Owner won't let me spend any $$

almoney · 04-29-2007, 05:04 PM

So I started a season with the KC Royals using updated rosters. I was like 73-89 my first year because I traded away a bunch of contracts, etc.

So I finished up my first year and go to the offseason. The front office screen says I have $19.5 million available for player and staff signings, and my current player payroll is only $31.5 million.

Now I can't even sign a $700k player to a one year deal. It says "You have $19.5 million available for players signings, the owner does NOT approve of this deal."

WTF? Anything I can do about this? Bleh.

Scoman · 04-29-2007, 05:09 PM

Thats what you have too love about small market baseball

almoney · 04-29-2007, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Scoman

Thats what you have too love about small market baseball

I obv. understood that going in, but almost 20mill available and a $30mill payroll? Yikes.

Mntwins · 04-29-2007, 07:25 PM

Thats the reason why 2 years into my career I changed the setting to let me have control over the $ I spend.

edm · 04-29-2007, 07:27 PM

almoney, there's a setting under options to turn the owner thing off

texasmame · 04-29-2007, 08:04 PM

Unless you're giving the big money to Gil, front office types don't approve.

briantheiceberg · 04-29-2007, 10:59 PM

I've recently noticed this as well. I have a budget of $90 mil and my current payroll is $50 mil and I can't even do resigns of my current players. Something is not right here.

Bishop · 04-30-2007, 01:38 AM

I'd put a post in the tech support forum, just to check.

lencombs · 04-30-2007, 04:24 AM

Owner won't let me spend any $$

sounds like my wife

StyxNCa · 04-30-2007, 04:32 PM

The Marlin's owner also owns the Royals in your game apparently.

zekester91 · 05-01-2007, 10:27 AM

Just some thoughts on this, but things I've noticed are that the amount you have left for resigns includes budget room and cash. unfortinaly if your close to your budget your owner is not going to let you use that cash to sign players even though it says you have that room on that screen, the owner only aproves things that are inside that budget number in the uper left, this makes it conusing as you often have vastly diffrent numbers depending on the amount of cash you have on hand.

Don't know if this made if from 2006 but it was noticed (or Markus said it, don't remember which) that if you where close to being fired, that you would not be allowed to spend money or resign players, regardless of how much spending money the game told you had.

briantheiceberg · 05-01-2007, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by zekester91

Just some thoughts on this, but things I've noticed are that the amount you have left for resigns includes budget room and cash. unfortinaly if your close to your budget your owner is not going to let you use that cash to sign players even though it says you have that room on that screen, the owner only aproves things that are inside that budget number in the uper left, this makes it conusing as you often have vastly diffrent numbers depending on the amount of cash you have on hand.

Don't know if this made if from 2006 but it was noticed (or Markus said it, don't remember which) that if you where close to being fired, that you would not be allowed to spend money or resign players, regardless of how much spending money the game told you had.

I've won two strait WS championships and I'm currently in first place. Not very close to being fired.

edm · 05-01-2007, 11:11 PM

I just disabled the "team owner controls budget" option, but I'm still getting the message when I try offering a contract to a free agent?

Killebrew · 06-14-2007, 01:10 AM

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Originally Posted by edm

I just disabled the "team owner controls budget" option, but I'm still getting the message when I try offering a contract to a free agent?

That game setup option does not work the way it should, owners in OOTP 2007 will sometimes overrule your decisions even if you have enough available cash and have "use entire revenue" selected in game options (as compared to 'let owner control budget').

tcblcommish · 06-14-2007, 02:23 AM

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Originally Posted by lencombs

Owner won't let me spend any $$

sounds like my wife

HAHA that's funny

kylemmie · 06-14-2007, 07:42 PM

Yeah, I recently posted a similar question and was shot down for not doing a search of the forums before I posted.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...d.php?t=149275

After replying that I had, in fact, done a search and did not think the reasons given in the previous thread applied, I received no further input (shrug)

My only guess is that the "you control entire budget" setting does not work exactly as one might think by it's title.

