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I pick up 3, 4 cheap players and train them a whole season

Then it wouldn't affect because the tax would revert to the minimum as it does now, after 10-12 weeks or so.

I realise it may have not been clear from my suggestion, but by linking to age or salary I mean increase the steepness of the curve not shifting the whole curve based on which the tax is calculated. Changing the steepness means reverting to 3% in more or less the same time as now but starting from a lower point, shifting would mean also increasing the time to revert to 3%.

So a daytrader's youngster will be worth less after 10 weeks because he will not be trained. Their chance of selling an untrained youngster actually decreases with time (or the price achievable decreases). For a trainer like yourself it's quite the opposite. So I really don't see the problem. This is simply to discourage people flipping young trainees within a few weeks, flipping trainees over a longer period would stay the same pretty much.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 5/29/2019 6:22:00 AM

You have no idea what trading means in this game is because you didn't join early enough. While training requires planning, minutes and tactical management, trading only requires time and traders with more time always beat traders with less time. So no, trading isn't harder, it just means that you have no life and you can waste hours picking players who are selling below market value, possibly because they are listed at ungodly hours. You dont need to understand tactics, team building, the pleasures of training 6 or 3 players while competing, you can do it by literally knowing nothing about the game and just observing the market.

Never forget that there were people with 8 digits bank accounts, making several of millions per season in trading alone, see how you'd compare.

And note I'm not making a point about average managers here, I'm talking about people who have won the B3 and World Championships multiple times and have been crushed in Utopia by daytraders when trading was still viable. That was the proof, if you ever needed one, that you don't need to be particularly good at anything in this game to trade, make money and buy titles.

Besides I even repeated in this thread how the outrage has never been about people wasting their time on the TL, that happens in every multiplayer game, but rather the damage inflicted on new inexperienced managers.

This scam has always been done with pretty bad young high potential players, relisted for high amounts in the hope that some new guy would bite. Marin as usual took a very specific problem (people trying to flip high potential youngsters) and created a tax on all sales. It's time to rectify that mistake. It's also time for peopke with too much time on their hands, great traders like yourself, to play a higher stake game and flip higher salary/older players, rather than playing the scam game with house money. Nobody will fault you for that.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 5/31/2019 8:52:03 PM

Why not just make it so that you cannot sell a player for more than 20% of the purchase price for the first 13 weeks after purchase?

This seems to be the simplest solution. I'd be in favour of any kind of restriction of the selling price, especially for players under 21, even if it was just a case of not being able to list a player for more than you paid for him.

even if it was just a case of not being able to list a player for more than you paid for him.

Yes this is another great solution and would have spared us from the problems the tax carries for non traders (lower market activity, pemalties for rebuilding within a season etc.)

I don't know, but if FA policy is an indication, maybe he will. On FA he either lied or completely misunderstood what he was doing, which was the opposite of what he claimed in the new season post (and U21 worthy players were retiring). Some time after that spat and without announcing anything they started sending any kind of players even 60 TSP 36yo to free agency...