Starting Strategy for Older GW - Intro

When I made the step up to moderator, I was asked to play in the Beta as well. This is so we are up to date with all the coming changes to best inform the members of our respective live worlds as to future changes. Instead of going over my team, I thought it would be more interesting to describe my path to (relative) glory. I joined the gameworld a week into season 6, leaving me a long way behind established members of the gameworld. I realise this is ‘just’ the Beta, but I hope that what I did could act as some sort of ‘road map’ to success for those players who choose to join established worlds.

I don’t pretend that this is the best way of doing things – I made some questionable decisions and I’m sure other people will come up with better options in their own strategies (Jakswan’s guide in particular is an interesting read and his blog in general is worth a look). I also got lucky in some of my signings, but then you need a bit of that luck to succeed. However, I do know that as of writing, I’m sitting 18th in the world rankings, with wages of just 130,000, a productive stadium mostly paid off and some good youngsters coming through, after joining the gameworld 6 seasons late.

I’ll separate out the strategy in a number of posts to make it easier to read. Feel free to post questions or tell me what I should have done.