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Hi all, You may have noticed the lack of updates over the past year. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to change. Sorry about the bad news, but I'm guessing most of you already anticipated that based on the lack of updates. So as soon as I am allowed to by Steam (hopefully next week), I will be making MOBA GM free. If anyone would like to take up the mantle of MOBA GM development, I open sourced all of the code behind the game: https://github.com/dumbmatter/zengm-legacy/tree/master/moba And you can play the web version of the game on the ZenGM website, also for free: https://moba.zengm.com/

[ 2021-01-30 04:55:29 CET ] [ Original post ]

Update Pushed Back (to next Sunday, 4/12)

I am going to have to push the next update back to next Sunday, April 12th. Sorry about that.

[ 2020-04-06 00:16:51 CET ] [ Original post ]

Updated LOL Champions (9 added)

Updated Champions

Here is the list of new champions: [olist]

Kai'Sa

Pyke

Neeko

Sylas

Yuumi

Qiyana

Senna

Aphelios

Sett [/olist] I had thought users might do this with custom files, but the early/mid/late, synergy, and counter data isn't easy to work with. So until I simplify adding new champions I plan on keeping them updated myself.

Bug Fixes

Fixed some links.
Fixed Player page salary display.
For now removing highlighting on the league history page because it doesn't mesh well with the current table design.
MSI history page 2nd knockout team display correctly now.
For now removing Champion Synergy and Champion Counter pages until I make them more stable.
Fixed 2019 LPL 1 & 2 seeds.
Fixed 2019 LPL Groups using #1 seed twice (may be due to change above, so never was live).
Fixed KDA and Tower Differential tiebreakers in standings and playoffs.
The Standings page for Worlds w/ Ladder can get messed up after simulating a season (probably has something to do with the new filtering feature on that page). If you leave the league and reenter it seems to fix itself. I was able to simulate until 2030 without a problem it seemed. However, I wasn't able to pinpoint exactly when/where it would go bad. It seems to be due to the conference data getting corrupted somehow. It takes a while to test that league. So I am still working on it. If you happen to notice when/where it goes bad please do let me know.

Next Update

The next update will be on Sunday, April 5th. I'm still working through some of the suggestions I got for this past update. Sorry if I didn't get to yours. However, feel free to send more bug fixes and quality of life improvements. I may focus more on this for the next update.

[ 2020-02-23 22:54:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

Import League Bug Fix

v1.155 Our last update would break on import for leagues that had played more than 1 season. This is fixed now. Sorry about that.

[ 2020-01-25 17:24:29 CET ] [ Original post ]

Champion Stats By Year, Expanded Custom Roster Functionality

Yearly Champion Stats

In the past league wide champion stats would just accumulate over the years. In order to better capture the meta changes I've enabled a dropdown that will allow you to view champion stats by year. I also added a score stat to better sort the top champions. It is a combination of games played and KDA. There is probably more that can be done here. So feel free to suggest new ways of looking at champion data that would help you particularly with drafting in Coach Mode.

Expanded Custom Roster Functionality

I took the most recent custom roster file: https://old.reddit.com/r/zengmlol/comments/eaqubn/2020_moba_gm_roster_update/fb1i7aw/?st=k5l40ep6&sh=7740b178 and I did some more testing on it. It is a Worlds file. Those should work for any game type (NA, EU, LCK, LPL, Worlds w/ Ladder). However, it was missing some information I was using to do that. So I cleaned it up. Those game types should now work with that file. Also, it should now work even better for other files that had been working. So if you are new and just want to play a quick game to learn, you can take that file and use it on an LCK league, for instance, to just play with those team. That league should play relatively fast. Alternatively, if you really want a challenge, you can also import it into the Worlds w/ Ladder game type so the top teams will have the real players.

Full Feature List

Here is the list of new features/performance improvements/bug fixes: [olist]

League champion stats can now be viewed by year.

Champion Stats page now has a score stat to better sort the top champions.

Power Rankings page now has a team/conferences dropdown.

New God Mode option to let users change max roster size.

Custom roster files better convert Worlds files to LCS-NA only, LCS-EU only, LCK only, LMS only, and Worlds w/ Ladder.

Standings page now has a conference dropdown (by region and ladder)

Adjusted MVP calculation.

Champion Synergy and Champion Counter pages further refined to make more robust against crashes.

League Player Stats page, League Player Ratings page, and Leaders page weren't showing the full list of players when looking at prior years. This is now fixed. [/olist]

Coming Features

Recently I've been more focused on making sure custom rosters work and making sure the game can be played many years without issue. That way users can get the most out of existing features and roster files. I still want to do more here in line with the recent updates. However, I'm hoping to soon start working on some more major features. The two next key ones are probably updating the champion lists with any new champions and updating the playoffs/leagues for 2020. Here is my current order of importance going forward: [olist]

Looking to further refine long term gameplay (particularly focused on custom rosters).

Expanding the number of champions.

Updating the playoffs/leagues for 2020. [/olist]

Next Update

The next update will be Sunday, February 23rd. If you do happen to run into any bugs/issues please do let me know. Also, if you can think of any quality of life improvement feel free to let me know as well.

[ 2020-01-19 19:46:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

Custom Roster Bug Fix, All Prior Custom Rosters Work, New Custom Roster Posted

Custom Rosters Work

I went through all the custom rosters that had been posted by users since MOBA GM's release in 2018. They all were working (loading and simulating). You can find a list of them here: https://www.reddit.com/r/zengmlol/comments/3xww1n/best_of_lol_gm/

Custom Roster Contract Bug Fix

One bug I found was with regards to contracts. This was fixed. So if you have used a file, and contracts were all really low, then you may want to try that file again. It also impacted future contracts since the minContract and maxContract global variables were off. So for those particular files this should be a big fix.

New Custom Roster Posted By User

There was a new file posted today by reddit user Piph_: https://www.reddit.com/r/zengmlol/comments/eaqubn/2020_moba_gm_roster_update/ I tested it and it seemed to work fine.

Next Update

The next update will be on Sunday, January 19th, 2020.

[ 2019-12-15 03:54:44 CET ] [ Original post ]

"Best of" Updated, Real Champion Names (for now), Prior Year Roster File Fix

Best of /r/ZenGMLOL Updated I updated all the roster files that have been posted to our subreddit going back over a year in our "Best of" post. You can see it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/zengmlol/comments/3xww1n/best_of_lol_gm/ I also did a bug fix for 2018 files that don't have the game state included that broke for 2019. Those files will now start in 2018 instead of breaking. Real Champion Names You could always import real names. But I've decided to try just giving you the real names. This could change at any time should Riot or Steam request it. It is trivial for me to change it back. For now, both LOL and DOTA2 champion/hero names will come standard in any new league. I also changed the menu to better show that the standard option is LOL and that you can change it to DOTA2. Other Fixes 1) The Hall of Fame page should be more robust and should work for any league that had it broken. 2) The new 2019 Worlds with the expanded Wild Card teams had duplicate abbreviations. This made it impossible to view the roster pages, etc. of one of the teams. I've gone through and fixed a number of these. Next Update Next Sunday A few things came up that pushed back my schedule. So I didn't get everything I wanted done. To make it up I'm going to do another release next Sunday (December 15th). I'll be primarily focused on making sure all the "Best of" roster files work.

[ 2019-12-09 05:30:06 CET ] [ Original post ]

Custom Roster Bug Fixes, Champion Draft Fixes, and More!

