1000 MT for 5 Bronze player contracts?

[MrBallaBoy21]

Trying to play this mode offline just to team build like I've done every year but I'm pretty sure I'm going to hit a wall where all of my players are going to run out of contracts.

I'm going through contracts like water. I'm playing the schedule challenges that give you contracts, but since those 2 minute drills cost player contracts to play, getting 5 contracts in return is not getting me anywhere.

I was ok with this until I saw that it costs 1000 MT for 5 games worth of contracts for EVERY player.

Am I doing something wrong? Because this system just seems terrible. I only have 3,000 MT right now. I've sold all the players I'm not using. The only player I have left on the market is Eric Bledsoe. When I sell him I "might" have around 7k MT and that's it.

I'm more than halfway through these schedule games that give you 5 contracts. Once that's done I don't know wth I'm gonna do. Does it get better or am I just gonna have to give up?

[fuub]

Re: 1000 MT for 5 Bronze player contracts?

I've never come close to the point where I can't afford to play players.

Generally I only use a 'contract' card on gold or above players, then just pay mt or vc for the silver and bronze players when they run out.

btw, I'm pretty sure 5 contracts costs 40mt for bronze players... so a squad of 13 bronze players should cost 520mt.

[ajg52801]

Re: 1000 MT for 5 Bronze player contracts?

This is what you do. You sell all silver and gold contracts because it's only useful to use those contracts if you have amethyst or better players. Ruby players cost 240mt for 5 contracts. Silver contracts will easily sell for 250-300 mt so that's why you wanna sell them and not waste using them on ruby or below players. If you sell silver contracts for 300 you still come out ahead after tax. I only use bronze contracts on ruby and amethyst players because you can't sell bronze contract cards. Too many of them on the market.

Bottomline : pay for all the contracts for every player sapphire and below. Use bronze contracts on rubies and above. Sell all silver and gold contract cards.

Also, for those 2 minute challenges or 1 quarter challenges, make sure your bench is all bronze or silver players because you're never using your bench in those challenges.

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[MrBallaBoy21]

Re: 1000 MT for 5 Bronze player contracts?

This is what you do. You sell all silver and gold contracts because it's only useful to use those contracts if you have amethyst or better players. Ruby players cost 240mt for 5 contracts. Silver contracts will easily sell for 250-300 mt so that's why you wanna sell them and not waste using them on ruby or below players. If you sell silver contracts for 300 you still come out ahead after tax. I only use bronze contracts on ruby and amethyst players because you can't sell bronze contract cards. Too many of them on the market.

Bottomline : pay for all the contracts for every player sapphire and below. Use bronze contracts on rubies and above. Sell all silver and gold contract cards.

Also, for those 2 minute challenges or 1 quarter challenges, make sure your bench is all bronze or silver players because you're never using your bench in those challenges.

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omg I found the problem

I made 2 squads. The first one is for friends list games with all my free agent cards and the second one is my normal lineup.

The first squad has a lower MT cost but it's still 600 MT for 5 contracts for every player. Gonna tinker with it to see if I can get the cost down to the 240 you're talking about.

[MrBallaBoy21]

Re: 1000 MT for 5 Bronze player contracts?

omg I found the problem

I made 2 squads. The first one is for friends list games with all my free agent cards and the second one is my normal lineup.

The first squad has a lower MT cost but it's still 600 MT for 5 contracts for every player. Gonna tinker with it to see if I can get the cost down to the 240 you're talking about.

Ok now I'm really confused. I deleted my free agent lineup so I just have my normal lineup queued and now I'm getting the same MT contract costs I was getting previously.

260 MT for 1 contract and 1040 MT for 5 contracts for ALL players. Uploading a video to one drive for evidence.

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[Bubba13laze]

Re: 1000 MT for 5 Bronze player contracts?

I'm scratching my head reading this thread.. One of you is talking about cost per contract and the other talking about salary cap cost? Either way.. Farming those schedule mode games should be a way to profit and improve your team. Not a sink for Mt due to contract costs. I read that it's about 50k Mt profit per 30 game series. 50k Mt x 30 teams is 1.5m Mt you should be able to farm as pure profit just by playing that mode and selling your loot.

