Greetings, fellow sentient beings!
Season 17 of Rabona, the Hive blockchain football manager game, has just started.
Let me remind whomever reads this article, seasons in the game last for about a week. A total of 30 matches are played in each one with 4 matches happening daily and 6 more hours until the season's reset.
I am going to talk about in-game players' contracts here.
Players have their stats. Their contracts also expire. Between 2 and 5 seasons for a player. At some point in the game, when you have aged your starting team a bit and bought or otherwise recruited new players, individual contracts show the number 1 on your Team page. That means this is their last season and you can renew the contracts or let them expire.
I chose to play with minimum players last season and I had...wait for it...all my bench-sitting players, the reserves...expired. I let them go since I was rarely using them and had I decided to renew contracts I would have been obliged to raise their salaries.
So...it was time to look for replacements. They shall last about 5 seasons or so.
Still, it's a thin line where it's worth it. Paying too much for somebody with low salary is not optimal since to you it would be the same as if you actually paid it or even more in advance.
I cared for a few selected stats only and I had two of them as search filters.
First I selected the position for each player and then, I selected Age up to 26 years.
Like "Show me all up to 26-years-old Midfielders, please!"
Then I would look to buy cheap, a dude with a low salary, and also some decend OS stats. (That would be the Overall Strength).
Try and guess which one I picked here!
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That's right! Olaf Piotrowski! I told you last time, I was a sucker for cool names. I still have a Thor on my team, lol.
Another important note is...
Exchange now works and you can turn the RBN you gain in-game into Hive, or buy RBN with Hive. I think that helped me get my whole investment back within the last week. 15 seasons in the game instead of the 35-ish or so seasons that I had initially planned
As to my referral link in the beginning of the article, it's a win-win, same as lots of things on Hive:
Refer friends and earn rewards
Invite a friend to Rabona and you will both receive 25,000 RBN.
Good Luck, Have Fun!
Yours,
Manol