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This is an infuriating operation. A manager (105295), named Pandurii Targu Jiu, created a new account and then traded between the main account and the secondary account. During the process, he bought the best player of the Chinese national team at an extremely high price and then just waited to be banned.

He even named the secondary account "ban me", which is an extremely arrogant move just to ruin the GOAT of another country. If it takes at least six weeks to release this innocent player for such an operation, then there must be something wrong with the game's mechanism.

Please release all the players of the banned manager onto the market. They need protection more than the cheaters!

Dirty tactic. If don't ban him, he continues to damage the player's game shape. If ban him, the player will miss at least 6 weeks of NT matches. If this bug isn’t fixed immediately, all the elite NT players will be vulnerable in the market.

Made a report to an EGM with both links to the teams and a link to your post here

How is this a bug?
I understand that with double acc etc it's obviously against the rules.

But what's wrong with buying player from TL and then playing him even if it's inefficient and he loses form.
I understand the frustration from NT perspective, but this stuff happens even in real life. This is as close to RL as it gets.
There is WR limitation for buying players which is there for a reason. Only dedicated trainers can buy such players and it's their decision, how will they play them.

Release period is there so that trainer has time to contest the ban decision. It would be really unfortunate to release roster immediately after ban. Because then there is no reason to object the ban decision. Even worse, it opens gate to completely new form of griefing, where let's say one country decides to report top B3 team just to give their black horse better chance of winning. Even if the ban is raised after consoderation, roster is gone and you are done.

Last edited by Merimen at 3/7/2025 1:33:32 PM

Hello,

Your argument that buying a player from the Transfer List, only to have them underperform, is a benign aspect of the game overlooks a crucial detail. The evidence suggests that this transaction was not a mere mistake, but rather a deliberate decision that compromised the National Team's competitiveness.

While I understand your desire to justify this action, it's essential to acknowledge the intentional nature of this decision. This choice, though perhaps not malicious in intent, nonetheless constitutes a form of self-sabotage that undermines the team's prospects.

Your points regarding the WR limitation and release period, while well-reasoned, do not adequately address the underlying issue. The fact remains that this deliberate decision has compromised the team's competitiveness, and it is our responsibility as honest managers to acknowledge and learn from this mistake.

Rather than justifying this action with no resources, I propose that we focus on developing strategies within BB community alike, to prevent similar incidents in the future. By doing so, we can uphold the principles of fair play and competitive integrity that underpin our game.

I'm not justifying it, I'm just looking at it from other side. It would be best to hear from "culprit" his point of view too.

Because looking at his roster, he also has Cuban NT player with same issues as the Chinese one. It's not really broad and he's fighting for PO. All of his starters have tragic forms which can implicate that he's just not aware of optimal minutes.

On the other hand, I hope that NT managers tried to contact him regarding this issue, so it was his decision not to take helping hand.

This situation is unfortunate for all NT whose players are in this team.

That being said, my HOF draft pick also ended up in bad team, because I didn't have infra to support him. But he's not playing there so if I kept him, he'd be better at least for U21. And this happens more often than topic of this post, where team with 6k arena buys 8 or more 10+ pot prospects and just let them die. I'm from small country where we have limited amount of 10+ draftees and these actions hurt us as bad as topic of this post.

I don't see a way of preventing either of these "strategies" other than "Please don't do it".

You just shouldn't force a manager to manage his team the way you see fit. With this logic, there would be no innovation nor diversity

Obviously in the end there was malicious intent with creating 2nd team against the rules with "self sabotage"

Last edited by Merimen at 3/7/2025 5:44:06 PM