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Originally Posted by goroyals
The compromise is that using the in-game editor to manipulate nations' baseball quality, one can at least control where the foreigners come from. For this era, I have foreigner percentage set at 5% and those guys will come from Great Britain, Canada, Ireland, with a few from mainland Europe (based on immigration data).
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You may not like the results. The Irish first names database (18) contains a lot of Gaelic Irish names that really only became commonplace after Irish independence, whereas Irish immigrants in the US would typically have English first names -- thus "Patrick" and "Dermot" rather than "Padraig" and "Diarmaid." The other foreign databases have comparable problems that require some tweaking to get them "Americanized" (e.g. getting rid of diacritical marks in German and French names).
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Originally Posted by goroyals
That is interesting about your league and internment. I'm assuming it was for WWII with players from Axis nations? Did you have to mess with the demographic stuff (world_default) a lot in that universe?
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For the war years I set the baseball quality for enemy nations to "non-existent" in the in-game editor. That's really the only thing I did besides retiring the German and Italian players.
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I skimmed the relevant pages for WWI already, and it seems like you did a lot of work there. Thanks for replying to this thread, then, and sharing your expertise. What changes did you make to the game mechanics or by hand, if any (e.g. you mentioned reduced attendance and the one guy with an injury volunteering)?
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I reduced the attendance during the war years by reducing the average attendance number in the league financials tab. I added all that stuff about the player volunteering for WWI -- he suffered a career-ending injury and I wanted to play that up. I did have some American players drafted into the military during WWII, but that was exclusively through story lines.
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Great looking dynasty there btw, can't believe I haven't read it. I'll be trying to catch up now!
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Thanks. Glad you like it.