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"You have sold 11 players in the past 14 weeks."

Just bought a player and he is sitting on 78%

It a bit tricky. You raise a good point. It is strange that more active teams are being punished as the game should push for more active teams...

Having said that, making life easier on the transfer market will have massive effect on the game. Users will be able to switch their entire roster several times a season, sometimes even buy players for one game and then enjoy a sale for the same amount give or take without losing anything.

That's not a game I would enjoy playing...

It is strange that more active teams are being punished as the game should push for more active teams...

I think this deduction is faulty. I'm not necessarily sure I'd even agree with the word punishing, but for the purposes of discussion I won't argue that. But they're not punishing "active" teams - they're punishing teams that sell a lot of players. If you log in once a week, buy a lot of players and sell a lot of players, you get hit just as hard as the guy who's on 12 hours a day, 7 days a week who sells the same number of players. But for people who are active and rarely sell players, there's no punishment at all.

I personally prefer the game to not reward those who treat the players as virtual commodities to be bought and sold for slight financial gain and multiplied by volume. First, of course, this is not how a real sporting club operates, but realism is a pointless reason for any game design decision - more importantly, there's simply no game balance reasoning to encourage people to go speculating on the transfer market rather than encouraging players to build teams intelligently and soberly with more than next week's match in mind.

Aside from OP posting etiquette issues... My take is leave as is. The %s make for a challenge, encourage training, and reduce douchebag factors 100fold. Otherwise we'd have way more farm teams and multi accounts just to bounce players around for game by game basis.

You are right - Agree.

If you removed % off of trades, than trading players would be the best way to become a good team, since training would be far less profitable. To be good at trades, you need to spend a lot of time in front of your computer, which means people with lots of free time would dominate. Consequentally, a lot of people who have a job and/or a family would leave this game, myself included. So I don't like this suggestion.