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I had that game shape because I didnt want to lose ACBB league, and if I want to be competitive in the B3, Im forced to pass cup games, wich means that Im forced to overplay my guys resulting in demential game shapes.

I don't follow here - B3 games are in arcade mode, so why would that impact anything?

Game shape and enthusiasm counts in B3 matches. We need them at the top to be competitive.

Game shape and enthusiasm counts in B3 matches. We need them at the top to be competitive.

OK, so you throw Cup games for enthusiasm/GS purposes? I'm not getting at something, I'm just asking because I don't understand.

It doesnt change the fact that a small country can be power house on sports. If they give you way more income than us then that it will be disappear, and BBB will be 5-6 countries game.

Anyway if you want some advantage on that they can use champions league format. They can play the 4 best teams there from countries like England Italy Spain Germany have 4 teams to compete there, where the Hellas for example (being weaker domestic league) have 2. Playing on the Champions league teams have some serious income.



Last edited by JohnnyB at 1/27/2010 2:25:02 PM

If I want to win my league I need the HCA. The only way to get it is wining league games and leading the regular season. Under normal circunstances I would be able to try to win them without giving too much minutes to my key players (and having good shapes). Just throw the cup if a dificult round comes soon and play the 2 league matches/week full competitive.

If I try to play a 3rd match I'll be forced to give too many minutes to my players. Some years I threw the cup in 4th round because is really dificult to play 3 matches/week having good shapes.
The problem cames with the B3, to be competitive in the B3 you need thursday cup matches to have a key TIE that allows you to be competitive during the weeks that the international tournament is going on. And that means that you have to win rounds no matter what the rival is. Sometimes you have to put your players lots of minutes and you destroy the team game shape in order to advance in the domestic competiton. If you dont do it you will fall from the cup losing the enthusiasm boost for future B3 rounds.
And if you do it (put them in the cup match) you lose the game shape, of course.

The other way to fight the B3 is giving one league match per week to your rivals while you compite in the B3, but I personally dont like this choice. Mostly because today is more important for me the fair ACBB title than the unbalanced B3 tittle. And I dont want to sacrifize the first division tittle (which has more prestige for me than the B3) for a tournament that depends of the luck (HCA in final rounds, some monster teams from little paradises that in my opinion really unbalance the game).

The game is intentionally designed so that optimal training and optimal lineups for current games are at odds. If you could do both optimally at the same time, it would make it quite hard for teams that are behind to catch up, after all.

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I don´t think the main problem with small/large BB-countries is the B3 competition, although obviously the underlying problem is also affecting to the competitiveness of the big countries participants.
In Spain, we have the feeling that we are not playing the same game, compared to users in small countries. At least the same rules are not applying for everybody.
The economic advantage has already been addressed partially with the last changes. But there is still a difference that is frustrating many users in Spain when they try to hire a Staff member or buy a player and they have to face a bidding war against some of these users.
But there is also a training advantage which is related to the quoted BB-Charles post. They can do an optimal training at the same time of being fully competitive in their cup and league championship. In addition they can keep high their enthusiasm without problems. Game Shape is also more easily kept because they don´t need their best players to win the local matches.

Last edited by Emilio at 1/27/2010 2:46:58 PM

I would still like to see examples of those awesome teams in paradises that compete with the top of the world and entered the game after season 4.

I don't think you can find much, if you can't the answer to the threadtitle is surely no, the advantage of playing in small leagues isn't this big compare to large leagues. The only team currently in the B3 that fits this descripion is DH, being ranked 150th or something of the world.

Sure it could be somewhat easier to play in small teams, but I don't think we have to exaggerate this much.

Last edited by BB-Patrick at 1/27/2010 2:54:13 PM