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Originally Posted by NoOne
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you can remove the randomness of development with 1 setting. random player talent change - or close to that verbage. lower it is, the more consistently they develop. i don't have the game open, so refer to the manual for its location.
i have tried it at 50 and 100. personally,100 was better. there is a thread in these forums that did an adequate job relating that setting to the round a player is drafted and their resulting career WAR or something like that. it's been many months since i read it.
basically if you lower it, don't expect as many draft surpises in later rounds.
you can set a max on money. this also helps with contract inflation, i think. i don't play with a money max, so i am not 100% sure on that last part.
in general:
i think that would be a great request for future versions, if it is not already in the game. during FA if an AI controlled team gets a trade offer that outweighs the FA they are targetting, while considering what they lose in the trade too, then the AI can withdraw an offer and complete trade.
since they are giving stuff up in a trade, i bet they are going to prefer the free agent most times than not.
the bottom line is you only encounter this problem once a year. so, it's a self-inflicted problem that you can and should avoid. 
if you have 600million in funds, just throw cash at the problem. an even quicker fix and you still don't have to learn the economic ramifications of the game. |
Thanks for the talent point tip but this is still random lol. All it seems to do is follow potential more closely but potential itself is working fine at 100. Thats not really what I want to see.
What I would love to see is development influenced by performance, intelligence, work ethic, and age progression especially for fully developed and veteran players. For instance, a pitcher is having a great season but then all of a sudden their talents start to fall off the cliff during the season due to age... makes no sense. Its one thing if it happens after an injury, or during off season but not in the middle of the season itself. Or how about hitter having a great season? I have a 31 y/o power hitter with 52 dingers who lost power rating during the season... thats just iffy especially since power increases in most males up to the age of 50 or so (even longer if they keep working out albeit at the cost of injury). What should happen is that speed and fielding should drop based on work ethic rating (more severe if work ethic is low vs high). Also, intelligence should have a lot more influence of ability. Someone with very high int (which should be a hell of a lot more rare in the game) should be able to improve skills that involve mental ability more quickly (such as contact, pitches (both throwing and recognizing them), stealing ability, gap, etc). Further high intelligence/work ethic players should be able to adapt better as they age (for instance, since speed always goes with age, a big shift to power should occur).
On the flip side, if a great player is always in a slump it should show. I had a rookie with 15/20 contact and gap who barely every hit over .250 yet his rating stayed at 15 for two years. Made no sense. I have one player right now with 14/10/14/9/8 and he has never hit more than 15 homers in 3 seasons. Meanwhile a 10/10/12/9/9 hitter has been hitting about 20 since he was a rookie yet his power wont budge lol.