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Definitely the Olympic flag ;) if not then is like so,oh one to design something with a penguin riding a dragon and shooting a crossbow with flaming arrows, all on a baby blue background.

Forget that! A flag with Wilt Chamberlain dunking over a crowd of assembled shorter players, with the text "LI-topia" across the top and "Working it inside since age 15" across the bottom.

I like your suggestion, then Utopia would be called Rest of the World or something. They can all play for Rest of the World NT.

I imagine this wouldn't be too hard to implement, everything would be like another country, from programming aspect, except there there would be different graphical flags.

We can mix nationalities in the same leagues etc.. IMO but..
(basically agreeing with you)

We can not mix nationalities within an NT etc. Because of coach voting and NT selection etc., racism and other such isms could end up playing a factor. Someone could say they want players of X-ethnicity type or religion etc. This can already happen within multi-ethnic nations as is...but we don't want a debacle of international situation with all sorts of people from everyone in there...then something funny could happen.

Right now the idea of an NT for the Utopia is really a debacle. I can't see how they can institute it without having some issue. What if there is like 400 Italians (just an example, not saying this will happen) in the Utopia but the next most populous nationality of Utopia managers was 200 or less...they could push strong to always elect Italian manager of Utopia NT, and that might raise gripes. Also without a strong national identity more likely the NT coach(es) might just turn around and try to just put their own players or buddies players on the team(arguably this already happens, especially for micronation NTs)....

In the scenario where the Utopia NT is really strong, then I think they would probably get complaints from other nations, something aobut guys that are paying extra suddenly having the best NT and that not being cool or whatever...and which region do you stick them Utopiians in anyway????

So they ahve a choice~

Utopia flags, Utopia players= no NT

mix flags= no NT

Add new flags.....=no NT

The amount of dev work needed for new flags, realistic name databases (more LA work) etc. is huge. I can7t say your suggestion is horrible...but its beyond the resources available probably.

My guess is Utopia flag. I think they don't want to spend more on dev than that.

My preference is they give a random smattering of players from all current BB nationalities. But Utopia flag probably more practical.

Yeah, like this:
http://s24.postimg.org/xqhqsbbj9/Untitled.png
Would be amazing, but sadly, it would end up looking like this:
http://s30.postimg.org/jlrd90p8t/Untitled2.png?noCache=13...

Last edited by ______ (NZ National Team) at 3/8/2014 9:04:21 AM

Yeah, like this:
(http://s24.postimg.org/xqhqsbbj9/Untitled.png)
Would be amazing, but sadly, it would end up looking like this:
(http://s30.postimg.org/jlrd90p8t/Untitled2.png?noCache=13...)

It may not work out well as a flag upon further review but that is, nonetheless, a top-quality job putting it together nonetheless. I hereby absolve you of whatever sin you've committed that has required you to go without a username here, so please feel free to pick one out that suitably complements your general awesomeness.

Why haven't we thought of this flag? It's already on the site!
http://www.buzzerbeater.com/images/flags/flag_pl.gif

It would be great to use a flag that looked like the Olympic flag or maybe the UN flag. That generic flag looks too much like the India flag for my liking. Surely there is someone here with a tiny amount of graphical talent that can design a flag?

One minor issue is what name database will they use for the Utopia players? I hope no-one takes offence but I would not like it if my entire team had Russian or Greek names. One suggestion is perhaps they could use names from the database of the original team for each team's starting players and draft picks. For the bot teams it matters a lot less.

Doesn't matter if your players will have English names as Greek managers will have Greek names, Russian managers will have Russian names, etc, so if you buy Utopian players you'll surely have some strange names (for your taste) and I'm sure there will be the same kind of players as any other new teams in other countries so you'll have to sell almost all of them and buy a bunch of foreign players to be successful, especially in the first 3-5 seasons until there will be well-trained Utopian players.

I recommend to use international names for Utopian players, like Peter, Adam, Daniel, David, etc as they can be found in almost all languages. For surnames it's a bit more complicated but short names (one syllable) are more likely acceptable for most of the managers, like Dunn, Fort, Gill, Pons, Wert, Knopp, etc.