Aside from
http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...-managers.html bothering me right now, I have another.
I don't know if I'll be accepted into Beta this year or not, but this is a discussion we've had every year I've participated and I'm not sure why, but we've never been successful in generating any real momentum to add any changes: how to make the game treat the playoffs and winning them (include your equivalent of the World Series) with a little more zippity do, opposed to the here's a nice picture of a trophy and your team. Now look over what changes you might want to make, do some offseason stuff, and click-click-click until it's Spring Training again, lather-rinse-repeat.
I'm not complaining, so much as feeling a little empty that there wasn't a bit more fanfare, tasks, or news, to invigorate that involvement and/or immersion that so many of us solo players are looking for in terms of the format that, maybe, provides a tad more interaction. At least, one that allows us a celebration unlike the hardship and small joys we experience during the season (unless you're a talented dynasty writer), alone, and in no small way, a Show sold out with one ticket. You make it what you can.
So I've seen suggested, properly, in the Suggestion Forum categories, things like spicing up the number of news stories, including making sure each and every game of the playoffs is covered; maybe adding, or having the AI select the Series or Post-Season MVP award; one could create a news story themselves, adding a post-playoff interview with the manager, and more. I haven't hunted them all down, but I hope we do this year and give it some serious consideration for evolvement.
Any ideas out there about what could be enhanced, added, eliminated, or changed to make that aftermath of losing the playoffs or winning them go by a bit more slowly, or provide for some inspiration to delve deeper into the game? Or am I alone in feeling a certain sense of anti-climax, a bit of a sludge-like process that crawls out without real event until ST is there knocking on my menu, with the exception of the little message that lets me know it's "that time again", whatever that time is?
If it's not important, you can tell me that, too. Maybe it's not for simmers, but for the solo guy playing 'em all out, or even most of them, I just have this sense - as I've had in years past - that there's a void that could be better filled with real interactions of some kind. Thanks in advance. Even after finally winning it all, seems I'm still not satisfied, eh?
Consider it a conversation starter, even if it ends quickly.