Due to continued criticism we are going to change the rules to morale and tactics on April 13th as follows.

• Regular morale change each 333 minutes instead of 2 hours. You will keep some of your morale points until the next day.
• Lowest morale will be 0 and not -10
• You can gain a morale point with a certain propability each time you win a game dependant on the strength difference of you and your opponent and match type (Friendly/tournament/league). This propability is increased if you have a motivator in the game. Additional motivators are redundant. The activation button will be removed, as you get your morale point immediatelyl
• Won tournament +1 (no change)
• Mascot effect (no change)
• No more morale -5 if you sell or kick a motivator. This rule is already in place.
• +10 for championship or qualification for a higher league, -10 for relegation as before. Note though that even -10 will not lower your morale below 0.
• Risk of morale loss if a player plays in a low class tournament (no change)

Furthermore we are going to reduce the influence of the paper-scissors-rock system to roundabout 40:60 ~ 45:55. This means that morale, better players or coach actions will have more influence than choosing the counter tactics. Nobody shall feel forced to be online just before a match starts.

While these changes are all server-side only, there will be an intermediate update for all systems in the next days reflecting the changes in the ingame rules texts.

We are sure that this changes will bring back a lot of fun many gamers state to have lost in the last weeks.

We are going to change the morale rules in the near future in a way that only one motivator is needed (but gives more morale points).
Because of this we just deactivated the rule which causes morale decrease whenever a motivator leaves a team. You are now free to sell or to kick a motivator from your team without losing morale.
More about the forthcoming improvement to morale rules will follow.

We are now starting the official Clan Tournaments!

Here are the rules.

1. To participate, a clan has to be listed on the official clans page in the wiki.
2. Each clan who wants to participate defines an organizer.
3. The organizer contacts our community manager Manuel using kik, pn or ingame feedback until next sunday, april 6th. This adds his clan to the list of participating clans.
4. Until april 27th the participating clans play the tournaments. It’s up to you how you do that. Obviously only members of a clan are allowed to join a clan tournament. Please make schedules and results available either here on the forum or on your clan homepage if you have one.
5. Until april 27th, the organizer sends the names of winner and runner-up to the community manager.
6. We will award all winners with two special packs and runners-up with one special pack. Furthermore, the winner gets the silver Clan Cups Achievement (you need 10 clan cups for gold and 100 for platinum).
7. Winner and runner-up qualify for the great clan cup final tournament which will take place during this year’s world cup in brazil. The winner of the final tournament gets a special prize.

Two more clan tournaments will follow during may and june. Of course each clan may participate each month in order to send as many winners to the finals as possible.

If you would like to join (or to establish) a clan, please read about the topic on the wiki.

In a few days ( on 30 March), the March update for all platforms ( plus / minus a few days) appears.

There will be some simplifications for beginners again in the first place. So most of the functionality of coach and scout ( eg tactic selection, starting auctions) are shifted to the base game. The coach gives only the coach actions and the Scout only Matchmaking. In addition, the training minigame for players of lower classes will be much easier.

For professionals, more interesting are the following improvements:

• if you have a coach sweater, the coach doesn’t wear the sweater, a hint in the Team Information box on the home page appears.
• if you have a debt certificate and enough money to repay him, a hint in the Team Information box on the home page appears.
• if you have no intact squad (eg due to a player withdrawal), an icon with a corresponding warning appears after some time in the status bar.
• Parameters Scout-search get finally stored
• Larger fonts in League Schedule
• In preparation for the clan Tournaments the Clan Cup medal is already installed .
• And the best for last : You are not longer forced to use the pre-match-screen during a tournament, there will be a little pop-up in the bottom to use it

P. S. Here’s a little view : the new tournament Screen

Take part in the Honor Cup and getting through participation 1 morale point!
Have fun!

Some of you were very smart and found a 4-4-2 variant which regularly has better stats against 5-4-1 than desired.
We must change this to secure the rock-paper-scissors system which is in place since the february update and works pretty well.
We will improve 5-4-1 in the way that you can use of man-to-man-marker specialists. As there are no „gaps“ to fill in 5-4-1, they will act as improved defenders against the opponent’s attacks. This means that 5-4-1 gets less goals when you use man-to-man-markers.

The new rock-paper-scissors stats are as follows (as always not taking ties into account):

442-541 40:60
541-343 30:70
343-442 35:65

Those values can vary by roughly 5 percent if you or your opponent play different variants.

The additional tactics end up as follows:

433-541 20:80
4231-343 30:70
424-541 10:90

You see that each formation has at least one counter formation. So don’t forget to check your next opponent’s preferred formation and change. This can really make a difference!

The changes will be applied sunday, march 16th, early morning, and will also be edited into our Wiki.

Register your team via Win8, you’ll get a silver contract free.
Use as bonus code „Win8kio“.

Have fun!

Yesterday, we sent a major update to Microsoft which will be certified and released within the next days. The contents of
this update are as follows:

–          All Kio 4 buildings can now be build, including the academy.

–          Coach actions implemented

–          Achievements implemented

–          Championship stars on emblems implemented

–          Top list „cash“ replaced by „platin achievements“

–          A lot of bug fixes

All existing top rookie contracts will be transformed into platinum specialist rookie contracts, so that they will be upgradeable.
Old platinum rookie contracts will be transformed into platinum rookie contracts of the new style.
Important to mention is that all buyable packs will be switched with this update. From the update on, the Android packs will
be buyable via WP.
There will be no flags in the new packs anymore. And flags are going to be supported by us only a limited time
after the update. Then they will be deactivated and the only way to get lost of them is to recycle them.

Next Sunday, the February update appears to Kick it out! for Android, iOS, Win8. There will be adjustments to the simulation and the introduction of its own Kick it Out! Wiki(at the moment only in german), as well as a number of improvements in stability and usability. But see for yourself:

• Three man defense with no man to man defender will be weakened, because there are not enough defenders. So 424 is playable too. This will boost the scissors paper stone effect.
• Release of Official Wiki (at the moment just in german)
• Capital list is replaced by the list of most platinum Achievement medals.
• Some Changes in the challenges
• Adjustment / addition to the existing tutorials by a thick, flashing arrow that shows where to click. The secretary and her text are displayed as an overlay.
• Android: visual revision of some dialogs, eg „Challenge managed“ with „fireworks“ effect and Sounds. Note: New messages appear at the bottom of the screen and in the Team Information Department on the Main Screen.
• Android: beginners will start again with the 3D screen. The simplified screen with the buttons is maintained.
• Android: click on the news ticker leads to the Kio magazine.
• Android: 2 more icons on bigger devices on the Main Screen
• Upgrade to top-platinum contracts in Academy only with> = 2000 prestige possible
• Possible failure of activation, if there are more than 5 motivators in the team. The more motivators you have, the more failures. This rule has been introduced to prevent teams from having 10-15 motivators who never actually play, which is obviously not what they are ment to.
• Rock concert: Prestige is increased by a factor of 2.5
• new playable Country: Azerbaijan (East Europe League)
• Limiting the number of usable construction crews out
• iOS: Features the January update and some bug fixes

Have fun!

In January 2014 we released Kick it out! for Windows 8.1. Get it in the Windows Store.