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Originally Posted by Cryomaniac
Apparently it's too hard to code.
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Originally Posted by benallen002
Which I am calling out Markus right now and telling everyone that this is a BS excuse.
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You're overlooking something: the difficulty may have more to do with how minor leagues are treated by the game. Minor leagues are mere appendages of the major league, and I suspect that's the root issue. Minor leagues are more fully-fleshed than they were back in OOTP6's day, but they are still quite short of being fully fledged leagues.
I propose the best solution of all:
make ALL leagues fully fledged, individual leagues.
Do away with this artificial major-minor relationship the game currently uses, and the restrictions that come along with it. ALL leagues should become fully individual, unique entities, with their own rules, options, and league totals. Following this approach neatly sidesteps the DL issue in the current (appendage) minor league approach, since all top-level leagues in OOTP can have their own DL and other settings. It also allows for much better historical fidelity and fictional flexibility.
There are some issues that would need to be carefully considered, such as the way all these individual leagues interact. But these are not insurmountable, and the benefits of the approach make it worthwhile. As it stands now, OOTP allows a rudimentary form of this: top level leagues in the game can interact, just in a very limited way (e.g. free agents moving between leagues). Increase the scope of how leagues can interact, use associations to group leagues together for streamlining of such interaction, and OOTP takes a huge leap forward in how it handles leagues.
As I see it, there's little reason to implement a stop-gap solution like finding a way to get current (appendage) minor leagues a DL in the game. It's better to fix the underlying structural issue, and that's the way the game treats minor leagues. Correct that, and OOTP stands on a much firmer foundation.