[PS3] Road to Mitropa Mundial 2010

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The squad update won't appear tomorrow.

The reason is that FIFA are not due to release the shirt numbers until noon on Friday, so since we want the players to wear the correct squad numbers we will have to hold back the update.

Once we have the info, we can make the changes, export the new db, test it and hopefully have it available for Tuesday.

Cheers.


Update:

The following players made their country's 30 but have not played a game for their countries, so can't be included in the new db.

Jacques Zoua Cameroon
Cesar Azpilicueta Spain
David De Gea Spain
Shane Lowry Australia
Paulo Henrique Brazil
Georgios Tzavelas Greece
Stergos Marinos Greece
Kostantinos Manolas Greece
Georgios Galitsios Greece
Salvatore Sirigu Italy
Ruben Amorim Portugal
Aleksander Rajcevic Slovenia
Jan Koprivec Slovenia
Ideye Brown Nigeria
Yann M'Vila France
Adil Rami France



· 5709 total updates
· 101 players removed
· 177 players added
· 4784 player attribute updates (increases and decreases)


New Player List: (no personal correspondence will be entered into

Algeria Carl Medjani
Algeria Djamel Mesbah
Algeria Djamel Abdoun
Algeria Habib Bellaïd
Algeria Mehdi Lacen
Algeria Hocine Metref
Algeria Chadli Amri
Algeria Adlène Guédioura
Algeria Foued Kadir
Algeria Ryad Boudebouz
Algeria Raïs M'Bohli Ouhab
Algeria Mohamed Lamine Zemmamouche
Algeria Mohamed Meftah
Argentina Walter Samuel
Argentina Clemente Rodríguez
Argentina Ariel Garcé
Argentina José Sosa
Argentina Juan Manuel Insaurralde
Argentina Ezequiel Lavezzi
Argentina Sebastián Blanco
Argentina Juan Ignacio Mercier
Argentina Javier Pastore
Argentina Diego Pozo
Australia Adam Federici
Australia Brad Jones
Australia Nikita Rukavytsya
Australia Thomas Oar
Brazil José Kléberson Pereira Kléberson
Brazil Alex Rodrigo Dias da Costa Alex
Brazil Diego Tardelli Martins Diego Tardelli
Brazil Michel Fernandes Bastos Michel Bastos
Brazil Edinaldo Batista Libanio Grafite
Brazil Marcelo Vieira da Silva Jr Marcelo
Brazil Carlos Eduardo Marques Carlos Eduardo
Cameroon Mohamadou Idrissou
Cameroon Marcel Ndjeng
Cameroon Amour Patrick Tignyemb
Cameroon Gaëtan Bong
Cameroon Guy-Rolland N'Dy Assembe
Cameroon Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting
Cameroon Joel Matip
Cameroon Jean-Patrick Abouna Ndzana
Cameroon Vincent Aboubakar
Cameroon Makadji Boukar
Cameroon Patrick Mevoungou
Chile Jaime Valdés
Chile Charles Aránguiz
Chile Luis Marín
Denmark Jesper Christiansen
Denmark Patrick Jan Mtiliga
Denmark Morten Rasmussen
Denmark Mikkel Thygesen
Denmark Mikkel Beckmann
Denmark Kim Christensen
Denmark Simon Poulsen
Denmark Leon Jessen
Denmark Christian Eriksen
England Scott Parker
England Ledley King
England Michael Dawson
England Joe Cole
England Jamie Carragher
England Leighton Baines
England Adam Johnson
France Mickael Landreau
France Djibril Cissé
France Marc Planus
France Anthony Réveillère
France Abou Diaby
France Mathieu Valbuena
Germany Hans-Jörg Butt
Germany Dennis Aogo
Germany Toni Kroos
Germany Christian Träsch
Germany Thomas Müller
Germany Holger Badstuber
Ghana Kevin-Prince Boateng
Ghana André Ayew
Ghana Dominic Adiyiah
Ghana Abdul Ibrahim Ayew
Ghana Jonathan Mensah
Ghana Bennard Yao Kumordzi
Ghana Daniel Adjei
Ghana Stephen Adams
Ghana Stephen Aholu
Greece Pantelis Kapetanos
Greece Athanasios Prittas
Greece Stylianos Malezas
Greece Lazaros Christodoulopoulos
Holland Sander Boschker
Honduras Mariano Acevedo
Honduras Kevin Hernández
Honduras Jerry Bengtson
Honduras Johnny Leverón
Italy Andrea Cossu
Italy Marco Borriello
Italy Mattia Cassani
Italy Christian Maggio
Italy Antonio Candreva
Italy Leonardo Bonucci
Ivory Coast Daniel Yeboah
Ivory Coast Steve Gohouri
Ivory Coast Lacina Traoré
Japan Mitsuo Ogasawara
Japan Naohiro Ishikawa
Japan Takayuki Morimoto
Japan Daiki Iwamasa
Japan Tomoaki Makino
Japan Yuhei Tokunaga
Japan Ryoichi Maeda
Korea DPR (North) Sung-Hyok Pak Pak Sung-Hyok
Korea Republic Dong-Gook Lee Lee Dong-Gook
Korea Republic Du-Ri Cha Cha Du-Ri
Korea Republic Jae-Sung Kim Kim Jae-Sung
Korea Republic Ja-Chul Koo Koo Ja-Chul
Korea Republic Seung-Yeoul Lee Lee Seung-Yeoul
Korea Republic Hyung-Min Shin Shin Hyung-Min
Korea Republic Bo-Kyung Kim Kim Bo-Kyung
Mexico Luis Ernesto Michel
Mexico Juan Carlos Valenzuela
Mexico Adolfo Bautista
Mexico Jorge Torres Nilo
Mexico Adrián Aldrete
Mexico Jonathan Dos Santos
Mexico Paul Aguilar
Mexico Javier Hernández
New Zealand Winston Reid
New Zealand Tommy Smith
New Zealand Aaron Clapham
New Zealand Chad Coombes
Nigeria Rabiu Afolabi
Nigeria Peter Utaka
Nigeria Bassey Akpan
Nigeria Terna Suswan
Paraguay Diego Barreto
Paraguay Lucas Barrios
Paraguay Rodolfo Gamarra
Peru Roberto Merino
Portugal Eliseu Pereira dos Santos Eliseu
Portugal Ricardo Miguel Moreira Ricardo Costa
Portugal Ariza Makukula
Portugal José Eduardo Rosa Vale e Castro Zé Castro
Portugal Fábio Alexandre Silva Coentrão Fábio Coentrão
Serbia Dragan Mrđa
Serbia Anđelko Đuričić
Serbia Jagoš Vuković
Serbia Željko Brkić
Serbia Dejan Lekić
Serbia Nemanja Tomić
Slovakia Dušan Kuciak
Slovakia Tomáš Hubočan
Slovakia Juraj Kucka
Slovakia Dušan Perniš
Slovenia Miran Burgič
Slovenia Dejan Kelhar
Slovenia Tim Matavž
South Africa Siyabonga Nomvethe
South Africa Katlego Mphela
South Africa Lucas Thwala
South Africa Shu-aib Walters
South Africa Anele Ngcongca
South Africa Reneilwe Letsholonyane
South Africa Andile Jali
South Africa Siyabonga Sangweni
South Africa Franklin Cale
South Africa Thanduyise Khuboni
Spain Victor Valdés Arribas Victor Valdés
Spain Javier Martínez Aginaga Javi Martinez
Spain Pedro Rodriguez Ledesma Pedro
Switzerland Marco Streller
Switzerland Fabio Coltorti
Switzerland Albert Bunjaku
Switzerland Fabian Lustenberger
Switzerland François Affolter
Switzerland Nassim Ben Khalifa
Switzerland Xherdan Shaqiri
United States Edson Buddle
United States Herculez Gomez
United States Alejandro Bedoya
Uruguay Egidio Arévalo
Uruguay Martín Andrés Silva


