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Originally Posted by David Watts
LOL. They had to change the way modern players aged [so that RAH would work when playing random debut.] Otherwise, guys like Judge, Bogaerts, Betts etc would just play forever.
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This right here is right "They had to change the way modern players aged" BUT this has nothing to do with RAH. RAH does not retire modern players and it does not age modern players. RAH only retires players according to their IRL Age when they retired. It USE to be the DATE they retired and that caused players to play into their 90's. Avoiding players playing into their 90's is what we fixed in the RAH.
your issue you are complaining about, which is a whole separate issue from RAH. This has to do with how the game handles itself once RECALC runs out or RECALC has no information to run on. Yes, the devs went a bit too aggressive on the scale of this defense reduction. It however was not part of the RAH system. It was designed to work with having RECALC ON and the player having no data to work off of. This regression would have happened, whether or not, RAH was ON or OFF.
This is what I am trying to explain. It has nothing to do with RAH. It has everything to do with how the game would handle a player, like a modern player, that the game has no recalc info on and no retirement info on. The devs had to come up with a system to try and figure out how to force these modern players, who have not retired, to retire. However it causes issues, like I said, when recalc was on and so was "miss seasons according to history" as well. Like when all the guys went off to war, and you had "miss seasons according to history" turned off, recalc has no info on them war time players and their defense also crashed UNLESS you have 5 year or 3 year recalc on. then of course the 2 or 3 years missed for war was ignored because recalc was not run.
But yeah, the devs needed a way to make people like Judge retire because RAH does not work on people that have never retired. The defense regression was a whole new system? Maybe? I dunno. You can make ask Garlon that question.
I only helped fix the issue of players like Nolan Ryan, Vida Blue, Kent Hrbek, Ken Griffey Jr. Cal Ripken Jr from playing until they were in their 90's THAT is all RAH does. RAH does not regress players. RAH has no development feature to it. It just sees that Nolan Ryan is 46 years old he needs to retire, Vida Blue is 36 years old he needs to retire, Kent Hrbek is 34 years old he needs to retire, Ken Griffey Jr. is 40 years old he needs to retire, and Cal Ripken Jr is 40 years old he needs to retire. And this very next off season, even if they are an 80/80 player, they will retire. THAT is all RAH does. Nothing more and nothing less. Before the change it would use "it is October 6 2001 We need to retire Cal Ripken Jr" and if he would show up in 1920, without recalc and dev engine on, he would have played until Oct 6th 2001. NOW he only plays until he is 40 and will retire. That's all that was changed and that is all RAH does.