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02-02-2011, 06:15 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Neloxia 2100 (FM10/Sim City 4)
If you need a primer on the origins of this story, you can read the prequel to this story here.
Neloxian National Anthem Quote:
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02-02-2011, 06:19 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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INTRODUCTION
The Neloxian Premier League has been in existence since the 2009 season, a decade after the Neloxian Confederacy was formed. Through the vision of C. Pritchell Meyer, the President of the nation and rabid football fan, resources were invested in ensuring a strong youth football program and the hope was, a team able to compete with the most formidable in the world. Meyer believed that if Neloxia could compete on the global athletic stage, it'd lead to increasing the country's influence around the world. The year is now 2062 and few doubt Neloxia's influence on the global stage. The nation remains an economic powerhouse amongst the world's largest, remains politically non-aligned and focused more on cultivating relations as a financial centre and global trade partner. Our focus here is on the arena of sport, specifically football. We are currently in the midst of 2062 World Cup being held in South Africa, where the Neloxia team clings to hopes of claiming their first-ever World Cup title. After winning Group B, they have setup a second-round match against defending World Cup champions Haiti. Here are the results from group play: Code:
Here are the 2nd round matchups  Last edited by Young Drachma : 02-02-2011 at 06:22 PM. |
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02-02-2011, 08:07 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Here are the results from the 2nd round of the 2062 World Cup (That's a link, FYI)
Here are the fixtures for the Quarterfinals:  Past World Cup winners since we got started in 2010 (and before) through now. Just so you know. You are probably wondering about Haiti, right? I'll explain more later, but during one of my test runs I decided to move two Neloxian clubs to the French dependencies of St. Pierre and Miquelon because the U.S. isn't loaded in my universe (I just wanted it to speed, so I didn't let it load more than about 8,000 players or so) and I had this fascination with a Neloxian team in North America. Anyway, those players would eventually develop and some were good enough to play for France since Neloxian youth teams were developing quite good regens which affected these St. Pierre kids. This annoyed me over time, so I decided to instead switch those clubs to Haiti. Over time, they finally got good enough to compete on a global scale and well, the rest is sort history I guess. Things like that keep it interesting for me and what's reality anyway when we're trafficking in the business of a fictional country anyway, right? I don't really know how I missed it, but Neloxia has indeed claimed the World Cup before, for the first time in 2022 and again 28 years later. Here is the Neloxia competition results for the national teams since we began. We have taken ownership of the youth competitions as you can see, which is sort of cool.  I haven't edited any Neloxians since I began, in case you were wondering. I've just simmed straight through for the most part. I've been keeping a very 50,000 ft. view of things in order to reach the point where I'd actually start playing which hasn't happened yet. Back to the World Cup coverage now. After the World Cup, we'll dive into the Neloxians leagues where I will get you spun on the setup, the dominant teams and how it all works and stuff. It's a doozy, lemme tell ya. Last edited by Young Drachma : 02-02-2011 at 08:19 PM. |
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02-02-2011, 08:28 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Here are the results from the Quarterfinals of the 2062 World Cup
Here are the semi-finals for the 2062 World Cup  This is Neloxia's first World Cup semi-final appearance in 12 years. Of course, the last time we came to the semis we won the entire event. We will, over time, chronicle players worth knowing and such alike. But right now I just want to see what happens in the World Cup, as I believed it to be the proper introduction to a return to Neloxian football for all of us. We'll get into more detail as we go on, because as far as I'm concerned the game year says 2062 but I'm operating like it's 1962 because I want to sim further into the future than we have to get through another 50 years or so of Neloxian football before this dynasty is done. On to the semis... |
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02-02-2011, 09:00 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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 Spain seeks their first World Cup since obviously the real life 2010 victory isn't in this version of the game. Oops. Neloxia seeks their third title. |
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02-02-2011, 09:56 PM
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02-02-2011, 10:31 PM
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One of the things I figured out with this whole deal was the sensible way to do it is to build the entire country first and then commence with the soccer. That way, you aren't getting incomplete pictures of what the country looks like and then it changes and it's sort of annoying.
So I've just been building and I'll post the pictures of the country and so forth as we go forward. But first, I'll introduce you to the new setup of the professional league and some of the notable teams throughout Neloxia. The landscape is a bit more robust to say the least than our last time out. We're one of the powers of Europe and befitting that status are a number of clubs that you ought to know who are on par with the familiar juggernauts of the continent that we've grown accustomed to over the years. With that, here is the setup for the Neloxian professional leagues. We have 11 divisions -- 8 in the national setup and 3 in the regional setup. The regional teams can't get promoted past Level 9. (My game is playable down to level 11 FYI) The other eight divisions are broken as follows: The top three tiers remain the same, with a few teams added: Quote:
I've created a new system called the Alliance System to go under the traditional three tiers we've been using. Here's how they work: Quote:
Below the Alliance level, we have the Regional level. The Regional level is a three-tier system that effectively operates outside of the Alliance system. It's the former Northern Ireland clubs in their own league within a league, essentially. Quote:
The Cups break down like this: Quote:
Did you guys get all of that?! Now I'm going to move on to talking about various teams at each level. Last edited by Young Drachma : 02-02-2011 at 10:42 PM. |
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02-03-2011, 12:23 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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When I was doing this the first time, I wanted to invite you all to participate. But I too busy fleshing it all out. But I thought about it and now I think it makes sense to do it. So here's what I'm thinking:
I'll go ahead and start posting the different cities, so you can get a feel of what Neloxia looks like now. Some of you already have a sense, but there are more cities now, it's grown a lot and as I've said, the story is more fleshed out than it was when we began because we're not as young a nation. In any case, I'd like to help immerse you all into Neloxia by offering you the chance to create your own Neloxian regen. I'll edit a regen for you based on your specifications based on the following criteria: Quote:
If you want to be more detailed than that, go ahead. So I'll chronicle teams and cities over the coming days and feel free to add your player(s) whenever. You can have a player from another country too, if you'd like, just make sure you have at least one Neloxian because well...it'll keep things interesting I think. So there's the opportunity, feel free to take it. Thanks for reading. Last edited by Young Drachma : 02-03-2011 at 01:38 PM. |
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02-03-2011, 02:20 AM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Truth be told, I'm not quite done yet. I mean, the cities that matter and that have been "moved" from the original dynasty are where they need to be, but I haven't completed them yet. It's a process and I don't want to just rush through it so
Rather than last time where I just bombard you with the cities all at once, we'll visit different cities as we go forward, talking more about the teams and their success and so forth. Or if you just want to see a particular place after reading about a team, let me know. That said, the country hasn't changed that much. We're close to 2 million people (about 1.6 million now) but the main difference is, whereas when I started I confined myself to just one block on the map, I've spread things out and so cities that were once comprised of a few blocks are now square miles long, which makes things better. In any case, here are some flyovers of the country as a whole. We'll visit these places in more detail throughout the dynasty as I said previously. This is Academy Island It's home to all of Neloxia's service academies. Cadets nickname it "The Rock" This is the Northern part of the country, which is largely rural. The largest city is in the northwest corner and is called Vampire Lake (it's where the water is) and they have their own team that currently play in the Neloxian Football Conference (NFC) but once were a Premiership club that advanced to the NPD Championship Game in '18. Smaller teams predominate the area, but most people in these parts root for Marisa-based clubs, as capital television stations are their local channels.  Here is western Neloxia, which is anchored by the city of Alzate, a metropolitan area of nearly 250,000 people as the area around there has grown considerably in recent years and continues to do so. Here's a nighttime shot of Alzate, it's one of my favorite cities.  We're going to spend some time on the teams now, as it'll be useful for you to know what teams matter and whether it's truly possible or not to rise from the 8th division to become a championship squad on the world's biggest stage (tm) -- The Neloxian Premier Division. Last edited by Young Drachma : 02-03-2011 at 09:17 PM. |
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02-03-2011, 03:16 AM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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If you were reading before, most of the teams are the same but some have been renamed. I fixed the Malbonia thing, so they're no longer factored into this dynasty at all. I renamed back to it's original name and moved the two clubs from there back into Neloxia with different names and so, that storyline is done with. Because a few of the clubs I left there in the Malbonia Premier League haven't been deleted, every once in a while you get a good player out of Vanuatu and they have lost the World Cup playoff to the AFC team a few times, but that's about all.
