[MarkB03130313]

Hi, just some random questions.

Only a year behind current year version (Have 2023), should I wait a couple more years to get another version?

For year myself or wife would buy it yearly, but eventually I think when 3D came in I started buying every 2 or 3 years as that seemed to be a big focus at the time and the normal gameplay 1 pitch mode, nothing was changing much. So the past few years just update every 2 or 3 years. Though maybe update early this time but I don't know.

I am retired and money is tight as always lol.

I thought the game was on sale through the playoffs?

I don't care about 3D stuff, as it is lacking somewhat (like what the text says does not really match what it shows on the screen). In the end, I don't care about it. I like running team from top to bottom, 1 pitch mode and play many years in a career. I find I lose interest lately. This last version I got, I dunno, I don't find it challenging and trades to easy and other things. Any short thoughts?

Part of my professional life, was bookkeeper and so I love the back end for financials and stuff. For many years this seemed lacking and ignored but maybe last couple versions I got it has seemed better. Has it got even better at all???

If you get this current version, do you get rosters from day the world series ended in 2023, also opening day 2024 and current day like now if you choose, and can choose which one you want to start with in a career???

I always found the default settings (concerning teams batting, like HR, average, picthcing era, hrs given up, always far out, I would start a career and keep tweaking the settings for hitters and pitchers for 5 years of game play, to get the right numbers, then I have to toss that career, and start a brand new one with the improved hitting and picthing modifiers I did in the other one. Has this improved at all??? I have been doing this above thing in every version I got and it is frustrating things are so out of wack at the start. I think in this latest version I have, when I did my first career, the first season, I had 2 players hit over .290 and 4 guys with more than 30 homer, this is in the whole league. it was stupid and unrealistic. So I spent my usualy 4 or 5 years trying to make it more realistic. Has this improved at all?

Is trading harder and more realistic now? That I always found far from realistic. So better now?

Better schedules with more variety now and day games? Without downloading someone's schedules and messing with them?

Thanks for anyone's time they take to answer this. Appreciated a lot!