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True, if you have 10M $ to spent... But you will end up having a weekly negative income (the salary is much higher and I believe it will rise faster then a lvl 5), and training will be slower for top teams with a level 7 trainer then for beginners with a level 5 trainers (IMO): The players that they need to stay at that level are already highly developed and starting to hit the training soft cap. Add to that that they are older (even slower training) and have higher salaries, and hopefully you will see that it ain't easy for teams at the top to keep an edge...

But it all comes down to this: what are you willing to pay for lvl X staff member?

Say, you think a lvl 5 trainer is worth 30k/week (probably a somewhat high estimate, but the market will decide) and his weekly salary will rise with 1,8%/week. If you are able to get a trainer with 18k/week salary you will be able to keep him for 29 weeks before his salary will pass the 30k/week mark (you could keep him even longer, but then you would have to have payed much less then the number we are getting at). In that 29 weeks you would have been able to save 162k (which you didn't pay because you trainer didn't ask 30k salary every week), and that would have been a fair price to pay him to start with... All the numbers are fictional, but I hope you get my point. Somewhere there will be an average price for each level, we just have to find out where... :)

As a new player I can say that it's not fair for the new players. You all have good staff for almost free with old system and now I have to pay at least 300K to get 2-3 level staff. And this is all the money new clubs have...

The 300k isn't the problem, the weekly salaries will be... Start out with a lvl 1 trainer and train FT our stamina! You will save 20k/week and still be able to upgrade your players. And in 5 weeks you will have saved 100k which will buy you a lvl5 trainer easily...

I paid $27K more a week for Staff before this was implemented, and that was for a long time, so it evens out.

Well, I couldn't be more disappointed. The last thing I was expecting was to have to screw around with my staff more. And now I have to bid and auction for them. I'm not a day trader, I hate player auctions here and in Hattrick, but I deal with them. I'm a working professional who likes to drop in here for a bit of entertainment. I have no time or interest to be forced into bidding for my staff or suffering constantly increasing costs. I think this about does it for my Buzzerbeater experiment.

And you weren't falling behind when you were waiting for a lvl 7 or higher trainer (old system) to come around? It was fair that the people who started a month earlier and had been able to get that lvl 10 trainer could get a bigger and bigger lead over you? In the long run the cost of the new system might be slightly higher on an average weekly base, but it will be for all of us!

I found out new staff market little bit uncomfortable:

1) Once a staff is sold, there is no way to find the final price. Even if I bookmark the staff, I can see only new employer, there is no transfer history for staff. Also it's not in team transfer history. So than is quite difficult to compare prices.

I think this is an excellent point -- I noticed this myself. There either needs to be a transfer history, price paid on the staff member or a transfer compare so the market can be efficient and market prices can be established.


Steve

suffering constantly increasing costs.

My staff salaries increased $868 this week.

Is this really that much of an issue, or is this an artifact of your unhappiness with the rest of the system?

I think the basic point of the BBs is that everyone should NOT be looking for new personnel right now. There is no reason to change just for the sake of change.

but the staff on the transfer list have special abilities
that makes them better than our current staff