Anyway, let's get to business. The Neloxian Premier Division or NPD is in its 53rd season. The 12-team circuit plays a 33-game season with the top four teams qualifying for the NPD Championship Series with a semi-final and championship final to be crowned Neloxian Premier League champions for that year. The bottom three teams are relegated without fuss. Like before, we play an unorthodox season from March through September because I don't like seasons to overlap between two years. Here is the current setup of the league (mostly so you can see their colours) and standings through the halfway point of the '62 season.  Here is the list of recent champions over the past near thirty years:  What this little ditty doesn't tell you is the team with the most overall titles is Swenton Town with nine. This owes largely to the fact that they won the first four league titles from 2010-13 and since then won five others, the last coming nearly 24 years ago during the '48 season.  The gold standard of Neloxian football however belongs to a club called Alzate Capital. They are often jokingly referred to outsiders as "Real Neloxia", owning to the Spanish heritage of the club. They were founded by a bank and have branched out into a variety of industries over the years, but the corporate priority has always been about owning the most globally significant Neloxian football team. The Red and White is an institution. Alzate Capital is the only team to spend its entire existence in the NPD. No other team can boast that and it's something that fans will consistently remind you of, that their teams is the "only premier team in Neloxia." It can get old, quick.  If you read the prequel, you'll remember Black Tambourine as the plucky underdog who were so popular that the spawned the nation's largest beer craze and were eventually behemoths themselves? Well, Black Tambourine started this time on top owning to that legacy and remain one of Neloxia's most popular football teams. The team has been relegated to The League five times in their history -- all since 2044 -- and each time, they win the league the following season to make the return trip back to the Premiership. Fans of Black Tambourine hate the playoff system more than any other, as they've lost in the title game ten times.  You might be wondering if it's possible to rise from Tier Four -- the lowest level of national level football in Neloxia -- to the Premiership. The folks at Centillion will tell you to get on the train and watch how it's done. From 2009-2011, this team labored in the eighth division before rising through the ranks. They didn't make their first NPD appearance until the '20 season and spent about a decade on an elevator back and forth between The League and the NPD, but since '33, they've been a Premiership squad entirely.  To my knowledge -- and it's not vast yet -- they are the only club to rise from Tier Four to the Premiership in NPD history. Alzate fans aren't the only arrogant ones in Neloxian football. There's plenty of that to go around. Cerise would like to remind you that there is another team with as many NPD titles as Swenton Town and it's them. Cerise is a team located in the capital of Marisa and are the fan favorite not just of that metropolis, but of the whole country. They've been relegated to The League just once in their history, the '23 season when they went down and won to be promoted back to the following year.  BNN are an upstart club who have seen recent success.  BNN spent the first six years of their history in Tier Three and eventually another five in the NFC. Their first NPD season wasn't until '27 and yo-yo'd back and forth between the League and NPD up until the 2050 season. This marks their 12th straight NPD season and they've claimed four titles -- their first four -- during that span. The upstart has arrived, friends. Academia Cromwell is one of the best universities in the country and their rival is University of Schell. Hellsbath United have won five NPD titles in their history and have only spent five years out of the league in their history. Embassy of Football have never played lower than the second division, but in their history have never finished higher than seventh in the NPD when they've managed to get promoted there from the League. Neloxiant is the club formerly known as Orion Protectorate if you were following along in the original dynasty. They began in the NPD, finishing 5th that first season and since that time the best finish club has ever mustered is 9th. They've spent just one season below the League level. Upton Park is a section of Marisa and their team has fallen a bit on hard times over the past few years. They've won the NPD five times in their history, but have spent seven years at the league level over the past ten years. Last edited by Young Drachma : 02-03-2011 at 04:25 AM. |
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02-03-2011, 03:50 AM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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The Football League of Neloxia or simply "The League" is quite the composition of teams.
