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estyles · 09-12-2013, 03:10 PM

Just got the game. First post, actually...

I played a game with the 1989 Cubs up until the August 1st limit on the demo. Then I played a game with the 1993 Blue Jays up until August 1st, realized I couldn't wait long enough to see if this game maybe went on sale in October, and purchased it. Now into Spring Training 1994 with the Jays.

So far, the only way of playing that really interests me is a historical start with player development and fictional players. That is, I want a start that is familiar to me, with familiar names and faces (downloaded some face gens and logos... sweet), but I don't want things to play out completely historically. I want an alternate reality that starts at a point in time and can diverge wildly from there. Unknowns (fictional players) that rise to greatness are cool, but in my mind, they need some real players around them to provide the context that an entirely fictional league would lack. And my interest level in MLB has been pretty low for the last 5 years, so a 2013 start would almost feel like a fictional start at this point...

When I played the Cubs, I played out a lot of my games and found a lot of interesting decisions. When I played the Jays, I found that I had my 9 hitters that were the best hitters on the team, and 4 backups who were mostly defensive specialists (actually, this being the 1993 Jays' weak pitching staff, for a while I ran with 13 pitchers and only 3 backups). So there wasn't a lot of pinch-hitting or substituting to do. And it's mostly a station-to-station team, so really in-game strategy was pretty minimal altogether. So I seemed a large percentage of the season.

Still tons of fun, but I think from now on I will play mostly NL teams or remove the DH. Not going to remove the DH with the 93 Jays, because Molitor isn't much of a 3rd baseman.

I am wondering if maybe the trade AI is a little weak and I should play more for realism/sim than to try to win. But considering I started with a defending WS winner, I figure this can be a game to just mercilessly game the system and see how well I can do. Anyway, despite trading for Juan Gonzalez and Jay Bell in 1993, I still lost in the playoffs to Seattle. So, next year, I signed Randy Johnson in free agency to try and keep that from happening again...

Unfortunately, didn't get to see Olerud hit .400, which was my real goal of starting with this team. .389 with 32 HR's is pretty good, though.

09-12-2013, 03:10 PM	#32
estyles Bat Boy Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 15	Just got the game. First post, actually... I played a game with the 1989 Cubs up until the August 1st limit on the demo. Then I played a game with the 1993 Blue Jays up until August 1st, realized I couldn't wait long enough to see if this game maybe went on sale in October, and purchased it. Now into Spring Training 1994 with the Jays. So far, the only way of playing that really interests me is a historical start with player development and fictional players. That is, I want a start that is familiar to me, with familiar names and faces (downloaded some face gens and logos... sweet), but I don't want things to play out completely historically. I want an alternate reality that starts at a point in time and can diverge wildly from there. Unknowns (fictional players) that rise to greatness are cool, but in my mind, they need some real players around them to provide the context that an entirely fictional league would lack. And my interest level in MLB has been pretty low for the last 5 years, so a 2013 start would almost feel like a fictional start at this point... When I played the Cubs, I played out a lot of my games and found a lot of interesting decisions. When I played the Jays, I found that I had my 9 hitters that were the best hitters on the team, and 4 backups who were mostly defensive specialists (actually, this being the 1993 Jays' weak pitching staff, for a while I ran with 13 pitchers and only 3 backups). So there wasn't a lot of pinch-hitting or substituting to do. And it's mostly a station-to-station team, so really in-game strategy was pretty minimal altogether. So I seemed a large percentage of the season. Still tons of fun, but I think from now on I will play mostly NL teams or remove the DH. Not going to remove the DH with the 93 Jays, because Molitor isn't much of a 3rd baseman. I am wondering if maybe the trade AI is a little weak and I should play more for realism/sim than to try to win. But considering I started with a defending WS winner, I figure this can be a game to just mercilessly game the system and see how well I can do. Anyway, despite trading for Juan Gonzalez and Jay Bell in 1993, I still lost in the playoffs to Seattle. So, next year, I signed Randy Johnson in free agency to try and keep that from happening again... Unfortunately, didn't get to see Olerud hit .400, which was my real goal of starting with this team. .389 with 32 HR's is pretty good, though.