retired_mankoo

This is my second run with Telford. In my first attempt, all was going well until I realized that the immense ground maintenance cost and the inability to lower payroll made success impossible.

Telford has a stadium which has 6800 seats of which 2500 are seats. I realize that there is a known bug regarding the high ground costs of lower league clubs, but is there any way of getting around it?

Happy gaming to everyone.

retired_nekh_20

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Loki the Great:
This is my second run with Telford. In my first attempt, all was going well until I realized that the immense ground maintenance cost and the inability to lower payroll made success impossible.

Telford has a stadium which has 6800 seats of which 2500 are seats. I realize that there is a known bug regarding the high ground costs of lower league clubs, but is there any way of getting around it?

Happy gaming to everyone.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Unfortunately, the only way around it is to sell, cut wages and that to try and reduce your outgoings.

I am not sure whether this is fixed in EP2 (out soon) or EP3 (out early may). I will check now.

Edit: Yeah, it seems to be in EP3.

retired_olib

I'm having a similar drama with Woking in my game. What I've done is looked at months where I've had a normal flow of games (so no major cup-ties) and did an expenditure review. I compared that with my average income based on that flow of games.

Based on that info, I was able to target what my wage budget could be and allow the club to break even through the course of the season. As I've not finished a full season yet, I've got no idea what the off-season brings in terms of cash.

At the moment, my club is slated to break even for the season without Cup matches. Luckily, I've had a bit of an FA Cup run, made it to the third round for a home date with Blackburn and amazingly we drew so I got to go back to ewood for a serious pay day (we lost). As a result, the club should be substantially in the black this year. However, I'm not factoring that into my budget forecasts from a management perspective - I don't want to end up like Leeds, budgeting in Champions League money.

KingsbayYHPE

Loki. As LLaMas we don't tend to look for "any way of getting around" problems, but finding a way to deal with them.

If that means sacrificing our best players to keep our finances solvent, then that's what we do.

There's no disgrace in impecuniousness.

retired_mankoo

Well, LLama forbid, I wasn't referring to cheating. I was looking for some smart way of solving the problem.

I was willing to sell my players to maintain a profit, but no one was willing to buy my players, even though several were in their 20s and were doing a pretty good job.