Simcountry II: Sports Department (Kebir Blue)

Okay, I have a lot of ideas. These ideas aren't completely thought out, but they are more developed than "LOL we need (x)". I will be calling these ideas "Simcountry II". This is a thread about my idea for Sports.

Many people have suggested national sports teams in the past, and the developers have accepted the idea. However, the devs (in the Poll results) typically ask for an idea of HOW to implement this. I have an idea.

THE SPORTS
There will be five types of sports available: Football, Baseball, Gridiron, Cycling, and Olympics. Olympics is more of a combination of seven small sports. Nations have the option to form one Team for each sport, and participate in regular Championships. These Championships may be every couple of days, or something.

The rewards for winning Championships is not just glory, but also a Trophy (these show up on a special page, and serve no purpose) and mone

You must be outside of the USA because I was thrown off at the mention of Football and Gridiron in the same sentence.

Football = Soccer

Crap, I didn't know there was a time limit. I'll just have to redo the post.

EDIT: Actually, I'm American. I decided to address Football by it's internationally accepted name, and American Football as Gridiron since it's different.

My logic for which sports I chose is based off the real world.
FOOTBALL: Very popular in Europe and Latin America. Necessary.
GRIDIRON: Very popular in America. Most Simcountry members are American.
BASEBALL: Very popular in Latin America and Japan. Second-best sport.
CYCLING: Tour de France.

SPORTS PLAYERS AND SPORT BICYCLES
Corporation that produce Players can be imagined as professional trainers who have contracts with their students allowing them to "sell" the students to whatever team they want.

The owner of a Corporation can choose to "manufacture" a certain "brand" of player: they choose what sport the player is for and how many points for each skill they have, and can "manufacture" this brand in bulk. Players are taken from the population of the Corporation's home nation.

As you may have noticed, I mentioned "skill". There are a number of skills, and the Corporation has 100 points to distribute amongst these. Bicycles (used in Cycling) work the same way, more or less.

When a President wants to purchase a Player or Bicycle, he can do so from the Sports button at the top of the screen, scrolling down to "Hire/Purchase Players/Bicycles".

TRA

Nope.

I know a better idea, Let's write an essay!

Ummm Nope.

Decent idea, along with diseases, I just don't think sim(the gms)is ready to move into such detail and micro management.

SCARLET
Do you dislike the idea of Sports in general (it's apparently not disliked; it's been voted on and accepted a billion times), or the specifics of my idea? I'd like more information.

PSYCHO HONEY
I figured I had it micromanaged to much, but couldn't think of a way to really simplify the team management.

I think your ideas, or at least the sports, should be added as mini-games that players can opt in or out of from the portal as they get their countries under control and log in more or less just to 'make sure' everything is running smoothly. These could offer a level of prestige and fun for players who have done most of the hard work in sim and are not expanding anymore. It would also allow a 'break' from the clicking. Seriously, everyone needs a break.

Hey, I like new players with new ideas! Though, it'd be too much of a micro idea to add to SC..

But feel free to keep posting, sometimes new players, with new ways of thinking, are exactly what we need

:D

BA