Elevenfold Legacy: User Rules and Beginner Guide

This guide explains how to play well as a manager. It is intentionally practical and avoids hidden backend/admin logic.

1. Core Idea

• You run one football club.
• You build a squad, schedule matches, earn MP, and climb standings.
• The game is asynchronous: you prepare decisions, then matches resolve in time slots.

2. Daily Match Slots (Very Important)

• Every day has 2 match slots:

1. `13:00 UTC`
2. `20:00 UTC`

• If you want fast progress, plan around both slots.
• Playing both slots often is strong, but it requires squad depth and stamina management.

3. Why You Need More Players

• Players lose stamina after matches.
• If you keep using the same 11 players, performance drops.
• Building a deeper roster lets you rotate and stay competitive in both daily slots.

Basic roster facts:

• You need 11 active players to play.
• You need at least 1 GK.
• Max roster size is 23.

Practical rule:

• Try to maintain at least 14-18 usable outfield players plus 1-2 usable GKs.

4. Starting XI, Bench, and Rotation

• Starting XI should be your best current team for the next slot.
• Bench is not storage; it is your rotation engine.
• Rotate before players are exhausted, not after results collapse.
• Keep a captain set in your XI.
• During initial squad setup (`/create-squad`), choose your preferred formation before finalizing the XI; changing formation can move compatible picks and clear incompatible slots.

5. Stamina and Morale

• Stamina and morale both matter in match performance.
• Stamina recovers over scheduled regen cycles, but not instantly.
• Morale swings after results; low morale hurts consistency.

Simple routine before each slot:

1. Check low-stamina players.
2. Rotate 2-4 players if needed.
3. Fix morale on key players when needed.
4. Re-check lineup validity (11 players + GK).

6. Creating New Players vs Market Players

• You can build your squad from market players and custom players.
• Custom players are usually better long-term for active managers:

1. They fit your positional plan.
2. They can be transferred to other users later.
3. They support stronger long-term squad identity (homegrown-heavy builds are valuable).

Market players are useful for fast patching of weak positions. Custom players are usually the better strategic investment. During squad creation, `Auto-fill` picks random starter templates by position for each empty slot, so different clubs get varied starter XIs.

6A. Editing Club Identity

• Use `Edit Club` from Club HQ when you want to update your club presentation.
• Core identity fields are limited to once every 30 days:

1. Team name
2. 3-letter short code
3. City
4. Team colors

• Club logo updates are more flexible:

1. You can upload or replace a transparent PNG logo anytime.
2. You can also switch badge style anytime.

Best practice:

1. Treat name/code/city/colors as long-term branding choices.
2. Use the logo slot for more frequent visual refreshes without spending your monthly identity change.

7. Player Career Cap (100 Games) and Extensions

• Every player starts with a career cap of 100 games.
• At the cap, the player retires.
• You can extend the cap using Medical Doctors.

Extension basics:

• Max cap is 200 games.
• Max 2 extensions per player.
• Extension size and MP cost depend on doctor stars.
• Each doctor can perform one extension per week.

Best practice:

• Do not wait until the final match.
• Track key players at 10-20 games remaining and prepare replacement/extension early.

8. Staff: What Each Role Does

Main staff:

1. Assistant Manager

• Helps with lineup suggestions and order setup.
• Useful when you need fast, stable defaults.

1. Fitness Coach

• Runs stamina sessions on exactly 8 players.
• Each coach has cooldown, so extra coaches increase daily flexibility.
• You can have up to 3 fitness coaches active.

1. Psychologist

• Boosts player morale for MP.
• Great before big matches or for players in bad form.

Administrative staff:

1. PR Manager

• Improves image-based income potential.

1. Infrastructure Manager

• Required for stadium upgrade path and better long-term club growth.

1. Transfer Director

• Gives transfer cashback benefits.

1. Medical Doctor

• Extends player career caps.

Hiring strategy for beginners:

1. First solve your biggest bottleneck (usually stamina or morale).
2. Add admin staff once your match loop is stable.

8A. Freelancers and Vouchers (One-Shot Sessions)

• Office now includes `Hire freelancers`.
• Freelancers are not permanent staff. Each hire = one session, then voucher is spent.

