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Originally Posted by jimmysthebestcop
not my job to figure out the fix. but i lean towards the finance system and the 40 man combination.
and the thing is most players who play the games and not sim them never understand the true problems of ootp. because they are focusing on the actual day to day games. and ootp does a great job at the game of baseball. even play evaluation for quality or trading is pretty damn good.
it is just anything to do with finances and the game flat out fails. cant make excuses for the game. so many exploits and oversights if you actually spend time as a GM you will see how absolutely absurd the AI is and just how extremely easy the game is.
owner controls budget should leave. the last thing the AI needs is less budget. there should be options too boost the AI. give them more budget cheaper players etc that adds difficulty not self imposed BS house rules.
you can literally take any bottom basement small market team. get rid of every single player that makes over the minimum and absolutely clean up.
it is extremely easy to get 100% fan interest even on awful teams.so many different ways to game/exploit the system. then max out ticket prices now all of a sudden you are a mid budget team in just your second year.
rule 5, free agency, waivers and trade deadline trades. you can gain so many prospects every year its crazy. int free amat agency. again just sign the top prospect and you can trade him for a top mlb ready prospect while that int guy at the very least is 5-6 years away. if at all ever.
the amount of prospects you can get for just waiver claims all year is staggering. if the ai is willing to trade prospects for them why not claim them?????
singing players to pseudo 3 year deals. 1 year deal with 2 year team options back loaded and you can sign popular players boost fan interest to 100% and trade them for prospects even if you have to eat 1 year in salary. the AI team is forced to either pay the insane salary or let them go while you gain prospects.
this goes for all free agents during off season and especially noticeably at trade deadline where you can trade them to playoff teams eat the salary and get top prospects.
video games arent real life. so get out of here with all these bs house rules. close or remove all of the countless finance loopholes, exploits, bugs and mistakes.
i can only play ootp for maybe 2 weeks a year. cause it is so mind numbingly broken when it comes to GM and finance.
AI teams have maybe 12-24 prospects who are over 2.5 stars potential. as a human i can gain over 100+ 2.5 star prospects within the first 3 years of any save. not saying they are studs or all stars but the shear number able to be gained is ridiculous.
and it comes down to the AI not able to deal with 40 man/finances.
not to mention the AI will literally trade for players they just waived or just traded. then waiver them again. and you know what i will claim them and trade them again and again and again. its broken. house rules dont fix it.
i have 0 confidence any of this will ever get addressed. all these finances problems have been in the game since i started playing in ootp 18 and they are all still here or even worst now.
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Quick question regarding the "owner decides budget" option. If I turn this off, what will happen to salaries league wide? Will they be unrealistically inflated due to the excess cash floating around? If so, I suppose that is still better than the AI being hamstrung or stifled from being able to spend money on team needs...but still