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Fixed league search filters

Thank you so much! Finally, it's fixed!

Finally, thank you:)

It's great to see it be fixed.

I'd only add being able to choose half hour times such as 3:30 or 17:30 or 21:30 and for leagues that match the time exactly to be shown first, these leagues should then rank by cars per tier. Currently the leagues with the most cars per the player's tier within a 2 hour period of the time are shown, which may have been done on purpose (idk) but I believe is less convenient for the player.

It great that you working on this but it is still broke. 

I just did search on a mates league which I know he has spots open and I was getting leagues from 1400 to 2000 and just one at the time his league races and that is 2200 and his league never showed up. I had the same friend do a search on my league and he said it never showed up either. 

Another friend I searched on his league and it would only show up if you put the days off they do not race. But you have 7 days racing and none would show up at that time as available. My point with this one is how many people when they search for leagues put the days they dont want to race into the search engine unless they know already that what they want. his league should show up in a basic search just for time if there not 6 already there for that time at 7 days a week. 

If you want more info please get hold of me by Mail as I am glad to help unlike some of your mod team may think. But from what I have seen this is still not fixed to how it should be. 

On chrome with a PC and it also does the same with android on my phone.
Yes I cleared the browser history and cached.


My friends league does not show up and they have ten managers in the elite league so it is not full.
Going by the cars in field you can only have one manager missing for it to show up in search filters and there only one showing up at that time. 

Yep I have the same problem as Taz, Mine does the same where it still gives you not what you trying to search for.

Pages of results sound good. Have the most populated on the first page and least populated towards the last pages. Also if we could have race speed and distance in the search that would be great. 


James

Hi Jack 

Thanks for getting back on this. 

Do i want pages of league results to go through? nope as most people will not go through more than the first page so that makes no sense at all. 

Do I wish for a top 6 or even top 10 search results all at the time I am searching for? Yes I do. 

We will use the time I used in the picture of 2200 hours. That is the time I want to race so that the time I want to see leagues that have spots open. It is then my choice if I pick a league that is nearly full, or half full or maybe nearly empty. or it runs 2 days a week or 7 days a week. I have the choice right there in front of me. 

Now look at the options it gave me. 1500, 1800, 0530, 1400, 1630, and then the last one is 2200. If I wanted to race at any of the other times then don't you think I would put that into the search filter. I don't want times I don't want to race showing up in the filter areas. (I honestly think this is the reason why so many managers give up so quick in the rookie leagues is that they don't get the option to race at the time they want.)

My mates league runs at 2200 time and has ten managers in the elite league and yet does not show up. My league runs at 2000 hours and don't show up. Yes mine is poor on numbers and just 7 elite managers at the moment. And yes it may not show up in the top 6 or top 10 search results and I can live with that if all the others in the search results are the same time. But when you do a search and only one is the time you want to race then that is frustrating. 

I would think the idea is to help these leagues that are smaller on number to at least have a chance to grow but if they never come up in the search filter how the heck do they grow. Probably less than 20% of managers go on the forum so that does not overly work advertising in the league forum. And this building bot teams to make your league show in the search filter is just silly in my view and does the game no good in the long run. 

I understand that you don't want pages of leagues but surely if you ask for a time only leagues with that time come up. I tried advertising my league but eventually gave up because no one is going to join if it doesn't appear in the league search and no one really looks for a new league on the forum. 

I would be in favor of pages for league search results, maybe 10 per page if you want to keep the initial search result small.

I have pulled two random leagues here and it shows how broke the search engine is
First league
League ID = World Tour

There are 11 managers, 22 cars in this league


I place the exact search information into the filter for this league to come up in the search engine.


As you can see World Tour does not show up in search. No league comes up for that time slot Plus you can see the bottom league on the search results only have one more manager than World Tour and it a midday time. This search should of gave the top 6 leagues needing manager for the time slot of 2200 hours and yet there are none showing even though that is the time world tour races at.

Second League
League ID = Scottish Elite League

This league has 31 managers in this one car league so should show up for sure.


Placed into filter the information that will bring the league up in the search. Side note is that 1500 hour my time is prime time in the UK which is 8pm GMT so all six in the search should show up as 1500 time as there are so many leagues at that time, Jack the way you explained this league should show up as it is only missing one manager.


As you can just one league shows up for the 1500 time slot and that only has 12 cars in it. Scottish elite league does not show up and it missing just one manager. This is prime racing time in UK and yet just one league shows up.

So looking at this two leagues it shows that the search engine is indeed broken and does not even do what you explained it does in an earlier post on this thread. 

If the search engine can not show results for the time managers want then what is the point of the search engine?

The league which isn't active started to be indicated.

Please return it to the beginning.

I think there is a user who asks a lively league. 
There is a user who asks the league which doesn't have many cars, too. 

I want you to make sure that the user can choose.

I found my current league by using the forum as a source. 
Every manager has a vast list of leagues when you click on their icons. I know, it's not what every new player would do. And you are right! They won't....simply because they don't know any better.. 

Taz's comment ; "....if they never come up in the search filter how the heck do they grow."   So a lot of managers that have leagues straggling to meet the number of players needed to activate promotion opt for more aggressive ways to attract new managers to their leagues.  I get about 10+ invites a week to join a league from unfamiliar managers. 

This shouldn't be so complicated.  I should log in, enter my data into the search filter and presto! Instead we get a very limited list and in most cases outside the filter configuration the user has entered. 

Jack:
"Hi guys, there is a misunderstanding here. The search is working as intended, it is designed to show only the 6 most populated leagues that match your search criteria, which are not full."

6!!!!???
Really!?

This is a global game but you only show us the 6 most populated leagues?  10/page? Just show us all leagues that fit the criteria the user enters into the search filter and let the user make their individual decision as to what league suits them the most.  Even with an error message, it wouldn't change the limited number of options the user has to go on.  

I wonder how many potential managers iGP is loosing because it doesn't provide a comprehensive list of leagues.  

When a rookie searches for a league, it's only a league from 0 cars to 4 cars to come out.
Neither an educator nor the user with competitive power are in such league, so it's futureless.