Voucher types:

1. Doctor voucher (doctor only)
2. Psychologist voucher (psychologist only)
3. Fitness voucher (fitness coach only)
4. Universal voucher (can be used for any freelancer role)

How vouchers are used:

1. Role voucher is used first if available.
2. If role voucher is missing, a universal voucher is used.

Session effects by stars:

1. Doctor: extends one selected player career cap (+25 / +40 / +50 games).
2. Psychologist: boosts morale for all active players (+5 / +10 / +15).
3. Fitness coach: boosts stamina for exactly 11 selected active players (+5 / +10 / +15).

Practical tips:

1. Keep at least one universal voucher for emergencies.
2. Use doctor sessions on high-impact players near cap limits.
3. Use full-team psychology before hard fixture stretches.
4. Use fitness session to restore your strongest 11 for key match windows.

8B. Special Offers in Club HQ

• Some users can receive targeted freelancer offers above `Live Feed` in Club HQ.
• When a new targeted offer is assigned to your club, you also get a notification: `You have a new special offer! Check it in Club HQ`.
• Each offer card shows:

1. Offer title and text.
2. Freelancer profile (role + stars).
3. `Use` and `Dismiss` actions.

• `Use` opens the freelancer session modal immediately.
• Offers can be free or paid.
• Paid offers show a euro price and open secure checkout when you confirm `Buy & use`.
• If payment is canceled, the offer stays available while still active.
• `Dismiss` asks for confirmation, then permanently hides that offer for your club.
• If several offers are active, use arrows on the card to switch between them.
• Once an offer is used or dismissed, it disappears from Club HQ.
• Offers also disappear if their time window ends or if admins expire them early.
• Offers can include extra voucher rewards in addition to the freelancer session.
• Offers can also include bonus MP in addition to the freelancer session.
• After successful use (free or paid), you get a clear result summary with what was applied (stamina/morale/career-cap) and any bonus rewards added (vouchers and/or MP).
• For paid offers, Club HQ briefly shows a processing modal after payment return and then opens the final result summary once the purchase has been finalized server-side.

8C. Personal Assistant (Free)

• You can hire one free Personal Assistant in Staff.
• The assistant powers a floating chat button in the app.
• If not hired yet, the button shows a `?` and points you to Staff hiring.
• You can replace your Personal Assistant anytime for free.
• You can hide/show the floating button in `/preferences`.

What it is for:

1. Rules-only Q&A (beginner-safe guidance).
2. Page-aware hints (different help on Team Management, Calendar, Market, etc.).
3. Staff relay: ask for guidance from hired staff personas through the assistant.
4. Office shortcut: in `Your staff team`, click a staff member to open their profile modal, then use `Talk to this staff member` to open chat with that person selected.
5. Live club context: it can reference your next opponent and kickoff when you ask about the upcoming match.
6. UI guidance: it can explain where to go and what to click (challenge flow, buying players, morale boost, fitness sessions, staff hiring).
7. Specialist context: when talking through Psychologist/Fitness Coach/Doctor, it can reference your current squad status in that domain (morale, stamina, cap risk).

Important:

• It gives surface-level guidance only.
• For detailed tactical optimization, hire/use an Assistant Manager.
• Learning hub path: `/how-to-play`.
• Input safety limit: one message is limited to 500 characters; daily and short-window usage limits also apply.

8D. Beginner Guide (Vanessa)

• A beginner guide avatar can appear on the left side with page-specific onboarding tips.
• On pages where a new tip is available, the guide bubble opens automatically.
• You can close the bubble only (avatar stays) or close the avatar completely.
• If you close Vanessa's message on a page, that page-tip stays dismissed for your account and does not auto-open there again unless you reopen it manually or reset Vanessa in Preferences.
• If you close the avatar completely, it stays hidden on that current page and comes back automatically only when you open another page where Vanessa still has a new unseen tip.
• Tips are one-time per page/topic per user by default.
• In `/preferences`, you can:

1. Turn beginner guide tips on/off.
2. Reset Vanessa so page tips can appear again from the start.

8E. Interactive Onboarding

• After your club setup, the game can open an interactive onboarding flow.
• Instead of static screenshots, onboarding now shows live copies of real pages inside a guided modal.
• You can interact with those pages normally during onboarding:

1. change lineup and orders,
2. hire the free Personal Assistant,
3. adjust preferences,
4. learn the Calendar flow.

• Your actions save as normal while onboarding is open.
• You move forward with `Next` / `Back`, and when it finishes you land in Club HQ ready to play.
• In `/preferences`, you can replay this interactive onboarding anytime.

