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Originally Posted by ThePride87
If I were to turn off budgets, that wouldn't break the game, right? I like the idea of rewarding the teams that profit with their full revenue instead of the owner taking some just to burn it out of existence (Like the Brewers example, nearly $100M gone because of a game mechanic). I play as the Tigers, so I wouldn't even feel like I'm cheating, my team isn't making $ right now. Would love to see a team like the Brewers not get their chances taken away like that.
Actually, now that I'm thinking about it....the whole budget idea is supposed to be seen as a challenge for the player, but in my case, I'm actually making it harder on myself by removing budgets...my team makes an extra $2M by doing so while others get $10M+.
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Well you aren't turning off budgets just turning off the ability of the owner to control budgets.
Remember the the Detroit listed in my pic is the start of the 2021 season with the AI controlling the team. So that is why it is only 2 million difference. But say your 2nd or 3rd year with Detroit you make the playoffs and advance a round. Your team will generate several more million from those extra playoff games and typically if you are in a playoff race you have slightly higher interest which means more ticket sales in September. All that extra money you would never see in Detroit.
So maybe by 2023 it wouldn't be 2 million difference for but it could be 25+ million or maybe even more.
It is also half the reason some of the small market teams aren't as fun to do long term play throughs. Because if you do improve the owners just keep taking more money and your budget barely increases. Unless again you get a good owner. It might add to the challenge but it is certainly less fun for the human and def causes AI team budget problems.
The worst example is Tampa Bay the owner is charitable so should get more money while they actually get about 35 million less. So who is the owner generous too? He is also lenient and hands-off. So why is he destroying their budget. I mean a charitable owner to me seems like he should either give max money or money not 20%+ less money. Who is he charitable too?
Features like these get added and then are never looked at for versions and versions. So I'm not surprised about all of these little glitches or what have you.
Most teams have a huge budget difference. Look at #11 two different teams but its still a 50 million difference.
I am actually turning owner controls budget off on every league that its default on for. It makes no sense to me. The theory might be sound but again the execution is poor. Its the AI dictating things to the teams without any mechanics to effect the outcome. its an artificial difficulty increase for the human again no problem but its even worse for the AI.
I'm just frustrated that is took me like 4 versions to realize how bad this setting actually is.