Sport Teams Rework

[desyu]

What's your Minecraft Username?: desyu
What's the title of your suggestion?: Sport Teams Rework

What's your suggestion?:
Due to my experience on a sports team and especially football I wanted to introduce my thoughts on a potential rework on the current team setup that could bring more life into it both roleplay wise and regarding actual plugin gameplay. I will use the football team as an example for my suggestion since I have more experience with that plugin and roleplay than any other sport. I would love to see the sports sector a little bit more realisitic, especially within the competetive plugin sports

Within the first weeks of my sports team journey I always wondered why you are supposed to have rivalry against people who are either superior in regards to their grade and age (coming from a bobcat's perspective) or obviously the other way around if you are a spartan. The main issue I see roleplay wise, is that you are forced to some extent to see college people as an enemy only due to the fact that they are in college, nothing else. Comparing this to actual football or other team games, the players are rivals due to them not being on the same team, not because of an academic reason. Now, what is my suggestion now?

Adding actual teams rather than just having different teams due to age/grade

Instead of the usual Spartan vs Bobcat rivalry, it would make way more sense to actually create real teams just like the teams in real life. So for example it would be Real Madrid vs Bayern München. This would look similar like the current setup, meaning same team size etc. but you should be able to have both college and highschool players on the same team, however still having males only and females only teams since that would be realisitic. Now you are asking, how would that look like with the new roles ingame following my suggestion?
Here are a few examples:

[Grade-12][Bayern München-Captain] Marcello Akori
[Grade-12][Bayern München] Clemens Klemens
[College][B][Bayern München] Han Chi
[Grade-12][Paris Saint Germain] Otohiko Saiky

As you can see, with the suggestion it is possible to have bobcats and spartans mixed with the actual team. However, there should be an age limit, so PHD is max. The team names should be either names that are already chosen by the sports lead due to lore and quality of the names or the managing captain should be in charge of coming up with a name for their team. The real life teams were just an example for this but could also be implemented if wanted.


How will this benefit the server and community?:
These changes will certainly benefit the community and the actual gameplay because of the realistic aspect that will get put into the game. It would make people . It will make it more interesting as a new system and overall new experience would be available. This makes players actually feel like they are in an actual team and not just a highschooler or college playing football. Since it was always like that it would get the sports team (with a plugin) sector more alive and make things way more competetive and interesting. Also, this allows being able to have multiple experiences on other teams aswell, since sometimes either the timezones clash with your current team or wanting to just play with other players too.

 

[flowersak]

As of right now, we have 4 teams for every sport which is not that much. Adding them to around 6 teams (3 male teams and 3 female teams) would be a good start in regards to the active player base.

There is only ever 300-400 players online during events, and the server averages out to 200-250 other times. Having 6 teams for 3 sports (basketball, football, volleyball) would make 216 players. Plus the 2 teams for swim, track and cheer (assuming these will just be for the two different teams you suggested?) would give us another 72 players.

That leads to nearly 300 players to have full teams.

8 teams (4 males and 4 females) seems a little bit too much and makes the actual role not that "special" anymore. So it depends within the capacity, demand and player base of the server.

This would be done with 6 teams.

 

[Tippie]

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We must keep in mind that this is SchoolRP, and the teams are School teams. So here my view on your suggestions:

- Adding actual teams
There's only one town that would make sense to have teams for, which is "Karakura", I like the suggestion, and it can for sure be fun to do for events, but aside that, I don't think this is feasible to do

- Adding more teams
At this moment, a lot of teams are already struggling to fill their slots. Adding more teams, whilst adding more chances and opportunities, will drain the teams and we must half the slots to make this feasible. Of course -- when the player base has grown -- this should be revisited. At this point there are 10 teams per faction in total, thus a sum of 20. More than that would be unfeasible with the current amount of active players.

- Captains buying players off of other teams.
Whilst this is a 'real-life' aspect of sports, it does not fit with School teams at all. Additionally, with that, adding more teams isn't really feasible. I don't see this working out well

Anyways, that's my two cents! Nonetheless, love the ideas :D

 

[desyu]

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We must keep in mind that this is SchoolRP, and the teams are School teams. So here my view on your suggestions:

- Adding actual teams
There's only one town that would make sense to have teams for, which is "Karakura", I like the suggestion, and it can for sure be fun to do for events, but aside that, I don't think this is feasible to do

- Adding more teams
At this moment, a lot of teams are already struggling to fill their slots. Adding more teams, whilst adding more chances and opportunities, will drain the teams and we must half the slots to make this feasible. Of course -- when the player base has grown -- this should be revisited. At this point there are 10 teams per faction in total, thus a sum of 20. More than that would be unfeasible with the current amount of active players.

- Captains buying players off of other teams.
Whilst this is a 'real-life' aspect of sports, it does not fit with School teams at all. Additionally, with that, adding more teams isn't really feasible. I don't see this working out well

Anyways, that's my two cents! Nonetheless, love the ideas :D

Thanks for the answers so far, I really understand what you mean

I think the main reason why I was actually writing this suggestion is because of the fact that there aren't any "real" teams formed and it's only spartans vs bobcats which is one of the main areas that are making the roleplay for me personally pretty odd sometimes. So for example, you are in a rather big school with lots of people (like this one) and would like to join a football team but since you are a highschooler, your only choice is to join the HS-Male team (or female ofc) but other than that, you have no option to join the spartan team other than either getting in by tryout, private tryout (both if there are 0 other people attending it with college rank which is almost not possible) or you have the college rank and normally do the tryouts etc. And then it is an kinda unwritten rule, that you are against college people as a highschooler, and other way around to have rivalry situations ongoing.

If you do the teams seperatly, you now have the choice to join one of the two teams that even exist rn. The only difference to that is that both college and highschool students could join it which makes it transparent without any degree issues because in irl schools it doesnt matter what degree you have in regards to joining a team. You could easily make like 2 teams with Karakura background or lore so to say. It would just get the captains more freedom in regards to who is getting on, no matter the role/degree they have and also in regards to branding and how their teams is represented. For example, colours of the jackets, kits, name of the team and stuff like that.

So, even if you only take 2 male teams and 2 female teams, it would still be a huge change. The other aspects were really just "the cherry on top" and were only my thoughts. Im rather passionate about football so most of these are very realisitic, however clash with the general school idea of the server, which is understandable

 

[desyu]

There is only ever 300-400 players online during events, and the server averages out to 200-250 other times. Having 6 teams for 3 sports (basketball, football, volleyball) would make 216 players. Plus the 2 teams for swim, track and cheer (assuming these will just be for the two different teams you suggested?) would give us another 72 players.

That leads to nearly 300 players to have full teams.


This would be done with 6 teams.

I didnt really took that into consideration about how many it will be in total, it was just a gut feeling that 3 would be manageable but due to the numbers you listed it's also too much for now atleast, depends on how the server grows in the future.

But you could even do this with the existing 4 teams per sport, it would be a mix between spartan players and bobcats

 

[DarkEclipic]

-1

 

[maraa]

-1, fear my reasoning is from being on sports teams since 2022 and i dont see the need

 

[ckxn]

-1

 

[justsimba]

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This is a cool idea in my opinion, though I've never been on a sports team so I dont know how much that should be trusted, but as Tippie and Sak said theres no way the current active player base of SRP could support it.