9. Team Orders and Player Orders

• Team orders shape global style.
• Player orders tune behavior by role.
• Orders are most effective when they match your lineup profile.

Beginner approach:

1. Start with balanced orders.
2. Change one area at a time (tempo, risk, pressing, role behavior).
3. Re-evaluate after a few matches, not after one result.

10. Transfers and Window Timing

• Deals can be agreed, but movement follows transfer-window rules.
• Pending transfers temporarily lock some player actions.
• You can attempt to buy eligible user-created players from player modals even if they are not currently listed in `/market` (market is not the only entry point).
• Do not leave key positions uncovered near slot times.

Safe transfer planning:

1. Keep one emergency reserve per critical line (GK, CB, CM/ST core).
2. Avoid last-minute all-in spending before both daily slots.

10A. Challenges and Match Booking

• You do not wait for the game to assign every match automatically. A big part of progress is actively booking matches.
• You can challenge other clubs for open daily slots.
• Other clubs can also challenge you for slots you leave open.
• If you want to avoid a certain slot, block it in Calendar.
• The game can also add some automatic NPC activity:

1. About 30 minutes before each slot, NPC clubs can be paired into a small number of automatic NPC-vs-NPC matches.
2. If your club has no pending or scheduled matches anywhere in the next 3 days, the game can send you an incoming NPC challenge for one of those free slots.

Basic challenge flow:

1. Open `/calendar`.
2. Click an empty slot.
3. The game shows only clubs that are free for that exact slot.
4. Click one club and confirm the challenge.
5. The other manager gets a notification and can accept or decline.

Alternative direct-team path:

1. Open another club from rankings/champions views.
2. Click `Challenge` or `Challenge team`.
3. In Calendar, choose a slot that is free for both clubs.
4. Confirm the request.

Important:

1. You can keep multiple outgoing pending challenges at once if they are on different free slots.
2. If a sent challenge stays pending for 24 hours, you can cancel it.
3. If a challenge is still unanswered at kickoff, it auto-cancels.
4. Blocking a slot in Calendar also protects that slot from these automatic incoming NPC challenges.

10B. Standard Players, Custom Players, and Levels

• Not all players enter the game in the same way.
• You will use three broad player sources during your club life:

1. Starter players from your initial squad.
2. Market players bought from the transfer market.
3. Custom players created by you.

How they differ:

1. Starter players and new custom players begin at level 1.
2. Market players can arrive already leveled, which gives faster short-term impact.
3. Custom players are unique to the game world and can later be transferred between users.
4. A lineup with more self-created players gains a cohesion advantage in matches, so building your own core is strong long term.

Level basics:

1. Max level is 10.
2. You can level a player up from that player's modal.
3. Leveling costs MP, and higher levels cost more.
4. Leveling also gives a morale bump, so it can help performance in two ways at once.

Practical rule:

• Buy leveled market players if you need instant strength.
• Grow your own players if you want stronger long-term identity and better squad cohesion.

11. MP and Progress Discipline

• MP is your operating fuel.
• Typical MP sinks: leveling, players, staff, transfers, stadium.

Use a simple budget split:

1. Match-ready squad depth.
2. Staff operations (fitness/morale first).
3. Planned upgrades (transfers/stadium).
4. Emergency reserve.

11A. Memberships and Packs

• Office now has real-money checkout flows for membership and packs.
• New purchases can be routed through Stripe or Paddle (provider is set globally by live config).
• Membership tiers:

1. Premier Silver (`Buy Premier`) -> +25% weekly membership bonus.
2. Premier Gold (`Buy Gold`) -> +50% weekly membership bonus.

• Intro/trial pricing (global, one time across both tiers):

1. If your first-ever membership is Silver: first month is free, then regular Silver price.
2. If your first-ever membership is Gold: intro month price applies, then regular Gold price.
3. Once one tier uses intro/trial, the other tier starts at regular price (no second intro/trial).

• Starter Pack:

1. +6000 MP
2. +2 universal freelancer vouchers
3. One-time only
4. Only available in your first 14 days after club creation

• Test Pack:

1. +2000 MP
2. Always available

Important behavior:

• Subscription welcome/first-payment bonuses are first-time only per tier.
• Re-subscribing after cancellation uses regular pricing and no bonus grants.
• Tier switching:

1. Silver -> Gold: immediate.
2. Gold -> Silver in-place switch is disabled; use `Cancel at period end`, then subscribe to Silver after Gold expires.
3. If upgrade payment fails, your current tier stays unchanged.
4. Proration means billing adjustment on provider invoice (credit/debit), not guaranteed instant cash refund.
5. Switching tiers inside an existing subscription does not create a new intro/trial window.

