CR-01-2008 Employees (25/11/2008 00:41)

Today you have the possibility to hire employees (Coaches, scouts, physios and janitor) based on the quality ranging from poor to excellent. My guess is that 90% of the managers hire those with quality excellent, and hence the use of employees somewhat disappear. My change request will therefore be:

* Add abilities to the employees (first of all to the coaches) similar to the way players have a set of a abilities. Make training efficiency dependent on these abilities.
* Have youth coaches, offensive coaches, defensive coaches , goalkeeper coaches, physical coaches and mental coaches (other can be considered as well). Picking the right coach for your team should depend on your football philosophy / tactics. For instance, a manager that prefers a continental playing style should choose coaches with high abilities within passing and creativity, while the physical coach might have high agility or balance in his set of attributes. Get where I'm going? :)
* The flipside to this as I see it is that this will make ML less attractive to new managers as it can become quite complicated. This is where the assistant manager pops out of the hat. If you choose to walt the easy path in life, you can let the assistant manager handle the signing of your employees.
* Implementation of this will of course demand more than just a couple of hours behind the laptop on a saturday evening with nothing but a romantic drama on the telly for Spinner, but the basics should already be there as there is an existing coach system and there is an existing player attribute system (man it sounds easy when I put it that way :) )

Feel free to comment :)

/Rational 24nov 2008

***Might be subject for updates/changes/deletions/what ever comes to mind***