 Here you have teams that end up boasting a massive amount of success, paired with rising stars who are up their way up and a few teams that just get trapped and as a result, Neloxian clubs are quick to say that the most competitive football in the world is being played in the league because "no one who plays there wants to be there." It is a 27-game dogfight. Like all Neloxian leagues, five points are awarded for a win and one for a draw. The most accomplished club at the moment are a team that spent fifty years out before having to return. Downham & Bradfield Railway or better known as Men of Iron.  They've claimed four NPD titles over the years and have been championship game runner-up a staggering 12 times. Still, they've been stuck in a rut for four years and counting where they're unable to finish high enough to head back towards their rightful place as they see it, with the teams of the NPD. Kings Avenue are an odd duck club. Through the '21 season they were playing in Tier Four and by the '28 season they did what everyone hopes to do -- seven tiers in seven years to claim their seat the big kids table in the NPD. Just three seasons ago they parlayed a 4th place finish into a playoff victory and the NPD title and now they find themselves away from the glory and seeking a shot back upwards.  Hetfield United won two NPD titles in the 20s ('23, '26) and are effectively an elevator club. New Kongisberg Brewery have been in the NPD two different times ('18, '61) and are another team that began in Tier Four and worked their way up, which I guess by now you all realize is a lot more doable than it might seem, eh? Enclave was a juggernaut team in the previous iteration of this dynasty but this time? They're a minnow. Their last NPD season came in '15, many moons ago for beleaguered fans who want a taste of the big time. Harland & Wolff made their NPD debut during the '59 season before being relegated. Shipwreck claimed the '52 NPD title and eight years later were toiling in the NFC. (3rd division) Now they are on their way back up. Or are they? Despite this, the majority of their history has been spent in the Premiership. Anno Domini or A.D. to those in the know, have 12 total seasons at the NPD level and their best finish has been ninth. They've spent the bulk of their existence in the League. True Believers are officially known as the Missionary Football Organisation of True Believers. The team is a division of the True Believers religious sect, one of the largest Christians denominations in Neloxia. Their fans are very devoted and some men joke that they became True Believers because they knew they'd meet a woman who loved football. They've won the Neloxian FA Cup twice ('14, '57), but claim just one NPD season in their history ('32). They began in the 4th division Football Alliance Championship and have never played lower than that. City Hall University United or simply City Hall are a Marisa-based team who last played in the NPD in '57, making their debut during the '42 season. They've spent seven wobbly seasons in all at the top level, their highest finish was 5th. They won the Neloxian FA Cup in '39. More divisions to come... |
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02-03-2011, 04:21 AM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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I wanted to be done for the night, but I'm really just scratching the surface on some of the bette named teams that are my favorites and so, I needed to introduce a few of them.
The Neloxian Football Conference or NFC is a dogfight, because only one team makes it out of here. It's literally the division where the pretenders get sorted out from the real football clubs who want a shot at glory. The line usually goes "if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere."  I had to really mull over the most notable team in the NFC right now, but Vampire Lake probably gets the title. They spent 14 years in the NPD, losing to Men of Iron in the '18 NPD Championship.  They last saw the Premier Divsion in '24, so it's been a while for fans of this club, seeing their once proud squad fall from grace so epically. They last played in the League in '57. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention our namesakes Forest-Overbridge F.C. or better known to fans as FOFC. This teams was actually acquired by an internet message board devoted to buying a football club.  They were FA Cup runners up in '18, but save for that were mostly minnows. They actually started in Tier Two, waffled around for a while and actually spent a better part of the '40s in Tier Four. Last season was their first-ever season playing in the NFC and after a 5th place finish find themselves there again for the second straight year. Will they someday play at the highest levels? We shall see... Holdsworth Steel is one of those clubs that everyone always feels like is going to break through and then they don't do it. They've spent seven years in the NPD, the most recent of those just three years ago ('60) but now they're on a freefall that their fans hope will stop at the NFC, as they've never been lower than that.   I'm pretty sure I restarted one of my twenty-odd replays of this db to make sure it was working when I came up with this name. I just couldn't play a long lasting dynasty and not use it when I came up with it. In any case, they're another one of those clubs that people expect to breakthrough, but it hasn't occurred yet. They've played just one year above the NFC level ('40 in the League) but they have a strong fan base for a lower-level club. Wheatbridge United spent four years in the NPD, most recently in '24. They last played in the League in '41. But as they say in Neloxian football in regards to the 3rd division and below, "once you get trapped, you never get back." Cassius City have been FA Cup runners up twice ('53, '58) but have never played higher than the League level; doing so four times, most recently in '54. Greyhound Neloxia spent the '38 season in the NPD. They spent just one year in Tier Four working their way up to the Conference where they've remained for most of their history. They last played in the League in '43. Mutual Benefit Society is a team representing one of Neloxia's largest charities. They were a small operation for a long time. They were in Tier Four from '09 to '22 and in Tier Three from '23 to '37. They made their NFC debut in '54 and returned in '60 after a four year hiatus. They've never been higher. The Arcade Fire demonstrate what happens when you run out of names in your country. They began in the Conference in '09 but only lasted until the '13 season and after that toiled in the lower leagues. It took them 42 years to get back to the NFC, the highest level the club has reached and their highest finish was 2nd in '57. Neloxian Civil Service won the FA Cup in '48, seven years after their last appearance in the NPD. A historical Tier Four club, they've primarily spent their history in the League, they have five NPD seasons, the last in '41. |
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02-03-2011, 05:43 AM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Osaka, Japan via Honolulu, Hawaii via Birmingham, Alabama
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Cool stuff. You let your imagination run wild with those team names.
Let me know when we can get involved!
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U of Hawaii | U of Alabama | Montreal Impact | Montreal Canadiens | West Ham | West Indies cricket | Portland Trail Blazers |
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02-03-2011, 01:39 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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You all are welcomed to get involved now. I'll keep posting teams and will chronicle more cities as we go along too, so you know what each of the divisions looks like before we finish this season and so forth, but I'm ready to start adding characters now! Quote:
I'd prefer they all be Neloxians, but if you want to create someone who has a 2nd nationality and plays for another country, that'd be fine. Just let me know that. Last edited by Young Drachma : 02-03-2011 at 01:52 PM. |
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02-03-2011, 02:19 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Okay, so now that we've gone through and covered the divisions that we always had in Neloxia, it's time to dig a bit deeper and head below the 3rd division to the lower leagues.
