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First off, let me say I currently have OOTP4, and have been holding off on OOTP5. The reason I'm reading this thread is to try to find what improvements have been made, and I'm mainly concerned with areas like Free Agents and Trades.
To me, this new Trade interface sounds wonderful, and I think Markus has pretty much convinced me to go ahead and get OOTP5 by putting this in. THANKS!
As to whether other GMs get upset by backing out of a deal, it really depends on how good the interface of the game is. In OOTP4, the only way to find out what sort of trade another team would take is to propose it. If the game forces you to do that to find out what value a team places on a player, then it shouldn't penalize you for doing this.
And in general, I do believe you should be able to get to a point where you tentatively agree to a team. You'd basically say something like "That's very interesting, let me think about it and talk it over on this end and we'll get back to you." If the other team things its a good deal, they'd be willing to wait a few days. Or maybe you'd get a message back the next day that says, "California's also made us an attractive offer, get back to us today or we'll make the deal with California".
If I was a GM thinking about trading Sammy Sosa, I wouldn't do it on the spur of the moment during a phone call. I'd work out the parameters of the deal. But then I'm going to go talk to my manager and see how he likes the deal. I'm going to go talk with the Captain of my team and some other key players on the team to see what they think of the deal. I'm probably having meetings with my scouts talking about the deal. Just as pure CYA, I'm going to go talk to my owner about the deal and see what he thinks about trading away Sammy Sosa. In general, it seems very reasonable that after negotiating the parameters of a deal with another team, a GM and a club would stop and think about it and then say Go or No Go. And I can't see another GM getting too upset about that.
Now maybe if I'd worked up 15 trades this week with a GM, then said No to everyone, then I'd expect to get a "stop wasting my time" response back. But it should take something pretty severe to get there.
And besides, there's only 30 GM's to deal with. Even if one GM doesn't like another one, there's a very limited group of people you have to deal with.
As to whether there's a penalty for "shopping" a player, that would seem to depend on how much the player wants to stay with a team. If the team is 40 games out in August, and there's rumours that the player might get traded to the Yankees. Then if the deal falls through, I can see the player saying "what the heck" and tanking it for the rest the season.
But if the player is on the Yankees, and the rumour is he's about to get traded to the team 40 games out to get another pitcher, then if the deal falls through, I can see the player being elated that he didn't get traded. For some players in some cases, this could serve as an incentive to play harder.
Age of the player could make a difference too. For a young player, I can see this upsetting them. For a veteran player, they may just shrug it off. I can see them saying "Baseball's a business, this happens all the time", and then start telling stories about the time he was in Cleveland and there was a rumour .....
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