Auction in the good old days?

[Sinany03]

If you think about it, current system IS an auction system: you keep bidding (without losing any token) until everyone else gives up as the price rises. Saying that, I also liked the old system better. I liked to grab a good player, bidding on the last second on a later round

Now I have a question about current system. I didn’t know that players we sell are gone forever. So how come the final price of the player changes?

[jcohen42]

Now I have a question about current system. I didn’t know that players we sell are gone forever. So how come the final price of the player changes?

Nordeus magic! The selling price is automatically generated by bots. Like everything else. Note that the only way your players stick around after being sold is if you sell them through Negotiations.

Wow. This is brutal. Managers could end up spending a lot of tokens without managing to sign a single player.

Yep. But on the other hand, you could also grab great 5* players for very cheap (think 2-3 tokens). It was all about identifying market inefficiencies and playing the field. You could also wait until the clock reached 1 second and the clock would not refresh; if you were the only manager to bid in that round, you won the player. It was an interesting game of "chicken".

EDIT: To add to this, I would have no problem if they changed the old system so that you get back half of the tokens you bid away. It would still reduce the amount of people who bid just to drive up the price of the player and are left unscathed (as well as "multi-bidders" who bid many times in succession).

[nikolgiorgos]

I 'm still not sure which is the best (considering that selling players in the old edition was a pain in the a.. )
but that hour, when I was wakening up every new season's Sunday morning at 06.00 (for me - 04.00 GMT for the game),
having my wife looking at me with some expression - you know what
and opening the transfers list to check for nordgens

was at the top5 moments I will remember from TE, forever

[Blast]

Yup I much preferred the old system. As a junior manager back then, just starting, I had the opportunity to sign some great players.
I also got my fingers burnt a few times!
But the final 10 seconds in bidding was epic. Caused a great buzz.
Plus as previously stated you learnt when, who and what to bid on. You developed strategies...in fact it was like playing poker.
1st round call or fold, second round call raise or fold, final round ....who folds last!
There is a manager badge for using last token to buy a player in bidding....back then it was an art.