About the divisions, for me the div 4 needs to be set up asap.
Although I do agree it would be better to have it immediately, it would not be totally fair to some people we would have to relegate to Div4 in this season.
We feel it's better to have one transitional season before we start with the new rules.
I understand that you see it as a sort of amateur league, but the f2p model and minimal reward system will probably lead to people taking the competition too lightly, missing submission deadlines, and eventually getting kicked out and this will ultimately create more work for you. Then again, I am sure that you are aware of that.
Yeah, it's like that in every game/competition though. No real way to tackle it for people that don't have a long-term outlook.
We're thinking about the club selling as a good way to maybe keep them interested. Imagine that you are in Div3 and you get kicked out - would you pay 1mBTC for a Div3 club? Well, maybe - so hopefully some guys will farm for that. There is also LMS and the Cup, not much more we can do with the reward pool that we have, which is quite significant for a 3-4 month competition when you take it all into account.
As always, we'll track what happens down there. But even if Division 4 gets dismantled, we'll still have 3 full paid leagues with 56 players - so we're almost there with what we planned when we started BSFL.
It would be cool to sell shares and percentage of club ownership, so we can share profits together if I own 51% of club I receive 51% of reward and other owner receives 49% reward.
You can make all kinds of individual deals, just be careful that there is nothing we can do if things go south. This would be too much work for us but if you trust the guy on the other side of the deal - sure, no problem for us.
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Regarding the swaps - we need to see how it would work. As Trofo said, let's see the votes first and then we have a full season to make the best possible method of selling/renting/swapping clubs.
