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Originally Posted by tward13
Think that should be optional. The NHL compliance buyouts from last negotiations are all done. So the current contracts are locked in place. At some point if they negotiate a new CBA and add more buyouts that would be in time to include in the next version of the game, whatever year that may be.
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The problem is, users will often play 20+ seasons, and in real life the owners would allow themselves those little escape clauses a few times in that window. They did it after the 2005 lockout as well, so it's been 100% of the time after each new CBA in the cap era. It's also very useful from an AI perspective - letting too many AI teams get into cap trouble does very, very bad things to roster management in the league as a whole; the safety valve of compliance buyouts a couple of times a decade helps avoid that.
That said, we're making it less likely that it'll decide to use the buyout on high-end players now, and should target more of the mid-roster guys making inflated salaries.