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Couple of Quick question...

1. What's the point of having a trade deadline if someone can swoop in and add a bid that extends the time limit by 3 min everytime?

2. What is the point of having a rule that discourages bidding above market value but the system encouraging exactly that? Isn't that what the system is doing when you as the owner are getting into a bidding war within the last few minutes?

Personally, If I find a nice player I want...I'm bidding whatever it takes to get him, end of story. Now, did I bid above market value to get said player? Maybe. But, the system allows this to happen anyway, because with having a trade deadline that isn't truely a deadline, it will happen more and more. If the system would just end the bid deadline on time with no 3 min ext. You won't have mediocre players being bought for hundreds of thousand or even millions in some cases.


Last edited by ray461 at 7/5/2009 10:59:18 AM

Firstly, the transfer estimate is just that, an estimate. There is no hard value for any player in this game. Secondly, if you are going to bid "whatever it takes to get him end of story" then you will occasionally overpay his TE but you will be changing his next TE to more accurately reflect what you were willing to pay for him.

The reasons for extending the deadline are probably several but one I can think of is different computer response times. A manager shouldn't be limited because he lives in remote rural Arkansas and is using a Texas Instruments computer and a 56k dial-up modem.

Last edited by somdetsfinest at 7/5/2009 12:13:51 PM

I´m totally agree with you. Trade deadline shouldn´t have extended time.
Best regards.

I agree. I also think that there should be an option to offer money for a player without any bids. The bids are not good at all.

The option to offer money for some player should be taken serious by the GM's of the game.

if you bid in time the price you like to spend, you will often get your player - if not any other person thing he is more worth then that but normally such a behaviour kill bidding wars pretty fast before they appear.

So you are worried, that player are traded above the TPE - without the extension of the deadline i am worried about selling players below their market value. If you choose a to low minimum bid, and your intrest are "schnäppchenjäger"(a german word for person who like to buy cheap), they will wait till the clock run down and try to overbid in the last second and probadly not the sum this player is worth for then i beleive they will bid a sum who is maybe 1-4 steps over the actual bid because they only had to be the highest bidder at the end. i believe this willonly work with bid agents in the ebay style, but for me the bidding wars are also fun.

@KingKock: the gm running this game in their spare time, and that will be just uneccessary work for them. And only a free market guarantees, are normal price development and buissness which is to good for the buyers.

not real money. i mean bb money lol.

i think it would be good if they could set it up like a real trade agreement, where if 1 club has some1 for sale another club could offer like one of there players and some cash or at the end of the season the lower clubs could offer there trade pick and stuff like that.

i think it would be good if they could set it up like a real trade agreement,

There is actually nothing stopping you from "trading" players at the moment, you just have to use the transfer market and make sure all the "traded" players sell for market value.

Someone offered me a trade last week, for example. The problem I see with trades of this kind is that someone usually loses. That's why I turned him down. With the transfer market you are more likely to get a fair price, sometimes you just need to be patient.

where if 1 club has some1 for sale another club could offer like one of there players and some cash or at the end of the season the lower clubs could offer there trade pick and stuff like that.

The type of system you want would make cheating too easy. Seriously, the transfer market may not be perfect but in my mind it is the perfect solution to an imperfect world.