Florania

The previous nerf was also a mistake. If baseball isn’t profitable, then it’s just a money pit that only exists to be a number on a screen. With the money I invested into baseball I could have made multiple cities, or other more traditional things. Having some like baseball as a money maker adds depth, removing it would make the game more generic.

I strongly disagree with your points. The threat of a ban, while not preventing all exploits, is surely a better way to prevent cheating then a 1 mil cap. I don’t use any form of bot, and I collect about 2-4 mil a day from baseball, excluding any home game fees that we give out. Putting a cap of 1 mil would utterly destroy any reason most players play baseball in the first place. It takes from my experiences 2ish million to fully upgrade a player to max stats. Multiply that by the entire team, and you’re looking at 20 million spent on players alone. Then add that to the quick ageing and most times only getting 30+ yo players after a retirement, and this adds up quickly. I have a 100 rated team with max stadium upgrades, and it has costed me close to 75 million overall. While 1 million is already small enough, it doesn’t account for the standard 33% fee most away teams charge home teams for playing games. Therefore, a home team’s max is really 666k, and a away team’s max is so much higher then 1 mil, given how pitiful the winning team’s reward is (I’ve never had it go over $800, even when two max teams face off in a packed maxed out stadium), it would effectively encourage boting from away teams to try and make money. By adding this cap, you’re adding a incentive to cheat. I almost exclusively log in to P&W to keep my baseball team as good as it can be, but if this cap is created I would seriously consider deleting or stop using my account, as I would assume a lot of other baseball-focused players and alliances would. The baseball mechanic is in dire need of a overhaul, and while decreasing ageing and increasing profits is nice, it is completely overshadowed by what terrible consequences would arise if such a small cap is introduced. If you want solutions, try and make leagues for the player to progress in that give more money for better teams, or being able to upgrade your stadium past 30,000 with more customisation. You could introduce academy bonuses and such, all that cost money and gives a rewarding experience for the player. If what you say is true and that there have been talks around scrapping the baseball feature, I would much rather you get rid of all of this instead of butcher it like these changes would. I hope this has at least partially changed your mind, if only to increase the cap to a appropriate amount, say 5mil.