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Incorrect.

In the old system, I simply replaced the old staff with the new one and paid a severance fee. Now on top of that, I have to pay a big transfer fee. There is a difference, and a big one at that.


JPop encapsulates the sentiments of the community exactly. The explanations by the GMs (Who perhaps feel they are responsible in defending the new changes) are hollow to say the least. Saying you have to go down to the basketball court for more basketball is turning a convenient blind eye to the fact that the game CAN be improved.

You guys find financial management interesting? Ask the developers to come up with WallStreet.org or something similar. I spend my day crunching numbers in a financial institution and believe me, it's no fun.

Minimize the financial aspect of the game. Take it out of the players hands even. Players manage the team and buy players based on a set budget given to them based on the club's previous season performance. Daily debit and credit will be left to the club accountant. Expand more on tactics and player variance.

Listen to us. We are the fans. We are the players. We're not blinbdly taking out the whacking stick on all and sundry, we're giving out views and new ideas and where we would like the game to go. The worse thing you can do now is get the GMs to come and attempt to justify some changes and swim against the current.

Honestly. All this talk about huge transfer fees is rediclous and pre-mature to say the least. Of course the fees are large at the moment (new toy etc) but we cant say how large they will be in the long run at all. I guarentee just a fraction of the ones at the moment and i would definatley say that most of them will be smaller than the previous 1 weeks wages we had to pay.

Patience is a virtue and complaining about the transfer fees after 4 days is severe impatience.

If what you understood about our posts was ranting on staff transfer fees, then I fear you did not get the gist of the argument.

Read the posts again and not the thread title.

Last edited by Sparkle at 10/14/2008 6:02:42 AM

Finances are important, but should not eclipse basketball as the core of the game. The way things are going now, the game is three steps behind hattrick into turning into an economic sports sim instead of a sports sim with economy.

Last edited by Sparkle at 10/14/2008 6:11:43 AM

If what you understood about our posts was ranting on staff transfer fees, then I fear you did not get the gist of the argument.

Read the posts again and not the thread title.

I was refering to this:

In the old system, I simply replaced the old staff with the new one and paid a severance fee. Now on top of that, I have to pay a big transfer fee. There is a difference, and a big one at that.

I understand that this is not all that you are complaining about but that is the bit i tried to comment on.

I like the new staff system - I think it fills a missing piece in the jigsaw. I also very much agree that development should switch now focus to improving the core game sim and training options.

For one, I hate having to play a centre at PG to improve his passing.

This is your opinion, not a fact.

I think the finances and basketball components should be relatively equal, like in real life.
-If you can't manage your finances, you can't field a good team.
-Conversely, if you can't field a good team with good tactics, you won't be able to manage your finances because you won't make enough money.

IMO, the game is about balance, not just in iin-game tactics, but in overall team management tactics.

Everything here is an opinion, including your post. It's only a matter of time before somebody's opinion becomes fact.

The way the team is headed, finances will beat tactics. Like Hattrick, let's lay low and save up massive amounts of money regardless of results....and choose 1 season to blitz to glory on a negative budget. Your tactics are limited by the players your economic equilibrium can support. Finances on a negative budget however, can get your a monster team in all departments to eat everyone up on Base Offence and Man to Man defence.