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Dear KiO Community,

Recently, many changes have been implemented by the Player Council. With this KiO News, we would like to look back briefly at the changes made so far, explain the reasoning behind them, and outline what is coming in the near future.

First of all, we want to explain the reason for so many changes in such a short period of time. Every single member of the Player Council brought forward topics that needed to be discussed, evaluated, and ultimately addressed. We all agreed that one of the biggest problems is the enormous difference in strength between power gamers and casuals.

In the past, teams that have been playing for years—sometimes for over a decade—were able to save up hundreds of billions on their accounts. While the introduction of the Titans decreased the amount of KiO-$, it also made teams increasingly stronger. Combined with teams that regularly buy packs and teams that snatch up every limited specialist from the transfer market within seconds, managers were able to build teams so powerful that casual players no longer stood a chance. This assessment was shared by many managers who repeatedly brought this issue to our attention.

Our first official action, however, was of a different nature. We restricted the Youth Idol Counter Ace (JA). We considered this step urgently necessary, as some teams were exploiting this limited specialist by fielding 11 of them in Clan Cups. Naturally, they lost every match, but they also generated 11 talent points per game. That can amount to over 100 talent points a day. Since this kind of „management“ has nothing to do with a football manager game, we put a stop to this exploit.

Our next action was to prevent the transfer of limited specialists. This was partly in response to the exploitation of the JAs (as we do not want a repeat of that situation), but also partly in response to teams with multiple strength specialists who overrun their opponents through pure strength, without any tactics or management skills. Thanks to this change, we can now introduce limited specialists in the future that previously could never have existed, as having more than two of these specialists per team would have completely destabilized the game’s balancing.

With the changes made so far, we have already taken a step toward reducing the gap in strength. However, the problem remained that teams with limited specialist training could still have a massive advantage over other teams at any time. Here, too, we wanted to find a way to keep strength specialists useful, but not unfair. We agreed on a strength cap. Because this requires a certain lead time to prevent compensation claims for purchased packs, we have only announced this change so far and have not yet implemented it.

The final cause of the enormous differences in strength is the Titans. Over time, we have seen that they are a good and sensible way to drain accumulated money from player accounts—an effect that the campaigns unfortunately failed to achieve. We want to maintain this effect, but we also want to level the playing field a bit more in terms of strength. Therefore, we finally agreed to reduce the maximum strength of the Titans from 110 to 105, while keeping the maximum price the same. This way, managers who have saved up a lot of money can still buy an advantage over other teams, but at the same time, the advantage is not so overwhelming that a victory is guaranteed.

We have received a lot of feedback—especially regarding the price adjustments. We take your feedback very seriously and discuss it regularly within the Player Council; both positive and negative feedback (at this point, we want to explicitly mention again that we represent the entire KiO Community and every piece of constructive feedback helps!). An important point that has been brought up several times, and which some of you might be wondering about, is why we haven’t launched a survey yet. We would like to briefly explain why we didn’t start with a survey for this. We perceived the gap in strength as the most critical problem—one that not only needed to be solved, but solved quickly. Furthermore, there were numerous ideas on how to tackle the issue and exactly how strictly strength should be capped, for example. If we had conducted a survey for everything, there likely wouldn’t have been any changes until autumn. Therefore, as the Player Council, we decided to push forward with the adjustments that have already been implemented and those that have been announced.

However, because we do listen to your feedback, we want to launch a survey to gauge your satisfaction with the changes made so far. Since the price adjustments and the strength reduction of the Titans still need time to reflect in the actual game, we deliberately want to wait a little while before putting out this survey. Ultimately, the purpose of the survey is to evaluate the actual impact on the game, not to gather speculation on how the game might change. So, you can expect a survey in a few weeks. Of course, we are more than happy to receive any feedback in the meantime—either via the KiO Chat or by email at spielerrat@ludetis.de.

If the overall satisfaction turns out to be negative, further adjustments can always be made, or some changes could even be reversed. Please keep in mind, however, that the restriction on limited specialists is exempt from this. That adjustment has already been announced, and managers currently using their strength specialists are only doing so because a strength cap will soon be applied to them. Reversing this specific adjustment retroactively would be unfair to those managers.

We hope that this KiO News has created more transparency regarding our decisions. We look forward to your continued feedback. Stay tuned for the next KiO News video on YouTube, where the Player Council will introduce itself!

Best regards, Your Player Council

Hello Community,

To ensure fairness and fun for everyone, we, the Player Council, have collectively decided on the first two important changes:

1. Cap on the „Youth Idol Counter Ace“

The Change: The effect is now limited to a maximum of 3 talent points per match. The conditions (in which leagues/cups it is active) remain completely unchanged.

The Reason: In practice, it became clear that the effect in its original form was simply too powerful. To prevent massive farming of talent points and to maintain the game balance, an adjustment was necessary here.

2. Transfer limitation for Limited Specialists

The Change: If Limited Specialists are placed on the transfer list, their specialization will be irrevocably lost after the update! To protect you from accidental losses, an additional safety prompt will be implemented beforehand. Same is valid for scout transfers or firing a player.

