dark thoughts bro, dark thoughts LOL
If we changed every player in the game to AtG then anything starting with a single skill with less than 5 would be thrown away.
I seriously, seriously doubt this would be the case. Seriously. I'm being serious.
In all seriousness (okay, enough), I recall back when there weren't any potentials, and I'd guess that the players fired at birth were the ones who were complete crap, not the ones who were OK but had no potential.
I think its good the way it is more or less. Actually I think there is an excess of trained and trainable players becuase of how many accounts get/got thrown away (often mysteriously;)) and the FA system/open market put the players right back in.
The players in the system for purchase have been trained by a user base some 3 to 5 times larger than the actual current user base using those players.
Your figures are probably a bit off (you're assuming there have been between 150-250,000+ people in the world who have played BB at some time in the past 4 years, which I doubt), but you're making a valid point about the excess of trained players. I don't know if that statement, when extended to "trainable" players, holds much water, unless your definition of trainable is pretty loose.