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I think we should be able to go into debt (up to a limit) when bidding on players. I bookmarked a player early yesterday and was all set to target him today, but in between the economic update took place and I lost nearly 80k from my balance, so I'm not even going to get a chance to bid on him at his closing time. This is really frustrating, and I see no good reason for it.

I understand part of the restriction is probably to protect noobs from bidding insane amounts when they don't know any better and bankrupting their teams, but that shouldn't be a problem borne by the majority.

I'm skilled enough as a manager to look ahead at my schedule and see that I have a lot of home games coming, so I'm ok with going into debt. I also have two TV games coming up, and I'd be more than willing to go into debt adding a player if it would help me win those games.

Also, with the inflation the TL is expericiencing right now (most good players are listed for 300k (many far above that), compared with the much smaller amount of cash most teams are bringing in, I doubt most people can even bid on a quality player the day of the economic update. They probably have to wait until a home league or cup game in order to get enough cash flow.

In short, I think the decision to go into debt should be in the hands of the user. The more decisions you offer us within the game, the more strategy is involved, and the more in depth the game will be because of it.

i would argue to takes more strategy to manage a fixed budget than to manage a soft one. If you don't have to think about it you can just spend more money, in your case you got penalized for not thinking ahead.. and really its an arbitrary line... so we move the line back a little bit the same fundamental problem will still exist... if i had just 1 dollar more I could have bid on this guy.. etc. etc. So although i understand your frustration, I think you agree there must be a line, and any arbitrary line is going fundamentally to have the same property that frustrated you in the first place. Essentially allowing debt simply resets what having zero dollars means.

I will not agree with you. Doing so will give cheaters a huge opportunity of just creating a second/ third team and sell their players for huge amounts, making the lives of the BB's unbearable with all the reporting of cheating going around...

I don't agree that users should be able to bid into debt.

Why are people so pr e-occupied with spending money they simply don't have? If you want a player, save the mone y and *then* buy them.
Overstretching (or rather, allowing the possibility to overstretch) can only lead to bad things if we look at the game overall from a global perspe ctive.

EDIT - strange bug? spaces keep appearing wherever the letter "e" is typed...
[br ]Edited by rlinney2001 (15/11/2007 13:21:26 CET)

Last edited by LA-rlinney2001 at 11/15/2007 1:21:26 PM