Can owner control be turned off?

KurtBevacqua · 02-05-2008, 05:29 AM

My new biggest angst on the game is the financial restrictions ownership puts on you. You may have $50M in the bank, but it doesn't matter as you can only spend what the owner says you can spend. I want complete control of my team, can I get it?

In MP this is particularly a problem. It's my team, why can't I run it the way I want to run it within what is numerically possibly by the money held by the franchise?

Also, along these lines I think there's an associated bug. The best way to describe it is through an example.

Say the owner has authorized $15M for FA signings in the offseason, you also have $35m in cash set aside doing nothing for you. You make a couple of offers and have $8M left you want to offer to one guy. You offer him $7M per year for four years, the owner authorizes it, you have $1M left to spend. A couple days of FA go by and you drop your offer of $1M to another guy to a MLC (can offers just be withdrawn entirely?), therefore you should be freeing up another $1m to spend. You go back to the guy you offered $7m a year to hoping to up the offer to $9m to get him to sign. You see the $7m a year offer on the screen already, but the owner says you have only $1m to offer (that other million for whatever reason is not made available). OK, fine let's up the offer to $8m, but nope. The guy said he liked your offer but wants to wait. The owner says he won't even authorized the $7m offer already on the table as it already exceeds the $1m he is left authorizing you to spend. Huh? You have two options at this point, lower the current offer or do nothing, despite the fact in theory you have another $1m to add to the deal. This stuff was never a problem in 6.5.

bababui · 02-05-2008, 05:41 AM

You can turn it off in the game setup screen on the financials page.

02-05-2008, 05:29 AM	#1 (permalink)
KurtBevacqua Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 2,625	Can owner control be turned off? My new biggest angst on the game is the financial restrictions ownership puts on you. You may have $50M in the bank, but it doesn't matter as you can only spend what the owner says you can spend. I want complete control of my team, can I get it? In MP this is particularly a problem. It's my team, why can't I run it the way I want to run it within what is numerically possibly by the money held by the franchise? Also, along these lines I think there's an associated bug. The best way to describe it is through an example. Say the owner has authorized $15M for FA signings in the offseason, you also have $35m in cash set aside doing nothing for you. You make a couple of offers and have $8M left you want to offer to one guy. You offer him $7M per year for four years, the owner authorizes it, you have $1M left to spend. A couple days of FA go by and you drop your offer of $1M to another guy to a MLC (can offers just be withdrawn entirely?), therefore you should be freeing up another $1m to spend. You go back to the guy you offered $7m a year to hoping to up the offer to $9m to get him to sign. You see the $7m a year offer on the screen already, but the owner says you have only $1m to offer (that other million for whatever reason is not made available). OK, fine let's up the offer to $8m, but nope. The guy said he liked your offer but wants to wait. The owner says he won't even authorized the $7m offer already on the table as it already exceeds the $1m he is left authorizing you to spend. Huh? You have two options at this point, lower the current offer or do nothing, despite the fact in theory you have another $1m to add to the deal. This stuff was never a problem in 6.5. __________________ "The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man" - William Graham Sumner Last edited by KurtBevacqua : 02-05-2008 at 05:30 AM.

02-05-2008, 05:41 AM	#2 (permalink)
bababui Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 12,559 Warnings: 1	You can turn it off in the game setup screen on the financials page. __________________ <mcsim02> you know...one day the word pron is actually going to replace the word porn for good...and then in the year 2055 some internet geek is gonna think hes really funny by calling it 'porn' instead of 'pron'...and it will be a horrible horrible cycle

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