Before we do that though, let's take a look at the FA Cup recent winners. The most fun thing about the FA Cup is that it gives teams from the Regional leagues a shot at national glory on the big stage. You can see that Lisburn Distillery lost in the FA Cup to Kings Avenue back in '59, but have Regional teams ever won it all? Yes. The first FA Cup was won by Coleraine, a regional premiership team at the time in 2009, that was the only year two Regional clubs made it all the way to the end. (Part of this was because most Neloxian upper clubs had pieced together rosters since they were all created and the Regional clubs from the former Northern Ireland did). In 2037, Glenavon won the FA Cup.  Alzate, Black Tambourine and Cerise have won the most FA Cups with five. |
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02-03-2011, 02:44 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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 So here we go. The 4th tier in the Neloxian football pyramid is the Alliance Championship. Fourteen teams duking it out with only one team able to escape out -- well, with one other escaping in the other direction. The team worth noting is one of my pet projects - Carcajou. The Wolverines were originally based in St. Pierre and Miquelon which in my head I'd take over from France. Except, all of the regens there would eventually play for France since it's a french dependency. This was fine for a while, until I realized Neloxian football was churning out some damn good regens. So I decided to intervene and I moved Carcajou to Haiti in some sort of bizarre reparations scheme in my head. Plus, I didn't load many countries in the game, so I discovering putting the stadiums of inconsequential clubs in other countries would generate regens from those countries and make my game a bit more interesting. There are already too many Neloxians to begin with. So anyway, Carcajou has never played above the 3rd division and only did that once. Still, they have a huge local following. The most notable club in this division is probably FCI or Five Cities Insurance who began in the NPD and spent a total of eight seasons in that league, most recently in '28. City of Claire are back in the Alliance Championship for their second year after a 48-year hiatus. They were bridesmaides four times in this league during the 10s and are still looking for their first bid to the NFC. Vonjo Athletic had two third place finishes in the NFC during the '50s at their peak. Fitzpatrick Cheese Company have won some minor trophies throughout their history and have claimed this league twice ('28, '35) but last played in the NFC during the '40 season and their best finish there in seven seasons was 4th in '37. Magnolia Electric Company of Sheldon began in the League in 2009, but were out by '19 and didn't return until '58 and only then for one season. They were the FA Cup runners up in '16. University of Sophia play in that city. FA Cup runners up in '17 and their highest run was five consecutive NFC seasons in the mid 20s, ending in '27. There's no NCAA in Neloxia. College teams play at various levels of the pro leagues with hired gun athletes who are marketing department employees and often attend the schools, but not always. Thomas Luke F.C. have spent two seasons in the NFC during the 30s. Sporting Mapouras spent four in the 40s. Wye Oak began in the League, but were out after two seasons. Black and Yellow (B&Y) rose as high as the League in the '55 and '56 seasons, but were back down after that. Neloxian Army began in the League, but not even a coup (just kidding) could keep them there after five seasons. Tuesday Wanderers or just Wanderers began in the 4th division, but were booted after a year and took 32 years to get back. After another ten year hiatus, they returned in '58 to their highest level of football in Neloxia. Aisha have a strange history. FA Cup runners up four times ('11, '35, '48, '52) they've only spent one year in the NPD and only 12 in the League (most recently in '51) but they manage to get up for big tournaments at random times in their history. With the right management, many believe they'd be a formidible club. Last edited by Young Drachma : 02-03-2011 at 03:14 PM. |
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02-03-2011, 03:12 PM
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Ok, I'll just post links to the Tiers One through Four teams, because we're talking about 62 teams and I doubt you care about all of them.
Tier One Tier Two Tier Three Tier Four I'll highlight a few notable teams amongst these leagues though: Watchmen (Tier Four) began in the second division but have managed to tumble to the bottom over the years, only playing a total of three seasons in the second division -- all non-consecutive. Sam Harding (Tier Two) is a restaurant chain in Neloxia. Their team isn't as good as their food, but they did spend one season in the League ('14) Most Incredible Hulk (Tier Two) is not a typo. Yes, that's actually the team's name. Fifty Lakes Professional (Tier Two) were in Tier Three the year they won the FA Cup ('22) University of Swenton (Tier One) are nicknamed Crystal Stilts. Royal St. John's Regatta 1816 (Tier One) is based in Newfoundland, as my backdoor way to get more Canadian regens. Policia (Tier One) is no longer the official team of the state police, but do receive their patronage. They were runners up to the FA Cup last year. NAF (Tier One) is the Neloxian Air Force team. There is a Tier Three team for the Air Force Academy of Neloxia, too. Cranford Bridge (Tier Four) are interesting in one way. I guess every league has a team that's never won anything. Cranford Bridge is that team. Their highest Tier Four finish ever was 12th in '10. Their second highest finish? 13th the year before. Since that time, they've finished dead last or second to last in the Tier Four all but one time in their history (16th in '14) Now that's a doozy of a legacy. Here are the links to the Regional teams: Regional Premiership Regional Football League Regional Football Conference Last edited by Young Drachma : 02-03-2011 at 03:18 PM. |
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02-03-2011, 08:11 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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A friend reading this who isn't a member of the board wondered about boundaries of the cities. Because I started off naming each city "Neloxia Confederacy" and there isn't a way to change it; coupled with the fact that I've just taken the liberty of annexing some of the smaller cities into the bigger ones for the purposes of our story, I figured out how to make it a bit easier to recognize the map of the country.
So first, let's take a look at Marisa. It's comprised of five cantons -- essentially boroughs like New York City -- and the combined population of the capital is nearly a million people. Hopefully this helps you understand the boundaries a bit better. Below West Marisa is the Terra Risa National Forest.  Here are pictures of the downtown Upton Park both day and night: Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3 Pic 4 (Neloxia's largest airport) Last edited by Young Drachma : 02-03-2011 at 08:45 PM. |
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02-03-2011, 08:35 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Most of the rural towns featured in the northern part of the country aren't even in FM, because they're too small. I put the entire map here without words so you can get a sense of where they are located relative to the rest of Marisa, etc.
 The anchor city which bridges the Marisa area with the rural north is County City. The entire County City Regional Area has close to 90,000 people.  That red line divides what's considered County City with Vampire Lake and Teela City, the anchor cities of Northwest Neloxia. The seaside areas are some of the best vacation towns in the country -- Seaside Cove and Seawood, but neither is in the game that's just a dinner party factoid.  Vampire Lake has about 56,000 people and Teela City has about 51,000. Lots of lower level football teams play here and in other parts of the rural north, because really what else is there to do? I got smarter with the naming eventually, so I don't need an overlay for these towns. Only about 800 people live in West Lake and the towns surrounding Teela don't have more than 1,500 people in each. Last edited by Young Drachma : 02-03-2011 at 08:38 PM. |
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02-03-2011, 11:56 PM
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College Starter
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: La Mirada, CA
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This looks really interesting. I'd love to participate!
