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lastly if your going babysit new managers and manger alike. add a" financial advisor "option.. The 1st season its auto-matic.. This cpu helping advisor does arena for the new team, sets the budgets. tell you which players are a good and bad. he will redirect the sale or out right stop the sale say look at these prospects. telling the manager they don't have budget within good reasoning to afford such player. It keep players from bankrupt.

It should be function for new ball clubs and ball clubs in money trouble.

A financial advisor would be an interesting addition to staff, along with doctor, trainer and PR manager. One problem I see with that, though, is that the implementation would probably be every bit as erratic as their attempts to portray a possible range within which a player on the transfer list may sell. And if they do it too well it may reveal stuff about how the engine works that they don't want revealed. Interesting idea, though.

But I am not totally dismissive of day-trading if the context is right. I think this new system mainly punishes teams for being active in improving their team all season through the transfer list. Anyone who sees an upgrade to their team available in the market should not be discouraged to make their team better. Overextension tax, the previous transfer tax, and gameshape penalties have already done something to minimize rent-a-player(s) to some extent but no one can completely prevent any team from doing so. The way to tackle day-trading, although we know there will continue to be people still resorting to this, is, I still believe, by taxing the profits -- side by side with the previous player tax system. This also protects a team's draft picks value (as they were not the subject of flipping).
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This is well written. There is nothing wrong in trading up as new players come on the market. The current system penalizes this and rewards those who spend more and buy the best player in the first place. But this is expensive and therefore promotes tanking to build up that cash balance.

Last edited by Jay_m at 11/8/2014 8:49:10 AM

Me personally I have no merit feeling toward aut0- bidding and the likes. I feel a certain number of players should be able to come through to a team in a season after that you can only make so many moves.

Making 30-60 sells in a season is just a team slave auction house nothing more or less. I don't think auto bidding is the curetp all, it still fall down to deep wallets rather than being online to use your wallet. If they clean it up so its fair.. maybe it can be supporter option to use.

Last edited by Mr. Glass at 11/8/2014 7:52:57 PM

I agree with that claim . I think they can remove the selling part outright and only make it wise advice suggested to sell certain players , not actually sell the player for them.

Bless your heart, it is such fun to look for your posts. They are always so full of hellfire and brimstone, so hilarious. BB forums need a little emoticon of a sprightly little devil, breathing fire, hopping up and down, waving a pitchfork in the air ... and ultimately exploding in a nuclear mushroom cloud. Or else a pathetic little victim emoticon, with sad eyes and a teardrop in one corner of one eye, wiping his little eyes with his little fists, lower lip curled and quivering, stomping his little foot. Make the forums entertaining, bring in new users that way!

If passion alone could get autobid done, it would be done for sure. However, a change for the convenience of the few who live in an "inconvenient" time zone at the possible expense of everyone else just isn't going to carry the day. And autobid MIGHT do this and it MIGHT do that, but the one thing autobid cannot do, ever, in any time zone, is assure you the winning bid if you are not present at the end of the auction. And ultimately it is only the winning bid that matters, eh? But oh for sure keep up the crusade, it is such fun! Bless your heart.

I have no issues with the update. I like it. I too have seen a rise of whining and complaining on the forum. I have posted to only be negatively treated by responders...

Autobid are interesting but it was tried in Hattrick and unfortunately it haven´t work very well. Daytrading plus buying a new team short for playoffs are big problem which is unreal and made this game not as fun to play as it should. So I think it´s important to come with as many ideas how to solve it as possible.

Autobid are interesting but it was tried in Hattrick and unfortunately it haven´t work very well. Daytrading plus buying a new team short for playoffs are big problem which is unreal and made this game not as fun to play as it should. So I think it´s important to come with as many ideas how to solve it as possible.

I guess the question here is whether autobids are to be viewed as a tool used as a solution to daytrading or as something simply used to bring more time zone agnosticism (for lack of better term) to the transfer market. It certainly wouldn't have any real utility in preventing the late season team buying, and as long as managers have complete freedom to set the initial bid price for their player swaps, it wouldn't address some of the more egregious daytrading.

I do recollect that I enjoyed the autobid process in Hattrick immensely, though, because it allowed bids to reach a player's true worth faster, rather than having the price sit very low until a few hours before the transfer closed. If you're selling a player in the hopes of using the money to find a replacement (as one might in a training situation), that may be of some real benefit.