@vgates said:
Here is a different take:

Lottery style star junior - random to someone who has a school. You make it invisible unless you have GB's. You make the star search a different GB search and more expensive, say 250 or 500 GB's for the star search.

That would stimulate some GB spend which is what the dev's need.

And if that player ended up in a team that has been in existence for more than 4 seasons, after the next season update, you would certainly see some money change hands or get taken out of the game with the no (R) change coming.

@illex said:
This is already part of the game in a sense. Anyone who has one of the 5* schools at excellent level has a chance to get a "star" sure they might not be 100 prog with the star by their name, but you can still get a player with incredible prog like that from a school for absolutely nothing. Stars are something that only the rich teams will have, but it's really a small portion of teams that actually own a star (list of stars is here BTW http://en.strikermanager.com/foros/hilo.php?id=256881). That doesn't mean they're invincible, I've beaten a number of teams that had stars, and while yes I am in div 2, I've assembled my team on a budget for the most part, and have never really had the money to splash on a big $$ player.

That said, I do like the idea of players that are volatile and more of a risk, which is what happens in football. It probably adds too much complexity to the game, but it would be fun to train a player for a few seasons and then see his average jump 10 points in a week. On the flipside it wouldn't be as fun to see a player drop 10 points in a week (which you would also have to have to keep the balance). I just don't think it's possible in the current engine.

@illex said:


I really like that idea, every so often seeding jr stars into GB searches. It could even be a bit of a lottery, 6-7 players come up at a time for your GB star search, you get to hostile 1 and you have a small chance one is a star. Worst case is you get an 80 prog player or something.

Its similar to buying a pack in FIFA ultimate team, most of the time you get something kind of average, but every so often you could end up with a star.

It'd probably have to be somewhat limited so that (real life) rich people didn't just pick up 100 stars for their team. If you got a star maybe you had to wait a season or two till you could try again.

Sadly it will never be done. The revenue streams they've developed aren't dynamic and interesting and even in SM2 only revolve around speeding up the process of developing things.