Here we go, after some hours of testing v0.7
(sorry for the long text)
-Playervalues & CPU-Askingprice
Im two minded about your changes.
Basically i like your changes, but it need some tweaking and balancing.
Some values are too high and some too low.
Playervalues:
-CB & GK too high generally
-RB/LB just a little bit too low
-I would love to see playervalue even more influenced by reputation & prestige and if offer is above teambudget. A penalty up to prestige 12 would be cool, because even a club like FC Red Bull Salzburg has 10 international prestige.
-Needs better balance for age.
Let´s take reallife Xavi for example.
27/28 - €35m
28/29 - €55m
29/30 - €60m
30/31 - €48m
31/32 - €35m
32/33 - €15m
33/34 - € 5m
With your current settings, players start to loose value too early.
-Value for ~74-77ovr./~25-28y is too high. Especially if 2-3 potential points left. (somewhere in this ranges)
-Value for <70 players with high potential (+84) is too high. Especially if they are very young. I get a lot of youthplayers having a value above €10m.
-Value for >70 players with middle potential (~82) is a little bit too low.
-A lot of world class players (+87ovr) end up with a value around €65m. Like it is some kind of maximum value.
CPU-Askingprice:
-I like the fact, that CPU is not always asking stupid crazy prices for their players.
-I would suggest a lower suggestion rate.
-If only 1 year contract-time left, penalty on the asking price should be higher.
-Transfers
I will use + and -
+Less stupid transfers and cpu tends more to perspective players.
+A good amount of transfers for lower clubs. (<3 stars teams)
+Players tend more to sign with new clubs, instead of resigning
+No problems to sell/loan players. Even though i would wish the offers would be better for players i put on transfer list.
+Better budgets
+-Way less top player movement. BUT we are getting to the point of nearly no top player movement at all.
Most of the time i see more movement in the winter, than in the summer. In summer transfer window 2015/2016 the greatest transfer was a young talent for €22m to Dortmund.
There are a lot of negotiations, but most of the time it´s the player who refuse. Seydou Doumbia refused 4 offers in 2 years. (Arsenal, Milan, Wolfsburg) Kevin de Bruyne refused 3 offers in 2 years. (PSG, Liverpool, Atletico)
+-I get transfer requests for my players. But mainly for my first eleven players and the offers are sometimes ridiculous. PSG & Mancity offered €58m for 88ovr Götze. His value was already €62m. I know this is just the first offer, but come on.
-Not enough transfers for middle/high clubs. (3.5-5 stars)
Still over 50% of the clubs in BPL and Bundesliga are unactive for over 2-3 years in a row. And if they sell, they sometimes dont even get a replacement. (
!!!)
-High potential players stick too long with their initial clubs. Player should force a transfer, if their level is above teamrating.
-Players sometimes moving too fast. Firmino moved in first winter transfer window for €22m to Arsenal and just one year later for €26m to AS Monaco. Still not sure how i should feel about this.
-Playergrowth/-decline
The playergrowth is almost perfect. All my players are growing.
It just needs little tweaks.
-The maximum points/season i managed to let a player grow, is 5 points ovr.
But mostly for 17-21 years old players. After that they will have a little drop and will rather grow 2-3 points. CPU-Players on the other side can grow 6-8 points ovr/season.
-Older players (30-34) have too much grow for skill attributes. Ribery´s growth was bigger than his decline, and so he was even able to grow 1 point ovr.
-Skill growth for 26-30y players could be higher.
-Physical attribute growth for young players should be little bit higher. (17-21)
-Player start to decline way too early. I saw Lewandowski decline with 27y in physicsal attributes. This shouldn´t start before the age of 30. (
!!!)
-But that doesn´t mean i want to see less decline in general.
-GK-Growth acts still strange. Sometimes it works and sometimes not.
-Retirement/Old Players
Sorry, that i have to repeat myself, but i really think players should retire earlier. I saw no player retirement before the age of 35. Wingers and strikers dont always play that long.
CPU-Teams are re-signing with old players again and again and again.
Liverpool gave 36y old Gerrard (76ovr.) a 3year contract.
-Misc
CPU-Teams seems to use the best possible players.
I think the managerai helped.
I would like to see more substitutions in simulated games.
I noticed more injuries already. Is this just a coincidence, or did you changed it?
Have you also changed something about the schedules? I had to play two times against Dortmund in the first season-half. This is not usual for the Bundesliga. Didn´t noticed this before, so im not sure, if this is the same in Vanilla.
Is there a possibility to increase the physical attributes for youthplayers, without editing the db?
I had no time to test the gameplay.
Like always, many thanks for your efforts.