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Originally Posted by swampdragon
The cliff is one of the worst features of OOTP6. I would echo the desire to do something about it in the 2006 release.
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I think kq gets at the problem rather well: right now, it appears that the rare player who's still around at age 38 or 39 has just gotten lucky on a lot of his coin flips. But in reality, while the average player probably does age in a similar pattern to what the game models, there are players who start declining much earlier and the occasional ones who keep their skills well into their 40s.
Ideally, what I'd like to see is a hidden rating for longevity, but with clues given in-game about "Player X is really working hard on his off-season workout regimen" or something like that. If you had occasional text clues to a player's work ethic tied to longevity that's probably about the closest we can get. The text clues would have to be somewhat random, like injuries, so that there's always the risk that you're trading that 33-year-old who's just gotten a message that normally indicates low longevity, but this was only a blip on the radar and he'll end up being productive until 40.
That's how I'd try to solve the aging issue.