The Reason: Normally, every manager can only generate two Limited Specialists per month. Due to the previously unregulated transfer market, however, these actually very rare players accumulated extremely in individual teams. This severe imbalance understandably led to a lot of frustration within the community. To restore equal opportunities, we have decided on this regulation.

We are convinced that these necessary steps will make the sporting competition in Kio fairer for everyone again.

Your Player Council

Some time ago, we jointly concluded that the existing rules for yellow cards are unfavorable or even confusing, mainly because you are still considered to be on probation even after a card has been removed. This is not transparent and, if it applies for years, it is also unfair—minor offenses should be allowed to lapse, as we all grow older and wiser and should not be punished more severely for sins committed long ago. On the other hand, we often hear that yellow cards are “irrelevant,” i.e., apparently not effective enough. Therefore, after extensive discussion, we have come up with the following new rules:

1. Yellow cards are now valid for 90 days.
2. After the warning period has expired, the card and the penalty disappear completely.
3. If you receive another warning during the 90 days, the team will be suspended for 3 months with a yellow-red card. After this period has expired, these cards and the penalty disappear completely.
4. If another rule violation is committed during the yellow-red warning period, the team will be suspended immediately. As before, it will be possible to start again with another team after 6 months. Similarly, second teams will be suspended immediately in the event of multiple violations (as before).

Regardless of this, a lifetime ban may still be imposed on a user for particularly serious violations of rules, customs, or terms and conditions.

In order to implement the new card rules properly, we have today carried out a yellow card amnesty, i.e. as of today, all yellow cards have been deleted and expired, so all teams (except those banned with a red card, of course) are now back to square one. We are confident that these measures will contribute to improving fair play. We would like to thank all our fair players!

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You have voted, and you have decided on the future of the game!

Of course, some details still need to be discussed, but many important decisions have been clearly determined by the vote.

You can also view the results ‘directly from the Ludetis database’ with audio commentary on YouTube. Here, I summarise the most important results in writing for you to read.

The Titans: Most votes were for ‘okay, but far too expensive’, followed by ‘don’t like them’. → We will therefore first try to find a way to offer Titans at a lower price, e.g. older ones that don’t stay in the team for as long. At a later date, we will ask again whether the Titans should stay or be removed completely.

The limited specialists: By far the most votes were for ‘Good, but better balance in future.’ → We know that the teamplayer crossing specialist was too strong, and have been working on improving the balance since then. Limited specialists should and may be slightly better than existing specialists, but not so strong that they dominate the entire KiO universe.

Clan Championship: There is a narrow majority of 60:52 votes in favour of continuing the current mode with the final tournament. However, 59 votes were also cast for ‘I don’t care.’ This shows that the CM is by no means the most important thing for all players. It may be helpful to keep this in mind more often. → So we are not changing anything about the CM for the time being.

What new features would you like to see? By a considerable margin, most votes were for ‘even more interesting medals’, ‘new, interesting trainer foxes’ and ‘improve own tournaments’. → We will now develop these ideas in detail and will certainly introduce the first new medals into the game in the big autumn update, for example.

Opponents‘ line-ups visible: A large majority of 91:46 votes believe that things are fine as they are → so they will remain that way.

Multiple teams per player: A large majority of 94 votes voted for ‘should be completely banned’. Obviously, the majority feel that multi-accounts are fundamentally unfair, even if they do not violate the rules. → We will change the rules accordingly. However, to be on the safe side, we would like to point out that we will not completely prevent multiple teams from playing on the same Wi-Fi/in the same household for technical reasons. Friends, family, siblings and children are of course still allowed to play.

Feeling comfortable in the community: 94 votes were cast in favour of ‘yes’ as opposed to “no”, with ‘don’t know or sometimes yes, sometimes no’ receiving 62 votes. → This does not result in any direct changes, but we are pleased with the result and will endeavour to make your experience in the game even more enjoyable. We welcome specific suggestions by email to Support.

Clan Championship Medal: As you know, we disabled this medal, along with a few others, without asking because of false incentives. Due to a number of complaints, we have now resubmitted the question in order to legitimise the decision retrospectively, so to speak. This worked, as a majority of 55:48 votes supported our decision – and most (69) didn’t even care → The medal remains disabled.

Hot Summer Cup: With 72:22 votes for ‘good, it was fun’, we can draw a positive conclusion. → We will continue to strive to offer interesting special promotions for holidays and vacations.

In-game poll: With 146:1 votes, we have a very clear statement here. So it was worth the effort to integrate a tamper-proof voting system directly into the game. → We will continue to use it and even expand it so that we can also organise small prediction games, etc. in the future.

Large competitions alternating between tactical and weak tactical: Here we have a clear yes with 68:49! → So we will soon be offering the big Saturday tournaments alternately in the other game modes.

That concludes the big autumn survey – and we have a whole series of tasks ahead of us, some of which we will certainly implement in the big 2026 update. The update is planned for the end of November. We will keep you informed!

Thank you very much for participating in the survey. We value your opinion and respect your wishes – as far as possible, given that there are quite different preferences within our community. No one is excluded, but of course we cannot fulfil all wishes, especially if they are contradictory. But we will do our best!