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Curtis · 10-14-2006, 12:02 PM

Yankees: My signings WERE on the day before the draft. Your idea about the finances is a good one. I'll have to see if they've changed. I had the computer force financial settings on day one when none of the teams had enough money to sign personnel. Since 'Black Tuesday' occured before the financials would've been reset, that would be a curious sequence of events.

I wasn't permanently running any of these teams, just 'playing as' until they were up and running the way I wanted them. (I'm the Nippon Ham Fighters, because I love the name and they're the perpetual losers of the Nippon League. By the way, they're actually the Fighters from Nippon Ham, not guys who have a losing record against ham.)

I tried to create separate human manager personae to run the two national teams, but couldn't figure out how to make it work and ended up deleting them before I began making moves.

Kaitiaki: So far it hasn't hired replacements, and it turned out that I oversold my point. The 'big names' (ie. the ones that they would've had if they'd been affiliates) got fired, but not the 'extra' scouts or doctors. Since these guys were hired to medium term contracts, the AI actually increased its personnel expenditures for the next three years.

I didn't increase the number of scouts per team from what they defaulted to upon game start, just gave them different ones. This may be significant — I also reversed almost all of the head coaches and bench coaches, since the bench coaches uniformly had better ratings and were also uniformly older. Maybe there's some kind of game bias there? If so, I haven't noticed it in my Federal League universe.

By the way, your idea about too many scouts SHOULD be valid. My intention upon setting up the universe was that the Chinese, University and Island independent minors would have the same alotment of personnel as affiliated minors do. For the real CBL, that would actually be accurate. I was confused when they ended up with the same personnel alotment as the International level teams. In the Big 6 University League, I even fired four scouts from each team. By day two, four of the 24 had already been replaced EVEN THOUGH NONE OF THE TEAMS HAD ANY MONEY LEFT.

At this point I'm pretty much just shaking my head. Thanks for trying, guys.

10-14-2006, 12:02 PM	#4
Curtis Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Watertown, New York Posts: 4,567	Yankees: My signings WERE on the day before the draft. Your idea about the finances is a good one. I'll have to see if they've changed. I had the computer force financial settings on day one when none of the teams had enough money to sign personnel. Since 'Black Tuesday' occured before the financials would've been reset, that would be a curious sequence of events. I wasn't permanently running any of these teams, just 'playing as' until they were up and running the way I wanted them. (I'm the Nippon Ham Fighters, because I love the name and they're the perpetual losers of the Nippon League. By the way, they're actually the Fighters from Nippon Ham, not guys who have a losing record against ham.) I tried to create separate human manager personae to run the two national teams, but couldn't figure out how to make it work and ended up deleting them before I began making moves. Kaitiaki: So far it hasn't hired replacements, and it turned out that I oversold my point. The 'big names' (ie. the ones that they would've had if they'd been affiliates) got fired, but not the 'extra' scouts or doctors. Since these guys were hired to medium term contracts, the AI actually increased its personnel expenditures for the next three years. I didn't increase the number of scouts per team from what they defaulted to upon game start, just gave them different ones. This may be significant — I also reversed almost all of the head coaches and bench coaches, since the bench coaches uniformly had better ratings and were also uniformly older. Maybe there's some kind of game bias there? If so, I haven't noticed it in my Federal League universe. By the way, your idea about too many scouts SHOULD be valid. My intention upon setting up the universe was that the Chinese, University and Island independent minors would have the same alotment of personnel as affiliated minors do. For the real CBL, that would actually be accurate. I was confused when they ended up with the same personnel alotment as the International level teams. In the Big 6 University League, I even fired four scouts from each team. By day two, four of the 24 had already been replaced EVEN THOUGH NONE OF THE TEAMS HAD ANY MONEY LEFT. At this point I'm pretty much just shaking my head. Thanks for trying, guys.