Sim to start fictional league?

[nebben]

Do you sim seasons when first starting a fictional league?


There are many threads saying you should do this to weed out unrealistic seed players, but those posts are at least two years old. Just wondering if anyone thinks this is still necessary, or if the game's improved the fictional seed players it generates?

[BirdWatcher]

It's a great question.
Conventional wisdom here seems to suggest that you should.
I didn't with my W.P. Kinsella League which just finished up its 14th season. (And started in OOTP18.)
And I've been very happy with the results. I get some of the reasons people say to do this but I think many of them have also been overblown.
Or, as you seem to be suggesting, might be based upon earlier OOTP realities that have since changed, improved, disappeared, etc.

But I would very surprised if you didn't get some passionate arguments in the other direction too.

[BRyMcBourbon]

I simmed my Tamriel league for 15 years before jumping in.

It was nice to have some history and get the league into swing


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[miracle6]

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[HRBaker]

I usually sim a 50 year stretch before going solo. Trying to get interested in the players is really difficult when you don't know anything about their history - and you immediately start tracking broken records as well.


I don't think there's any reason to do so as far as game processes are concerned, but a league without history simply doesn't have the depth of the MLB as we know it.

[nebben]

Originally Posted by HRBaker

I usually sim a 50 year stretch before going solo. Trying to get interested in the players is really difficult when you don't know anything about their history - and you immediately start tracking broken records as well.


I don't think there's any reason to do so as far as game processes are concerned, but a league without history simply doesn't have the depth of the MLB as we know it.

Good point

[darkcloud4579]

I always like to sim ahead when I start my leagues so there's a baseline of history to work with before I get going. I also start my leagues in some unnatural year like 1800 or 1900 so that I don't have to suspend disbelief into the future.

[HumanRainDelay]

Originally Posted by darkcloud4579

I always like to sim ahead when I start my leagues so there's a baseline of history to work with before I get going. I also start my leagues in some unnatural year like 1800 or 1900 so that I don't have to suspend disbelief into the future.

That makes the most sense to me--letting the sim run a few seasons to provide a foundation. I enjoy the leagues that overlap fiction with history, and I will let the AI run things for a couple of years in those to provide some context before I dive into the mix.