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Originally Posted by Matt Arnold
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Whether someone prefers changing the totals or modifiers, that's a preference. As has been mentioned above, we have simplified the process so that more or less, if you added 10% to the league HR totals, that would function the same way as changing the HR modifier up by 0.1.
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Do you recall what version this changed? We should probably update the wiki.
With what I suggested, "If you really want some "natural" change, maybe enable dynamic evolution (Options screen) and its "more/less offense" and "more/less pitching" options.", how would you expect it to run when auto-calc is set? Would you expect auto-calc to override those options or would you expect them to still have a fairly noticeable impact just not as much as no auto-calc?
Are you at all surprised or concerned that in test10 the HR/AB ratio went up, not by the expected 20%, but by 45.7% when using the modifiers? It surprised me and I think it would likely surprise others who got an increase much higher than they were expecting. (And in test12 it went up by 42.2%, instead of 20% again, when also changing the modifiers.)
I plan on running more tests because I'm intrigued to find out if changing the totals is better than changing the modifiers now, but it'd be good to know what you'd expect given what you know.
Okay, I have to say it, it's frustrating that we don't document our changes better. I mean, I'm lucky, I've only been counting on auto-calc working like I expect it to the last while, but if someone else was making changes without going through testing it all, and maybe even relied on what the manual / wiki / past experience told them, they'd be getting results contrary to what they expected without maybe even realizing why. I understand, you or someone else probably mentioned the change somewhere on the boards or discord and I'm sure some people here probably saw it (I may even have, but if I did I forgot about it), but this is a change that definitely should have been documented in the manual for all the people who likely wouldn't have seen it posted in some random post. And this isn't at all to blame you specifically, for all I know Markus may have changed it several years ago, but I just feel like OOTP in general has not been great at documenting important changes. It'd just be nice to see us do better at this in the future.
/mini rant