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Actually I take back my previous statement where I agreed that all of the options I put forward should be a priority.

I dont think we should be combining micronations as I still reckon an app would help improve things.

My summary on the options is;


Create an Auto bid function would be really nice but I dont think it would have a huge positive immediate impact on increasing the numbers of Managers. Would be nice IMO

Stop LCD & blanks +Improve current subs options The strength of LCD with a blank line up is that it better balances the minutes of your players. Where is the advantage of having strong 6th 7th and 8th players if they aint gunna get more than a couple of minutes on court. Must be fixed asap IMO

Further reduce the financial advantages of tanking Steps have already been put in place to make tanking less appealing but I agree that it would be great for everyones enjoyment if tanking could be further discouraged. Should be fixed IMO

Fix Micronations through combining them
Unless the task of "separating" the micronations was an easy one, I wouldnt be combining them.

Develop and release an "App" I voted for this. The world is rapidly changing and having a good quality free apps is the easiest way to get new users Absolute urgent must IMO

Balance strengths of strategies&costs (or prove=) Hard to abbreviate what I meant in such a short sentence. Perhaps some generated demo games with some players of different skill sets might be a way of calculating the degree of imbalance of strengths of different strategies so that they could be adjusted or alternatively prove that all is equal. Would be nice IMO

More Advertising/Marketing would be nice but I dont know the financials of the business and the past cost benefit analysis of money spent advertising Would be nice IMO

Reducing the effectiveness of game shape training Not a huge advocate of this but it would be nice if a Manager got better rewarded when giving his players the optimum nbr of minutes worth considering IMO

Increase the speed that players can be trained at Its not something that I had thought of previously until it was suggested but I cant argue with the logic in favour of it Definitely worth discussing IMO

Create an Auto bid function would be really nice but I dont think it would have a huge positive immediate impact on increasing the numbers of Managers.

"increasing" in terms of new managers no it would have no impact. "increasing" in terms of retaining managers I think it will as it allows you to have a sporting chance of bidding on players that end between midnight and 5am.

And for us in particular that is the majority of players.

Plus 1 - I Cant argue with your logic and I as well would like it to be brought in

Last edited by Sid Vicious at 11/2/2014 3:44:21 AM

Plus 1 - all 3 are priorities IMO

How about inflating the economy or reducing the cost of building the arena to make it relatively similar to 25 seasons ago when the economy was inflated compared to today? That's a key barrier for new managers.

Paying for removing seats should also be allowed. A minor fix that could be easily implemented.

I wouldnt mind being able to renovate my stadium which would involve getting rid of some bleachers and putting in some more lower tier


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That said Ive only just started my 3rd season in Utopia and already have my arena half built.

Making the seating cheaper would only favour the promote at all cost teams who buy old geriatrics.

(i.e. Most of the teams in Div II in Utopia this season)

Last edited by Sid Vicious at 11/3/2014 4:07:52 AM

Making the seating cheaper would only favour the promote at all cost teams who buy old geriatrics.

It would favour all new managers who have to build their arenas really. I don't particularly care about Utopia, they could leave the prices as they are over there.

Alternatively to reducing the cost of the seats they could increase salaries and revenues but leave the cost of the seats as they are today.

In any case this should be done together with the marketing/App strategy in an effort to retain a good part to the influx of new managers.

That said Ive only just started my 3rd season in Utopia and already have my arena half built.

You're more than $4.5 million away from a near optimal arena, that's halfway only in total seats number, isn't it?


Last edited by Lemonshine at 11/3/2014 8:07:11 AM

Making the seating cheaper would only favour the promote at all cost teams who buy old geriatrics.

It would favour all new managers who have to build their arenas really. I don't particularly care about Utopia, they could leave the prices as they are over there.

More to the point, it would favor those who haven't invested in their arena, to the detriment of those who already did invest. So, say, two teams start at the same time, one spends on players and moves up, the other builds his arena. You now hand a huge advantage to the first team, who made the decision to win rather than build, and put the second team further behind the curve because they had the foresight to build a solid foundation for their team.

I'm not saying, incidentally, that the economy is perfect. I just hate to think that the solution to the problem is one that rewards the grasshopper for partying all summer, while the ant who gathered food for the winter gets nothing.

How do you propose to bridge that 7 million gap in an economy where it would normally take you 6 seasons or 2 years to complete the arena?

No solution is perfect. Do you think it's fair that managers in this deflated economy have to pay relatively more than managers who have been around for 25 seasons and could build the arena much faster back in their days? I've read of people selling players for 10 million and salaries way over 400k in the old economy. Shall we check how that compares to today? All the managers who have joined after the changes to the economy have already been penalised, haven't they?

I don't honestly care about the situation in Utopia. If you want to increase the new user retention it doesn't sound smart that new managers need at least 2 actual years of tanking before starting to play the game competitively. What I'm saying is that it is pointless to spend money to promote the game or build an app, if 80% of the new managers leave within weeks as soon as they realise how long it will take them to be competitive.

More should be done to improve new user retention and I believe the cost of building the arena is one of the key issues in this respect. As I said, you can leave the Utopia prices as they are, or even increase them if you wish. Utopia has nothing to do with this.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 11/3/2014 11:29:15 AM