[Bi00]

Re: 1000 MT for 5 Bronze player contracts?

You are talking about buying contracts for your entire lineup, including all 13 players. 1040 is a very low amount of MT for 5 contracts for your entire team.

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[MrBallaBoy21]

Re: 1000 MT for 5 Bronze player contracts?

You are talking about buying contracts for your entire lineup, including all 13 players. 1040 is a very low amount of MT for 5 contracts for your entire team.

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It really isn't. 1040 MT EACH!! You are probably suffering from the same glitch that I was. It is clearly NOT supposed to be that high.

Create another lineup. Just add ONE player. Purchase contracts for him and see how much it costs.

5 bronze contracts cost 40 MT and Sapphire cost 160 MT. Was messing around with the settings and found this out. I can't get an entire lineup to be this way but if you just add one player to a backup lineup contracts go back to normal like the 2nd and 3rd poster was talking about.

This completely saved this mode for me. I only have 3k MT. 1040 MT for 5 contracts is ludicrous.

You're getting jipped out of MT my guy.

[harryl]

Re: 1000 MT for 5 Bronze player contracts?

FFS. Just buy 5 contracts for your players through the menu when you start a game and it warns you that you have players w/o contracts.

There's no reason to buy contracts for your entire lineup.

[MrBallaBoy21]

Re: 1000 MT for 5 Bronze player contracts?

FFS. Just buy 5 contracts for your players through the menu when you start a game and it warns you that you have players w/o contracts.

There's no reason to buy contracts for your entire lineup.

What are you not understanding about my problem? I'm not trying to buy contracts for every player at once. I didn't even know that was possible.

Did you check my vid link? Have you actually read any of my posts? I am in my lineup screen trying to buy contracts for 1 bronze player and the cost is 1040 MT for 5 games.

I'm not understanding what the mental block is here.

[Bi00]

Re: 1000 MT for 5 Bronze player contracts?

You are purchasing 1 contract for YOUR ENTIRE TEAM at 260 or 5 contracts for YOUR ENTIRE TEAM at 10xx. Instead, you can just buy the contracts when you play games for just the players that have expired. That's what almost everyone does.

[MrBallaBoy21]

Re: 1000 MT for 5 Bronze player contracts?

You are purchasing 1 contract for YOUR ENTIRE TEAM at 260 or 5 contracts for YOUR ENTIRE TEAM at 10xx. Instead, you can just buy the contracts when you play games for just the players that have expired. That's what almost everyone does.

So just to make sure. You're telling me that when I go to my lineup. Click on a specific player(The same way that I apply specific player contract cards, heal a specific player injury, and apply badges to a specific player) and select purchase contracts the game decides to pull a complete 180 and force me to only buy contracts for the whole team?

Every other year when I click on one guy to buy contracts it only shows the cost for that one guy. Did they change that this year? How do I just buy it for the one guy from the lineup menu then?

This is why I provided a video. Am I missing a button prompt in the menu or something?

[Bi00]

Re: 1000 MT for 5 Bronze player contracts?

Yes it is asking you to buy 1 contract for your entire team. This is known because we actually know the amounts of each contract for each color tier of players. And just by looking at your lineup, it's probably equal to 260 for 1 contract for each player. Also, 2K17 was the exact same way which is why most of this expect this mechanic.

Also, yes I think it's stupid.

[MrBallaBoy21]

Re: 1000 MT for 5 Bronze player contracts?

Yes it is asking you to buy 1 contract for your entire team. This is known because we actually know the amounts of each contract for each color tier of players. And just by looking at your lineup, it's probably equal to 260 for 1 contract for each player. Also, 2K17 was the exact same way which is why most of this expect this mechanic.

Also, yes I think it's stupid.

Ok. I found a workaround by using a second lineup but I just wanted to make sure this was the default because I thought it was a glitch. Thanks.

[harryl]

Re: 1000 MT for 5 Bronze player contracts?

You don't proactively buy contracts. You just start a game and the game will prompt you to buy contracts for the guys with zero. Same as last several years.

And your video link didn't work.