Champion Draft Fixes

The updated champion drafting I recently put into place to better handle champions that can be used in multiple roles could break when using the champion Executioner. The reason was there were actually two of these champions in the game (Darius and Draven). So the ADC version was changed to Executioner2 since people may be used to it already. The name changes only for new leagues. If you have an existing league you can go to Tools/Edit Champions. However, it only impacts Coach Mode leagues when the user selects those champions.

User Custom Roster Fixes

The subreddit ZenGM LOL had a few custom rosters recently that were not working for people. So I tested and sure enough there were some issues. The first one I fixed was: https://www.reddit.com/r/zengmlol/comments/dlaacy/lol_gm_worlds_roster_2019/ I believe it was based on LOL GM. For some reason the conversion to a MOBA GM file was broken. I fixed that. One of the team's region was also set to 000 instead of CIS. I fixed the game not being able to simulate with this issue. However, it also broke the Standings page among others. So on file import the game will fix this particular file's bug. For existing leagues (if you could actually import the file), if you go to Tools/Edit Teams and change the region the game should work better. I also reviewed two other files: https://www.reddit.com/r/zengmlol/comments/dle2vy/lol_worlds_updated_roster/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/zengmlol/comments/didato/lolgm_2019_rosters/ The prior fixes appeared to get these files working as well. A big thanks to the creators of these files. It is a lot of work. I will try to ensure files like these are working going forward and plan on reviewing even older files for next time in case there are other bugs I've missed. If you know of any non working files feel free to let me know.

Other Bug Fixes/Minor Improvements

[olist]

The 2019 2nd Groups stage better ensures teams from the same conference aren't in the same group.

Fixed trade bug where player stats weren't tracked correctly.

Background Change moved from God Mode to the Options page.

League Dashboard only shows Spring Split standings for leagues with a both Spring and Summer Split.

A few user team highlight changes.

Multi-team dropdown color change.

Contract proposal color change for the different options.

Reduced game size by deleting unused country logos.

Removed the display of both team names in certain areas since they are usually the same/redundant.

Cleaned up the Achievement page (even though it hasn't been activated yet). [/olist]

Next Update

The next update will be on December 8th (Sunday). Thanks to everyone who sent in bug reports and created the custom roster files!

[ 2019-11-03 01:47:50 CET ] [ Original post ]

Coach Mode Draft Improvements, Options Page Added, Performance Improvements

Performance Improvements

I tested all the major league types over 20 seasons and didn't run into any issues. So it makes me think the issues people are running into as early as 5-8 years may be disc size and generally computer related. So what I did was have the game automatically: [olist]

Delete box scores from previous seasons, and

Delete any retired players who didn't win awards or weren't on the user's team. [/olist] This may not fix all issues people run into. However, it will make it a lot easier to go to Tools/Export and send me the file so I can debug the league. If you run into any issues with a league it may be a simple fix. So please do let me know and ideally send me the league file at commissioner@zengm.com, post it on the /r/zengmlol subreddit, or pm me (/u/mycoder) on reddit.

Options Page

For those who don't want to have players deleted or have box scores deleted I have created the Options Page where you can turn these features off.

Coach Mode Draft Improvements

When you create a Coach Mode league (versus GM Mode) you get to draft the champions for each game. Currently the game will then assign each of those champions to your players at the start of the game. Previously the method that assigned champions would sometimes handle champions that could play more than one role poorly. So the TOP might be the best at a champion but that champion was the only one that could JGL. So the real TOP champion might end up going to the JGL. Now the game will evaluate every possible champion/player combination and pick the best ones as a group. So the game should much better handle champions that can play multiple roles and allow flex picking much more successfully.

Next Update

The next update will be on November 3rd. Again, if you run into any issues/bugs please do let me know. The file sizes should be potentially much smaller than before. You can send those files to me at commissioner@zengm.com, post them on the /r/zengmlol subreddit, or pm me (/u/mycoder) on reddit. Thanks!

[ 2019-10-06 20:38:28 CET ] [ Original post ]

2019 Playoff Update Complete!

You can now play the updated 2019 playoff format! Background Some of the key features for this update are: [olist]

The wild card conference is dropped for 8 new conferences each with a conference tournament.

The playoffs now have a group stage (NEW), a play-in (NEW), another group stage, and then the final playoff.

The initial group stage takes the top team from each of the 8 new conferences (with a few other teams from the 5 major conferences).

The top two teams from each group are seeded #1 & #2 and then enter a play-in where each #1 seed plays against a #2 seed. The winner makes it to the second group stage with the rest of the team from the top 5 major conferences who automatically make it that far.

The rest of the playoffs proceed as before. [/olist] How To Use To create a league with the new format you want to select: [olist]

Game Type: Worlds

Year Format: 2019 [/olist] Next Update If I did inadvertently create a major bug with this latest update then I could do a quick bug fix right away. Otherwise, I'll look to clean up any minor bugs that people come across and do some quality of life improvements on October 6th. If you do come across any issues please do let me know at the subreddit /r/zengmlol or e-mail me at commissioner@zengm.com. Thanks!

[ 2019-09-23 06:31:50 CET ] [ Original post ]

2019 Playoff Update Almost Complete

I have got the 2019 playoffs working. However, I want to make sure all the other ancillary features (such as team history, team records, etc) are all working properly before I release it (as well as making sure I didn't break any existing playoff variations). My plan is to release this in the next few days. Worst case I should release it on 9/22.

[ 2019-09-15 16:11:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

Upcoming Playoff 2019 Update

Playoff 2019 Update I am still working on the expanded Worlds league with up to 8 more conferences based on the 2019 league format. My plan is to release it whenever it is finished so it can be used as soon as possible. Worst case, I will give another update on Sunday, September 15th about my progress.

[ 2019-09-08 17:41:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

More Name Suggestions / Next Update

Name Suggestions

I am still working on the expanded Worlds league with up to 8 more conferences based on the 2019 league format. There will be a lot of new teams so please do suggest more names. Up until the release I will still be taking new name suggestions. Also, feel free to submit more names even if you have already submitted before.

Next Update

The next update will be in on Sunday, September 8th. Thanks!

[ 2019-08-04 13:59:50 CET ] [ Original post ]

New Features / Next Update

Updates

v1.130

Team History page tracks the number of group, worlds, and playoff appearances.
Team History and Roster pages display whether a team has made groups or worlds for each year.
Team Records page more clearly show that it is tracking worlds appearances and not just playoff appearances.
Year updated to 2019
Team logos added to standings page for custom files that have them
Added a few more countries and languages to the customize player page.
Added functionality on the Create League page to adjust game type by year format.
Updated LPL to the 2019 format. Only LPL's playoff format was currently different than what was the in game default.

Next Update

I'm looking to expand the ability to adjust the league format by year (currently default and 2019). 2019 is coded for everything but the Worlds types (only LPL was different). Next update I'm looking to work on an expanded worlds with up to 8 more conferences. This is going to require a lot of new team names. To help out you can suggest new names here. The next update will be in one month on Sunday, August 4th. Thanks!

[ 2019-07-07 13:29:27 CET ] [ Original post ]

Bringing Overview, Customization, and Debugging Pages In Game

Updates

v1.129

Removed watermark from screenshot
Overview page now in game (prevents strange linking issue)
Debugging page now in game and tailored more to MOBA GM
Customization page now in game and tailored more to MOBA GM
Changes page updated to reflect new features over the past year
Converted e-mail from baseball@zengm.com to commissioner@zengm.com

Next Update

I am going to look to add a more major feature for the next update. The next update will be in one month on Sunday, July 7th. Feel free to send in any bug reports as well as more quality of life improvement ideas. Thanks!

