Transfers

[reactionary]

I know the transfer market is going to get an overhaul in the next release, but I wanted to throw out a complaint anyway in case it is something that might still be under review. In addition to extra search features and whatever else you were adding, can you please look at board spending and valuation limits??

I found a player on the transfer list posted by another team, offered the maximum that my board would allow (well above the manager's set value), had that manager accept the offer, and whole thing failed when the other team's board decided it wasn't enough of an offer.

For the record, the player in question is very similar in stats to my current players, not an outrageous reach beyond my means, just someone to fill a hole. The limits set by my board and his board, killed the whole thing.

Obviously you guys are working on this, but please, please let the free market decide player values - not arbitrary limits set up behind the scenes. I know that freeing up the market will mean there is a higher potential for really one sided deals or the potential to go quickly into debt, but that should be the responsibility of the managers who then must live with the consequences.

I know you need some limits within the game to prevent questionable deals between friends or dumping of players before quitting and such, but this last transaction was frustrating for me to say the least. Just food for thought - sorry for the timing of my rant just before your planned updates probably change all of this anyway...

[matchday]

Thanks for your comments! We appreciate all feedback on the game.

When we started out we wanted to have a free transfer system with no limits on transfer fees etc. We soon found out that this was not working. Each round a number of users are trying to cheat by making unfair and questionable transfers. This ruins the game, as it would be very difficult for managers to compete without cheating. We need to have some rules in place that stops these transfers.

That said, the last thing we want to do is to make it difficult for managers playing fair. It would be interesting if you could send us some more info about the player you was trying to sign and the price you offered. This can help us improve the limits in the game.

As you said we are currently working on improving the transfer systems. Our opinion is that the current transfer system is not working very well. It is too difficult to buy and sell players and the time it takes to complete a deal is too long. We hope to improve this and are very excited about the new features we are going to add. The new features will not be available in the next release(on Thursday), but hopefully soon after.