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Fair play and VIP

What free-to-play forever means and the exact boundary of premium convenience.

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  1. Zero pay-to-win
  2. What VIP does
  3. What happens when VIP expires
  4. The test for every feature
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Zero pay-to-win

Money outside the club can never buy a skill point, improve a duel, change training speed, win an auction, create club cash or influence a fixture. The sporting engine receives no premium multiplier.

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What VIP does

VIP adds organisation, expression and shortcuts. Every item arranges information already available to the owner or changes presentation; none is passed into the match or economy formula.

Every new account starts with 60 days of VIP, free, counted from registration. VIP can also be earned by playing. Open the game on 7 days in a row and you receive 1 VIP day; the 28th day in a row brings 3. Days follow Bucharest time, and a missed day starts the count again. VIP earned this way is added after any VIP you already have and does not cover additional clubs.

VIP feature boundary

Command Center

One dated private notebook for player, club and decision journals, with year filtering and pagination.

Player organisation

Player attachments that follow transfers, desired-position labels and separate bookmark collections with folders and tags.

Player identity

Reviewed photographic portraits plus three saved face changes and three full-name changes for each owned player. Browsing variants costs none of those changes.

Club identity

A custom crest — designed in the studio, with your own letters, stars and ribbon, or uploaded as a PNG you made yourself — and a complete home kit, shirt and shorts, shown across authenticated club, competition, report and Match Live surfaces while VIP is active. An uploaded crest is trimmed and fitted to every size automatically; it must be your own work, not a real club or brand logo. Moderators can remove it, and your designed crest then returns.

Club expression

Portrait statements and public press tools.

Presentation and navigation

Stored-journal match replay, youth-time explanations and convenient saved references.

Opponent dossier

With active VIP, gather up to 5 recent official matches of an upcoming opponent into one view. Senior and Youth stay separate; results, starting shapes, the approach, mentality and offside trap actually played, the last documented starting lineup and recorded goals and assists come from public reports in the club’s current tenure. Attacks made and Attacks faced show the routes used by the club and against it. How they score counts the club’s goals and attempts by how the ball reached the finisher: a high or low ball into the box, a through ball, a dribble, a counter-attack, a long ball, a beaten offside trap, a long shot, a set piece, a penalty or a rebound; a match enters only when its journal adds up to its score. Key players have portraits and public skill previews on their names; a compact injury card cycles through currently injured players with overall rating 7+. No future orders or tactical recommendations are revealed.

Never included

Skill points, faster training, extra club cash, bid priority, hidden opponent values or match modifiers.

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What happens when VIP expires

Private notebook entries, collections and releases remain readable but cannot be created or edited. Realistic player portraits return to anonymous silhouettes. Saved face and full-name changes cannot be made without active VIP; the current full name remains canonical. The custom crest and home kit are hidden everywhere and the standard club artwork is shown instead.

  • The custom club design remains saved privately, as does the selected player face.
  • Reactivating VIP restores the saved crest, shirt and shorts automatically, together with photographic player identities.
  • Unused player-identity changes are not reset by expiry, renewal, a new season or selling and rebuying the player.
  • The automatic opponent dossier is unavailable without active VIP; its public source reports remain readable.
  • Expiry never deletes sporting history or changes any match, rating, training or financial value.
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The test for every feature

A premium tool may make existing information easier to arrange. It must not reveal a secret sporting value that free managers cannot obtain, automate a better football decision or alter the outcome of a game system.

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