[ 2019-06-09 13:49:49 CET ] [ Original post ]

Champion Popover Added For Draft

The Champion Draft Popover displays other champions in these categories:

Synergy
Counter
Counters

This should make that data a little more accessible, help new users do pick/bans, and save time. Feel free to let me know how you like or what you would change.

Bug Fix

For the Worlds only version without Ladder, if you didn't make the playoffs the League Dashboard would crash. This is now fixed. It was common to come across it when switching to a bad team. Also, because it is the page shown when entering a league it prevented users from using the league. Thanks for everyone who reported the bug and to /u/LiterallyToast in particular for sharing the file with the issue that led to the bug fix.

Next Update

The next update will be in two weeks on Sunday, June 9th. Feel free to send in any bug reports as well as other quality of life improvement ideas. Thanks!

[ 2019-05-26 15:56:41 CET ] [ Original post ]

Champion Synergy/Counter Pages Updated

5/12/2019 You can now use a dropdown to select which champion/hero you want to view the synergy or counter data for rather than have it all displayed at once. I'm hoping this makes that data a lot more accessible. It also frees up a lot of space on those pages so they could be combined or expanded. Feel free to offer suggestions.

Next Update

I want to do some more quality of life improvements of existing features similar to the above. I'll probably be focusing on the pick/ban page. So feel free to offer any suggestions you have. I'm thinking about making the synergy/countering data more accessible there. The next update will be in two weeks on Sunday, May 26th. Feel free to send in any bug reports as well as other quality of life improvements. Thanks!

[ 2019-05-12 07:28:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

Playoff Dropdown Added

4/28/2019 In order to better view the Worlds and Worlds w/ Ladder playoffs I've added a dropdown for it. You now have these different views:

All
Worlds
Promotion
NA LCS Championship
EU LCS Championship
LCK Championship
LMS Championship
Worlds - Regionals
Worlds - Groups
Worlds - Playoffs
NA LCS Promotion
EU LCS Promotion
LCK Promotion
LMS Promotion
Wild Card Promotion

A similar set up is there for the Spring MSI playoffs.

Next Update

I want to do some more quality of life improvements of existing features similar to the above. These are taking a bit longer. So the next update will be in two weeks on Sunday, May 12th. Feel free to send in any bug reports as well as other quality of life improvements. Thanks!

[ 2019-04-28 22:36:26 CET ] [ Original post ]

Bug Fixes / Next Update

Bug Fixes

4/21/2019

Made an adjustment that should help the game run smoother, but it may slow it down as well. This could be a game option at some point so users can adjust it depending how powerful their computer is. In my testing the current setting was the smoothest with the least speed penalty.
Adjusted the Tools/Autoplay feature to be 1 year for the larger game types (Ladder, Worlds, Worlds w/ Ladder) so they would run smoother.
Fixed an AI trade bug that sometimes stopped the game from running.

Overall, in my testing there weren't many issues that prevented the game from running that weren't just memory, saving, and processing related. So I've tried to ease those burdens up when running the game. Feel free to give feedback on any issues you run into and how you like the changes.

Next Update

I've still got some bug fixes and quality of life changes left to do. So I will do another update next week on Sunday the 28th with more updates on that front. Thanks!

[ 2019-04-21 22:44:30 CET ] [ Original post ]

Next Update

I still want to finish some more long term testing before I do the next upload. I am also going to be out of town this week. So let's plan on the next update being Sunday, April 21st. I am still working through some bug reports as well. If you have any more feel free to let me know. Thanks!

[ 2019-04-07 20:28:50 CET ] [ Original post ]

Bug Fixes / Next Update

Bug Fixes

3/31/2019

Champion name changes on the Edit Champion page now also change the champion patch data found on the Edit Champion Patch page.
The 2nd champion style works again. There was an issue with roles in the GM Mode draft that is now fixed.
Following up on the prior bug fix, I improved the AI logic in the Coach Mode draft so that the AI team better takes into account roles.
The play menu better matches up doing weekly games during the regular season and daily games for the playoffs where there are best of games played against the same team.

Next Update

I want to spend another week doing more bug fixing, quality of life changes, and long term testing before I get back to focusing on new features. So plan on another update next weekend. Thanks!

[ 2019-03-31 21:11:49 CET ] [ Original post ]

Bug Fixes, Next Update

Bug Fixes

3/24/2019

Stopping retirement using God Mode will now also prevent ratings from following old age related decline
AI bans will happen for the correct teams when using GM Mode
Fixed a Coach Mode AI pick/ban bug that prevented optimal pick/bans
Fixed a bug that would make the spring split playoff/history links disappear when reentering a league after closing the game.
Added more guidance on the Create Team page regarding dids, cids, and tids.

Next Update

I think I want to spend another week doing some more bug fixes and long term testing so the game is more robust for longer lived leagues. So plan on another update next weekend with some more bug fixes. Then I may return to a more normal schedule with the plan to add more features. Please do report any bugs you have found. You can contact me here, at /r/zengmlol, or e-mail commissioner@zengm.com. Thanks!

[ 2019-03-25 01:33:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

I am back working on MOBA GM again!

The issues were resolved with my partner. So I am now back working on MOBA GM again! In the next few days (probably no later than next weekend?) I want to just do a quick update with some bug fixing. Then I will give more details about an ongoing schedule and new features. Sorry for all the delays and thanks for your patience. Please do let me know of any bugs you have found. I will to try to focus on those first. Thanks, again.

[ 2019-03-16 03:32:47 CET ] [ Original post ]

Quick Update

I'm currently in discussions with my business partner about issues regarding Zen GM's future and in conjunction MOBA GM's future. Things are currently going well. However, until everything gets finalized things are a little up in the air right now. So, sorry, there is no update for now. Once I know more I will let you know and inform you as to the schedule of future update.

[ 2019-01-07 02:02:16 CET ] [ Original post ]

More Bug Fixes, New Features - 12/02/2018

This update is about quality of life improvements. There has always been a debate, since I created my initial version of this game, about how hard it should be to sign players. My view is without a draft the best teams stay the best. Much more like soccer's Premier League than the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL. Without a draft format it should be extremely hard to make a team better. However, once you get better, it should also be much easier to stay better. So I've let players not resign, and refuse to sign, with weaker teams at a very high rate in the past. I just fixed a bug that resolved the difference compared to LOL GM. I then went further and adjusted how mood was calculated and impacted contracts. Going beyond that, I now give users the ability to adjust how hard it is to sign players when you create a league. So I think there is something there for everyone and as you get better you can challenge yourself as well.

Bug Fixes

Teams starting hype based on hype used to create teams (this threw off free agency)
Adjusted how player mood is calculated
Adjusted how player mood color is determined
Side and Top menus now adjust based on splits. So Spring Playoffs, Spring History, and Skip to MSI only show up for game types that have them.
Standings now only show Spring Split if that game type uses it.
League Leaders bug fix for both split game types.
Edit individual team page better explains that conferences switches should take place in the preseason to have correct schedules.
Correctly determine whether expanded ladder format is needed if users expand number of teams (with 10 or more teams in each ladder the game should use an expanded format for all ladders).
Check rosters after AI trades to make sure teams are still balanced (this may slow the game down a bit, but rosters should pretty much always be correctly put together. May want to scale back based on feedback.)

