Is there anybody out there?
It's my first season in Utopia, so I'm kinda behind most of other teams in terms of arena, roster - but doing my best to catch up with you guys.
Oh, I forgot how expensive the arena is to build... How you manage to get 14k merchandise (on avarage) U21 players, homegrown? My youngsters can get to U21, but in 3 years time...
Regards and have fun!
Welcome! No, nobody is here. ;)
Luckily I'm not taking Utopia too seriously. I'm sort of slow-training a bunch of middle potential guys but not really doing anything all that effective as yet. I just wanted to play around with a different type of player than I have on my primary team and so I've just been aiming to do as good as I can and still make a lot of money, and someday promote high enough to have an arena with more lower tier seats than bleachers.
If you keep your players for a few seasons you should get the merchandise up with team success. I'm only at 15k merchandise myself, but my salaries are low. The main things are that if you keep your player salaries down and still be competitive, you'll be making more money than you can reasonably do anything with for a while. Of course, the more common thing to do is take that money and buy better players, but that's not as much fun. ;)
Good luck the rest of the season, except next Tuesday. ;)