Quote Originally Posted by SimplySimon View Post
Not sure if this vent belongs here, because I'm breaking tradition in not complaining about Nordeus and the game engine but...

Bloody managers who appear from nowhere and bid on quality players that I want!

Entered an auction tonight for a 29Q MC/ML with Dribbling SA. He's not essential to my team, but I could do with a few players who are flexible and it's always nice to get one with SA. So rounds 1-3 see me ease three other Level 2 managers out of the bidding and after round 4 it's just one other rookie left. As I bid early in round 4 I decide to check out their stats (I usually do this early to get an idea of who I'm up against, but sometimes it's hard to do when many players are bidding)

Their key team stats (from memory, approx): Avg Age 33, Avg Qty 14, Joined Nov 8th 2012, Budget 13m, Stadium 13,000, Team Value 753k

WTF?!

Clearly doesn't play the game at all, as only gained one promotion in 6 months. Currently rock bottom of the league with a 100% losing record. Squad is so bare that they have no GK, and so having to play a 0-1-1-1-4-1-3 formation. BUT - has big stadium and budget for this level and so I assumed they would have a few tokens to bid with

They double bid in round 7 and that was enough for me to get out - I tend to stop around then anyway and the price was now above the player's value, and at 25 yrs I don't think I could get the value up much

Why is this manager p****** me off by going in for bids that it's pointless for them to enter because frankly their season is over already!

RANT RANT RANT

I feel about 10% better now, so that's good I guess :-)
Dood, I feel your pain. I see this happen too many times. and i think sometimes its an abandoned account on autobot, or someone from Nordeus just facking around with it. Think about it. A stadium that big but a ****ty team? They have many tokens to waste at that level to have a stadium that size but cant buy the players to make their team better? It is not logical.

I am tired of people saying conspiracy theories. Its fairly obvious that things are not as they seem in this game and Nordeus is being shady at times with their programming of this game to cause its members to spend. Greedy, greedy, greedy.

An auction yesterday: some retard/bot enters at exactly last second and bids every round at the last possible second, EVERY TIME at the EXACT SAME MOMENT. He is a noob with a ****ty team, yet he can hit the bid at 1 second like clockwork!!! I cant even do that! Not only that, but I always bid in the first second because I want the player and show it. So for this person/bot to wait until the last second every round is just strange.

Look, this is an OK game. Not worth spending the cash people spend on this already. It can be a much better game, but the devs are slow on improvement and they seem to not really care like they should. Transparency is lacking. BIG-TIME. For this reason I dont trust them. I have heard and seen too many shady things to believe what they say. It is for this reason that I recently promised not to spend any more on tokens. I am a builder and love to build in games. Age of Empires, Rebellion, Empire at War, etc. What i dont like is to be FORCED to buy tokens to build to be able to compete. They are creating a game where segregation is the norm. Token buyers used to own non-token buyers, but they change the game engine to create results to even out the odds, much to the chagrin of the token buyers. They cant have it both ways but they try and they fail.

I think a new approach is necessary for this game to grow in the right direction.