New Features

Added difficulty menu option. They range from Easy, Normal, Hard, to Impossible.
Difficulty adjusts how likely players will refuse to sign with you. (this can be expanded based on feedback, but this is the core feature that makes the game hard)
Added Difficulty to God Mode so users can change it for existing leagues.

Next Update

The next update will be Sunday, January 6th. Here is the link for future feature voting: Future Feature Voting Thanks!

[ 2018-12-02 16:51:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

More Bug Fixes, New Features - 10/28/2018

You can now quickly create/adjust a player's OVR by changing the OVR directly. This was requested to speed up creating roster files. So I made that a priority. The big feature is there are now Coach Mode options. The initial options adjust early game aggression. Based on feedback I can always adjust how that was implemented. So please do give feedback on that. I should be able to fairly easily add more options there. So if you have ideas for what you want control over please let me know. The bug fixes were really focused on cleaning up importing files. It can be hard to spot every way that can break, while also supporting LOL GM files and transferring files from one game type to another. If you come across a way of breaking the file import please let me know and I will fix them as we find them.

Bug Fixes

God Mode option that adjusts the number of games is now more robust.
Importing team files that contain an increased number of team using the Create Team feature now works.
Fixed a few check roster size/construction bugs that come about when importing files.
Fixed some team files setting the all created player OVRs/POTs to near 0.
Fixed bugs when converting Worlds w/ Ladder files to just a Worlds league.
Fixed bugs when converting Worlds w/ Ladder files to just a Worlds w/ Splits league.

New Features

Created a Coach Mode Options page.
In Coach Mode you can now adjust how aggressive/passive each lane will be.
In Coach Mode you can now adjust how aggressive/passive the JGL will be invading the enemy JGL.
In Coach Mode you can now adjust how aggressive/passive the JGL will gank.
In Coach Mode you can now adjust how aggressive/passive the JGL will gank each specific lane.
When editing/creating a player you can now choose between choosing the OVR for that player directly or adjusting individual ratings which indirectly determine the OVR.

Next Update

The next update will be Sunday, December 2nd. Here is the link for future feature voting: Future Feature Voting Thanks!

[ 2018-10-29 01:51:39 CET ] [ Original post ]

More Bug Fixes, New Features - 9/30/2018

The core new features are AI trading and the ability to add new teams at any time for new and existing leagues. To go along with the ability to add new teams you can also now move teams around from one conference to another as you wish. As with any new features, sometimes it is 2 steps forward and 1 step back. So please let me know if something broke along the way or if there are any bugs you come across. The Edit/Create Team Page could be expanded in the future. However, I'll probably be focusing more on making it easier to Edit/Create champions/champion patch data and expanding Coach Mode. That is my impression on what I'll working on next month, but that could change.

Bug Fixes

Fixed imported league playoff display bug
Fixed Prospect Page import bug
Fixed champion file import bug
Scheduling more robust when new teams are added

New Features

AI Trades (AI teams will now trade with each other)
AI Trades God Mode Option (You can turn it off/on using God Mode)
Made some adjustments to trading so that region and country are better taken into account.
Expanded Event Log display of trades to include other information.
Create New Team Page is now available using God Mode (allows you to create a team and place it in the conference of your choosing)
Edit Team Page is now available using God Mode (individual team page that allows you to switch an existing team's conference among other changes)

Next Update

The next update will be Sunday, October 28th. I created a new link for voting that may work better than the old one: Future Feature Voting

[ 2018-10-01 01:38:03 CET ] [ Original post ]

More Bug Fixes, New Features - 9/2/2018

For this update I added a few smaller features that were highly voted. The other highly voted features are all fairly major going forward. So I'm going to give myself some more time for the next update in order to try to get a more major feature finished. If that goes well that will probably be the new schedule. I can always include some smaller features as well. Currently, I'm thinking 4 weeks/1 month in between updates.

Bug Fixes

Fixed wrong owner messages
Fixed some bugs in the owner message code
Fixed team finance page using millions instead of thousands

New Features

added Gender variable for players
added First Blood variable for players and teams
added Rift Herald to game simulation
added Rift Kills variable for players and teams
added Rift Assists variable for players and teams
Gender variable can be seen on individual player pages and league player ratings page.
Female ratio is 0.1%. For the Worlds w/ Ladder that usually gets less than a handful of females for every league created.
God Mode option to change female percentage
Added female names for each region
Adjusted the player images to be as female as possible for the females.
Rift Kiils, Rift Assists, and First Blood can be seen on the individual player pages, league player stats page, and team stats page.
Rift Herald kill shows up for Live Game play by play.

Next Update

The next update will be Sunday, September 30th. You can continue to vote here (there are new features being added to the voting as I get requests for them): Future Feature Voting

[ 2018-09-03 01:08:54 CET ] [ Original post ]

More Bug Fixes, New Features - 8/26/2018

One of the most voted features was for adding regional awards. I focused on the top tier leagues (so no awards for CS and Ladder teams). However, since there is movement for the CS and Ladder teams, if you go to the Team Records page those teams may still have gotten awards at some point before falling down. Sorting by Region - All League gives a much greater feel for who the good teams have been, while sorting by All League gives you a better feel for the strongest region. On the whole it gives a much better feel for those larger leagues with 50+ teams. The awards can always be expanded more if there is interest. One possibility would be 2nd and 3rd All League teams for each region, but I wasn't sure if it was really necessary. I'm open to other suggestions as well.

Bug Fixes

Fixed user team getting auto sorted and losing roster changes (bug was created during the last update).

New Features

Regional - MVP award added
Regional - All League award added (just First Team)
Regional - Won Championship award added
All new awards show up on individual Player page
All new awards show up on Season Summary page
All new awards show up on the league wide Player Awards page
All new awards show up on the Team Records page
Team Records page now allows you to sort by region and conference.
HOF adjusted to account for more awards being given to players.

Next Update

The next update will be Sunday, September 2nd. You can continue to vote here (there are new features being added to the voting as I get requests for them): Future Feature Voting

[ 2018-08-26 23:07:26 CET ] [ Original post ]

More Bug Fixes, New Features - 8/19/2018

The big focus this update was to give the user more control of the number of prospects and which regions they are created from. This should better help ensure long running leagues have enough players at each position for each region, which is good for game stability. It also should allow you to make any region stronger/weaker by adjusting the number of strong prospects available to those teams relative to the other regions. So now if you want to win it all with Turkey, because Turkey has become a hotbed of prospects in your league's world, you can without having to create a bunch of players for that region.

Bug Fixes

Bumped region ratio to 2 for Wild Card region teams so that they have twice the prospects (this is to guard against having too few prospects, but also should allow the top teams from the Wild Card region to be stronger as well)
Fixed synergy between Azir and Yorick.
Fixed Worlds Groups seeding bug for Worlds Playoffs.
Bumped up the number of players created initially and through prospect classes to better guard against too few players at certain positions for long running leagues.
Regional Restrictions back to applying to only starters
Made some adjustments so that Regional Restrictions will be able to focus starters better.
Made some adjustments so that Regional Restrictions will hold before game sims (let me know if the game can't move forward due to this, it is always a risk if there aren't enough free agents for that region).
JGL should get most Dragons and Baron if they are there for them when they are killed.

