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I'm in first division. If I want to sell everybody and start training 3/6 players from scratch to have a more personnalized team, it will take something like 5 seasons to make them a bit useful. But during this time, I will have to pay taxes because I want to train my own players and don't want to lose money before they are efficient ?

If I lose motivation during a few seasons and want to train only until it comes back, i am penalized ? that's the good way to keep people in game

There are less and less players on the market, less and less teams that train players. And we will tax these teams.

The consequences are quite simple :
- we tax teams that train
--> These teams will disappear or stop training
--> Less players on the market
--> but more money forced to be spent
--> huge inflation

All of these changes are going to increase inflation. This proposed tax will force tankers to spend money. Giving promotees more money will put more money in the economy. Yet, since players over 60k aren't being made free agents we will see the player pool decrease and inflation increase once again. Prices will increase across all price levels.

My other concern with the tax is that if I sell my team at the end of the season there should be some type of grace period before the tax goes into affect so managers can buy replacements.

It also seems to me that the changes made this season were made to placate one user who had nothing better to do over the last couple of years then to write long complaining posts that no one bothers to read anymore, yet other common sense suggestions that seem to have a broad consensus in the BB community are ignored.

I'm waiting another details but I wonder why a such news.

"The spirit of Mark, Charles and Forrest always was: "there are several ways to play the game, several ways to succeed and several ways do enjoy the game".

This statement by Ziad is pretty spot on. The way I see the game nowadays is its restricting managers to play a certain type of game and reducing their options. No matter how you try to limit what teams can do team managers will still find a new ways to beat the system. IMHO rather than trying to restrict expand the ways for teams to compete.

I've played this game for more than 3 years already bought supporter every year until last season because I got tired of the devs changing the system so too often nowadays that severely restricts managers from trying to grow their teams how they want it.

Looking at the TL prices one can say how much the changes in game have affected prices making it really hard for newer teams to compete. Instead of newer teams having options having the chance to get better players so that they can compete faster game is making it harder for them nowadays because of the FA rules before. Sometimes I don't get why trying to fix a certain small portion of the game (top division problems and NT) is affecting the lower division teams instead.



Last edited by Lolo Smithz at 11/15/2015 10:06:07 AM

You certainly are entitled to your own opinion as well.

I'm no economy expert, but the way I see it, these changes should be good for the game.

As I stated few times already we need to:

1. Decrease the price of low end players, have them more at the market.

Why: So low league/newer teams have easier time. They were hit hard by inflation, much more than rich teams.

2. Increase the price of high end players.

Why: Well, it's what everyone is complaining about. Tanking, hoarding money, non-rewarding training etc.

To support my argument, you could see in the money poll, that there are plenty of super reach teams, and a lot of poor teams.

Also, by forcing rich teams to spend, I believe the effect will be:

Increase the flow of the money in BB economy.

Again, I'm not educated in economical matters, so feel free to correct me, but I believe this should have an overall positive effect? I mean, isn't it better that money is active on the transfer market, instead of simply staying on teams' accounts?

Anyway, these are just my observations, I'm looking forward to hearing everyone's opinion.

Law of Demand: Demand goes up, prices go up.
Law of Supply: Supply goes down, prices go up.

If I lose motivation during a few seasons and want to train only until it comes back, i am penalized ? that's the good way to keep people in game

Yes, you should be penalized, because at the same time as you "lose motivation" for 5 seasons, someone in DII or DIII can be highly motivated, would reach DI in 2-3 seasons, and would like to compete for the trophy in their 3rd season in DI, but if your "motivation" comes back, it would be impossible for them to compete with your "Financed by Rockefeller" team.
This should be a strategic basketball sim, not "Whoever tanks and collects more money, wins" type of game.