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There are bot teams in my league that I think have been there since last year, there are human teams in teh league BELOW that been there since last year.

So my thread in regular forums was closed when I posed this issue stating human teams are moved up and bot teams relegated, but this ISNT happening, atleast not 100% of the time. There are more bot teams than human teams in Japan, and I think this is happening in other countries.

Maybe you are wishfully hoping for the number of players to magically double? Not likely with pornagraphic Evony adds on everypage- not exactly fun to play a game with pornographic adverts on the sides.

Also not likely for people to pay up for a subscriber in a game wehre they are either playing bots or getting blown out by any team who has played more than 5months longer than you.

I didn't post my original message in help cuz I dont need help . Trying to give you guys some suggestions to make this game more fun-


Put humans together in same leagues with eachother, not with bots.

If countries dont have nough people to manage this easily, put smaller countries in regions together.

IF you do this you'll ahve more people willing to pay subscriber or whatever and you wont have to stoop to posting pornographic Evony adds.

Evony isn't pornographic its just a online game

I dont know anything about the game, I just know their adds of women are not the kind of thing you want popping up constantly on your computer screen when you are a married school teacher. Ok I guess the correct term would be T&A adds, or sleezy adds. They are just bad. Its one of my biggest problems with this game, but I understand they need the money from advertisers.

Although we've gone off-topic, I also find the Evony ads disturbing.

I actually played Evony about 8 months ago, and those ads have absolutely nothing to do with that game.


Back on topic, I do like your idea about grouping smaller countries into "regions" for the purpose of keeping the game competitive and fun for all involved. The only issue I'd have with doing so is if one country suddenly blossoms in population and needs their own league, suddenly realigning all the users from that country into their own league would be an issue (or worse, asking them all to abandon their teams and start new ones in a new, dedicated league).

A quick click on the Community tab shows that there are over 200 countries playing BB, but only 94 countries with leagues to play in. One is almost forced to wonder if all those countries suddenly received their own leagues, how many of them would grow? And how many are not growing because they don't have their own leagues?

My man,

Great post. I totally agree.

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There are like IV leagues in Nippon II. I realized II.I II.II etc. are all considered Nippon together all as one... I was mistaken to think II.II was lower than II.1 which it aint.

STill 18 teams across four 16 team leagues is crap.

That is an average of 4.5 human teams per 16 team league.

That means that besided myself there are about 3 human teams in my league.

That means 4/5 games are against BOTS.

That is crap.

maybe it would be good to move 16 of those teams into ONE league II league and the worst two teams can have fun battling bots in III.1

Just promote 4 of us from the one human league every year. We don't have enough people and playing Bots Sucks. PLus who says that the #2 guy in league II.1 can't beat the #1 guys in II.II,III&III considering all those leagues are about 75% bot teams and any human with a pee for a brain can make the playoffs.

And you don't need bot after bot after bot to make room for 100 people who suddenly joining the game in Japan (if that happened probably 1/2 would be multi accounts anyway).

If you had League I, League II, League III with one league each and the III league filled out CREATE a League IV full of bots for the new joiner. New guys don't need to be in the cup, neither do their bots. They can wait till the next year and their whole league could join the cup then.

You can have a database of simmed up bot leagues not attached to any country or cups. Anytime a country needs a new league for new players just add those bot leagues onto the bottom of the coutnry needing another league. Again, they don't need to be included into the coutnry cup till the next year. Bots don't need a nationality to be simmed right? Add the nationality after bot league added to a real country.

Coutnry cups also suck to have a bunch of bots in them. Rather it be a shorter tourney with real human teams and larger prizes (although overall less cash distributed- Less human teams to distribute larger awards = more cash per team anyway compared to larger country. Giving us bots to beat-up on for the first 3 rounds is just spoiling us)

Wow, really good detailed response. Thank you.

I appreciate you explaining why things are the way they are.

I've thrown some ideas out there. I appreciate that you have a lot of issues to deal with and a lot of goals and realities with the programming and administering of a Massive multiplayer online game. Hats off to you (and the whole BB team for everything that have created so far).

I'm still overall unhappy with the imbalance of competition in my country, but I can see what you mean about the possibility of a bunch of people signing up, and maybe in a few months or however long I'll find that evened-out level of competition I'm looking for. Or maybe I'll make the JBBL and do what I can to fight my way up their ranks.

My big hope is to be in a league full of active guys who joined about the time I did. If I think of any more ideas of how that might be possible (while considering the other issues etc. you mentioned) I'll let you know.

ONE BIG NOTE--- There was a REALLY big Japanese drama put out recently on TV, about young basketball players. The name of the drama was 'BuzzerBeat' (gotta love Jpaanese English)> Anyway they probably got fansites and stuff, something. Throwing up 'hey we got a GAME called the same thing, based on basketball etc. might grab some more Japanese players. and stuff.

This is really the point. To put all humans into II.1 on a regular basis would end up with a long-term disparity between the different leagues in division II that would be hard to overcome. When a new human signs up, we do try to put them with other humans. II.1 will fill with humans if enough of them sign up. Incidentally, 12 of the 16 teams in your league are currently managed by a human because of the way we fill spots when humans sign up. If you want the other four bots to become humans, find four friends who want to play!

Nicely said BB-Charles..
BTW...The Japanese translation is finished(It was finished last week)...get it up and out...And then let's see this game Blow up in Japan...peace