[Syd Thrift]

I suspect that the vast majority of players play GM only or primarily GM. I base this on there being three groups of people this applies to:

1. People who buy the game and play as a solo GM (which might be the smallest group of the three)

2. People who play primarily or even on a supplemental basis in online leagues.

3. People who play Perfect Team

PT isn't exactly "GM mode" but it is 100% a version you play where you don't load up stadia and make in-game decisions, so when it comes to stuff like "steals work on a GM basis but they're super easy to cheese on a playing-in-games basis" comes along, unfortunately those of us who play out games (note: I am one of them... my particular way of playing is on the insane side but it does involve playing out games from the 7th inning onwards), it generally counts as a "cool, we got this mostly fixed" issue more than a "crap, we quashed one bug just to create a brand new one" issue.

In this context, yeah, totally agree that I'd love to see more personality ratings as well as more ways that those ratings interact on and off the field. I like using low Adaptability to mean "guys who can't keep an even keel and get mad a lot" but this isn't really reflected in storylines and, I've got to say, I feel like player interactions are all too rare and mostly come from guys complaining about playing time and a few pretty rare storylines (I don't think I exactly want the "hey boss I just started up a new charity" storyline to happen 5 times a year, but I sure would like a lot more of them and for most/all of them to be based on the players' personality). That's still not nearly as robust a system as FM has but it'd be a start, probably.