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I dont know why you had to pick this example, but my friend who wanted to sign up in Macau is from China, currently living in Shanghai - back then he studied in Austria...

You are overestimating the social network qualities of this game! In Austria we have around 100 users, maybe 15 of those are regulars in the national forums and on gameday you will find 2-4 guys in the chat (first playoff game had a peak of 4 users in the chat).

so why should your friend play in macau then? He could have got a team in China or Austria, but he shouldn't wonder if he don't get one in macau. Also Austria isn't for germans, who like to play in a smaller country.

And yes maybe the chat isn't floaded, but i also get from time to time mails in game time, i can talk with my opponents who respond normally in time, because they have the same day which also make some league forum work(and yes they are chat inactive league which much better league forum then our top division which is pretty lame).

Macau is a super cool city and I guess joining a small market where you can contend pretty soon is much more interesting than being stuck in a Div IV for years.

The world is not that big anymore, restricting people to their home countries is antiquated.

You have 4 guys on during game time? That is amazing. In our Private League we typically have more than 10 people online with 18 being our record.

As for India, well it is hard to tell how active all the forums are but here are a few of the threads that are all fairly much all from the last season. Not that dead...

BB India U21 Team Season 16 310
Promotion and Publicity Starte... 14
WOW, Indian Revolution!? 34
nba playoffs 16
U21 Roster Debate 34
[NT] SEASON 15 & 16 156
Links 6
U21 Staff Season 16 53

There are much more people online, but only a few regulars join the chat - the most Austrians I saw in chat were maybe 7 or 8.

I used to live in Santander.

This makes sense, but the fact is that for many small countries there is never anyone on the chat during games. In Thailand, for example, of all the active managers only two or three actually speak Thai as their native language. And if there are others that do, they never post or chat or participate at all.

So perhaps instead of regional leagues, the smaller countries could be opened up to the general BB public. Say you opened 256 spots in Thailand and let first come first served. Managers who are not happy in their present situation could opt to ditch their current team and get a new one in Prathet Thai league 3. This could be done for every country with less than 336 users. This would allow for more robust NT competition, allow players languishing in the sixth division of Italy and Spain to show how much better they are at managing teams than the rest of us, and provide more competition in more countries. Forums would be made English/native tongue only since English is still holding on as the international language.

As it stands right now, I don't really see much growth in any of the small countries and some, like Pakistan, are in danger of extinction.

Last edited by somdetsfinest at 7/20/2011 1:07:58 AM

So this idea seems to be have shoot down about 4 years ago but...

Why isn't this considered today? or something similar ? One obviously doesn't have to do it in all nations as some as self-sustaining and whatnot but for the rest of us? Scandinavia would be a helluva lot more fun than playing in the stale and rigid Sweden where the second leagues have bot-teams coming and going during each season.