Improving the stadium: construction, attendances, revenues...

The stadium. Ah, the stadium. Few things make a manager happier than checking the attendance to a home game and see (100%) next to it. Full cash, a helluva money to buy players, pay salaries or simply keep the club afloat...

But wait! Could he had earned more money with a bigger stadium? Then the race is on to build a bigger stadium that will mean more money, and when the stadium is built and the attendance does not reach 100%... we start all over again.

Because the fate of the stadium is to never ever be able to please the manager.

The fate of the stadium is to never ever be able to please the manager

So how can we improve the stadium in Blackout Rugby to make the managers even more prone to dissatisfaction?


Attendances: Attendances are possibly the easiest thing to improve in Blackout Rugby. Managers could (as in Real Life they can) simply modify the prices for the tickets. Tickets prices could have an effect on the attending crowd. Crowd attendance could have an impact on HGA... Have we never heard of a team deciding to give free tickets for an all-important match? If the standard price of a ticket gravitates around NZ$ 35 (or 20 €) it would be nice as a manager you to be able to increase or reduce that price.

Sometimes even free tickets are not enough and a dedicated
manager needs to go the extra mile...

Revenue: 

Construction:

Other: We all know how rugby should be played. Strong powerful forwards bashing into the defense to create some midfield gap for the swift backs to exploit when the ball is released. One-two, pass-catch, try.
But then sometimes the playing field has a different agenda...

One-two. pass-catch, try

The state of the rugby field, grass, etc... would add to the experience of being a rugby manager

So... A bigger vision?

We recently got the news that the revamp will not be continued. Instead, Blackout Rugby is planning a deal with an investor with the aim to build «the very best sports management games possible, and to become a market leader in this genre through financial backing and a team of talented programmers and artists».

You would have sworn we had met Little Green Men by seeing Blackout Rugby's managers reactions.

Blackout Rugby investors as seen by Blackout Rugby managers

Despite Jeremy's attempt to present the deal as a chance to build a better and more complete Blackout Rugby (more about this later), suspicion has been quick to install in Blackout Rugby's community and some kind of gesture was definitely needed to appease them us (ahem... ahem... :S)

A Goodwill gesture the managers wanted

So I decided it was about time to stop behaving like an old fart and to start showing some ideas. And since there is just so much tryasta the Blackout Rugby Global Forum can handle, I kick started this blog (where you, yes, you, cannot ban my videos :P :P :P).

My goal is to discuss here any ideas I have regarding how to improve Blackout Rugby.


This will be my contribution to a bigger vision.