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Originally Posted by knockahoma
Hey Eugene.
You sound like a guy after my own tastes. I play almost exclusively in a God-mode. I'll keep the leagues small (8-16 teams). I'll also set the lineups and the slide the sliders to help the AI. Playing that way doesn't garner "instant gratification" in some ways. You don't get the ego bump of beating the AI to the playoffs. But, stories. You want stories and immersion? You want to have a "realistic" intelligence running every team? Except for a few blips here and there, OOTP provides the tools to run and watch an extremely realistic God-mode league.
I've often wondered what percentage of OOTP-ers have tried God (commissioner) mode. They might really enjoy it if they gave it a chance.
How do you handle trades and re-signings, etc.?
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I make all trades. Both teams have to fill a need before I do them.
I don't use financials. Money and free agency has ruined baseball. Yeah, I agree players were mistreated prior to free agency, but now it has ruined the game. Musical chairs is not good for baseball. It is hard to keep up with who is playing for who these days. Back when I was a kid in 1950, I knew all of the line-ups for all 16 major league teams and the Southern Association. And the majors pretty much kept the same players year-after-year. It wasn't hard to keep track of the players back then in the Golden Age of Baseball.
I liked the way they played the game prior to 1960, especially in the minor leagues where each team would be composed of vets and some rookies. You would always have returning vets on each team each year, so there was some fan continuity that is totally missing in today's minors. I remember players in the Southern Association that played 5-10 years in the league. Players like Ralph "Country" Brown, Al Flair, Lenny Yochim, Charlie and Tookie Gilbert and Ray Shearer. Minor league owners tried to win the pennant in those days, not like today, where the minors exist totally for the benefit of the major league teams. Minor league owners would purchase the contract of a vet in a higher league and bring them in to make the playoffs. The constant shifting of players in the minors today is not good for a serious fan. But then again, the people who go to minor league games today don't seem to watch the game anyway.
Sorry for the rant, tirade and digression. Me blowing off steam doesn't change anything. Those good old days are sadly gone forever.
But thanks to Markus, the Golden Age of Baseball can live again in OOTPB, when players didn't just play for the money, but because they also loved the game.