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Basically the idea is to allow changing the mixture of seats to define a better mixture that will fit current ticket spread.
You will pay for that (the fees), but it will give the manager more balance with the tickets revenue.
Especially that the additional seats may not be parralel to the time that a team can change ticket's prices.

So whats the point of long term arena planning if you are to switch and change as you please?

Only way I can see this happening is to demolish the seats and rebuild from scratch. You can't simply change a seat that is built in the luxury box area and convert it to a bleacher sit.

Invite some supporters of your rival team to make whatever they want and you'll see !

Does that mean I don't have to pay for demolition costs? Since rival fans are happy to do it for free....

So whats the point of long term arena planning if you are to switch and change as you please?

1) You are still bounded to the prices of tickets defined three times in a season.

2) You will pay a fee for converting between seat types.
This is in addition to the difference of prices between the two types that is needed to be part of the cost.
Meaning that if you convert 20 cheap sits into 20 expensive you will also pay the difference.
You cannot get money by performing the other conversion.

This adds to the complexity of the game.

3) Currently the planning (for those who are not in the first division with a full arena already built) is missing the fact that seats are added between those dates of setting ticket's price.
This will allow them to adjust the change.

So whats the point of long term arena planning if you are to switch and change as you please?

1) You are still bounded to the prices of tickets defined three times in a season.

Three times a season is hardly long-term planning.

Most teams aren't holding the max arena size (20K), like you do (and by that comes the reason why you didn't answer other parts of my message).
As such, enhancing seat's type is important as they are changing the content of the seats between this periods.

(and by that comes the reason why you didn't answer other parts of my message).

Guess again, my friend.

Actually, the more I think about the idea, the less I like it. As a fan, it´s horrible to be in an arena which is constantly changing. There should not be more than one point in the season where you can really "change" your seating big time, and that is the off season. You can balance the structure of your attendance by changing your prices, and that´s a pretty good tool by itself. Given, it requires some "experience", but in the end, though you can only change it three times a season, that usually means you ruin no more than 4 home games. If you have enough money to afford a "change of seating categories" with the loss of the seats during the building period, you can aswell take the losses of "4 messed up home games". So where is the overall gain?

And if you´re strong enough to make the playoffs (for a max of 8 messed up home games), but not experienced enough to get the prices right, crybaby award for those, but honestly no need to fix that.

Let people demolish seats in the offseason, if they intend to do so, without financial refunding, and build new seats from scratch, everything else is useless bulk.

Last edited by LA-seelenjaeger at 11/7/2011 4:09:28 PM

Why stop here? We should be able to swap other things:

- Training: you train your player for 3 weeks in OD, and later on in the season you see that your team has been having few assists. So you pay a fee and those 3 weeks OD training can switch to PA training
- Players' haircuts: You can get tired of those same faces all season long. For a fee, you take your team to a hair salon and give them new hairstyles

Please not the ironic tone

Because:

1) Training, for example, is something you cannot switch in the real-world.

On the other hand,

2) Seat's prices can be changed whenever the team wants to, in a real BB club.
That is in addition to the fact that you cannot build more seats during the period where you are hosting games.

So the difference is huge, and your ironic turned to void, saying the least.

You can also ask - why allowing substitution when a player gets tired, you cannot make change the player's hair cut.
It would have sound as irrelevant and as ridiculous like the comparison you've brought.

Last edited by Pini פיני at 11/8/2011 1:38:47 AM