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Trading Season and Deadline

This is something I have been tossing around in my mind.
Please keep in mind that this will be kinda lengthy.

As people are aware, in many sport leagues, they have this trading season or signing season, where only in a certain period of time (sometime during mid-season or off-season), team managers can trade/sell/purchase players. After that, there is this certain roster lock deadline, which teams can no longer trade their rosters after this deadline.

I have been thinking: What if we implement this into the game?

So lets have trading seasons off-season and mid-season. During off-season (when teams are finished with their league and/or possible playoffs/tournaments), the market place will open, and managers can sell their players like usual.

Then comes the deadline. Market will close and teams with fewer than 5 players will have to immediately get players from other sources such as scouts or youth academy, or else they will have to forfeit matches in their league.

During regular season, teams cannot use the market (since it's closed). So usually they would invest on training their current roster, on training new players in Youth Academy, and on scouting free agents.

After the first round-robin has finished (teams have finished playing against every other teams in their league once), the league will pause, and market will open once again. Same stuff, deadline comes etc.
I believe this system would stray people away from focusing solely on market players and drive them to focus on other aspect of player recruitment. Most importantly, I believe this would eliminate regular market abuse and how people are spamming alternative accounts just to sell the star players.

Any thoughts?
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I actually like the idear you have. But I think with just that you wont be able to stop the abuse of people creating new accounts and selling their star players. They just would be limited on a spezific time frame. But I guess thats good too...?
Anyways, I like the idear, but their will be a lot of people who use the market regulary and won`t like it.
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Personally I like this idea. I will pass it on to Henri for discussion :)
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i actually like the idea as well. Might be interesting to make it a sticky and try to get more opinions on this.

That way we reinforce strategy as the main focus of the game , as oposed to farmvile 2.0 ....to see which team can get the best economy for the best players.


SUre that should be part of the game as well , since in the end its a manager game ....so resource management is a good ideea.... but i think the strategy should be the main identity of this game
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I'd like to +1 this idea :)
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+1 for this idea.
It would add something interesting to the game and an exciting period where you're fighting the deadline to get your team together. It would also make you think twice about spending cash on players and reinforce investment into other options then just buying players.