New Features

Added global region ratio variable for remaining regions (NA, EU, Taiwan, China, Turkey, OCE, SEA, Japan, CIS, and Latin America)
Added God Mode option to adjust region prospect ratio for remaining regions (NA, EU, Taiwan, China, Turkey, OCE, SEA, Japan, CIS, and Latin America)
Added Hong Kong and Macao players to Taiwan region
Created a global variable to adjust the number of prospects created each year.
God Mode now lets you adjust the number of prospects created each year.

Next Update

The next update will be Sunday, August 26th. You can continue to vote here (there are new features being added to the voting as I get requests for them): Future Feature Voting

[ 2018-08-19 21:41:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

Quick Update - 8/12/2018

I was out of town this week so the update is smaller than normal.

Bug Fixes

Fantasy Draft: Uses just userid (instead of w/ name) to prevent some display issues.
Player Learning Languages: Fixed issue with players learning a language that isn't the team's.
Team Records Page: Fixed some undefined bugs that could break the page.

Next Update

The next update will be Sunday, August 19th and it should be a more normal sized one. You can continue to vote here (there are new features being added to the voting as I get requests for them): Future Feature Voting

[ 2018-08-12 23:55:37 CET ] [ Original post ]

More Bug Fixes, New Features - 8/5/2018

Bug Fixes

Fixed Worlds w/ Splits championship/playoff display on Roster and Team History pages.
Major Bug - Fixed Spring Groups recording wrong wins
Removed Death Records Awards from dropdown since it isn't tracked.
Player winning title award fixed for Worlds
Latin American flag is now save to game so it should work when offline like the other flags.
Worlds Regionals now includes team that have Spring CP, but not Summer CP, when choosing who should be included.

New Features

Game Log now displays where within playoffs game took place (round, groups, etc)
Created a global variable to track where within the playoffs the game is (most likely users won't use this directly, but you can change it if you want using a file).
Added Region to Power Rankings page for easier sorting.

Next Update

The next update will be Sunday, August 12th. You can continue to vote here (there are new features being added to the voting as I get requests for them): Future Feature Voting Recent features have been coming from the debugging I've been doing (to better enable me to debug). Hopefully soon I can start focusing more on the highest voted features.

[ 2018-08-05 22:08:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

More Bug Fixes, New Features

Bug Fixes

Fantasy Draft now works with Worlds w/ Splits w/ Ladder
Fixed a bug where the AI would reduce out of region players and not make sure teams had at least 5 players (would prevent game from simming)
Fixed files that seem like MOBA GM files, but actually have LOL GM champion data
Fixed Team Records page for splits game types before the end of the first year

New Features

Filipino language added to Edit Player Page
Thai language added to Edit Player Page
Fantasy Draft AI picks are based on team region.
Added player region, country, and languages to Fantasy Draft page.
Edit Team page now allows the user to edit team region.

Next Update

The next update will be Sunday, August 5th. I plan on focusing on cleaning up the Worlds/MSI playoff bugs that people have reported. You can continue to vote here (there are new features being added to the voting as I get requests for them): Future Feature Voting

[ 2018-07-30 06:34:27 CET ] [ Original post ]

More Bug Fixes, New Features

Bug Fixes

v1.03 7/22/2018

Split playoff preview uses record for that specific split
GB takes into account wins if winning percentage is tied
Fixed team stats on league dashboard
Changed CIS flag from Russian to CIS
Cleaned up flag images so they work with all countries (even those not in the edit player feature, but you have to use a json file to add them). Specifically, this was for the Czech Republic because it had a space in the name. About 30 or so in total were adjusted.
Standings country flag popup now gives country instead of region
Removed a popup about the subreddit. I'm assuming most people that have MOBA GM know already about it.
Fixed a bug someone had with a custom roster that may apply to other rosters.
MAJOR BUG FIX: The game was using the synergy data to calculate counter win rate adjustments in game (but not for drafting). This is fixed and could be pretty significant difference in the game results.
Game now works if you add new champions, but don't add synergy and counter data for those champions.
Better handles too many players from other regions being on AI teams
Better AI roster management as well (this was done in part due to the reduced free agents below)
Fixed custom roster mode resetting if you reenter tools/God Mode

Features

Added Custom Roster Mode Strength. You can now make rating differences matter more or less and to the degree you wish. This was added due to the custom rosters that were coming out on the subreddit and Steam. The ratings tend to be higher than the normal game. This can make the game seem more random. So using this can make the top teams stand out and still dominate.
Reduced number of free agents/prospects (this was voted on so I added it here). This also required making the AI roster adjustments more robust since there are fewer players to work with. So AI teams should be better at keeping rosters in line as well.
Added Malay language to edit player
Added Indonesian country and language options to edit player (feel free to request other countries and languages)

Next Update

Next update will be Sunday the 29th. You can continue to vote here (there are new features being added to the voting as I get requests for them): Future Feature Voting Please do keep sending in bug reports as well. Thanks!

[ 2018-07-23 01:54:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

More Bug Fixes, Future Feature Voting Results, New Feature

Bug Fixes

v 1.02 7/15/2018

Fixed Custom Roster Mode (good for custom rosters with very high ratings or if you want to make the best teams more dominant)
Fixed requested contract amount on player page
Clarified God Mode max and min contract amounts are base amount, before mood, position, and import adjustments
League Leaders page uses userids to keep names from running into other columns
Fixed Xayah counter column data
Play menu can now differentiate between fantasy draft and picks/ban draft
Fixed fantasy draft for Worlds w/ Ladder
League Dashboard shows splits win loss records
League Dashboard shows splits gb
Fixed seasonSplit not saving globally (fixes reentering leagues w/ splits where you should be in the Summer split, but the game now thinks you are in Spring)
Fixed a couple regional concentration bugs. Teams should be able to better keep 3 starters from the team's region

Fully/Partially Existing Features That People Asked For

If you go to Tools/Event Log it will give you all the transaction a team has had.
If you take a Worlds roster you should be able to use it to create individual leagues (such as LCS) and Worlds w/ Splits w/ Ladder.
If you take an LCS roster you should be able to create a Worlds league with it.
If you want to use multiplayer the current feature requires enabling God Mode and using Tools/Multiteam. You can then control as many teams as you want. This allows playing on one computer with many people or sharing files to play with many people.
If you want players to always be willing to sign with your team you can enable Tools/God Mode and disable Refusing To Sign (user). The reason why it is hard is because that is the main challenge with being a bad team from a GM point of view. The best teams get the best players. However, I do want to review this more to maybe refine it. For now this is one way to play as you wish.

Future Feature Voting Results

These are the high time/money/knowledge requirement features:

Rift Rivals (high) 42.9%
Expanded Coach Mode: set a team leader / shotcaller rather than let game (high) 33%
Player Mode: allow user to make shotcalls in game (high) 28.5%
Coach Mode: ability to adjust how players improve (high) 27.5%
Add teams through in game editor (high) 27.5%

At first I'll be focused more on these lower/medium features as I'm working on bug fixes:

AI Trades (medium) 49.5%
Other Teams Offering Coaching/GM Spot (low) 35.2% (ADDED)
Expand edit team option in game (medium) 23.1%
Random events, similar to current death possibility (low, but need suggestions) 22%
Add male/female player variable (low) 22%
Add more regions to God Mode prospect adjustment area (low) 19.8%
Adjust how easy/hard it is to keep players God Mode options (low) 17.6%
First Blood stat 17.6%
Change team country flag in team editor (low)
Expanded how to pages for adding champions (medium) 16.5%
Add more countries to God Mode prospect adjustment area (low) 16.5%
Expanded how to pages for adding champion patch info 15.4%
Awards per different league (ex. NA MVP, EU MVP etc) 15.4%
Box Score Gold Graph 15.4%
Steam Achievements (low) 14.3%
Expanded how to pages for playing game 14.3%
Expanded how to pages for adding teams 13.2%
The ability to chose between dragon systems (Grants Gold, Stacking Buff, Or Elemental Drakes) (medium) 13.2%
Decrease number of free agents. (Way too many unnecessary players) (low) 13.2%
God Mode: More in depth box score (First Blood, Gold Graph, etc) 13.2%

You can continue to vote here (there are new features being added as I get requests): Future Feature Voting

New Feature

The feature that was relatively easy and was also in a lot of demand was for the AI teams to offer the user jobs. So now at the end of the season you will get job offers from teams. It mainly allows strong Ladder team coaches/gms to move up to the LCS /CS using a different method. It can also allow you to start over with a bad team for long running leagues without having to create a new league or use God Mode. Feel free to let me know if you see any bugs or want it refined.

