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I picked my trainer during the playoffs for a tad over $500k. Every Superior Trainer (under $25k salary) I was bidding on was going for over $500k, I finally just bit the bullet since the Trainer I had had a salary that was getting ridiculous, so even spending that kind of money on a new Trainer means I'll have saved that $500k well ahead of the next All Start Game. I'm not sure when anybody else was able to land a Superior Trainer for less than $500k, but maybe I'm just a fool for overspending. The last time I had to re-up on the same sort of Trainer, it cost me about $350k (I think), but that was more than 2 seasons ago (which gives you an idea about what sort of salary the Trainer had before I just replaced him).

I agree, I think the time to pick up trainers is during the playoffs.

I agree...

That's why I love offpeak times :D I got 18k salary level 5 for 350k :)

also helps logging into the site during off peak hours... not jus off peak season D:

I've picked up some nice bargains on players this way too :P

My apologies, I should clarify that my trainers have a Fitness specialty, so my numbers are off from yours and you're all correct. But my point that the cost of acquiring the sort of Trainer that I have has increased over the past seasons is accurate.

I wouldn't replace him for a while still. However, if you can find an 18k level 5 trainer for 300k I would buy him now.

Any advice on how often to replace trainers? I bought a lvl5 at the beginning of last season for a little over 300k, and his salary jumped from 18k to 31k from then until now.

It is time to start looking around to replace him. If you can get the same deal, you should replace him once his salary is over $35,500 (ie: if you can find a level 5 with 18K salary and 300K bonus). If you like I can work through different scenarios with you. For example, if you can find one with 16K salary and a 300K bonus, you would want to replace him in the next couple of weeks (not saying that is possible - it is just a scenario).

I think aswell that the difference between these levels could be smaller. The point of the staff management we have currently is mainly to suck the money from teams with higher expectations. This currently doesnt work, because it seems that is still financially more efficient to have lvl4 trainer no matter how high league you play, because the money you safe could be bigger than the real effect of such a staff. (especially if you are not training monsters and have to fight with the height of the player)

But I dont think that such a linear solution would be interresting, it would make things pretty boring if you compare that to a current system. Now on you have to decide if you will pay more for cheaper salary or the opposite. There are some special skills which staff have and depend pretty much on the will of the customers how much will you pay.

So I think that instead of having these payments solid and hold on to any formula, would be simply enough if there would be more of 7, 6, 5 lvl staff available for us. So they would be cheaper to get, however still would have higher salary than these by lvl below.