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Originally Posted by spleen1015
I think it is a supply vs demand situation. How many folks play 19th century? If there's not enough people playing that way, then they should be working on other things.
I do agree with you that more could be done with it. I have briefly looked at your thread, so I don't know the work that went into it, but I assume programming it will be a big undertaking.
I went through the National Association, National League, American Association & Western League (Becomes AL in 1900) and made a spreadsheet with all of the team movement, keeping track of the details. The leagues were so volatile back then. There was tons of team movement let alone player movement.
How much of the 19th century do you want them to cover? I went with these 4 leagues because they are ultimately where many of the current teams started.
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I agree it's probably sup ply and demand but not much as been done in awhile. I'm guessing a few have given up because not much effort has been made to improve it. That's why I say disappointed because I don't want it to come across as a user that didn't get his way. As I do feel ootp 18 is great game so far.
I'm not sure how much programming is really needed other than editing the database to get the correct teams and rookies to go to their correct teams
. As for the trades I would suggest just keeping a simple release and sign.
I believe that could be done in the transaction file. The problem with using 19th century transactions is that you can't just estimate dates when there is no data. You have to look at the team's in the league since teams changed during the season.
I had to do the trades and manually and I had to use human managers to prevent the ai from signing the wrong players. But if the transaction file was edited to match the team's I believe this could be done automatically.
But in any case they could at least allow the reall historical expansion. Even if they can't get the correct transactions at this time.