Next Update

I've got a few custom rosters that people want me to debug. I didn't get a chance to get to them this week. I'm hoping to spend a lot of time on that in the coming week. Next update will be Sunday the 22nd.

[ 2018-07-16 00:53:30 CET ] [ Original post ]

Bug Fixes, Future Feature Voting, Next Update

Bug Fixes

v1.01 (7/8/2018)

Fixed bug when trying to enter existing leagues
Fixed bug when trying to delete a league
Fixed edit champ page editor changes preventing game from simulating
Fixed page labels for synergy, counter, and basic champion pages
Made synergy, counter, and basic champion pages more robust to prevent pages from crashing
Adjusted draft standard sort
Pick/Ban page lets user know the draft is over and they should simulate 1 week to use that draft
Fixed team only file player ratings bug
Can now sign free agents and make trades up until Worlds
Fixed champion stats only recording for one role (may have thrown off picks/bans as well)
Fantasy Draft working

If you are still seeing a bug please let me know and I will try to get it fixed for the next update.

Future Feature Voting

Hopefully I fixed most of the issues everyone was running into. I will continue to fix anything else that comes up. However, I think the game is stable enough that I can start working on new features as well. There are a lot of potential features. I decided to make a list of them and to allow users to vote (and request more to be added to the list) so I can better prioritize. You can vote here: Future Feature Voting

Next Update

I'm planning on doing the next update next Sunday (EST). That will probably include the results of the voting, feature(s), and bug fixes. Please keep sending in bug reports and feel free to request new features to be voted on as well. Thanks!

[ 2018-07-08 22:48:15 CET ] [ Original post ]

MOBA GM Is Now Available On Steam!

It should work on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The game has a subreddit where users report bugs, request features, and also post roster/team/champion files. You can see a collection of the best of those posts here: Best of Subreddit Feel free to report bugs by whatever method is easiest (Steam, Reddit, Discord, E-mail). Sometime within the next week I anticipate starting to take feature requests and trying to determine which to prioritize. Thanks to everyone who has beta tested, reported bugs, and created files!

[ 2018-06-29 14:54:48 CET ] [ Original post ]

Final Release Date

I plan on releasing it on: Friday, June 29, 8am PST There are a few more bug fixes I'm looking to do. I don't anticipate this changing. So the next update should be on Friday announcing the release. Once it is released I plan on handling any new bugs that are found. Then I'll put in place some type of regular update with new features.

[ 2018-06-25 03:53:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

Steam Prep Is Finished, Just Some Debugging Left

It is working on Windows, Mac, and Linux using Steam now. I am going to keep the target release date as Monday, the 25th of June. I'll be spending this week fixing the remaining bugs. I'll give an update next weekend. It is still possible I could push the release date back a few days, but I'm thinking it won't get pushed back beyond June unless something really unexpected comes up.

[ 2018-06-18 03:22:30 CET ] [ Original post ]

Quick Update

I've got the Windows version working on Steam. However, I'm still finishing up getting the Linux and Mac version ready. I've submitted the Windows version for review. So that process has started. Steam also doesn't allow weekend releases. So combining all of that I'm thinking a release date around Monday, the 25th of June is looking the most realistic, since there are still some bugs that need to be fixed before it goes live. Hopefully we can make some good progress this week and I can give a more firm date next update.

[ 2018-06-11 02:31:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Tentative Release Date

Tomorrow I plan on finishing the Steam prep and submitting it to Steam for final approval to be released. That can take a few days. I'll be spending the rest of the week doing more debugging. It is very possible that it could be ready for release next week. However, I'm going to be safe and give the target date as:

Sunday June 17th.

If a major bug comes up I could push it back. If I finish debugging more or less before then I will look to add a few more minor features. So that is the tentative plan. I will probably be able to have firmer release date next week after I've spent a little more time debugging.

[ 2018-06-04 02:46:06 CET ] [ Original post ]

New Features / Next Steps / Patch Notes

New Features

I added tier lists in the Champion Basic page so you will have some idea of how the patch is when starting a new season. I added a few God Mode options: 1) User is able to resign all players 2) User is able to sign all players 3) AI is forced to resign all players For custom leagues these will allow you to keep the league running longer in the same form it was created before players become more random. For EU team files where each team is its own country this will better help AI teams stay within their country designation. You can see these features here: https://imgur.com/a/vsN9NgY

Next Steps

Probably will spend tomorrow doing a little more debugging and then get started on Steam prep. Once Steam prep is finished I'll be finishing up any remaining bugs that are found and then release. Don't have a target date for that. Hoping to have one next week if things go well.

Patch Notes

5/27/2018 v0.931 - Regional Restriction God Mode fix - removed more Basketball GM mentions - added God Mode option that allows all user players to resign - added God Mode option that allows user to sign any player - added God Mode option that forces AI teams to resign all players 5/26/2018 v0.930 - fixed team finance page win graph - fixed league finance page - cleaned up some hype calculations - fixed Worlds winner hype calculation 5/25/2018 v0.929 - can upload champion patch files that are larger than standard - can upload champion files that have more champs than standard - can upload champion patch files that are larger than standard in edit Champion Patch area for existing leagues - can upload champion files that have more champs than standard in edit Champion Info area for existing leagues - Champion Basic page now how tier lists for each role 5/24/2018 v0.928 - adjusted revenue and expenses to handle the longer splits season - uploaded a new Champion Patch file that matches the existing champs in MOBA GM for the Edit Champion Patch page - uploaded a new Champion Info file that matches the existing champs in MOBA GM for the Edit Champion Info page 5/23/2018 v0.927 - fixed issue with uploading team files - fixed standings page with uploaded team files - added link to Worlds w/ Ladder team file on Edit Team page for easy team name and league changes - fixed a bug that prevented Worlds w/ Ladder team file from uploading on Edit Team page 5/22/2018 v0.926 - Fixed conference short form for EU CS and EU Ladder - fixed Finals MVP top laner bug - fixed 2nd languages not displaying - updated resigning page - added country and languages to free agents page - fixed YWT free agents bug 5/21/2018 v0.925 - created a MOBA GM manual at zengm.com and now link to it in game at Help/Overview - added player userIDs to game announcements, such as achievements and awards. - fixed NA/EU Ladder demotion bug that would take an LCS team and place it on the Ladder. - fixed NA/EU Ladder CS bug where those teams would have the wrong conference. NA/EU Ladder seemed to working well at this point. Next I'll be checking Worlds w/ Ladder.

