BuzzerBeater Forums

Inflation in this game won't end until the BB Gods do away with this rule:

Players that are manually fired or released by teams that have been abandoned (gone bot) are put on the transfer list at ten times their salary, with the maximum possible listing price for all players being $1,000,000. If a player can't find a team interested in them at that price, they will begrudgingly accept retirement. However, point guards and shooting guards from botified teams will submit to this procedure only if their salary is higher than $25 000, small forwards $20 000, power forwards $30 000 and centers $35 000. Of course, players fired from active teams only need half of those values to qualify for this procedure. Any players that do not meet these criteria will just retire right away.

In manipulating the market by removing all lower-salaried free agents, the BB Gods have created the climate in which we now play. In the recent fireside chat, it was even stated that the creators want higher prices on the market, so don't expect things to change any time soon.

And quit making Utopia the scapegoat. This inflation existed before Utopia, which has contributed very little to the overall market climate. Upward stress on staff prices: yes. Upward stress on cheap 30-something players: yes. On the rest of the player market: no, because most Utopia teams haven't had the cash to buy high-priced, high-potential players in large numbers. After four seasons of Utopia, though, you might start to see that changing.

Ultimately, if you want to ease the inflation here, you have to match supply with demand and return all free agents to the market.

Bucfan, you are so right.

Unfortunately, you could also be right about the BB Gods still not understanding, as a result of which they actually like the higher prices. Very discouraging, very discouraging.

Right. High prices making the transfer list unusable for low- and mid-level teams shouldn't worry anyone in higher level teams. You're above all that.

As long as you have figured out training, the game doesn't need the transfer list and certainly doesn't need low- or mid-level teams or those managers. And once you're rid of all those pests the forums will be a lot quieter.

So there are a lot of benefits to outrageously high prices.

Just curious, Perpete, how old were those old forum messages you refer to in your post? You started playing in Season 4. Were those posts that old?

And to think it was really just 18 months ago that the economy was a disaster because players were worthless and training was worthless and the only sensible thing to do was to tank and build up money, and that it was time to kill FA entirely.

(246993.1)

Fun times indeed.

The thing here is that we're in a supply and demand environment where the demand can spike or plummet heavily based on the number of users, while the supply will take roughly a year or so to adjust. When the user base constricts by over 50%, and when the voices on the forum during that time keep hammering the message that training is worthless, especially if it's anything below the ultra-high-end potential players, it's no wonder that when the number of teams increases that all the lower to middle range guys that they'd really want to buy are very scarce. I'm not even sure FA would make a big dent in that, either, since it can only add players back to the pool that are actually being created or purchased, and as long as the market has been averse to making that type of player, it's not likely to help a lot.

The thing that I always am amused by is that no matter what the economic condition, it's always to the advantage of the big teams and the disadvantage of the little guys. Prices at rock bottom? Then it's only cup/arena revenue that matters, and only the top teams will have that, and therefore they can carry more wages and the little guy will never catch up. Prices too high? The little guy will never be able to upgrade their teams based on their lower income.

I suppose one could spend his or her time worrying about how they're getting screwed in the current economic climate, or instead take the view that no matter what the state of the market is, any player you train you should be able to use or transfer and replace with an equivalent talent.