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145158.3 in reply to 145158.2
Date: 5/28/2010 6:23:18 PM
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Thanks for the post. I went with a 10% discount on bleachers for a more gradual, sustained increase in attendance week to week. I've also looked at the arenas of the teams in my league but quite frankly they're all over the place. So are ticket prices. Like you point out, there are many factors that could affect attendance, and while I can see their record and their ticket prices, I don't know what effect their PR guy is having on their ticket sales, so even using the teams that appear to have my same philosophy on ticket pricing/sales wouldn't necessarily be the best option for me. I suppose the bleacher demand is manageable for now since I still have about 25% of them to sell, and as for the lower tier, courtside, and even luxury boxes, the plan of attack will have to be small upgrades until I can gauge how high the demand for them is.

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145158.7 in reply to 145158.6
Date: 5/29/2010 11:29:52 AM
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Interesting question i wonder if you had for example 10,000 lower tier whether you would be able to fill them. Even if you charged a low ticket price it would be higher then the bleacher price.

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145158.8 in reply to 145158.7
Date: 5/29/2010 11:40:58 AM
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I doubt the game engine will allow you to sell lower-tier seats as if they were bleachers. It's also definitely true that price has a greater effect on attendance for at least courtside and luxury box seats than your winning record, but I wonder if there's such an effect for lower-tier seats or if that effect is totally nullified in the lower tier and bleachers. Personally, my plan is to hit the maximum for high-priced seats first, then see how many lower-tier seats I can fill before I build too many more bleacher seats.

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145158.9 in reply to 145158.8
Date: 5/29/2010 12:09:08 PM
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Be interesting to see how u go with that. I'll watch your arena and see how it turns out.

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145158.10 in reply to 145158.8
Date: 5/29/2010 12:17:38 PM
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If Hattrick is as close as an example to how attendance works in BB, then there would be a set amount of fans willing to attend the game. This amount would act as a cap, and the distribution of the fans would be a certain percentage of each seat type. Given that scenario, it would be impossible to sell out lower tier seats if the proportion of lower tier seats was greater than bleachers, not to mention the loss of income from not selling bleacher seats that would have sold if the seats existed. I'm sure modifications must have been made to how attendance works in BB. For example, ticket prices and PR manager having an effect on how many fans show up to the game. But I'd be surprised if the basic idea of max percentages of fans for each seat type had been removed.

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145158.12 in reply to 145158.11
Date: 5/30/2010 5:53:41 AM
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That would have referred to the limit of 500 Courtside seats that was introduced. Also for a period of time when the soft cap on arenas was reduced to about 20k people could demolish seats themselves. As far as i know there is nothing stopping u building 15,000 lower tier seats, whether you can fill those seats is another matter.