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Originally Posted by chazzycat
So if someone was to subtly tank their team, enough to get relegated, but not enough to be a complete laughingstock, is that cool?
Asking for a friend. I definitely have never tanked any of my teams in a subtle fashion. I mean how would you even do that, without risking a ban? It's not like all your strategy sliders are hidden from the other managers, making it impossible to be reported if you tank that way. Oh wait...
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I had a gold pack only FTP team that was stagnating and that I had grown bored with. I transitioned it over a two week period, completely restarting it over as a themed team and replacing every card with the exception of two players who fit with the new theme.
During those two weeks, I did not get relegated, and highly doubt I dramatically upset the competitive balance of the leagues I was in, winning 75-78 games each season.
I did it by selling three to four cards at a time, working my way down from most valuable cards to least, and immediately reusing the proceeds as the cards sold to buy equivalent themed players to replace them with. Wash, rinse and repeat.
No tanking, no replacing diamonds with iron cards, no 40 win seasons, no giver of massive achievement points to teams I played against. Anybody could do this at any time, and in fact, it may be even easier at higher levels if you have very valuable cards which will sell in the AH for top dollars.
Would it be easier to have a reset button and start again? Sure, but the developers have repeatedly said no and that it would compromise the league structure.
The overwhelming amount of complaints that fill these type of threads follows the same repeated pattern: "my team has gotten to x level, and is now stagnant, and is not good enough to win or be promoted, but is not bad enough to be demoted. I am no longer earning the volume of achievement points I used to. I am no longer having fun. Because I am no longer having fun, please alter the game rules to accommodate me, through resets, salary caps,changed allocation of achievement points, differentiation between pay and FTP teams, changing the promotion and relegation rules, or some other modifications."
OOTP 20 PT will be a 52 season game. While maybe not perfect, IMO the beauty of this game is the flexibility to play it with a widely diverse approach of playing styles and strategies, plus the ability to change course an unlimited umber of times. No team is truly stuck in mediocrity, unless they choose to allow themselves to be by not being flexible to altering their team or their strategic approach.