What's the point in the Cup if there's no chance to win at all?

[nash123]

But... there you have one problem: Nordeus is a money-grubbing company. If they change it to a fair competition for "everyone", they lost lot of their asian "friends" (attention: cliche), who sell every end of the season their players and buy a new full squad (mostly fast trainers) - I have one of these (surpisingly a chinese guy) on my server: last season he spends 100 Token for ONE Fast Trainer. This season, I saw him two times biding on Fast Trainer, one for 69 and another one for 54 Tokens... After buying those guys, he trained it to 7*, instantly...

And that's a really big problem... money is all you need, to win (nearly) everything.


My suggestion is now: Why don't make the cup like Associations? Only Stars matters. So you can't exploit the system and the asian guys will keep buying (maybe more restpacks than FT). Maybe they will even more, because they will need up to 8*-Teams to overrule everyone.
I also think, keeping your squad like a real team will also be more interesting.

[vkorchevoy]

My suggestion is now: Why don't make the cup like Associations? Only Stars matters.

great point. it would be much better

[redsnoopy]

great point. it would be much better

Not good , as it would not be a realistic portrayal of real Cups eg English FA Cup whereby lower league teams face higher league teams. If only stars matter aka top 11 Associations style, then the top 11 Cup doesn't reflect a real Cup in the league anymore since it is obvious in general lower league players are lower quality than higher league players (with exception of players such as Vardic of Leicester)

[Perry Sih]

But... there you have one problem: Nordeus is a money-grubbing company. If they change it to a fair competition for "everyone", they lost lot of their asian "friends" (attention: cliche), who sell every end of the season their players and buy a new full squad (mostly fast trainers) - I have one of these (surpisingly a chinese guy) on my server: last season he spends 100 Token for ONE Fast Trainer. This season, I saw him two times biding on Fast Trainer, one for 69 and another one for 54 Tokens... After buying those guys, he trained it to 7*, instantly...

And that's a really big problem... money is all you need, to win (nearly) everything.


My suggestion is now: Why don't make the cup like Associations? Only Stars matters. So you can't exploit the system and the asian guys will keep buying (maybe more restpacks than FT). Maybe they will even more, because they will need up to 8*-Teams to overrule everyone.
I also think, keeping your squad like a real team will also be more interesting.

I understand what you're trying to say. The thing is that, there are money-spending teams at every level. A money-spending team at my level still won't be able to beat a money-spending team three levels above, or in my Cup bracket, I saw a money-spending team from one level below me getting pitted against a computer-generated crap team from four levels above me. The real person still got crushed. Wouldn't that turn money-spenders away from the game?

Also, to others who commented here, it is true that the real life FA Cup would have EPL teams playing teams from several leagues below, but that's in the later rounds. All the tiny pitiful conference teams still have a chance to advance two or three times before running into insurmountable opponents. And the FA Cup has a maximum level (EPL), not like this game where the level raises by one after the conclusion each season. And the bracket draw definitely has nothing to do with the average rating of the team.