[ 2018-05-28 03:41:52 CET ] [ Original post ]

Release Status / Patch Notes

Release Status

I'm hoping near the near the end of the coming week I can start finishing up Steam release prep (having uploaded Linux, PC, Mac version approved for release and fixing 2-3 of the more critical bugs). Depending on how smoothly that goes I'll be able to get a better idea on a release date. However, I won't release until I've fixed any remaining issues beta testers have noticed.

Patch Notes

5/20/2018 v0.924 - fixed MSI Play-In teams not playing bug - added number of players to power rankings page for debugging purposes (if game doesn't move forward it is usually because a team doesn't have 5 players. So this makes it easier to find the team to add a player.) - removed bench from box score in Game Log - removed bench from box score in Live Game 5/19/2018 v0.923 - fixed HOF page - added awards to HOF page - adjusted criteria for HOF for Worlds versions - fixed region bug in create/edit player (wasn't updating region in ratings area) 5/18/2018 v0.922 - added split and regular season/playoffs to game log to better track playoff bugs - added split and regular season/playoffs to schedule to better track playoff bugs 5/17/2018 v0.921 - fixed LOL GM roster import bug when game type is the same. Working on cleaning up issues in the playoffs and long term testing. Think I have fixed most of the other bugs. 5/16/2018 v0.920 - more MMR clean up - fixed an Edit Champion page file bug that prevented game from simulating - uploading champion file using Edit Champion page now updates correctly all players - creating a league with roster files now will update player champion ratings and MMR 5/15/2018 v0.919 - MMR calculations cleaned up - Editing a player will create new player champion skill ratings in line with players ratings and will update the player's MMR accordingly - Editing champion patch data will update every player's MMR as well. - Increasing/Decreasing champions using Edit Champion Page should already have been updating player champion skills. The code was there. However, I haven't tested it recently. 5/14/2018 v0.918 - fixed dropdown team names - fixed standings bug - fixed All League Team bug

[ 2018-05-21 02:27:24 CET ] [ Original post ]

Release Update / Patch Notes

Release Update

I don't a firm release date yet. My main goal is to get all of the bugs fixed before the Steam release. I'll probably add a few minor features along the way as well. I'm thinking 1 week is probably too aggressive and 4 weeks might be too conservative. Regardless, when the bugs get fixed then it will get released.

Patch Notes

5/13/2018 v0.917 - Team Records page now better tracks championships, wins/losses, playoff appearances, and finals appearances for each game type. This page is found by clicking on the Summer/Spring History page. It is a link option along with the Awards/Records page for players. 5/12/2018 v0.916 - Put in some changes that should reduce the "Error - Maximum IPC message size exceeded." messages that have happened in the Worlds w/ Ladder version. Still doing long term testing here. Please do let me know if and where you still run into it. - Added Iraq and Slovakia to countries list when creating/editing a player. 5/11/2018 v0.915 - LOL GM roster now upload to MOBA GM with stats the first year (only impacted files with different year than 2018) - LOL GM roster now upload to MOBA GM with correct positions - Positions being fixed from year to year is now the default (can be changed in God Mode) - Bo3 in playoffs is now the default (can be changed in God Mode) - Can now upload champion data using Edit Champion Patch page (still doesn't change player champion data yet, so use champion files during league start up if you are changing the names until I get that fixed) 5/10/2018 In the process of fixing the remaining issues with the LOL GM rosters. In the short term it may be less stable so I won't upload a new version yet. 5/9/2018 v0.914 - fixed a standings bug with imported LOL GM files - LOL GM Worlds files can now be imported into the LCS game type and played. Only bug is there are no player stats recorded the first year. - LOL GM Worlds files can now be imported into the LCK, LPL game types. There are no player stats recorded the first year. Also, standings page is messed up. - LOL GM Worlds files can now be imported into the Worlds w/ Splits w/ MSI game type and played. Only bug is there are no player stats recorded the first year. - LOL GM Worlds files can now be imported into the Worlds w/ Splits w/ MSI w/ Ladder game type and played. There are no player stats recorded the first year. Teams are not lined up right yet. Looking to further clean up the importing of LOL GM files in different game types tomorrow. 5/8/2018 v0.913 - LOL GM files should be able to import into MOBA GM if they are the same game type. I'm currently working on allowing Worlds files to be used for LCS and Worlds w/ Ladder as well. 5/7/2018 No new upload today. Trying to pin down why the LOL GM files still get data errors in MOBA GM. Making progress tracking it down, but not enough to upload. Regardless, I'll try to put in some of type new feature tomorrow so you have something new to try/look at.

[ 2018-05-14 06:00:05 CET ] [ Original post ]

Bug Fixes, Minor New Features, Import/Export Working For MOBA GM Files

Major Bug Fixes

Trying to get LOL GM import/exports working threw off MOBA GM file exports/imports. I think I've resolved those issues. There was also a major issue that caused Synergy/Counter data to get overwritten when visiting those respective pages. This completely threw off picking/banning and the game simulation. This issue is now fixed as well. So overall I think things are getting much more stable.

Minor Features

I added God Mode options that let you turn off player position changes year to year, turn off retirement of players who are on a roster, and adjust the Korean % of the league. One minor fix/addition was updating the roster page win/loss display in the Worlds w/Splits w/MSI to include both splits. You can see those changes here: https://imgur.com/a/xkMl7QN

Complete Patch Notes Since Last Update

5/6/2018 v0.912 Fixed display of roster page Worlds w/MSI w/Splits records for both splits. Improved import of LOL GM files but still have work to do there to get things completely functional. You should be able to import team names from LOL GM. If you import player data (without stats) and the game state it should run, but will break in places. 5/5/2018 v0.911 Fixed file import error that make champions disappear and prevented game simulations Fixed Worlds w/ Ladder w/MSI /w Splits import bug that prevented games from simulating Fixed synergy/counter page overwriting of synergy/counter data. Files with this bug have bad data. This prevents the game from picking/banning properly and throws off the game sim. I'll need to adjust it on loading (which may not be possible without creating other problems) or a new file will need to be created. 5/4/2018 v0.910 Prospects Page now shows future prospects Fantasy Draft now works, but is still a bit buggy. You may have use Tools/Skip afterward for now if you want to test it. 5/3/2018 v0.909 fixed champion stat display on player page fixed language display on player page for seasons after 1st fixed skill display on player page for 1st season added God Mode option that allows you to prevent players from retiring added God Mode option that prevents players from switching positions 5/2/2018 v0.908 Trading Block (fixed) Export League without players (fixed) Added Korean Ratio to God Mode prepped for a few more God Mode items that should be coming soon. 4/24/2018 v0.907 fixed some champion file issues fixed roster page not displaying languages fixed some LOL GM roster import issues (still have more work to do) I'll be out of town until the 1st of May. So bug fix updates should resume either on the 1st or 2nd. 4/23/2018 v0.906 fixed a standings bug for the non split leagues introduced when I added the LCS/CS/Ladder column for each split in the standings fixed YWT bug for splits leagues YWT ended up taking a while so I never got to the files.

