Forum topic: Merchandize

the fans & merchandise change went live without notice and will bankrupt my team within 3-5 weeks.

Data:
- Fans: 2,105,223, fan change: 0
- Merch income before: ~2,500,000/week
- Estimate now: 128,360/week (-95%)
- Last week and two weeks ago: 0 after winning a race
- Settings: Cheap pricing, Supplier B. Fan modifier 100%, sales modifier 115%.

My settings are neutral to positive. The drop comes entirely from the change itself.

Questions:
1. Were the last two weeks paid out? If not, that's a bug.
2. Is -95% income and zero fan growth at neutral modifiers intended? The announcement said "reduced significantly" and "harder", not removed.

Problem: my contracts run several more seasons and were signed based on the old income. Costs are locked, income is gone. I can't restructure in time.

Request: allow penalty-free contract termination for a limited period, or phase the change in.

I also seem to have lost approximately 90% of my fans income, though mine is way smaller so I didn't notice.

Obviously only Frank can decide what to do about this for you, but some ideas:
-fire any especially expensive staff, obviously this will speed up going into debt but will improve your weekly balance
-loans, I'm sure they suck, but it would help for a while
-make the team public, this will give you that income nice and quick and should keep you going a while

And the biggest one I can think of, delete some module buildings, they cost 250k a week and you seem to have 12, you should only be able to have 4 with am HQ3 anyway?? Deleting 8, down to your correct amount would save you 2 mil a week and pretty much solve your problem by itself.