Update: Monday Jun 7th

At present there are a couple of issues that prevent this update going live tomorrow.

Firstly I'm not convinced the gameplay balance is good.
Secondly, there is a technical problem to have resolved on the server that will hold the db.

I'll update again when I have a date to communicate.

Meanwhile, here's one for the Mexicans to show the effect of the update for them.





Update: Tuesday Jun 8th
I have rejected the new database for a number of reasons.

I felt it left Spain as the overpowered team in the game, and I don't want that. Other top teams such as England, Brazil & France were made slower but Spain remained at the same speed and as a result became way too good comparatively.

Equally Ivory Coast & Nigeria need to be slowed down so they have been sent back for more work.

I liked the new strength increase for weak nations, it allows them to compete with the better teams but generally fail due to not being technically good enough and missing chances when they are created.

The two Korean nations need to be stronger, as they can put themselves about a bit. So they have been sent back for some work in the gym!

For individual players, I want Messi to be stronger to keep him on his feet more and Drogba to be weaker so he's less of a bulldozer.

Ultimately the update should make the game more competitive when playing top teams vs weaker teams and also it should be a little slower.

Another update once I have a new db to test.

For anyone fed up with waiting, we never promised a date, we said we were aiming for a date, but I want the feel to be as good as possible rather than rushing it out as soon as possible.

Cheers.


Update: Thurs Jun 10th
I've rejected it again, SORRY!

Once more I felt it was going to leave certain teams overpowered and lead to them always being used online.

The changes needed are far less this time though, and so a new db should be with me again today for testing.

We have to get this out very soon in any case, since Story of the Finals needs the new players for it to be able operate. Otherwise we won't be able to create a scenario to mimic Buddle scoring the winner against England arf arf.

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