Ideas & Suggested Improvements: Extra Club Slot Spaces

August 13th, 2008 by SM Dev (ste)

Would you like the option to purchase extra club slot spaces for your Gold Member account?

Recenly we been receiving support tickets and suggestions from our Gold Members asking if they could possibly purchase extra club slot spaces for their account. This is due to some managers not having enough available slots for all of the clubs they wish to manage as there are currently 19 Gold Championships (with more on the way), and numourous brilliant custom setups which are all unique.

All of the support tickets and suggestions we have received all suggest that we either allows Gold Members to purchase additional club slots from the SM Shop or create a new Gold Membership package which includes additional slots. Well both of these ideas are feasible, and it is something which we can look into and possibly introduce in the coming months if there is enough demand for this.

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10 Comments Add your own

1. RossDAFC | August 13th, 2008 at 4:51 pm

Get this done ASAP
2. Ben Read (forum) | August 13th, 2008 at 5:06 pm

http://www.soccermanager.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21315
3. Matt | August 13th, 2008 at 5:11 pm

the sooner the better IMO
4. sonofpluto | August 13th, 2008 at 5:53 pm

Dunno why you havn’t done this before it makes excarlant buisness sense for you guys if you charge say £3.50 per each individual extra space because like you said theres just so many options out there now to take part in either Gold setups or some of the many great custom setups being made on a daily basis.

Also why restrict this idea to just gold members? If I was you I’d charge non gold members £6.00 per extra space then your not putting them off buying a gold membership by setting it to low.

http://www.soccermanager.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26824
5. shane | August 13th, 2008 at 6:56 pm

well i think 1st we should get some more off SM as part of our gold membership maybe another 2/3 then could also buy more if want 2
6. alex bardsley | August 14th, 2008 at 8:38 am

you get an extra club slot everytime you renew your gold membership
7. King Boo | August 14th, 2008 at 2:12 pm

Think it’s a good idea as the first thing I did when I got my Gold Membership was immediately bag another 10 clubs, none of which were in a Gold championship and now, in hindsight I’m getting to the stage where I’d like to pit my wits against other serious players….That being said, I’d have nothing against SM giving me another 2-3 clubs for free as per Shane’s suggestion. Commercially it makes perfect sense as I don’t know how full the Custom Set-ups are, however I suspect some are little more than 30% hence the more clubs you can get the better. In fairness if SM gave Gold members 15 clubs tomorrow I’d be tryng to get into a Gold set-up however if one wasn’t available would likely bag any club in a custom set-up. Don’t know why more people aren’t Gold as a PC game is £10 from the bargain bucket and you get bored with it in a month….Three months into my Gold and I’m loving it….Keep it up…!
8. Jamie Todoroski (Chatroom) | August 15th, 2008 at 6:18 am

Theres been SEVERAL threads made in the forum
all touching on the same idea

http://www.soccermanager.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25369&highlight=purchase+club+slots

Every thread has replys in favor of the idea so
why not?
9. King Boo | August 15th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

I had an inspirational thought on this and it follows on from my earlier note…..Surely SM would like extra Gold Members as opposed to charging another £x for an additional team hence the recent developments re holiday mode etc which are Gold benefits only. Maybe another differentiator as to whether to buy a gold or not is my new thought…Why don’t SM allow set-up owners who have spaces to open up the Set-up to gold members only, and allow those gold members to pick up a club, even if they already have utilised their current full allocation. The positive for this will be set-up allocation will increase and by default, it is likely that the clubs available will likely be not the most popular…therefore a likely experienced Gold Member starting with a small club and not a Real Madrid / Man Utd as is the current case. When I took my Gold I only picked up clubs in new Set-ups and I was happy to wait for what I wanted. If I got a message each time I logged in saying that World Championship xxxx has six clubs left and if I fancied a new challenge I could bag one then I’d give it a go. Often in the daily email a setup owner is “begging” for new managers, especially set-ups with limits…eg stadium size 20,000, max age 21 etc….I bet many of these set-ups are not fully managed however as I’ve used my allocation and wouldn’t ditch a current club just to try to bag one, I never get a chance. I’m sure it wouldn’t cost SM any money and would likely mean more Gold Membership as by default there would effectively be no limit to the number of clubs you have, bar the length of time it takes to set-up and manage your teams. As I suspect several thousand set-up owners would like greater take-up maybe you’d have to limit the available set-ups on a daily basis to say 20 or so, and then refresh with 20 new ones the following day……I bet it’d work and gold membership would increase…….!
10. Jonny | August 20th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

I realise you want more Gold members but if I’m honest, there is becoming increasingly less to do as a free member.

So all I ask is could you work on a few more features available to everyone or have more buying options for gold membership?

If I was to buy it, I’d rather pay monthly than annualy.

Just a few of my suggestions for boosting the amount of gold members.