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Old 03-25-2023, 12:31 PM   #17
Charlie Hough
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Originally Posted by Brad K View Post
Dynasty is the wrong word Not everyone is playing to bury the opposition. The division should be fictional sims and historical sims.
I believe the "dynasty" term comes from the Front Office Football sim, where long-term career sims are called dynasties. If I remember correctly, Markus played that sim, and, when he created OOTP, he adopted the same terminology. He started calling long-term OOTP sims dynasties, regardless of the user's intent to build a "dynasty" in the traditional sense.

But you're right that this is probably a dated term, and since OOTP now describes this as career play or career mode in the game, it would make sense to call them "career simulations" or something similar.

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