A new FA is born!!!

Following the launch of Clough last week, there was a massive amount of teams being online during the evening time.

This prompted the evening timed FA's to fill very very quickly.

There became a need for something to happen to sort out this problem.

Some of the ideas being branded round were :-

1) A 24 hour a day playing time FA

2) Change the morning FA into an evening FA

3) Extended the amount of teams in the PFA, SFA and AEFA

4) Extend the playing times of the afternoon FA to include the evening.

5) Create a duplicate of one of the existing evening FA's

It was decided to be in the best interests to go with option 5 before we go into the new FA in more detail, I think it would be good to look at the reasons the others were not choosen.

1) A 24 hour a day playing time FA. This would lead to the playing times being just too varied and made lead to more AI games as it would be possible for users in this FA to simply never be online at the same.

2) This was considered as the morning FA only had around 12 members at the time. It was decided regardless of the need for evening FA's this should not effect the Morning FA. Even though the MFA only had 12 members in that FA the managers in that FA still required that time slot. As it later turned out everyone was to leave the MFA and it was not to run this season.

3) Extending the amount of teams allowed in an FA was considered, however as soon as you raise an FA limit to 100 you lose some of the community aspect of an FA. There is exceptions to this rule ie the Extreme and Casual FA's. This is because these FA's are highly themed and a concept rather than anything else.

4) Extending the playing times of the Afternoon FA was considered however again once you open an FA to a long playing time you are running the risk of managers not being on at the same time and this will lead to more AI matches.


So, after a few days of consultation between users, mods and SI a decision was made to create a duplicate FA and so the SUPER EVENING FA was born.

SEFA was created in Clough and 54 managers joined within the 24 hours it was open before the FAs went into lockdown. Thats 54 managers that had joined alternative FA's as there was no space for them in their preffered FA. This was a great PR move by SI as thats now 54 very happy managers.


As you will see from the screen shot below SEFA is simply a version of AEFA.







Since the launch of SEFA, things have now progressed and it is now being thought that SEFA will now be a slightly more hardcore FA in the future.

The plans are for SEFA to be created with teams in the leagues playing each other 3 times a season. A standard FA is 2 times a season and the Extreme FA is 4 times a season.

SEFA will fill the gap between Standard FA's and Extreme FA's.

Personally I think this is a very good idea and I congratulate whoever decided to implement this FA for the future.