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[Lamme Lennie]

Next Season Changes: Part 2

Due to the upcoming rule changes to the Personal Trainers and thanks to the input of many users in the forums we were able to find yet another loophole; that loophole can hopefully be fixed by a new little set of changes that will hopefully set the balance between PTs, Bot Teams, Money and Training straight.

Things would be kept pretty much balanced in what concerns field players, but with the announced changes, goalkeepers would obviously have something to gain with moving to a bot team - 90% training all the time, PT bonus, etc.. Due to this little "unrealistic" feature we've decided to do something to once again close the gap between bot and team training.
In order to do this, from next season on the following changes to the system will take place:

- If you have a Personal Trainer with a level higher than 2 in a bot team, the game will assume you have a PT level 2. This is to prevent "money-collecting" in teams in order to buy a PT 6 and reap the profits of always training what you want and still getting the PT bonus on a bot team.
- The bot training percentage will be also changed. Right now players train at 90% on bots. Next season it will work like this:
> GK skills will be trained at 80% on bot teams.
> Other skills will be trained at 85%.

These changes will have a minor impact on most player's training (except for GKs, where the balance had been lost with the previously announced changes - our bad) and, as we said, will hopefully lead to a balanced training system again.

We also believe it is important to set some definitive rules regarding PTs and the lack of money to pay their wages. So, starting next season:
- In case you don't have the money to pay the PT's wages, he will become inactive for the entire following week (from Friday to the following Friday).
After that, this will happen:
- If, at the next economical update, you have the money to pay your PT's wages, he will become active again. But;
- If, at the next economical update, you still don't have the necessary money to pay the PT, he will be downgraded by a level and stay inactive.
The loop is then restarted; it will only stop when you a) have a PT of a level you can afford; or b) you downgrade your PT manually (highly recommended, since you'll get at least some money back - the system automatic downgrade won't give you any money). Note though that even if you downgrade your PT in a week it was set inactive, it won't make it active for that week; only in the next economical update he'll be set active again (if you can afford it then).

We apologize for the big amount of changes announced in such a little period of time but as you can imagine and some have already found out, the training system is a very complex thing to keep balanced, especially with a human component highly involved (unlike in other games, here players have free will and it's sometimes difficult to follow the behavioral trends or the complicated loopholes they find in order to succeed). As such, your opinions and suggestions in the forums are very important so we can find out what's necessary to keep the game running smoothly and provide a fairly good game experience to everyone. We thank you for that - you guys have been of tremendous help till now, so please keep it like that with the constructive discussions - and sometimes even the crazy theories!