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Originally Posted by red95vette
I noticed this as well when previewing the game. The thing is the players are not really "dead weight" if they have minor league contracts and you can release them without consequence. I think that's the point of the original poster. As a GM, I'll willing to take a teams whole flippin minor league system (or more accurately the players with MiL contracts) along with its star player if I'm giving up little else in return.
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Ya that's exactly my point.
I don't care so much that they want to dump dead weight onto me. But when they do, they shouldn't be giving me any extra leverage to do so. The only time that a slight leverage should exist is if I'm willing to take a dead weight player with a major league contract. Even in this case, I hope the leverage isn't too large if the contract is a very low salary, since for some reason I'm usually able to trade these low salary dead weight contracts for minor league players with minor league contracts and subsequently dump them later.
So here's what's happening in an example (this is not a specific example of what happened):
1) I ask the CPU GM to give me Frank Thomas for Ken Caminiti.
2) CPU GM refuses
3) I ask the CPU GM to give me Frank Thomas and a few of their dead weight minor leaguers with minor league contracts for Ken Caminiti.
4) CPU all of a sudden accepts
5) I take these dead weight minor leaguers and release them without adding any charge to my bottom line, since they are just "minor league contracts"
(if the CPU wanted to get rid of these dead weights, they should have just released them themselves, since it wouldn't have charged them anyways) - why give me extra leverage in a trade?
The CPU GM AI should only be dumping contracts to me and giving me leverage for them ONLY for contracts that I will have to accept full responsibility for.
In other words (any one of the following is acceptable and nothing else):
1) contracts where if I attempt to release the player, then I will have to pay his full contract
2) contracts where if I attempt to trade that player and his contract to another CPU GM, I should be giving leverage to the CPU GM in this case (losing leverage myself and upping the difficulty/threshold of completing the trade)