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First thing - give new users better players. The ones new users get now are absolute trash.

if i were starting right now with a new team, i'd want this the most

make it a function of age, to avoid creating 18yo monsters, and set a low TSP limit so that those players will still be bad players - but at least they'll be usable

If you read his suggestions, the major thing that would change is that you have Wednesday games for a number of weeks (as long as you are still in the Tournament). If you take Utopia (where bots are reduced) as an example, many people do have to schedule scrimmages in the second or third week, because they are already out of the tournament. With his proposal you do away with scrimmages (and the associated grind to find an opponent if you're not supporter) and everyone has at least 3 competitive games per week, just like we have now as long as we're in the cup.

You can leave scrimmages on a Wednesday for those who are out of the cup on a voluntary basis: they would become sort of private league games, meaningless other than for testing tactics and other stuff. Most people do scrimmages for training purposes and minute management at the moment, so I don't expect a lot of people to do it on an optional basis.

Best of all, because everyone has 3 competitive games teams of 6-7 players with 9-10 ST plus scrubs will be given a hit, probably not enough to knock it off completely, but it would definitely be harder to manage top heavy and unbalanced rosters. Maybe it would lead to a revival of GS training in all its glory.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 8/14/2020 3:12:59 PM

money-wise it would inflate the economy for some time (you have the same income but 4 fewer weeks of costs) which may present some balancing issues. And this would be compounded by the inflation caused by new managers coming in (assuming the app brings new managers). We know inflation has created problems in the past, but we also know that inflation decreases the relative cost all fixed expenses in the game (like arena seats, training staff, various arena upgrades). Inflation in the game essentially impacts fees for players and staff.

If that's the direction of travel and people think the economy is fine as it is, then it may be worth correcting the amount of gate receipts to bring it in line with 10 weeks worth of costs instead of 14.

I want to mention another advantage: it should be possible to guarantee that everyone has between 1 and 2 home games per week, thus solving some of the weird scheduling situation where you have no income in some weeks and sometimes double income in others. There will still be schedules that are better than others but at least you always get something.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 8/14/2020 5:26:04 PM

Regarding new users, raising the initial budget will help a lot. I'd even go further and start a new club from scratch, i.e. no players and no arena, but with significantly higher cash to allow to build an appropriate arena and start with either good players or good trainees. Anyway, it will be up to decision of a new user how he'd like to start with his team, where to invest more (arena, quality players or good trainees) quiet a challenge for a new user.

Nah more cash isn't the solution for new teams. These users are more likely to waste money on those crappy players that Darkonza and others try to flip at the beginning of each season. If you give them money there is no reason they should spend it well or wisely, which means they will just quit once they realised they made a mistake and have no way to recover.

Instead of giving more cash you can either apply discounts or bonuses for stuff you want to push (like arena seats or training), in a similar way to the fact you apply no salary floor for a number of weeks (which is already designed to encourage them not to buy recklessly and to give them a lot more money than other managers).