Name: Dex Morgan City of Birth: Suburb Second Nationality: None Type of player: Wonderkid Favorite team: Cerise Position(s): AMC
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02-04-2011, 12:31 AM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Osaka, Japan via Honolulu, Hawaii via Birmingham, Alabama
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Name: B.B. Gunn
City of Birth: rural town Second Nationality: none Type of player: International Favorite team: Alzate Capital Position(s): MR (preferred), DR/WBR
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02-04-2011, 07:49 AM
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H.S. Freshman Team
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Name: Dave O'Shea
City of Birth: Vampire Lake Second Nationality: none Type of player: Wonderkid Favorite team: Greyhound Neloxia Position(s): DC This is really cool! Thanks for opening it up. |
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02-04-2011, 09:17 AM
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College Starter
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Arlington, VA
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I've been following, so I may as well play, too.
 Name: Ches O'Peake City of Birth: Big City Second Nationality: None Type of player: World Class Favorite team: Swenton Town Position(s): FC |
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02-04-2011, 11:24 AM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: ...down the gravity well
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Name: McQwik Noone
Second Nationality: None Type of player: Wonderkid Favorite team: Shipwreck Position(s): FC
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02-04-2011, 07:24 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Ok, so here are the player cards of our first batch of regens.
 Dave O'Shea is a 17-year old playing for the U19 squad at Greyhound in the third division Neloxian Football Conference (NFC). Born in the Vampire Lake suburb of New Sophia, he grew up in Vampire Lake and was a local icon in the area football community. While his friends all grew up fans of the local side Vampire Lake during their heyday, Dave was a loyal Greyhound and would love nothing more than to start for the Orange and Silver en route to the trip to the Premiership.  Dex Morgan is settling into his new club after being transferred from Cerise, his favorite club growing up to New Kongisberg Brewery of the second division League of Football Neloxia (or simply "The League). He comes with hig expectations after the team splashed $32.5 million on the 19-year old wonderkid who hails from Swenton in South Neloxia. If he plays his cards right, the team's faith in him will be rewarded with a trip back to the NPD.  B.B. Gunn hails from the small town of Shannon in northeast Neloxia. The 19-year old future star is in his second season with Neloxiant, after a $5.25 million transfer from BNN in 2061.  22-year old striker Ches O'Peake has been a bit of a late bloomer in his career. Breaking in the Tier Three squad The Black Angels, he joined Tier Four (8th division) side Watchmen after a trial in '59. The team was in the 3rd tier at the time but were relegated to the basement of Neloxian football after two years. He's now in his fourth season and whispers are the team won't be able to hold him, as increasingly more and more teams come to scout him at their games.  McQwik Noone hails from the city of Shipwreck in southeast Neloxia. He began his career with BNN before being sold to Cerise for $2.8 million in '60. Cerise sold him the following year for $8 million to Academia Cromwell who have loaned him to his hometown club Shipwreck. He spent a one-game stint with the club on loan from Cerise C back before the team moved him for good. Some wonder if this is a precursor to a permanent move at Shipwreck for the young forward. |
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02-05-2011, 10:26 AM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Name: Dean Hoo
City of Birth: Big City Second Nationality: None Type of player: Wonderkid Favorite team: None Position(s): ST |
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02-05-2011, 03:11 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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 18-year old striker Dean Hoo hails from the city of Enclave in southeast Neloxia. He broke in last year with Arrian, a Tier Four club and began this season on their U19 team before being transferred to White Moon Brewery of the Regional Premiership (9th division) this season. As you know, 9th, 10th and 11th division clubs -- Regional clubs -- can't go higher than 9th. Last edited by Young Drachma : 02-05-2011 at 04:17 PM. |
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02-05-2011, 05:24 PM
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High School Varsity
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Cincinnati, OH
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Name: Chas Cincinnati
City of Birth: Any Second Nationality: None Type of player: Wonderkid Favorite team: Men of Iron Position(s): AMC
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02-05-2011, 06:52 PM
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Pro Rookie
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Rahway, NJ
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Name: Ryan Omark
City of Birth: Suburb Second Nationality: Type of player: International Favorite team: Hellsbath United Position(s): AM(C), M(C) |
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02-05-2011, 08:04 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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2062 Neloxian Football Season - Part One
 Swenton Town are relegated for only the 3rd time in their history, the last time coming in '59. Hellsbath United is heading down for the second time in three years, but only the 6th time in their proud history which includes 5 NPD titles and winners of the Champions League back in '21. Finally, a once proud Upton Park squad are seemingly doomed to the life of an elevator club; heading to the League for the fifth time in seven years despite having appearance in the junior circuit for what will be the 11th time in club history. As the fall has arrived, as has the winding down of another Neloxian football season. As the over 230 professional clubs across Neloxia wind down their year, we turn our attention to the NPD, where the playoffs are set to begin:  Alzate managed to eclipse Academia Cromwell by a single point. If Academia had beat Hellsbath United in their last match, they'd have advanced to the playoffs. Instead, they tied and Alzate Capital managed to beat Cerise 2-1. The difference maker has to be Ches O'Peake who joined the team on September 11th and while they lost their first game with him, they didn't lose again including two Champions League tilts in the middle of their NPD schedule. In five NPD appearances, he had 4 goals and was Man of the Match twice. Now the two rivals will duke it out with one heading for a shot at the championship. For defending champions Black Tambourine, it'd be title #6, whereas for Alzate, this title would put them in the company of recently relegated Swenton Town and Cerise with a NPD record 9 championships. Can Ches O'Peake and first-year manager David Glenn pull off the upset en route to history? We'll soon find out. Here's the final results in The League this past season:  Harland & Wolff are going back up for only the 2nd time in their history. Their first taste of the big time was in '59 when the team finished 11th. Kings Avenue head back up after a one-year break and just three seasons removed from their NPD title. ('60) Hetfield United are also back after a one-year break. For fans of Shipwreck and Men of Iron, you'll have to wait another year to experience the NPD once again.  Alliance Championship: Champions: City of Claire Relegated: Carcajou City of Claire is heading to the NFC for the first time in club history Tier One Champions: Regatta 1816 Relegated: McKinney, Builders & Butchers, Neloxian Air Force, Joshua Tree Tier Two Champions: Red Kettle Promoted: Ghost Town, Channel Six, Capital City Relegated: Inlet Athletic, South Alzate Tier Three Champions: True North Promoted: The Black Angels Relegated: Marisa Community Tier Four Champions: Arrian Regional Premiership Champions: White Moon Relegated: Bennett Park, Larne White Moon's first ever RFP title, their previous high finish was 4th (last year) Regional Football League Champions: Ballyclare Promoted: Linfield Relegated: Tobermore Utd, Armagh Regional Football Conference Champions: Donegal Celtic Promoted: Cliftonville |
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02-05-2011, 08:16 PM
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High School Varsity
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Austin, TX
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Name: Chaz O'Schex
City: Big City Type of Player: International Favorite Team: True Believers Positions: D(R)(C)(L), DM |
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02-05-2011, 08:27 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Who knew so many Neloxian parents would name their kid some variation of Chas.
