More playoff customization and less cheating AI

[rjl518]

I post this every year.
More playoff customizations.
Double elimination playoff brackets and such.

AND GET RID OF THAT CHEATING AI WHEN I PLAY OUT MY GAMES!
I could be up by eight runs, but if the AI wants to win the game, no matter who i bring in to pinch hit or pitch, I WILL LOSE!
I could have an All-Star lineup and pitching staff and BARELY make the playoffs.
That AI CHEATS!

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by rjl518

AND GET RID OF THAT CHEATING AI WHEN I PLAY OUT MY GAMES!
I could be up by eight runs, but if the AI wants to win the game, no matter who i bring in to pinch hit or pitch, I WILL LOSE!
I could have an All-Star lineup and pitching staff and BARELY make the playoffs.
That AI CHEATS!

The ai really doesn't cheat. I know you may think it does at times, but it just doesn't. Sometimes you'll get results that feel frustrating while playing out games, but they're just that, frustrating, not rigged. Honest

You want to talk about having an all-star staff and lineup and barely making the playoffs, look no further than this year's real life Mets (Giants and Cards for that matter as well. One of the three is even going to miss the playoffs despite all three being stacked teams).

As far as games feeling rigged, again, just look at the rl Mets WS games last year, and tell me they wouldn't feel rigged to you if they happened in game. Of course they would, but they actually happened irl, no rigging involved. The same sort of thing can and does happen in OOTP.

To create a cheating ai would be antithetical to what OOTP is all about. Markus has been very clear on this, the ai isn't programmed to cheat, at all. It's just that crazy stuff happens in real baseball and crazy stuff happens in OOTP as well

So OOTP18 can't get rid of something that's not in OOTP17

[BigRed75]

If you want a real cheating AI, buy Football Manager. Or Madden.

Honestly, I've never, ever thought the OOTP AI has rigged games. Can't say that about the other two I mentioned...

[rjl518]

Okay, Lukasberger...lets discuss this.
First of all, i love you like a bro from another mo.
Second, like me, you love the Mets....so that is a big point in your favor.
Third, do you remember reading my MEET THE METS dynasty?
I had a HOFame pitching staff and a HOFame lineup and i won only TWO world series.
Have you been reading my BBLIOB season this year?
Look at the players on my team, and im fighting for my playoff life!
I have stopped playing out the games and i am letting the SIM engine run my days.
I JUST GOT SWEPT BY THE PHI PHILLIES FOR PETE'S SAKE!
So now that i am letting the sim engine take over, now i get swept by the WORST team in the league!
THE AI CHEATS!!!
PERIOD!
Oh...by the way...I LOVE OOTP!
Come on OOTP18!!!
Maybe next season in 2017 when i play my next real-time season, the AI will take it easy on me?
Maybe?
Pretty please?

Dont worry, Lukasberger.
I am a lifelong fan of OOTP and if i could pre-order OOTP18 right now, you would already have the money in Markus' bank account.
Im not going anywhere.
Just a friendly rant from someone whos baseball team is fighting for a playoff spot against a cheating AI!!

Anyway...i can only imagine what OOTP18 will have in store for me.

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by rjl518

I JUST GOT SWEPT BY THE PHI PHILLIES FOR PETE'S SAKE!
So now that i am letting the sim engine take over, now i get swept by the WORST team in the league!
THE AI CHEATS!!!
PERIOD!

Appreciate the comment but my response on the cheating specifically would be this:

The real life Mets just got swept by the Braves. Was the AI cheating there as well?

It's baseball, it happens. Bad teams sweep good teams all the time. It happens in real baseball and it happens in OOTP as well

Anyhow, hope you get the results you need to get to the playoffs.

I'm really glad you're looking forward to OOTP18 and are such a fan!

I'll just close by saying: Lets go Mets!

[rjl518]

Yes!
Somehow or other, the AI from OOTP invaded Citi Field and made my Mets lose to the ATL Braves!
Okay...thats stretching it a bit far i guess!
LETS GO OOTP AND LETS GO METS!!!

[jbaumgardt1]

Don't you just love OOTP? Now we know what poor old George Steinbrenner and Al Davis had to go though.