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16478.1
Date: 2/18/2008 2:08:50 PM
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With today's win over Egypt (872), we're through to the World Championships. Thanks to all of the NT owners, past and present, who trained players good enough to get us this far.

If I'm doing the math right, our fellow Second Chance winners are France, Spain, and Argentina. Not sure who the auto-qualifiers were other than the USA and Brazil. Whatever, we'll find out soon enough...

There will be two pools of six teams, with each team playing a round robin. The top 4 teams will move on. These games start one week today.

Here's the important bit!

If you have an NT prospect not yet on the national team, I would appreciate it if you sent me an update with that player's complete skill set. Please copy and paste the player information from their player page starting with their name and ending with their experience.

If you want to send me that information now, that's fine. If you want to send it to me very soon after Friday's training, that's even better. If you want to send it both times, I can live with that, too.

How do you know if you have an NT prospect? Possibly you sent me a BB-mail in the past and I replied with something like "looks interesting, please keep me updated". Maybe you've never talked to me, but your player has a proficient (or better) skill or two. If in doubt, send me the player's skills, and I'll let you know whether he has a chance.

Finally, if your player is not on the roster now, or next week, or the week after that, etc... that doesn't mean I don't want your player on the team at some point. There is an enthusiasm penalty when removing players from the NT, so I only want to add players when I need them, and when I know I won't be forced to remove them before the season's end.

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16478.2 in reply to 16478.1
Date: 2/18/2008 4:09:46 PM
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And we are in, good job!

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16478.3 in reply to 16478.1
Date: 2/19/2008 1:29:43 AM
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Just out of curiosity, what benefits are there to having your player on the NT? In Hattrick, you get part of his salary paid, and experience bonuses. Is it the same in BB?

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16478.4 in reply to 16478.3
Date: 2/19/2008 2:17:34 AM
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As far as I know, there are no salary recuperation setup so far, probably because the salary aren't as high as NT players in hattrick. Hopefully, they are looking into it because with one player already costing me over 13K$ and another 7.5K$, I can't imagine how much they'll cost after another full season of training.

I think there could be experience bonuses, but I don't have enough empirical data to give you a more comprehensive answer.

Martin

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16478.5 in reply to 16478.4
Date: 2/19/2008 7:34:01 AM
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I Confirm, there are no salary reduction, Romero (NT Canadian) is 18K$.
I imagine I can buy his salary until 50k$ or 60 k$ but after without reduction, it will be very hard...

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16478.6 in reply to 16478.5
Date: 2/19/2008 9:30:49 AM
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I believe there have been some hints that some sort of NT salary reduction is planned for the future... given the state of the site lately, I can't imagine it will be looked at any time soon.

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16478.7 in reply to 16478.6
Date: 2/19/2008 10:00:48 AM
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Yes, no salary reduction, and, from what I saw so far, no experience bonus.

Plus... the player doesn't record in his history the NT games played. It's like they've never been there

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16478.8 in reply to 16478.3
Date: 2/19/2008 10:14:17 AM
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From the rules:

In return for his service on the national team, an as yet undetermined portion of his salary will be refunded to you.


I don't know when that will be implemented, though.

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16478.9 in reply to 16478.8
Date: 2/19/2008 10:39:52 AM
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Wish they will pay back all the amount owed

It should be easy to track down everything.