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An opinion coming from a non-supporter.
A 60% vote seems to be a high percentage of the total. To me this seems like a strong majority vote. I put my support for the idea.

Why I believe having two teams will improve the game:
Will allow for more competitive smaller nations.
Will give older users the fun of re-creating a team.

The only suggestion I have is to allow the user to choose which B3 team he gets to use if he has two qualify rather than restricting B3. Why? Because I believe competition will improve the micronations rather than hurt them. Also, some people may take 15+ seasons to reach B3 level in large nations, while in small nations in may only take 8+ seasons. All in all the greater competition will lead to more users in micronations which I believe will help the user community more than hurt. I am a firm believer in competition making the game more fun even if it means a foreigner may end up as the top team. However, if it truly becomes an issue, you could set a term limit on how many times a team can be in the B3 consecutively.

One other suggestion would be to allow micronations to have up to 15 non-users for one user so as to create a full Div I. Mainly this is to provide each micronation at least 1 competitive division. This should attract more users overtime IMO.

Other than that, I believe this will improve competitiveness overall. So I think its a great idea.

I think running a Utopia country and placing all second teams there would be the only option.

Absolutely!

It would give the feel of a B3 where good managers from around the world compete against each other.

I really like this. It would also create a new economic state. Perhaps it could be added that there are no Free Agents, too?

No matter how it happens though, I am willing to pay for a second team.

Nope. I would seriously consider quitting if there were loads of other country's managers coming to play in Oz, not for lack of competition, but because cheating would just become waaaay too easy.

I will definitely continue paying supporter (and encourage others) to have a second team in a highly competitive league!

You are lithuanian. I can say there is already many lituanian playing in England or other UK league. It's hard to say at which point they are culturally integrated to those countries, but some for sure, not that much.

Then let's scrap countries altogether?

There are some ideas being floated around in here that will get lost, so if you have a different suggestion, post it in the Suggestions forum. This includes Utopias, colleges, women's leagues, etc. None of those will be happening if this change is implemented, so there's no need to mention your support of them in this thread. They are irrelevant distractions.

I keep hearing all these fears of rampant unchecked cheating. I honestly think this change would reduce cheating because BB would have mechanisms to prevent using the two teams in any combination effort.

But I am actually curious what exact cheating people think is going on now and how this proposal will add/subtract from it. Because other than occasionally seeing a team overpay for another team's players (which I have reported and seen both teams frozen shortly thereafter), I can't really envision what these fears are all about.

Stop with the college youth team idea. You have mentioned it numerous times. That would be a pretty massive undertaking and it does nothing to help micro nations. Throw it in the suggestions forum but it has nothing to do with anything in this thread.

Ok I'm sorry- I was sharing my opinion on what I thought would work best for a 2nd team- but I guess ill keep my mouth shut.

Nice apology. Thanks for trying to input (and I don't mean that in a sarcastic way towards you).