Sim: World Cup Manager · published · build 26276994
Fixes
- Tapping a player opened a different player; the real one couldn’t be selected (duplicate IDs after app restart — affected saves auto-repair on load)
- Player IDs could collide with scouted-player IDs on long sessions
- Player links in older news items could open the wrong player
- New players could share a name with a current, retired or record-holding player, merging their all-time records
- Players changed club 3–4 times per season rollover (three transfer rounds were firing; now one per window, with a settling period and halved rates — 71% → 37% of pool moving per season, triple moves eliminated)
- Euros showed “Not being played this season” while the draw was pending; now “Awaiting the draw”
- Draw-pending message said “World Cup” for every tournament
- Euro play-off ran the World Cup intercontinental bracket and could wrongly mark you as having missed the World Cup; removed, with guards for in-flight saves
“Qualified!” news never fired for CONMEBOL sides (six automatic places, hard-coded to two)
- Northern Ireland used the Union Jack; now the Ulster Banner, matching the other home nations
- White screen on launch when a device blocked storage access
- White screen with no way back when a save failed to open
- Startup failures now show a readable error instead of a blank screen
New
- Contract duration on player profiles, with expiring deals flagged
- Tournament record books — Awards → Records → By Tournament: all-time goals, assists, appearances and titles per competition
- Social feed — new 💬 Social tab in News; fan, pundit and analyst reactions to results, call-ups and transfers. Tone reflects the fixture, so a narrow loss to a giant reads as heroic and dropping points to a minnow reads as a scandal
- Player interactions — Praise, Reassure or Challenge a player (once per window each), plus a pre-match team talk; outcomes depend on the player’s obedience and morale