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The main reason why having additional teams is good is this:

BB is a game with a long learning curve. You need to have multiple options to test strategies and figure out how everything can work.

By the time I figured out even a decent amount of strategy and started doing things close to the right way, I'd been up to Div. III and back down again. And I still have yet to put all the useful draft and training advice I've read into action. Basically, I just played the game and learned by trial and error for a few seasons and got fortunate enough to win a league and promote. Then and only then did I get into a league with an active forum and learned all the things I should have done sooner, like build arena up, etc.

I am now stuck in the hardest league in all of Div. IV and have been for several seasons. The only way out might be to get really bad again, drop down and then try to promote in an easier division. It takes years to do that, and in the meantime I'd really like to try to win with my current team.

Why not be able to start over in any other location and help populate countries without depth of competition? It's a way to learn more, test strategies and enhance the game by paying more to play more. I just don't see a downside.

Also I kind of want to add that if there ever were to be implemented I dont think anyone should be allowed to have more than 2 teams. That would be hectic.

I still think that one of the better things they can do is introduce a second tier B3, but lets not get offtopic.

I think that the suggestion is ok. If you can prevent teams from having contact with each other it could work. I think that Wolphs suggestion of at most one team in B3 is kind of a necessity.

In Football Identity you have your original football player that you control and can buy extra characters. I think that the original team should be in your own country. This team will stay your first team no matter if you like it or not.

A major drawback to the suggestion is that you will insert a big problem with bot teams. To minimize this problem I think that you should pay for your team on a season basis. This would mean that your extra team(s) will always be botified before start of next season and there would not suddenly be a bot team during season. A disadvantage would of course be that there would be more lucky losers in leagues.

About players in both of your team. I think that a quarantine of 3-5 seasons might be better than to never allow a player to be in both teams. If it is such long time in between there are certainly no cheating option.

I think that the rules discussed in this thread makes it hard to implement additional teams. It would require some new codes written and it might also cause a slower server because you would have to go through some extra rows of code for every transfer.

I personally would like this option if both teams were on the same account it would 1) make transfers a lot easier to track, 2) create a system were the teams have a limited chance to ever play one another (perhaps only one of your teams can only be eligible for B3 at a team, such as only your first team maybe) and 3) the effects of botification and creating a team from a small country are removed. Both team are gone with your account, along with whatever cash you spent for your second team.

I honestly see no reason to purchase supporter as of right now (I actually have enough points to purchase and just haven't). The only feature I might enjoy would be playing in PL but as a newish team without a strong WR it would be difficult to even find an active league of my level.

Question? Should a player get to choose what country his second team is in or should it be random?

I took it for granted that both teams would be on same account. That is for me the only reasonable solution. Then you can mark what is main account and additional teams. I don't think this would be too difficult to implement. Just that you click on a button to switch team. This is implemented in other manager games.

I have to say that keeping managers in their real life countries (as best as we can) is a good thing. I think having cultural commonalities helps the league Forums stay lively and gives our leagues, where we expend most of our energy, more excitement as a result. I'm all for cultural diversity, and if we didn't also have active Global Forums I would probably think differently. It's not that I think having international leagues would mean league forums wouldn't be potentially active, and that they couldn't also be great, wonderful places for all managers to mix, I just think that the level of interaction is different. Also, keeping managers in their own countries helps make the NT formats work, etc. And if somebody really needs to be in an international league, he/she could be a Supporter and create/join an international Private League.