[ 2018-05-07 04:18:41 CET ] [ Original post ]

Bug Fixes, Next Update, Potential Release Dates

The game is currently being beta tested. I've been primarily focused on bug fixes the past week. I plan on getting all of those fixed before the Steam release. One feature that was added was to display the LCS/CS/Ladder in the standings for each split to better track promotion/relegation. Here is an example: https://imgur.com/a/wcMaMA4 I'll be out of town from the middle of this week until the middle of the following week. I won't be able to do any fixes then. I had been tentatively thinking about an early May release, but that is starting to look more like mid/late May based on my pace fixing bugs and having to go out of town. The next major post will probably be May 6th. Below is a list of bugs that have been fixed: 4/22/2018 v0.905 - Worlds w/Ladder w/MSI w/Splits should be working now. I fixed both the LCK bug and promotion/relegation. If you run into issues just let me know. I haven't had a chance to do super long term testing of it yet. Tomorrow I'm going to resume debugging the roster/team/champion files. 4/21/2018 v0.904 - fixed promotion/relegation for Worlds w/Ladder w/MSI w/Splits for the first year (after that it breaks) - added LCS/CS/Ladder to each split in standings for each team to better track where the records are coming from and who is changing around (I really enjoy looking at this for each year). I still have a few bugs in the promotion/relegation to work out (hits during the 2019 spring playoffs) . However, I thought even seeing the first year is pretty cool and if you happen to figure out the bugs all the better. Planning on getting it working completely tomorrow. I think it is just a couple issues I have to track down. 4/20/2018 Just wanted to give an update. The Worlds w/Ladder w/Splits w/MSI has an issue in the LCK regional round. I'm looking into it. I think it is also related to that region not doing the promotion relegation correctly. So I am just reviewing all of this. It just takes a little while to iterate when it is the slowest/most data intensive version. I'm hoping to have a fix for both issues tomorrow. Then I can focus on custom rosters and cleaning up other more minor issues. For now, if you hit this, you can go to Tools/Skip to try to get past it, but it may create other problems. 4/19/2018 v0.903 - fixed bug where difficulty level was always impossible for Coach Mode (and couldn't change using God Mode) - fixed bug where AI would pick worst champ for a player in GM Mode. - fixed World w/MSI w/Split bug in the Spring MSI where the wrong teams would do the play in game and could lead to a team playing itself breaking the game. Worlds w/MSI w/Split should play smoothly now. I am going to do more testing on Worlds w/MSI w/Split w/Ladder and custom rosters tomorrow. 4/18/2018 v0.902 - fixed champion sorting (both algorithm and champion names) - fixed two champions with same name - fixed MMR sorting - adjusted display of ban title in Game Log and Live Game - remove double teams and/or team abbreviations (would send you to wrong team) - missing roles for champs: those champs just weren't meta at the time I collected data. If you go to Tools/Edit Champion Patch you can add roles if you want for those champs. You can also do it by file. 4/17/2018 v0.901 - fixed create player - fixed poor language display after editing/creating a player Still working on some of the thornier/time consuming bugs. Hoping to focus on pick/bans and custom rosters tomorrow. 4/16/2018 v0.9 2018.04.17.118 - fixed editing userID in Edit Player Page - changed L10 to L5 in standings - made some modifications that improve LOL GM roster file handling. Still have work to do here. - playoff Bo1 is not a bug. You can go into God Mode and change this to Bo3 if you want. - AI picking champs in the wrong role: this may not be a bug. In easy mode the last AI player may make a really poor choice. That could be picking a champion that doesn't even play that lane. That may be too extreme. So I can adjust that based on how hard you think medium/difficult/impossible modes are. If it makes it way too easy then I can surely eliminate that. If something else is going on please let me know.

[ 2018-04-23 07:02:03 CET ] [ Original post ]

Champion Synergy and Counter Pages, Uploading Files From Different Game Types, and Enhanced God Mode

New Storefront

MOBA GM was Greenlighted almost a year ago. However, the Greenlight page was hidden unless you had a direct link to it. We have now activated our new storefront and will start posting updates here.

Uploading Files

You can now upload files from one game type and it will work with another game type. The key thing this does is allow for user edited Worlds files to be uploaded as Worlds w/ Splits w/ Ladder w/ MSI files. The game will populate the rest of the teams with random players. Some other cool things that can now be done is you can take an LCS file and import it into Worlds, Worlds w/ Ladder, etc. You can also take a custom Worlds file and use it for just the LCS. The only type that isn't supported is the LCS w/ Ladder. Mainly because the Worlds w/ Ladder has a different size ladder. So support for that could come later if there is interest.

Champion Synergy Page and Counter Page

In order to ensure someone without any MOBA knowledge can just jump right in to Coach Mode (where you pick and ban champions real time before a game starts) I created synergy and counter pages that display some information regarding every champion combination. It doesn't give the precise number, but more of a higher level view of it all. This hopefully makes the learning curve a little less steep. Of course, there is still a lot to figure out.

More God Mode Options

There were a few key areas I expanded God Mode. You can now: 1) Adjust the game simulation to make it longer or shorter (this feature can be expanded quite a bit if there is interest). This, of course, has a huge impact on how important the early/mid/late champion data is when picking and banning. 2) Adjust how well the AI does picks and bans for GM Mode. You can also override Coach Mode difficulty levels to make it as easy or hard as you want. 3) You can swap out the game's background for a solid green color (this can be expanded and should probably be put somewhere besides God Mode in the future).

Screenshots/Link

If you want to see some of the above there are screenshots here: https://imgur.com/a/mhTci Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

[ 2018-04-15 23:40:32 CET ] [ Original post ]

MOBA GM

Zen GM Games Developer

Zen GM Games Publisher

2018-06-29 Release

Strategy Simulation Sports Singleplayer Tags

Game News Posts: 47

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Mixed (39 reviews)

http://www.zengm.com

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The Game includes VR Support

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MOBA GM Depot Linux [250.39 M]

The premier single-player MOBA eSports management simulation game.

You Set The Strategy

Running an eSports team requires you to make tough decisions:

Should you recruit a raw player who could be a star, or someone who can contribute right away?
Should you resign a veteran player, or leave money to sign a free agent?
Should you trade away your prospects for a player who can help you win now, or stockpile prospects for the future?
Make the right choices and you can build a dynasty. But make the wrong choices and you'll get fired!

Some Key Existing Features

Create an unlimited number of leagues
Play a league for an unlimited number of years (as much as your computer can handle, could be 100+ or even 1000+ years)
Sign players, make trades, and organize the roster
Create a league that plays for a championship among 6 major conferences (NA, EU, China, Korea, Taiwan, and a Wild Card conference that has many countries)
Create a league the has promotion and relegation in either the NA or EU
God Mode lets you customize the league
Edit players
Edit teams
Edit champions
Edit champion relative strength (current patch)
Upload custom player files
Upload custom player prospect files (new players becoming pro each year)
Upload custom team files
Upload custom champion files
Upload custom patch files
Give players pick and ban guidance
Watch a play by play of any game
Review box scores of any game for any year
Review league player stats for any year
Review league team stats for any year
Autoplay a league and let the AI makes decisions for all teams
Multiplayer allows you to control as few or as many teams as you want
plus many many more!

Major New Features

Secondary conference and ladder (you can make the ladder as big as you want) for each major conference to allow for promotion and relegation in the league with 6 major conferences
Spring and Fall split format
Between split tournament
Champion performance is based on champion patch win rates, player champion ratings, champion synergy, champion countering, and champion early/mid/late game win rates
Two groups of champions to choose from for your league
Coach Mode that gives the user the ability to draft champions for each game against the AI (GM Mode lets you just pick players and lets the AI draft for both teams if you prefer)
More expansive display of champion stats league wide and for each player
Significant simulation speed improvements from initial versions

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