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Is Iran the only country with a small number of users? This ridiculous argument of attributing all my results to the number of users has been made over and over again.
The question is, among all these countries with small user bases, why have Iranian teams reached the later stages of B3 again and again, while teams from other small-user countries haven't even come close to reaching this stage?
In Season 50, when I won B3, three of my players had been trained by me personally. Even in my current team, three players have been trained by me since they were 18 years old.
And I've already predicted my next training strategy based on the upcoming changes.
Ten seasons from now, when I've once again reached the later stages of B3 with relative ease, you'll just come up with a new excuse for your failures and keep complaining.
If I brought up the broader issue, it was because with the 25M budget limit, after 15 seasons of planning and training, you can realistically compete at the top B3 level for one season at most.
Spending five years of real life just to have one season and one chance to compete for the B3 title takes a lot of the enjoyment out of the game.
My entire point was simply that the changes being implemented so far have done nothing to improve the game and haven't brought about any fundamental change to the way the game is played or to its overall gameplay.

Is Iran the only country with a small number of users? This ridiculous argument of attributing all my results to the number of users has been made over and over again.

Read it again, did I attribute your success due to your league having low number of users?

No. I clearly referred to your last season's expenditure of 2M weekly in salaries compared to the majority of your competition being between 1.1M and 1.6M weekly salaries.

Do you think it's fun, and fair for everyone else who also planned for many seasons their B3 runs, to face a team who's having an absolutely absurd disproportional salary expenditure just because they saved a lot of money and want to burn it in one season? And this paragraph is not directed only at your team, but at everyone else who's employed this strategy too.

Spending five years of real life just to have one season and one chance to compete for the B3 title takes a lot of the enjoyment out of the game.

Sounds like a lot of fun to play this way...

My entire point was simply that the changes being implemented so far have done nothing to improve the game and haven't brought about any fundamental change to the way the game is played or to its overall gameplay.

The changes were just implemented, and it looks like there are more to come in order to create a more enjoyable gameplay and to involve more users, give it a few seasons and I'm sure you'll start to notice the effect of the changes

It’s probably worth mentioning that you’re aware Iran was involved in a war a few months ago. The internet was completely shut down for three months. I only managed to regain access to my team during the very last week of Season 71, so I had no choice but to buy several players from whoever was available on the market, and I had to do it as quickly as possible. It had taken me many years to complete my team’s training, and there was a real possibility that internet access could be cut off again.
If I had had more time and the opportunity to properly evaluate the market and buy players, I probably would have looked for players with lower salaries and more optimized skills as well. I certainly wouldn’t have wanted to destroy all the money I had accumulated over an entire season.
The fact that I was paying more than 2 million in salaries last season was because I had bought players whose transfer prices were extremely low. Everyone saw the result, and despite having a team with that level of payroll, I didn’t even make it to the semifinals.
With the new changes, over the next few seasons it will no longer be possible to win B3 with just seven high-level players. If you look at the purchases made by other teams, you’ll see that several teams had multiple players who cost around 5 million each.
At best, you can train three players at B3 level. You then need another four top-level players, each of whom costs somewhere between 3 and 5 million to buy. That means even a 15-million cash cap isn’t enough to buy seven players and pay 1.5 million in salaries for two seasons.
Personally, I welcome changes that push the game toward having at least 10 quality players, including both starters and bench players. However, as a first step, the changes should have been implemented without introducing additional financial restrictions, and only after seeing their actual impact should the cash reserve cap have been reduced.
Reducing the cap at this point will only lead to even more confusion among users, while making championship runs at the higher levels increasingly dependent on luck.