Market Value

This has been an issue a lot of people have been up in arms about, recently. A previous update (either 1.0.1 or 1.1.1 - I forget) introduced the hard-coded rule that you could not sell a player via private transfer for less than half market value. I've encountered problems with it in many different situations, but here's just two:

- I had some decent enough squad players, AF 40-60k, market values ranging from 600k to 800k. I wanted to sell two of these - I spent the whole day trying to find a buyer, at any price. I ended up offering both of them to any 3 star potential youngster I could find, to no avail. The long and the short of it - noone wanted them. Miracously I managed to find a buyer - I settled on a price of 400,000 for both, a brilliant deal for me considering I was contemplating releasing them. In steps the game - that deal isn't good enough for you, you can't sell them for that price! I went to the mods to try and find a way around the deal, explaining I, as the selling party, was ecstatic with the deal. Unfortunately, I was told that nothing could be done and I'd have to come up with a 'fair' deal. Market value, and the ascociated code enforcing 50% minimum price, had stopped me doing what was a brilliant deal.

- I've wanted to swap quite a few players for other players. In the new financial climate, trading players for players is the new currency. Unfortunately, every time you sign a player, there is a 100% profit tax based on what you signed them for - in the case of wage auctions, their aquisition fee - which decreases over the next 28 days. This results in you having to pay a percentage of the difference between aquisition fee and market value. With market value still so massively inflated above aquisition fee (in most cases, this is still 5-6 times aquisistion fee), it makes players you buy on wage auction, or cheaply in transfer auction, unsellable and unswappable for the first month of their two month contract.

I'm not saying in the second situation that something is wrong, just that it just further compounds the problems that exist within the transfer market currently. It's hard enough trying to buy or sell players from the 300-500 active managers in the gameworld without further imposing that you can't buy or sell someone, realistically, within the first month of signing them.

In other news:

Beaulieu FC got knocked out of the All Evening Cup in the third round to Huntstown Villa. Two corner goals (grrr) and a deflected long range strike didn't tel lthe story of a match in which Beaulieu FC had the significantly better chances. There's also been movement on the transfer front, which I'll post up tonight when I can grab some screenshots.