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Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS
For those of you that seem to get angry at the mention of this as an option; why?
There's an option to have a majors level league in Madagascar - I don't use that option either - what possible difference does it make?
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FWIW I am not angry. If you want to know more in depth why I don't support this feature you can go to the old thread link posted earlier in this thread. I don't care to do all of that typing again. The short version is you can mod the game yourself and make this happen.
IMHO any time Markus spends on this feature is time away from something else.
I intended on just staying out of this but the bold above always catches my attention. This argument, whether it is Madagascar or the more used Ghana, is meaningless drivel that really has no merit. All of these "non-baseball" locations were not coded into the game by Markus, they are from the FM country database used for the first SI version of OOTP. I suppose Markus could have wasted time removing all of these countries instead of leaving them in to appease everyone that criticized him for having them in the game. In retrospect he probably should have. It's been 5 or 6 versions since the rewrite and it still gets brought up as a reason for, take your pick.....
1. the game sucks it uses a soccer engine (yeah there really are some that hang onto this argument)
2. Ghana is in so why can't I have "feature X"?
3. I can't have a left handed third-baseman\catcher but I can play baseball in Ghana\Madagascar
4. I can't have ambidextrous pitchers but, yeah you guessed it, I can play baseball in Ghana\Madagascar
etc., etc., etc.
Maybe we can all finally agree that the only thing Ghana or Madagascar amounts to is ethnicity, population, and weather just like all locations in the data base. The only difference between a league in the US, Japan, Mexico, or Ghana is the modifiers used to determine the talent of the league compared to MLB. Ghana and Madagascar are not countries that hours and hours were spent upon creating ratings to play at a realistic level for those particular countries. Time to let it die.
Sorry, pet peeve of mine
