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Blocking Low Lvl Tds Multi Accounting.

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To avoid multi accounting of low level technical directors which gives a definite edge, perhaps the 'buy now' button could be disabled?

Alternatively, the salary for every td staff gotten with the 'buy now' button could shoot up to the same as a maximum allowed on the transfer market (L30).

This should help in some way to limit the multi accounting. The higher fees/potential higher tokens to bid, will make it unappealing.

There's a reason why staff have levels and star ratings in the first place. Anyone that spent 800 tokens on lower tds should be at their own risk, but that's just my opinion.

Now let's shelf that tokens aspect for a bit, something definitely needs to be done to multi accounting low level tds as it creates a big edge.

So if average level of tds isn't implemented to impact research, then perhaps the 'buy now' button should be disabled.

Bidding 300 tokens on your low td will definitely make anyone think twice before attempting to multi account.

If disabling the "Buy Now" button exclusively to the staff section is an option it would be a welcome move.

But if there is no way to disable "Buy Now" for the staff, without extending the same to the drivers, I would say the driver market is not in a position to afford that. On multiple instances has it happened that I list a driver that is considered to be the cream of the crop (fully trained, desirable height with legendary ability), the driver almost never hits the auction house (I recall filing bug reports for a couple of instances personally). The listing instead is usually a driver or two released on a free transfer a decent while ago, somewhere between  three and four system generated drivers and the rest 1 star drivers.
So the alternatives without "Buy Now" are just limited to either a) continue paying wages for a driver I no longer need or b) Release them on a free at a net loss, both of which are unacceptable in my opinion.

As for the main topic of this thread, I agree that there should be some way to curb multi-accounting TDs atleast if not take them into account towards research if we are to take the sympathetic approach. On the other hand I also echo Archie's view that anyone that spent 800 tokens in what anyone would consider "underleveled staff" for their level has no one but themselves to blame if a hardline approach is chosen.

Let me rephrase it this way:one benefits from added abilities of all TDs (which is upto 5) at the same time on their accounts. So its not out of line to ask that the aspect of TDs that is responsible for determining research (which is the stars) is taken into account equivalently from all TDs on the account (median, average, mode or whatever statistic of choice).

On the topic of "Buy Now" as I pointed out before the driver auction house needs fixes so that a transfer listed driver goes live on sale atleast once during the 3 hour window, which currently isn’t the case. At the moment you could list a 190cm driver with legendary racecraft and watch in vain for the driver to not go live even once during the 3 hour span. Increasing the costs to 270 would make getting rid of the driver virtually impossible.

Have to agree with Kevin here, the research aspect is very important for lower level managers in their fight against level 30’s. When leveling up, it’s too costly to keep 5 TD’s with special ability on par with manager level.

So your suggestion would in essence clip all sub-level 30 managers. It’s a long climb to level 30, we’ve had research dropped which makes lower level less attractive, this suggestion would only add to it. 

Except for the fact that "Sell Now" offers only a fraction of price of what one would get if the Auction House worked correctly. And no this isn't something that crept in after the language spec markets were removed, this has existed even prior to that, when cycling through languages was a thing.

There should be a couple of bug reports from myself before the single market became a thing about the transfer listed driver never hitting the auction house even after multiple attempts. And instead the market displaying drivers that whose contracts expired a decent while ago, a few system generated ones, and the rest 1-star drivers

I know I won't be popular, but if I were the developer, I would limit the maximum number of TDs a team can own to 2 at this point. Since the introduction of special abilities for TDs, the situation has been ridiculous, which I won't go into detail because everyone knows what I mean. What is certain is that something needs to be done, and I think simply removing "buy now" will not solve the existing problem.

Hi Vince,


Can you elaborate? I'm not sure I've noticed any problem with the tds being at 5 that warrants a cap. Capping will be a hard sell because it will eat into revenue. Also echoing previous arguments, what happens to those that have already invested in 5?