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Trade Talk
Since we're rapidly approaching the MLB trade deadline — and I had some questions about others' experience with AI trading — I thought I'd make an encompassing post to see what settings have given folks their desired outcomes. I still haven't been able to nail down the trade settings exactly to where I want them from a realism standpoint, so I'm curious if others have succeeded and, if so, how.
My questions for everyone:
1. Where do you set your AI trade difficulty and preference sliders?
2. What are AI player evaluation weights you use?
3. How realistic do you find your settings to be, relative to MLB? For example: How often do you feel you can trade a star for a fair prospect package, trade a fair package for a star, take on an AI team's salary dump for minimal value, and get an AI team to take on yours for minimal value? (You don't have to answer all of these; I'm just trying to add questions for context to frame the initial/overarching question.)
4. Do you use Hard Mode, and if so, what's worked best for you?
5. Do you find the trade deadline day experience to be realistic and/or exciting? What do you do to build excitement within it for yourself and your roster building process? If you don't use it, why not?
6. What house rules have you implemented for yourself with respect to trade fairness, whether by toggling a setting or abiding by an honor code?
7. Where do you think the game still needs to improve on its trading experience?
I'll answer first in a comment to follow. Looking forward to hearing from others.
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