Description: Franchise Football is both time consuming and labor intensive, not to mention costly to operate due to the complex nature of the game. For that reason, although we offer a generous trial period for franchise owners, we ask that you subscribe your team if you enjoy the game and want to continue playing. Subscriptions not only help us to continue to bring you this great game, but, also give your team benefits.

Topics

Cost
Reward Tickets
Length and Expiration
Status
Benefits
Trial Period
Renewal
Refunds

Cost: Subscriptions are based on game time, not real life. A single season subscription costs $11.99. A single season lasts approximately 3 months. Two season subscriptions cost $19.99, they last approximately 6 months in real time. A four season subscription costs $29.99. Different duration subscriptions may not be combined on the same order.

Reward Tickets: Reward tickets are awarded to teams for subscribing a team or referring someone who subscribes a team. Anyone who is referred to the site MUST have the referral's username listed as their referral as well as the correct sport and the answer to the question "How did you hear about us" listed as another owner told me about the game. If you refer someone who subscribes to the site, your team gets 1 reward ticket. If you subscribe, you get a different number of tickets depending on the duration of your subscription. 1 season = 1 ticket, 2 seasons = 2 tickets, 4 seasons = 3 tickets. Reward tickets may be spent on various reward items in the game. Reward tickets are nontransferable and have no monetary value.

Length and Expiration: As mentioned in the Cost section, subscriptions are for one, two and four seasons. A team will expire one, two or four seasons to the day that it was activated. For example, if an owner purchases a four season subscription on Day 13 of year 2001 (game year) it will last until Day 13 of 2005. At that point the subscription will expire and all benefits of a subscribed team will be lost. If a team is renewed before the end of the season (the day that the team's record is zeroed out) benefits will be restored. If a team goes through the end of a season unsubscribed, various items will be lost, like concession and merchandise contracts purchased that season.

Status: At any time you can see what year and day your subscription expires and the current status of this team (subscribed/non-subscribed) in the Front Office Vitals section.

Benefits: Franchise Football is specifically designed to give subscribed users extra benefits in the game. There are a number of subscriber benefits and they are as follows:

- May own multiple teams in different leagues - you may own as many subscribed teams as there are leagues.
- May place wagers on other leagues games
- Unlimited Free Agent Signings
- Unlimited Player Releases
- Merchandise Contracts last 2 seasons (non-subscribers last 1)
- Concession Contracts last 2 seasons (non-subscribers last 1)
- Stadium may be upgraded 15 different levels (non-subscribers can upgrade 7 levels to Small Field)
- Twice as many players may be placed on the Disabled list
- Team will not be deleted for inactivity (non-subscribers have up to 14 days of inactivity)
- Historical player data is displayed on the players vital screen (non-subscribers only see current season)
- May search active players on criteria such as skill level, position and name (unavailable to non-subscribers)
- Can assign players numbers (visible in player vitals screen)
- Can give players nicknames (visible in player vitals screen)
- Can scout another team's vitals (unavailable to non-subscribers)
- Can include money in trades (if trade is with another subscribed team)
- No pop-up advertisements.

Trial Period: We want everyone playing Franchise Football for the first time to have ample time to try out the game and decide if you like it before you commit any money. For that reason we have setup a generous free trial period. The standard trial period for Franchise Football is 90 days. Since you may play for 3months, you should be able to see the start of at least one season, the pre-season, regular season, post season and end of the season at least once. If after that time you like the game and still want to play, we ask that you please subscribe your team. If you are not interested in continuing, we place the team back in the pool of available teams so another person may try out the game. At any point in time, an owner may check how many days they have left in the trial period by viewing the Expiration field on the Front Office Vitals screen

Renewal: If a subscriber elects to renew their subscription before the expiration date, that new subscription is added on to the end of the first one. For example, if a subscription expires on Day 6 of 2004 (game year) and the owner renews the subscription for another four seasons, the new expiration date would automatically become Day 6 of 2008. When a subscription expires, the owner will have 30 days from the expiration before the team is returned to the pool of available teams for another owner to take. This is true even if you are in the 30 day renewal period. So, in the above example, if you renew the subscription on Day 24 of 2004, the new subscription still expires on Day 6 of 2008. During that period, several reminders will be sent to the email address on file. The time left to resubscribe may also be checked on the front office vitals screen under subscription expiration.

Refunds: Given the nature of the game, payment methods and low cost of subscriptions to end users, Simgalaxy.com cannot offer refunds on subscriptions. This includes refunds because a change is made to the game an owner doesn't like or agree with, a decision not to play any longer or any other unforeseen circumstances.