To test out the new simulator go to
https://test.lolmanager.gg
Testing
You will need to sign up a new user and create a new team.
Then just simply try out against other teams in sandbox while trying out different strategies. Don't expect it to work well right now as it's still really raw, needs a lot of tweaking, improving decision-making and improvements of some features, but you can already start testing and giving feedback. It will take some more time to make it realistic and balanced.
Dummy teams
Tomorrow I will add 'dummy teams' to play against as well. Teams that have stronger or weaker players and a certain fixed strategy set that you could try against and see how strategies influence the game exactly.
New details
Now there are a few new details in the game replay view (checking the replay is the best way to test and see what works and how).
Replay speed
You can now set your game replay pace to 1x, 5x, 10x or 50x. You can pause the replay and use left and right arrow key to move 5 seconds forwards or backwards.
Player specific commentary
You can also besides General commentary see player specific commentary by clicking on the buttons in the center. You will see a live feed of your player damage and decision making process. It's a good method to debug and see logic errors in decision making or anything else.
Team decision coordinates
As another thing you might wonder what are these light opacity rounds with coordinates on them. These are simply debug features as well to show where the team wants to go on the map on a certain time point.
Strategy
There are a lot of new options, just check them out and try different things.
The plan
After enough testing - I really can't test all the edge cases alone so this is why I'm opening the testing for everyone so we could see what's wrong, buggy, what's too imbalanced a lot faster than when I tried all the strategy settings and possible scenarios myself - and tweaking when it's clear that the new sim reflects strategy choices and is stable we will release it. I hope to do it soon, but I can't 100% predict how many issues there are currently and when it will be stable enough.
Feedback
Please leave your feedback under this topic right now until I figure out a better place to comment about the new sim.
Good luck and have fun testing!