Account

Making an account

AIMperium is free. "Play free" on the front page opens the sign-up form, and so does "Create one" on the sign-in screen; "Continue with Google" works on both.

While the beta is open to everyone, the screen says "AIMperium is free to play. No invite code needed." A mail address with a password of at least 6 characters works, and so does Google.

A password account gets one mail, to confirm the address; Google needs none.

While places are limited, the sign-up form asks for an invite code instead, and "No code yet? Ask for one" opens a short request form under it.

Then your personal code comes by mail, at once or when the next batch of places opens, and the screen says which.

More on Google: Signing in with Google.

Your account

The Account button in the top bar opens your account page; Escape or "Back to the game" closes it (Closing a pop-up).

It shows the email address you sign in with, and Sign out lives there too. If you joined with an invite code, it was used once and is never needed again.

You can set your first name and surname, which the game uses to address you in its letters.

You can change your password: type it twice and save, using at least 6 characters.

Careful, saving a new password signs you out on every other device where you are signed in.

The page also holds the tip link (Supporting the game), the privacy policy, the terms, and the two big decisions: a new career and deleting your account.

Forgot your password

Locked out? On the sign-in screen, click "Forgot your password?" and enter your email address.

If an account exists for that address, a mail with a reset link is on its way.

The screen says the same thing either way, so nobody can use the form to find out whether you have an account.

The link opens a screen where you choose a new password, and saving it signs you out everywhere else, then takes you into your club.

A link works once and expires after a while; if yours is stale the sign-in screen says so, and you ask for a fresh one.

You can ask for a new mail once every 60 seconds, and delivery can take a few minutes.

Signing in with Google

"Continue with Google" on the sign-in screen lets you in with your Google account, with no password to make up.

While the beta is open to everyone, any Google address joins (Making an account); while places are limited, your Google address is your invite: the address your code was mailed to, code unused, and you type no code.

Any other address is turned away with "This Google address has no invite yet." and a link to ask for an invite; a request still waiting for its code is turned away too.

Already have a password account on that address, or joined with a shared code? Google opens that same account and club, and your password keeps working.

The game keeps your name, address and Google ID, never your photo; your name fills in by itself, you can change it on your account page, and the page says "You sign in with Google."

No password yet? "Forgot your password?" adds one.

Starting a new career

You can start over at any time, in the "Start a new career" section of your account page.

It wipes your current career completely: the club, all its players and staff, your money, and every season of history.

Your login and email stay, so this is not the same as deleting your account.

Right after the wipe you found a new club, exactly like your first time.

The confirm box asks whether the new career should show the tutorial again, the bubbles on new screens included; it is on by default (Your first session).

Before it will run: what the game asks of you first.

What a new career asks first

The wipe is immediate and cannot be undone, so the game asks you to type your club's exact name first.

The button stays dead until the name matches.

A paused match must be played to the end before a new career can start (Your match saves after every round).

If your save is broken and will not load, the game still offers the reset on that screen.

The word to type is then RESET, because your club's name is not available to ask for.

That is the escape hatch: a save you cannot open never traps you (Starting a new career).

Deleting your account

You can delete your account yourself, in the Danger zone at the bottom of your account page.

Deleting removes everything at once: your club, all its players and staff, every season of history, and the login itself with your email address.

Your place on the beta invite list goes with it, and you are free to join again later: with no code while the beta is open to everyone, or with a fresh invite code while places are limited (Signing in with Google).

It happens immediately, it cannot be undone, there is no export, and nobody can restore it for you afterwards.

Because it is so final, the game asks you to type your club's exact name before the delete button works.

If you only want a fresh start, a new career is the smaller door, and it keeps your login.

Supporting the game

AIMperium is free to play and has no ads.

If you enjoy it, you can leave a small voluntary tip on the game's Ko-fi page: open Ko-fi.

The game also has a YouTube channel with short fragmovies from real matches, remastered in high quality: watch on YouTube.

The gold "Support the game" button in the header opens both, and they also sit on your account page (Your account).

A tip is a thank-you and nothing more.

It never adds club money, never speeds up training, and never changes a match result.

Zoom: how big the game is on your screen

The Zoom row on your account page makes the whole game bigger or smaller on this screen: text, panels, spacing and the match map grow together, and the layout stays the same.

The choices are Auto, 100 %, 125 %, 150 %; the change happens the moment you click, and there is nothing to save.

Auto is the default: 125 % on a window 2400 px or wider, 100 % everywhere else, picked again whenever your window changes. It never goes above 125 %; 150 % is yours to pick.

The row shows what Auto decided, for example "Auto (125 % now)". A grey step does not fit your window (Steps that fit).

The choice belongs to this device, not to your save: a new career keeps it, and another computer or your phone has its own.

On a computer, the browser's own zoom (Cmd or Ctrl and +) still works too; the two add up, and neither is wrong.

Zoom: steps that fit your window

A zoom step fits when your window is still at least 1024 px wide at that zoom, the width of the game itself.

A step that does not fit is grey with the note "needs a wider window"; make the window wider and it comes alive.

If a step you picked stops fitting, say you unplug the monitor, the game uses the biggest step that fits, and goes back to your pick when the window is wide again.

Auto always fits: it never picks a step your window cannot hold (Zoom).

When a save does not get through

The game saves your career after almost every click. When a save does not get through, say your Wi-Fi drops, a red bar at the bottom says so.

You can keep playing. The game keeps trying to send your whole career, with every change you make meanwhile, and tries again at once when your connection comes back or you return to the tab.

Retry saving on the bar tries at once. If that try fails too, the bar says "Still couldn't save" and the game keeps trying.

When a try gets through, the bar says "Saved" and then the bar closes: your career is stored, and nothing is played again.

Dismiss hides the bar and nothing else. The game keeps trying, and the bar comes back to say "Saved" when a try gets through.

Do not reload while a save is not through: a reload throws away every change that is not saved yet, and a lost matchday cannot be played again. A bar that asks for a reload: no longer saving.

When this tab can no longer save

Before the game tries a failed save again, it checks that your career was not saved somewhere else in the meantime, so an old tab never writes over newer progress.

If another tab or device saved it, the bar says your career moved on, and this tab stops saving. The progress saved there is kept; what this tab did since its last good save is not.

If your career was reset or deleted somewhere else, the bar says so, and this tab stops saving too.

In both cases, press Reload on the bar: the page then shows your career as it is stored now.

The game checks only before it tries a failed save again. Play in one tab at a time, so every change goes to the same career (When a save does not get through).

Leaving before a save gets through

While a change is not saved yet, the game asks before you leave, so you do not lose it by accident.

A change is not saved yet while its save is on the way, or while the red bar says a save did not get through.

On a computer, your browser asks before the tab closes or reloads, in its own words.

Most phones never ask, and Safari on iPhone never does: on a phone, close the tab only when no red bar shows.

Sign out asks on every device. Stay keeps your career, and the game keeps trying; Sign out anyway throws away the change that is not saved yet.

When this tab can no longer save, nothing asks, so the reload the bar asks for goes through (When this tab can no longer save).