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02-05-2011, 08:48 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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NPD Playoffs
 Looks like our boy O'Peake blew it when his team needed him most.  The '62 NPD Championship Game will pit defending champs Black Tambourine against Centillion, who are in their 7th title game and in the previous six tries have not won yet. They were beaten out by Kings Avenue ('60) for the honour of becoming the first Tier Four graduate to claim a Premiership, but I doubt that winning this one would make it any less sweet for a club that's been a regular member of the NPD consecutively since '33. Last edited by Young Drachma : 02-05-2011 at 08:48 PM. |
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02-05-2011, 09:54 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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One of the side effects of our strange season are a lot of injuries, as well as guys being gone off to play international football during key points of the season. Black Tambourine had several key players out which made this game more competitive than it might have otherwise have been.
 Centillon claims their first-ever NPD championship on penalties, while the Bridesmaides of East Nelitz are runners up for the 11th time in club history. (and 5th time in 9 seasons) |
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02-05-2011, 10:11 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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'62 IN REVIEW
Academia Cromwell's McQwik Noone scored six goals in fourteen appearances on loan with Shipwreck. Alzate's Ches O'Peake was NPD Player of the Month after scoring 5 goals in six games and earning MoM honors three times, he transferred from Watchmen for $50 million, after scoring 25 goals and three assists in 22 games for the Tier Four side. Liverpool's Ches O'Shea has appeared in four games so far for Liverpool since arriving earlier this year after three games with NFC side Greyhound on a $975,000 transfer. Neloxiant defender B.B. Gunn appeared in 22 games for the Brown and White scoring two goals and seven assists in his second season with the NPD club. New Kongisberg Brewery midfielder Dex Morgan came in third player for '62 NFL young player of the year after scoring 3 goals and 3 assists in 12 appearances for the Wheat Kings. He transferred for $32.5 from Cerise this year and while the team missed out on promotion by just a point, the club hopes he's a big factor in their return to the bigs after next year. White Moon striker Dean Hoo joined the Regional Premiership overachievers just in time to appear in 11 matches en route to their first RFP championship, as well as a win in the FA Bowl. He put up nine goals, four assists and was man of the match in four games with an average rating of 7.84. Teams are banging down the door for him, so it remains to be seen how long he'll remain content in Neloxia's 9th division without an escape hatch. |
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02-05-2011, 10:49 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Here are the player cards for our latest three recruits:
 Chas Cincinnati was born in northern Neloxian town of North Daria and grew up in the country near County City. He's currently a member of the U19 squad for the defending Tier Four champions Arrian. He made six appearances in his rookie year, scoring two goals and being MoM in one of those games. Arrian is the same club that produced former teammate and current White Moon starlet Dean Hoo. Hailing from the city of Mapouras in southern Neloxia, Chaz is currently a member of his hometown club's "C" team. Sporting Mapouras finished 11th in the Alliance Championship this past season. Ryan is a 17-year old midfielder from South Cromwell. He made three appearances last year for his hometown club, Southern Cross who play at Cromwell Stadium in South Cromwell. The team finished 13th in Tier Four this past year. |
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02-06-2011, 04:18 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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I'm prepping to post maps, but before I do, I wanted to give a non-exhaustive, but basic list of where certain teams play in the country. I didn't dig deep at the lower levels, so if there's a team you want to know about where they play, let me know and I'll mention them. I just covered the big clubs and a few interesting ones for the purposes of this dynasty.
NORTHWEST (VAMPIRE LAKE/TEELA CITY) New Konigsberg Brewery (Vampire Lake) Cassius City FOFC (North Daria) Vampire Lake Noah's Ark Ghost Town West of Teela Teela City True North NORTHEAST (COUNTY CITY/SHANNON) Centillion Harland & Wolff (Netherwood) Men of Iron Shipwreck Fitzpatrick Cheese Magnolia Electric Red Kettle Builders & Butchers Watchmen CENTRAL (MARISA) Academia Cromwell Black Tambourine (East Marisa) Cerise (Marisa) Embassy (North Cromwell) Neloxiant (North Marisa) University of Schell (South Cromwell) Upton Park Anthracite Taxi (West Marisa) Arcade Fire (North Cromwell) City Hall University (Marisa) Black & Yellow (Cromwell) Neloxian Civil Service Wye Oak Capital City Policia Seven Mile WESTERN (ALZATE) Alzate Kings Avenue (North Alzate) Greyhound (New Sophia) Dominion Athletic Prima Athletica Reyes United Real Alzate White Moon Brewery EASTERN (HELLSBATH) Enclave Hellsbath United Holdsworth Steel Army Tuesday Wanderers The Black Angels (Craven) SOUTHWEST (MAPOURAS) True Believers City of Claire Aisha Sporting Mapouras Tom Luke SOUTH (SWENTON) Swenton Town BNN Fifty Lakes Professional Mutual Benefit Five Cities Insurance Vonjo Crystal Stilts/U. Swenton Sam Harding SOUTHEAST (TERRA RISA/BLUE MOUNTAIN) Hetfield United (Terra Risa) Anno Domini (Terra Risa) Wheatbridge United University of Sophia Channel Six Athletica Terra Risa So looking at the upcoming season's NPD, you see we have 2 from the northeast, 7 teams from the greater Marisa area, 2 from the Alzate area and one from the southeast. So you can see why teams like Cerise, Alzate, Black Tambourine and now even Centillion attract the fan bases they do. Too risky to get too comfortable otherwise, because your club might tumble and make it back up top. Swenton Town and Hellsbath United are the anchor teams for their areas though despite their relegations this season, because between them they've only spent a collective 9 seasons in the second division and neither has second two consecutive years there. Still, Swenton's last title came in '48 and Hellsbath's in '51. BNN left Marisa for a new stadium in a Swenton suburb in 2060, so they've moved areas but as the TV network team it wasn't as much of a shock for their fans who are national. Last edited by Young Drachma : 02-08-2011 at 02:45 PM. |
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02-06-2011, 05:20 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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White Moon to build new stadium, form partnership with TV8
