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I have long since faded from any activity on there and in fact I'm certain that my account is no longer active, but I remember Battrick (the cricket sim) added a second team option (I think called franchise) for their supporters. They're actually a relevant comparison because both BB and Battrick were loosely affiliated with Hattrick on startup, though I don't know how formalized the relationships were. It's a different scenario in that there are so many fewer nations in the game in BT, and that they've got at least three different league competitions going on at a time (a team would be in their regular one day league, a "first class" league and a BT 20 league that IIRC is actually international). I'm pretty certain there's someone here who's active there and can let us know how that's turned out there, though.

I don't think 3. is very far fetched.

Take Japan as an example. Not a lot of active managers, easy to get to top level league compared to being in USA.

If I was a manager able to take a team through USA to that level, than doing so through a smaller country, would be just as feasible.

I'd hate to be in a league with mediocre teams with blase managers.

Welcome to large percentage of current leagues in BB.

I'd be OK with the 2-team thing, but I still would rather see more competitions between players in different countries than allowing managers to sign up in any country.

Last edited by Kumiko (CAN U21) at 2/21/2013 5:04:36 PM

Maybe instead of going into another country BB could create a country for this purpose alone. You could call the alternative, pretend country, "Utopia" or something. It would be a massive country with probably more than 6 divisions and would have the chance of being a better way of determining the best team in BB. The Cup would only allow the top however many is possible in this pretend country. It would be like BB starting over except just in one league with players already built and such.

An issue that arises though is should there be an NT for this nation with players from pretend magic land with a BB flag? With the amount of teams in this nation it would surely become champions. Languages, forums, gametimes are all problems. To solve gametimes it could just always be played at the same time as the home teams usual gametime for their original team.

I dont think there would need to be an NT for them which lessens the need for a forum for this country. However drafting in this league would turn up players from what country? The same country that the original team is from? Can BB even do that without individually changing players nationality?

I think a rule would need to be put in place where if your second team went bot, you keep your first team. If your first team went bot, you would lose the second team.

I think it would be a lot too much and I dont think it would work.

Maybe instead of going into another country BB could create a country for this purpose alone. You could call the alternative, pretend country, "Utopia" or something. It would be a massive country with probably more than 6 divisions and would have the chance of being a better way of determining the best team in BB. The Cup would only allow the top however many is possible in this pretend country. It would be like BB starting over except just in one league with players already built and such.

An issue that arises though is should there be an NT for this nation with players from pretend magic land with a BB flag? With the amount of teams in this nation it would surely become champions. Languages, forums, gametimes are all problems. To solve gametimes it could just always be played at the same time as the home teams usual gametime for their original team.

I dont think there would need to be an NT for them which lessens the need for a forum for this country. However drafting in this league would turn up players from what country? The same country that the original team is from? Can BB even do that without individually changing players nationality?

I think a rule would need to be put in place where if your second team went bot, you keep your first team. If your first team went bot, you would lose the second team.

I think it would be a lot too much and I dont think it would work.

Aside from agreeing that the multiple teams and moving countries thing wouldn't work, i agree, if it were done, then this "utopia" idea is probably the only fair way to do it.

The main reason why having additional teams is good is this:

BB is a game with a long learning curve. You need to have multiple options to test strategies and figure out how everything can work.

By the time I figured out even a decent amount of strategy and started doing things close to the right way, I'd been up to Div. III and back down again. And I still have yet to put all the useful draft and training advice I've read into action. Basically, I just played the game and learned by trial and error for a few seasons and got fortunate enough to win a league and promote. Then and only then did I get into a league with an active forum and learned all the things I should have done sooner, like build arena up, etc.

I am now stuck in the hardest league in all of Div. IV and have been for several seasons. The only way out might be to get really bad again, drop down and then try to promote in an easier division. It takes years to do that, and in the meantime I'd really like to try to win with my current team.

Why not be able to start over in any other location and help populate countries without depth of competition? It's a way to learn more, test strategies and enhance the game by paying more to play more. I just don't see a downside.