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Spritze · 04-13-2017, 03:21 PM

It appears to be a "Would you rather" issue. In Historical play the game would rather fill rosters with fictional players than poorly rated real players and it would also rather use Jim Unknown ghost players during games than poorly rated real players on the roster. It also likes to give pitching staff rotation spots to Jim Unknown rather than poorly rated real players even if they have lots of stamina and could start.

I guess Historical play really means Semi-Historical and the game just reflects that design concept. It came into play when the minors were added in OOTP17. Before that since the minors were fictional and had a limited pool of MLB players to draw from this probably made sense. With the much larger pool of players available when a gamer chooses to play with real minor leagues on it probably does not but not everyone likes to play with that option on. I think we may just need to play Semi-Historical to accommodate those that do not play with real minor leagues at all.

Even so adding a Fictional/Real choice in player lists would be a big help for those of us who would prefer playing only real players. If we had that and were diligent at deleting we could also get to the game we would like to play.

04-13-2017, 03:21 PM	#36
Spritze OOTP Historical Czar Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Bothell Wa Posts: 7,253	It appears to be a "Would you rather" issue. In Historical play the game would rather fill rosters with fictional players than poorly rated real players and it would also rather use Jim Unknown ghost players during games than poorly rated real players on the roster. It also likes to give pitching staff rotation spots to Jim Unknown rather than poorly rated real players even if they have lots of stamina and could start. I guess Historical play really means Semi-Historical and the game just reflects that design concept. It came into play when the minors were added in OOTP17. Before that since the minors were fictional and had a limited pool of MLB players to draw from this probably made sense. With the much larger pool of players available when a gamer chooses to play with real minor leagues on it probably does not but not everyone likes to play with that option on. I think we may just need to play Semi-Historical to accommodate those that do not play with real minor leagues at all. Even so adding a Fictional/Real choice in player lists would be a big help for those of us who would prefer playing only real players. If we had that and were diligent at deleting we could also get to the game we would like to play. __________________ It's madness, madness, I tell you! For the love of God, don't do it!