Thursday 2 April 2009

If X = Y

I might be adding two and two and coming up with 5 but been reading on the forums and it does suggest that SI are thinking along the lines of making old GW's more attractive not by accelerating progression but by allowing more steps as you progress.

I agree with this as it does feel currently that you have to wait for 5/6 seasons to arrive should you take a long term approach, i.e. the game starts after 5/6 months.

One of the core issues at the moment is outside of the FA your forced to play high ranked teams as a new user. Often this will result in you losing 75% of your games which is understandable with wages of £70k ish. A system where you can play teams at your own level will help a lot, you should be able to play so you can get into a position that your winning about 50% of your games.

Consider this though, your a top 20 side the only opponent you might be able to find is going to be Top 20. This won't be popular with these managers.

The other thing of course is inflation, this must be kept low otherwise progression could be slowed too much. New users must be able to enter a gameworld and feel that they can improve their team in a few months.

Oddly too many new users would inflate a world too quickly especially given the short term strategy employed by many new users.

Overall a very tricky balancing act!

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