Thanks for the answers guys. I am probably still too used to TEW16 where I could just outbid on monthly salary and everything else mattered next to nothing. It is probably on purpose that Adam made all the other factors more important so you can't just go Bischoff in the signing department. For the record, started a new game and created a new company on the easy mode, which means I am the fourth biggest company right out of the gate but for obvious reasons have 0 momentum. If it makes any difference, I turned area restrictions off, as they don't seem to make sense to me in this time and even in a previous game that I abandoned, I could talk every worker into working in the US so the restriction wasn't that important anyways to me.