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Hi Marin,

The last couple of days we have had a discussion in the Netherlands about the fan boycot. We totally understand why it is devellopped and understand the logic about it.

But we believe there is crucial fault in it. I will give the example withs started the discussion in the Netherlands. My Utopia team, last season relegated and lost the last seven games. So it gets the fan boycott. This was known and in the last game against one of the closest rivals I tried with a CT to win, but my team was too weak.

Back to the beginning of the season I changed a couple of players, sold and bought new ones. I believe after that I had something around 750k to start the season, I would say money wise I was competitive.

During the season I made some profit and I believe end of the season I was around 2m. After the season has ended, I sold a couple of players, because I know I have to get the salaries down, because in II, I cannot pay the same amount as in Heaven.

So far everything went as planned. But than the off-season starts and the fan boycot is calculated. Due that I now have a big amount of money, I get a very big fan boycot.

In my view this is not fair. The fan boycot should have been calculated after the last match, when I had still the players that I believed where good enough for league I. I sold them and prepared for the new season in which I want to be competitve in II and no longer in I.

So my solution for this design bug, is to calculate the fan boycot before the play-offs start. In case one finished 8 the fan boycott still goes on the next season, but is calculated when the team is still on level of the league it is in. In other cases the fan boycott applies already in the play-offs which also sounds right.

This way teams that tank on purpose are still punished as they should, but teams that try to be competitive but fail and than prepare for the next season are not punished extra because they prepare for the next season.

I ask the people that can to close this thread, because it is not ment for discussion, just to point out a design bug in my and a couple of fellow managers view. I am not looking for any compensation or so, I just believe this should be changed.

Hi Ruaidri,

I understand your strife - the boycott is not perfect. As for your suggestion, I checked immediately when the next update is scheduled and yeah, it is after the regular season and before the playoffs, but maybe it was confusing because you only feel the effects in the next regular season.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do.

Thanks for answering.

If it is directly after the regular season and before the play-offs. That sounds good to me. Maybe it can be put in the schedule when the fan boycot update is scheduled.

Than it is just about timing the sell of the players after the play-offs have started, that sounds fair to me.

I am pretty sure in my case the sale was after the last game, but pretty sure before the play-offs had started. That would make it clear why the boycot was so high.

It doesn't end so abruptly, it does taper off a bit in most cases, in some it even stays (if the results allow it).

@Ruaidri: It seems like you managed to hit the worst timing with the sales, between the last game and the update (we can't time it any better).

I understand, I was just very unlucky.

So there is no design bug!!

I believe this thread can be closed. Thanks again for looking into it!