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Any advice on how often to replace trainers? I bought a lvl5 at the beginning of last season for a little over 300k, and his salary jumped from 18k to 31k from then until now.

It is time to start looking around to replace him. If you can get the same deal, you should replace him once his salary is over $35,500 (ie: if you can find a level 5 with 18K salary and 300K bonus). If you like I can work through different scenarios with you. For example, if you can find one with 16K salary and a 300K bonus, you would want to replace him in the next couple of weeks (not saying that is possible - it is just a scenario).

I think aswell that the difference between these levels could be smaller. The point of the staff management we have currently is mainly to suck the money from teams with higher expectations. This currently doesnt work, because it seems that is still financially more efficient to have lvl4 trainer no matter how high league you play, because the money you safe could be bigger than the real effect of such a staff. (especially if you are not training monsters and have to fight with the height of the player)

But I dont think that such a linear solution would be interresting, it would make things pretty boring if you compare that to a current system. Now on you have to decide if you will pay more for cheaper salary or the opposite. There are some special skills which staff have and depend pretty much on the will of the customers how much will you pay.

So I think that instead of having these payments solid and hold on to any formula, would be simply enough if there would be more of 7, 6, 5 lvl staff available for us. So they would be cheaper to get, however still would have higher salary than these by lvl below.

This currently doesnt work, because it seems that is still financially more efficient to have lvl4 trainer no matter how high league you play, because the money you safe could be bigger than the real effect of such a staff

I don't think this is necessarily true for all styles of training - just true with the style most commonly used. There is a genuine opportunity cost to opting for a level 4 over level 5 if you look at training weeks needing to yield a certain value per player trained per week, rather than evaluating per player per season, which a lot of managers seem to do.



Last edited by Elmacca at 10/14/2010 5:26:15 AM

What are you basing your numbers on? If you change trainer with 35,5k salary for 18k salary trainer, it would take 16 weeks to pay off.

Are you completely sure? My graphs show that it takes 27-28 weeks for 18k salary lvl5 trainer to reach 31k salary. That's way more than one season.

I love US dates. That date to me is 7. sept. 2010. But you prolly mean 9. july 2010. If your trainer has 31k salary now, you bought him between 23-24k salary. If he is lvl5.