Quote Originally Posted by Santa1212 View Post
Thank you for these very useful insights!

I think that the current event (442oons) will be the PvE kind of tour, or am I wrong? Which means there will be engine opponents appointed (assigned) to each manager based on his/her quality. And I am still not sure _when_ the moment of appointment (the moment of my team quality evaluation) appears: if it is the moment when the event starts (tomorrow) or if it the moment when the event has been announced (yesterday). I assume it is the moment when the event actually starts but based on previous experience I am not quite sure about that because in the past there were PvE events where my engine opponents were surprisingly lower than myself and it looked a bit like if the quality evaluation took place some time _BEFORE_ the event had actually started (while in the meantime - between the announcement and the beginning of the event - I had bought some stronger players).
Looks like it could be a PvE tour, and so the engine opposition teams’ quality will be set after we click the ‘ join’ button for the first time (usually there would be 2 free entries).

So signing the loan after clicking that will have the benefits of better on-loan player. (In other words, wait till quality of opposition is revealed then pay for the loan, if that price seems reasonable enough to help you win the final 60T grand prize hehe)