Doesn't this contradict with the attempt to get somewhat fixed transfer prices?
Patje > To get fixed transfer prices, there has to be a positive cash flow to the economy excluding transfers, since there is a minimum of 3% agent fee for every transfer made. As a result (using made up numbers), if $100M worth of transfers occurs in a season and every single transfer was at the 3% agent fee, the global money supply would shrink by $3M. Thus, if player/staff salaries and merch/TV/gate/cup revenues were exactly balanced, there would be a monetary contraction for the season and overall deflationary pressure in the market.
Charles or Forrest > I guess my concern with the self-adjusting system is, are you targeting it primarily at the player market, or overall cash flows? From my admittedly limited point of view, the players that I've been selling and researching to buy have almost universally exceeded their TPE in the past two weeks. Considering the announced Season 11 changes from an economist's perspective, this makes sense to me, as my reading of the current and pending changes is that large & continuing investments in arena size have been deprecated. As there are only three main investment areas for a club (arena, staff, and players), any sudden decrease in demand for one investment will, by necessity, be offset by an increase somewhere else.
So, hypothetically, let's say that the announced changes cause a player-investment boom, and transfer prices are, on average, up 15% for any given quality level of player throughout the season and at season end. Is the auto-tuning mechanism going to see that inflationary pressure and constrict the money supply to compensate? Is it going to only look at cash-on-hand balance sheets and revenue streams and tune the money supply for the targeted profit excluding transfers?
Would you consider periodically releasing some macro-level economic statistics about the game, to give players a better sense of where things have been and where things are going, as a way to foster trust in the BB central bank, in order to give credibility and stability to the economic system?