I'm planning to join...
But still have a dumb question...:rolleyes:
Since MZ says it's a hockeygame...

Do they mean ice hockey or field hockey...?

I know it's a dumb question...
But I want to know this... :p

Since it's a Swedish company I'd bet my money on icehockey ;)

Yeah im gonna join this too. Gonna be very very cool :mrpimp:

i think it might bring Mz down with it coz theres still errors/bugs in mz which still need to be fixed and when something big happens the servers allways go down so....

if they dont add many more servers i think it will bring Mz (football) down with it :rolleyes:

im experiencing a played matches update error,
plus it thinks its monday but its wednesday, but sometimes it thinks it teusday and sometimes it thinks its today :f***:

I was asking that on the manager zone forums but ahevn't recieved an answer yet. Though now that I think think about the power of Sweden's hockey team compared to their field team, then I think that's question answered.

This is gonna be good. Im gonna try register fast enough to get into a top division (H)

ditto to larry's comment...:mrpimp:

but i hope it is going to be ice hockey, not field hockey.

I'll be on the main page at midnight, I'm soo going for the top division, AFC (AHC?!) Muse are gna be huge in MZ Hockey:D

Will it be Monday when it comes out? I can't remember if it is, I do remember that they're not telling the time when it comes out but I think I'll just have a look at midnight as Shark said ;)

I wasn't going to sign up but I might do ... but I doubt I'll be able to pay via debit card so I'd have to use SMS. :S

I don't want to not sign up, see people sign up and tell me about it and wish I'd signed up earlier to get a higher division place. But I don't want to play it and waste money like when I entered MZ cups. But then it's only £1.

I don't know much about hockey but I guess I could learn. (:/) :D I'd need to know the main attributes, formations (guess I could see other team's formations), etc.

i might join m not sure depends if its ice hockey

I've already tought of a name...
Tell me wich is best...:

HC Lommel
KFD Lommel (KFD are my initials...:) )
Lommel Icestorm

It's ice hockey according to some Swedish managers, field hockey is "unheard of" in Sweden.

If I sign up I'll use my football account, don't know if I'll have to pay via SMS though, seems like I might have to. (:/)

mi y team name will be the Carlisle Ice Troopers

Mine's gonna be called RamerKool (H) since ice is Kool :). I just bought me some credit so I can register 2nite.

We don't know if it's going to be tonight, do we? It could be late night tomorrow by the time it comes out!

its random time isnt it? so if you wait till midnight it might not even be then

My luck that holidays ends tomorrow for me... I won't be able to go on during the day to check. I'm hoping for a midnight start or an evening start. I'll feel okay though if I get division 3 or 4.

I started in div3 for football so if I sign up I'd be happy with around that for hockey.

Also I have a feeling it'll be something like 2/3/4am in the morning which is crap for us on the European timezones but great for others like Americans. Seeing crew members like Johan on that late doesn't fill me with confidence. :D

If it's on there early morning then I'll sign up then or later in the day but I hope it's not 1) when I'm asleep or 2) when I'm out of the house during the day.

"During the night we will have scheduled maintenance and when we get back up, MZ Hockey will be available for registration. The site will become unavailable at aprox 23:00 CEST and will come back online sometime during the morning hours on Monday morning (CEST). "

Blue

Yeah, saw that just after it was posted before my league match was supposed to kick off ... if it's a few hours it could be around 1am or a bit later like I said ... I probably won't get a team in the top division but if I get a decent one then fine, if it's not as competitive it could work in my favour as I don't know much about hockey. :D

I hope MZ is still available when I want to buy a new defender in a few days...

23.00CEST? whats that? midnight GMT?

Central European Summer Time ... BST (British Summer Time) + 1

So 22:00 for us.

so its about 8am for you aussies and 10am for myself

Manager Zone is down. The race is on. Gentlemen.... Start your Internet Explorers! :rockman:

I'm on now, I finally got my leagues results...

And it's finally down for maintenance :D. The countdown takes place:rockman:

Yeah man its gonna be 9pm for me. Cant wait its gonna be awesome

not open till 3am for me :confused: luckily i dont have anything better to do (what's sleep gonna do for me???)

2 hour delay

I woke up and got up an hour in advance to stand a good chance, now a lot of people will be online when it's ready, there goes my chance of a decent team. :S

im waiting!

me 2 :)

me to

I won't be able to get onto a computer until 1 O'clock...though I may be able to sneek on at 9.55am...a glimmer of hope ;) but the two hour delay destroyed that hope :( , Looks like I'm gonna be starting in a low division again. They had to bring out today...I doubt division 3 is on the cards now.

nut im waiting to check my scores not hockey

can someone please answer this???

Am i right to say that it will b back in around 2 hours?

right, unless they hit us with another delay :kader: it's 3am and i dont want to stay awake till 5 for no reason

do any of u guys kno when it will be ready?

Originally posted by andrew_cufc
do any of u guys kno when it will be ready?

Im guessing one hour and fifty minutes

Top league: 8 teams
Div 1 : 24 teams
Div 2 : 72 teams
Div 3 : 216 teams

That's 320, I don't know if 320 people will sign up before you, Pontefract, but you have a fairly good chance, at least div4 (968 teams!).

