Major Update – Staff System & Sandbox Mode

A new update is now live, introducing the Staff System and a Sandbox Mode, along with several improvements and fixes across the game.

New Features

Staff System

You can now hire staff to support your academy operations.

• Staff members can be recruited on the Staff Recruitment page.

• Available staff refresh every month.

• Coaches and Scouts are the first available roles, additional roles will be added in future updates.

Coaches

• Coach efficiency is now displayed in the Training window.

• Coaches can be assigned directly through the Academy Facilities Overview or over the Staff Window.

Scouts

• Assignments can be set on the staff window to define the player profiles to be scouted

• Players can now be assigned to scouts for scouting tasks.

• Assign scouts via the Player Window → Scouting page or by right-clicking a player.

Note: Signed players’ attributes are always estimated based on your own attributes, not the scouts.

Sandbox Mode

A new Sandbox Mode can now be selected when starting a new game.

Sandbox Mode allows you to customize your starting conditions:

• Budget

• Prestige

• Attributes

• Starting facilities

Achievements are disabled when Sandbox Mode is active.

Improvements

• Player Overall ratings are now revealed after reaching a certain scouting progress, estimated based on your Judgement attribute.

• Player negotiation system has been reworked.

• Attendance limit reduced to create more realistic scouting availability.

• Autofocus adjusted to select more randomized players from the lineup when multiple players meet equal requirements.

• Scouted Progress is now visible in the Team window.

• Tutorial added for the Player Window.

• Missing translations added.

• Various UI improvements and adjustments.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the right-click menu remained open after opening the Player Window.

• Fixed an issue where the first season sponsor offer was calculated incorrectly.