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are you sure, i got plenty of expensiv visitors, when i raised the prices of the bleachers which gave the vip guys more "room". They don't want to be on the same place like the mob.

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Of the roughly 100 or so (according to your first post) people that this issue affects, I have seen only a few who are so upset about it. I have no problem with it. If people take a look at NBA arenas, they will see that they of them are fairly similar in their size and seat distribution- (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Basketball_...).
I think there are some people who just want to complain about things, whether they are major or minor. I spend quite a bit of time on this site, my team is fairly competitive, and I try to participate in all facets of the game (except the draft). This change made me say, "hmmm, bummer. okay." And that was it. SO the arena has a cap on it. Fine. Those who tell you that it is ruining their "long-term" plans are misleading themselves. I also don't buy the timing complaint. 6 weeks is enough time to deal with any change. It might be a bumpy road for some ( although I don't see how since any team with 500+ courtside seats most likely has assets of at least 15 million dollars and more like 25 in these days of TL inflation ) but with the reduction of courtside seats and an increase in prices for both courtside and luxury box ticket prices, the majority of those 100 owners will roughly break even.
My responses to your questions:

1) soft cap
2) tomorrow.
3) the more freedom the builder has, the better.

Of the roughly 100 or so (according to your first post) people that this issue affects, I have seen only a few who are so upset about it.

I could also say that I have only seen one person out of the 100 who fully supports it, too.

Ok, sure, I am with you it is not a big deal and that my original post was an overreaction. I'm still trying to figure out why it is such a hurry to implement this, when it has been confirmed that the only rationale is to make the game more realistic?

I don't know the answer to that, but it might be so that the new minigames which you are not in favor of (but which I think will be okay) can be introduced at the all-star break. Or maybe they are trying to get it done now because there are 1000 teams on the verge of being able to increase their arenas and if they wait for a season or two, the headache will be 10 times what it is now.

when it has been confirmed that the only rationale is to make the game more realistic?

If realism is the main issue, it seems that a fair (enough) compromise would be to raise the upper limit for what you can charge for "courtside" seats. This way the economic impact can remain relatively unchanged while the unrealistic image of 2,000 courtside seats is removed.

I agree with this. In this, the 11th season of the Buzzerbeater universe, ticket prices have never risen. I wish I could get a ticket to a Warriors game for what it cost in 1998!

Whether you implement it as a soft or a hard cap is irrelevant, since it will likely be calibrated to work the same way. Whether you have a hard cap at 500, or a soft cap in which lowering the price to 0 will get you to ~500 is irrelevant.

As a matter of fact, I like the hard cap better, because it has a solid explanation behind it. The problem is that fan behavior and ticket prices are not calibrated to accommodate for this cap: 500 courtside spectators can be attracted with close to maximum ticket prices, which I think is a problem (for comparison, for 50 luxury box spectators you have to lower the prices to what, half?).

So whichever way you go, something will have to get recalibrated in addition to the cap.

i think the problem that the wole attendance system wasn't fit to get 20000 visitors, it was fit to let in 90-120k, through the raise of prices during the reduction the total amount without cap could be even higher^^ The first approach of letting the arena but reducing the total visitors would be still the best in my eyes, you had individual arenas, the necessary of building big was reduced.

The proble with caps, is in my eyes why not just call the categories "seats" delete the other three, because in the end we already end up in a standard arena.