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If you rank on BB salary or DMI, it goes back to my original suggestion earlier in this thread. That was to increase salary based on a function of BB salary.

I don't think people should be rewarded for longer than 5-6 weeks (half a season) for finding good prices. Similarly, once a trained player is ready for prime time, his salary should start to increase. On the other hand, if the player is not ready to play on the main squad, his salary should stay low. Otherwise training players will become unattractive.

I don't follow BB player sales much. However, in HT you used to be able to sell players for cheaper prices late at night. With no one online, bidding wars are less likely to happen.

Anyhow, at least I now have you talking about a salary component and transfer price component. ;-) I'm glad we agree that the key would be to adjust player salaries somehow - we just disagree on the method. I personally think some form of salary adjustment is the way to go.

I don't like the flat salary for every player. This would still favour the teams with larger arenas and make it harder for teams entering division I to compete.

the idea was flawed but i raised the point 3 months ago of too much money in the game.....

i also predicted the tightening in increased revenue and hinted that a more consistent STH / attendence was needed...

anyway - this thread has no doubt helped with the ongoing tweaks that are currently taking place and again the biggest lesson everyone can learn is not to become too attached to any rule / formula until the game really has found a rythym.

so plan ahead in smaller steps and be versatile to make big changes if necessary...

this way when the next big announcement comes you can adjust with minimal effort!

Sorry, I didn't read the whole thread - I also thought it was a more recent post. It is funny that people in that thread protest what essentially is happening now.

While the price may be lower at night, it is not substantially so. And in this case the owner would be trying to set a price higher than other teams would be willing to bid, but not so high that he gets stuck with a high salary.

Sometimes, owners will list players with a somewhat high price in hopes that someone will meet the initial bid. If the market is around $1.4M, they'll set a price of $1.5M. But that won't work here. If no one bids, they've just reset his salary to a high level. So they will want to set a price that no one will bid on.

If they lowball too much, someone will bid on him, even in the deadline is the middle of the night. And then, they've lost the player, and for a relatively low price.

I'm quite sure this new way of transferring and complex wage changes will never be implemented. The game should be easy to pick up by newbies, even the TV-game income has been adjusted (which I regret).
Don't expect to have a basic functionality such as the TL to be made rather complicated and time consuming.

How about removing or raising the skill caps, increase training speed again, and implement some kind of short term arena or ticket revenue tax.

Slowing training and capping players skills only made inflation worse.

How about removing or raising the skill caps, increase training speed again, and implement some kind of short term arena or ticket revenue tax.

Slowing training and capping players skills only made inflation worse.

I concur... I cant quite see how the top teams salaries are likely/able to start equalling an average weeks expenditure with the lessened speeds and even the best MVP players have got to be 2 seasons away from hurting anyone wagewise...

The slowdown will simply fuel 100+ of the richest teams to compete for the top end players until they have anything like resembling a team that finally has to worry about overheads... and even when this happens it wont be difficult to trade in your worst $15-20k salary player to make way for a partially trained MVP.

and even when this happens it wont be difficult to trade in your worst $15-20k salary player to make way for a partially trained MVP.

That's part of the problem,players were hitting their skills caps less then a half season into the change, while even a mediocre trainee with higher then all-star potential is such a rarity I haven't found one in three weeks. I'm sure not the only one looking either.

Last edited by brian at 8/5/2008 2:33:38 PM

How about removing or raising the skill caps, increase training speed again, and implement some kind of short term arena or ticket revenue tax.

Slowing training and capping players skills only made inflation worse.

That's not a bad idea. However, having a temporary class-based salary increase would also achieve that goal. What I mean by class based is something like this:

Class the players by salary so that:

the top 5% see a 150-200% salary increase
the next 5% see a 75%-150% increase
etc.

The typical joe player and new draftees would see no salary increase.

You could have a much more sophisticated formula to satisfy however the BBs see salaries in the future. The formula can adjust as "true" salaries rise.

Anyhow, the important thing is to agree that salaries are the issue. After that, short term and long term solutions can be found.

I personally think it is interesting to say that salaries are the issue, then decide to tackle the salary issue with something that may or may not be related to how much salary I can pay (arena revenues).

this is what im trying to say,

with only 5 seasons, and the numbers of managers playing this game goes up and down. the overall development of players isnt normal thus we see limited number of talents being in the transfer market once in a while.

i think the issue overall we are tackling here is money, well planned team took advantage of what can create more for them

what if we make somewhat like,

if a team makes more than 10 million a season he will be tax at the end of the season, now forcing him to use that money elsewhere either expanding arena to a lenght or capacity that can be said as average capacity of all teams and also gives him more revenue now with this he pays maintenance of arena and ticket revenue tax comes into play.

now if he opts not to expand and be tax or expand and also pays a tax overall we could maintain a average ( meaning it doesnt mean to be the same for everyone ) income for all teams :D, if he buys a player there is tax and his payroll increases.

but as the season goes along we must have room to move, as much as i can say we are competing here.

because in real life, almost every money you make or you pay is already being tax. either be income tax or vat or etc. so why not at the end of the season we get tax.

worst here is either you break even or even go negative
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