While people are in the mood I thought I'd post an update to the EP#4 changelist I put up a while ago:

(EP#4 still doesn't have a release date as I'm hoping to find and fix an elusive bug in it (the very rare score changing one) - hence its not possible to tie it down exactly to a date at this point)

Championship Manager 4 Enhancement Pack 4 (4.0.7)
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Please note, this enhancement pack contains all the fixes contained in Enhancement Packs 1, 2 and 3 as well as the following:

General
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- Reduced number of retirements due to injury
- Made person team records self repair if corrupted by bad-sector
- Made team records self repair if corrupted by bad-sector
- Fixed weather distribution
- Fixed ability problems with regenerated players in inactive leagues
- Improve selection for "Manager of Month" awards
- Improved reputation changes due to promotion/relegation
- Fixed bug where Northwich move to a massive 200,000+ seater stadium
- Made players clubs look for take into account whether the club is active in Europe more
- Adjusted progression of agility and balance characteristics for players
- Fixed contract decision news for non playing staff when no news body text was getting generated.
- Coach and scout reports can now be done on players who are on trial.
- Tweaked player injury distribution
- Tweaked player long term tiredness/jadedness
- Tweaked manager job applications to make movements easier
- Team/squad screen now keeps the view type permanently.
- Fixed problem with network clients using other languages. Match reports/club names, etc were not being translated.
- Manager sackings are now listed on a teams 'Staff Out' page.
- A player can now accept a contract renewal and a loan contract at same time.
- On the match screen, clicking on the minute label of a sending off or injury now shows the highlight of that event.
- Loans are now permitted between English Premiership teams from 2003.
- Player's trial spell at a club in his playing history is now shown as "Trial" and not "Loan".
- A player signed from free transfer now has "-" shown in his history instead of "Unknown Club".
- Moving a player from one team to the other sometimes did not update the title text properly.
- Group draw news was sometimes not being sent to teams.
- Fixed a few interface problems when 2 or more humans are playing matches on the same machine on the same day.
- For nations where trialists are allowed to play competitive matches, the trial screen no longer states that trialists cannot play.
- Players withdrawn from national teams now get repicked properly in future matches.
- Fixed friendly screen bug where choosing a team would sometimes result in a different team being selected.
- Auto team selection for national teams no longer uses players from U21 team.
- Fixed spelling mistake in transfer embargo news item
- Stopped you're player's who are on loan from being offered to you
- Allowed offers in excess of 50m
- The competition button on a nation screen now takes you to the group that the nation is playing in for that competition instead of the first group.
- If a nation does not have any awards, the awards button is not displayed on the menu for it.
- Reduced the number of club's who show an interest in a player as soon as the human manager makes an approach for him
- Stopped computer teams from making bids of £0 over 6 months
- When signing a player/assistant the news item now says player/assistant rather than just assistant
- Stopped players asking for a min fee release clause when one has already been offered
- Fixed the return from holiday once appointed holiday option
- Fixed the apply for higher jobs holiday option
- Fixed <%person#1> appearing in international result news (English Only)
- Tweaked the good form limit for teams, should mainly affect the player praise/criticise news items
- Added new values to drop down box for contract clauses
- Fixed some missing responses in the manager promise screen
- Added a cancel button to the friendly proposal screen.
- Fixed problem with incrementing small values in foreign currencies
- Ensured asking price is not shown if same as value
- Live league table should always be updated properly now at all times in a match.
- Filter panel on Clubs & Nations screen now works every time when you use your screen history to go back to that screen.
- Stopped loan offers beinf recieved for players who only have short time left on their contracts
- Added acceptable default date of birth to add manager screen
- Nationality sorting on squad screen now works
- The "Change Player" button now works on the draft screen when 2 players are taking part in the draft on one machine.
- When a player hit the Finish button on the draft screen, the next pick was always passed even though it might not have belonged to that player.
- Added "RETAIN_PLAYERS" "club name" option for a new config file called ".ddt" this will retain all the players for the club/s specified.
- Some transfer offer screen fixes for MLS transfers.
- The person search filter dialog was not getting set up properly when viewed from an MLS draft list.
- Team of the week now shows player circles in correct team colours.
- Removed non promotion/relegation release clauses upon promotion
- Fixed national job crash when selecting australian league
- The transfer offer negotiation screen now has better checking for when an offer is changed by the selling club.
- Stopped first team poll news from saying that not one single fan wants the player in the first team, when 1% did.
- Stopped assistant manager from accepting exchange player offers when you'd asked him not to buy anyone.
- Fixed undo changes action on set transfer status screen.
- Fixed the "nearing end of contract" text on contract offer screen.
- Altered response to loan rejection from players (not as harsh every time now).
- Fixed the "on 1 minutes" text bug for goal descriptions within news items.
- When Draft Allocations option is selected on a team's transfers view, the tick is now shown in the correct place.
- Altered the settings required to determine whether an international team is bigger or a lot bigger than thier opponents in the news item.
- Stopped <%team#1-short> from being displayed when a player doesn't have a club (award screen).
- Stopped computer clubs from making offers for U17 players.
- Stopped <%position#1-lowercase> appearing in player conflict news items

Scouts & Searches
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- Improved scout report news text
- Prevented scouts recommending players they don't rate
- Scouts did not pick up promising youngsters on free transfer.

