[LansdowneSt]

My comment was mostly directed to the second post and stands for general historic games. I've seen too many immortal player comments on the various threads. Here combined with discord and reddit. Folks making one change to a critical setting without the corresponding move.

Random Debut requires more attention if you turn off development in the Wizard and elect Recalc. Because by the time you get the game started, you have not turned-on development through its separate toggle in the Advanced Mode Game Settings. You can't rely on Retire-According-to-History if Yaz appears in 1914 and is waiting for 1983. You also can't rely on it if Yaz appears in 1992. Or on a modern player that has no retirement day. You will also get borked results if have things like miss-seasons according to history on because Yaz didn't play in 1920 and the game could suddenly sideline him for that reason. Lastly, if a star player in their prime debuts a few years before their irl retirement day, they will hit the year and retire.

Development always needs to be on for Random Debut games. That's why it is the default option in the Wizard. If you are going to change it to Recalc (so players perform with tighter guardrails to year by year performance - and folks like Ruth convert at the appropriate age), you need to make additional advanced setting changes - because of the big change made in the Wizard to turn off development there.

RD is the one place where that RAH and other miss-according-to's should definitely be off. Recalc and development on & that other stuff off is how I think you will find most people play RD. I'd like to hear from others that don't do it that way.