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If the staff had an employment history (transfer history) like the players it might be interesting.
It will also help us track the activity of farm accounts more clearly. If we just look at a given staff, we could easily identify a horde of farm accounts. Maybe only GMs need that if you don'T already have it. I think just investigated the employed staff and employment history of staff could really uncover a lot.

What?

I'm not talking about BB staff, I am talking about team staff....like PR guys, but actually all staff other than PR guys.

Yes, and that way they can find out all the teams that have had level 7 trainers. After all, everyone who has had a level 7 trainer is a farm or multiaccounter, except for those who weren't.

So this has nothing to do with staff, this is all about farming and how much you hate it.

I thought this was about staff, and almost said I liked the idea. I mean, I've lost out on bidding on certain staff and never got to see what the final bid was, and there's no way to see that, so I don't think it's a bad idea. However, this topic isn't about that at all, is it?

I couldn't give a hot crap about farming. Can we get a mod or GM to change the thread title?

It would also be informative for knowing staff prices, final prices and so forth. So it would have more uses than just one. Well atleast if it were a public feature.

Yes, but this was not even a part of your original suggestion. You just wanted to see where the farmers are, so the thread title should be changed to reflect your wishes and not further mislead people to think you actually have a good suggestion regarding staff histories.

Why take a personal/personally aimed attitude toward ideas?

Did you not know what thread you were in when you posted this rant (sorry, not a "rant," a "personal/personally aimed attitude") against the farms? (233219.3)

farm accounts use staff. If they don't...no point in being a farm right?
So look at the staff...find the farms. There are 43k accounts. We could look through them one by one or we could try to identify the 'flags' of what makes a farm a farm.
IF they staff or staffed certain staff...well then that makes it possible they were a farm. If they never had the staff...well then only the draft would be a concern for farming. That is a seperate topic than this suggestion, and they would need to look at draft picks and the buying /selling of 18-19 the first week of seasons to identify this. If the account keeps the farmed player longer they need staff to keep the player relevant for the purposes of the farming/farmers.

It's like it never occurred to you that everyone needs staff. Nor has it occurred to you that there are 3 staff members per team, and there are even more staff members beyond that (a quick check says there are 956 Doctors, 1,073 Trainers, and 1,002 PR-Managers available on the staff market), so it likely also hasn't occurred to you the strict possibility that using staff to find farms would take over 3 times as long as just looking at each team individually.

But please, continue:

After we have identified the staff and those with the staff...

...which is pretty much everyone, go on,

... I think those accounts can be sorted by activity. It shouldn't actually be hard at all to generate reports difinitively identifying what % of the 43k accounts in BB are actively farming players. THe hard part I suppose is not even identifying which are multiple accounts and which are not. The hard part is probably just proving it.

So this wouldn't even do what you want it to, if I'm following you correctly...?

IMO they just need to find some solid evidence proofs, maybe add some fairplay/sportsmanship rules (giving them the ability to shutdown certain accounts and block certain players from FAing). To me an account that hasn't tried to win a game in X number of seasons, hasn't posted in any forum etc. for X number of seasons and has been overpaying for picks and staff and never paid supporter.....should require less burden of proof to be closed. If they say they are a roommate and both teams are very active, fine, probably true. If they say they are roommates and one is active and one is training....Give me a break already and close the 2nd account!!! If its a farm account (never competes, never posts in forums etc. etc.) that only ever signs on via proxies (remote location)....Giveme a break already and close the account. Block the players from ever being FA.
IDENTIFYING these accounts though can be done by looking at more than just transfers....actually you can'T identify really any of these accounts just looking at transfers. We need to also be looking at NT players and staff behavior IMO.

^^^^Read this and tell me where you're talking about your suggestion at all. I'll wait.^^^^

Or, just admit now that you could care less about the staff history of a lvl 4 PR-Manager, and your real suggestion is "I Hate Farms and lvl 7 trainers give me a break and they aren't even trying to win."