07-22-2010, 01:37 PM
A) I'm closing this thread as most avenues of discussion and debate seem to be exhausted and in lieu of genuinely attempting to find the ideal resolution for everyone people are resorting to mud slinging and side taking. We can all agree that serves no purpose, especially the leagues' purposes.
B) It was not decided as far as Scotty and I were concerned, we should've done a better job explaining that.
C) The hesitation to implement another rule change is we haven't even let the new cap on farm play itself out. The real problem here might actually be my fault since I edited every city with a team to either reflect their real life stats (growth, pop, per capita income, etc.) or put them at 0 if they were trending negative (DET population comes to mind).
I've noticed that despite pumping 50M into my farm/scouting I still have 80M left in my payroll budget, for example. We've just lowered the cap on the farm spending so that figure's actually low, atm. On current pace and without any major money acquisitions I'll still pocket 20-30M in cash despite having two 10+M contracts on my BENCH.
My point isn't one side or the other is right here, it's that there's a lot of variables and if we change them all at once we can't gauge the true effect of any specific change. Personally, I'd like to see where the first change gets us and where losing vs winning teams budgets stand after the season before implementing any other changes that could potentially adjust the cash flow by 10M or more per team (300M in the league).
I also think it's important to point out that one purpose a varying farm/scouting/medical is to keep the generally inflating economy in harmony. Many times when teams have budget space the first thing they do is up their spending there before stockpiling the cash. It seems to me that stockpiling cash is the major concern here and it could be argued that if we lock it in at a lower rate we almost force people to stock pile cash.
Final point, is there's a lot to take into account and it's not forgotten. Let's let the current changes play themselves out and regroup in the offseason, when it's a more appropriate time to make changes that affect the league as a whole.
B) It was not decided as far as Scotty and I were concerned, we should've done a better job explaining that.
C) The hesitation to implement another rule change is we haven't even let the new cap on farm play itself out. The real problem here might actually be my fault since I edited every city with a team to either reflect their real life stats (growth, pop, per capita income, etc.) or put them at 0 if they were trending negative (DET population comes to mind).
I've noticed that despite pumping 50M into my farm/scouting I still have 80M left in my payroll budget, for example. We've just lowered the cap on the farm spending so that figure's actually low, atm. On current pace and without any major money acquisitions I'll still pocket 20-30M in cash despite having two 10+M contracts on my BENCH.
My point isn't one side or the other is right here, it's that there's a lot of variables and if we change them all at once we can't gauge the true effect of any specific change. Personally, I'd like to see where the first change gets us and where losing vs winning teams budgets stand after the season before implementing any other changes that could potentially adjust the cash flow by 10M or more per team (300M in the league).
I also think it's important to point out that one purpose a varying farm/scouting/medical is to keep the generally inflating economy in harmony. Many times when teams have budget space the first thing they do is up their spending there before stockpiling the cash. It seems to me that stockpiling cash is the major concern here and it could be argued that if we lock it in at a lower rate we almost force people to stock pile cash.
Final point, is there's a lot to take into account and it's not forgotten. Let's let the current changes play themselves out and regroup in the offseason, when it's a more appropriate time to make changes that affect the league as a whole.
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