ringsoft wrote: If I take on a youth player and decide he's not worth keeping, do I suffer any financial penalty for firing him?

You do not.

ringsoft wrote: What's the general approach to youth players? With money getting tighter, is it worth taking one on every week and adding to the wage bill?

It is worth it, as youth players wages are not too high. Always lower than $2000, I believe.

ringsoft wrote: Presumably they have minimal sale value as they generally aren't very skilled and take time to develop?

Perhaps. But you may land a 20 consistency, 20 teamwork and 20 intelligence guy?

Just pull a youth player, if you do not like him, fire him. You have nothing to lose

The tax will still be there, but only on sales between players. If you cut him, then there are no penalty.

"We hope this would bring player's market to life"

So, now young teams (YT) won't have enough youngsters for the future, while the older teams (OT) do. If YT go to the transfers, they don't have money to buy good players, the OT can spend more anyway. And even if YT spend all their money for players, they have no chance to build a stadium.

So if the goal was to destroy any hopes of YT to ever be equal to OT - it's hard to find the better decision.

By the way - 3-4 first seasons in any game is the time of weak transfer activity. Nothing can be done to chang it anyway.Last edited on 2009-05-15 at 15:41

I criticise only bad implementation
The game has 2 seasons behind. So in this case i would let any team to pick youngsters every week for 2 seasons from the team creation date. So if you have a team today you will get the same number of youngsters that any OT. It would be fair. What done now is bad for YT, nobody could argue this fact.

And by 'ever' i don't mean ever ever of course =)) But a several seasons.Last edited on 2009-05-15 at 15:52

But what we have now sounds like 'if you (programmer) can't do good at least do bad'. I hear administration saying 'we want to help YT' and i say 'good' and then i see them doing such things. And i ask my(and any other)self 'why?'. If you can't help, don't hinder. I stand for any implements that do this game better, but it's not one of them IMO. It's negative and shouldn't have been done ever if it couldn't have been in proper way.