Nice post. Couldn't agree more on what you say about potential for starting teams. If you are starting, you can very well pick some cheap allstars or eternal allstars to train, it will take at least 3-4 seasons for them to fulfill their potential and that's pretty much the time you need to have a decent arena, a decent fan base and start making money and being competitive.
I don't know other translations, what does it mean "eternal allstar"? Is it the same as perennial allstar (7)?
OP talk about starters (4) and stars (5). They are worthless and it's wasting of time and effort to train them.
Let's say allstars (6) are debatable, however allways it's better to spend more time to find perennial allstar.
oh yeah, my bad, apologise, i wrote that in a hurry. i meant perenial allstars.
ideally every team should train only MVP+ but newbies cannot afford the luxury of spending millions to get a MVP+ trainee and wait for 7-8 seasons for their trainees to develop as MVP+s to cash in. advising newbies to buy high potential trainees IMHO is a bad advise.
which reminds me that I have recently sold for 500k a star (5) player who was part of my original roster and got trained for 3 seasons. i also bought for 50k, in the first weeks of my team, a 18yo superstar (8) PF who will be in 2-3 seasons (age 25-26) my starter PF with ~90k of salaries, probably worth 3kk+ in the market if I wanted to sell him. but i won't. he will be my starter for many seasons at a very high level for the cost of 50k. the same applies to other 2 superstar (8) trainees who will eventually become my 90k starters at SF and C.