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Was it only after your first arena upgrade this happened?

No, also after every consequtive upgrade. I seldom sold out arena before upgrading again. I have not played around so much with the ticket prices either. I lowered them quite early, since some german team presented the math of selling more seats at 9$ vs less seats at a higher price (It's long ago, and I don't remember exactly where or who)... It could have been other factors, but it would be great to know if this is (or was) indeed a factor (if so, big or small factor?) in the attendance formula.

I really doubt that upgrading you have more attendance. Sounds very ilogical to me.

I may be completely wrong. Or that I have mixed it up with the impact of lowered prices. Don't get why it kept rising as I built more without me changing the prices though... Maybe because I started very low.

Last edited by Svett Sleik (U21-Scout Norge) at 2/1/2010 5:46:44 PM

I really doubt that upgrading you have more attendance. Sounds very ilogical to me.

i am also at your side at this point, even if i believe that building early could be pretty succesfull and won#t stock you @ 1500 visitors ;)

I agree. Being one of those teams that still makes a profit, I suppose teams like mine (all 136 of them in the game) are partly responsible for prices rising instead of falling. ( For what it's worth, I have less than 1.5 million in my bank at the moment) The problem is as much as I would like to have a team where my income was equal to my expenses I refuse to pay a ridiculous salary to a player that I don't find very appealing for my team. What's more, I have to save (or sell and save) a long time to find players who are upgrades. So, I continue to save in order to afford an upgrade but then I have a surplus of cash which alerts the economic czars that prices still need to rise, even though I would never want nor buy a player whose prices I am partly responsible for escalating.
And we aren't poor small countries. We are rich, community-less, competition-starved countries.

maybe a half solution could eb to reduce the effect on visitors from the last game or a winning streak, actually the difference are nearly 20% and small country teams won't loose that much then the teams in the Big countrys these will help at least in the BBB competition.

Good idea!

i think the national tournament and b3 need to restructure
1.small countries too easy to get the tournment prize
2. tournment prize is same all over the world - thats a dis-adv to big countries winner, that means the small conuntry team don't have to paid the expense but almost same reward
3.traditional power house of local tournment too often dominate the tournment (and own the prize again)
4. b3 has only 0.2% invitee, we all love to see more

here are my solution
1. all new country start with 16 bot teams for DIV 1, new manager join from the DIV2 (no instant high Div 1 TV & merchadise income)
2. These DIV1 bot team, need to be competive at least in setting line up, so even when human manager promoted to Div 1 will found a certain challenge or they will relagete right back. (they can't keep salary low)
3. National Tournment will only invite Div2 and lower (more open local competition)
4. all Div 1 team of the same continent join to have a intercontient cup tournment (new challange for experienced manager)
5. Winner of the intercontinent will invite to join b3 the following season, and play a best of 3 game series each round. The b3 will not have any prize, it will only get a big trophy - i think everybody will be pround enough just playing in it.

There should not be nations without any prospective of growing in the number and quality of users.That's the point
The system used to rebalance the situation used in the countries that started first the game,and that is the same that is used nowadays in the small countries,where ia also difficult that the new users can improve their level of game because they feel yet good being in I or II division,can work only if ther's a significative growth of the number of players.I don't think that in nations like Jamaica,Luxembourg or Vietnam(only to make an example),this growth can happen

So there should be some competitiveness coefficients that worked more heavily about incomes of a nation and series of the same nation(what BBs trying to make with contract Tv and merchandising,but was too little)