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Originally Posted by PSUColonel
I would also like to see all of those different rating categories, some known, such as what FM would describe as "professionalism", "relationships to other players and coaches" also perhaps languages spoken and cultural identity (I just made that one up) but most of them like FM, should be hidden. That's what makes the players come to life, you can just look at a rating and decide based on a number.
In fact, most things in FM aren't based on numbers, but rather sentences or paragraphs describing tendencies and/or descriptions. SO while there a most certainly a lot of numbers hiding under the hood, the beautiful part of FM, is they successful conceal it with creative and varied writing. In fact, I would argue when it comes to writing, less can be more. You only need a sentence per tool. So you could have a line for each tool in OOTP....the scouting reports attempt to do this, but I like the way it's setup in FM better...this way you don't need a paragraph to describe a player, but rather a line or sentence for each attribute/tool. You could even have the little graphic buttons representing each skill/tool
Things such as:
"player X is a reasonably good contact hitter"
"player X shows advanced power for a player his age, and could still improve.
you get the idea. Here is a screen shot in FM to show people what I mean.
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"Fairly inconsistent" AND doesn't enjoy big matches? Hard pass for me..
But in all seriousness, I agree with this. I tried playing stats only for the first time this year and I started looking over scouting reports and just thought, "That's it? That's all that I get?"
Its hard to say that I want OOTP to just be more like FM. That's not exactly the point. I'd agree with you on the influx of cash from PT and the new ownership. Personally, I didn't see much of a sim engine issue from like OOTP20 or so on. I had (and still have) concerns about the number of K's some hitters collect. I think there are way too many guys striking out over 200 times, personally.
But I would have liked to see something like an expansion of the personality system and interaction system as a true new feature.
That and GM tendencies, which gets back to the core of this thread. I just want good AI to AI trades, and a GM who acts as a complete entity instead of fragmented ones that handle Free Agency, Trading etc.