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The GM relationships thing was in the old EA Sports NHL games from around 2011. It was such a great feature IMO.
You had a relationship with each GM, and it was harder to trade with your rivals by default (you can make a league-changing, blockbuster deal with the Red Sox as the Yankees in OOTP like it's nothing out of the ordinary), that's certainly not realistic.
And I believe if you kept offering things like trying to get a better draft pick (a 5th instead of a 7th for instance) too many times, the GM would walk back the offer to the point where the original deal might not be able to go through, and also impacting your GM ratings and relationships. I would love to see something like this in OOTP.
Additionally, I know that I for some reason end up making a lot of deals with the same teams in my game. This happens IRL too (the Yankees made a lot of deals with the Pirates, Diamondbacks, and Tigers in the early-mid 2010s,for instance). It would be cool if this could be replicated in OOTP somehow. Like if I quickly want to pick up some minor league depth (nothing too important to the other team), they would be easier to work with in getting this accomplished.
Overall, I would say just changing things up when having to deal with the AI could make long-term saves a lot more interesting. A whole living world for instance, and these things would change then if one of your good GM buddies gets fired or retired and whatnot.
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