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This discussion has been superb -- it is a pleasure to be competing with people who are capable of bringing this sort of understanding / analysis to the game.

I understand the problem to be one of compensating with an extraordinary windfall those teams who are already blessed. It's as though the government were to suddenly place a cap on housing prices and forced the richest to sell their homes -- but at the price they paid for it. So Bill Gates gets his 100 million back, free to spend, while suffering the indignities of having to live like the rest of us.

My team is not rich and has never been but some seasons ago I decided to invest in Arena and Trainees. Since I couldn't spend more than I had I did not invest in mature players. With 18.600 seats my Arena isn't huge but among the larger ones in my division level (II. in Germany).

Now the thing is: I do not feel blessed at all. The changes in Arena and team funding (TV, Merchandise) bless those teams that had chosen to spend the same amounts of money in mature (expensive) players. Given the available information before the changes they had done a bad investment and were close to being bankrupt.

Comparing the two choices the teams buying expensive players with wages too high to be paid are now in favor, because the changes adapt to their strategy. I get my money back, so what? With better(but in reality unaffordable) players my team would have had the chance for one promotion more.

My point is: having a larger arena has been a choice as well as overbuying players. Both has been a fair and reasonable choice and did cost the same money. Do not reduce it to a rich/not-rich discussion and look at the extremes only.

whatever — just let us know.

We are quick to celebrate 50,000 players and advise everyone we can now play the game in Basque but it seems information that is pertinent to the whole community is rarely forthcoming.

It surely can't be too much after 7 weeks to just add a paragraph to say if we are on track to switch back or whether we are going to continue with this match engine for a while.

To quote a News item from the beginning of the season:

While there are many good things that will result from these improvements, the point of introducing these changes was to improve the accuracy of the BuzzerBeater game engine, and so we are returning to the Season 8 game engine until the all-star break, when we will be releasing the latest, retuned version.

It seems pretty clear to me what the situation is -- what's the big fuss all about?

Last edited by GM-kozlodoev at 7/22/2009 11:50:00 PM

in all honesty I don't think you'll have big troubles with your arena.

those who built a 40k places monster, tho… well, I guess they've had enough time to recoup the investment due to the flaws in the current attendance system (which definitely needs to be changed), and the wacky idea of giving them a cash boost by refunding the expenses for stuff they've benefitted from for the last few seasons will probably put the last nail in the coffin of this messy, upside-down economy.

soorry getting the money back in such a arena need 5-8 season, depending on succes and categorie(or contribution).

Now are the arena that big in season 3?