Star Players
Certain players, when they reach level 12, may become designated as STAR PLAYERS. This is a random mechanism within the game and you might find that some players never get STAR status while others often do. Once a player is becomes a STAR then his performance level can be raised above LEVEL 12. Training these players is not an easy task, and costs twice as much as it would to gain a performance level than it would if the player was not a STAR. Thus, a STAR player who is also a GK needs FOUR success points to raise him by one level. His wages demands also increase on becoming a STAR player (see Wages and Contracts).
STAR players are most useful because they have that `something special’that could turn a tough match in your favour. The more STARS you have in your team, the more players you have to `pull something out of the bag’ when the going gets tough. As a result, STAR players are very valuable, not only for the amount of performance levels they contribute to your team, but for that special ability which always comes in useful. Also, the higher the performance level of any Star player, the better his chances of coming up with the match-winning contribution to save the day for your side.
It should be noted that at the end of the season when players are `aged’ (one year is added to a players age) a STAR player’s performance level will be reset to 12 no matter what his level was before the end of the season. Therefore, the amount that you raise his performance level by should be carefully thought out, especially as every Star player becomes a level 12 Normal Player at season’s end and you must then hope he gets granted STAR status again in the following season, which is by no means guaranteed.
Hint time. When a player becomes a STAR, always coach him one more level as soon as you have the SP’s available. If you don’t and he gets injured, he will lose his star status and you don’t want that to happen! A level 13 STAR that is injured would revert to a level 12 STAR, and therefore retain the coveted status that goes with it, but a level 12 Star would lose that status becoming a normal level 11.
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