I appreciate that the BBs are trying to take the initiative and make some changes to the lower-level leagues. However, I found it hard to agree with the change. I will explain my concerns below.
1.
It would be hard to evaluate "the loss of income", as stated in the announcement quoted below.
3. To offset possible losses of income, we will match the promotion awards for all promoted teams - no matter whether they are playoff winners or just promoted due to available empty slots!
It sounds that the BBs are only trying to compensate for the loss of the championship bonus. However, there is much more about the loss after the team consolidation. Just to list a few:
- Teams promoted without a championship will not have the extra boost on team support, which can make quite a difference in the ticket income.
- Compared to a bot league, it would be much harder to sustain a good weekly profit in a human-filled team, while still keeping at the top of the league and having the same merchandise bonus. I think this has been justified in the Utopia league.
2.
The rookie pool will be shrunk, especially for smaller countries.Take a country with about 128 human teams as an example. 80 teams will be in Div. II or above, and 48 will be in Div. III. In the current situation, a rough estimation is that the Ë‹48 Div. III teams should be able to capture about half of the top talented rookies (MVP+). However, after the change, those teams will be concentrated on III.1 and III.2, which implies only about 19% of the talents will be captured.
Keeping the depth of national teams will be harder after the implementation, especially for smaller leagues.
3.
Important updates like this should be announced at least a season before the rollout.Taking myself as an example... I decided to give up the season, sold most of my main players, and got the 4 million arena upgrade. After the update, staying at the higher league might be the better idea, but now it becomes very hard to change my season plan without the cash in my pocket...
I do not want to discourage the BBs since you all are making to improve the game experience, but I hope you can re-examine all the potential changes, good and bad, on what you are proposing.
Personally, I feel that things could be much better if there is some sort of options about where we will go after a relegation (maybe with the default setting as "going to the human-occupied league").
Thank you for your consideration.
Last edited by Feizai Passing by at 6/6/2022 10:56:05 AM