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GabeRivers · 07-11-2006, 07:54 PM

OOTP'06 doesn't appear to be designed to have the AI make offers from the trade screen. AI offers come by e-mail. You can "discuss" or negotiate by either responding to an AI e-mail offer with counteroffers, or by generating your own offers from the trade screen.

When you generate the offer, you have to present both sides of the proposal to the AI -- what you propose to give, and what you want for it. You'll know instantly by the AI's comments whether he will entertain the offer. If he will, you submit it. Then you have to wait a day (or sometimes as much as a few days), for the AI to respond by e-mail. He'll either accept the proposal or, more often than not, he'll respond "no way!". When he responds "no way", he'll either give you a list of names of players, any one of which you can add to make the deal fly, or he'll tell you that you have no single player that will make the deal work. Either way, you can continue to negotiate by responding with other proposals of your own design.

The more I play, the more I like what Markus has done with trading. It has a much more real life feel about it (that doesn't mean that I think it's perfect yet). One cool thing is that inbetween negotiating with one team regarding one or more of your players, you can shop the same guys to other teams. The trick is that you can only offer them elsewhere when you don't have your own offer outstanding. What I mean by that is that if the AI has countered, then the open offer is his and not yours, and before you respond to him, you can pitch the same guy(s) elsewhere. If you don't wait too long, you can always go back for further negotiates with the first guy. BTW, do all of this by responding (at the bottom) to the e-mails from the AI. don't try to go back each time to the trade screen -- the e-mail will send you there with your prior offer to that team still listed.

07-11-2006, 07:54 PM	#6
GabeRivers Minors (Single A) Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 82	OOTP'06 doesn't appear to be designed to have the AI make offers from the trade screen. AI offers come by e-mail. You can "discuss" or negotiate by either responding to an AI e-mail offer with counteroffers, or by generating your own offers from the trade screen. When you generate the offer, you have to present both sides of the proposal to the AI -- what you propose to give, and what you want for it. You'll know instantly by the AI's comments whether he will entertain the offer. If he will, you submit it. Then you have to wait a day (or sometimes as much as a few days), for the AI to respond by e-mail. He'll either accept the proposal or, more often than not, he'll respond "no way!". When he responds "no way", he'll either give you a list of names of players, any one of which you can add to make the deal fly, or he'll tell you that you have no single player that will make the deal work. Either way, you can continue to negotiate by responding with other proposals of your own design. The more I play, the more I like what Markus has done with trading. It has a much more real life feel about it (that doesn't mean that I think it's perfect yet). One cool thing is that inbetween negotiating with one team regarding one or more of your players, you can shop the same guys to other teams. The trick is that you can only offer them elsewhere when you don't have your own offer outstanding. What I mean by that is that if the AI has countered, then the open offer is his and not yours, and before you respond to him, you can pitch the same guy(s) elsewhere. If you don't wait too long, you can always go back for further negotiates with the first guy. BTW, do all of this by responding (at the bottom) to the e-mails from the AI. don't try to go back each time to the trade screen -- the e-mail will send you there with your prior offer to that team still listed. Last edited by GabeRivers; 07-11-2006 at 07:55 PM.