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I understand your argument, but is there other way on BB ? Upper division in my country are fill of strong team ( generally all human), the game is more and more a story of experience and full young formation team. For being promoting at the time you began, you know you will have to wait several season.

Be shuffled in a division of bot, promoted in a division with team who have more season than you and loose all the game, i'm sure it'will made you love the game.

My proposition give a additionnal "pleasure " to the : speak beetween friend, follow the one who promoted and speak with him after demotion. Like a "friendship league" at home, but in our division chat.

I agree. One important way to continue to love this game (lower serie especially) is talking with other managers and I suggested to give the possibility for demoted team to choose to go in the series in which he plays a friend . (http://www.buzzerbeater.com/community/forum/read.aspx?thr...)

I understand your thoughts. I don't totally share your proposal, but I completely understand where you come from.

What I would propose is something I have seen in other games, which is that whenever you are promoted or demoted, you are not necessarily placed into a specific league, but there is a strong preference towards putting you in the league your friends are on. Here they can take your Buddy list and use it for biasing your placement.

Every game like this has it's bumps and walls to overcome. I have yet to play a single team management game that does not have that part. And that's just the way it will always be since we have teams of different development stages clashing.

In all management game i played, i just keep BB . I think this game is one of the best, in the game itself and with all the possibility + interface . Perhaps it's time to fidelize players.

One problem that i have started to see with the declining user numbers for example in my own nation is the lack of teams to fully fill out divisions with active enough teams to make everyone's experience as equal as possible.
So perhaps we would need to look at remodeling the division structure so that we no longer got the 1:4 system that we got today but perhaps rather a 1:2 system.
Imo this may be a very smart move in order to not get so many leagues that are only semi full and then suddenly you hit a wall with really good teams.
This probably should go into a suggestion thread of it's own though so i wont take up much more room here with it.

I'm agree with the fact that the system must be change for the renewel of the game : play in div with more bot than real player it's waste of "free" time, and never a pleasure. A too strong division too, that is the case in bigger div in my country where you can't reach the DIII and stay in it without 3 or 4 promotion time.

And as someone said before you can add a lot of different forums to your favorites so that you can stay in contact with everyone from old leagues if you want.
If you get supporter you can even create federations and invite them there so that you can talk there instead.

It's a dream to think you can continue a " friendship" experience on BB, by the forum or the chat : when all your friends spread off multi division, you loose a chat with 4, 5, 6 or 7 people (as i had the chance to participate), you loose the "derby" experience, you loose the greatness to be behind one of your friend against " the big demotion team", you loose the "burning" conversation on tactics, the jokig one on draft prospect ...

I 'm sure, if the goal it's to have "long fan player", this part of the game is a big part of the solution.

But there is a problem with this " picture " : we are not interest to be casual player. Our principal subject of dicussion is the game and how we perform .

We never meet to speak about other subject than BB.

And a derby is something very exiting in a groupe of " internet friend".

Perhaps, but i 'm sure if all the promoting team who finish at last place in the upper division, go back their last division where you have good remembering, player will made their possible for those matches.

I doubt it. In Austria you always go back to the same users sitting in DIV I and there is almost zero communication regarding regular games between them. Season finals, cup final and some early human vs human cup games when like 200 bots are still availiable are talked about.