[Gerry58]

Originally Posted by malichai11

I've been playing on Very Hard/Heavily favor prospects for years. Something seems different now.

I'm trying to acquire a 19 y/o right fielder who's 20/68.

I'm offering a 19 y/o 39/80 SS, and a 18 y/o 28/76 CF as a starting point. Nothing. There is not a single player in my entire organization they'll accept to make this work. Wowza. Alright, let me throw on another 18 year old potential superstar who's 28/78. Still nothing. Still, make this work has zero players I can add on to make this work. I have a 2-way player who's 66/80 as a SP and 53/80 as a RF. They aren't even asking for him to close the deal.

This player I'm trying to acquire is a completely undeveloped potential all-star. Not potential superstar.

Alright, let's move the difficulty down to Hard/Heavily Favor. Okay, make this work and he'll now accept those 3 players mentioned above and a 75/70 23 y/o 2b signed for another 8 years or a 65/59 25 y/o SS signed for a very team friendly deal.

How about average trade difficulty, heavily favor prospects. Now there are 6 other players in my organization, in addition to the 3 potential superstars I'm already offering that he'll accept.

Listen, in a good week of playing OOTP, I might make hundreds of trades. Not an exaggeration. I see a LOT of data. But this is all just anecdotal. Something feels REALLY different now.

I also tried to take a run at re-acquiring a 20/80 SP I accidentally traded away (I foolishly thought his ratings were dropping, but I screwed up and it was because of a difference between him as a RP vs SP). Impossible. No amount of potential superstars would they accept until I lowered the trade difficulty down to Hard from Very Hard.

Hey, I have lots of dials I can tweak and turn here. I can lower trade difficulty, I can change the prospect favor setting, and I'm going to play with all of this. But it feels like the trade AI dial was just CRANKED. I am not complaining! Not at ALL! I'm just trying to figure out what's happened.

Maybe 'very hard' now just means very hard