Lower race profits

[pat]

My suggestion is to lower the total winnings of each race.
Let me elaborate on that.

I've been playing Peloton since last summer and I've noticed that day trading is far more profitable than training youngsters. For instance, I just bought a rider for 120.000 the other day (quite a lot for a relatively new team) and I've already earned most of it back in just three races. This beats patiently training 18-19 year olds by far.

So - in my opinion - this asks for either higher transfer prices, but transfer rates are subject to a free market and should preferably stay this way, OR lower race profits, which is probably the better option.
What do you think?

Spilak

[chakra]

Everybody got his own way to play the game.
You wanna play it by daytrading, that's your tactic.
Other's take the long term. Depends in which way you enjoy the game the most.
Have fun with you daytraders.

[pat]

Oct 1, 2009 22:44:19 GMT 1 chakra said:

Everybody got his own way to play the game.
You wanna play it by daytrading, that's your tactic.
Other's take the long term. Depends in which way you enjoy the game the most.
Have fun with you daytraders.

Well actually, the thing is... I would prefer to play the long term tactics. But it should be worth it, profitable, in Dutch we call it 'rendabel'. As it turns out, training youngsters is not that profitable - not even long term - so that's my issue. I don't like the fact that day-trading is more profitable than long-term tactics, so I would like to see a change in this. Hence my suggestion.
I hope I have made myself more clear.
Thank you.

PAT = Patience (I am thinking long term ;-)
Spilak

[Mike]

I don't agree, lowering the total winning would bankrupt the starting teams that can't win everything but are sub-toppers and lower.
Lowering winnings will bring us back to where we were: Even less people want to promote because winning a few races isn't profitable so they don't promote and win a lot of races.

[iwander71]

I don't think that lowering the race-money is a very good idea either; but I do agree, (or at least I feel pat's frustration), that there does seem to be an imbalance somehow.
I take the long-term approach with my Crazy Canucks, and enjoy rounding out youngsters and selling them on for profit, only it is very tough to profit. (Notice I didn't use the word impossible!)
To be fair pat, I believe that to profit from your team's training program you do need to plan longer-term than you might think...

[chakra]

I follow the holy words of the Crazy Canuck and Raymond BoemBoem.

But Pat I understand your suggestion (I think). You're to say that daytrading should be more expensive for the seller then it is now.
Selling wthin a certain period the administration will cost you more then th 5% taxes we give now to the racer.
In that I totally agree.

On the otherhand the trainingscheme should change quite a bit. Back to the good old days where racer popped every 3 weeks. And could become very great stars. Multiple skill trainers...

The purpose of the game is not to have a lot of money, but to be a succesfull manager with the team. To have a good cyclist-team. And you can do that by training or you can buy cyclists, and sell again after or not having tested whether they're good or not.

[pat]

Thanks for your reactions guys!

[Quatannens]

If you just started I can understand you think that you earn a lot more with races than with training. But that's not true Once you have cyclists with nice skills, the prices will go up and up and up, much faster than you will ever get from racing...