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Eclzeastes · 12-06-2002, 03:38 PM

Fantom - you hit it. That would be an easy line to code for rebuilding teams..

If record = crap and payrol =< 40 mil then max player contract = "make up % here".

It would be easy to restrict a losing team to spend only a set limit on a individual contract and instead rank age and potential much higher.

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I'm still not sold on the stadium ideas. I am reading a lot about it and it seems popular but I dont think it would be a direct link to fixing the original problem. You see if you read the original post, it speaks of a problem of lots of great teams and lots of bad teams and no middle.

Now to the computer there are not too many variables that would make one stadium different from another. Heck, we could all test the theory ourselves. Just increase all teams maximum seating and see if suddenly there are fewer grets and fewer dogs and more average teams. I just dont think that changing seating capacity will suddently fix that. It might be a portion of the picture but its not the focus point.

I could have a team that has a stadium with 100,000 seating capacity but if I put 10,000 in a night I am no better off then if I had a 10,001 max capacity.

Plus - how many times do you really change stadiums. Of course it has happened much more in our era but if you did an average on all stadiums that have been in use it would be such an unrealistic thing to switch stadiums every 6-12 years. There are stadiums that have been in use for decades and decades.

Yankee stadium since 1923
Wrigley since 1914
Dodger stadium for 40+ years
etc... etc...

I dont think that something that realisticaly happens maybe every 20-40 years TOPS can FIX the problem we are supposed to be talking about. Now take it out to what is more realistaclly 50-80 years between stadiums and it becomes even more rediculous.

Would you really be impressed if a game that is a leader in realistic gameplay and stats to suddenly have teams start changing stadiums every couple years?

This problem will be fixed with small and almost unnoticable changes in a couple variables that are probably already coded. Stadiums sounds more like a new feature people want and not a viable solution to this problem.

Eclzeastes

12-06-2002, 03:38 PM	#57
Eclzeastes Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 26	Exactly! Fantom - you hit it. That would be an easy line to code for rebuilding teams.. If record = crap and payrol =< 40 mil then max player contract = "make up % here". It would be easy to restrict a losing team to spend only a set limit on a individual contract and instead rank age and potential much higher. *** I'm still not sold on the stadium ideas. I am reading a lot about it and it seems popular but I dont think it would be a direct link to fixing the original problem. You see if you read the original post, it speaks of a problem of lots of great teams and lots of bad teams and no middle. Now to the computer there are not too many variables that would make one stadium different from another. Heck, we could all test the theory ourselves. Just increase all teams maximum seating and see if suddenly there are fewer grets and fewer dogs and more average teams. I just dont think that changing seating capacity will suddently fix that. It might be a portion of the picture but its not the focus point. I could have a team that has a stadium with 100,000 seating capacity but if I put 10,000 in a night I am no better off then if I had a 10,001 max capacity. Plus - how many times do you really change stadiums. Of course it has happened much more in our era but if you did an average on all stadiums that have been in use it would be such an unrealistic thing to switch stadiums every 6-12 years. There are stadiums that have been in use for decades and decades. Yankee stadium since 1923 Wrigley since 1914 Dodger stadium for 40+ years etc... etc... I dont think that something that realisticaly happens maybe every 20-40 years TOPS can FIX the problem we are supposed to be talking about. Now take it out to what is more realistaclly 50-80 years between stadiums and it becomes even more rediculous. Would you really be impressed if a game that is a leader in realistic gameplay and stats to suddenly have teams start changing stadiums every couple years? This problem will be fixed with small and almost unnoticable changes in a couple variables that are probably already coded. Stadiums sounds more like a new feature people want and not a viable solution to this problem. Eclzeastes Last edited by Eclzeastes; 12-06-2002 at 03:43 PM.