I purposely left one or two clubs in the Regional division so if I ever wanted to manage one I could. White Moon Brewery was actually owned by Black Tambourine for a while, before becoming independent. The current management are former staff at Black Tambourine. Now that they've managed to turn White Moon into a formidible club at the Regional level, they have higher ambitions. The club can't be moved out of the RFP no matter what, but what if an RFP club acquired a lower level team from the Alliance and funnelled players their talent upwards? Same board, same stadium and most of all...more lucrative profits? The White Moon Consoritum has narrowed down the list. I took a look at the list of clubs and compiled the teams that were of interest to us geographically and that would be worth trying to buy out. You all can help the board make the decision. Our main criteria is that we don't want a club that's already been to the Premiership before. So that rules out Watchmen, who we could afford pretty easily, but the goal here is to takeover a team, move it to the new stadium that White Moon is building and will complete by '64 and link the two together in an alliance of Neloxia's next great football club. The real question is, what region is the for the taking? I'm thinking the south or eastern parts of the country. Hellsbath Utd and Swenton Town have loyal fan bases, but both have seen better days. On the flip side, there isn't a dominant club based in the southwest at all, which leaves an opening. The idea is for both White Moon and this club we ally with to move to a new stadium somewhere in the southern part of Neloxia. We're going to show you some of the potential locations and you're going to help make the decision. But before we decide on a site, we need a club to partner with. So I'm going to review a few potential teams and see what you all think of them as being worth acquiring by the White Moon Partnership, as each of these clubs you can assume have agreed to talks with the consortium. After some careful evaluation, it makes the most sense to take over a club from the NFC, because the new White Moon Stadium will be ready to open at the end of the '64 season, meaning we won't move in until '65. The best scenario would be to move in an NPD club into the stadium. There are some more attractive clubs at the lower levels that would also be cheaper, but the board seems to agree that the sooner we've got people in the stands filling the seats, the better off we are and that would be harder to do with a club from say, Tier One. The rules are: 1. The club can't own it's own stadium/must be a groundsharer 2. Estimated value has to be within the partnership's means 3. Preferably a club from the NFC (3rd division) So with that, here are our options: City of Claire: Currently groundsharing in Marisa at Cerise's old stadium with a bunch of othe teams. Claire isn't a city, it's an old section of Marisa. Still, they're in the NFC for the first time and are slowly building a buzz. Their best asset is the fact that they've played in the city for long enough that people have heard of them. It might be attractive to fans in the south to bring a capital-area team to them if we moved them without the nasty aftertaste howling of moving a venerable institution. Claire won the Alliance Championship for the first time last year and this is literally the highest point in the club's history right now. Anthracite Taxi: Their lone League season was in '40 and were primarily an Alliance Championship (4th division) club until two years ago. They groundshare at Hellsbath United's old stadium which isn't in Hellsbath, which is why they moved in '18. West Marisa is the smallest and most suburban of the five cantons of Marisa and as such, their reach locally is somewhat limited especially playing in the NFC. Every other club in the NFC currently owns their own stadium or are too rich for our blood (City Hall University falls into that category) The only other clubs we're considering are from the Alliance Championship: Tuesday Wanderers split groundshare between Hellsbath and Enclave. Sporting Mapouras own their own stadium, but it's over 50 years old. What they have that none of the other clubs we're considering is a huge city that' their own to pull from in the same way, that say, Swenton does. Except, they play in the 4th division. With Mapouras growing annually, there could be a gold mine of an opportunity here and they're willing to do it, as the club is cash poor. City photos to come later. Last edited by Young Drachma : 02-08-2011 at 02:31 PM. |
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02-06-2011, 05:28 PM
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Mascot
Join Date: Oct 2010
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I see you don't have any keepers so:
Ricardo Portiere City of Birth: West Lake Village Second Nationality: Italian Type of player: International Favorite team: Men of Iron Position(s):GK (what else) The son of Italian immigrants from the south, there may be a battle for his services as an international if all goes well |
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02-07-2011, 09:46 AM
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College Starter
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Arlington, VA
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It's going to take a lot of goals for the national side to make fans forget that screwed up PK.
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02-07-2011, 11:23 AM
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High School Varsity
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Austin, TX
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I say Sporting Mapouras, because it seems like the best untapped potential (also you can control my regen and make sure he gets playing time)
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02-07-2011, 03:38 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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We start the flyby series in Hellsbath/East Hellsbath. Together, they boast over 216,000 people. East Hellsbath (153,549) is actually bigger than Hellsbath (63,109) and is home to Hellsbath United Stadium.
Here's East Hellsbath     Here's Hellsbath including a view of old Vueling Stadium where Hellsbath United used to play and now several teams groundshare at.   Last edited by Young Drachma : 02-07-2011 at 03:42 PM. |
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02-07-2011, 03:47 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Terra Risa is located in the Blue Mountain region. It's the bedroom community between both eastern Neloxia (Hellsbath area) and southern Neloxia (Swenton area) and so, people often community to either place from here as it's largely a home of transplants who wanted a quieter lifestyle, as it's made up of small communities. It still does have a solid commercial sector and in recent years, is becoming a refuge point for companies looking to get out of the larger areas, due to local investments and a glut of venture capitalists setting up shop here.
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02-07-2011, 04:06 PM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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The cape there is called Cape Trinity and I haven't built it yet, but it's not going to be a big city, I envision is as a summer resort community with residential, a bit of commercial and if I can get motivated, an amusement park area as I've been meaning to build a substantive one for a while. Hellsbath, East Hellsbath and Craven connect through a subway system that is always rumored to be heading to Terra Risa, but it has yet to materialize as of yet. Terra Risa is also disconnected from the Swenton subway, probably the nation's best Metro system and it's not even done yet. When completed, it'll connect most of southern Neloxia going from Swenton to Mapouras and the towns in-between.
Craven is home to the Tier Two club The Black Angels is also home to East Neloxia International Airport. Here's a flyover of the eastern Neloxia area to give you perspective of things. East and West Marisa aren't part of the region, but I wanted to identify them to help you get your Neloxian geographic bearings. You get a sense of how relatively small the country is when you look at this. It also helps you appreciate how dense Marisa really is. Eastern Neloxia has only slightly more people than Upton Park, which explains why people are leaving the cities in droves, but also how clustered those areas are relative to the outer regions of the country. By contrast, Northern Neloxia together has less than 200,000 people if you combined the Teela/Vampire Lake/County City metro areas and that'd be a stretch, only because County City loves to call itself the 6th Canton of Marisa even though it's not and the rural areas surrounding it want nothing to do with the rest of the country most of the time.  So the only region you haven't seen is Southern Neloxia. Last edited by Young Drachma : 02-07-2011 at 04:19 PM. |
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02-07-2011, 07:14 PM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Osaka, Japan via Honolulu, Hawaii via Birmingham, Alabama
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Nice flybys! I'm loving it!
