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Originally Posted by jimmysthebestcop
No but I play a heavy dose of Sim/manage games both sports and un sports related. And OOTP doesnt hold up well to any of them.
The biggest thing OOTP has going for it is its baseball. That is the selling factor. If you are craving baseball management its the only game in town.
If you are just craving sim or management games then OOTP wouldnt even be in the general list.
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It's an understatement to say that AI development is really hard. Making a functional AI that can just use all of the features is a major benchmark for a dev team. A competent AI that can beat inexperienced players is already better than 95% of strategy games. A good AI that can beat experienced players is pretty much impossible for really complex games like OOTP (which creates challenge through complexity, not strategic depth).
And ultimately there's no business incentive to create an AI at this level. In fact, it's really a negative incentive. It's time-consuming and developer time is expensive, and it results in marginal additional sales, at best. Plus it all has to be reworked as new features are added. It's just a nightmare, to be honest.
I mean, it sucks because I notice AI deficiencies as well because I am a long-time baseball enthusiast. It's hard to not notice the shortcomings. So, like others, I inevitably just house-rule trading because otherwise it's too easy to inevitably build a 120-win team which ultimately is far more unrealistic than the house rules I impose on myself