Stadium Improvement Guide

Introduction
To many, the Stadium is the heart and soul of a team. It is the place where your home games take place. It is the place where the team and fans interact in their most public way. But more than that, it is the place where a Manager is able to generate their most stable and reliable source of income. A manager ignores improving their stadium at the peril of their teams financial well being.

In the beginning
When a team is first created, they are given a small, poorly developed stadium that can contain as few as 24000 seats with 18000 of them being Standing type. With that few number of seats, a home game may bring in upwards of ¤400,000 per game. But, all is not lost because by the time a stadium is fully developed with the full compliment of seats, income from home games can approach ¤10,000,000 per game.

There is an old adage that says “to make money, you have to have money.” Fortunately, in Striker Manager, each team starts out with a considerable bit of money. Once the tutorial is finished, a new team should have over ¤3,000,000 to work with. So, where to spend it all?

Improving your stadium
When considering what to develop, there are a couple basic maxims to keep in mind.

Firstly: Always Build
 * If at all possible, there should always be construction cranes up at the stadium.

Secondly: Keep it even
 * Try to keep the number of each type of seat relatively even. Having 42,000 Standing seats but only 12,000 General seats will mean there will either be a lot of empty seats, or a lot of seats sold at a very low price. Having 26,000 of each will bring in more income and allow more fans to watch each home game.

The nuts and bolts
Each time an improvement on a stadium is started, a Building Fee is assessed in the amount of ¤250,000. Also, each section improved during any given build will take one week (7 days) to complete.

The Costs
Each Tier above the first adds an extra cost to the type of seats to be built.

Tier 1 Standing: ¤720,000 General: ¤1,800,000 Pro:     ¤6,000,000 VIP:     ¤18,600,000

Tier 2 Standing: ¤1,080,000 (+¤360,000) General: ¤2,700,000 (+¤900,000) Pro:     ¤9,000,000 (+¤3,000,000) VIP:     ¤

Tier 3 Standing: ¤1,620,000 (+¤540,000) General: ¤4,050,000 (+¤1,350,000) Pro:     ¤ VIP:     ¤

Some examples
Example 1: Building one section of Standing seats on the first tier, it will cost a total of ¤970,000 and take one week to finish.

¤720,000 for one (1) Standing section +¤250,000 Starting fee =¤970,000

Example 2: Build one section of Standing and one section of General seats in the first tier will cost a total of ¤2,770,000 and take two weeks to finish.

¤720,000 for one (1) Standing section +¤1,800,000 for one (1) General section +¤250,000 Starting fee =¤2,770,000

Example 3: Build two sections of Standing in the first tier will cost a total of ¤1,690,000 and take two weeks to finish.

¤1,440,000 for two (2) standing sections +¤250,000 Starting fee =¤1,690,000

Golden Balls
There is a way to speed up the build times for a stadium through the use of Golden Balls. After a construction order has been entered, if the build has more than one week left until completion, an option will show up in the Manage menu called Speed-Up (250GB). By clicking that option, the build time will be reduced by 50% to a minimum of one week.

@rebsiot posted an example, including a screen shot, in the forums:

Accessories
Accessories are extra improvements that can be made to your stadium for some very small bonuses to various aspects. They are not required for any division below 5, and as such, should not be built until a team has been promoted to division 5. The bonuses for accessories versus the maintenance costs make them prohibitive to build early.

Benefits
For each level of improvement, the following accessories give the following benefits: Grounds: Reduces the possibility of injuries by 2% Entrances: Increases sales profits by 1% Lights: Increases revenue from billboards by 5% Dressing Rooms: Improves the motivation of each player by 1% Score board:Increases revenue from billboards by 5%