Don't pre-beat a drum that I wasn't going to beat (lol).
I have nothing against Markus or his incredible baseball simulation - he does an incredible job. Frankly, with ANY application, you're basically a beta tester - heck, how many updates have been sent to everyone's "favorite" operating system?
Really, I'd just like to know - because we all know that OOTP is a great game and it also can suck a lot of time (fortunately, it's "good" time) - what the settings are to maximize my experience and minimize the "oh crap!" after devoting one's time to a 10-year run to a league that eventually falls apart.
For instance, while it's accurate, I find having multiple class A and a rookie league as just too much for me. I'd like to pair that down to A, AA and AAA. I'd also like to change my drafts to five rounds. However, I have no idea if either or both those options aren't going to seriously cripple my league later on. Markus can't be all things to all people (though he tries) - I'd really just like to know what options are ideal to mess with and which are not.
Also - and I've seen this since the first day with Markus - when someone presents an issue the response (many times, not ALL the time) is "I tweaked it" or, "I fixed it". While it would make no sense to go into a 2-hour dissertation on how everything was tweaked or fixed, it would nice to occasionally hear, "I tweaked it, and here's what I did..." (without giving too much away, of course). The conversation in the other thread about advancing baserunners comes to mind.
Anyway - OOTP is a great game - not knocking the game or Markus - it's just the more information the user has, the more he CAN play baseball as he wants to play it.