I'd like to see managers wages introduced in to the game.
Then maybe the wages can be used for certain features, such as:
Personal gambling (Beat the odds)
Morale (Taking the team out for a night out)
Shares (in a club of the managers choice)
Personal Gambling A chance to win back funds whilst having a little flutter.
Morale This can work a couple of ways: - Will raise the morale of a team, maybe just before a big game. - May go against you if your chairman believes its the wrong time to be "partying". - The press may demolish you for taking your team out (the media would be great) - The fans may praise you for mixing with them at a club. - The fans may be annoyed that the clubs stars are going out before a crucial game.
Shares This is another way to maybe gain money back.
If you see a club doing well, you may want to buy some shares because you thing they will win a cup/league soon, then the share prices will go up and you can cash in on them getting a nice return.
However this money may be made available by the chairman and if the manager is good with the squad but loves spending you may not get your money back with profit. If all shareholders cashed in their shares this could make the club in the red and put immense pressure on the manager.
It was an idea I had on a previous "potential updates" list but scrapped through lack of time to develop it beyond the initial idea. If managers had wages they would aquire funds and this would open up the option of long term managers potentially becoming chairmen of a club as at present I already have a system used for valuing how much every club is worth - it is just a hidden calculation at the moment as it's only used for when chairmen move and thats all done at my end.
I'm not sure about the gambling. It would make beat the odds a little heartbreaking I imagine if you were top then someone who had lots of cash from wages ploughed it all in and won on the last week. Up for discussion though.
Morale is probably the one point I'm not so keen on. I doubt Sir Alex pays out of his own pocket to treat his players to a night on the town after all... it also gets a little complicated trying to incorporate it into the game.
If you can come up with fairly simple things which could act as side games (as the beat the odds does at present) then this could add other possibilities to this.
As I say it was a previous idea but got dropped as I didn't develop the idea. Feel free to move the idea along on here though.
Any further ideas on this front? Possibles could include:
- Buying a club - Giving people the ability to become chairman of a club if they can earn enough money and decide to invest it into a club. They would then get the same options plus extra's that happen automatically ie. putting pressure on managers, investments, taking money out the club, setting targets, managerial appointments, etc.
- Personal items - This could include things like property purchasing around the world. A little like some football games allow you to buy cars, houses, games consoles etc.
- TV Channel - This would provide a manager with a personal section, potentially allowing their game to be shown live every week, also possibly allowing them to have a section of the media pages for their own use, think along the idea of things like MUTV.
Obviously it would need a handful of options before it could become a possible introduction though.
Richard.
-- Edited by Football Academy on Tuesday 7th of April 2009 01:44:11 PM
Not sure I am too keen on this idea - I don't see the point of a manager having wages.
Although the buying into the club might be worth looking into - you would become more involved in a lot of decisions and processes currently dealt with by Rich and that way would add an extra dimension to game - perhaps it might be better if you get issued shares for continued service or success - could even be tied into the targets feature of the game.
When you take over a club the chairman lets you know what the reward structure is - this could vary depending on the chairmans stats (ie a very ambitious chairman might reward success more where a chairman with low finance might be more inclined to reward a manager hitting less ambitious targets but showing a profit at the bank). There are loads more examples but I guess you all get the idea.
What do you think?
-- Edited by mg1 on Wednesday 8th of April 2009 12:41:44 PM
