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Originally Posted by CBL-Commish
I know I'm dredging up an old thread, but there are a million trade threads and didn't want to make a new one. I'm not really complaining about the trading difficulty or AI, I'm just a little bemused by it. I understand that trading has long been a complaint, literally since OOTP began, and it's deviously hard to program something that mimics the back-and-forth of humans negotiating.
But here's my situation. Offseason. My team is pretty strong. I have settings for difficulty average, favor prospects, ratings set for 30%, current year 50%, previous 15%, two years ago 5%.
Every other day of the offseason I get an offer like this:
The other team wants to send me a starting pitcher coming off an 11-15 season with a 5.40 ERA. In return they want my starting third baseman, a prospect with 4-star potential, and my setup man who has had four consecutive years with 60+ innings and an ERA under 2.50. And they want me to pay most of the salaries of my guys going over.
I can't remember the last trade I accepted. I did make one recently based on an AI proposal, but only after it was modified very substantially and I took on a bunch of salary.
If I didn't know any better I'd assume the AI was constantly proposing absurd trades in the hopes that I'd accidentally hit the accept button. Like a phishing attempt.
I almost want to change the trade setting to Hard or Very Hard just to see what the outer limits of absurd are. Average already has me shipping three times the star value out, and paying salary.
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Hey CBL,
I haven't really seen this that much, but I have seen it.
Here are my settings: "Out-of-the-box" Ratings, Trade Difficulty "Very Hard or Hard (can't recall), Favor Prospects and No Stars (helps with the Fog-of-War).
Yes, I've seen some goofy trade requests of course, and many of them are not that great, but some of them are fairly decent.
I have noticed an improvement, and every year OOTPD works on it from what I gather; to that, I think I heard that in OOTP 19, they have been specifically giving the Trade AI more attention.