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Apparently you're guaranteed a decent 18yo trainee (allstar potential, mind you) when you pick up a new team.

All considered, nobody would really care if they increased the number to 2 players like that. I would also lock them to the team for 16 weeks.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 2/19/2016 4:10:34 PM

I really doubt you need that long. In a semicompetitive D1 you could build your arena in 1 season if you do nothing at all and just accumulate money and build. Anyone building a little will be fine no matter what the level he's in.

But I fully support Perpetes suggestion of a longer exception from the floor.

{and from another post}

So what if the actual application of the salary floor is phased in based on the league level?

Note the two bolded lines ... when you have to start changing and diluting a new feature that has been in effect less than a week, odds are it isn't a good feature.

I can't speak for Perpete, but for my part, I was simply proposing some ideas to address a specific perceived concern, that somehow there exists a class of poor new users for whom this additional boost to the salary floor will scuttle them pretty much permanently after their 16 week exception. Given the parameters thrown about (you, for example, saying they need to triple their initial salaries), it's essentially a new variation of the micronation argument.

I would imagine that for any level of remotely competent management, this won't become an issue. There may be edge cases (possibly a 10-12 user nation with very old, established teams and there a new team would get smacked around but never demote), but rather than make a decision unilaterally that there is (or is not) a problem, I generally prefer to consider possible alternatives to the perceived problem, as trying to solve a problem is infinitely better than "oh, it's impossible for {new teams / teams not training / teams not day trading / teams not in micronations / teams not in the top division} to accomplish goal X."

Last edited by GM-hrudey at 2/19/2016 4:57:20 PM

Are they locked to the team? What I mean is whether the new manager can unwittingly dispose of them, because he doesn't know any better

Yes that makes sense, considering the announcement.

But I fully support Perpetes suggestion of a longer exception from the floor.

{and from another post}

So what if the actual application of the salary floor is phased in based on the league level?

Note the two bolded lines ... when you have to start changing and diluting a new feature that has been in effect less than a week, odds are it isn't a good feature.

I can't speak for Perpete, but for my part, I was simply proposing some ideas to address a specific perceived concern ...

I know. I give you credit for that. Many posts already are trying the same thing. I just favor making the roll-out as good as possible, so it doesn't need improvement in the first couple of days of its existence. Their focus was on tanking but who knows what they have done to new managers. Giving new managers an 18 year old prospect is a nice gesture, but it isn't going to help them address the salary floor, and at the rate players train up I don't think it is going to help much in their first or second season, the time frame of the "perceived problem."