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why there won't be any farms, when NT prospect only get cheaper but are still needed?

I don't think understand what you're asking here. Farm teams would still exist, but not because of this proposal. The national teams would need players the same way they always have. I guess the only effect on the NT would be managers caring less about drafted/NT available players, and more about created/unavailable players. I'll grant you that is a possibility.

And those dude you proposed goes around 1,5+M at the beginning of the next season when he is 18, ok maybe different when everybody have it but this would make draft investment even more stupid since it is already hard to get the money back today.

Fine. Make it more expensive. Make it cost 1.5M to create a player. And if we're worried about it effecting the draft system (that no one likes anyway) let's fix the draft system so managers have more control over it. That's a different thread though.

My point is that an addition like this might be able to work without negatively effecting all that much. If the cost is enough, then not everyone will want to do it (you can invest a lot less than 1.5M into the draft and get a better prospect than what I wrote). But if it the cost has the right balance, I think it'd be a very marketable aspect to the game.

but that would get rid of the farm team issue.

i thought you meant that generally.

I don't like it.

It is against the concept of this game.
The all concept here is a real BB-managing game (at least that is what is supposed to be), and building your player through training, and not by creating one.
It is not an instant game (create & play) game.

Last edited by Pini פיני at 2/2/2012 4:42:15 PM

The closest idea that I would support is if managers had the option to buy a name change and possibly change the looks of the player. This would give you the opportunity to personalize a player if desired but it would not affect any of the competition.

Changing your arena and team name could also be free.

While I thought about it I am not a fan of changing player names. I rather not see 1000 Chuck Norris's or other stupid names floating around all the time.

With what I'm talking about you'd still have to build your player through training though. That's why you give a limit on skill points to use. If you want a really high potential player, you sacrifice skill points, and thus have to build through training. If you want a guy with high starting skills, you sacrifice his potential, plus he still won't be good enough to compete right away in higher divisions, and again you build him through training.

I'm with you on the name thing. I wouldn't care if the created players were assign names still. Then you don't get repetitive names, and the BBs don't have to worry about maintaining obscene names.

I think this could work if a few things were changed

1) Potential started at 1 and every level up on potential cost more than the last, so to make it to Allstar potential it would cost 15 points. This would keep the players from becoming more than decent players.

2) Created players could not be sold or play on National teams. Players would have an asterisk next to their name on the roster to indicate that theywere created.

3) The players shouldn't have the full effect on mercy that others do.

Just a few suggestions

I will name mine Metta World Peace. Oh, wait. The name's taken by a famous celebrity...