Training rework is live — plus refreshed Notifications and News screens

This is a big one. The training rework announced earlier in announcements has now gone live, with a few minor adjustments made since that announcement. On top of that, two screens got a proper visual overhaul.

• FEATURE Important training adjustments are live

  • As a reminder, the key ideas behind the change:
    • Reduce very high starting skills
    • Lower the training ceiling, to prevent every team ending up with uniformly high-skilled players — this opens up more room for tactics to matter, since teams will actually have weaknesses
    • Implement real player aging — previously players trained until their late 30s, only losing stamina and athleticism. Now all skills decline with age
    • Reduce junior age to 16-17, since pulling old juniors was never popular
    • Simplify the model by removing mid-season training, which wasn't even visible in weekly training reports anyway
  • Documentation
    • Manual → Junior Academy
    • Manual → Training

• FEATURE Notification screen redesigned, both desktop and mobile

• FEATURE News screen redesigned, both desktop and mobile — mobile was heavily broken before

Coming next: a few easy training leftovers are already planned — starting skill adjustments (training bands are now clear enough to generate age-specific starting bands, with seniors starting slightly below the curve so they have room to catch up and grow into it), and a small skill bump for 17-year-olds so they're a genuinely competitive alternative to 16-year-olds.

Big thanks to @trainerrox for sharing some genuinely game-changing feedback throughout this — especially the point about how high TSP was hurting tactical competitiveness. Really appreciated.

This game is from the very beginning driven by the community. Keep delivering ideas, and together we can build the best online basketball manager ever.