04-29-2023, 08:23 AMsköldpaddor Wrote: I’ve seen a couple people voice this opinion so I’m going to go ahead and address it.

I’m really sorry you feel this way, but no, it serves an important purpose. GMs should be able to do their jobs without worrying whether rival GMs are going to approach their players and attempt to disrupt the team they’re building with questionable tactics. I would have no desire to GM in a league where anybody could just go to my players and tell them blatant lies about me in order to put me into a disadvantageous trade position. (To be clear, that’s not what happened here, I’m just speaking from the perspective of someone who has had those lies spread about me in other contexts.) GMing shouldn’t be a giant game of “how can I manipulate all my friends to go to FA” - we have these checks and balances for a reason. We have a salary cap, we have contract tiers, and we have rules defining the legal ways to acquire a player for your team, and they’re all important.

I say all of this as somebody whose GM has made them fully tamperable - GMs should be able to protect their assets. Ace and Rashford know I’m not going anywhere, so it doesn’t really matter what anybody says to me. But you can’t have that kind of confidence about every player - it’s incredibly easy to have a promising first-gen get yoinked away from you for less than the value they’re worth because somebody interfered during the early stages of building that trust.

Legalizing tampering would also mostly hurt new GMs who don’t have friends and connections across four different leagues, and that’s something we really don’t want. We’ve taken steps to make things easier on newer GMs, GMs who are only in this league, GMs who haven’t been around long enough to have all those friends to lure onto their team. We lengthened the FA discussion window for that same reason.

It’s no secret that we don’t have the quantity of GM interest that we did in the height of the pandemic, and if we want people to keep wanting to do the job, we think it’s important to make it more accessible for people who don’t have 5+ years of pre-established connections, and preventing tampering is part of that.

this is also why its difficult to fill fed head positions. Its pretty much tamper city until they play their first IIHF game