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Originally Posted by thehef
As for coding, I don't know. Seems like it would be pretty simple compared to some other requests. Or if we could edit the transaction file, that would open up a bunch of possibilities and add flexibility.
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It is anything but easy. It is impossible. Once you decide you don't want a trade made or you want to make a trade that didn't happen, you can't use historical transactions/line-ups.
In the OP's Guerrero request....how does St Louis have a historically accurate line-up if the guy that was in the historical line-up is in Los Angeles?
What if he wanted to not trade Piazza? Gary Sheffield now not in Los Angeles. Who takes his GS while maintaining historical accuracy? Is he still on the Marlins? But he didn't play for them, so you are deviating from history immediately and, therefore, cannot use historical line-ups.
Since Piazza is not traded to the Marlins, he is also not traded to the Mets...what do you do with those players? Where does Preston Wilson play in order for this environment to be historically correct? He can't be a Met and be historically correct. And he can't go to the Marlins with any sense of historical accuracy if Piazza doesn't also go to the Mets, and in order for him to go to the Mets, he must first be traded from the Dodgers.
Playing "what if" is fun. Once you make that "what if" change, you are saying good bye to historical reproduction and saying hello to an alternate alternative universe, and OOTP is fabulous in playing out such scenarios, but you can't expect it to be historically accurate if you have introduced historical inaccuracies.
Thinking that an alteration to history can be contained in a vacuum, and that it is somehow easy to code the impossible, is pure insanity.
ADD: Rereading your post, if you are saying that merely allowing a team to stay in a location while having others move/build new stadiums would be doable, yes, I agree, and think that would be cool. If you are saying that maintaining your roster in this location as you see fit but asking the rest of the league to execute transactions true to history, that is simply impossible.