Magic Sponge From: "ATAP" <ATAP.Sports@dial.pipex.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000 We would like to invite you to put your soccer management abilities to a real test, to play in a new soccer management PBeM game called "Magic Sponge". The game is in the very early stages of development, and we need people to help us perfect the system. The game uses a Lineup Builder to create your team, or squads can be imput into an internet form. The strength of the game we feel comes from the gameworld itself. For a better idea of what goes on in the game, have a look at our website! Http://members.xoom.com/spuddy_atap/index.html This gives you a feel for the gameworld and the stuff that happens on a weekly basis, such things as drug scandles, stroppy players, manager arguments and other things you see in REAL football!!! There are two ways to do a turn, one is to use the special software written to pick your squads, the other is to pick your team and enter it into an internet form. In the game itself you can set team tactics, there are around 9 different tactics in the game, and then you can pick individual tactics for each player, such as aggression, who they should mark if any and how they should change their tactics during the game depending on incidents. You then coach your players to try and increase their skill level and decide on transfers for players etc. We have added a number of other aspects to the game such as a detailed scouting system and are continuing to work on other items such as a real contract system for players, stadium upgrades and more. We are keen to invite people to send us anything they would like to be done. Do you want to play a charity game, hold a rock concert to raise money for the club, send your players on a field march with the local army! Whatever you can think of we will implement and send you the results of those actions. Once we have received all of your orders we will send you a text report of the match and statistics. This includes the lineup for each team, various tables showing shots and possession etc. It also includes a text description of key points in the game such as near misses, goals, injuries, substitutions and tactic changes, with comparison tables on how it helped or hurt your team. Included with this will be details of scouting, transfers and anything else you tried to do during that turn. If you are interested simply go to the download section of our website and download the windows 95/98 based Lineup Builder and instructions, you will also need winzip. Once you have there you are ready to start, simply send us an email and we will send you a squad within 24 hours. Alternatively, if you don't want to download the software but still want to play then drop us an email and we will send you details of internet turn entry. If this is something that you are not interested in then please accept my apology for intruding into you inbox, and feel free to forget we ever exist!!! Thanks ATAP Sports Up