money than what is considered to be overpriced according to his skills ? Will I get a fine ? Will the seller be punished (received less money) ? Could I be banned for this ? For example : 1) I want to buy a player which has my real name (but no skills whatsoever). I would definitely buy him and maybe for much more than another user would pay for him 2) What about a player with a famous name (singer, footballer, ...) ? I can assume a lot of female managers want to have Brad Pitt in their team ;-) This would definitely create a bidwar (even though he has no football skills ;-)) , so how high can you overbid ? The rules are quite clear on this point: "all bids should be in relevance to what could be considered reasonable for the player in question". How do we interpret this then, because what's reasonable for you may not be reasonable for me - something your first example pretty much shows. Cause I wouldn't pay anything for no-skilled player with your name, but you may. But in fact this isn't really that hard as it looks, except for one thing which I'll save to last. But if you pay more than the market consider being normal it's an overbid. It's the GMs who make sure this rule is followed. One can say there are two types of overbids, those where no cheating are involved and those where cheating (giving favours to another team, which often is managed by the same person for some reason...) are involved. Your examples are both of the first type. and what GMs do in that case is to do what they always do: They look at the market and check what this kind of player is normally worth. Now, if the player is worth 0 noone will care if you buy him for 1-2000€. I guess noone will care even if you buy him for 10000€. What's really interesting here is that anyone selling a 'nobody' shouldn't benefit just because of his name, hence why GMs deduct money from the seller if it's an overbid. So in theory you can pay how much you want for such a player, as the seller don't benefit from it. Paying that much for a player like that would however be pretty stupid of course. The other type of overbids, where cheating is involved, require other actions (lock and fines etc) from GMs. Those cases are often pretty obvious and fairly easy to handle. What's so hard then? The hard thing is for GMs to evaluate transfer price adjustments, cause the seller may be somewhat angry as someone takes "his" money. It's also pretty hard to say exact how much a player is worth. It's wise as a seller in an overbid case to report this directly to the GMs, for two reasons: Less frustration and more importantantly that a lack of report may add some suspicion to the case. In the GM organization there are however persons who constantly follow the transfer market who help out in cases like this. And even if you'll never know exactly how much a player is worth we can always come pretty close, and GMs are rather kind when doing these eveluations.

Keywords: (Transfer)

From:	HT-Tjecken		(7831771.116) as reply to (7831771.96)
To: Everyone			25.09.2007 at 15:34
Reply to (8995830.496) When will the rules - e.g. (gamerules.asp?find=training) - be updated? As a matter of fact the rules are in need of a complete rewrite, but as you point out the training chapter is in desperate need because of the stamina change. I'll make sure to start with that chapter early next week when I'm back in town again. (This means I'll be offline for a few days, new questions will be answered next week again)