Pitwall news

There have been quite a few changes in the career department today, most notably in the shares and in the applying for a new team sections. I can recommend everyone to take a look in the changelog.

Shares
Starting with the shares a big change was pushed through in order to make the game more fun and less frustrating after having been fired suddenly. Many people didn't know that when they went public they had a chance to be fired by either the board of directors or the shareholders. The board of directors would fire you if your results weren't good enough, and this would happen during the season update.
This has now been removed so that people who went public (ie. sold shares) can only be fired by a majority of shareholders.
Also, a logical change in this section is that it's now only possible to either go completely public (100 shares), or not at all (0 shares). Because of this, teams who hadn't gone completely public have now, and those who went public but only had shares on the market without an owner have gone private again (with an auto payment of the share price).

As I was working on the shares section, I pushed through a long overdue update as well which is a much clearer shares page. Each team is now listed individually instead of per share per team which gives a better overview of the public teams. The active teams are shown first as well which was a much requested feature.
The rest of the page gives much more information as to which extra options are available to the shareholders.

Shareholders now also have more access to information. They can see the financial status of the team on top of all the other default information. Also, the shareholders will be able to talk to eachother in the Board meetings chat. A notification will be sent out to all the shareholders and the team manager when a message is posted. This is introduced ahead of future features such as offering a manager a contract as a shareholder, and voting on things for the team (such as contract length).

Shares are now priced differently as well. The shares now follow the demand and supply mechanism more and will be priced differently when less shares are available, or more bids on shares are done. For this reason I've had to remove all the current bids on the shares (be happy, everyone would've paid too much).
And to make the process go faster, the bidding deadline has been reduced from 7 to 3 days.

Apply for job
This process has also been slightly altered. No longer will new managers be able to take over a top team, as that bug has been fixed.
I've also removed the limit for division 3, which means that division 3 teams will be accessible to everyone at any time without a need of a minimum reputation ranking.
That same ranking has been lowered for the first and second division as well, on top of another change: the longer a team is without a manager, the more it will relax its rules and allow more managers to apply. The minimum reputation ranking will drop each day which everyone will be able to see in the new column.