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So something happened to me that has me at a loss and I would love to be fillled in. Whats the difference between current and avalable balance? Currently I have this:

Current Balance: $197090
Available Balance: $25889

Now what has me at a loss is the fact that the avalible balance is showing as 1/8 the current balance and I haven't a clue why. I was alerted to this after a few bids on players. I made the bids yes but never actualy won the players being out bid by others. Just last night I was able to make a 50k bid with no issues. Over the corse of the night he was raised and so I tried to rebid in the moring. Because it was only 50k as the orginal bid, the actual price was only raised 1k, their price outbidding mine. When I went to bid over him I recieved the message "You do not have enough money to make this bid!" Its pretty obvious that with an available balance of 25k that 'm not able to make a 50k bid, there is no issue there. I want to know what happened over the corse of the night though that made it so I could before and now its outside my range of bidding. I didnt buy any players or upgrade my stadium or anything that would take money out of my finances between then and now either.

Any thoughts on whats up?

ok here is something I just found that I'm really thinking there is something wrong with. My finances are now showing this:

Current Balance: $197090
Available Balance: $15889

I just made a 10k bid and the available amount dropped that amount. I think it might be that when you are outbid, you arn't credited back with the amount lost and its like you spent that amount when all it was was a bid.

Maybe this needs to get moved to bugs...

If this turns out to be a bug, will actions be taken to correct the amount of money lost from this? I personally went down a good 200k so I'm a little itchy for it back.

Edited 4/25/2007 9:40:51 PM by RRaider

true enough but beta or not, I still look forward to being able to advance my team ;-) Since this is in fact beta, when it is determined that the product is good enough for a final stage, will the game be reset?

edit: yeah its a bug, when I was outbid for the player, I stayed at 15k available funds, didn't go back to 25k. Bidding isn't the best thing to do right about now.

Edited 4/25/2007 11:51:03 PM by RRaider

Since this is in fact beta, when it is determined that the product is good enough for a final stage, will the game be reset?

Wow, didn't even think of this. This is a VERY important question!


So?

Opinions are divided on this.

My personal ( ie non dev opinion ) on this is that people should be able to keep the teams they have grown attached to. I've been through at least 2 teams in internal testing and it's a pain to start over. The argument against is that knowledge gained during testing should be enough of an advantage for future battles and everyone should start on an even keel.

I would like to be able to offer users that have helped test this through the bugs some sort of bonus for the pain they endure in this cycle. Especially to people who have been active on the forums and given us feedback. Again, it's only a personal opinion and I can't speak for the rest of the team.

The bottom line ( now in dev mode ) is that no decision has been reached on this and we are likely to put this discussion off for a while until we can scope the advantages.

I suggest we have an open discussion on this topic around mid season, that's the best I can manage in dev mode for the moment.

One of the reasons I asked that question was based on your previous post about beta. Not to order you around or anything but if the game is not being reset then us affected by a bug that can take away 200k of the money we had easily (I'd assume its happened to someone else as well) are put at a very big disadvantage to those not affected. So would it be considered to treat bugs that can influence teams very much in negative way as a bug found in the final version of the game and have some kind of reparation (Not exceeding what we lost of course)?

Can you post a couple of PlayerIDs to players who you've been outbid on that still are on the transfer list?