Quote Originally Posted by littledude072 View Post
or they could just remove some percentage of fans from those that drop, lose lots of morale, some other things and whatnot. no team IRL would strive to be demoted. yet again if someone does exploit it i probably shouldnt be surprised.
and to those promoted, increase the number of fans added as usual. whats more tempting than getting more XP for playing in a higher league? better token/cash sponsors.
Yeah, demoted teams should:

1) Lose a large percentage of their fans (as they would in real)
2) Lose a couple of their best players (as many real footballers have a clause in their contract stating they are able to leave the club if the club demotes)
3) Get all morale set to 0 (as would happen in real)
4) Lower income and token gains for the duration of a season (as sponsorship would naturally decrease)

In fact, they should probably add those negatives to the people tanking on purpose. But there is no way to tell if someone does so on purpose and it's far easier to manipulate what position you end as when you tank on purpose than if you were just not good enough.