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Originally Posted by Paul Reuschel's Mustache
I've used the past few weeks to set up and fine tune my baseball universe (MLB, MiLB, 27 international, 7 independent leagues) from Australia to Venezuela.
As a result, I've learned more about OOTP (and baseball across the world) than I ever imagined.
What an amazing product this is!
There are a few wrinkles that the next patch will (hopefully) iron out.
If the feedback on the patch is positive, I will start my long-term save.
As someone who has relatively recently discovered OOTP, I have to say that I am eternally grateful to Markus and the Team for this program.
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Here's my advice to new players starting a long-term save. Once you have the save ready to start. All of the options set. all of the teams set, etc.
1. BACKUP THE SAVE.
2. Just for giggles, auto-sim a full season. This doesn't count. It's just a test. Examine the results closely. Do rosters look good? Did every team have appropriate backups? Were injuries looking reasonable? If you see something that needs adjusting, reload your backup and make the necessary changes. THEN GO BACK TO STEP 1.
3. Once you make it past step 2, then do another test sim, but maybe go 5-10 seasons out. How are the league leaders looking? What are team finances like? Too many or not enough trades? Is there some 47 year old guy who's still playing at a high level? How are the younger players developing? If there was an expansion, how did the draft go? If you see something that needs adjusting, reload your backup and make the necessary changes. THEN GO BACK TO STEP 1.
4. Start your long-term save.
I really understand that you will be super-excited to go right to step 4 and ignore all of this boring advice. But after sinking a few hundred hours into your saves and constantly restarting, you'll might come back and think, wow I should have listened to that guy who has blown thousands and thousands of hours into this game!
OOTP is an incredibly addictive game, but it's still a sandbox and there is nothing as soul-crushing as getting really invested in a long-term save only to find out in the 6th season that, holy ****, I can't believe I forgot to do this one thing that has sort of crippled my save and now I have to start over.