I've followed this topic for quite some time now and I think that there are a lot of good suggestions made by some managers. I doubted for some time to drop my ideas -because I don't see a change that any idea spreaded in this topic is going to make it to the developpers- but I've still decided to give it a shot.
Promotion
* Get basketballwebsites all around the world involved
Advertising cost a lot of money to promote BB to the public. A free alternative for this is creating cooperations with differest basketball(news)sites arount the world. Create a slider with newsitems and give these websites the space to get their news in this sliders, in return these websites have to put a e.g. a BB-banner at their website.
Game development
* Mobile app
Almost everyone uses a smartphone or tablet these days. A mobile app can create so much user friendliness, but it can also make money or keep mananger involved with the game. A free app (with advertising on it and not all features enabled) can make money for BB by adversting revenues, while a 'Pro version' of the app (can be bought for a few dollars and gives access to the whole app -advertising free-) makes money of sales. The app could also alert managers when a match begins, a match has ended, remind the manager when he/she hasn't been active for X days etc.
* Add an extra match per week
One of the largest discussions in this topic is adding extra games per week to BB. I personally think it is a good idea to add one extra game per week. (On the day with the least server intensity). This could either be the idea of a Division Cup or a Regional cup. Adding this feauture can give managers who play a season 'for the show' (with no changes of getting far in the national cup or play-offs) an opportunity at playing games with some tension .
* New teams in the lowest division
An idea I read a couple of times in this topic. Can't miss in my post, doesn't need much explanation I think...
Revenues
* Upgrade the Supporter-feature
Make the Supporter-feature more interesting for managers, make them feel like paying is giving them a better game experience, though it may not affect the change to win a game etc. Here's a small list of Supporter-features I think make it more attractive to buy Supporter:
- Choosing teamcolours
- Choosing teamclothes
- Having a 'second' team, that competes in a special youth competition.This would give Supporters the chance to see how good their young players (U21? U23? U25?) are compared to other Supporters. This last idea needs a lot of detailling, but might be an interesting feature...
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Hope my post is a positive addition to this topic,
Stefan