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italyprof · 02-17-2014, 03:06 PM

Thanks to both of you for the answers. Dejà Bru, I will play around with the historical settings, but I took off the "historical transactions", so that should not be it.

Yes, I set difficulty in trading up a notch, and am still able to make trades (have an injured starting Shortstop - Leo Cardenas - in 1967 now and a team agreed to C Dave Duncan for Gene Michael. I decided not to trade but it means you can still trade but are not offered Ernie Banks for Dave Duncan anymore !

Anyway TG Adfabre, that was the perplexing thing - some were "easy" even very easy, others "extremely difficult" (why? I had, at the time by far the biggest budget in the league with a world champion, who knows?) but they were all saying no.

However, it all worked itself out when I finally ran into the financial wall - no more money to sign anyone, so I had to totally change to team, streamlining it - so while it is a great team still, the only superstars are Aaron, Rose and McCovey, and there is an excellent staff led by Marichal and G. Perry. But the rest of the team is mostly very good players and things are more competitive, more OBP oriented play, and I now check to see how much payroll I am adding when I trade, and the fire sale was not really so bad: Mazeroski Leon Wagner and Tony Oliva had to go, and I got or drafted for good, but less expensive players - Glenn Beckert, Cardenas, Matty Alou, and am developing a great bullpen that is some years away but will dominate the mid-70s.

Thanks again, seems like there is just a learning curve at this, which is a good thing.

02-17-2014, 03:06 PM	#4
italyprof All Star Starter Join Date: Feb 2014 Posts: 1,032	Thanks ! Thanks to both of you for the answers. Dejà Bru, I will play around with the historical settings, but I took off the "historical transactions", so that should not be it. Yes, I set difficulty in trading up a notch, and am still able to make trades (have an injured starting Shortstop - Leo Cardenas - in 1967 now and a team agreed to C Dave Duncan for Gene Michael. I decided not to trade but it means you can still trade but are not offered Ernie Banks for Dave Duncan anymore ! Anyway TG Adfabre, that was the perplexing thing - some were "easy" even very easy, others "extremely difficult" (why? I had, at the time by far the biggest budget in the league with a world champion, who knows?) but they were all saying no. However, it all worked itself out when I finally ran into the financial wall - no more money to sign anyone, so I had to totally change to team, streamlining it - so while it is a great team still, the only superstars are Aaron, Rose and McCovey, and there is an excellent staff led by Marichal and G. Perry. But the rest of the team is mostly very good players and things are more competitive, more OBP oriented play, and I now check to see how much payroll I am adding when I trade, and the fire sale was not really so bad: Mazeroski Leon Wagner and Tony Oliva had to go, and I got or drafted for good, but less expensive players - Glenn Beckert, Cardenas, Matty Alou, and am developing a great bullpen that is some years away but will dominate the mid-70s. Thanks again, seems like there is just a learning curve at this, which is a good thing.