1. I could be wrong, but I think most new users (which is what we are talking about when we are saying we dont want to discourage anyone) join the first world that's starting after they join. They don't look at every world for the best available school. And if we say that everyone can just reserve a team, what's the point of even having the day and a half to sign up for new coaches before recruiting starts, after all, everyone should have already chosen the team they want.
Sure or they want to join a specific world to play with friends/co-worker/family. The point is when they sign up they are looking for a number of days at what teams are available and then putting down there money to play. At this point when WIS accepts payment, I would think the customer would expect to be able to see that they actually bought something (and usually if they want to replace it with something else, then you better be able to refuse it or get your money back).
Your proposal would require a new user to put down some money, then have to sit back for possible 40 days or more and then if someone else comes along that according to you is more *deserving* of the team he had picked (that nobody had applied to the previous cycle), he'd have a very small window to go find something else (and might have to go through the same thing yet again). Who in the right mind, sign up for that as a new user?
WIS would like to be able to pull money in during the entire month for every world, not just when the world job period begin (which is what your suggestion would do as why would any new user ever attempt to reserve a *good* team they find if someone else can just come along and take it from them.
2. If the coach has the best resume, it's because they earned it, and should get a choice of schools they want. And if you really think this will be a common issue it won't, because if coaches really leave a school multiple times after 1 season, it will hurt their resume, and they will no longer be hired at the school if anybody else applies. (and in your scenario, the schools seem worth multiple coaches applying.
Maybe you don't understand but if you let your credits run out, it doesn't affect your resume. So alternating between cherry picking good teams and letting your credits run out don't hurt you one bit (it will if you stay in the world and jump laterally or down divisions but that's not we're talking about is it. The one advantage that existing owners have is having a period where only they can apply to any open job (including ones where the owner just left). What you want is to have existing owners to have even more advantages over new/returning owners which WIS is a business and in order to survive need to also attract those owners else natural attrition will doom their bottom line.
3. I'm not really sure what you are talking about. If it's new coaches, then it's first come first serve during signups. For returning coaches, they have a resume, and like any other time 2 coaches apply for the same job, best resume wins, and the worse resume has to find another school.
So are you implying that only a single new owner can click on Reserve team (and still not own it according to you)? If not, I'm asking what happens when another new owner clicks on <Reserve> for the exact same team. Or are you somehow implying only a single new owner can pick on <Reserve> but every existing owner should be able to apply to that same team if they want to? As a new owner, they would instantly lose the team in that event so tell me again why would a new owner play this game where any existing owner can click on that team he picked and boot him off telling him to go find another one?
And the primary difference between first come first serve versus the best resume wins, is that for best resume wins, you aren't forced to find a new school. If you don't get the job as an existing owner, you remain at your existing school which is NOT the case for a new/returning owner (they would demand there money back since they didn't get what they asked for).
1/22/2016 1:07 AM (edited)