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02-07-2011, 08:20 PM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Jan 2006
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This is a really ambitious dynasty but it's pretty amazing!
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02-08-2011, 03:20 AM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Thanks guys.
Now for Swenton. Current population: 701,956. Despite this figure, it's still far more suburban in nature than the Marisa metroplex. As you know, it's home to Swenton Town who were relegated after last season, but are the team with the most NPD titles with Cerise with 9. People from Marisa don't think of Swenton as a big city, but there's no disputing that it's growing exponentially in recent years. It's not a cow town anymore, that's for sure. But don't take my word for it...here are some pictures: My favorite public library in the entire country is in Swenton.  Swenton Square is home to the World Trade Center, that orb topped building near Swenton Square Garden is City Hall and of course, the stadium there belongs to the proud of men of Swenton Town F.C.  Here's a nighttime shot of the downtown area:  North of downtown is a community known as Swenton Gardens. It's fallen on hard times, but is being redeveloped and seems to be on it's way back.  Here's a flyover of the main part of the city. The area away from downtown is the part that's closer to the Fifty Lakes area. Swenton is easily the most residential of any Neloxian big city, most of the high rises you see are residential properties, the commercial area here isn't as big as some of the other big cities in the country. If you look in the northwest corner of this photo, you'll see the University of Swenton, home to Crystal Stilts who are a Tier One club based in this city and who have a strong following.  The University of Swenton might not boast a Premiership soccer team, but gridiron is popular in Neloxia and their team have won more national championships than any other club in the country. Part of the reason there are so few association football clubs here is that most young kids in Swenton end up starting their lives playing gridiron, but that's changing gradually. Nationally, the most popular sports are: soccer, baseball, netball and gridiron is fourth on that list. Still pretty impressive for a small European country, but...we're not the size of a U.S. or Canada. Most of our talented kids go to university in the U.S. to play since playing in Neloxia would make them ineligible since there are no collegiate sports. The last city to profile is Mapouras which is officially known as South Alzate. Geographically it's a bit removed from the Alzate metroplex, but there was once a time when people thought the two cities would be more intertwined. Right now, Mapouras is more connected with Swenton just because of it's relative proximity. |
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02-08-2011, 04:56 AM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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 Ricardo Portiere is the definition of a late bloomer. He began his career with Kings Avenue, with the notion that he'd be a starlet capable of helping the club down the road. He was let go after two years without playing a game and joined Mapouras during the '61 season and was loaned to the Tier Three club Hulk where he made the team's seasonal best eleven. In '62, he joined Tier One club Policia, also earning seasonal best 11 honours and joined Tier Four club Kingfisher with two games left in the '62 season and recorded two shutouts in both games. He's recorded 14 shutouts in 31 career games. The little known fact here is that Nicosa Kingfisher is Black Tambourine's "B" team, one of the few NPD teams that has a B team playing in an active league. Their "C" team Red Tambourine play in the Regional leagues. As such, it's possible that the big club will swip Portiere before he can start next season in Tier Four. But we'll see. A dual citizen of Neloxia and Italy, some worry that he will follow in the footsteps of the greatest Neloxian goalkeeper in history - Kyle Black. Kyle Black was a dual citizen of Neloxia and Jamaica and chose to play for the Reggae Boys instead of his birth nation. 166 caps later, he's been European Goalkeeper of the year runner-up four times, been shortlisted for World Footballer of the Year ten times and World Cup Best Goalkeeper honors. Neloxians are already pressuring the twenty year old Portiere to "make the right choice" despite the fact that he has yet to be placed in the Neloxian national pool. We shall see what the future holds for the debutante keeper. |
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02-08-2011, 06:18 AM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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SPORTING MAPOURAS ACQUIRED BY AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN
In a surprise, American businessman Mark Salvador has acquired a majority stake in the Sporting Mapouras Football Club. "We want to give Southwest Neloxia what it deserves -- world class football -- and we're gonna do it here in Mapouras," said the billionaire who made his fortune in the energy futures industry. An admitted neophyte to football, he was brought to the city by the longtime American owners of NPD side Hetfield United. It was rumored for weeks that Mapouras was considering a deal that would have a joint organisation created with regional side White Moon Brewery, but it seems apparent that board members felt they would be better off going it alone. Salvador, 52, expects to invest heavily in the club and has told fans that the Alliance Championship club should be preparing to play at a high level in the future, a tall order for a club that's only spent four seasons above the 4th division. Meanwhile, this move limits the options of the White Moon consortium, which has yet to reveal its intentions going forward. Clubs have been mum on any possible plans and officials with the consortium have no spoken. |
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02-09-2011, 02:14 AM
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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All right, so here's how season two went for each of our guys. There was some moving around of course, but that's what makes it fun, right?
First off, here's how the NPD regular season ended.  Defending champs Centillion will not be back to defend their title missing out as some of the usual suspects are where they are. Black Tambourine will take on BNN in one semi-final, while Alzate will challenge Academia Cromwell in the other. Meanwhile, two of the three clubs promoted last year are headed back where they came from. Harland & Wolff and Hetfield United were in their first year back in the NPD, they'll be joined by underachivers Neloxiant, who were enjoying their first two consecutive seasons in the NPD since the '30s. Their best ever NPD finish was 5th during the '09 season, since then they've finished no higher than 9th. They'll be switching places with True Believers who won the League and will be making only their second ever NPD appearance, the last coming 31 years ago. Anno Domini will rejoin the NPD after a second place League finish, their last season in the top league was '59, this will be their 13th season. The third and final entrant to the top division is Enclave. It's been a very long wait for their fans, their last NPD season was '15. But their faith has apparently been rewarded. How about those NPD semi-finals, eh?   It seems both of our favorites were upset and we'll have a 3 vs. 4 championship. This will be BNN's attempt at their 5th title, the previous four all coming in the past ten seasons. Meanwhile, Academia Cromwell enjoyed their first sip from the Cup in '56 after losing out the previous year and lost again in '59. Now let's find out about our starlets, shall we? |
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