Network, Hotseat and Internet Play
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None at present

Wages, Finances and Board Interaction
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- Tuned non-player wages
- Tuned wage caps for smaller nations slightly
- Tuned club reputation changes during promotion/relegation
- Made board request improvements from training always noticable (ie. text change should be visible)
- Made boards slightly less harsh for impatient chairman
- Tuned Korean player valuations
- Tuned South African player valuations
- Tuned Slovakian player valuations
- Graduated increase in ground maintainance at a slightly gentler rate as a club improves standards

Player Happiness
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None at present


Training
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None at present


Tactics:
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- Fixed Match engine picking its own human captain regardless in some circumstances.
- Fixed changing captain during a match did not update match screen/stats.


Competitions:
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- Added reserve leagues to Norway.
- KFC Dessel now play theie belgian 2nd division games at 7.30pm.
- Fiorentina won't play the Italian cup in the first year.
- Regional relegation now will occur in Serie C1 and C2.
- Belgian playoff matches played on neutral ground.
- Italian discipline rules now ensure ban recieved in a competition only applies to that competition.
- Added Danish reserve leagues.
- Greece now has U21s instead of U18s.
- 32 First phase Champions League teams now get share of total tv money at end of competition.
- Final MLS league standings are now added to a team's league history properly.
- Spanish league schedules are now better organised.
- Fixed a problem where teams from Yugoslavia and Croatia were not arranging friendlies with teams from the same nation.
- Spanish cup now finishes earlier on World Cup/Euro Champ years.
- Belgian friendly dates are now closer to the start of the season.
- Clubs in Israel now have reserve and U18 teams.
- If the UEFA Cup winner qualifies for the Champions League through their domestic league, they now go into the Champions League instead of the UEFA Cup.
- Fixed relegation from the Israeli League.
- Changed the French League Cup final date.
- Brazilian State Leagues now add records to their history when they finish.
- Clubs in Israel now have reserve and U18 teams.
- Copa America should only hosted by South American nations now.
- Fixed Irish Munster Senior Cup final date for 2003 season onwards.
- Mexican teams playing in South American continental competitions can no longer have a domestic game on the same day as a continental cup game.
- Fixed a problem with the Copa Libertadores final.
- Changed some World Cup CONCACAF qualifying dates and Panamerican Cup dates to avoid clashes.

Match
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- Fixed bug where a tactics change at a corner kick sometimes caused the game to not show what happened after the corner.
- Managers viewing matches controlled by other managers no longer have their speed/highlights settings used to determine the settings for the match.
- Tuned match conditions slightly (defenders conditions dropped a tad too much basically)
- Prevented players from moaning at the referee quite so much
- Prevented referee's from moving free-kicks forward 10 yards too often
- Stopped international teams selecting players from their u21 squad

Macintosh Specific
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None at present

Marc, I haven't even got the game from FedEx yet and I'm drooling already. :D

Marc,

I just finished the 2006 season and the Champions Cup Final and the First day of the World Cup were both May 31st. That doesn't seem right.

Todd

So, it appears that the ability to print from the game still doesn't make the list of things to do. I'm not trying to pull a Malleus Dei here, but removing functions from the previous version of the game just doesn't sit well with me.

*sigh*

I may never play this game, after all.

wow Marc, the .ddt file option is just GREAT ! (btw a big thanks to Fabrice Leclercq who made a file with all the teams playing in a continental competition)

Originally posted by QuikSand
So, it appears that the ability to print from the game still doesn't make the list of things to do. I'm not trying to pull a Malleus Dei here, but removing functions from the previous version of the game just doesn't sit well with me.
*sigh*
I may never play this game, after all.

Please bear in mind that this is a list of completed changes and not planned ones - I will try and endeavour to get text file creation functionality of some sort in there so you can print teams/players out if you want to.

Please bear in mind this is a low priority item in my 'to do' list as it isn't a bug as such and because of this it is possible that it won't make it into the game until the next version is released.

Keep up the good work Marc, I've been to the SI boards and they're not as pleasant. Take your time, get it done.

Originally posted by Marc Vaughan
Please bear in mind that this is a list of completed changes and not planned ones - I will try and endeavour to get text file creation functionality of some sort in there so you can print teams/players out if you want to.

Please bear in mind this is a low priority item in my 'to do' list as it isn't a bug as such and because of this it is possible that it won't make it into the game until the next version is released.

Thanks for the response, Marc. I think it's very fair to have a queue for issues - and true "bugs" ought to be higher.

I just wish that this hadn't been left out of the original design. But there certainly isn't a widespread furior over this, as nearly as I can tell - so I guess I'm just an aberration. Right, then.

Maybe one of the saved-game editors has a print function?