Two features to remove

[vad]

I don't watch their progress, so automatic availability for negotiation helps me here. Otherwise I wouldn't sell them at all.

I'm not saying that it's unreasonable to automatically make some players available for negotiations. I'm saying that determining that by the proximity of their next star does not make sense. If the star mattered anything, it would make more sense to do it after having just received it. Or it could be the player having played in zero games for X weeks, like you mentioned. Another way might be the manager putting them on long-term auction without the limit on the maximum price, plus some tokens.

Could be many ways, but doing it just before the next star just does not make sense to me.