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I think a blockade of purchasing players from the original country is enough.

this is already possible. It's called cheating

At the moment, it's called cheating. However, if this were to go through as some suggest, it wouldn't be cheating, just normal strategy. There would be no way to prevent people from doing what is currently cheating because you can't stop people from buying and selling players to each other. Sure the price guideline is there but everyone knows that doesn't prevent people. Some people just get "bargains" and others just get "ripped off" (or cheat).

The only way to do it without all that is to create another system entirely, basically a new game, which would probably a lot of extra work for the BBs.

This being said, I would definitely be up for it. I'd love to have a team that plays only against active managers.

I think having a second team in a new 'Utopia' country would be a fantastic addition to the game.
This way, I could try my plan of having a 100% homegrown team.
It's too late to do that with my current team.

1. The focus should not be NT teams but on the experience for the rest of us. Supposedly there are already many farm teams and cheaters anyway.

2. I would much prefer playing against experimental strategies than bots. Close to half the teams in Div. 1 in India are bots now.

I haven't read all of the posts but I think I've got an impression. I voted "Yes" because I think it might make the game a bit more versatile and I can still remember that I was very tempted to get a second team in Barbados & Co. when I started playing this game and got very addicted. So implementing a legal option to do so would be a nice move (even though right now I probably wouldn't even use it because of not having as much time at hand as 4 years ago).

If we get a "Utopia"-Country, we could either make it a real country with a U21/NT or if the other option is included and we join other countries (and are not allowed to join our home country), we should definitely implement one feature that not only prevents the 2 teams to buy/ sell players between the teams but also - in order to prevent farming a little bit more - not allowing the 2nd team to acquire and train players from your home country. That would at least make it a bit harder for the farming teams.

And I'd like a 3rd option if the 2nd team is implemented: to be able to assign one of your HoFers as the new Manager of the team or something alike. I'd really like that - and something alike has (in a different context I think) already been suggested.

Anyway - great that such a big discussion is going on and so many people participate. There's still hope that BB will not go extinct

I would much prefer playing against experimental strategies than bots. Close to half the teams in Div. 1 in India are bots now.

That is a really, really good point! +1

I have one more reason for not minding other people creating teams in my country: There is already a massive multiaccounting, I'm not sure how much managers are in the game, there is a lot of 10+ season old teams, that probably have the same manager. Being a small nation, it's plain ugly. One guy probably has 4-5 teams, some have 2-3, in the div I only...

Being in my situation, I would welcome more teams.

Someone said something similar about Ghana, where all active teams were managed by the same manager?

Grandiose idea, my big yes you have!

I never thought about that but it makes complete sense. The reason cheaters get caught is because their illegal moves are obvious the the other teams playing in their league. But if you're the only active owner in a country, who's around to catch you?

So despite the unsubstantiated fears by some who think 2 teams will increase cheating it will probably have the opposite effect and help curb cheating in the micro-nations. And of course the reason some micro-nation team is cheating to begin with is likely because he's sick of playing Bots every week. I played my first season against a league full of Bots and it was easily the most boring of the 10 full seasons I've played. I wouldn't have played 3 seasons here if that didn't change.

Last edited by Beener not Beanerz at 1/5/2014 12:36:42 PM