I've had this guy on 18 campus visits and he still messages me that he's leaning somewhere else. Luckily I still have a lot of money left and he's my last target. Anybody had more?

By the way, the competition is an AI.

18 cv's on a sim ai? That's pretty extreme. Are you sure he is within your vision?

If he is in your vision, give up on the CV and go with scout reports. they can't turn em down.

Or go with booster gifts :)

Posted by spcbuzzard on 10/22/2016 3:01:00 PM (view original):
Or go with booster gifts :)

lol don't tempt me. He's got me as one of final two so I assume he's within vision. He's not at top of my vision, but is in top 10. Up to 19 visits now (and an HC visit). If I don't get him I will significantly change how I play this game, not just because of this, but this is one of many crazy things this game does. I have 5 teams right now but sometimes this game screws over human players so bad, it just isn't normal. One team could provide more than enough enough aggravation.

Is this your Yost team? If so, since this is the last day of recruiting, the SimAI has been putting in continuous recruiting effort since day 1. That's a lot of effort to overcome. You have to knock off Sims ASAP.

Micky, don't try to win with a proven losing technique. Scout reports Can't be turned down.! Put enough of em in and that mother chucker will start listening.

Posted by mojolad on 10/22/2016 5:11:00 PM (view original):
Micky, don't try to win with a proven losing technique. Scout reports Can't be turned down.! Put enough of em in and that mother chucker will start listening.

I believe he meant 18 accepted campus visits.

Ahh. Awags if that is so then I was mistaken.

Have you been sending CVs one at a time? It's hard to distance yourself from a SIM that way. The SIM will also be doing something similar. In D2 I usually send them in blocks of 2 or 3 at a time.

Posted by bhazlewood on 10/22/2016 5:09:00 PM (view original):
Is this your Yost team? If so, since this is the last day of recruiting, the SimAI has been putting in continuous recruiting effort since day 1. That's a lot of effort to overcome. You have to knock off Sims ASAP.

This. If you don't knock off sims in the first 3-4 cycles, you will need to spend an inordinate amount of money to do so.

Posted by tribewriter on 10/23/2016 12:33:00 AM (view original):

Posted by bhazlewood on 10/22/2016 5:09:00 PM (view original):
Is this your Yost team? If so, since this is the last day of recruiting, the SimAI has been putting in continuous recruiting effort since day 1. That's a lot of effort to overcome. You have to knock off Sims ASAP.

This. If you don't knock off sims in the first 3-4 cycles, you will need to spend an inordinate amount of money to do so.

Those pesky Sims are persistent. :)

As a post-mortem, I never signed that player, and the CV's I quoted were only accepted visits. I ended up somewhere around 30 and gave up. I believe he must have been out of my vision even though he kept visiting. It was a good lesson learned, I think. If you can't cut an AI out after 15 or so CV's, he's not going to sign.

The downside is that it's another example of some really dumb things GD does to keep humans from playing this game. I've had players at higher divisions that tell me up front I'm a joke and they have no interest. Instead, GD let me spend 20k without a return. I ended signing a good class in spite of it, but it just ****** me off.

If you use Yatzr's recruiting tool, you can set it so that you do not "see" players who are not in your recruiting vision and thus do not accidentally try to recruit them.