The flat cap with no way to navigate the cap is not ideal. I was all for eliminating cutbacks, but there needs to be another way to navigate the cap. The NBA has an increasing cap (to deal with increasing contracts) and a luxury tax. Also FA doesn’t work with the current cap structure. If you’re close to HC and want to sign one 5M deal or something, you can end up fucked if you offer multiple deals and the all sign. We need conditional logic in FA if the cap is going to be fucked.
The enforcement of rules has been suspect. The first ship was 100% decided on a DC error. That’s an awful way to start a new iteration. Last season (or the year before, I don’t remember) we didn’t enforce the HC until sim 4 or 5. The current literal commish has been over HC for 2 sims.
Overall this iteration just feels unserious and way worse than last