[Qeltar]

First, I want to thank the community for their patience with me. I know I've posted a lot of threads in a short time, which I am going to now wind down. I tend to sort of take on new things all at once and go whole-hog into them and often have a lot of questions when I am new.

So I just wrapped up my first season as a player of OOTP in real life and as a GM of the Miami Marlins.. and I'm ticked off. I came into this position with an organization that was a shambles.. no fan interest, one good player and a couple of good RPs and that's it, and a farm system in ruins. Here's what I accomplished in my first year:

1. Rebuilt the entire personnel from the ground up. Hours of sifting through screens to try to find good matches who will work with youngsters.
2. Rebuilt the farm system with free agent signings and wheeling-dealing to get some very good players.
3. Finished the season 10 games under .500 (76-86). This was almost the same as in 2017 despite not having half or full seasons from the likes of Stanton, Ozuna and Gordon.
4. Actually increased attendance and gate revenues by over 7%.
5. Got rid of a couple of nasty long-term albatross contracts.
6. Finished the year with $5m in cash, $20m unspent and 30th of 30 teams in payroll.
7. Did all this with a spit-and-baling-wire rotation. My best SP for the year was a guy who was outright released by the Dodgers in April as an RP and signed by me and converted to a starter.

For all this, my "Demanding" owner, who claimed to be "Ecstatic" or "Delighted" for pretty much the entire season, sent me an obnoxious private message:

- Complaining about the team's bad record.
- Whining that I didn't acquire a Cy Young winner. (Where was I supposed to get this from, magic fairy dust? A trade locking us into spending 30% of our player budget on one guy while losing one of our few prospects?)
- Telling me he "doesn't feel confident" about me meeting his 5-year goal of getting into the playoffs, even though we actually were in first place for part of this year.
- Giving me a measly $2m increase in budget even though I increased gate revenues substantially while saving him tens of millions in salary.
- And the piece de resistance: giving me a new goal of increasing attendance by 27% by the end of my next three years. Seriously.

Now, this is to some extent a role-playing game. And I have to say that my reaction to this reading it "in character" is to say "screw you, buddy" and go to another team. Well, that's my reaction IRL too, I guess.

But I am not sure if this is a result of the owner being "Demanding" or a meta-issue of OOTP simply not being well-designed to handle a situation where a team is starting from scratch and the results I achieved should be considered pretty good. It may just be that the game lacks context: it sees 10 games below .500 and low attendance figures and no star players and thinks "bad GM."

I could just ignore his whining as the typical pettiness of a rich guy who wants instant results, and continue with my plan. After all, I've put a lot of time and energy into building this organization. But maybe it's because he's just a jerk and I should go somewhere that my talents will be more appreciated. There are a couple of spots open.

I could also just restart 2018 with a different team I guess.

So, OOTP veterans, I'm looking for some "career advice." What do you think? Am I being a special snowflake and expecting praise for a good effort that fell short? Or reasonably being unhappy with an obnoxious owner?

I'll probably stick it out, but any thoughts are welcomed. Thanks for reading this.

PS I know I could turn off owner goals, but I don't want to. I think owners should set goals, and the GM has to decide if they are reasonable and wants to stay in the job with them in place or not. And I'm not going to "lobotomize" him either.