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Originally Posted by BirdWatcher
While I certainly am not assuming that I am one of the people you are responding to with this portion of your post, I do want to clarify that I am well aware (or believe I am, anyway, given what I've heard here in the past, including from the developers) that people who play strictly fictional like myself are in the minority of OOTP gamers. I am also under the impression (very possibly the false impression) that people who play strictly historical are also somewhat in the minority. I would be happy to be corrected by someone who knows better than I do, but my recollection is that the largest percentage of people who play OOTP (and I'm setting aside PT for this discussion) play the standard game, starting with current rosters and current MLB teams. But given that most of them then play into the future, eventually (depending upon how far into the future they play) the players become fictional. Now I think the point others are making is that once you start playing OOTP with any grouping of players, a fictional version of that player begins. That's a more theoretical concept than I intend to introduce here. My main point has been merely that, again, as best I understand the data about how OOTP'ers play this game, a very large percentage of OOTP gamers do play saves that eventually involve completely fictional characters.
And, again, I could be misremembering or just completely imagining this. But that is what I was trying to indicate in my earlier statements here.
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I appreciate your thoughts. My intention was to just post and go back to reading. We'll see how that goes.
My game started with v4 in 2002. That's both my initial season but also the real world year I started. Imported to every new OOTP since.
I started with real players that have obviously morphed into fictional through attrition. I would not call my world fictional in the way some are using the term here and how they can "make" a baseball world. My world is the real world as it existed when I started and as it exists now. My teams are MLB, my stats are MLB, schedules are MLB, all things are MLB except the players through attrition. I guess most(?) want to label this as fictional but I don't see it that way and certainly not as the way others do when they talk about "I can create this world, or that world".
I am responding to some who think the purpose of OOTP was originally and still is to make "what if" fictional baseball worlds. This is just one example of the type of post I'm talking about but you will see this opinion based in lots of threads. Too me, the bold, simply is not remotely accurate as to what OOTP is based on.
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Originally Posted by SirSaab
In a game based almost wholly on the opportunity to live in a fictional baseball universe, not including non-fictional realities seems... like a big oversight.
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Hopefully that clarifies that paragraph.
