New Star Soccer - by New Star Games

[Gabrien]

Originally Posted by micktravis

Never been this addicted to a game since Game Dev Story. Kudos to the dev for quick bug-fixing and frequent updates.

Suggestions for the dev: you already mentioned this, but I would also love to see internationals and continental competitions.

I'm not sold on the girlfriend thing. It's nice that you added the option to dump her (how about an option for marrying her once you hit 100% relationship?), but I would also like to see some more positive random events. The way it is, it feels like it's just another meter I have to keep full to keep bad things from happening. Unless I'm missing something and the girlfriend meter affects lifestyle or sponsorships or something?

I think free kicks occur a little too rarely in the game. Have you considered also adding more match events, like corner kicks or tackling? I do realize it might be overkill and outside what you see as the scope of the game. I'm not familiar with the PC version, so for all I know you have the game whittled down to exactly what you want.

It would be nice to get some acknowledgement for winning several tournaments in one season. Nothing fancy, just a Game Center achievement or something (I managed to win the league, League Cup and FA Cup with Man Utd, and I just felt like I deserved a little pat on the back )

In the same vein, maybe add leaderboards for most goals/assists etc. in a career/season?

I was also wondering if buying all the properties increases your recuperation rate, or if you're maxed out once you buy the most expensive one?

A couple of final nitpicks (I'm only writing this wall of text because I love this game so much!): I'm still getting transfer requests from 3rd division teams while I'm playing for Barcelona, that should probably be fixed. Also, it should be easier to see what level the different leagues are. It can be hard sometimes to figure out if "L1" is the second or first division in a country where you're not familiar with the league system.

I second every one of the points above.

[pjft]

New update is out - and finally, Sponsors react positively to Star Man awards!

In terms of the properties, I believe that they are cumulative, but I can't promise. I bought them in order, I guess. I recover 80/90% of my stamina in between games.

I believe most of these have already been suggested to the developer, and he mentioned in his Twitter feed a couple of days ago that he really wanted to get Continental and International competitions in there - let's keep our fingers crossed!

As for the transfers, I also get that, and I reported it in the past, so I'm confident he's aware of it.

I also suggested that if we have two games in the same week, we shouldn't recover as much stamina as when we have 2 games in different weeks. It kind of made sense, and makes it a bit more of a balancing act.

Finally - and feel free to insult me - I feel that the game gets a bit unbalanced after the first few seasons. One of the reasons, I feel, is that the 70$ boots give you a huge boost, so I think that their price should also scale - just like the drinks. The reasoning for it is that otherwise you're just a superhero all the time. I believe that the drinks price scale with your star level - I wouldn't mind seeing those boots scaling with the star level as well.

Case in point: 70$ times star level. I'm currently level 30, so they'd cost me 2100$. It seems a lot, but:
- They last for 40 matches and give you a 40 points boost in Pace, Vision and Technique out of 100 points;
- In 40 matches, you'll certainly get at least 2800$, since unless you managed to screw up your contract somewhere, your wage should rarely be less than your star level, and I'm not even counting sponsors and goal bonuses...

This way you'd have something more to manage, and to keep the challenge up. Otherwise it's way too easy to become a superstar early in the game and just keep up the form.

I'm currently aged 29, and having maxed out all skills and lifestyle, I have no real expenses asides from the 70$ boots and the energy drinks from time to time, but the money just piles up in the bank.

[siread]

Thanks for the great suggestions. I need to sort a few Android issues first but then I will get back to adding new features.

[chris1215]

I really can't understand why this has not made the front page of TA. This deserves a lot of recognition

[pjft]

Well, let's hope time takes it there. It is definitely a great game, done by one indie developer who has, so far, reacted very timely to problems and suggestions that the community has put out there.

It certainly might not be everyone's cup of tea, but someone here said that "It's like the sim of a Kairosoft game with interactivity which makes it awesome", and I think that's very accurate. I've been playing this non-stop since the release, and I can honestly say that I have played very little else in these past weeks thanks to New Star Soccer - even with an iPad and a PS3 at home, with so many games in the backlog.

Now with the latest update, it's an even more solid game, and if you follow Simon on his Twitter feed (@newstargames) he will from time to time post up a few thoughts on what he's thinking of adding. I can't really recommend this game enough.

[pjft]

Small update from the developer's Twitter moments ago:

Originally Posted by newstargames

Full qualifying campaigns, World Cup, Euros, Africa Cup of Nations, Copa Libertadores should all be ready for Android/Flash by Monday.

Originally Posted by newstargames

Oops, I meant Copa America. Club continental competitions will come in a later update.

This is great news - meaning that shortly after it should be submitted to Apple, and it's just waiting for it to be approved. How are you guys doing in your careers?

I've been through Portugal, England, Spain, Germany, Italy, and then went to Brazil and I'm currently in Japan... I think I might be missing one country somewhere, but without a way to keep track of our careers, this is the best I can remember

[pjft]

Small update:

From the developer's Twitter stream, the latest version (in testing) has the previously mentioned International call-ups, but it also has Club Continental competitions - i.e. UEFA CL, Europa League and Copa Libertadores-like competitions

I can't wait for us all to get our hands on it! My 33-year-old player is needing a few new challenges after all this globe-trotting. I'm now in Argentina!

[DGee]

So glad I clicked on this thread out of curiosity, it deserves much more publicity. As a fan of Gremlin Graphics' Footballer of the Year series way back when, this is just what I've wanted on iOS (only played it on iPhone 4S so far but will try it on iPad later). Can't believe I paid £20 for FOY all those years ago yet this is 69p

Looking forward to future updates - I've already told several friends to download it and buy the career mode as it deserves support.

[pjft]

DGee - very happy that this thread got your attention. I too agree that this deserves much more publicity - I'm not sure it was even considered for TA's Game of the Week when it came out (not sure what the criteria are, either).

Still, I'm very happy that I paid for the game, and I've been trying to support this, since it's developed by an indie developer and yet manages to be one of the most entertaining - and addictive - mobile gaming experiences I've had, probably since I started playing games on my mobile!

As I mentioned, the International call-ups are coming, and the Continental Competitions as well, so you can look forward to playing in the World Cup for your country, and in the European Championship, Copa America or African Cup of Nations in the future, as well as having the incentive to stay in the same club for longer, to win the UEFA CL, Europa League, or Copa Libertadores.

Let's hope that when the update hits in a few weeks, that this thread will pick up the pace again.

[doveyy04]

Firstly what a superb game, love the idea and way it's all set out. So addictive, best 69p I've spent ever. Now for some ideas that I hope will get taken on board. The 1st 2 seasons was I though a good process, went from conferenence north to conference premier and all seemed good but then it just got too easy too quick, by season 3 was in premiership and season 4 at man utd with only third of the way in lifestyle stats and third of way in all skills not counting the boots boost. Ok am not scoring loads in premier and it's but harder to intercept ball but passing is still way too easy. Simple solution to all this is make passing harder in higher leagues, I though defenders would be a lot tighter and goalkeepers would be better. Also I love the idea of the boots but it just gets to simple to buy the best boots and u just get more out of one pair of boots then 4 seasons of training, so water down the effect of boots a bit. Also maybe just not get man u etc signing for u unless u r very high in skill stats not a third of the way up!!. Please hoping for nation call ups world cup u21 etc and continental competitions. What does everyone else think to what I've said?