Hopefully I'll be in the first 32 and get a place in the top league or div 1. If I'm in the first 104 then I should be at least div2.

Still waiting :)

Hopefully there won't be many dutch managers online.

English Teenagers won't be awake at 10, well, they shouldn't be.

they've added 3 more hours to it :f***:

how do you know that?

It comes up as cannot be displayed :(

Doesn't even load up here ... wouldn't mind so much but I can't get onto the football side of MZ either. And in the next hour or so even the lazy people should start getting up, so there goes my already slim chance of getting a top league spot. :(

Originally posted by VprArs06
they've added 3 more hours to it :f***:

Are you serious?

I've already been waiting for more than 3 hours..

Why do they keep changing the time?

WHAT?! I can't access the page (cannot find server) :f***:

i was looking for a top league spot and all!

mine says connection reset by peer

On the main MZ address and www2 - www7 I get "The document contains no data", on www1 it says the connection was refused. I'm using Mozilla btw so no cannot find server pages for me, that's probably what the no data thing is about.

I woke up at 4am specially to see if it was ready :D lol

Should be about 15-20 mins now :)

unless valle vista was correct,

you better not get in my prem place :p (H) :mrpimp: :f***:

the bandwidth'll be clogged up. When you're online, look in the little corner where it's says that amount of people online (next to time til next match) and just see it rocket. I'm playing blue in 13 mins :rolleyes:

im playing Poalo Pincaro! :rolleyes:
i lost in the SG tournie though :(...............


but then again it was Valle Vista!

yeh, it's definitely out for 3 more hours

I went to bed at 00:15 and woke up sometime before 7am. :D

Should be good as everyone will be on an equal footing, even with the Swedes ... shame my MZ Football team probably won't catch up and be on an equal footing with some of the other English clubs, let alone Swedes. :(

He can't find the server...
AGAIN...!!!:o
Hope you're right and it will be in the afternoon...

another 3 hours? christ...

goto the SG oceania forum and do the word association thatll pass some time

oh and it says they expect to be back online at two!! :O :|

Yeah, 1pm for us using BST...

http://www.soccergaming.tv/showthread.phps=&threadid=77313&perpage=15&pagenumber=2

err, theres a little thing i posted about hockey...

getting nervous.. i desperate want to be in the top division ;)

:impatient:

Half an hour to go hopefully...

hour and a half now :|

20 mins left, hopefully.

yer fingers crossed

Still no changes...
That's good...:D :rolleyes:

It better be, I wanna get back to my MZ-football team :crazyboy:

yeh well we haven't gone past the "10-min-left" phase yet, still plenty of time for delays, as we well know! :rolleyes:

ManagerZone is currently down for maintenance. We expect to be back online again at 16:30 CEST. The reason that the maintenance work took longer than first predicted is that we experienced some hardware problems, and had to install a new database machine. Please come back and try again

another hour everyone :(

Damn! Why didn't I make some bids for the people who's deadline expires today? I could have made some real steals... They're all on my shortlist :(

now thats an idea... if only we'd have known when it would have closed:confused:

Can't they just tell us that it's not gonna be done until sometime tomorrow?! CAN THEY GIVE US A FREAKIN DEFINITE TIME?!

Originally posted by Shark
now thats an idea... if only we'd have known when it would have closed:confused:

Well, I've got two youngsters coming in I suppose, but there was one player worth about €160 000 with bidding starting at €10 and no bids made when the site closed. Deadline expired 30mins ago :(

I saw that as I refreshed and went off elsewhere to do other stuff. I'm getting fed up now, been waiting since 7am or so. :S

Also, about bids, the deadlines that have passed will be extended, happened before last time there was maintenance, and players had an extra three or so hours added onto their deadlines, they were all 3am!

Will the matches have been played?

Yeah, they usually are.

Originally posted by chris boston
Also, about bids, the deadlines that have passed will be extended, happened before last time there was maintenance, and players had an extra three or so hours added onto their deadlines, they were all 3am!

oh, ok. No problem then :)

nearly 16.30 GMT now. nearly an hour late. :rolleyes:

19.30 CEST now. f.ck. im sleepin

18:30 now :S

the full story:

Maintenance

ManagerZone is currently down for maintenance. We expect to be back online again at 19:30 CEST. There is a risk that the downtime will be even longer, and we cannot give a definite answer when we will be done. We apologize for this, and ask you all to have patience. We know we have been down for a long time and we don't like it any more than you do. We are working very hard to get the site back online as soon as possible.

The reason that the maintenance work took longer than first predicted is that we experienced some hardware problems, and had to install a new database machine. Please come back and try again later.

I didn't bother to log into mz when I came back in from a long day. Instead I went out until six, came back to find that I still have a chance. It's a shame you guys have been waiting all day. I feel somewhat guilty that I still have a chance at div 3 or above...

