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In the mean time I personally feel LLM is a waste of time, it is too easy to make money which takes away a huge part of the challenge of LLM. I'll wait untill this is resolved before starting another career.
Rubbish. If most of the regulars here can play the game without feeling that their saves are tainted, then you can too. Secondly, making money is not a huge part of the challenge of LLM, and finally if it was an issue for you, load up FM2005 or 03/04 and play an LLM game with that.
11-07-2005, 03:09 PM
Signing players too easy once you go professional... Post #52
Originally posted by iamthequinn:
Now personally I'm having problems buying players. My scout has found the occasional gem, but what they ask for (even though they've not been with a team for a couple of years) I can't meet, and when I offer them the best deal I can, they laugh and walk away. You can imagine my annoyance when they get snapped up by a Welsh non-league team on a wage half of what I could offer...
Likewise, without the Welsh bit. I've seen no difference to other versions here. Players still turn me down then sign elsewhere for less than I was offering.
11-07-2005, 03:11 PM
Signing players too easy once you go professional... Post #53
Originally posted by jcb23:
Bug maybe, but surely it's workaround-able?
Is there anything to prevent a LLaMa following his principles and negotaiting such high bids down? Obviously some higher up clubs will still sign carp players but that may correct itself over time?
I suppose to get around it you could refuse the bid, then offer the player back to the team at a more realistic price.
Just an idea.
11-07-2005, 03:21 PM
Signing players too easy once you go professional... Post #54
Originally posted by iamthequinn:
Rubbish. If most of the regulars here can play the game without feeling that their saves are tainted, then you can too.
Well, if he doesn't want to, we shouldn't force him. It's his game, he bought it, yadda, yadda, yadda.
11-07-2005, 03:28 PM
Signing players too easy once you go professional... Post #55
I know what you are saying but suppose I am offered half a million for my 35,000 player what do you do?
Option 1.
Look at the team that is submitting the bid and decide that the team are too good to have a crap player like mine on the squad so counter with a bid of 50million and let the other team go away.
Option 2.
Decide what is the lowest bid for the player that I would have accepted. Okay well the situation was that though the player was a donkey he was my best midfielder. The club was about 90K in debt at this stage. If I want to be totally realistic about this I could see a team from the Conference National putting in for him and possible even Division 2 as a squad rotation or backup player.
If somebody had offered me 50,000 for the player what would I have done? Well I would love to have got the club out of debt. So anything over 90K would have been great and I would have sold. Would I have sold him for 60K 70K 80K. Well they would have been judgement call that I would just have to made at the time.
So if we assume that I would have sold for 75K would it be “cheating” to ask for 90K to clear the clubs debt.
Let us suppose I went down this route and was offered half a million for the player and came back with a counter offer of 75K, I doubt if it is coded but personally I think I should be fired!
11-07-2005, 04:04 PM
Signing players too easy once you go professional... Post #58
And if I wasn’t in debt well I would probably fire back a counter bid of 200K, the logic being well I want to keep the player but of someone would give me 200K for him he is straight out the door. I would expect that about 90% of the time the 200K would be refused but there are the odd occasions when the 200K would be picked up.
11-07-2005, 04:17 PM
Signing players too easy once you go professional... Post #59
Frankly, Hogie, that's what I'd try. Decide what would I have taken realistically, and counter offer with it. Yes it's weird, but so's the initial bid and it means (hopefully) you can carry on with the game in an ethical fashion.
You didn't miss anything Michal. Offering players is waay better now. Your admin just "faxes the details to all clubs" and they let you know if anyone bites. You don't get all those rejection messages in your inbox. I got one "no-one's interested, boss" message
There appears to be an option to do it the old way with other humans, but the only real options you get in the offline version is the offer price and whether you want to exclude any rival clubs from the mass-mailing.
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