Player Nationalities within Footium

We have been discussing ideas internally around players having nationalities within Footium. The discussion has been opened up to the whole community in the #✍️feedback-chat channel in the Footium Discord server over the last few days with lots of interesting different points of view. Before reading on, we recommend that you go and read/join the discussion that has been happening on Discord.

Some general ideas about how nationalities would eventually work within the game beyond being a flag on a players card:

• At launch nationalities would be an aesthetic addition to a player card, allowing club owners to create more history/lore with their clubs/players • A few times a year there could be international competitions allowing each countries manager (AI or Community picked) to select a squad for the tournament • There would likely be prize pools for these international competitions with the proceeds split between the clubs that own the players in the winning countries' squad, alongside the country's manager.

𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟭: 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀

• Assign 16 real-world nationalities to all of the players within the Footium game, adding the nation to the player's card • Scope to add more real-world nationalities through future academy intake

𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟮: 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀

• Generate 16 new countries (names & flags) and assign them to players with flags appearing on cards • Community can get involved by selecting generated names, designing flags and building lore • Only selecting 16 real-world countries to start with could make some people feel left out • If we used real-world countries, we would then need to start matching ethnicities with countries, names with countries etc. • Uniqueness. The vision behind Footium is building a metaverse world for football, not just a game.