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Thanks for the replies.

Originally Posted by megamanmatt

Well.... OOTP already does this but not at the same level in terms of player numbers. I'm pretty sure it's a storyline one so would it not be possible just to up the frequency?

I tried playing around with it. I upped the frequency quite a bit and took out some of the qualifiers, like the player needing to be humble, whatever that means. Still, it didn't even happen for one guy that I saw. And I need it to happen for around 1000.

Originally Posted by The Wolf

Since it's fictional, assume that the Japanese worked out a deal on resources with the West, that Hitler and England signed a peace treaty in 1940, and that the United States stayed out of things while the Japanese fought the Chinese and the Axis fought the Russians. Perfectly historically plausible, and everyone in the MLB gets to keep playing.

Well, sure, that would be the easy way to do it, but I don't really want to undo WWII.

Originally Posted by jaysdailydose

If you aren't adverse to using commissioner mode, and keeping a handwritten log -- just retire the players and unretire them when you want to bring them back.

Or, you could just suspend them. That way you can define the exact amount of games you want them to miss for the suspension. As far as I know, the player only becomes "disliked" if they are suspended by the game for drug use, so I don't think there is a downside to using this method.

Originally Posted by jaysdailydose

Obviously, you have to set the "suspensions" much the same as the injury -- but you CAN mass-retire players and mass-unretire them when they return from active duty.

Originally Posted by 24Rocks

I would retire the players manually and short list them because it keeps the Pitchers they have faced data and the ratings dont decline much or at all if your retired so the drastic rating changes from a long term injury wont effect them. Now some people didn't come back the same well if you want to change the ratings manually that's up to you, I do this for CEI to a player I really like make a not say remind me in 1378 days to unretire and do it that way because not all the players came back at the same time.

I did the retiring thing several versions ago, and it didn't work out. Maybe this is no longer the case, but at the time, when I unretired the guys, their ratings were pretty much zeroed out. Maybe that was just a glitch, but I have assumed that the game does that to retired players ever since. I'll give it a try. I'll have to keep track of their contracts and such, though - I'm having it that their contracts are still active, so if they come back before their contract is over, they should still be with the same team.

I do wish there was an easier way to handle this, like some kind of "inactive" list or something.