So yesterday I decided to power train an 18yr old academy player to 9 star.
The player I picked was Hayden Foster. After a few hours he hit the 9 star.
Not content at having him at 9 star I trained him until he was actually right up to 10 star. At that point, every time I got him to train he lost fitness but gained no experience for training.
Interestingly his last cone that he earned through training, then another he earned for being MOM (he got no experience for playing other than the cone for being MOM) stayed on his account and I wasn't allowed to allocate them to him. I assumed this was due to the fact that if I added them he would then be 10 star.
So today I log in to notice that the two cones that Foster had next to his name last night had disappeared. First of all I feared Nordeus had decided to be mean and take them off him, but on closer inspection something strange had happened instead - Even though they wouldn't allow me to use the cones, at some point over night those cones were allocated to Foster.
As a result, Foster went from being one cone off being 10 star at 194 quality to this -
He is now 195 quality, so his cones have been given to him, yet he remains 9 star. In theory he should now be 10 star. I checked to see how he trained today and again, he gains no further experience for training - I assume as he has hit his "ceiling" for the time being. The odd things is, why wasn't I able to allocate his cones yesterday, but they were allocated today - and why has he remained 9 star, when in all reality he is now actually a 10 star player?
Anyone else have experience with maxing out a player like this that can shed light on to it?
So, when is a ten star quality player not a ten star player? Well it appears here. How odd...