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Originally Posted by Lockheart
This question just popped into my head, I don't really care what the answer is as I don't mind how it works but I'm curious so I'm going to ask,
How come we only get one uniform for both home and away? Is it because they are only used for the photos and nothing else?(as I would assume)
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Well, FaceGen was introduced only in OOTP 2007, so it's still rather new to the game. The designers did a good job incorporating it, but made provision for only one picture per player. On the one hand it's thought of as a personnel file photo, not an in-game picture, although on the other hand they are used in the Broadcast screen and everybody is in home uniform which is strange when you think about it.
I think the reasons for this are two-fold. One, it would be a big programming job for the game to have two pictures for each player, to be changed according to the home/away schedule. Second, doubling the amount of player pictures needed would slow the game down considerably and further inflate the numbers and sizes of files that have to be stored and backed up.
This is not to say that such difficulties will not be addressed in some future version of OOTP, however. Given their ingenuity, I would not be surprised to see this enhancement announced by OOTP someday.