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Especially if just starting out, my viewpoint is to try to emphasize getting the more expensive seats built. I am pretty sure you won't be able to sell 50 luxury boxes, but build them incrementally and as long as you can sell them, keep adding a couple at a time with each expansion - you may be able to get as high as 40 sold, but probably mid 30s is my guess. Courtside is similar, but I think those may actually be able to sell all 500 even in IV, but I don't have my old arena information available at this point for historical sanity checks.

It looks like you're doing a wise thing already by not overbuilding bleachers early on, though. I think the best thing to do is just build incrementally like you are. I always tried to set prices to where I was pretty sure I'd sell out pretty comfortably when the prices changed, and then try to build in the seats to get dollars back on them immediately, and prioritize between lower tier/courtside/luxury depending on whether they were still selling out. Something like that where you go slow and steady would serve you well. :)

Wow, there's so much there I agree with!

BTW, the other arena-building thread is still interesting. The "build as much as you can as fast as you can" guy keeps digging himself a deeper and deeper hole, not ever realizing Bernspin owns him with every post.

cool thread

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cool thread

Definitely! It started from a simple question and it turns out to be a massive discussion! *-:)
Although, I feel responsible for all the misunderstandings and differences in opinion which have drained a portion of the issue itself. My bad for poking the hornet's nest.

I've gained a lot of informaation of the subject and it really turns out to be relative to everything else that one can manage in BB - roster, salaries and salary floor, promoting/demoting, tanking, arena pricing, PR manager etc. etc.

I would like to thank you folks for answering my question and giving me more than I ever could've asked for! Earlier I was content on my own experiments and trial and error. I also read the forums and believed that I could avoid fellow players' "mistakes" (btw there are none, it's a game and everyone enjoys it their on way). From now on I believe in the power of the community!

Thank you (hi)

Sorry to restart the discussion- but I was curious- how does this debate apply to me?

I'm a brand new team in DI of a small country (14 active teams). Our league is not strong- with only, I'd say 4 good teams (thats why I'm in 5th place out of 16th through only a half a season and acquisition of only two veterans).

In order to reach the earning potential of my 4 older league mates, I've been pumping as much as I can into my arena. Similarly, I've put the max prices on every seat, because, I figure a DI team with a DIV arena should be selling out. Once I've built enough, I can lower and play with the prices. Fortunately, I'm not subject to the tax floor, which in my league is 240k per week. I only pay about 60k in salaries (75% of that to my two vet acquisition and the rest to my 5 trainees and scrubs).

Is the advice to me as well: build as quick as I can to maximize the earning potential in DI and then use the extra money to start to build a competitive team? I know I can't catch the Big 4 in my league without some 100k salary players, and I'm probably seasons away from that. However, if I don't get my arena to a big enough size by the end of the season, I'll go bankrupt next season when the floor applies to me.

*I didn't choose to be in DI, I asked to be in a middle tier, but I got put in DII and bot promoted up immediately as I joined right before the season change, which was fortunate because I got that 1M promotion bonus. :)

I would follow perpete's advice. It doesn't make sense to compete with teams that can earn more money than you. They will always be able to field a better team than you. If anything, you should just have enough salary to avoid relegation but going down to DII might not be a bad option either.

Don't worry, you can catch the others up in no time.

You can probably build up your arena in 2-3 seasons, which is relatively very short time. I mean, if you get hooked up, you'll probably play the game for 10 seasons minimum(I'm in my 9th, and just warming up :))