OOTP Developments Forums - View Single Post - Not enough to cash to make trade when I'm including less than the player's salary

NoOne · 09-11-2015, 04:22 AM

an owner's generosity is already incorporated into their personality. that will affect how large a budget is based on projected income. a win above all else owner will give you a budget large enough to potentially lose money every year once you have a consistently successful team. cheap owners will not. so, it would be double dipping if they also were willing to add money during the season. also, upping a budget midseason will not fix the problem, either. cash on hand is a different animal.

as far as ytd cash and starting cash, you may not be able to use the info from the game to make this assumption. do teams get the entire media contracts income on day one? in the game it does. if not, a team is likely in the red until the later portions of the season, if they even get out of the red. so your ytd cash may be quite innacurate, if this were realistic - which is an admirable threshold to use, but not always possible or easy to implement.

just because you paid the first year of the contract for the other club does not alleviate them from the responsibility of the rest of the contract. so, of course that needs to be considered. they cannot ignore this aspect of a trade.

above all esle, these trades aren't realistic. don't get me wrong i do it too. however, i understand i am to some extent taking advantage of the limitations of the AI in order to circimvent salary caps and budget constraints. i dump vets when i have replacements ready for just about anything in return unless i think a potential FA compansation draft pick offers more value.

sure there are salary dumps in real life, but the big salaries never go to a small or mid market team. they would never accept the trade. they cannot afford to do such things.

to get this type of stuff into the game would require a massive overhaul of the financial and trading systems. that is certainly doable, but do you think an average person can handle the finer points of economics and accounting necessary to enable trades like real-life? (rhetorical question) i see posts of people having problems understanding the current simplified system.

you don't seem to like the limitations imposed on your gameplay by these financial options... so change them, if you are unhappy. you can even just add 1,000,000,000 to your cash on hand and call it square (stay well under 2^32 cash to avoid issues). changing these settings is not much different than an 'ask the owner for more cash' option during the year. either way you are just circumventing the restrictions those settings are supposed to impose on you.

09-11-2015, 04:22 AM	#8
NoOne Banned Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 7,273 Infractions: 0/1 (3)	an owner's generosity is already incorporated into their personality. that will affect how large a budget is based on projected income. a win above all else owner will give you a budget large enough to potentially lose money every year once you have a consistently successful team. cheap owners will not. so, it would be double dipping if they also were willing to add money during the season. also, upping a budget midseason will not fix the problem, either. cash on hand is a different animal. as far as ytd cash and starting cash, you may not be able to use the info from the game to make this assumption. do teams get the entire media contracts income on day one? in the game it does. if not, a team is likely in the red until the later portions of the season, if they even get out of the red. so your ytd cash may be quite innacurate, if this were realistic - which is an admirable threshold to use, but not always possible or easy to implement. just because you paid the first year of the contract for the other club does not alleviate them from the responsibility of the rest of the contract. so, of course that needs to be considered. they cannot ignore this aspect of a trade. above all esle, these trades aren't realistic. don't get me wrong i do it too. however, i understand i am to some extent taking advantage of the limitations of the AI in order to circimvent salary caps and budget constraints. i dump vets when i have replacements ready for just about anything in return unless i think a potential FA compansation draft pick offers more value. sure there are salary dumps in real life, but the big salaries never go to a small or mid market team. they would never accept the trade. they cannot afford to do such things. to get this type of stuff into the game would require a massive overhaul of the financial and trading systems. that is certainly doable, but do you think an average person can handle the finer points of economics and accounting necessary to enable trades like real-life? (rhetorical question) i see posts of people having problems understanding the current simplified system. you don't seem to like the limitations imposed on your gameplay by these financial options... so change them, if you are unhappy. you can even just add 1,000,000,000 to your cash on hand and call it square (stay well under 2^32 cash to avoid issues). changing these settings is not much different than an 'ask the owner for more cash' option during the year. either way you are just circumventing the restrictions those settings are supposed to impose on you. Last edited by NoOne; 09-11-2015 at 04:33 AM.