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Originally Posted by thehef
I don't know if OOTP does this to a small degree or not at all (because I don't play with any long-term injuries), but it seems that few CEI's should be instantly reported as such, and most CEI's should follow something like this:
1) player suffers a serious injury to [body part], diagnosis pending
2) injury is fully diagnosed as season-ending, surgery-required
3) at some point - probably at least a few months after the diagnosis, often longer in order to account for surgery and some rehab - the player either:
a) returns with significantly lessened ratings (suggesting a guy who is trying to come back but simply no longer has it) that will, through the natural course of things, result in his unemployment & retirement, or
b) simply retires (suggesting that the player gave rehab a shot but it just wasn't in the cards)
The success or lack thereof of the player's recovery should partially be determined by his age.
I would think that most of the mechanism to support this is already in OOTP. But we gamers like to make OOTP program changes sound simpler than they really are...
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The mechanism not only is already in OOTP, all of these already happen with some regularity - both the players on a long-term injury that suffer a setback in rehab some months down the line that ends up career-ending, as well as pitchers who come back a shadow of a former self.
If injuries that are immediately deemed career-ending upon diagnosis happen a little more often in OOTP than they do in real life, it's a concession to the players - there's little more maddening than having a character with a season-ending injury make it past the once-a-year retirement date, only for his injury to turn career-ending later, saddling you with another year of paying their salary.