Friendly bug

[Mancunian_Nick]

I know this bug has been around a LONG time - where games/challenges are refunded before a team's friendly table schedule has been completed despite challenging on day 1 at the soonest opportunity.

We need more teams to challenge and the auto accept feature to kick in sooner then this won't happen. It frustrates and annoys the heck out of me and it's happened again just now. What the heck is the point? I pay money every season to try to complete my schedule. I was "only" one slot short last season but this one's going to be even worse!

Junior, now you're back running things, any chance you can maybe get this sorted please? If there were more teams to challenge and/or the auto-accept did its job sooner rather than 48 hours+ as now, that would help too.

Well I can live in hope but seriously starting to doubt whether I'm going to bother with friendlies in future if this is how it's going to be from now on.

[iwopp]

Totally agree.
 i groan at the start of a new season when its time to challenge for friendlies

[northstar]

send challenges to Northern lights and Realale Madrid guys and i'll challenge you right back.

[Mancunian_Nick]

Thanks Northstar but the problem there is your team(s) won't appear in every list for people to challenge. Only once the friendlies start if you're in the top 12 or however many it is, can everyone challenge you.

And I had challenged a couple of teams in L1D1 a couple of days ago on day 1 of friendlies. Wish someone would tell me therefore why I look just now and *both* of them have been refunded today just after 3pm! And another yesterday. This is really totally ridiculous.

[MartinW63]

Nick the reason you get a refund from these teams is because their fixture list is full, or they don't have a free fixture corresponding with a free game in yours.

[Mancunian_Nick]

Maybe Martin, I didn't check them out that closely but another valid reason why there should be more teams to challenge. Why is it, for example, you seem to get a different set of teams to challenge than I do for example? I can tell by who you're playing and I've noticed it for a few seasons. I'd rather there be more in the selection and everyone gets the same unless its done randomly so everyone gets a similar number of teams to challenge but as I said, having more in the list to start with and reducing the time on the auto accept from 48 or whatever it is to maybe 36 or even 24 would be much fairer, although can't see it happening.

Since I wrote the above, I challenged a further 3 or 4 teams once the friendly season started and all were refunded. Those weren't full at the time I challenged them because they hadn't all played every game but hey ho.

[MartinW63]

Nick,
I've spent a bit of time looking at this (sad git I am!). You tend to get teams from your conference plus a random one (this season it was C7 for me) for your initial challenges. I believe it's only teams that are not computer run, so that'll be the difference.
Good luck trying to fill your spots......