• If billing is temporarily disabled, purchase buttons are blocked and checkout cannot start.
• Existing subscriptions keep renewing on the provider they were created with.
• Purchases and MP grants are confirmed server-side from payment webhooks (not from button clicks).

11B. Player Reputation and PR Managers

• Every player has a public image tier from `E` to `A`.
• Better image helps market price, prestige, and some economy-related value around the club.
• PR Managers improve how well your club converts player image into useful returns.
• The more PR quality you have, the more seriously you should monitor the Reputation page.

Practical use:

1. Open `/reputation` to see your image table.
2. If you care about long-term club growth, hire PR Managers instead of ignoring this system.
3. Image matters more over time than in one single match.

11C. Stadium and Infrastructure

• Stadium growth is a long-term investment system.
• Better stadium tiers improve home advantage and increase home-match MP income.
• Stadium upgrades take time, so they are planning decisions, not emergency buttons.
• Infrastructure Managers reduce upgrade costs and are required for efficient stadium development.

Practical rule:

1. Do not rush stadium too early if your squad is still weak.
2. Once your squad loop is stable, stadium becomes one of the best long-term growth tools.

11D. Club Identity and Manager Profile

• Your club is not only numbers. It also has branding and public presentation.
• In `Edit Club`, you can change:

1. Team name
2. 3-letter code
3. City
4. Team colors
5. Logo

• Core identity (`name`, `code`, `city`, `colors`) can be changed once every 30 days.
• Logo can be changed anytime.
• In Office, you can also set your public manager profile, including manager name and photo.

12. Beginner Weekly Workflow

1. Early week: stabilize lineup depth and role coverage.
2. Mid week: optimize orders and rotate aggressively for slot volume.
3. End week: push standings, secure morale, and prepare for next cycle.
4. After payout: reinvest with plan, not impulse.

13. Common Mistakes

• Running the same XI in both daily slots until stamina crashes.
• Ignoring GK depth.
• Spending MP on flashy buys while weak positions stay weak.
• Waiting too long on 100-game cap players.
• Treating staff as optional when playing multiple slots per day.

14. Quick Start Checklist

1. Ensure valid XI and bench depth.
2. Schedule around `13:00` and `20:00 UTC`.
3. Rotate for stamina before each slot.
4. Use staff tools (fitness/psychology) proactively.
5. Build custom players for long-term strength.
6. Track games cap and extend key careers in time.

15. Challenges and Notifications

• Use calendar challenges to secure good slots against specific opponents.
• Clicking an empty Calendar slot can now open a shortlist of clubs that are actually free for that exact slot.
• You can keep multiple outgoing pending challenges at once if they are on different open slots.
• If a sent challenge stays pending for 24h, you can cancel it from Calendar to free that slot.
• Pending challenges auto-cancel at kickoff if still unanswered; a short post-slot safety cleanup also removes stale leftovers.
• If you leave the next 3 days completely empty, the game can send an NPC challenge into one of your free unblocked slots to keep activity moving.
• In notifications, incoming challenges can be handled directly:

1. `Accept`
2. `Decline`
3. `Open calendar`

• Read notification dates as received-time updates (when your club got the update), not match kickoff time.
• Keep notification preferences tuned in `/preferences` so you do not miss key events.

16. Legacy, Rankings, and Long-Term Goals

• Legacy and rankings are your long-term reputation:

1. Win weekly/monthly/yearly titles.
2. Build player award winners (week/month/year).
3. Improve your club’s global rank.

• Global rank shows your current position among clubs.
• Highest-ever rank shows the best position your club has ever reached.
• Track this regularly to measure progress beyond just short-term match results.

17. Account Data and Deactivated Teams

• In `/legal`, you can:

1. Export your account data.
2. Permanently delete your account (with repeated confirmation, typed `delete`, and a final confirmation step).

• If your account is deleted:

1. Personal account data is removed.
2. Your team is frozen/deactivated and cannot play new matches.
3. Your club history stays visible in past rankings/titles for competitive consistency, but your personal account/profile ownership is removed from it.

• Deactivated teams are marked as `Abandoned` in rankings/champion-history views.

If you follow this consistently, your club will usually outperform less organized managers.