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Is it perfect? No. In fact, I don't know what perfect would look like. What I do know is everyone reports varied experiences because the AI has varied responses and even with identical settings, there are variables in play (I don't want to list them right now) that offer the potential to mitigate the trade talk and the value of the components.

AI teams, GMs, organizations, etc... all have different outlooks, compositions. and the umbrella term: philosophies. Add the AI variables and you have a facsimile of unpredictable and often disappointing life. What do we want? A universal algorithm that treats every player, every team, every negotiation, identically? Working at the combinations and offers is part of it. Equitable, 'I like it' trades aren't served on any platter. They involve investigation and open the door to further talks and offers.

There are a couple of suggestions to intervene and design your own average trade difficulty beyond the settings, but it won't make them ALL work that way, just most. But when the league overall changes, even just a team or two in, say, 24 team leagues, the evaluation will alter.

Enough for now. Ramble any more and you'll mistake me for NoOne. Well, the overuse of commas, added punctuation, and the complete absence of lol's should give me away, right?

It's dynamic. It's trading, not pulling a box of cereal off the shelf and rightly paying the price it's marked. It's cereal in a tent, with a variety of vendors, some of which don't care for your bartering tools or whatever currency you're offering.