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Ok, thanks I'm not really into net sleng.

Well, for long term planning, I guess most of the managers changes way more often than once in every 2 seasons. The mentioned ideas (experience, evolving) would help to keep them a bit longer but of course, not forever.

I agree that the season updates of the salaries is the most difficult to implement due to the effects it may have on the staff market... but, and I not shure if this is true, but the players transactions has it's peak in the weeks prior to the playoffs and the weeks after a new season... I know the markets dynamics is different, but it could have a solution if the game creates more staff in that critic weeks after a new season, or players adapt and do the change a few weeks before or after salaries update.


The experience factor should be like a bonus factor to the skill level. The more experienced the greater the bonus. And this should be the real reason why the salarie raise occurs...

I defend skill level should be dynamic also... ie, like player skills start to decrease with age, staff skills should decrease over time... this would make BB to change staff or to invest making them go to "clinics" to maintain or increase their skill. Like in real life a coach, medic ot PR must be up to date with the new techniques that appear... Of course this must cost a good amount of money, but hiring a new superior coach costs a lot of money...





Last edited by brvalente at 4/22/2014 2:08:02 PM

First of all, I really think you brought up some good ideas. I'm just sceptic about implementing them.

The season updates of the salaries would have a huge effect, that's for sure. I don't know if you had checked the staff members prices when Utopia started but it was crazy. Imagine that with 10 times more managers. Nobody would buy staff members in the last weeks (before salary raise) but almost everybody would like to buy in the first weeks.

Experience would really be nice and I totally support that idea.

Skill level is a difficult question. If it is an integer you could only raise their level with one major change and it would (or at least should) cost you huge money, otherwise the game will be full of level 6-7 trainers with 15-30k salaries in a couple of weeks. If the staff member skill is a decimal number you could slowly raise it to the next level which is better but also have the dangers. Having more high skills trainers could destroy the whole economy module because everybody would start training players that they can't afford. I would look for some alternative ways like I mentioned some. Or maybe new "special" skills, like offensive/defensive/athletic trainers that would speed up training in some areas while slowing it down with others.

Also I think that all of your ideas at the same time are too much (having a cheaper trainer, not raising his salary, evolve him AND earning experience). I prefer the experience only and maybe the evolve but some other way.

Kind of like it. But this is just another way to keep the good teams good and bad teams bad. The bad teams (D4 and D5) will struggle to upgrade their staff, which would make it harder to train and or get fans to show up to their games, and will never be quite on the same level as the already top teams, in my mind.

Maybe salary raise percentage can be the highest in top leagues and the percentage can be increased and lowered according to the level of league.

I think the idea of your staff increasing over time or being upgraded in some fashion is great, especially since salaries increase. In real life, basketball staff skills are built through experience so it's logical to carry that into BuzzerBeater.