If you have only made a few sales in the previous 14 weeks, then it will indeed stay between 3.0% and 20.0%. However, for a team that has made, say, 15 sales in the last season, the sales tax might instead range from 4.5% to 30%. So if they're selling players they have kept a while it's not too much of a penalty, but as they daytrade more and more often, the penalty for a quick turnaround will get quite harsh.
splendid thinking!
to prove it is very difficult I still can come up with an example where this new rule is hurting innocent teams:
if a team buys a player, then trains him up 1 level in 1 skill, and resells him for profit, he will see severe penalty soon too.
This is a tactic I like to use in hattrick, so far I do not practice it here, but I can imagine some managere are.
I had 7 sales in the past 14 weeks, mostly players I have been training and sold afterwards, and already notice a few% of extra tax when I put someone for sale which I recently bought but then decided I would not want to train anyway (discovered his hieght was very wrong. ;) PG of 2m+). So this indicates that the margin of free trading is set very narrowly.
I am most certainly not complaining about it since everyone will face the same after training and selling some players. I do want to indicate that teams training their players longer, will have a kind of benefit to teams who opt to keep their teams younger and switch trainees more often. But I still think this is one of the best possible ways to deal with the problem of daytrading. Good job!!
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