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Almost nobody comments on press announcements - I know, because I am the most active writer in the history of BB Austria.

I doubt that flooding the news with random news posts will help.

Press announcements to everybody is not a bad idea, still we need to have some special features to offer to those who wish to spend their money when they don't really need.

Apart from that, offer some rewards like badges or stars to those who comment a lot could be fun. Rewarding economically is a terrible idea. Unless you hire someone to judge (in every language) if the press announcement is meaningful somehow or if it is just a gathering of characters in order to make some extra revenue.

How about following suggestion - reward for voting. There will be a question of a day or once two days. Manager will be rewarded with a small boost to merchandise (e.g. 1% for each answer). Questions will be asked by BB as a part of dialogue between game developers and community. The voting ballot is in owner's hands, so you control questions being asked, however on the other side, community can speak and hopefully it will improve the communication between us.

At this point, decisions are set upfront with no preparation for BB teams which I believe could make it hard to plan in advance for some managers. Furthermore, some decisions are reversed upon further discussions on forum. Hopefully such change could make a difference and avoid similar situations in a future.

How does it sound? Controlled speak up function.

Agreed.

Also make the news page the default landing page and put messages from the NT or U21 coach in the news feed by default (can be turned off), so that the staff can keep people engaged through that if they want. Not everyone reads forums, but you'll see this if it's right in your face.

Great suggestion (y)

It will help the NT coaches to have a better contact with the players owners.Each NT press announcement need to appear to each user of that country on his news page and more than that to all of that owners who have players in a NT.It will help more to small countries and will be better.

don't get me wrong. i'm all about U21/NT advertising!

However, let's assume that i've got a U21 player from England, one from the netherlands, a NT player from Italy and a NT player from spain.

then my news feed will be flooded by: news from the italian and Spanish NT (probably in their native language, which i don't understand) aswell as the U21 from England and the Netherlands. AND i'll have the U21/NT messages from my own country aswell?

If you can put it off, then everyone will put off their own country, cause they don't deem it interesting. If you don't give the option to put it off, my news feed will be spammed by 6 different managers per week, meaning that it will be ignored (and they'll potentially ignore the news announcements for the new season as well).

So putting this up in your face won't work if it's so much information. And if you provide a button to hide it, then most managers will decide to hide it since they aren't interested with the U21/NT.

I like the idea, but it needs some adjusting. maybe provide a direct link to the U21/NT topics (and make those mandatory in the forum) that will light up each time the U21/NT coach makes a new post? That way, you'll get one of those red notifications in your menu, yet you can ignore them if you really aren't interested. Futhermore, by providing the link to the U21/NT topics, you'll get a chance to a lure them to the forum where they can discover the other goodies.

Last edited by AthrunZala at 1/22/2017 3:32:31 PM