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Originally Posted by PSUColonel
IMO this is nothing more than an excuse for fan boys to keep having a reason to play this game in solo mode. Why the hell can't Markus fix the AI issues in his game that really ruin the solo experience? He never has. From stupid trades, to dumb free agent signings , to signing and releasing players-or putting them on the Waiver wire.
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No, it isn't fanboyism. I've been as critical of this game as anyone, but the AI works as it works. It can't be fixed, because it isn't doing anything wrong, per se.
It just calculates value in a certain way, and that leads to it acting weirdly. For example, team X sign Eric Young for 750k, 1 year in FA. Eric Young's contact slips by a point or two before the start of the season. Suddenly, Young isn't worth 750k anymore. Or a player in AAA gets a wee boost, and is more valuable than Young, even -750k. The AI makes the mathematical decision, that based on value or changes in value, that Eric Young should be cut. The fact that he has just been signed shouldn't come into it - if the Red Sox cut Petagine before the start of the season, is Theo guilty of terrible AI, or taking a chance on a FA that didn't pick up.
Every player has some value, and as value fluctuates slightly from team to team, it stands to reason that in a big league, you can trade any player for a slight upgrade. If you can do that, then any player x can be traded for any player y just by stringing it out long enough.
This isn't apologising for the AI, it's explaining it. Sure, it isn't perfect, but it certainly doesn't ruin the game as a solo experience, unless you are unable to resist the temptation to maximise the AI's flaws. The AI, as it stands, is liable to make odd moves because of the way it values production. That can be annoying, but it isn't fixable until 7.
The only thing we should be pissed off about is that the game still doesn't have any concept of 'contenders' or 'non-contenders', when this would have been a piece of cake. Teams could just have individual 'favour vets' or 'favour prospects' sliders. That is fixable.