Hi, in my server maximum level of competition is 46,that is:
this season ,all level 46 teams that had to be uplevelled to 47, have remained to 46,so 45 level last season team were promoted to level 46 and joined them.
But: promoted teams had their stars amount cut for 1 star,locked teams maintained their amount of stars.
No level >46 teams are available.
Now i'm level 45,try to immagine if this lock will persist next season: I'll surely join all those monsters.
This is the consequence for Nordeus strategy to refill abandoned teams season by season with fake players,that are sold
during the season to refund unavoidable bankrupt of those teams as neither money amount nor earning strategy is selected
by managers that do not exist anymore, while scheduled expenses have to be paid to respective creditors
So the situation you talk about will lead to this,soon or later.
Do they want to reduce gap among levels in Champions league draws?
Well,they cannot but lock higher level teams upleveling for x seasons in order to have a suitable numer of teams at the maximum level available.
So a division by quality first and friendship later will be required.
I remember that old pc version considered the number of potential fans increasing accordingly to number of victories, and with a bonus after upleveling proportional to league position.
This could have been considered as a ranking for your team,but in new apps there's no reference to this.
This number was not the number of your effective supporters (depending both on your marketing strategy and on your structure services), it was only the number of people supporting your team.
In your friendlist teams were ordered by this number,now they seem to be ordered by money amount