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MLS transfer offers; weird
Topic Started: Sep 27 2011, 04:58 PM (455 Views)
herenow
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When you guys are playing as an MLS team, do you get transfer bids from other MLS clubs for "$0"?

Foreign teams bid big amounts for my players, but $0 is all I'm ever offered when an MLS team comes calling. Every time a Salt Lake or Kansas City or whoever wants one of my players, their offer is $0.

I know to expect plenty of quirks when playing in MLS, but it's unclear to me whether this $0 business is just part of FM's normal MLS system, or if it's a bug wrought by the expansion database I downloaded (http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/downloads.php?do=file&id=4803) when I first started playing the game.

Here's an example, an offer from Salt Lake. I get these constantly -- several a week during transfer season. (And as you can see over on the right, when *I* bought this player from an MLS team, it certainly wasn't for zero dollars!)


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herenow
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So... nobody knows what the deal is with these things? Or is this board just kind of kaput at this point?! :P
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It's kind of slow now at the moment.

I've seen the bug you're asking about although I wouldn't say I get these offers "constantly." Are the players you get these bids for on contracts that are expiring soon, players with very low values (like below $20K), or players that you have the MLS rights to but are not on your team? These conditions are usually present when I get these $0 bids.
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herenow
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Thanks for the reply.

No, I can't say those conditions are necessarily present with these offers. For instance, Seattle just made a $0 offer for Juan Agudelo, who (1) has two years left, (2) is valued at $450,000 and (3) is very much in my Red Bulls squad.

For a while I thought maybe these were just attempted trades, with some bug in FM keeping the offered player from being visible. But yesterday I finally had an actual player-exchange offer, and it looked totally different from these $0 things.

*Shrug.* I don't know what the deal is, but I guess I'll just keep rejecting them all like I do now. At some point the rest of MLS is gonna detest me for my obstinance, haha...
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MarkyMark
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Sorry I don't have the answers for you. I can't think of anything you can do to fix the problem unless you're using some weird database, which it looks like you may be doing. I'm not familiar with the database you're using and to be honest, I haven't even played FM2011. I'm skipping over that one.

FM2012 will be out soon enough and hopefully a lot of the common MLS bugs will be fixed.

Good luck. You might want to try another database if this bug is intolerable.
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herenow
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Well, we're all excited about FM12, and it does look like SI has made some real efforts to get MLS right.

I just wish they'd tinker with their regen naming scheme. I have like 15 different "Kljestans" running around my save at the moment... :lol:
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herenow
Oct 1 2011, 04:12 PM
Well, we're all excited about FM12, and it does look like SI has made some real efforts to get MLS right.

I just wish they'd tinker with their regen naming scheme. I have like 15 different "Kljestans" running around my save at the moment... :lol:

The file on the essential downloads for both American adn Canadian names is a must have.

as for the zero offer. It's been logged and I've noticed it generally only happens with academy graduates in their first year after coming through. If you're noticing it in other circumstances, but that one should be in hand.
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Aljarov
Oct 9 2011, 02:14 PM
The file on the essential downloads for both American adn Canadian names is a must have.

Not sure I understand... Is there a file you're suggesting I download?
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herenow
Oct 10 2011, 03:23 AM
Aljarov
Oct 9 2011, 02:14 PM
The file on the essential downloads for both American adn Canadian names is a must have.

Not sure I understand... Is there a file you're suggesting I download?

http://z6.invisionfree.com/fmnorthamerica/...hp?showtopic=20

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* American Name Expansion File CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD! By crash2772

* Canadian Name Expansion File CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD! By Bertossi
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herenow
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Great, thanks. I'd browsed that forum, but read right past the stickies.
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herenow
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Just fyi -- the U.S. file no longer exists at filefront.
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