Buying Staff from other Managers

Been getting a bit frustrated recently. I've been watching a technical director for some time but he keeps being snapped up by other teams before I can get him.

Why isn't a rule introduced so you can make other managers offers for drivers and staff; just like in real life.

Not a moan, just a thought for everyone.

Probably because then there would be an unceasing battle of players whose sole purpose is to hijack the drivers and staff of other managers.

This is the Internet, remember.

Well obviously that would be a concern but on the whole it would benefit the game. You wouldn't have to release staff for silly prices although you would be paid for a staff member being bought out of contract.

And anyway, people who do hijack staff would get a reputation and so wouldn't be top of most people's selling list!

If people could steal my drivers and staff there would be nothing more annoying and frustrating. Considering many people (myself included) have more than one account, they could basically do it just to piss you off, or have an account set up purposely to ruin people.

As Tony said, this is the internet, trolls will be trolls, and this would severely f**k the game over tbh.

Imagine it the other way around from what you proposed. You suggested this, I'm guessing, because you want to hire someone else's driver or staff. What if you had hired a driver or staff member who you had either lucked into or had spent a lot of time finding or developing. Then, the day before your next race, someone else hires them out from under you.

It may work that way sometimes in the real world, but I think it's an element we can do without in the game, personally.

I think the idea of being able to buy staff from other players has been dropped for the time being.
Although there are some good points to the idea there are many more bad points due to exploitation, trolling etc. and would be something that needs a lot of work before it can be implimented.  As the game wants to be similar to RL I assume it might be introduced eventually.

If this was to be implimented, this is how it would work.

Drivers and Staff would be signed to a per season basis, between 1 and 5.

Another manager can offer a staff/driver a position for the end of his current contract, you can fight to keep him. The person who simply offers the driver the most money, the most interested by the driver, and best reputation would attract them to their team. Money would benefit older drivers more, a great team would benefit a younger driver more (same for staff)

A driver/staff can choose to leave a contract early but the buying team must pay the full contract ammount towards the team that loses the driver.

Say the drivers contract is worth £1.5mil per race for 3 seasons (51 races, so about: £75.6mil) minus the races he already raced for that contract duration, plus a 10% fee on top of that to the team again. That would be the signing fee of a driver already in contract, the team buys that driver out of contract so they can sign him.

Releasing a driver from his contract would result in the team paying the driver the remainder of his contract plus a 10% fee.

This will put a big limit on swapping drivers around between teams.

This is exploitable with 2nd teams? Yes, but that is the reason of the 10% or even a 20% fee depending on which is more suitable.

Finally this would be limited internally to the league, and a driver would not drop from elite to pro to rookie unless it greatly benefits them in the result of the signing team being superior in recent results and money.

It's still a no from me. If I could buy a driver, pay with real money to buy reward points to rename him, then pay real money to buy more reward points to boost his health to 100% (equivalent to about $20 in my currency), then have him stolen from me, I would be seriously pissed off.

THIS WASN'T WHAT  I MEANT!!!!
I MEANT THAT YOU WOULD ACTUALLY NEED THE PERMISSION OF WHOEVER THE MANAGER IS TO BUY HIS STAFF OF HIM FOR WHICH HE IS PAID

Sorry if I didn't make that clear!

That does change things a bit - but it seems incredibly unlikely that a manager would part with his assets without some sort of payment. Maybe if you could pay the other manager in Rewards Points for his staff, that might work (I'd sell my TD for the chance to rename one of my drivers).

Yeh that's maybe not such a bad suggestion.
If you had gotten into terrible debt, your staff then becomes a tradeable asset.  I could have done with that option a while back!

Worth more discussion I think.