{Edited because I'm a bonehead and didn't get the copy/paste URL thingie right the first time...sigh}

04-29-2007, 05:04 PM	#1
almoney Bat Boy Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 13	Owner won't let me spend any $$ So I started a season with the KC Royals using updated rosters. I was like 73-89 my first year because I traded away a bunch of contracts, etc. So I finished up my first year and go to the offseason. The front office screen says I have $19.5 million available for player and staff signings, and my current player payroll is only $31.5 million. Now I can't even sign a $700k player to a one year deal. It says "You have $19.5 million available for players signings, the owner does NOT approve of this deal." WTF? Anything I can do about this? Bleh.

04-29-2007, 08:04 PM	#6
texasmame All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Planet Texas Posts: 1,565	Unless you're giving the big money to Gil, front office types don't approve. __________________ Stewarding the expansion TAIWAN EXPLOSIVE GO SALMON in the NL West. As the defending NL West Champions, the SALMON fall to the wildcard Dakota Rushmores in the first round in seven games.

04-30-2007, 04:24 AM	#9
lencombs All Star Reserve Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Eureka, Ca Posts: 533	Owner won't let me spend any $$ sounds like my wife __________________ "A passion for statistics is the earmark of a literate people." - Paul Fisher "Baseball isn't statistics. Baseball is (Joe) DiMaggio rounding second." - Jimmy Cannon

05-01-2007, 11:11 PM	#13
edm All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Philadelphia, PA Posts: 1,991	I just disabled the "team owner controls budget" option, but I'm still getting the message when I try offering a contract to a free agent? Last edited by edm; 05-01-2007 at 11:13 PM.

06-14-2007, 07:42 PM	#16
kylemmie Minors (Single A) Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 99	Yeah, I recently posted a similar question and was shot down for not doing a search of the forums before I posted. http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...d.php?t=149275 After replying that I had, in fact, done a search and did not think the reasons given in the previous thread applied, I received no further input (shrug) My only guess is that the "you control entire budget" setting does not work exactly as one might think by it's title. {Edited because I'm a bonehead and didn't get the copy/paste URL thingie right the first time...sigh} Last edited by kylemmie; 06-14-2007 at 08:21 PM.

04-29-2007, 05:09 PM	#2
Scoman All Star Starter Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: heath ohio Posts: 1,771	Thats what you have too love about small market baseball

04-29-2007, 07:25 PM	#4
Mntwins Major Leagues Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Minot ND Posts: 379	Thats the reason why 2 years into my career I changed the setting to let me have control over the $ I spend.

04-29-2007, 07:27 PM	#5
edm All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Philadelphia, PA Posts: 1,991	almoney, there's a setting under options to turn the owner thing off

04-29-2007, 10:59 PM	#7
briantheiceberg Banned Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 212 Infractions: 0/4 (102)	I've recently noticed this as well. I have a budget of $90 mil and my current payroll is $50 mil and I can't even do resigns of my current players. Something is not right here.

04-30-2007, 01:38 AM	#8
Bishop All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Tejas Posts: 709	I'd put a post in the tech support forum, just to check.

04-30-2007, 04:32 PM	#10
StyxNCa Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Victoria, Texas Posts: 3,136	The Marlin's owner also owns the Royals in your game apparently.

05-01-2007, 10:27 AM	#11
zekester91 All Star Starter Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 1,122	Just some thoughts on this, but things I've noticed are that the amount you have left for resigns includes budget room and cash. unfortinaly if your close to your budget your owner is not going to let you use that cash to sign players even though it says you have that room on that screen, the owner only aproves things that are inside that budget number in the uper left, this makes it conusing as you often have vastly diffrent numbers depending on the amount of cash you have on hand. Don't know if this made if from 2006 but it was noticed (or Markus said it, don't remember which) that if you where close to being fired, that you would not be allowed to spend money or resign players, regardless of how much spending money the game told you had.