Lol... lucky you, it's alright for some:p us who have waited all day have nothing to show for our troubles though :(

So it's been pushed back to half nine (GMT)?? CEST is either two hours in front or behind...I dunno

GMT is one hour behind CEST... so thats 6.30pm for us, apparently

Nah I can't be or it will have already happened. Maybe I've forgotten to add daylight savings time. Still, that doesn't explain them not updating the website when it is out of date. Time zones are annoying to work out. I was checking it today at about 1.45 and it said 17.30, so I thought my chances were screwed. It's now getting annoying for me. I can't imagine what it's been like for you guys. Better go make some coffee :) It's gonna be a long night and a longer night for the guys who have been waiting here since 7am lol.

GMT + 1 = BST
CET + 1 = CEST

Daylight Savings ... obviously Sweden are an hour ahead (GMT + 1), so if they're on CEST, we're on BST, not GMT. But still. Doesn't really matter, other than to work out the time MZ could be back.

At the moment it's 20:08 hrs CET in Holland.
So everybody can figure out there own time zone ;)

Yeah of course...British Summer Time. Cheers Chris. I've just read the message on the mz website through and through, and it says that magic word 'anytime'. Anything can happen in an instant :) :(

I hope that instant is soon! I should have the money from my transfer now, a player I want has his dealdine tomorrow ... I would say something about the length of time it'd take and my chances of getting a bid in, but I don't want to have sods' law etc. cause it MZ to open after the deadline. ;)

Then again, the deadline should be delayed anyway. :)

ITS UP

It's up, but not working properly.
No training reports.........no games played, and I get logged out constantly.

I had a horrid time with the whole loading up of the main page. That's cost me a few leagues :( Oh well, I didn't desrve

only a white screen on hockey sign up

Sutton Valence is my new team - the hockey page is blue instead of green. It looks cool! ;)

top league for me and most of the people that stayed on paltalk for the 12+ hour wait. (H) it will be worth it when everything gets back to normal (hard to log in right now, too many people)

Soccer - 5.84
Hockey - 1.1

This is new to me...lol

Site freaks out when I try to get on it...
Damn...!:(

**** i wont be able to get a good league, im going to school soon :@

Thats eight hours away from the computer :(

i am so p*ssed off. I was one of the first people on, i sent my text, havent got it back yet, and will probably be put in a lower division. :kader:

5047 are now logged in but the number is gonna take a massive drop. Look at the main homepage and you'll see...way too many connections.

The current problem is probably one with some databases, and don't forget currently there are 4000 people logged on.

Blue

My bad, 5000

Blue

In actual fact if you had stuck with your original estimate you would be right. It's down to 4.3k. Give it a few more minutes guys then try to log in.

It was exactly 5094 when I looked back then, 4300 now :)

Blue

Was it really necessary to use the same servers for both games?
Do I have to suffer because of all the hockeynerds want to get into the best league?

:kader:

I didn't actually get a text (SMS) back. I just sent it then it send on my comp it had been accepted (H)

Nekton, they don't have any other servers to upload hockey onto. They are recieving new, much better servers next week I think, so you'll just have to make do with the hockey nerds...

Rami - what time did you send your sms and what network are you on?!

Me - o2
19.27

I'm on o2. I can't check the precise time yet (I'm at an internet café) cos my mobile is at home. But it was around 19.22. I didn't receive a text back but it confirmed on the computer (check "My Information"). I'll check it when I get home (bout 20 min)

can evry1 log into MZ? Or is it just these ****ty internet Café comps :f***:

Originally posted by Pontefract City
Nekton, they don't have any other servers to upload hockey onto. They are recieving new, much better servers next week I think, so you'll just have to make do with the hockey nerds...

As someone already said: they aren't that good on customer relations. If they don't have the servers to cover the new game they shouldn't release it. Especially as they're getting new servers in a short while, It's just plain stupid.

Dont worry, I cant get on MZ at all at the moment. If I had used credit card, i would have been in the top div.:(

Originally posted by nekton
As someone already said: they aren't that good on customer relations. If they don't have the servers to cover the new game they shouldn't release it. Especially as they're getting new servers in a short while, It's just plain stupid.

nekton, go to sleep, then try mz, I'm sure (70% :$) that it'll be working well again. This is just like that due to the mad rush to get the team.

Yeah but people will start to get bored of waiting for the new servers. It's all about money for them! They are a business that's main aim is to make a profit.

Registered at the same time as Shark, but I still had £1 in my MZ account (deposited £10 via debit card a while back) ... best £1 ever spent.

About 12h 30m since I got up, I finally managed to log in, register and ... everyone else got on, I can't log in properly.

At least I'm in the IHS, top league, as well as Rami and Phippard. But Shark and my little brother, who used SMS, are still waiting even now. :(

Can't wait until I can get back on MZ properly, for both sports.

hey, way to go Chris! :D Whats your team name? Atm mine's Croydon. That'll turn to RamerKool 2moro

Deptford AFC (Association FOOTBALL Club??)

Can anyone get on again, yet? I wanna change my hockey tactics. :(

Godmanchester FC (H)
superleague aswell :)

my teams Schneiderman United, in Australian Division 1.3!!!

You can't change tactics yet buddy. :P

Ponte - tactics, match page, all unavailable until two weeks when they release the sim.

Yeah I saw that you couldn't change tactics just as I posted the message above.