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Originally Posted by RchW
I say this and it's not intended to inflame but it's great and it adds to the game IMO. Since you slept on it and played a game it's completely consistent to me that the AI can change its mind. The deal was not consummated so is subject to change.
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The problem is that the game does not indicate that the AI simply changed its mind. This deal did not go from merely acceptable to unacceptable. It suddenly became "a very bad deal", which is a far cry from simply sleeping on it and deciding against something that you have seriously been considering.
Also, I highly doubt that the owner is intervening or that anything else is happening in the background. OOTP is adding some kind of randomness, and we can all pretend that it's something else, but it's really just a slight change in the trade evaluation or a random decision factor.
Maybe this is cosmetic and the AI is not drastically re-evaluating the trade behind the scenes, but the language of its response indicates that a drastic shift has occurred. However, this makes no sense.
Think of it this way: if I slept on it and decided against it, I would not be deciding that it was suddenly a terrible deal for my team. If I was willing to make the trade originally, then it was a fair enough deal to be worthy of consideration. It would not be sensible or consistent for me to suddenly claim that the AI was offering me a very bad deal. In reality, I might be deciding to hold off for now or that the trade was too close either way. And my response should reflect that.
The AI should behave and respond in a way that is internally consistent and that does not create the appearance of wild swings in trade evaluation based on nothing but an arbitrary factor like the user clicking a button and simulating a day.
If the AI simply decides not to make the deal out of randomness, that is fine. But don't give me a response that makes the AI sound completely illogical and schizophrenic and pretends that somehow there was some huge change in the trade's value when no such change could realistically occur simply because one day passed in the real world.