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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
You may want to check out post #28 in in this thread as I describe a similar approach to building a new stadium I would advocate. I think it has a good blend of detail with ease-of-use.
I would not advocate any sort of 'negotiation' however; I don't think it's necessary. Having the user pick the particular 'model' of stadium they want from a list based on its criteria and associated cost is sufficient. The user has to balance the advantages in terms of revenue growth a new park should provide against the carrying costs involved with that particular park 'model'. |
That is indeed very similar.
Don't misunderstand me: I don't think the cost should be negotiable. I was just talking about using a similar format to how we negotiate with players now to set the payment plan to allow a little more wiggle room for the player.
For example, my team is terrible and I want to build a new stadium. It costs $150 million and I have 5 years to pay it off. I don't expect to compete for the next three years, nor do I expect to have any big player contracts to deal with, so I construct the payment plan as so:
1st year $40mil
2nd year $40mil
3rd year $35mil
4th year $25mil
5th year $10mil
And in that way I can eat a big chunk of the cost early when I don't have anywhere else to put the money anyway, and when the team should be getting good, the stadium isn't eating so much into my ability to be competitive.