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My Two Cents:

No buying from Unmanaged clubs only works after season 1 or 2. It’s good to put the brakes on certain teams hogging all the good players. What happens is as managers leave, certain strong clubs snaffle all the talent and sit on it. When you introduce a ban from buying from Unmanaged clubs later you give the chance for players to go back to their real world clubs. Then when you lift the ban, the weakest teams in the league will naturally have the advantage as they will be able to bid more.

Give everyone the max 300m transfer kitty. This will mean the mega-clubs with monster stadia (Bayern, Barca, Real) won’t be the only ones able to afford players year after year.

Turn off SMFA monitoring. It doesn’t work. It just serves to frustrate, not to police the gameworld.

Don’t have more than three divisions.

Recently joined a game world with a ban on buying from Unmanaged clubs. Already bored with it and left as I could buy nobody, literally. No buying from Unmanaged clubs ruined it. All the best clubs were taken, which was good. But the transfer market was dead. Unless you were interested in buying loads of young risers (and at ca 13 clubs I don’t have the time or energy to find out who Stevenage’s next young starlet will be). Have quit that one already.

Joined one which made all players free agents at the start meaning you had 300m and no players. That was great fun, but they put too many teams in so there were only about 20 clubs managed across the four divisions. Also if a team becomes or remains Unmanaged for any length of time, the game resets from a cash perspective and the 300m disappears. Was fun for transfers at the start, but didn’t morph into any sort of a good game world. Have quit that one too.

I don’t quit game worlds easy. Most of the 13 clubs I manage I have been at for more than 5 years.

What works from the old leagues I’m in is selecting “medium clubs” to make up the game world. That means you leave most of the Champions League Real World clubs out. Medium sized teams with medium sized stadiums (Dutch, Belgian, French, mid-German, Spurs, Everton, Newcastle from England and some American and South American clubs. This has a number of effects – everyone’s on a level playing field, everyone has enough stadium seats to pay the wages, the glamour clubs are all left out of the game world so the Champions League and UEFA Cup games are interesting. Also managers are attracted because they maybe get to manage a team they maybe haven’t managed before. I manage (though I bought it second hand after a pal gave up the game) a gw similar to this called Footballitis TiNO. Hey. Have a look. It’s good (and been going for years).

But – hey – it’s your party. There is no secret to getting a gw together that works. You just gotta go for it and try to keep folk interested. OK probably a little more than two cents but there you go.

GT_TDI_150 wrote: »

The big budget is the one think I really dont like and I think it serve to create a manic first week with nothing happening then for weeks on end.

If People are interested I'm willing to do Championship clubs or 2nd tier teams in this GW.

Its good to get a discussion going, I'm not going to be able to please every angle but I'll do what I can.

IN one of my game worlds (the UAS) it's all English clubs. The advantage is 1) the CL games are always against proper big clubs, and 2) When the inevitable happens and some managers quit, you can usually find good players out at the Externals.