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Originally Posted by Greatgrampa
OK, I will admit that there are definite AI issues in the sim that need to be fixed and I also admit there should be someone (have no idea what happened to Battists) from the team answering these questions or at least giving us updates on what is happening with the sim but at the same time, as I stated earlier, there are a lot of questions asked on here that already have answers.
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In this one [very long
] sentence, you nicely summed up the situation, GG.
On the one hand, I can sympathize with OOTP principals not wishing to get involved in most threads, as the questions are usually minor and repetitive. It must get tiresome after a while answering the same stuff over and over again.
On the other hand, I would not run my business in this manner. Keeping the conversations flowing on these boards, and answering the questions from new customers in particular, can only be good for their business.
The same thing happened last fall. The boards got very quiet, naturally, but some desperate requests for information that only the developers could answer went unaddressed.
Among those was the lefty-righty split ratings merge problem that persisted through the end of the OOTP 2007/8 patch process (I promise: This is the last time that I will mention it.) To have that game-wrecking problem fester for weeks as I and a few others battled to keep the thread afloat, and then to be ignored when the bosses did return to the boards until the issue became almost embarrassing - that was tough to take.
Now, though, I am digging their product again so I don't care how long a vacation they take. I just marvel at them leaving it to uninformed blowhards like me to answer (and thereby cultivate) their new customers.
