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Originally Posted by mytreds
I agree. IRL the Astros had a wonderful analytics dept, and look how well they did.
All jokes aside, the best part of OOTP is what it doesn’t give you. If you had a perfect game with everything you wanted, you wouldn’t need your imagination anymore and would be just hitting a button to progress your game.
I’m not opposed to the idea, but I really don’t think it’s necessary. The beauty of this game is that it is a simulation coupled with imagination. Make it too much like real life and it will get stale and boring.
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OOTP has little imagination value.
The day to day coach/manager experience is solid. The actual sim of the game play does a pretty good job and incremental updates is fine for that aspect of the game.
But the GM Experience......................
The entire GM experience 100% completely void of life. Being a GM is the world is flat, boring, and lifeless. It is all stats and baseball simulation.
Oh there are owner stories and player stories but for 99% of everything us, the human player, have no interaction in any of these GM game mechanics.
At least in Motorsport Manager it requires human interaction for chained story events like when a character gets a trait. It's pretty simple with 2 or 3 outcomes for the most part but at least we are involved.
You can vote on league rules. Petition your owner. OOTP is great with the customization aspect but its all in "commish mode" not in actual game play mechanics. Random evolution just bypasses having actual game mechanics to get anything done the game just dictates whats happens.
To me long term this is the biggest downside of OOTP. They need a fresh approach to the GM experience. And having 100% customization is good but having actual game play mechanics to go along with it would be even better.
Like the stadium editor. Great addition but it has ZERO game play mechanics to go along with it. I would have rather have a ball park creation mechanic tied to financials, the team, the fan base etc then the 3D model creation tool.
Modders have been making stadiums for years with no official tools. But there has been zero game play mechanics revolving around ballparks. What do I care what a stadium looks like if it doesn't have an impact on game mechanics?
Some stadiums help bring about a new generation of a team. Increase fans. Increase payroll. Increase ads and local cable deals. That is everything that is missing.
The higher GM experience is void of life.
The game of baseball OOTP has it down cold. Team manger OOTP has. Imagination maybe with day to day player stuff I can give you that. All of the what if's etc.
It's just life as GM has been exactly the same for at least 5 versions now.
I'm not even sure if you are really the GM anymore. It's more like you are the team manager but you just handle personnel, trades and draft.
Maybe I'm being too hard on OOTP? I'm not sure. As a day to day baseball sim game its great A++++. As a GM simulation video game I would really have to give it an F in 2020.