FA signings bugged

marc420 · 10-11-2017, 02:49 PM

After starting a custom game, I saw a FA Goalie I thought I'd sign.

I say Meet Demands, and it matches the salary and length of contract the player wants. But, if I say Ask 4 Response, it comes back and complains that my current offer is lower than the previous offer. Yet its the same $580k per year for 1 year that the player is asking for.

I'd like to be able to change the length of the contract, to at least see if I can negotiate a longer term, but that's locked on 1 year.

Also, the original request from the player says nothing about supplementary role. Yet he mentions this in rejecting by 'ask for response'. At no point does he say what he wants as a supplementary role, and pressing 'meet demands' does not change this.

In fact, pressing Meet Demands again brings up more messages complaining that I'm reducing my offer to him and "that's no way to sign a player". A strange reaction to "meet demands".

I tried to remove whatever bogus offer the player seemed to be referring to, he now refuses to talk to me at all.

Considering he's a current 0.5 star player who might just maybe have the potential to be a minor-league depth player in my organization IF he reaches his full potential, this all seems like a very strange attitude for him to take.

JeffR · 10-11-2017, 05:39 PM

Looks like there's something mismatched between the lowest end of the standards used for player salary requests and the league's minimum salary, and that's creating some odd behaviour where demands sometimes go down instead of up for contracts that are close to the minimum. Matching the new request triggers the response for a lowered contract offer, though, so it's impossible to give him what he wants.

We'll have a look as to why it's doing that; in the meantime, you can work around it by going the opposite direction when he requests a value lower than his first demand - give him a slight increase to the previous offer instead. That should get him to sign.

10-11-2017, 02:49 PM	#1
marc420 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Terrapin Station Posts: 112	FA signings bugged After starting a custom game, I saw a FA Goalie I thought I'd sign. I say Meet Demands, and it matches the salary and length of contract the player wants. But, if I say Ask 4 Response, it comes back and complains that my current offer is lower than the previous offer. Yet its the same $580k per year for 1 year that the player is asking for. I'd like to be able to change the length of the contract, to at least see if I can negotiate a longer term, but that's locked on 1 year. Also, the original request from the player says nothing about supplementary role. Yet he mentions this in rejecting by 'ask for response'. At no point does he say what he wants as a supplementary role, and pressing 'meet demands' does not change this. In fact, pressing Meet Demands again brings up more messages complaining that I'm reducing my offer to him and "that's no way to sign a player". A strange reaction to "meet demands". I tried to remove whatever bogus offer the player seemed to be referring to, he now refuses to talk to me at all. Considering he's a current 0.5 star player who might just maybe have the potential to be a minor-league depth player in my organization IF he reaches his full potential, this all seems like a very strange attitude for him to take.

10-11-2017, 05:39 PM	#2
JeffR FHM Producer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Kelowna, BC Posts: 17,433	Looks like there's something mismatched between the lowest end of the standards used for player salary requests and the league's minimum salary, and that's creating some odd behaviour where demands sometimes go down instead of up for contracts that are close to the minimum. Matching the new request triggers the response for a lowered contract offer, though, so it's impossible to give him what he wants. We'll have a look as to why it's doing that; in the meantime, you can work around it by going the opposite direction when he requests a value lower than his first demand - give him a slight increase to the previous offer instead. That should get him to sign.