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I am strongly against making it cost-free for supporters to change team name. Users should not be encouraged to change team name. If they insist on doing it they should at least have to "suffer" due to it.

I would rather see that a change would be even more expensive than now. I could even see that you would have to pay €2 or so to change your team name, i.e. real money. I do not favor the suggestion of only making it available for supporters.

Why shouldn't they be encouraged to change team name?

If non-Supporters have to spend cash to do something, there absolutely cannot be a way for Supporters to do the same thing without spending cash since, as far as I am concerned, that constitutes an in-game advantage.

I fully agree with this.
But you may not have understood my point: I want team/arena name change to be ONLY for supporter. So it cannot give an in-game advantage since nobody, supporter or non-supporter, would pay.

I personally can't see what in-game advantage it is to be able to change team name for free. How can your team be better just by changing the name of the team?

In Hattrick you can buy to give nicknames to your players and this is for me comparable to that. A non-relevant issue for the game itself. More like a meaningless thing like piercing your player like you can do in Footstar.

I hear what you're saying about maintaining some continuity, that's the reason why I talked about a minimal number of seasons between two changes (I said 5, but it could be 8, 10... whatever the BB want it to be).
And I agree that it doesn't HAVE to be in the supporter package, but I think it suits it very well. Changing team/arena name goes with team logo, jersey numbers,...

FAs sell for 180~400% what normal players do in bidwars etc.

Where did you get these particular numbers?...
I think it's quite the opposite.

I would very much prefer that you had to request to GMs to change team name and that you had to have a valid reason for do so. Maybe because I am too conservative and really wants to recognize teams over time.

As it is not the case that you have to apply for new team names I certainly prefer if it would be more costly than today. That is also why I suggested that you actually have to pay with real money instead of just wasting a part of your teams budget. Obviously this part is not that high as pretty many teams change name now and then.

I fully agree with Wolph that team names like "Free Agent" and "Retired" should not be possible to chose or change to. It is difficult to create a filter that stops all attempts of unreasonable names and I would rather see a warning or punishment for misuse of team names in such a way. If it is not already clear enough in game manual I would recommend that this is added in game manual so that a punishment is in accord with game manual. It would also make sense to inform about it in game news so that those who misuse team names like this can't say that they did not know. It is unreasonable to expect users to continously read the game manual to see if there are some changes.