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Originally Posted by Tigers Mask
I have finally moved on from 1901 to 1902. I know you can auto-play through years and years very quickly but I am intentionally taking my time with this since I am doing it for no one but myself, heh.
I'm not really rooting for any franchise but I am "playing" as the Baltimore Orioles (eventually to be the Yankees). Went 63-77 and did pretty poorly, I guess!
1. Under Manager Options and Team Control Settings, I have the AI controlling everything. Sometimes between games I use the "Ask manager/bench coach" for lineups, pitching, setting up the lineups/depth charts, etc. Do I need to be doing this at all, and if so, how often?
2. As I said before, this is a Historical League starting in 1901... just with the real players removed and fictional players added. Are the real minor leagues ever going to appear? I noticed that the Cleveland Blues have become the Cleveland Bronchos, the Brewers became the STL Browns, etc. When I first added the minor leagues (AAA, AA, A, etc.) they were obviously generated on the spot. Will the real leagues/teams ever form on their own?
3. To add to the "realism" I am using sepia portraits and uniforms/logos from the time period. I am curious... As time progresses and I change uniforms and logos to match time period, and go from sepia portraits to color, will those things change when I go to the History sections and look at the "old" home run leaders, greatest pitchers from the Deadball Era, etc.?
4. Anyone wanna guess at the facial hair thing?  |
1. No. You can set the lineups any way you wish. The "Ask manager/bench coach" function" is if you want the AI to set the lineups/depth charts for you.
2. No. Minor leagues will have to be added as you go along. You can use the "Add league" function to add minor league teams. There are minor league templates within the "add league" function that you can use. The templates have the real minor leagues/templates making it easy to setup.
3. The pictures will change if your fictional picture options are set to update either on January 1st, when a player is created, or as needed.
My personal workaround for this is that I manually generate pictures for my league at each season start, then turn off generate pictures function until the following season. That way the generated pictures for retired players remain and do not generate to the ugly default uniform. That way I when I go back and review retired players they maintain the uniform they wore for that appropriate period.
4. For facial hair I use Bobble Hair Mod. I use a 60 (no hair) 40 (5 o'clock shadow) for the deadball era. When I go into the 1920's I will change the no hair to 100%. By the early 1900's most ballplayers were clean shaven for the most part. As opposed to the 19th century where there was quite a bit of facial. I researched this using Google.