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Originally Posted by Mr. Marlin
I don't know about players but I do think interacting with the Manager (if you are the GM) or the coaches (if you are the Manager) does offer some interesting and low cost opportunities to increase the immersion into the game.
For example if a certain player is causing clubhouse chemistry problems as a GM I might ask the Manager to to talk to that player. Perhaps, depending on the manager's skill the problem will get better or worse as a in-game consequence. As a Manager I might ask my Pitching Coach to work with a pitcher to develop a new pitch or improve an existing one with the in-game consequence that depending on the pitcher's work ethic or intelligence the pitch improves. Perhaps the rest of the staff takes a small performance penalty because the PC is focusing on one guy. If I'm playing as the manager it would be nice to ask the GM to aquire a player to fill a deficiency.
These are just some examples. It would be unusual I think for a GM to interact with players like that. But GMs and Managers and their coaches interact literally everyday. I think that would be easy to implement and really add to immersion in the game for the player.
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Read the book Francona. It is a great book for baseball fans and it also talks about how Theo Epstein talked to Francona after every game asking him why he did certain things and offering him suggesstions etc. Francona had a rule that Theo had to wait like an hour after the game to start. It was fascinating. It would be cool to play in just GM mode and having discussions with your manager. You could have a manager who doesn't want to do what you want to do and you may have to fire him to find a manager who thinks more like you etc. It could be really cool idea