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First, my not-so-serious point against farm teams. I refuse to let my players play against a bunch of animals!

Second, my real point about farm teams. They are too far removed from reality, and in my mind detract from the overall experience with this game. Yeah, yeah, this is not reality (you mean it's not?), and there are plenty of things that are clearly not realistic, so we just have to use our imaginations and look past those sorts of things. But a large idea, like the existence of teams that sucks egg, but somehow manage to have developing superstars playing with a bunch of bench warming rejects and they develop into a Michael Jordan and LeBron James lookalikes in this environment is too hard to fathom as possible.

So, that being said, I'm not going to suggest how to prevent this from happening since that's already being discussed in this thread. I'm just going to state that it is my opinion that the existence of this unrealistic situation is hurtful to the game overall, and if can be fixed, it should be fixed. A lot of time is spent getting the stats of the players, the flow of the live games, and so many other elements to be realistic. One of the qualities of this game to be a simulator of some sorts. Things will never be perfect, and some things will always be far from perfect (players don't have contracts, etc.), but first we need to acknowledge the shortcoming, and then figure out if and how it can be improved.

And I will state, once more for emphasis, my team will absolutely, under no circumstances, play against any animals! Not even the Detroit Pistons!

superflys crys up every to weeks about a farm team ;)

superflys crys up every to weeks about a farm team ;)

ahh so we are at least getting around to the fact that they exist (although GM's are banning about 125 teams a week!)

by reading this thread there is just denial that such a practice exists.

i think you can say i've been 'crying out'.......or would you prefer me to sit back and just accept the situation.

people 'cried' for ages over day-trading because it was seen to be damaging to the game.... well this is far worse (in my opinion) and the more it continues the less and less chances there are becoming for giving a genuine career to a NT player.

@ Dr. - Italian/Latvian/Brazilian... its not the nationality in question. They just happened to be the ones that were easy to spot. If teams really had been set up for transfers of 10-30k wage players and this has been going on for much longer then that is pretty sad.

Training young players makes sense, that's not farming.

superflys crys up every to weeks about a farm team ;)

ahh so we are at least getting around to the fact that they exist

because you every week say something like it - great fact for it :) I should cry for naked woman who falling out of Sky with huge ... Maybe they exist after a while.

Mmmh wait, i don't say that they don't exist, i just say that it is difficult to rate those teams objective to make this a ban criteria.

i think you can say i've been 'crying out'.......or would you prefer me to sit back and just accept the situation.

i don't like to ban teams because of it, maybe we could change the game that even NT players keep atractive for the top teams as the BB said in the past - but this will go over the salary and as far as i understand then then don't want to chancge it (i make a thread about one season ago).

To ban teams, isn't a solution and if you say they are all from one person then you could ban then after the rules ... But don't ban teams who rebuild their rooster, and have one of their old player who earn more then the rest ;)

@ Dr. - Italian/Latvian/Brazilian... its not the nationality in question.

that was my intention with this post above, that you don't want attack the italian community ;)

superflys crys up every to weeks about a farm team ;)

And you are always there to defend farm teams, every week. I think everyone gets that Superfly is opposed to multi-account farm teams, and that CrazyEye wants everyone to believe thay are just patriotic teams and not multi-accounts. This thread is becoming a two man broken record :/

hey i want to delete the multi accounts too - so no problem ;)

Hey, what about having a farm league. we can have a regular team and a farm team per account. That way, it takes a little steam out of the people who have muti-accounts(because they have more teams to worry about.). I always been a fan of having a farm team, It just gives me the feeling of being more interactive in the game. I would give them 2 games a week in scrimmage mode only.

i think the farm teams you mention are something different to the ones we discuss here

I know, I just don't use the term "farm team" as a negative. But it is pretty much the same type of term. It is pretty much doing the same thing, but structured.