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The reality is that 20-60 user nations simply aren't a priority for those that run the game.

Business-wise, this is not the right way to do it, so I guess this is not what they are looking at.
A BB-nation that is small, but can grow a lot (due to the country they are representing), is something to look at with great care.

USA is not that huge BB-nation, but it is huge nation, and huge business for them.
Much more than Spain or France (for examples), which are very big BB-nations, but are representing rather small country.

And so had been East-Germany and West-Germany, and Czech and Poland (those last had been both part of USSR).

The Czech Republic (or perhaps you mean Czechoslovakia) and Poland were never part of the Soviet Union.

And so had been East-Germany and West-Germany, and Czech and Poland (those last had been both part of USSR).

The Czech Republic (or perhaps you mean Czechoslovakia) and Poland were never part of the Soviet Union.

This (single) time you are right... Back to school for me...

Anyhow, it just not changes too much, take Latvia and Lituania instead of those two.
They had been part of the USSR, and can be given as an example for that matter.

Last edited by Pini פיני at 1/21/2012 1:43:47 PM

And still, NY is a all different state than Alaska or California.
The same as Korea and Japan are different states in Asia.

This is incorrect on so many levels.

And so had been East-Germany and West-Germany, and Czech and Poland (those last had been both part of USSR).

Lets not bring politics into the discussion when you live in Israel that has a never ending conflict with Palestina.

Very lame argument that had brought the only politic in this discussion. I will not get into that. [And by the way you are not familiar with that issue. Even not a bit]
The discussion had been whether it is reasonable to union few small BB-nation under a single league.
My argument proved it possible, and reasonable.
I was not supprised that you are against it, and we both know why...

This game is not intended to be "Spider-Solitaire" or that sort of single user (or two).
This game challenge is by playing against a full load of users.

But you have to look at what has happened in Japan now. Instead of having many D.II in which teams can grow you now almost have two D.1 leagues instead where new teams get thrown in and see no light in the tunnel. That will have teams getting tiered more then if they have a league with 50/50 active users/bots.

ahh???
They will become part of a single, normal sized, BB-nation, and will play there like any team that is playing in any normal-size BB-nation plays at.
They will start lower, and will grow from there.
At least, until the point that the competitiveness issue will come up (Older teams are much richer and cannot be competed against. Reminder - 3 of the biggest BB-nations: Spain, Italy and France has a not a single team that had join later than season-4 at thier DIv-1 league).

Last edited by Pini פיני at 1/21/2012 1:53:36 PM

This (single) time you are right...

You just can't play nice, can you?

Oh you admit it doesn't work in small countries !

It doesn't work in larger countries either and I have raised the issue in the past. It's the exact same issue.
Teams are distributed in this same way in D.V or D.VI. The first leagues are filled up and clogged with teams struggling to promote while in 100 leagues of the same level and country, you will find one or two human-managed teams pitted all season long against bots ! New members don't sign up an online management game for the cheer thrill of competing with bots that don't even offer competition.

You use to say it was working well. I am happy to see you can change your opinion when you are wrong.

Very bad system, a big push back. How many new members who could have hooked on BB have given up out of boredom ?

The point is that there are leagues where 4 teams out 5 are bots (=boredom) and others at the same level and country fully human.

You bring the point of promotion again completely misunderstanding the original point raised.
The OP is about creating the conditions for a reduction of new teams turnover and trying to keep them around.