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Originally Posted by Tony820
To sort of echo what jimmysthebestcop said, they need to find ways to bring the gameplay alive. Make me feel like I'm more in control.
Here is just one example. I've got the ace of my staff struggling. 3-4 bad starts in a row. What are things I can do to try and help him get out of his funk? Can I commit my pitching coach to spend more time with him? Are there manager "tasks" I can use to try and get him out of the skid? Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. Maybe having a better coaching staff will increase the odds it helps him get back on track. That might not even be the best idea, but it would at least give me a little more control of what's going on. If my ace is getting bombed in his last 5 starts, I'm absolutely helpless, and I don't think it should be that way.
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Sir Michael brought up in another thread that OOTPB has an identity crisis. It was a really great post, short and to the point. And he nailed it.
So many people play OOTPB completely different. You have the historical group, the fictional group, the modern guys, Perfect Team players, the guys looking for a gm management game, people after realistic numbers, the data crunchers and any combination in between.
Another way to describe OOTPB might be its the "anti video game" video game. So many players OOTPB is literally their only video game. Especially so many that post on the forums here. Its not a bad thing or a good thing. It's just this group of players expects different mechanics from OOTPB then normal gamers.
And I think all of that is what Sir Michael is talking about when he suggested an Identity Crisis. If the player base is told vision, scope of future games then we won't have expectations. Now our expectations might seem unfair because we have no idea what path OOTPB is set on because OOTP means so many different things to so many different sets of people.