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49875.180 in reply to 49875.176
Date: 10/13/2008 2:38:44 PM
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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?

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49875.181 in reply to 49875.161
Date: 10/13/2008 2:42:57 PM
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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

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49875.182 in reply to 49875.177
Date: 10/13/2008 3:02:17 PM
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But now, in order to train competitively with the higher division teams, we need a huge load of cash just to get a good trainer. Talk about trying to keep the lower teams down.


The higher division teams don't have huge loads of cash anymore.

IV teams like mine who can't afford to plunk down half a million for a player, and now can't even bid on a top level trainer and will risk falling behind on training players.


If i plunk down half a million for a trainer, I just spent all of my profit for the year. On top of this, if I didn't sell off 20% of my salaries and cut all scouting expenses a couple weeks into the season, I'd barely even have a profit. My fans have been on 4-5 "happy with overall direction" all season, so imagine what its like for other D1 managers that have had to deal with lower revenue.

I thought I had a pretty good plan mapped out for reaching the higher divisions real soon, but I feel like my train has just wrecked.


Maybe your expectations are a little high. I'm very familiar with a few other teams that started out at DIV, and are doing very well for themselves in DII after just a few seasons. Though, they don't seem to spend as much time complaining as others do. Get over the "little man's syndrome". The best part of getting to the top will be the progression, so enjoy the climb, plan for the future, and be patient.

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49875.183 in reply to 49875.182
Date: 10/13/2008 3:49:09 PM
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The salaries for my staff decreased under the new system, but is there a cap for the new salary increases? I just started a season ago and I cannot afford to keep having salaries increase to no end only to be forced to buy new staff that I cannot afford because my current staff just took all my cash flow. Prices are rediculous right now by the way.

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49875.185 in reply to 49875.184
Date: 10/13/2008 4:16:10 PM
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There is no limit to salary increase. You _will_ have to change your staff eventually.



Ouch! I suppose I will just have to dump them in a few weeks before I run out of money and hope prices for the current available staff even out.

This is pretty far fetched as well. Employees of an organization forcing wage increases every week...silly. A better Idea would have been for teams to instead of biiding on a transfer fee to bid on the staff members weekly salary and then whatever you bid you will then have to pay each week. Then if your wage is considered too low then the GI could require a salary raise at the end of the season.

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49875.187 in reply to 49875.176
Date: 10/13/2008 4:43:09 PM
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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.

I agree with you, it's not because I like auctions that I play BB (or HT for that matter), therefore this was a big step back for me. I will keep playing though, but it certainly means that I have to put more focus into the most boring part of the game.

For players I can cope with it, because it is pretty realistic, but buying staff as merchandise is not only boring, but not very realistic either.

On the upside I can see the different specialties, but that is far from compensating for yet another auction...

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49875.188 in reply to 49875.186
Date: 10/13/2008 5:02:29 PM
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The increase seems to be pretty small - 1 to 2% of the salary. If you can't handle this for more than a few weeks, you have a problem that's quite bigger than the change in the staff system.

As for whether wages increase weekly or not in reality, a real year doesn't have 16 weeks, either. Just imagine that when staff members conclude their contracts, they have a clause which includes periodical salary increases.


Well that's obviously rich team point of view. Small or not it is increase ... and if can not handle that (and we are talking about 20% or 25% increase per season) what should I do.
You're saying then I have much bigger problems ... so instead of resolving my bigger problems I will need to deal with more problems ... Great way to start the game
Anyway, for new managers, this increase may cause them to lower down scouting expenses ... which, directly, cause a lack of potential star players (just to remind all of you that scouting is maybe the only way for lower division teams to get a good player to train) ...

Fair play!!!
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49875.190 in reply to 49875.186
Date: 10/13/2008 5:34:24 PM
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The increase seems to be pretty small - 1 to 2% of the salary. If you can't handle this for more than a few weeks, you have a problem that's quite bigger than the change in the staff system.

As for whether wages increase weekly or not in reality, a real year doesn't have 16 weeks, either. Just imagine that when staff members conclude their contracts, they have a clause which includes periodical salary increases.


It is small on one week or even a few but it is the compounding of those weeks that is a problem. It seems like prices are all starting to go down already so that is a good thing. It is just a bit overdone to have a system like this where staff prices themselves out of their own abilities and then you have to keep shelling out cash to afford top or even medium level staff. I am not saying everything should be completely realistic but it should at least be somewhat realistic. I love the game and will continue to play, I am just trying to understand this as I am sure many people are.

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