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Originally Posted by BMD
I like the fact that owner demands do not always make perfect sense. In real life, do you always know why your boss tells you to do something? If you do not already, imagine your boss is a very powerful man, probably a billionaire, and someone who is not accustomed to having their orders questioned. When I get a demand like the one above I imagine a situation where the owner's wife is possibly friends with Cashner's wife. During the games, they sit in the owners box drinking wine a chatting. The reason he wants him resigned is too keep his wife happy (or maybe to keep her from bothering him during the game  ). Or maybe Cashner has agreed to start doing commercials for one of his business associates. Or better yet, keep it Pittsburgh specific and imagine Cashner has agreed to do some commercials for Seven Springs in the coming off season  .
My point is, not everyone in the organization has the same agenda. The GM and manager often have different agendas. Adding a owner into the mix who may or may not have his own hidden agenda is fun. If the owner's demand always fell in line with what you were planning on doing anyway - win more games, upgrade obviously weak positions, resign core players in their primes - this feature would not be a challenge.
As for the OP, as much as I am truly enjoying this feature, yes it needs a lot of fine tuning. I have faith though it will eventually get where it should be as long as we keep questioning these ones where the the mechanics just don't seem to work as far as how to complete the task. I doubt this will get to where it needs to be in patches alone. It will probably be future version that finally gets it right. |
I agree with nearly everything you say except the last part.
If the game isn't properly mapping cities then hometown players goal shouldn't be in the game. You're basically saying it's ok to put in half working features just to show them off so long as they fix them later. If this were any other developer and any other game the exact opposite would be said. Look at any other game in recent history. They get skewered for non-working features. Their is NO reason OOTP should be given a pass.
If you're game can't properly map cities and distances then a feature using mapping cities shouldn't be in the game. It doesn't hurt the game at all to take that one specific goal out of the game right now make it right and patch it back in later.