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From: Nick22

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Date: 3/23/2014 3:03:21 PM
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I'll probably do something similar to EBW, looking for a PAS or so big man to train up as I go for promotion. In my dream world, everyonr would have guys under 10k for a season or two, maybe with restricted transfers or something, but obviously people will be pushing hard to promote so I'll have to invest more money than I'd like. I'm still going to focus more on building my team than promoting at first though.

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Date: 3/23/2014 4:50:55 PM
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I'm going to go about it just like I would if I restarted and ended up in an established IV league. I'll look for some budget trainees, and if I can find some Utopian players with good skills and cheap, which will never happen, maybe pick them up. I haven't decided yet if I'm going to let myself buy "foreign" players because there's really not going to be trained Utopian players yet, or if I'm going to just take the hit and wait and worry about promotion a few seasons later.

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Date: 3/26/2014 12:15:54 AM
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What division do you think Utopia will be starting in? There are 64 division two spots (which has already been passed) and 256 third division spots open (which is probably about where we are at in accordance to who has bought the Utopia feature, if I had to guess), but I'm not sure how many people have signed up for Utopia and whether or not BB will just leave room open if more people were to join Utopia in the future. I would guess probably the 4th division, which has 1,024 spots open.

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From: redcped

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Date: 3/26/2014 12:34:20 AM
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What division do you think Utopia will be starting in? There are 64 division two spots (which has already been passed) and 256 third division spots open (which is probably about where we are at in accordance to who has bought the Utopia feature, if I had to guess), but I'm not sure how many people have signed up for Utopia and whether or not BB will just leave room open if more people were to join Utopia in the future. I would guess probably the 4th division, which has 1,024 spots open.


Maybe I misunderstood. It seems like the logical move would be to put all the teams in Division III. Presumably there would not actually be any DI or DII at all. Then there would be bot teams filling lower divisions so we can at least have a Cup that lasts a few weeks.

Would there be a reason to start all the owners in D-IV? Seems like we'd all be spread out and playing with mostly bots the first year, and there wouldn't be much point since we'd mostly promote and end up where we could have started out.

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Date: 3/26/2014 12:35:58 AM
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The announcement said that all teams would start in Div. IV.

From: E.B.W.

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Date: 3/26/2014 12:38:48 AM
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According to Alec we are starting in D.IV.

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From: redcped

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Date: 3/26/2014 11:54:31 AM
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So if you spread out 100-200 owners across 64 leagues, it seems like it won't be too hard for an active owner to promote at all.

In fact, we should virtually all promote the second season because there won't be enough active owners to fill a D-III even.

I suppose there might be a late flurry of signups and more coming later that will alter the equation. Or they could pack us all into leagues of active owners only and leave the rest of D-IV as all-bot leagues.

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Date: 3/26/2014 12:45:19 PM
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They already said that all the human managers will be place in the same leagues in div IV, not playing with bots.

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Date: 3/26/2014 1:14:54 PM
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In addition to what fab five has said, they have also said that enough managers will be promoted to fill D.III to start the second season, then enough to fill D.II for third season and finally enough to fill D.I in the fourth season. This is all covered in the News posting.
As for how many active owners there will be at the start, how do you have any idea how many have signed up? You aren't taking this poll as having any value, are you?

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Date: 3/26/2014 6:37:48 PM
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Thanks for the info. There have been a lot of posts on this, and clearly I missed some key info in there. Hard to keep up sometimes.

I thought I saw someone say there were less than 200 signed up, but who knows? Clearly I've missed it on the other pieces here.

=P~

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Date: 3/26/2014 6:39:57 PM
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Organization: All teams will start in Division IV. The leagues will be filled in order, making sure each one is filled with human teams before going to the next one. A special promotion procedure will be in effect for the first 3 seasons; enough teams will be promoted from each league to make sure the next division up is completely filled with human teams. Human teams remaining in a lower division will be consolidated and moved laterally to make sure that as many leagues as possible are filled with 16 human-controlled teams. After three seasons, once the best teams promote to Division I, the country’s promotion and demotion will happen as in a normal country, though we will still keeping the lateral consolidation rule. New teams will join the lowest division occupied by human teams.


OK, I found this. Answers all of what I had confused. Posting in case anyone else missed it like I did. I-)

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