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Originally Posted by fhomess
I don't see why it needs work as a work around. It works very well and doesn't take very long. The idea behind clearing the history is so that even though you've simmed 20 years, it looks like you're starting from scratch and all the leagues in your universe are already "mature". It's pretty easy to tell the game to sim 20 years and not have to do a thing along the way. It doesn't even take all that long to sim out those 20 years. Then you clear the league history so that those 20 years of games look like they never happened, but you've got a league model that's already worked out any potential issues from league creation.
I suppose "doesn't take very long" is a relative expression. In my mind, if I'm setting up a complex feeder system, I don't expect to get my league configured in 5 minutes. I can sim 20 years in less than a couple of hours and have no problem going off to do something like eat dinner, exercise, and/or take the dogs out for some fetch in the meantime. When I come back, it should be all ready for me to wipe the data and start my league and I haven't wasted any time just sitting and watching the years roll by.
Anyway, I'm not saying that the feeder PCM's shouldn't be improved. Certainly they can and should be. I fully support any improvements to the feeder league model which is nice but isn't very robust at this point (please let high schoolers go to college! they need higher education!).
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I understand your point- and if you're playing fictional- this may be a good option. But if I want to use real rosters- and I play 20 years in, I have completely lost my purpose for playing with real rosters in the first place as I am the same position I would have been had I started with a fictional universe to begin with; that is- I play with real players so I know the talent of the league to start. I don't mind mixing in fictional players as I go- but I prefer this to be a gradual process- and as such I learn the strengths/weakness's of the league over time. I suppose I am in the minority- but that's why I am calling it a work around- no offense intended.