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When I read your suggestions, Wolph, I always get the feeling that you have your heart in the right place and really want to improve the game, but 9 out of 10 times your suggestions are always way too complicated and would not solve or fix any problems at all.

I think the main problems with bidding are:

- Different time zones

- People really not understanding how auctions/the market work and increasing 1000 at the time for hours, then some dude will make a big bid (most of the time the "real" price of the player) and win.

When I try to buy a player:
I'll set the max price on the guy, so I won't engage in the dumb bidding wars.
I'll make incremental bids that make sense, not 1000 at the time

Also, I don't get what you're trying to say with "stability in prices", care to elaborate?

But prices change because of Supply/Demand, how would your suggestions prevent that?

stability in prices means that something that should go for 50k this hour goes for 500k a different one.

This is something you can never change. TL is somewhat based on coincidence. Do the potentially interested managers have the money currently to buy the player. The fact that a player does not sell in the first 3 day listing, does not mean that he will not sell in the next 3 day listing (if the price and listing time are the same). The market changes constantly. Obviously there are better and worse times to list a player, but that's called knowing the market.
I don't understand the fuss about who can be online and who can't be. There is a limit for transfer profitability in 14 weeks. This is not a problem. A successful team needs less than one incoming transfer a month. You can sell players whenever you want. You don't have to be online at the time your player sells. Eventually even the biggest daytraders will get tired. It just is not worth the time you put into it. When they see they can not effectivly do it (not profitable) or get tired, they start to complain, how the game is boring. Yes, this games tempo is ment to be slow. Some can handle it, some can't.

In order to add you got to play the bidgame. Its retarded.

You think the bidding game is retarded, others think it's great. If you don't like the bidwars, you can always bid a high enough price right away. But no, you want to get the player cheap:) I know it must bug you, that even with your history of daytrading (and yes you are still trying to do it:D), the other teams on your league side, have not daytraded and are still better than you. Perhaps without the daytrading bonus, you can't actually play this game effectivly:)

You guys need to explain the concept of Day Trading to me.